Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 6, 1903)
is RUSIETS "The Hills of California' W was a welcome presentation piece on the opening of Cordray's Theater last week, and It deeerved the large audi ences with which it was greeted. Frank Bacon can rest assured that he has an ex cellent attraction to play this season. He makes a very realistic Uncle Amos Hill, and was careful and resourceful rather than dashing in his Interpretation. Bes ele Bacon is a capable ingenue, and she adds something to the brightness of the play. Milton Boss, as the heavy man. lacked dignity, and It was not possible to hear clearly what he said. The male quartet had a fine chance o shine, but did not work hard enough. Six members of the Tetsuwari troop of Japanese acrobats were the sensation at the Empire, and they must have muscles of steel they perform so many clever feats. The most daring event, where ono error in judgment might have caused harm, was where one woman balances a pole on the top of which a Japanase girl dangles. The most thrilling was the trick with the bowls of flaming oil. Mounts, ot Mounts and Delmar, has a sweet, well balanced tenor voice, better than most tenor voices In vaudeville. Loa Durbyelle gave a novelty in her clever shadowgraph pictures, Excello, the contortionist, does surprising feats. Caston and Harvey led the rest at Shields' Park, and they deserved the royal reception they got. The "Scarecrow" song -was loudly applauded. The LeManes are lever musical people and they showed a creditable mastery over several queer looking instruments. The two Bronsons again made good. Rand and Byron did clever work in "The Tramp and the Sou 2rette." "THE LEGIOX OP HONOR." Mordant-Humphreys Company Opens at Cordray's Today. The Mordant-Humphreys Company comes to Cordray's Theater beginning with today's matinee for one week. The play they will produce Is new to Portland, as well as the company, although the latter has received marked success In the East and South, where Mr. Mordant and Miss Humphreys are prime favorites. The com pany contains some well-known actors and fiomo that have appeared In Portland be fore with Eastern attractions. Mr. Mor dant was seen here with Nance O'Neill, when he olaved leadlne- narts nnd Vmo aio appeared with Frohman attractions and otner weii-Known Eastern organizations. Miss Humphreys is noted for her nrtisMr. portrayal of emotional roles and Is a beau- ului woman as weu as a clever actress. Tho play, "The .Legion of Honor," is taken from the French story of "Decep tion," beinff dramatized for the late Sam Piercy and was one of tho last plays In which he was seen in Nftw "Vnrir . t a story of deception on the partNjf tho wife to conceal a fault that was not really a sin. The deception is discovered by the husband after her son has won the Legion pf Honor. The former husband of the wife and the father of hvr imw hoo un gained distinction and the emblem. Father ana son meet at a leto and the son hears his mother's name traduced and coupled with, that of the Count de Mnwhroir n-vi Is a stranger to him. He demands' that 4 tne count aeny tno accusation and meets with an insultlntr. answflr. TT toon v, emblem from the breast of. tie Count and a challenge is passed. The supposed father of the boy, arrives opportunely and asks mo cause or tno quarrel. The son says "We quarreled at cards." The father re plied: "No, you .never play." He then in quires the name of thn ntnir rmrtir n quarrel and learns that it Is the Count de Mowbray. In the second act nnn of tho efrnmnuf scenes ever enacted on the stage between a man ana woman rases place. The hus band upbraids his wife for her perfidy and discovers that she was formerly the wife of the Count de Mowbray. The mother is about to attempt to prevent the duel be tween father and son. whun h nnnnnoi father visits the Count's chambers and has no. intense and stormy interview wifh him And Informs him that th vnnnc- mon with -whom ho is about to fight, is his own son. vvnea me sou arrives me uount nos to refuse -to fight. Although he is sup- Franco, he cannot nght nls own son, yet no uoes nut uu-ro to ten mm nis real In tho last act tho Count 13 driven to aespcrauon oy an expose ot nis pertiay. He snatches a fencing foil from a table and a terrific-duel ensues between him and ' wmrTEX? 5TEER OUBW J) the Baron. Tho play ends differently from most plays of this character. The cli maxes and situations are intense and startling and the language of the play and the surroundings In keeping with the characters. "The Legion of Honor" will run at Cor- dray's Theater all week, Including Satur day matinee. BAKER THEATER OPENING. Sale of Season Tickets Will Be Held Monday and Tncijdny. One week from today the Baker will commence Its season of 1003-04. The first attraction at the house, which has been completely altered, will be the Nelll Morosco company, presenting "In the Palace of tho King," the play dramatized from the novel of F. Marion Crawford," and which was seen In Portland once, when produced by Viola Allen. For eight weeks the company will make Its home at the Baker, after which time it will go to California, making room for the -homecoming of the Baker Theater company, which Is now preparing for a long en gagement In Xos Angeles. The Baker Theater company will return with many new faces and many, of the old favorites. The list of plays which it will present consists of Eastern successes. Patrons of the Baker who wish to at tend every production during tho coming reason may secure their season seats by applying at the box office either Monday or Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock. Tho regular advance sale will not open before Wednesday. The people who make it a point to attend the Baker performances find it a great advantage to select some night or matlneo and then have the man agement reserve seats always on that j day. Thoso wishing to grasp this oppor J tunlty may do so by appearing at the box i ofllco Monday and selecting their seats. THE SUNDAY OREGOMAK, HRTAm, SEPTEMBER S, lfrtil. All during the Summer Manager Baker nas oeen Desiegea wun inquiries as to when the 'reservations could be made, and he now announces that Monday morning is tho time. GRACE WALTON HAYNIE Appears at Shields' Parle Beginning To-night An Excellent Bill. "The idea! It will kill Mr. Shields to put that criminal on his stage." "Sho Is nothing of the kind; no informa tlon was ever filed against her and sho was unconditionally released." "Well, It makes no difference; her hus band Is, any way." "Are you going to Shields' Park to see her?" "I certainly am. I want to see what she looks like. I know she can't act." This dialogue took place Friday between a prominent physician and a woman that evidently belongs to some "knockers" so clety. Mrs. Haynie has one consolation where there is ono knocker, there are 'hundreds who applaud her efforts to se cure money to defond her husband. What ever the charges are against him, he is Innocent until convicted by a jury, and. as Mr. Shields says, if It Is a crime for Mrs. Haynie to secure funds by legltl mate methods to secure legal advice, he Is- proud of the fact that he is an ac complice. Mrs. Haynie in dramatic readings will surprise the wiseacres who predict her humiliating failure. Tho season at Shields' Park is drawing to a close, but with each succeeding week tho programme offered by Manager Shields grows better. For his bill commencing with the performance tomorrow night he has an array of talent such as ho may well bo proud of. The programme will be headed by Rjossley and Rostelle, In a sketch called "The Widow s Courtship,' Gtt&frW This team was engaged by Manager snioias wnen ne was in tne aaAi. iuai Winter. They have played all the lead ing vaudeville circuits In tho Eastern n!Hn2 nnd havo wnn n rpniltatlon Which has extended even to the Pacific Coast, i The team, declare press notices is one of the very best In the vaudeville world and has been featured everywhere. This is but one or tne goou tnings wikcii t:iii entertain and amuse at Shields' Park. Tho entertainer M. Francois is another star act which will be a delight to the park patrons. Ho is a necromancer with 20 faces under ono hat. Francois does rim and fTnsrer shadowcraohs that are declared to be simply asionismng, nun-. cols has also played tne Dig noub ui ho Vnnt nnri Is -well known tO vaudeville patrons In New York and other-theatrical centers. The beau ideal of jugglers, Nelsonla, will nnniMr in hp.miMfiii and Intricate manipu lations, Introducing the dancing plates and performing other feats of dexterity and skill. This, too, is an x.tuici ui tractlon. Tt- a with nlpaciiirA that Manacer Shields announces the return of Rose and Severne. who made such a hit two weeks ago. inis time they have a sketch called "The Dutch Soldier," in which Rose has an opportunity to again ten siae-sputung stories . In his lnimitaDio aiaiecu Thnan fnnnv neonle. Rand and Byron, .are held over lor another week and will change their act, presenting on mis trip "The Mechanical Dolls," a laughable skit irih o fricnrin in everv line. The great success of the team during the past seven days warrants tho management in re taining the services of the funmakers and the people of Portland aro assured jolly Jokes. Nellie Hellyer, the singer of Illustrated songs, will have some new ballads, and the moving pictures will be of local in terest. HOYTS "A TEXAS STEER." Great American Comedy Comes to j Marquam Friday-nnd Saturday. Charles H. Hoyt's "A Texas Steer," which begins an engagement of two per formances at the Marquam Grand The ater next Friday night, September 11, and Saturday matinee, September 12, Is well imown In this city, and it would be -strange if It did not receive a hearty wel come. Perhaps this is the most artistic of Mr. Hoyt's plays, certainly it is the most definite In purpose, Its sporting with poll tics "being done "good-naturedly and with a desire to afford Innocent amusement. Mr. Hoyt has performed the task he set for himself with great skill, and he de serves credit for having struck some deft blows at political trickery and the ingrati tude o politicians, while at the sanie time making the things seem vastly funny. The vein Is ono quite to tho pop ular taste, and .not without relish. The immediate and great success attained by ithe play and company on its first visit to .the city "was well attested by the great pleasure afforded the large audience then, -and; by the crowded houses during their last season's engagement. ' Even the same author's wildest bur lesque absurdities did not contain so many laughs as there are In this thoroughly ra tional piece. No comedy in years has had more effect on audiences than "A Texas Steer." Tho players seem to have absorbed t. -TJIE UMPIRE their author's IdV.a of their characters. Tho clever work of Pearl Hight as "Bossy"; the honest Texan of James H. McCann; the negro politician worker, as represented by Will II. Bray, together with the other characters, are all familiar to our theater-goers, and are as cleverly drawn and Interesting personages as are met with In any American comedy. They have always received a hearty wel come here, and doubtless will be greeted by large and appreciative audiences throughout their engagement-' The ad vance sale of seats, will open next Wednes day morning at 10 o'clock. CROWDED WITH CLEVER ACTS. Raymond & Caverly, German Come dians, Hcnd Empire Bill. By far the cleverest German comedy act outside of the city of New York will be presented by Raymond and Caverly at the Empire Theater on Its new programme for the next seven days, beginning on Mon day, September 7. In all the history of vaudeville no greater success has ever been attained than that which has fallen to Raymond and Caverly, two young men who are ac knowledged leaders of all the German comedians who have followed In the wake of Weber and Fields. Raymond and Cav erly have just closed a tour of America, In which they were starred in the Rogers Bros.' plays. They are now playing over the Empire Theater circuit at the highest salary paid to any German com edy act In the business anywhere, and next year they are to head a company of their own. Never was more mirth pro duced In a theater than by this duo of dialect artists. The new Empire programme is crowded with clever acts. Bandy and Wilson are booked for a dancing and singing turn. and as Bandy is the fastest soft-shoe dancer west of the Mississippi at the pres ent time, the act should take well. Along similar lines will be the work of the New mans, a sketch team who will press Bandy and Wilson hard for the honors that fall to comedian and soubrette teams. Sam and Ida Kelly, a duo of rural sketch artists, will present a skit entitled "Rustic Reubenlsms," and as fun-makers -e pair are unexcelled by the best of the great army of indigo-chasers. The Kellys. can amuse anybody. Joe Sullivan, the hilarious Hibernian, the inimitable Irish man and the irrepressible Erinlte, will ap pear In o rapld-ftre medley of merriment. Lovers of really good music will be at tracted by thovannouncement that Arthur Hahn, the great Australian basso, Is com ing back. The profundo notes of Mr. Hahn charmed big audiences at the Em pire a couple of months ago and made him an enviaoie reputation in .roruanu. Another excellent musical act will be the ballad singing of Mounts and Delmar. Mounts has an unusual clear tenor voice. while Miss Delmar Is. a lyric soprano ot much merit. A woman who mixes brains with her work Is Loa Durbyelle, the shadowgraph 1st. Her turn next week will be entlrely new and will Include some dainty feats In necromancy. "WHERE IS COBB?" Sparkling Farce Will Be Presented, at the Jlariinnm. That sparkling effervescent farce com OLIVER MOROCCO witjt THE NEIZL COMBOT cdy. "Where Is Cobb?" will be the Labor day (tomorrow) attraction at the Mar quam Grand Theater, continuing Tuesday night. This side-splitting comedy will be seen In Portland for tho first time, and for those who have not had the pleasure of seeing It, , an evening of mirth and music can be looked forward to. The com pany is composed of clever and up-to-date people, who Introduce an array of special ties of the most refined order. The Au gust Munsey has an article on the theater which speaks for Itself: "Late last season the managers learned a lesson which the Munsey has long been preaching to them. They had been giving the public society plays, melodramas and problem pieces, when what that public wanted was some thing to laugh at." Manager Barton, on old-tlmo theatrical manager. Is of the same opinion and Is making a first-class production of Louis Eagan's jolly farce, "Where Is Cobb?" which comes to the Marquam September 7 and S. "Cobb" Is, without doubt, the merriest and most in teresting of all the farce comedies, and the company of comedians who interpret it are laughmakers in the front rank, and Intend to give the public a good play, Mr. Barton has introduced specialties of the highest order and the musical, dancing and singing numbers are features in them selves. Popular prices will prevail. COM1XG ATTRACTION'S. "Chaperons." To the ripple of pleasant music and swishing skirts, the .merry, tuneful "Chaperons" Is to be seen In this city at the Marquam Grand The'ater In the very near future. For two seasons this organ ization has been providing a very tooth some brand of comedy opera, and has en Joyed successful engagements in all the leading cities and a two months' sojourn In New York. The company to be seen this year Is not materially altered from Its original form and a majority of the old favorites will be seen here. Prominent In the big cast will appear John G. Sparks, Mabel Hlte, Thomas Whlffen. May Boley, Mae Stebblns, W. V. Struntz and Arthur Earnest. There Is a large chorus and a contingent of chic .how girls. The plot concerns Adam Hogg's attempt to wed his rich ward and find the missing seal to her father's will. But the seal Is long sought In vain, and the plot of the piece itself gets hopelessly lost. The book contains many clever sayings amid the chaff, such as the definitions abun dantly given of everything from an "angel" and a syndicate to a bachelor and a woman. But their effect will not bo spoiled by quoting more than one of them. A syndicate is a "body of 'men sur rounded by money." Spectacular Acts at Empire. But two Tnore opportunities remain to see the sensational act of the Tetsuwari at the Empire Theater. This troupe of six Japanese jugglers close their engagement with the matinee and evening perform ances today, and no lover of amusement should miss seeing the spectacular net work of flame woven by swinging bowls of fire on a darkened stage. Attractions Wanted And concessions for sale for fourth an nual Fall festival and stock show, Oc tober 7-10, 1903. Big crowd I Prosperous people. Address J. C. Cooper, Manager, McMlnnvlllo, Or. "Burled at Sen." "Burled at Sea," the big spectacular comedy-drama, by Theodore Kremer, anthnr nf "The Fatal Weddlnc" atn which will appear at Cordray's Theater next weeK, is saia to nave one or tho finest scenic productions ever placed onj any stage. Romance, religion, sentiment and pa-1 triotlsm center around a burial at sea, I and tears have streamed from the eyes! of hardened men in the presence of an en tire ship's company engaged In such a solemn rite. The entire ceremony is seen In this production, and still this Is but one of the, many Incidents connected with this fascinating play. The author has woven In some delightful bits ot comedy! that go. to make up a most interestlns entertainment. STAGELAXD. James Nelll plays at the Marquam. Oc tober 15-17. Mr. "Ral-nh Stuart fEdlth Ramsay), whe was recently taken sick, is rapidly recov-j eripg. Tt is viirniatpd that Hall Caine has beer paid $300,000 in royalties by Llebler & CdJ for "The-Cbristlan." Florence Roberts aDDeared at the Aln cazar. San Francisco. last week, in "xai Unwelcome Mrs. Hatch." Vnr nhvlnus reasons. Plus X In "The Eternal Cltv" has been promoted ond numoer ana is now .f ius ai. Stage-Director Robert Morris will re tire from the Neill-Morosco Companyl and will be succeeded by H. S. Duflieldl I Ralph Stuart will open his season a the American Theater, New York, JanJ uary IS, in an elaborate revival of Ba Right of Sword." Tho members of the Al. G Field Mini strel Company suffered at Lorain, O., al the hands of sneak thieves, wno enterea vinir- our riiirinc their absence and rani sacked their possessions. Mr. Field losj about 51500. TMn-owi "rortran has nlaved the rolo tv, 3t-m in "The Christian" for nearll -uvin nnrfnrmnnces. After the close of thl engagement of "The Christian" In Boil ton, Jklass., iiawaru -.viorguii win smr 11 "The Eternal City. ' Margaret Anglin, who Is playing at SaJ Francisco wltn Henry jiuier, win cot Mnup. to annear with him during the re mainder of the season, according to a! arrangement perfected wltn unanes j rot man, who has Miss Anglin under coi tract. Mn-nntrpr W. M. Russell, of Cordran Theater, has secured the Western righi to "The Legion of Honor," a play d scribing a stratum of European society and may send a company on tne rot with it. . a Conrad von Fielltz, a German comedlaj has been sentenced to a term or run months' Imprisonment in Berlin, becaus wh!if annparlncr at The Hague he mad jokes about Emperor William that wej held by the authorities to tne noeiot Poor Von Fielltz! Clinton Lloyd Is In this city to start r hearsals for the Clement- euer (JompE that troes on the road October L Ta r-nnmiost " "Hamlet" and "Resurrectlor will be the plays featured. The balanl WANTED 12 Beautiful Girl "With good voices, at least 5 It. 7 In. tall, wear the Parisian gowns (no tights) In W t. -E..nna ti aw mitilin1 r-nmfA- f TTP" "NT A .FROM CHINA." Send photo and descriptU BY 3IA1L uiix io iir. jona v. xtrau Wltmark bldg., New York City.