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About The times. (Portland, Or.) 191?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1912)
THF. TIMES sister. It \£a typically American I story and it is hamllcd in a typi cally American manner. Mr. de I M ille's methods art.* eoncis«* ami Phone or Write i sympathetic and his humor, with which the play is huhhliug over, Oetolier 7 « i l i Ile ‘ ‘ T lle W o m a u ,” is contagious. Mr. Belasco, as is w n te n hy W illiam (*. deMille alai usual with him, has given the |>1*1 >< 11<-• -<I hy tli«* a r e a l m a s ter nf play an elaborate setting, «‘very stiiKei-raft. I >;i vi«I llelasco. N scene showing the wonderful at play t hai luis I.....Il sent o ilt i tention to detail which has made reeeiit y e a r s h e a rin g Ihe Belaseli his name famous. The cast, spe t ra ile m n r k has heen reeeiveil witli cially selected by Mr. Belasco, in m ure p o p u la r eiithu.siusm than has ' " l ’ Ia» Wimiail. ’ as is attesteil cludes such well known players as Marjorie Wood, Marion Bar h y Ihe faci that d u r i n g last sea- ney. James Seeley, Ilowell Han son il u a s pla.veil fo r 11 in«* moiitliK sel. Hugh Hillman, Austin Webb, al tlle K epiihlie T h e a lr e . N e w OF PORTLAND llallett Thompson, Peter Ray V o lli C it y , alai live moilths al thè O lym p ia T h e a lr e . C hicago. mond. Homer Granville, Kalaman In Ila- hall' ilo/en othe r eities in SCENE FROM THE BRIDGE" AT THE BAKER NEXT WEEK Matus, Frank Austin and others. whiell it has lieell seell. it llas And Have an Expert Explain Our received an equally enthusiastic Ihe National capital, a subject i which deals with a much-dis* "THE HEIR OF THE HOORAH." welcome. The play is particular of special interest in these piping cussed question of modern social Money Maker ly timely, for it deals broadly political times. Politics forms a life and with the intense loyalty with a certain phase of polities in background for the main story, | of a good woman for her erring The Baker Players to Appear in Paul Armstrong’s Popular Western Play Next Week. Main 6383 90 First Street The first typical Western play j of the season of Baker Players will be the ever favorite comedy, “ The Heir of the Hoorah,” the heir being a little baby whose ar- j rival brings together two es tranged young married people, j Greater Speed, Greater Accuracy, Greater Efficiency are the and the hoorah being a big Bo logical results of installing the nanza Mine otu West. In the beginning of the play -Joe Lacy, one of tile partners in the Iloorah 1 Mine, has gone to New York, and 3 through the designing influence S of the girl’s mother, has married a a tender little society bud. good Exclusive Underwoodfeatures make possible the most important enough and all that, but entirely labor-saving systems of modern accounting. under sway of her mother’s mind, and the hothouse training she has 8 had, having once been wealthy. 5$ The ever growing demand puts the annual sales of EMPRESS THEATRE. Underwoods far ahead of It’s exceptional. That fills the hill assembled for . those of any other ma the Empress Theater for the week chine— making necessary of October 6th. “ The Pool the largest typewriter fac Room,” vaudeville’s dramatic sensation, will he presented by tory and the largest type SCENE FROM DAVID BELAS CO S GREAT PLAY, ‘‘THE WOMAN,” AT THE HEILIG. Charles Wildish and company as David Belasco will present his splendid production of the greatAmerican drama, "The Woman," the headline attraction. The ex writer office building in at the Heilig, 7th and Taylor,every night this week. Special price matinees Wednesday and Sat tra feature is Edward Dorking, the world. urday. Seats are now selling for the entire engagement. survivor of the Titanic, who will Inscribe the last moments on the Such a demand from businessmen everywhere is unquestionable ill-fated liner on which 1200 per evidence of the practical mechanical superiority of sons lost their lives. Others on the bid bill are Scott ami Wilson, eccentric comedians; Macrae and Underwood Typewriter Company Levering, cyclone cycle comedi (Incorporated.) ans; Ilyland and Farmer, musical misses; John Delmore and com 68 SIXTH STREET PORTLAND, OREGON. pany in “ Scenes Behind the Scenes.” and Bink and Robinson, “ THE MACHINE YOU WILL EVENTUALLY BUY the versatile pair. It’s a bill crammed with seven V .V .V .V .V .W - extraordinarv acts. V .’ .V .'.V .y A V A ’ . ’ .V .’ .V .V A h V A W tV a W A n V iS K .fih W im tS 8 VARIEGATED SPELLING. THE WOMAN." The attrartion ut thè Heilig Theater for thè tv«*ek beginning I Ivrtobi-b iitshrd ;itsii rilat litaht 1 Government Standard Powders Company — ..... UNDERWOOD TYPEW RITER f* M ark T w a i n Liked It Bacauta It Waa So Refreshing. W riting In tne H artford C ourant on ‘‘Mark T w ain,” Dr. Edwin t \ P arker ot H artford said: “In 1S76, according to my m em oran dum , u uotable spelling match took place a t the Asylum Hill Congrega tional church. In which some thirty persons, under their respective cap tains, took part. Among these con testan ts w ere Dr. Burton, Judge C a r pentor, C harles E. Perkins, Mr. Clem ens. Mr. Tw lchell, Charles H. Clark. General H aw ley, Miss Trum bull. Miss Blythe. Miss Burbank and Miss Stone. At last there were left standing only Dr. B arton and Miss Stone, and the gallant doctor took the first oppor tonlty to m ake an error nud so to leave Miss Stone the winner. "B ut this Dotable contest w as pre ceded by a prelim inary speech In which Mr. Clemens w ittily criticised th e supposed necessity of having any uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. Among several am using Illus trations of bis argum ent w as one as follows: •! bnve a correspondent whose letters are alw ays a refreshm ent to me. there Is such a breezy, unfettered originality about bis orthography. He alw ays spells Kow w ith a large K . Now. th at Is Just as good as to spell It In the conventional way w ith a small one! It Is better, for tt sug gests to the mind a new. grand and Im pressive creature.' '‘N evertheless. In the contest th at ensued Mr. Clemens produced no ‘su perb effects of vsrigated spelling.’ but stood up am ong the last live. If my record Is right, only Mr. Clark, Miss Keep. Dr. B urton and Miss Stone out lasting him .” TWO OF LA BALLET CLASSIQUE AT THE ORPHEUM THEATRE. Vaudeville bils mav come and vaudeville bill» mav go. bui thè vaudeville bill lo prevail at thè OrpheiliB during thè week of Oe- tober (itti will be remembered for- ever. Ilere is thè luminous array of talent that will ahine through- out fourteen never to bc t'orgotteu perfnrmances : Joseph «letTerson, son of thè fanutus actor; Felice Morris and Itlanche Bender in "In 1!W,” a play of the futur«'. La Ballet Classique, a choice selection of ballet «lancers picked from the best Russia and France ever had. There are ten beauti ful girls in the company It'd bv the famous danseuse. Mademoi selle Domina Marini. The ohi favorite, Mac Melville and Robert Higgins in “ Just Married”. The great Asahi. assisted by the Asahi quinteete in an exhibi tion of .Japanese magic, mystery ami risely. Bowman Brothers. “ The Blue Grass Boys” ; “ The Three Colleg ians" and the freak wheel in ventors. “ The Berg Brothers.” Tam ing Him. “Som etim es 1 feel sure.“ said Bilk- Ins. “th a t 1 once sat oo a throne and waved a scepter.” “And now.’’ rem arked his cheery wife, "you are going to stand on the I back porch and w ave a rug beater."— I Cleveland Plain Dealer. Dangerous. “W ould you like to see my aquaria?" asked the naturalist, “W ell. If he's securely chained I might, bnt I’m so afraid of wild beasts.” replied the visitor. THE OREGON MINING & TIMBER JOURNAL Has been successfully published for three years, and is all the name implies Call at 223 Lumber Exchange Bldg, and get a sample copy. MARIE HYLANDS AT THE EMi RESS WEEK OF OCTOBER 7.