THE MORXlKtt OKEUOAUX, FRIDAY; JANUARY 1, 1915.
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Portland Theaters Close Satisfactory Year .
and Prepare for Large Patronage in 1915
Leading Playhouses Are of Modern, Fireproof Construction and Are Equipped With Many Distinctivejeatures
for Conrenienee of Fatrona --Large List of Excellent Attractions Booked to Appear in Next Tew Weefcs.
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WhalrMM Play o Be Pat 0 at
Baker Tkeater VaadevUle Eiuci
4 oki Aan Park Popular.
- mHE New Tear begins auspicously
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- B than a doxen stellar attractions
will play at the Heilig during the
next few weeks. It Is singularly for
tunate that theater-goers have with
them during the first week of 1915
that sterling actor, David Waxfleld.
' who will appear tonight, tomorrow
afternoon and tomorrow night in rTha
Auctioneer."
Among other early offerings are the
third concert by the Portland Symphony
C Orchestra- Sunday afternoon; the
X charming American comedienne. May
Robson. in the comedy, "Maxtha-by-the
Sea." January 4, 5 and 6; the Le
Roy. Pal ma A Bosco big novelty show
with 60 people, January 7, 8 and 9: the
- musical comedy, "September Morn,"
January 10, 11. 1! and IS; the Curtiss
famous motion-picture, "The Head
Hunters." January 14, 15, 16 and. 17:
r Forbes Robertson, In repertoire, play
1 ing "Hamlet." "The Third Floor
Back" and "The Light That Failed,"
January 18. 1, 20 and 21.
Other excellent attractions which
will appear at the Heilig soon Include
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Company Julian ElUnge. reg vy
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rtaTion of "The Auc-
The ,.P"fftf"n warfield anpear-
tloneer. .w'thrt:able creaUon "f
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is considered a much stronger drama
than ever before, as it has Deen re-
written entirely and brought down to
date by David Belasco. None of the
" delightful com,dy has been lost but
it has been added to. instead. All of
the living members of the original
cast have been gathered together by
Mr. Belasco for this special produc-
tlon- t
" May Robson. one of the foremost
character actresses and one whose
presence in any play is a perfect
guarantee of a laughing treat, comes
to the Heilig Theater in a. new
comedy, and surrounded by an entire
ly new company, on Monday night.
Miss Robson's new vehicle is a dram
atisation of Julie M. Lippmann's pop-
-ular book. "Martna gy-iw-w.
Orpheum Theater
THE most important event of the
year in theatrical circles was the
building and opening of the new Or
pheum Theater at Broadway and Stark
street the largest and one of the moat
imposing theaters in the Pacific North-
west. The Orpheum was thrown open
to the public on the afternoon of No
vember 29.
The building was constructed and is
owned by th Blodgett Company. Lim
it -d. of Grand Rapids. Mich... but is
under a 10-year lease to John W. Con
sidlne. of Seattle, owner and operator
of the Northwest Orpheum Circuit, an
organization which is affiliated with
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the same bills that are booked over the
Orpheum Ctrcuit. The new house was
opened with a new manager, Thomas
B conlon. a yonng man who Is making
a most favorable impression on the
- play patrons of Portland.
Of the new theater Itself too much
. cannot be said in its praise. It Is
1. Moorish In architecture and decoration.
it seats Z:eo people, is completely iire
proof. has all modern conveniences. Is
the possessor of the most perfectly
- equipped vaudeville stage on the Pa
.. clfic Coast, and is one of the show
l- places of the city.
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Orpheum vaudeville is the standard
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clean and refined, while the great band ha, taken .. tr'P on Jt"i nd copa P uced perfect- labels, will include stops in San Fran
artists of this and every other country is now hard at work raising funds to least one night J ....i and San D(eg0 at the two fairs.
,K- .un h.r. not hesitated to defrav the exDenses of the trip. ' ln a repertoire lor concerts to ue e witi h whisked
appear on Orpheum tT8.
cult la in New lork, an important
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branch maintained at San Francisco.
-and through these two organizations a
" chain of act hunter, are kept busy
I Scouring the out-of-the-way places of
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Coasfand the North west One hundred
and fifteen theaters in the United
States are affiliated or completely
owned by the Orpheum people, and they
cover chief tCitiof the United
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Portland Police
Popular Musical Organization to Give
Summer Tonrist
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a-' land Police Band next May,
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top inn DurDOM or niviirunK ouuiuici
tourUt travel through Oregon. The
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successful seasons, it is just now gain
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making the great productions of the
so-called legitimate stage. In Port
land, Orpheum vaudeville is the best
' equipped of any city in the United
States. ,
Empress Theater
HfARCUS LOEWS Empress Theater,
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at Broadway and Tamhill street.
which has Just closed a prosperous
year, has many exclusive and excel
lent bills booked for the immediate fu
ture. Tile tneaier is uue wi
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popular vauaevme nouses
The theater is among the finest on the
vestment of 1750.000 and is of fire-
proof construction.
The Empress has been theleader in
nresenting first-class shows ever since
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its opening in March, 1913. The Em- ss to provde literature for distri
press circuit has been securing many butlon in the state, to get the nonej
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cast for 1916 shows that some of the
finest offerings ever assembled will be
seen in Portland.
The following "
features that are coming soon to the
Empress.
Andrew Mack, world-famous Irish
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Band to Make National Tour
Concerts in Leading Cities of Country Purpose of -Trip Is to Divert
Travel to Northwest and to Advertise Oregon.
rOBTLAND POLICE BAND.
tutelage it was raised to a
position
among me leaaing oanas oi x-urn.u.
Last year Fred Seiberling was em-
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of the most difficult band music The
en n .'gi was originally pro
This campaign was originally pro-
posed to the commercial bodies of Ore-
to-.,,
the management of the band. Every
wfi nr .hi- in Portland
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j ,.) vrv one in the state, is
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Boy Comic," a fellow of Infinite jest.
In a new act;' Grade Emmett and com
pany, famous Irish comedienne in her
funny farce, -"Mrs. Murphy's Second
Husband": J. K. Emmet and company,
son of "Fritz" Emmet, in dramatic
masterpiece, "The Strongest Tie"; "The
Japanese Prince." Roland West's spec
tacular comic opera, with pretty grirts
and clever comedians; "In the Gray of
the Dawn," - a vivid drama of New
York's grreat underworld, now in the
public eye; Caesar Rivoll, world's
fastest quick-change artist, in protean
playlet. "Scandal in a Restaurant"; Lew
Shank. ex-Mayor of, Indianapolis, the
man who reduced the high cost of liv
ing, and friena of -the laboring man;
Joe Welch, world's greatest character
comedian, and a laugh sensation; W.
H. Macart and Ethelynne Bradford, pre
senting their comedy success, "A Legit
imate Holdup"; Sophie Tucker, "the
Mary Garden of Ragtime," with .Frank
Wesrphal at the piano.
Pantages. Theater
WITH the. coming of the new year,
the J915-16 season of unequaled
vaudeville at Pantages Theater will
open to delight the patrons of Inter
national entertainment.
Alexander Pantages, best known as
the Napoleon of Vaudeville, has offered
local theater-goers the very best in
clean, clever amusement since his ad
vent here eight years ago. It was a
difficult task that confronted Mf. Pan
tages when he added Portland to the
then small Coast circuit, for he in
stalled the bills in a theater at Fourth
and Stark streets, quite a different
structure from the modern fireproof
bnilding at Broadway and Alder streets
that has every accommodation and
which comfortably seats 1400 patrons.
Steadily he built up the patronage
under the capable management of
John A. Johnson, who came here from
Victoria to manage, the new venture.
Now the Pantages circuit stretches
from coast to coast, and'through his ex
clusive booking agents in all parts of
the world, Mr. aPntages is able to pre
sent the very latest and best attrac
tions. -
Among the bookings for the new year
are listed James J. Corbett, the Im
perial Grand Opera Company, the Jo
sefsson troupe, Harry Girard, author
of "The Alaskan"; the Eleven American
Beauties, and hundreds of other acts
that have attracted international at
tention. Because of Mr. Pantages' stand on
the safary question, he will be able to
secure many attractions whMch could
not be tempted to the vaudeville ranks.
Mothers Congress Work Broad
Parents' Educational Bureau Conducted by the Organization Productive
of Salutary Results Hundreds of Infants Are Examined.
By
Mrs, Arintene Felts, President Oregon
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T has been an exceedingly busy year
for the Congress of Mothers ana
Pnrpnt-Tpanhpr Associations. The
growth of the organization has been
steady and of a permanent character.
In October, 1913, the Congress had a
paid membership of 2200 members;, in.
October, 1914, there is a paid member
ship of 3860 members. This is a small
percentage of the actual attendance
at the monthly meetings of the circles
in the state. At the annual state con
vention of this yjear, there were 256 of
ficial delogates in attendance, the
nuniber coming from the state at large
being four times as many as at any
previous state convention.
The extension committee is largely
responsible for this growth in the
state. It is a large committee in per
sonal touch with almost every county.
The widows pension committee anu
the legislative committee have been
busy in getting together facts relative
to the workings of the widows' pen
sion law enacted -through the efforts
of the Mothers' Congress two years
ago. The widows' pension committee
has formulated amendments to the law
designed to strengthen it and will pre
sent the same to the Legislature this
Winter.
Committees Are Active.
All the standing committees have
been doing active work during the
year. - The work is all volunteer work
with the exception of one paid worker
at m& neaaquanexs ui me uuubioo,
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at the headquarters oi tne congress, iu
ljio jnuuuuuiau wuu.. . . v
These rooms are donated by the cour-
capUa & year and one.nalf
of tnls amount is sent to the National
Conres8 in Washington, D. C. To car-
t. Dtll)..iHa work of the Con-
Nation in the state, to get the noney
to pay lor tne one paio. womer ui mo
the ways and means commit-
iad to do BtreUous work and
n been mo8t BUCcesstul. This com-
mittee appeals to the public once a
J fund8 tQ on tue work
of tn congress, in the form of the
Jn FeDruary. Last
year the fllg sale netted the Congress
'pTS. work
oTss. especially from the
and each commercial body will have a
representative along on me trip, vruv-
matter will also be placed be-
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The trip, which will be made on a
Then the policemen will b whisked
across mo Cuin..uc..w V -,
big city long enough to let the inhabl-
tnt lennw wbv thev came. They will
go East as far as Bost?rtaIn'n1fy
a different route, so they may spread
thin nrooaeanda in other cities. The
their propaganaa in oinor uura.
Hr. trio will last five weeks.
When Eastern managers were cutting
salaries, Mr. Pantages stood firmly on
the ground that the vaudeville artist
was worth every bit he earned.
Indicative of the continued expan
sion of the circuit it may be noted that
the new aPntages Theater at Detroit,
Mich., is rapidly nearing completion and .
by this fime next year the new play-'
houses at Toronto and Chicago will be
opened to the public.
Manager Johnson has been in charge
of the local theater since its establish
ment, and much credit is due to him
for the position the Pantages Theater
holds in local affairs.
Oaks Amusement Park
THOUSANDS of dollars are being
spent during this Winter' to pre
pare the Oaks Amusement Park for
the big influx of visitors expected
In Oregon as a result of the buy-your-ticket-via-Oregon
campaign. John
F. Cordray, manager of the big re
sort, promises that the amusement park
will be finer than ever. k
"The Oaks is doing its little part to
brighten Portland up for the many
thousands of visitors we expect," said
Mr. Cordray. "The Oaks will be re
platted entirely, and I think visit
ors wilf agree that it is the most beau
tiful spot west of the Cascade moun
tains. "To add vim to the campaign to se
cure visitors en route to the Exposition
to travel through Oregon. The Oaks
wfll send out 10,000 invitations in Jan
uary and February to Easterners
whose friends expect them to travel to
San Francisco. With the invitations
tOite;avel via Oregon there will be con
siderable descriptive matter concern
ing Portland and Oregon generally,
and. naturally, not a little about our
favorite beauty spot. The Oaks.
"I am inclined to believe that this
little scheme, although somewhat ex
pensive, will have direct results, for
letters will only go to those whom
traveling men would describe as 'pros
pects.' "While The Oaks Amusement Park
is hibernating at present I want every
Oregon resident and those who plan a
visit to this state to realize that The
Oaks will be one of the leading enter
tainment places on the Paciflo Coast,
and one that friends may be taken to
assured of a day's thorough enjoy
ment." The amusement- park caters to all
tastes, from those of the child to the
older person. Band concerts, operatic ,
singers and vaudeville entertainment
are provided free of charge In a cov
ered open-air aerdome, while the
spacious grounds offer recreation to
all who visit them.
standpoint of Portland citizens, is
that of the Parents' Educational. Bu
reau, - Here babies from 6 months to
6 years old are examined every Wed
nesday afternoon and twice a month
on Thursdays, and a course of lectures
to mothers and prospective mothers is
given every Friday afternoon. It is
1 designed by the men and women most
interested in this work that this shall
ultimately become a school for parent
hood, dealing as it does with the prob
lems of fathers and mothers and with
their children up to the school age.
The popularity of the "baby tests" is
attested by the fact that from the es
tablishment of the bureau to October,
1913, about six months, 294 babies were
examined, while from October, 1913, to
October, 1914. 1350 babies were ex
amined. This increase has come about
without any offering of prizes or at
tempt at advertising in any way.
The public may be interested in.
knowing that in working out certain
problems for an examination of 1000
of the score cards for these "baby
tests," it has been found that 80 per
Work of Art Association Grows
Permanent Collections Include Eeproductions of Famous Masterpieces.
Public School Work Is Feature.
THE modest brick building at the
corner of Fifth and Taylor streets,
which is the home of the Port
land Art Association, known as the
Museum of Art, was completed in 1905
as a step in the association's work of
collecting and displaying-works of art
and "encouraging and developing the
study of art," to quote from its orig
inal constitution.
Two years ago, the permanent collec
tions of the association, which up to
this time had consisted principally of
casts of Greek and Roman sculpture
and photographs of masterpieces of
painting, were materially increased by
gifts of gaintings, including an excep
tionally fine Monticelli, a beautiful
Corot and other important works, and
a considerable number of objects of
art, Greek glass, Chinese porcelains,
jade, lacquer, etc In addition, smaller
gifts and long-time oans of paintings,
sculpture and artistic objects now form
a permanent collettion which yields up
all it has to give only to those whose
frequent visits make the objects old
friends.
The small gallery, left for current
exhibitions, each year sees a succession
of temporary exhibits of great variety
a"nd interest. During the past Summer,
an exceptional collection of etchings
and drawings by Rembrandt filled this
gallery and the Autumn season has
seen, first, a collection of paintings
and drawings by Clara J. Stephens, a
gifted local painter, completed by a
splendid portrait of Miss Stephens by
William M. Chase; next, a collection of
charming photographs by Imogen Cun
ningham, of Seattle; this was followeJ
by 63 water-color paintings by well
known American artists of the Eastern
coast; after this came a small exhibi
tion of the work by Henry Wentz, his
first exhibit, although his paintings
have long had -much more than a local
interest; lastly, a collection of works
by American illustrators completes the
year's special exhibitions.
Besides the exhibition galleries,
classes studying the history of art,
lectures on various phases of the
growth of art and talks to visiting
classes of school children, tax the ca
pacities of the building for this kind oi
work. About 400 school children a
month visit the museum in classes; not
to wander vacantly about, but to re
ceive definite, instruction and be led to
understand something of the meaning
of what they see. A talk with lantern
slide illustrations on some particular
portion of the great world of art is
usually the first part of the programme,
followed by further discussion .before
the statues or paintings. Any traveler
who has. for instance, wandered down
the corridors of the Louvre containing
the contemporary portraits of the Ro
man Emperors and their wives, will not
forget how startlingly real Roman hls
toryi became at that moment. This is
true In every department of study,
while the artistic feelings can only be
cultivated by acquaintance with artis
tic things. The public school officials.
recognizing tne value oi mis son oi
1 . ar iwi.nn,ratinr with the Art
Association towara nia&iug mesa ibiw
to the Museum a part of every child's
education. "'
The lectures, which are part of the
Xrt School students yearly programme,
have been especially successful the past
year, with the result that large num
bers of high school pupils are also
availing themselves of the course, with
the encouragement of their teachers.
The art school, which is perhaps the
most important department of the work
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cent of the babies examined wore foreign-born;
that 66 per cent were
breast-fed for six months or more;
that 26 per cent were breast-fed for
10 months or more; that 16 per cent
were entirely bottle-fed. and. curiously
enough, that of the breast-fed for 10
months or more, 11 per cent fell be
low 90 per cent grade, and exactly 11
per cent of the entirely bottle-fed ba
bies fell below 90 per cent. Forty-one
per cent, however, of the breast-fed
babies for 10 months or more were 9o
per cent babies. vhile 40 per cent of
the bottle-fed were 95 per cent babies.
National Meeting Here In May.
The State Congress is making ex
tensive preparations for the coming of
the National Convention which will
meet in Portland in May, 1915. It is de
signed to have a large attendance from
the Pacific Coast states, and especial
effort will be made to have two rep
resentatives from each Parent-Teacher
Association in the state delegates in
attendance at the National convention.
For the first time in the history of
the Congress, the next state convention
will meet outside of Portland. A big
state convention will be held in Cor
vallis in October, 1915.
of the association, is now entering up
on its sixth year. Its courses cover
drawing, painting, modeling, design and
craft work. It offers to all who wish
to study art, strong foundational work
leading both to the purely artistic pur
suits of painting or sculpture for their
own sakes and also to the various use
ful applications of artistic knowledge in
the vocations of teaching, designing
and illustrating. Design is taught in
such a way as to be both artistic, and
of practical value in commercial pro
duction. Scholarships in the art school
are offered to graduates of the high
schools throughout the state.
To Beautify City
Schools Is Object
Joint Committee of 25 Club, Formed
to Annie Interest la PI""
Improving School Grounds and
Buildings.
ONE of the new lines or worn in
augurated in Portland during the
past year is that of the school
beautifying committee. This is a joint
committee formed of delegates from 25
clubs, including the Portland Art Asso
ciation, Library Association, Woman's
Club, Wednesday Art Class, Progressive
Business Men's Club and Grade Teach
ers' Association.
i. The object of the committee is to
arouge an Interest in the beautifying of
BAKER
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GEO. I BAKER, MANAGER.
The. Home of Portland", Famous Baker
' A high-cla 8tock Company, playlnr only
hlrh-rovaltv New York ucceasf. Now In
its fourteenth year of continual triumph.
Chang, of play weekly, tartln Sunday
Matlne,. Other Matinees Wedneuay (Bar
gain Day) and Saturday.
The Baker PIayer have long been noted
for -offering $1.00 attrac-tlona and produc
tions at prices ranging from 25 cent, to io
cents Scenery and stage settings absolutely
new each week and produced without regard
to expense.
The Baker Theater and Baker Players are
a part of Portland's real features and no
visit to the metropolis is considered quite
complete unless at least one evening or aft
ernoon I, spent there. The New Year's
week offering, starting Sunday Matinee, De
cember 2s:
May Robson's RTeatefft saccess th, now
famous comedy,
THE REJUVENATION OF AUNT
MARY
Splendid cast and production. First time at
popular prlcea.
Special Holiday Matinee New Tear", Dsy
(Friday), tie. SOo.
Week openlnx Bandar Matinee, January S j
THE BLINDNESS OF VIRTUE
A frank discussion of one of th most Im
portant -ocial problems of th age. A play
every mother and daughter should see. Spe
cial Thursday matinee for mothers ana
daughters only.
Week beflniUiaff Sunday Matin e, January 10.
The greatest laughing success of recent years
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And ro on all season long-. You always are
sure of your money's worth at the Baker
and nearly always double value.
Fvery Monday night and Wednesday Matl
n re -nil seats t5v: box. 60c. Other nights
S5c, 5'., 60e, 75c; box, 91. Other Matinees,
2oc, 60c s box, 75c. I
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Agency, best
qualified by
exoerience and
the grounds and buildings well as
the interior decoration of th, schools.
An appreciation of good pictures and
other works of art among the pupils U
fostered by picture sub-committee".
One committee has cut and mounted
2U00 pictures, which are loaned to th,
teachers, and another has given tslki
In 14 rooms, using small Perry print!
or carbon photos. Another commute,
has taken 1200 children through tht
Art Museum, giving talks with lantern
slides on works of art, and showing th,
children the pictures and casts in th.
Museum.
The committee on loan exhibit bor
rowed 70 pictures and casts suitabl,
for schoolroom walls, and hung them
in the Ainsworth School for a week,
where the children studied and wrote
about them. They were then taken to
the Kerns School. If possible, a similar
exhibit will be loaned to every school
desiring it. The School Board has as
sisted by furnishing transportation,
and dealers have been moat generous
in lending pictures.
The committee plans to select ana
purchase a model exhibit for perma
nent use In the schools, and also to se
lect good pictures for hanging on the
walls of corridors and assembly rooms.
A number of casts of the Parthenon
Frieze, donated by the Library Asso
ciation, have been placed in various
schools.
THE COLUMBIA
Portland's Favorite
Photo-Play Theater
At th present tlm, th,r t
rapid avolutlon In th, pnoto-play
world. It was but a few irwr, as,
when movtng picture, ,r, a nov
elty, exhibited In vacant stores and
patronised only by th, eurloM.
Gradually th, public tnanlfesud In
terest In them and moving picture,
became a fixed form of amusement.
Small theater, war, built to aooom
modat. Increasing patronag, and at
th, sam, tlm, th, quality ot th, at
tractions greatly Improved.
Tor a tlm, short comsdHa.
. dramas, acenle and ,duc,tloal
films, with an Illustrated weakly,
showing current venta, comprised
the bills offsrsd. Th, lengta ot
th, production, gradually Inorssssil
to two or thre,, then four er ft
and ,v,n eight reels. At first U
was predicted that long feature,
naver would prov, a aucessa, as
they war, generally a failure
Then the tide changed ,nd h
public began to look for lha blgr
productioua. I'hoto-play atara be
came as popular with the puhll,
as th, stars on the leglllmel, aiase.
Many of tha big attractlona brought
tremendous throngs to Hie theaiaia.
The result was that the big featuree
gradually began to aupplanl lu,
anoit Ulms.
To satisfy the patrons, larg, and
palatial theaters, handsommy ,ur"
uished and eu,ulppd with ,ery
comfort, were constructed especially
for pboto-play attractions. r n,
bettrr clasnea began tkj turn from
the legitimate and nigh-class vaod
vllle theaters to the pboto-play
houses for their amuscimeiit. About
the same time the huh salaries
offered by the producers to their
' hading players began to attract
the big theatrical stars snd one
by one they deserted tho legitimate
stage to becom, stars ot th, screen.
NesVly every actor and actreM
of prominence of the present lsy
has been fiatured In some big photo-play
production. The phoiu-play
Indu.try has eilrnde.1 Us rail to
many of the largest theatrical syn.
dItMies and they are producing the
most popular plays In plciums. In
which they are leaturlng til, stars
they have under contract.
o meet the demands of the pub
lic" the CUM'MUIA, Portlands
model photo-play theater, has se.
cured the best of all the photo
play attractions. It has enlered
Into contract with the World Film
Corporation, ahlih handles all he
Shubert and William A Heady
features to exhibit exclusively their
productions In Portland. At lesst
one of thes, features will b, shown
each week.
Among attractions booked foe
early dates are Wilton Uackay, In
The Pit." Beatrice Mlclislena In
"Mrs. WlBgs of the Cabb.ge Patch"
and "Mlgnxn." Clara Kimball oung
In "Th. Deep Purple" and "J na
Butterfly." Lillian Kunsell In lld
flre" Lew Fields snd Vivian Mar
tin In "In Old L-irtch," Hubert War
wick tn "Alias Jlmmle Valentine,'
ud many others. y
The Columbia la the favorite photo-play
theater In Portland. It is
fireproof, elegsntly appointed anil
It has a beautiful restroom for
women. Th, most expensive pipe
organ In th, city Is another of lis
attractions. - ijnurteous tr.atmsltt .
- always Is accorded Its patrons.
' It has one prlc, of admission'
always ten cents.
Pay us a visit.