THE SUNDAY OBEGCTNIAN, PORTLAND', NOVEMBEE Z, 1900.
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thur Payne, James Douglass, Sally Doug
las, Resale Hamilton, Clara Carey and
25 others. The attraction -will run all
the week, with tho usual Saturday matl-nee.
A HOTT PLAY COMIXG.
Tills
'ITALIAN BRASS BANDS
Xeas Harsh, anil Strident In Qnallty
of Tone Tli nn American nod
German Hands.
Portland theater-goers are not yet re
covered from the surprise sprung upon
ithem by Manager HciHg of the Marquam
laet week. The music made by the 40
warm-skinned ardent-tempered Italians,
with alert, restless eyes, and flerce mous
tachlos softening Into a conciliatory curl
.t t&e end. toas taken all hedrts by storm
Even the most uncompromisingly patriot
ic Americans in the audience have been
heard asseverating between numbers In
the foyer with the challenging ejes of
o. boy who goes about carrying a chip
on his shoulder that band music liner
than this has not been heard In America.
These Italians play our own National
airs wltJh a splendid dash and go that
drives every American among us halt
anad with delight; their orchestration of
Mendolseohn shows almost a German per
ception of "clang-tint ; they are e en
nble to Infuse melody into "Wagner; but it
Is In the. Italian music of Verdi, Rossini,
Donitettl, Mascagnl. and the rest, that
all their native Are, dramatic Instinct and
passionate sense of beautjkblossonflforth.
BveryoHe must hai e observed the pecu
liar softness and mellow richness of tone
, that characterize their brass Instruments.
There was none of that strident harshness
that usually grates upon the ear in even
our beet American and German bands.
One reason for this Is the use of trumpets
in place of cornets. A mellow effect that
approaches more nearly the human olee
Is thus produced, for ttia trumpet takes
the soprano part In the score; MlnolUl
uses onlj one cornet where Sousa, in a
band of about the same number of in
struments, uses four. Another difference
to be noted Is the complete absence of
the slide trombone, the most Incorrigible
of all instruments. Sixty years ago this
was la vogue In Italy, but now it has al
most entirely glen place to the valve
trombone, because this is esteemed b
Italians as more suitable for melody. In
the tragic beauty of the prison song from
"11 Troatore ' there is an excellent Illus
tration of its -value; but by most con
ductors the slide trombone Is held to
be tho nobler Instrument of the two. In
tho basews, MlnoUtl has certainly succeed
ed la substituting a wonderful softness.
smeofehnem and sweetness. In place ol
the usual Irritating brassy tone.
"We of today may be doomed to live In
what humorists are pleased to call "The
Age of Brass." but this fate does not
Impress us as a sorrowful one so Jong as
we can sit under the baton of MlnoUtl.
be heard to the greatest advantage Be
ing arranged for large events no doubt
the band will be able to play with
better effect than In a comparatively
small theater.
The Marine Band will give a grand
streot parade this morning at 11 o'clock.
RAG-TIME DRAMA AT CORDRAY'S.
The "Hottest Coon In Dixie" Will
Rnn All the Cnrreni "IVeel.
The rag-tlmo drama, which Is losing
none of its popularity, will be seen at its
best tonight and all this" week at Cor
draj's Theater, where the attraction will
be "The Hottest Coon In Dixie," present
ed by a company made up entirely of col
ored people, who are inimitable in this
particular line. In making up the com
pany the people were selected for their
voices as well as their proficiency In the
many specialties In which the colored
race excels, and as a result the musical
part of the play Is one of Its strongest
features. Nothing is more tuneful than
a negro melody well sung, and no one but
the darky can sing a negro melody well.
In the cast are a large number of pretty
girls, who, while they are In reality mem
bers of the colored race, could hardly be
distinguished on the street or across the
footlights from their white sisters
"The Hottest Coon In Dixie" Is writ
ten in two acts and three scenes, and Is
Strnnerer in Neir York"
"Week at the Marqnnin.
FWday and Saturday evenings Mr, Hoyt
sends to the Marquam Grand his "A
Stranger In New York." This comedy is
popular with our theaters-goers by Tea
son of Jts success when last presented
here. Since its last visit, Mr. Hoyt has
given it his up-to-date touch, and in many
wajs greatly improved It, and It is now
said that "A Stranger In New York," in
Its present form, reflects Its author's per
sonality more than anything else he has
written. It teems with crisp dialogue and
witty flings. It Is original In every line
and situation, the unexpected always
happening, and no sooner does one liugh
ablo situation go by than the auditor Is
suddenly plunged into another before he
has scarcely ceased laughing at the last.
It Is by this constant keeping the Interest
at the extreme tension that one secret of
Hoyt's success may be discovered. The
audience never knows what to expect.
Tne coming of "A Stranger in New
York" will be one of the Interesting events
of the season. There will bo a special
matinee Saturday.
the effect 13 clear and strong. JTho deli
cate person and dainty art of Maude
Adams have already depicted -"a yOuth
with a soaring soul in a sinking1 "body
We have seen his ambitious purpose rise
with what may ha described as, resolute
weakness until he Is ready to assert it
positively. Now the opposing Metternich.
hitherto quietly repressive and coercive,
confronts him with his own Image, and
the poor little wretch, unable to refute
the logic of tho argument, shatters the
glass with the lamp which has lighted
the cruel sight. The words spoken by
the two characters are literature. The
making of the climax Is art.
The highest .grade of work Ir "IAlir
lon," however. Is In the episode on tho
field cf "Wagram, where the slain In a
Bonaparte battle rise as ghosts In the
fancy of the youth and drive him Into a
frenzy of fright, until In a revulsion of
desperate, forlorn courage he draws his
sword and faces the imaginary foe. It Is
here that literary art Is dramatically ex
emplified at its very best. This ex
traordlnary climax has been approached
without the exaggeration of a motive or
the distortion of a reason. The conspir
acy of the Bonapartlsts at tho Austrian
court, though foolishly impracticable, nas
been an outcome of French loyalty to the
memory of Napoleon the First. &nd the
plot to enthrone a Napoleon the Second
has not seemed unreasonable, though
hopelessly futile. MIjs Adams has com
pelled us to pity the stripling and get In
to sympathy with his desire. So well
does she make us comprehend his mind
that when the comrades of his flight are
taken away as prisoners, all save the grim
old Grenadier, and then that remnant of
the devoted band dies bv suicide, we do
not resist the weird depletion of wholly
mental phenomena that Is shown to us.
We feel the reasonableness of the illu
sions which appall him. We do not Won
der that the mists and shadows of dawn
turn Into apparitions, or that the sighing
of the wind becomes their walls and cr'es
Not many theatrical appeals to the im
agination of an audience have been more
readllr or fully responded to Tho im
pression of the moment is overwhelming
Moreover, the picture of the slender boy
in his white uniform, as he rises from
his cowering emb'raee of the dead solaier,
lifts at last a sword of courage and stands
out from the dun landscape, will not bo
forgotten soon by any one who sees It.
Rostand has written a great drama.
SPECIAL
TODAY, SUNDAY
EXPOSITION
TWO GRAND CONCERTS
At the Metropolitan.
"A Young Wife," which had a long run
at the Fourteenth-Street Theater, in New
York, will be presented at the Metropoll-
MARIXD BAAD TO BE HERB AGAIX.
Special Bnsrnfifenient at Exposition
Toilnr aud Tomorrow.
Tho -Royal Marine Band of Italy, which
appeared at the Marquam Grand during
4he past three nights, and has made a
notable Impression as a musical organiza
tion of the finest quality, will remain In
Portland for two more days. The Exposi
tion Building has been engaged, and two
concerts will be given today, and one to
morrow night, all at popular prices. To
day's programme will be largely mado up
of sacred airs as will be dlscoered by
oxsmlnatlon of the following choice pro
.jmunme: I.
k March "Wedding" Mendelssohn
Overture "Semlramtde" Rossini
Z. Harp solo Selected ..-
S4g Sitaro.
4. "Gloria Twelfth Mass" Mozart
6. Marltana Grand Selection Wallace
Solos by Slgnorl Di Glrolamo and
I1 Nat&le.
II.
a. March "Attentio City" MlnoUtl
7. Tenor solo Selected
Stg Qiannlid.
6. Penslcoo EHglaco Rlvela
9. Trumpet eolo "Charlte" Fauro
Big. Tavxnl.
Ml "Mcflstofele Epilogue" Bolto
Trombone solo by Sig Creatore.
Tonight's programme will be devoted to
lighter music and popular airs. Tho pro
Erme is:
I.
1- Overture "Tannhimser" Wagner
2. Beroouee "Jocoli n" Godard
Sales by S4g Di Glrolamo and
D Titta.
a. Funeral March Chopin
4. Harp solo Selected
Sir. Setare.
G. "La. Traviata.", act IV Verdi
Prelude. Aria, duet; finale Sig. Dl.
Glrolamo, Creatore arid
Do Titta. ,
II. "
6. Mrch "Flag; of Victory....VontBlon
7. Tenor solo Sotectcd
Sig. GUnnlnl.
8. "Dunza. Estoioa" (new) ..Mascagnl
Incidental flute solo Sig. La
Monaca. ' r
8. T PurlUnl" Act I Bellini
Solos by Slgnorl Tavanl and
Creatore.
Tomorrow night will be request night.
AUtpersoas who desire that the band play
aay particular piece that is In it lare
repertoire will be accommodated, so far I
as posstoia. Requests must be left at the
box?bfflce of the Marquam Grand before
6 jMfceaday. The beautiful sextet
from'Cucia" will bo rendered at Mon
dayslconco. , '
The. ESpapitloa Music Hall is in flnes
concauoxgaiana wm permit the band
4u9wfeiiiuuuTCraByi& j
The Strnnsrer and Hattie,rith Hoyt's
"A Stranjrer In ICeYV Yorlc."
brimful of bright comedy, as well as
songs and dances The costuming Is as
pretentious as that of many comic op
eras, and all that Is latest In rag-time
hits will be heard during the perform
ance. Especlallj strong features are the
ohoruses from grand operas, which have
bt ffr
Hm
"A Strnnger In Xevr Yorlc."
tan, commencing tonight. This play,
which was one of the few solid successes
of the past season, was written by J. IC
Tillotson, who is well known to theater
goers, being the author of "The Planter's
Wife," which was a great success for
a number of ears. The company pre
senting this play Is a strong one, and
Is headed by Frank Tanehlll, Jr.
Dog Sho-r Coming.
Professor Barnes' -dog and pony show
will appear at the Metropolitan Theater
for two nights and Saturdav matinee,
commencing Friday, November 9. It Is
a refined entertainment and comes highly
indorsed. There are 23 Intelligent dogs,
15 ponies, also a trained Hon, monkeys
and goats There will be a free street
parade Friday at 12 o'clock.
ROSTAND'S GREAT DRAMA.
Author of "Cyrano" PTorr Presents a
Napoleonic Play.
There is no scarcity of literature In
current plays, and some of it Is good,
while In Isolated cases, as now In that
of Edmond Rostand's "L'Alglon," It is a
work of genius, sajs the New York Sun
There is a prejudice, partly careless ind
partly Ignorant, against the quality of
acted fiction and In faor of that which
Is printed presentably In books The un
critical feeling In that regard is a help
to the sclsors-and-pa-ste dramas of the
day. But those same pieces present, by
their low aerage of llterarj merit, as con
trasted with the better general quality of
compositions written originally for the
theater, proof positive that there is a
great deal .of absurd affectation even
among people of sufficient culture to un
derstand the subject There was some
interesting illustration In the. stage pro
ductions last week, and not alone In the
Rostand play, but also In pieces by
Browning, Yeats and Zangwlll. The point
to make here about "LAlglon" is not
that an extraordinary achievement In lit
erature has been made by Rostand, but
that tho author has also demonstrated
a mastery of stagecraft. The scene In
COQTJEMN AS A TICKET-SEMiER.
Cnrlona Scheme of Great French
Actor to Help Out Charity.
Mr. Maurice Grau and many1 of his
opera company, who start West on Fri
day to open the season In 'California, ar
rived from Europe yesterday, says the
New York Herald, October 2S Mr. Grau,
Mme. Nordlca and others .were on the
New York. Mme. Melba came on the
Campania. Others arrived on the Aqui
talne. The company will return here In
December for a long stay at the Metro
politan Opora-House .
"I expect to have a fine season of op
era," said. Mr. Grau, "and shall have a
busy Winter, as the Bernhardt Coquelin
tour Is also under my management.
"We were all greatly Interested In the
efforts of Coquelin and Coquelin cadet In
selling lottery tickets for the fund of tho
Association des Artistes Dramatlques,"
said the Herald reporter.
"It was the talk of Paris," said Mr.
Grau, "and Coquelin is most anxious to
do the same thing here for the benefit of
the fund for the Actors' Home. 'My doir
Monsieur Grau,' was one of the last
things he said to mo, 'pray find out Just
as soon as ou set foot on American soil
If I can start a lottery there and sell
tickets the way I have done here '
"He was planning to do all kinds of
things things which would have sur
prised us as much as his and his brother's
original ways of exploiting tho lottery
ticket sale In Paris surprised the Pari
sians. Really wo are going to miss a
BY THE-
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OF ITALY-
This Afternoon
at 2:30
SACRED CONCERT
This Evening
at 8:15
Concert of Popular Airs'
Monday
Evening
REQUEST "CONCERT
(All requests for special numbers to be left at the offices
of Marquam Grand up to 6 P. M. Monday.)
PRICESADULTS, 50c
CHILDREN under 12 years, 25c
CAlVlNHEILIO.Mgr.il MARQUAfVI GRAIND CALVIN HE1LI0, Mgr.
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, NOV. 9 AND 10
SPECIAL MATINEE SATURDAY
THE TREMENDOUS HIT !
AT POPULAR PRICES !
THE
SUCCESS
OF
BOTH
HEMISPHERES
FUNNIEST
OF ALL
HOYT PLAYS
HOYT
A STRANGER IN NEW YORK
' SECOND EDITION, REWRITTEN AND UP TO DATE
Presented here with all the Scenery, Mechanical Effects and Costumes,
precisely the same as given at Hoyt's Theater, New York, and Duke of
York Theater, London, including the popular -" ' '
McCOY SISTERS and SAM MARION
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MISSPEAK G. HA1VKIAS IS, "HOTTEST COON IX DIXIE" AT COBDRAVS.
beon enthusiastically received everrwfcera; which the Eaglet Is held before a mirror
they have been heard. -O-i by theTrlme Minister, to make him see
Amng the members of the company arg , that his puny person is an impossible . apd they,
vsuah-well-taMwn artists., br Miss Neale. fisrure for -a second Narxileonie T5mrw.ri. "Tho n.msi
Hawklni, wTu Proctor, Bob Kelly, J&llii; ls " theatric a situation as ever Sardou- went -with It. Not one-tenth o'C tbe-num-CareY-.tthe..
Grundvs. lllv Cole. iBddie! worked out. .Its intellectual and nhsirjl .r m returned. Tt is Mid mnro' than
. I s ir, . ' S V i - -" tw& -, - , - .- v. -w
elements are amalgamated perfectly, and
POPULAR WITH THE PEOPLE
CORDRAY'S THEATER
JOHN F. CORDRAY, Manager
All the Popular
Song Hits That Are
Ringing Throughout
the Country
CATCHY MUSIC
SNAPPY SPECIALTIES
BEAUTIFUL COSTUMES
FUNNY COMEDIANS
PHENOMENAL CHORUSES
PRETTY GIRLS
PICTURESQUE ENSEMBLES
LATEST SONGS
NOVEL DANCES
SPECIAL SCENERY''
Many Specialties
And AH of Them New
And Up -to -Date
A High-Class Musical Comedy Travesty
ONE SOLID WEEK, COMMENCING THIS SUNDAY EVENING, NOV. 4
....MATINEE SATURDAY....
All the Bis Song Ilitn of the
Eaat and Many IVevr and
Original Stnee iSoveltles Are
Seen and Heard in. This Performance.
HnTTFST
THE LARGEST AND
BEST COLORED CHORUS
IN THE WORLD
A BIG JOLLY PERFORMANCE
FOR THE MASSES
35 "of the Foremost Colored Singers. Comedians and Specialty Artists
of Their Race in America:
EVERYTHING THAT 15 BRIGHT, NEW AND ENTERTAINING
USUAL PRICES WILL PREVAIL
great deal, for I suppose the lottery busi
ness ls legally tabooed here ) ,
"He was intending to dress up as a
of some of the- principal theater& with
bunches of tickets In his hand, and sell
tthem off In his Inimitable wa This he
wouia nave uone in an me ciues we in
tend to visit. Or he would have dressed
up as a ringmaster or an acrobat, and
have made a sudden entrance upon the
stage' or before the ,curta'n and whipped
up the sale in that way. He also had an
idea of coming forward at some of the at
tractions In the cities we -might vMt and
holding an auction sale of the tickets In
other words, he was going to lepeat here
his amusing and, successful Parlsiah do
ings. He will be greatly chagrlpcd when
he learns that under our laws he cannot
ha-ve a lottery, but he will doubtless plan
some original and amusing scheme.
"As you know, Bernhardt and Coquelin
were planning to give a great performance
In Paris, Just before leaving for New
York, for the benefit of the Galveston
sufferers.. It would have afforded Pari
sians their first opportunity In many
years of hearing these two great actors
together.
"The play was to have been "IAlgn"
and Coquelin would hive been the Flam
beau. It was looked forward to as one of
the great artistic events of the jear. But
It has fallen through for several reasons
one of them because a suitable theater
cannot be obtained for It. Consequently,
the benefit will be gien here, and what
Paris loses will be New York's gain."
failed to come back Strange as It may
seem. American chorus girls ore in de
mand In all parts of London, where they
clown, dash unexpectedly downthe a'slcs r are now receiving more pay than they
do here, notwithstanding the averas
English chorus girl does not earn half
as much.
American Chorus Girls Abroad.
American chorus girls first became a
distinct feature In Ixindon when "The
Belle of New York" was taken over
about three jears ago. In that aggrega
tion were 60 front-row girls, of whom
about 30 hae returned for the product'on
now touring in this country. They "were
replaced by others, and they have failed
to come back, too. Then a score or, more
were deported for "The Messenger Boy"
too, nave remained. When
Casino Girl" was taken over 63
100 girls who were sent to England have
Great Saccens of "Arlsona."
With seven weeks of the early season
to Its credit, "Arizona." Augustus Thom
as greatest play, still continues to crowd
the Herald Square Theater. Few dramas
Indeed of recent production in the me
tropolis have achieved a record of seven
weeks' big business when their opening
date was aa early as was that of "Ari
zona." The genuineness of this latest
success by the author of "Alabama" and
"In Mls'soura," is attested in the fact
that during it3 long run It has received
but one adverse newspaper comment of
the thousands of critiques and paragraphs
printed about it. The road company play
ing "Arizona" will open Its season on No
vember 27 in New England. It will be In
every way the equal-of tho excellent or
ganization playing the piece at the Her
ald Square Theater. '"Arizona" theater
parties continue to mulfc-ply. One bcokd
for November 5 ha3 reserved no less than
260 orchestra chairs.
Munlc for ItoeoTvnjr's Piny.
Music will be a special feature xln Mr.
Rogoway's play "The Day- of Atone
ment," at the Marquam. next January.
Rev. Max A. lievlne, who is one of the
finest tenor singers on the Pacific-Coast,
ls now training a large choir, which will
consist of 20 voices. Under his direction
the Hebrew melodies will be sung on the
battlefield before Metz on "The Day of
Atonement" Professor J. H. Roos 13
now arranging the dramatic music inci
dent to the play. There will be 100 peo
ple on the stage In the production.
Ben Hendricks Coming:.
Ben Hendricks, who for so many years
has been identified with Swede charac
ters, and who In that particular style of
comedy ranks with 'America's represen
tative comedians, will be seen at the
'Phone Grant 741
PORTLAND'S DOWN
TOWN THEATER
CLARENCE H. JONES. Manager
Third and Yamhill Streets
A NOVEL ENGAGEMENT!
WAIT AND WATCH !
Friday and Saturday Night, Oct 9, 10.
MATINEE SATURDAY
PROF. BARNES' FAMOUS
PONIES, DOGS, GOATS, MONKEYS, LIONS
25 INTELLIGENT DOGS 25
15 SUPERB PONIES 15
Grand Free Street Parade Friday Noon:
SEE THE PARADE Next Attraction "OIc Olcsen" SEETHE PARADE
week, in the play that first brought him
prominently before the puollc, and which
during the past 10 years has made him
famous "Ole Olson."
Turtle Paradise.
At a place called Kotorn, on tha French 4 commotion In the town,
Ivory Coast, the natives believe that to
to the guilty one or sickness among
family. The fetish men, of which, there
are plenty, declare that years ago a man
went to seansnmg. in tne nignt ms ca
Metropolitan Sunday, November U and ashore at the samo place with the man
on Its back llva ami welL Since that
time the natives have- never eaten or de
stroyed one of that species, although they
enjoy other species.
If one of the favored turtles happens
to be washed ashore there Is a even
First, the wom
en st dfrwn and slnjr and beat sticks.
eat or destroy a turtle would mean death t next a small pieoe of -white oldth is
the placed: on the turtle's badk. food is tl
then
prepared and placed on the cloth, gen
erally pantatas, rictf and palm oil,' then
amid a lot more singing, dancing ana
noe was thrown, up on the beach, empty. K antics of. the fetish people. It is. earxied
Three days afterward a turUe -came back Jpto the sea, and goes on Its way
rejolelryj.
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