is
nowned eovelty Roman Wag act.
which s full of the aeet sensational
and difficult feats ever -witnessed on
a vaudeville stage. Stanley and Alleen.
Pteuins singers and daacers, are
the most entertaining sketch artists
that have ever trod this stage. Lily
Paloraa, a, pretty girl, who -wears beau
tiful rowns. Is a sonrana -nrhn will tlns
Several new aanfm nf nrtiatli r-hnrrr.
Arthur Lane, a singer of Illustrated
iMvue.ua. nas a new pictured melody,
while the American Bioscope will
ujiuuuiiu jib mga stanaara in present
ing the best and most amusing mov
ing pictures ever flashed on a screen.
Today the bill IsxontInudus and will
mark the last appearance of Dan and
Bessie Kelly, two of the best, come
dians in vaudeville. The programme is
continuous from 2 to 10:30 P M
THE BIJOU.
One-Act Drama Besides Lota of Mer
riment This Week.
The best part of a big spectacular
drama will be the top-liner at the Bijou
this week. Ola Haydcn and Edward
Martin come from San Francisco with
with their great one-act play, "The Out
cast." They are assisted by Baby Hay
den. Special scenic features have been
arranged for the performance at the
Bijou. It's an oddity in vaudeville, and
it will bfr remembered. The new bill be
gins with the popular Monday matinees.
Mamie Haswlck Norris, a dashing
singing and dancing sdubrette and silver
hoop wonder. Is a splendid attraction.
She's the kind everybody likes to see.
O'Connell and Summers, the merry danc
ing newsboys with the catchy airs, have a
good act. That . ever-welcome come
dienne, Jenny Colborn, Is coming with her
funny coon songs. The Bradfords are
the team of .tho most delightful dancers)
and singers on the road. They leave
fun germs everywhere. Edna Foley is
pleasantly remembered by the Bijou pub
lics. She will again touch the hearts of
the crowd with her illustrated songs.
Particularly amusing and entertaining
films have been obtained for the "Bljou
graph." Every afternoon and evening
during tho week. Continuous today.
Portland's Greatest Theater Will
Open the New Year Favorable.
Here are the names of the performers
THERE were two big events at the
Marquam last wek. the appearance
of Maxlne Elliott and her admir-,
able company in "Her Own "Way," and
the Greet players in "The Star of Beth
lehem." These two were as different as
can well bo lmugined, but they had in
common tho quality of Intrinsic worth.
Both were fine performances and were fit
tingly chosen to round out the year here.
The Columbia company gave a pleasing
performance of "The Charity Ball," the
Empire presented "Yon Yonson" and
"For Mother's Sake," both well attended
attractions, and the vaudevilles celebrat
ed the holidays with good bills. A. A. G.
"THE LAST WORD."
Augustln Daly's Great Broadway Com
edy Success at the Columbia.
The clad New Year will be ushered
in with storms of laughter and good
cheer at the Columbia this week, an
unusually clover production of Augus
tln Daly's. "The Laet Word," starting
a week's run at the matinee today.
'The Last Word," as first' produced
in Now York by John Drew and Ada
Kenan, was one of the greatest suc
cesses of the season.
The scene of the play Is laid in
"Washington, D. a, and the story cen
ters about the home of John Ruther
ell, the secretary, a member of the
diplomatic corps. His daughter.
Faith, is in love with Boris Bagoleff,
tho brother of Baroness Vera Bora
neff, but the father wishes her to
marry Baron Stuyve. a very rich man.
At the reception at tho secretary's
house, he starts to announce the en
gagement of his daughter to Baron
Stuyve, and she finishes the sentence
by replacing the name of the man
she loves; then the secretary turns
her from his house. The heart in
terest of the play depends largely up
on the reconciliation of the daughter
with the father, and his replacing her
in the arms of the man she loves.
J3aroness. Baroncff. a brilliant Rus
sian, magnetic, lovable and good (Mis
Countiss) takes Faith In her house
hold and It Is with her brother that
Faith is In love. Harry Rutherell,
the secretary's son (Mr. Baume), Is a
severe man and woman hater, but
who succumbs completely to the
charms of tho Baroness and helps her
in her efforts to straighten out Faith's
troubles. Winny Rutherell, the sec
retary's daughter. .(Miss Brandt), has
a delightful Ingenue part to play op
posite Alexander Arley, the Juvenile
(George Bloomquest). Mr. Bowles
also has a straight part that fits him
like a glove. The Baroness takes
everything by storm and rules the
situation with her wlthchery and
charms. The scene shifts from
Mr. Rutherell's home to the house of
the Baroneffs', and back again to Mr.
Rutherell'B. There are four acts filled
to the brim with three distinct love
themes. Inspired by sprightly comedy,
intensely Interesting dialogue and
strong heart Interest.
There will be a special matinee Mon
day afternoon, which is to be observed
as a holiday.
"THE SHOW GIRL" TODAY.
Latest Musical Success Opens at Em
pire Theater Matinee.
Commencing with the regular mat-,
lnee today and continuing for the en
tire week, with a special matinee to
morrow, (Now Year's day), Tdanager
Baker, of the Empire Theater, will
present B. C Whitney's production of
the latest and greatest musical suc
cess. "The Show Girl." Tomorrow
night the Multnomah and Seattle foot
ball teams will occupy boxes and this
cosy playhouse will be decorated with
the colors of both teams. Large blocks
of seats have been sold and a record
house Is promised. The usual mati
nee Saturday will beglven. "The Show
Girl" was originally produced by the
famous amateur organization. The
Boston Cadets. It is credited with
having scored a genuine hit In New
York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Washington and all the other large
clticB in the East where the piece
has been played. R. A. Barnett. the
author of "1492," Is also the author
nf this piece, and H. L. Hearts, co
author of "The- Tenderfoot." and E.
W. Corliss are responsible for the
music, while Louis DeLange and D. K.
Stevens have given valuable assist
ance. The plot, very briefly sketched, con
cerns the adventures of a touring the
atrical company, who have become
stranded in Greece, but the manager, n
Dionyslus Fly, has come Into the pos
session of a wishing cap and he util
izes the power thus granted him to
extricate his fellow players from their
predicament. There Is a slight ele
ment of love romance an any Busntxsr
of absurdly' comic situations and com
plications. The programme descrip
tive of the piece as "a jolly bit of tom
foolery," would seem to be 'quite accu
rate. Musical and other refined
specialties abound in the piece.
At the head of the company of met
ropolitan favorites is charming and
vivacious Hilda Thomas, which in
cludes Sam Mylie, Lou Hall. Estelle
Bird, Sid Forrester, Josephine Floyd,
Bert Walnwrlgbt, May Sweeney,
Charles E. Parcor. Blanche Bertram,
Thomas Shea, Edna Glover, H. B.
Mustard, Ida Scott, Raymond Belmont.
Nellie Wilson, The Apollo Quartet,
The Rainbow Sisters and others, also
SO pretty and bewitching dancing and
singing girls.
WILLIAMS AND WALKER.
Famous Colored Comedians the New
Year's Attraction at Marquam.
Nothing better In the shape of a musi
cal comedy performance will be offered
this season than that which will be pre
sented at the Marquam Grand Theater
tomorrow (Monday), Tuesday and
Wednesday nights, Janauary 2, 3 and 4.
with a special matinee Wednesday, by
the royal comedians. Williams and
Walker, and their large company of col-N
ored artists. This Is the first American
tour since their return from Europe.
Many welcome surprises have been pre
pared and the new "coon opera" of in
the new "In Dahomey." by Mr. Jesse A.
Shipp and Will Marlon Cook, is the best
work that has been done by these talent
ed authors.
Before Mr. Williams ever thought of
going to Europe, our American public had
recognized him as the drollest mine -of
comedy ever worked b. any audience.
The English public with one accord gave
him the "same acknowledgment and Mr.
George Walker, his partner, is an electric
current of merriment.
Mrs. Lottie Williams and Mrs. Alda
Walker their brilliant wives are calored
lady artists of the front row, and the
supporting company with which these
stars hare surrounded themselves for
this tour have been selected from the
very best material among the colored
people. Most of them, while they are
natives of tho south, are ladies and gen
tlemen of education, culture and refine
ment, eo that while their performances
lack none of the genuineness of the
Southern negro, yet there is nothing of
fensive or coarse.
The scenery, electrical effects and stago
settings will beas realistic as if It were
a portion of African jur&le and landscape
of a real palace of a King in Dahomey.
Seats are now selling for the entire engagement.
BEN GREET PLAYERS, i
Return With "Everyman" and Shake
speare's Comedy, "Twelfth Night."
Portland has taken to Ben Greet's
London players and they to Portland.
Wherefore, for the third time with
in the compass of a single moon, they
are to occupy the stage of the Marquam
Gtand on Friday and Saturday. This
une tney are to revive "Jdveryman" lor
twb matinees, but on the two evenings
they are to show us a bit of old Eng
lish play-acting in the way of com
edy. Friday. January 6, Is Twelfth
Night. This does not mean much to
us of today, but in the -days of Shakes
peare the festival was one of great
importance and Its revels constituted
an important event in the realms of wit
and fashion.
In the days of the good Queen Bess
Shakespeare himself wrote a comedy
for a Twelfth Night entertainment and
called It "Twelfth Night or What You
Will." This was acted January 6, 1601,
at Middle Temple Hall, In London, just
304 years to a day prior to the perform
ance which the Ben Greet players will
present at the Marquam Grand Theater
on Friday night. Rather a pleasant co
incidence, isn't it?
And all this is an annual custom of
ilr. Greet's. Last year's "Twelfth
Night" found the Greet players in Bos
ton doing "Everyman." Mr. Greet put
on 'Twelfth Night" January 6. for the
one performance, and It was so great
a success-tuat It was lator played for
throe weeks in Boston and then taken
to New York for an extended run at the
Knickerbocker, where it created noth
ing short of a furore.
Mind you. the comedy is acted In the
Elizabethan manner, that Is, without
changes of scene, the stage represent
ing the Interior of Middle Temple Hall,
in London, where the first recorded
performance was given. The costumes
aro entirely of the Elizabethan period,
not of the semi-Oriental typo commonly
worn In 'Twelfth Night."
Ben Greet's "Malvolio" has received
high "praise from the best critics and
hearty laughter from the public, the
many-headed critic Mr. Greet brings
out the full comic strength of the role,
rather than making the part of psycho
logical study. For this- relief, much
thanks. On Friday and Saturday af
ternoon "Everyman" will again be
acted.
READINGS BY ROSE EYTINGE
Delightful and Highly Appreciated
Feature of Afternoon Gatherings.
Miss Rose Eytlnge. the talented ana
versatile actress, whose life Is now de
voted to instructing others In the arts of
elocution, gesticulation and graceful car
riage, so thorougnly mastered" by her
self, appears perhaps to bestadvantago
when she gives readings for the enter
tainment of guests at afternoon social
functions.
Her services in this line of work were
In constant demand during her residence
in New York, and she never failed to
win the praise and applause of her au
diences. Her perfectly trained voice,
equally adapted to verse or prose, en
chanted all listeners and brought home
to them, as no- personal reading could,
the merits of the great masters of poetry
and fiction.
It is safe to predict that a single enter
tainment of this kind In Portland would
make Miss Eytlnge's afternoons with
Shakespeare, Tennyson, Browning and
other poets, varied by selections from
famous novelists such as Thackeray.
Dickens or Irving, as great a fad In this
city as they proved In Gotham. "
Such readings are Instructive and ele-
q GIRL
Y&ung as well as Interesting, and pene
trate, like a ray of Intellectual sunshine,
the monotony that too often pervades our
social assemblages.
COMING ATTRACTIONS.
"Rudolph and Adolph."
"Things may come and things may
go, but I go on forever," sang the
brook of Tennyson. So might run the
song of musical farce comedy. The
problem play, the strained melodrama,
the over-played musical comedy, the
deficient comic-opera, the outre French
comedy, have their Beasons their
spasms of demand and their chasms of
failure, but like the brook, there is al
ways a demand for good legitimate,
olean musical farce comedy and it al
ways has a vogue and an ever-ln-'creaslng
public of patrons. Thus it is
that many shows depend solely upon
scenery, and costumes are driven to
the walL The solid, substantial, fun
creating "Rudolph & Adolph," by
Charles Newman, continues season af
ter season to attract the largest au
diences among those who want to
laugh and chase away the blues. The
original company that first made "Ru
dolph and Adolph" famous, under the
management of Broadhurst & Currlc,
will be seen at tho Empire Theater,
four nights, starting Sunday, January
8, and local theater-goers can rely on
a performance and play surely mirth-provoking.
West's Minstrels Coming.
Manager Sanford B. Ricaby. the ener
getic and hustling manager of William
H. West's big minstrel Jubilee, which
comes to the Marquam Grand Theater
Thursday night. January 5, was the bus
iest man an Broadway the past Summer.
While other managers were out fishing
for trout and black fish, he was fishing
for artists from both sides of the big
pond. That he landed a good catch will
be seen by looking over the list of per
formers Mr. Ricaby has engaged for this
season. The Lavalett brothers. Tom
Mack, the great KartelU, McDevitt and
Kelly. George T. Martin. James H. Sad
ler, John P. Moore. Gilbert E. Losee, and
many others with & record to be proud
of. Advance sale opens next Tuesday
morning at 10 o'clock.
THE GRAND THEATER.
Begins the Year 1905 With a Won
derful Programme of New Things.
The programme for the hew week
consists of ten striking numbers, each
one of which, might properly be fea
tured. The Grand uses only top-line
acts and pays the highest salaries of
any vaudeville house on the Coast.
Among the many good things will be
found Da Gross with the latest Euro
pean Spectacular Novelty Radium
Dance and mystifying antics. This act
Is absolutely new on tho Pacific Coast,
It having just finished a most success
ful engagement of ten weeks at Chi
cago. Another great act Is that of
Teggo and Daniell, two of the great
est mlrth-provokers In the United
States. Their stuff is peculiarly their
own. and they get away from the work
of all others. They are sure cure for
the blues. Sid Phillips and his three
English daisies give high-class novelty
dancing, and in their act is also a
number of musical surprises. Ted Box's
Australian Comedy Company presents
a very funny skit that has everywhere
pleased both the press and the public
As tramp Jugglers and a premier dans
uese, Christy and Willis offer a number
that ought to give every satisfaction.
They are fresh from the Keith and
Proctor circuits in New York and Goth
amltes voted them rare entertalnera.
The Hamlins aro a team that 'presents
latest Eastern successes in a novel and
origlnaKmanner. Also on the bill are
the Mellenotte Sisters, specialty artists,
who offer work of very high and excep
tional character. The new Illustrated
song. "Down In the Vale of Shenan
doah": the music Is very fine and the
pictures quite beautiful. 'The Life of
Louis XTV" is the moving picture, and
it 1b the very latest Parisian Importa
tion. It will be unusually Interesting
as a correct and accurate study in
French history. The bill is varied with
a view of offering something to please
almost every taste. Don't forget that
today, Sunday, Is your very last oppor
tunity to see" the. Shak-HadjI-Tabar
Arabs, the whirlwinds of the desert, in
their picturesque act. This offering
has been the most widely appreciated of
any act yet presented by the manage
ment of the Grand Theater.
appear this week. The entire pro
gramme is full of acts which are among
the most diverting novelties of a vaude
ville. Ahern and Baxter ate clever
acrobats who disguise their difficult
feats by surrounding them with amus-
t ing comedy antics. Morgan and Ches
ter are two singing and dancing come
dians whose act is full of eccentric
merriment. Zampa will be one of the
most entertaining performers on the
programme with a novelty musical art.
Robert Ellis will sing pictured ballads,
while Edison's Projectoscope, showing
the "Count's Personal," will present the
biggest success in the history of mov
ing pictures. This Is not only one of
the longest films made, but also the
most amusing result of the adventures
of a French Count who advertised in
New York City for a handsome young
wife.
Today is the last appearance of Daisy
Harcourt, the famous London soubrette;
the Taggart family of acrobats and
Ellis and Faloma, the high-class oper
atic singers. The programme Is con
tinuous today from 2 to 10:30 P. M.
THE STAR.
The Okabes, World's Greatest Japa
nese Troupe, Head the BUI.
The Star Theater for the new pro
gramme beginning with the Monday
matinee at 3 P. II., presents another all
feat bill which is headed by the
Okabes. the world's greatest troupe of
Japanese jugglers, acrobats and magi
cians. The enterprising management
of the Star Theater also announces the
return engagement of. the Parisian fa
vorites, the Molassos. in their mag
nificent spectacular whirlwind dances.
The Molassos recently appeared at the
Star Theater, and tbn act has aroused,
such great Interest and. so many re
quests for a return engagement that
these entertaining dancers will again
THE LYRIC.
People's Popular Vaudeville Theater
Offers Good New Year's Bill.
The opening number of the Lyric's New
Year bill will be the New York Comedy
Four, appearing In their newest Eastern
farce-comedy success. This quartet was
especially released from Important metro
politan contracts in order that they might
come to the Coast under the auspices of
the Lyric" Next following we submit J.
H. Maxwell, the famous monologulst and
parodist, who never falls to make the
biggest kind of hit. Etale Tolon, the
dainty song and dance soubrette. a fa
vorite from sea to sea, will delight both
maecullno and feminine admirers. For
the first time on the Pacific Coast, the
world-renowned Electric Trio will appear
in their emphatic laughing absurdity, .en
titled "A Happy Fainlly." Thomas W.
Ray will appear In a new Illustrated bal
lad, and the vltascope will show new pic
tures. Today (New Year's day) perform
ances arc to be continuous from -Q until
1030 P. M.
THE ARCADE.
L Garden Trio, "Commanders-in-Chief
cf the Army of Fun," This Week
The new programme to be given at
the Arcade Theater tomorrow at 2
P. M., is made up of the best vaude
ville acts that have ever been pre
sented at this popular amusement
house The management of tho Ar
cade Theater Is in direct touch, with the
largest vaudeville houses of the Easr
and the acts which are being brought
to the Pacific Coast are the sanfe that
have been presented with marked suc
cess in tii famous theaters of the East
Heading- the new bill, starting Mon
day. Is the Garden Trio, who are de
scribed as- "Commanders-in-Chief of
the Army of Fun." They marshal a
host of new Jokes and songs in an
array that provokes laughter and ap
plause, Leonard and Held, two famous
circus performers, have ben engaged
at greajt expense to present their re-
and the acts for the New Year bill at the
Baker. See them and beat them If you
can. Professor Hunt's gigantic dog and
monkey show, which has created a furore
both in this country and' Europe; the
Hamlins, Dick and Louise, in their refined
singing and dancing specialty; Athon,
Wilson and Clark. In their newest laugh
producer, entitled 'The Coming Man";
the Great Stanfield. the prince of Ameri
can monologulsts; the Marvelous Fishers,
the world's greatest contortionists; John
W. Wood, the ballad singer, with ten
thousand admirers, in a new Illustrated
song, and the blograph. exhibiting Edi
son's latest life motion pictures. The
performances today will be continuous
from 2 until 11 P. M.
With a Stock Company.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
It a proud and happy day
"When Russell Crane Salvinl Grar
Joined a flock
Ot actor folk, a real stock troupe;
Tea. he was token In the sroup
With the stock.
They started We3t frlthout delfty.
And Russell Crane Salvinl Gray
Wore & frock
A lovely coat with conscious air.
Rejoicing greatly to be there
With the stock.
They busted out near Santa. Te
And Russell Crane Salvinl Gray.
Who couldn't hock
His clothes at anything like par.
Came home Inside a cattle car
With the stock.
"Camllle" and Others.
William Winter, in New Tork Tribune.
Haate to the play, dear children, haste to se
How chaste and sweet a Cyprian Drab can he.
She that for many a moon has" gone astray.
Finding new loves and lovers each new day
In wanton revelry content to reign,
Ti .?Jfan(i, J"a-lMslinx on her chain;
If touched, at length, by sacred passion's Are!
At once she mingles with the angelic choir
At once in psalm and orison unites.
p5i 3: Se.rap """"En her ellken tights;
Pure, modest, tender, delicate, refined
To make a heaven of bliss for all mankind.
STAGELAND.
e C5SSL5t,S ll workin n a new op
based on 3Cr Wilde's piay
Munic" nUne" 11 Wl" bC produced 80On la
William. Gillette owes one of his first oppor
tunities in. his profession to the friendship
of Mark Twain;' -who Induced John T. Ray
mond to give him a part in "The Gilded
Age."
When ilr. Beerbohm Tree produces "Much
Ado About Nothing" at His Majesty's The
ater In London, Miss Winifred Emery will be
the Beatrice to his Benedi&k, while to Viola
Tree will be allotted the part of Hero. .
DaUa Tyler, a young actress who a short
time ago retired from the." stage, has been
called back into the glare of the footlights,
and will be leading woman for Robert Cde
sou when he appears in his Indian play
"Strongheart" la New Tork next month.
Maeterlinck in Farts has been rhapsodizing
over "King Lear." apropos of Antoine's act
ing cf the play. "It may bo armed." he
says, "after examination of the literatures
of every time and country, that the trag
edy of the old King Is the most power
ful, the most vast, the most aCactlnr the