THE SUNDAY OREGOJflAIN, PORTLAND, APRIL 9, 1905.
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Cathrine Couritiss in Love With Portland
SHE SAYS THIS CITY WILL ALWAYS HAVE
IN HER HEART, HOWEVER FAR AWAY
TTTP) -woman who has been most prom
inently before the people of Portland
for the past seven months chatted
with me for half an hour the other even
Ins about her -work here and the regret
she feels at saying good-bye, for be it
known ,that at the closo of the three
-weeks' special engagement of the Colum
bia Company Miss .Cathrine Countiss -will
leave Portland, never to appear here
again, except perhaps at Intervals as &
etar.
Miss Countiss has a- charming person
ality. She is -what -women call "perfectly
lovely," and she is much more. She is
intelligent beyond even the average of
successful public -women. She is always
interesting, even-tempered, kindly, level
headed and withal essentially a -woman's
woman.
I have no small admiration of her as an
actress, but off the stage I admire- her
more.
In more ways than one, she is remark
able. She has played in this city almost
continuously for three years, and yet re
tains a -wonderful hold upon the theater
going public "Without exaggeration, I
may say that no actress has ever become
so well known and so well liked here as
she. I very, much doubt if there is a
man, woman or child of understanding
years within the limits of this town "who
is not informed as to Cathrine Countiss.
Most of them have seen her act, and
many of them know her personally. I be
lieve fL majority of them will say she is
a spelendid actress, and there are those
-who wia fight for her.
Hers has been a -wonderful career hero.
By actual count, she has played 77 weeks
of stock in the presense of Portland audi
ences. This means 693 performances, and
this means that she has committed to
memory 4S20 pages of manuscript She
has never missed a performance of any
of the companies with. which she has been
locally identified. The past season alone
with the Columbia Company she has ap
peared every night, and at numerous mat
inees for SO weeks. In that time, in addi
tion, she has attended 200 rehearsals,
learned 1800 pages of manuscript and
4b spoken 250.000 words from the stage. To
say nothing of the time she has spent In j
study, sne nas actually worsea upon ue
plays presented 1680 hours. A day laborer
working the regulation eight hours a day
has in that time performed 1440 hours of
labor. She has averaged four new gowns
a week, a total of 120, which she designed,
flttedend, what Is cv.n more important,
paid for. She has received what appears
to be a princely salary, $175 the week, but
frequently a single gown has cost a
week's pay. Above everything else, she
is a worker, and if all wage-earners wore
as diligent as she in their -various em
ployments, there would be less poverty,
unhappiness, dissatisfaction and no idle
ness. She has made wonderful strides in her
profession, for she has been on the stage
but five years.
Her start was obtained in New York
after many fruitless and well-nigh heart
breaking attempts to secure, an engage
ment. She got a place with one of the
lesser stock companies in the metropolis
and was assigned three "bits." In the
first act she "blacked -up" and did a little
song and dance. In the second she ap
peared as a society belle, after removing
the burnt-cork and changing from rags
to fashionable garb. In the last act she
was a maid-servant, and for this task she
received the munificent stipend of J5 a
week. That was five years ago. It's a
far cry from 56 to .$175 a week in five
years. When she was paid at the end of
her first week she took her paltry $6 home
with her and sobbed with disappointment.
She had expected $15. Her next engage
ment was with "Arizona," at 40 a week,
and in the short season with the Augustus
Thomas play she appeared In every part
in the piece, excepting that of "Mrs.
Canby." She contracted to play the
schoolmistress, but as understudy for
all the other women in the cast she was
called upon for "Estrella," "Bonlta" and
".Lena." After that she was leading
woman for a short time with "The Vil
lage Postmaster." Then she appeared in
stock at St. Paux-for a few weeks, playing
leads with Robert Drouet. She was next
leading woman with Harry G laser in
"Prince Otto" and then she came to Port
land in the Spring of 1902 with Ralph
Stuart as "second woman." During that
first engagement here she appeared in all
sorts of characters, from soubrettes to
grande dames. Her success here was so
pronounced that when the James Neill
Stock Company was organized the fol
j lowing August she was given the place
of leading woman. When George i.
Baker secured the company she continued
in that capacity for two seasons. Fol
lowing that she starred with excellent
success -in "The Christian," and for a
Chanty? Not
Famous Singer Charges $2200
EW TORE. Anril 2. rSneelal cor- i
11
11 rcspondence.) Quite the
rosnonflenv-Ohr the. lanroat
audience assembled in Camogie
Hall for a very long time was the
one which listened to Tsaye and Emma
Eames, in addition to the New York
Symphony Orchestra, under Walter Dam
rosch. This concert was given for the
benefit of the Lower East Side Musio
School Settlement, and when tho receipts
were counted up it was found that they
were considerably less than expected, be
cause Emma Eames had put in her bill
for $2200, for which she sang three num
bers. In addition to this, of course,
there was a very large fee to Ysaye. It
is not difficult to understand that this
engagement to the violinist meant noth
ing more than any other. He Is not in
any way related to the little waifs on
the Lower East Side of New York, and,
notwithstanding the fact that he takes
away from America a good many of her
round, hard dollars, there would be no
reason why he-should be expected to do
anything for charity. Speaking of chari
ties, a musician once said to me: "It is
all very well to expect artists to con
tribute their services for charity, but if
a private 'individual gives to charity he
gives anywhere from a dollar to five dol
lars and more, according to his purse,
but if an artist gives bis services he gives
that which represents anywhere from
$150 or $200 -upwards, and that- is a good
deal when there are so many demands."
This is not without some element of
truth; yet we are not astonished to hear
that a Mr. Rockefeller or a Mr. Carnegie
gives $100,000 to charity and thinks noth
ing of it. Now, there is no reason why
Emma Eames in the wealth of her art
should not be regarded as analagous to
a Rockefeller or a Carnegie and this
without considering her very great finan
cial wealth, with her Italian castle, to
say nothing of the fortune of her husband,
Julian Story. Emma Eames, nVde by
the American people, born of the Amer
ican people, supported by the American
people, asks $2200 to sing for an entertain
ment given for the benefit of the little
children on the Lower East Side, so that
a little light may fall,across the dafkness
of their paths. It is incredible: it Is ab
solutely unbelievable. What can there
CATHRINE COUNTISS, SKETCHED
brief time in "A Friend of the Family." 1
Last Summer she was leading woman of I
Keith's Philadelphia stock company, and I
when Manager Welch organized the Co
lumbia stock she camo back to Portland
to head it. This is her career, and it is
only five years long. She has worked
hard and her consistent efforts, rein
forced by ability and an attractive per
sonality, have won unmistakable success.
She told me the other night that last
week was the first vacation she has
had in 52 weeks. :
When she leaves Portland at the
opening of May .she expects to take a
holiday. She will go East and with her
mother will seek some secluded place
in the country where she can wear sun
bonnets and live out-of-doors. She
will have a good loaf this Summer and
leave her work out of the calculation.
Then next Autumn sho will be back
to the spot-light again. She's going to
be a star under one of the most promi
nent managers in America, but she is.
not advertising and will not go Into
the details. Possibly some time next
year we will have a chance to see her
at the Marquam at top-notch prices.
I asked her what she would like to
say to her many friends here before she
bids us good-bye. For weeks her mall
has been full of letters from those who
have come to love and respect her. She
says there have" been scores from
women and a scant half-dozen from
men, and I think this is her proudest
boast, for she is a womanly woman
and loves the affection or her slstors. In
response to these, I told her she should
say Something for print and she agreed
that to do so had been her great de
sire. "I am leaving Portland at tho end
for Me, bays
for Three Numbers at Concert Given
bo in the nursult of a great art than can
so completely dry .out every drop of the
milk of human kindness. And this sing
er should be able to remember when her
own path was not strewn with roses,
when she could afford herself no luxuries
not even the positive knowledge that
she would be able to continue her music
study. It is perfectly true that success
does one of two things it softens or It
hardens. The diva charged $2200 to sing
for charity, and a charity in which one
might at least have expected her sym
pathies to be enlisted. She will tour tho
country next year, and then the people
will be able to understand what it means
to have a great art, a tremendous art, and
a heart like an icicle. No one who has
ever heard Emma Eames sing has failed
to remark that, notwithstanding her own
great personal beauty and the exqulslte
ness of her voice, she was absolutely cold
and unsympathetic, but few people would
have believed, that she was hardened
enough to accept $2200 from a charity pf
this kind.
Next! A testimonial ior Mme. Modjes
ka will give the admirers of Paderewskl
one more chance to hear him. In this
concert, which will probably take place
at the Metropolitan Opera-House May 4,
the great pianist, Mme. Sembrich and
other compatriots of Modjeska will ap
pear. At the rate which Mme. Eames
holds herself it would take more money
ti pay these artists than the Metropoli
tan Opera-House would hold, but no
doubt this will be a work of affection and
sympathy for their countrywoman, and
this bond is one -vhlch doubtless Mme.
Eames could not be made to understand
at all, because when Mammon reigns all
else must do homage.
A young playwright said to me: "I
can see the incentive for the American
musician and the American composer
to work for art in the highest accepta
tion of tho term but be assured that
neither the actor nor the playwright
has the same incentive. Tho musician
displays his art before the picked cul
ture of the country: the patrons of the
theater consist of the masses, as it is
a well-known fact that, with the pos
sible exception of a Bernhardt, a Duse,
an Irving or a Mansfield engagement,
the classes will not turn out en masse,
and if dependent npon the classes not
even one theater could survive."
While there is a great deal of truth
in this statement, there is something
to be said on both sides. ..To egln
A WARM SPOT
SHE MAY BE
TRCM! IIFE BY HARRY MURPHY.
of April, perhaps for a long time,
shall certainly never play another stock
season here, as tno next three weess
will positively end my work in that
capacity in Portland.
"I find that my heart fills up, and I can
hardly express the things I would like to
say. I have passed three of the best
years of my life here. Portland has been
my school. I practically started here and
developed my art as It now is before this
public
"Stock is an exacting a hard school-
but it is efficient. I have played every
thing from 'Cinders' to 'Mary of Mag-
dala before Portland audiences, and
feel that my progress has been largely
due to their kindly appreciation and en
couragement. In return I have given
them my best and most conscientious ef
forts, and I like to feel that I belong to
Portland, that It Is my home.
"I shall leave stock soon. I must try
another important advance step, and
hope ultimately to do something really
worth while. If in the future the people
of Portland hear good reports of the girl
who so long tried to please and entertain
them, I hope they will feel some of the
pride In me that I shall always feel in
Portland. This city has given me a great
deal, and I hope that I have given some
thing in exchange. I feel a strong bond
of love and sympathy toward the good
people of this city, and I leave with
warm spot in my heart for the generous
public and press of my home. I owe so
much for the encouragement of applause
and kind words of praise which I have
received here. I shall never forget the
people here, and I shall try always to
be a credit to them, so that they may
call me, 'Our Cathrine Countiss with
some feeling of pride." A. A. Q.
onma Lames
for Benefit of East Side Waifs.
I with, the representative cultured peo
I pie know perfectly well that the thea-
ters are not dependent upon their pa
tronage, since it is the great public at
large that is able to Keep so many or
them afloat. But they; do know that if
iney want music me responsiouiiy
rests upon them .and upon them It de
pends whether or not it is possible to
have the concerts. But there Is an
other side and a far more vital one
The concerts which attract the class
known as that of extreme culture and
refinement present the greatest attrac
tlons of the entire world and in the
entire world. To illustrate, there is no
greater orchestra in existence than the
Boston Symphony, unless -it mljrht be
the Berlin Philharmonic, which is- not
greater, but as great. 1 The New York
Philharmonic is not very far behind the
standard of the Boston organization
and the others must be within close
enough range to bear comparison. The
Kneisel Quartet Is second to nothing in
the world. The soloists who appear In
conjunction with these organizations
and by themsleves can only hope for
recognition by an American publi
after having been regarded as super
lative by all the rest of the world. Tho
moment an organization or a soloist
falls below the standard which has be
come the rule Instead of the exception
they fail to draw tho classes, and up
to the present time, except for the
work of Frank Damrosch, F. X. Arens
and a few others, the masses are not
sufficiently interested in music to afford
support.
Now, let us look at the stage of to
day and we will find that the average
is higher than it ever has been "before,
and all the men and women in the pro
fcsslon are more fully equipped and
more finished than they were even ten
or 15 years ago. But the great genius
is conspicuous by his absence. By
genius we mean sucn distinctive fig
ures as Sheridan, Booth, Janauschek,
Modjeska, Mary Anderson. We still
have Henry Irving, Bernhardt, Duse
and, shall we not say, Richard Mans
field, " although his greatest adherents
cannot throw over his shoulders the
cloak which must soon fall from Irving.
There is no one to wear this cloak,
neither in Europe nor in America. Shall
It be Forbes Robertson, . Boerbohm
Tree. John T. Hare. Sir Charles Wynd
ham. "E. S. Willard, Charles Hawtrey?
These-are all greatjmen. but is anjvono
a distinct recognised genius? William !
Gillette, David Warfield, James K.
Hackett, William F&versham, Charles
Richman, Wilton Lackaye, John Drew,
Henry Miller all these men are first
class, the two first aro rather more
than first-class, but Is any one a
genius? And what about the women?
Is there any one who would be a seri
ous rival to Bernhardt or Duse among
the following1 Maude Adams, Mrsi. 'Les
lie Carter, Annie Russell. Ethel Barry-
more. Eleanor Jtobson, Mary Manner-
lns, Minnie Maddern FIske, Blanche
Bates, Julja. Marlow, Viola Allen. Max-
ine Elliott, Bertha Galland and a very
long1 list of others equally good? Now,
each one of these women J3 exception
ally gifted, but would the word genius
be in place with any of them? Perhaps
Mrs. Pat Campbell has the most right
to the designation. We may readily
see that -all of these actresses repre
sent types. Now what has reduced them
to the narrowness of a type? Shall wo
not find the answer to this when we
begin to analyze the modern play, and
is' it not the modern play which has
eclipsed the genius of the stage? Then
the manager will make answer it is
the public which makes the play, which
accepts or rejects, not the manager.
From this we are led to believe that it
is the public which klll3 ffle goose
which lays the golden egg ergo, the
masses create their own standard and
that standard Is inimical to such drama
as would .give scope to the genius,
either ma.n or woman.
It may yet bo a few years before we will
be able to realize that the old school is
completely passed away, because there
are just enough of the old-timers to form
a bridge between the past and the present.
Sir Henry Irving is, of course, the great
est of these, with whom stands band in
hand Joseph Jefferson when he chooses to
emerge from his eelf-imposed privacy. Of
course Modjeska Is still living, but pro-
Color Affects Animal's Temper
An Old Circus Man Tells How Beasts Are Angered by Certain Colors.
UK DennIeI Luk at the hay-
Lmen: .tie s aim uie uuicu
man's shirt up!" A smug faced
tiger was doing tho trick. He had torn
helper's sweater into shreds. The
keeper came along and smiled. The two
Irishmen roared. The Dutchman said
things that wouldn't look well In typo and
picked up an Iron bar to baste tho tiger.
A sharp word -from the boss saved the
tiger from getting his skull bruised."
The old circus man had been telling of
the effect of colors on animals. The story
ofthe Irishman and the Dutchman was
the wind-up of a long-winded yarn which
was used to illustrate the sinister influ
ence of yellow on tho tiger.
"I. told that Dutchman that this young
tiger would pull him down some day and
hurt him If ho did not quit wearing that
ugly sweater," the old man went on to
say. "It was the ugliest yellow I ever
saw ugly enough to give an ostrich In
digestion from a glimpse of It My men
generally know the wild animals have
strong likes and dislikes of colors, kinds
of music, and people. The hyena, about
the meanest thing on four legs, will al
most Jump out of its skin at the sight of
purple.
"Last season when tho Rlngllng shows
were touring the South, an unsuspecting
girl had a gorgeous plume of this color
torn from her hat and was frightened into
an assortment of fits. Her escort, a lan
tern-Jawed young fellow, got mad and
wanted "to clean up things. He barked
up tho wrong tree on that score, and,
after banging away at a youngster in uni
form, tried his hand on an old-timer and
got a good, hard bump for his pains.
Luckily I came along and saved the
testy young man's bones from a long
siege of aches. The purple plume was
the Innocent cause of the mess, and after
the young girl had come around explana
tions were made and the incident closed
without any further unpleasantness. The
management had, to give up $20 for the
hat. If you want to get a monkey to
turning handsprings and squeaking with
rage, wave a combination of red and
green before his eyes.
An odd thing about this, too, Is that he
is partial' to green alone In fact, most
animals are but when red is mixed up
with the green Mr. Monkey gets on his
ear and jumps madly at everything with
in reach. Green is a soothing color to
wild animals, just as it is to human be
ings. I hive used green shades to get
nervous creatures sleepy. It never fails.
when I want to make big, fat, lazy
anlmab, like the hippopotamus and rhi
noceros, shut their eyes in sleep I draw
a piece of green baize around the cage.
and the snoring chorus, which soon fol
lows, shows that the green has done Its
work. Certain shades of red, say scarlet.
are most Irritating to feline beasts. A
girl with a scarlet hat or jacket will
make a tiger hiss and snarl and roar un
til . he Is out "f breath, and then
most likely he will further show his
rage by -tearing at the steel bars
of his cage until his gums drip
with blood. The young attendants
know this, and when a girl overshot with
scarlet comes near their charge she is
polttely told that the big show is about
to begin, or' turned toward the dens of
baby wild animals.
"Bears don't like blue. They are grumpy
critters anyway. A big policeman of San
Francisco can testify to the fact that
bears have no use for blue. He was on
duty at the show, and wore his blue uni
form. Toward the end of the engage
ment he began to feel at home, and liked
to show his friends around, especially
those of the gentler sex. I told him not
to get too near the bears, but he knew;
the fellows who get hurt always do. A
sly old cinnamon bear waited his time,
and when it came he nailed the police
man's coat skirts, and tore them off as
cleanly from the waist line as If they
had been cut by a sharp knife. The po
liceman looked funny in his new Eton
jacket, and swore like a sailor. He was
lucky to have saved his skin.
"Gray is a depressing color to- Hons,
probably this Is because they are such
swell heads. They are a good deal like
handsome men, and that is about the
limit. When everything Is sunny and
their food comes on time and plenty of
girls come along to say admiring things
these beasts aro as happy, apparently, as
a colt In a clover field. They like blue,
and they don't mind red, but when it
comes to gray their features hang as It
they had had bad news from home. Black
and white is a pleasing combination to
lions and leopards. I sometimes wonder
if this Is not due to so many of them com
ing here by way of Germany, and as a
rulo belne held up for quite a while in
Hamburg gardens before they make this
I GRAND
SUNDAY CONTINUOUS 2 TO 11 P. M.
DIAMOND QUARTETTE
Singers and Comedians.
THE MATCHLESS ACT
HENRY CLIVE
Australian
Magician.
REAL SHENKES
Wfcrld'a Greatest
Acrobats
BYRON & RAND THE GRANDISCOPE
Unique farce. Samoa and Fiji Islands.
ADjnSSIOK
0 -i 'Few seats reserved la tlie immediate
fesslonally she has been dead for many
years. Sarah Bernhardt is not so young
as she was, and for the largo number of
people who In the country at large have
accorded Frederick Warde a warm wel
come his decision to leave the stage for
the lecture platform will be another link
out of he chain, although in the large
Eastern centers Wardet has not appeared
for many years. The death of Maurice
Barrymore brings to mind these condi
tions, notwithstanding the fact that pro
fessionally he died a good many years
ago. Maurice Barrymore was unique In
the dramatic history of this country, not
only for his talent, which, while It never
amounted to real genius, was of sufficient
importance to make him stand alone. If I
mistake not, it was Maurice Barrymore
w,ho created the creature known as the
matinee girl, for If ever there was a mat
inee Idol It was he, and he remained so
even on tp th vaudeville stage, upon
which he collapsed mentally March 23, 1300.
a
While we tire on ihe subject of old
timers, there will be many interested to
hear that last Wednesday eevnlng a testi
monial was tendered to John Jack and'
Mrs. Anna Furmari Jack, who are still en
Joying good health and occupying posi
tions in the theatrical world. The pro
gramme was made up of three one-act
plays and a vaudeville bill. The quarrel
scene from "The School for Scandal" was
given delightfully, with Mr. Jack as Sir
Peter and Mrs. Jack as Lady Teazle. The
second play was a sketch called "The
Prima Donna." in whigh Mrs and Mrs.
Jack were assisted by Charles Avery, and
the third, "My Wife's Mother." was writ
ten by Percy Plunkett, who played the
leading part, with the assistance of Mar
garet McKeon and Harry Butler. The
rest of tho entertainment consisted of
numbers by George C. Boniface, Irene
Longforth. Lulu Martell. L. H. Gorman,
Damon Lyon, Joe McKenna and Mrs.
Jack, who sang songs of her own composi
tion. BMXLD3 FRANCES BAUER.
trip. A Chinese flag makes them cranky.
"The lion, however, is not such a fierce
fellow as somo people try to make out,
and his disliko for certain colors nev
er runs Into any extravagantly mean dis
plays. Tho elephant, the grand old man
of the menagerie, does not show much In
terest one way-or another when changing
colors are flashed before him. With him
all colors look alike. It Is a good thing
for tho black population that this is so,
because when they get into their circus
best all tho colors of the prism are hooked
up. The camel Is much like the elephant
in this respect. I have known a cross
grained one, though, to spit out a mouth
ful of bran over a dress that looked like
a running mate for a crazy quilt. The
gcntlo giraffe is partial to soft colors.
Certain shades of green, blue, brown,
and gray are to her liking.
"I have tried to find out if there was
any one positive color that tne two
giraffes In our menagerie preferred most,
but so far I have been unable to prove
anything like this to my satisfaction.
lou know, the giraffe can make no
sound, and it is mild mannered as a
shrinking young girl. The Rlngllng
rhinoceros has the funniest little whistle
for eo huge a body, and when it gets
mad this dIdo blows like a factory signal
at noon time. Ho has no use for bright
colors of any kind, but will snip at and
munch playfully soft shades of brown.
green and blue, I think, If he ha3 any
preference. It leans to black and gray.
"The bovlno species, like the buffalo.
yak, sacred cattle, etc., snort and bellow
when brought to face with waving red-
The tapir will turn tall and try to hide
from yellows and reds. This probably
comes from the fear of the treacherous
cat animals of his jungle home and the
British redcoats that go hunting for
his kind. Tho wart hog seems too dull
to notici anything but food, although
one of my men swears he has no use for
red. because he comes from South Africa
and has seen the color on the backs of
go many Boer enemies. Black panthers,
which aro only leopards in disguise, will
hiss and snap fiercely at any solid color.
but, strange to say, when tho colors aro
combined they seem to look at the changes
with interest and hardly open their Hps
Green is the best general color in a
menagerie, and any neutral shade of blue
or gray Is best for tho uniform of an
attendant.
Debt Wiped Out by Pelee.
Worcester Telegram.
Rising out of tho ashes and prosper
ing beyond all thoughts of the possible
at the time of ruin, is said to be the
latest history of tho people of the
Island of Martinique. The historian is
American Consul Ayme, on leave of ab
sence from his post in Brazil. He was
the only official United States repre
sentative on the Island after the erup
tion of Mount Pelee a few years ago,
when the City of St. Pierre was. de
stroyed and its 29,000 inhabitants
killed In an hour. He stopped at the
Island on his way home and looked Into
the conditions of its people. He was
astonished, and he expressed his aston
lshment, ana at tne same time ex
plained how It was possible for the
quick recovery to have taken place.
He says that at the time of tho erup
tion St. Pierre was the metropolis of
the island, and practically all the
wealth was centered In the city. With
the buildings of the city there was
wiped out all tho papers and evidence
of indebtedness on the island, so that
there was no-evidence on which cred
itors or such of them as outlived the
disaster could collect a debt of any
kind. All the 'people on the Island out
side of St. Pierre found that their debts
had been wiped' out by the terrors of
the eruption, but the eruption did not
destroy the large stores of specie and
metallic wealth in the banks of the
city, and that fell Into the hands of
the living Inhabitants of tho Island and
made them rich in hundreds of cases
where they had been poor. Therefore,
they were much better off by means of
tho eruption, and they have taken ad
vantage of their opportunity to prosper
and make tho Island bloom. Those who
were killed by the volcano do not miss
the wealth they. left. It was better for
the survivors than a national bank
ruptcy law.
Lewis and Clark Observatory
HAWTHORNE TEKKACE
PORTLAND HEIGHTS
Jfow open. Take Portland Heights car and get
oft at Hawthorn Terrace, one block from, car
line. No climbing-. Electric elevator.
Moat maRnlflcent view In America. Se
beautiful effect of powerful searchlight from
top o tower. Open 0 A. M. to 9 P. JI.
ADMISSION. 10 CENTS.
WEEK OF
APRIL
101
WILSON & MORAN
"A Railroad Catastrophe."
ALT 30NNER
Tell Me That
Beautiful StorjV
GEO. W. LESLIE
The Minstrel Man.
10 CENTS.
front, 20 cents. Box nests, 25 eeats.
j MARQUAM GRAND THEATER
TOMORROW AND TUESDAY NIGHTS
APRIL lO AND 11
" Jnles Hurry Presents His Company, Including
MAX FIGMAN
In the roaring, screaming, farcical comedy success
The Marriage
of Kitty
, i,j "Breezy, sparkling. bright and amus-
ing." Denver Xews, March 20th.
"Wholesome, dainty, pleasing and
played by a splendid company. Tho ser
vants were as good actors as tho stars." -,
k Salt Lake Tribune, April 1.
Lower floor, except last three-
.balcony, first six rows, 75c; last
boxes and loges, $7.50.
Seats now selling. Carriages at 10:50 o'clock.
COLUMBIA THEATER
Fourteenth and Washington Streets.
Reopening Sunday Matinee Today
APRfL 9
THE NEW COLUMBIA STOCK COMPANY
Presenting the powerful drama,
"Woman Against Woman"
ALL
Matinees Saturday and Sunday
All the old favorites in the cast.
A limited season of three weeks only.
The high standard of Columbia productions will prevail.
Evening Prices: 50, 35, 25, 15
Matinee Prices: 25, 15 and 10
Down town box office open all day at Dolly Varden Candy Shop,
327Morrison St. Phone Main HO. Evening at Theater Main 311
Next Week: "DORA THORNE"
EMPIRE
CENTS
ADMISSION
10
Summer Season Opens Tomorrow (Sunday)
EMPIRE STOCK COMPANY
MATINEE 2 P. M.
ONE SHOW IXlf EACH NIGHT
OPENINO PLAY
The Sensational English Melodrama
The Ticket-of -Leave Man
Next Week, Starting TAn
Sunday Matinee, Apr. 16 111
ENGAGEMENT EXTRAORDINARY
R
"Week beginning Monday matinee,
April 10.
Perle and Diamant i
Singers and Dancers from Paris.
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Tracey
& Co.
In a comedy sketch, "The Frisky
Mr. Jones."
Special Engagement of the
Ed.-Zoya rros-Ameta
The "World's Greatest Globe Boilers.
Feeley and Abacco
Direct from the East, in a comedy
skit.
William E. Gross
German Comedian.
Jones and Robinson
In their laughable sketch,
"Marster Peter."
Roscoe Arbuckle
Sings "Your Dad Gave His Life for 9
His Country."
Staroscope
"The Kleptomaniac" .
Any seat, 10 cents. Performances. 9
2:30, 7:S0 and 9P.1L o
Reading From Dickens
By ROSE EYTINGE
At Parsons' Hall Thursday,
April 13, 2.45 P. M.
For I,moiis In Elocution Apply 261 13th St.
W.T.PANQLE,
Resident Manager.
Phone Main SOS.
rows, $1.00; last three rows 75c;
six rows, 50c; gallery, 25c and '35c;
WEEK:
THEATER
GEO. I. BAKER, Resident
10
Ninhfc in n Rsrrnnm"
niyiiio 111 u uui mum
THEATER
Largest vaudeville theater In
America. Keating & Flood, man
agers. Third and Yamhill streets.
GREAT NEW BILL MONDAY
HUGLE BROTHERS
In 'he original comedy acrobatic
act that has made them famous.
THE ALLYINS
Musical artists in a refined act
that Is full of fun as well as
harmony.
STANLEY and AILEEN ;
Two clever singers and dancers, 9
who make the most melancholy
merry.
INGOMA
He is called the "Hinkey Kid."
His act Is nothing if not unique.
WINN & LEMAR
Two comedy sketch artists. Funny?
Well, see them.
JEAN WILSON
Illustrated songs.
; DEAGOUS TRIO
e Three of the cleverest performers
on the vaudeville stage.
BIOGRAPH
Showing new and up-to-date plc-
0 tures.
Admission, 10 cents to any seat.
1 Shows at 2:30. ,7:30 and 9:15 P. M.
Z Continuous. 2:30 to 10:30 P. JL. Sun
i day.
SEAS OX 1905-1000.
EMMA
EAMES
GRA"KD CONCERT TOUR.
.Management HENRY WOLFSOHN. Xtt Toric.
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