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TIIE SUNDAY OREGONIAX PORTLAND, FEBRUARY 24, 1907.
performances. The initial presenta
tion will be this afternoon at -:15
o'clock.
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THE wheel of time has turned again
a full week's revolution. How
rapidly the wheel turns now
the days following one after the other
so swiftly we are all older by seven
days before we realize. that the merci
less kalledoscope has turned again. It
must be a sign of advancing years that
we lament time's swift advance. Per
haps "Ms a knowledge that we have
not acquitted ourselves as we might
have failed in doing much that we
should have done. '
Pierrot and Columbine are not al
ways gay. Tho comedian sometimes
has a sorry task, as they who laugh
with him might know, could they see
behind his mask. And so with play
ing and working and laughing and
sighing, "the week has passed.
"The Umpire," at the Hellig. was a
most diverting musical entertainment,
and more than made amends for the
atrocious "Buster Brown" show, which
opened the week. "The Umpire" will
be repeated tonight, and is well worth
patronizing.
Tomorrow night the Augustin Daly
Company will present "The Clngalee,"
fresh from its London run. Two per
formances of this piece will he giv
en, the bill changing to "A Country
Girl" on Wednesday and Thursday
nights. The latter half of the week
Is dark.
After anther successful week, pre
senting "Brother Officers," the Baker
Company will change its programme
this afternoon to . "Miss Hobbs." a
Jerome K. Jerome comedy, in which
Miss Lawrence in the title will un
doubtedly win new laurels.
The Empire changes its offerings from
"My Wife's Family" to "The Fast Mall."
the Star from "Caprice" to "The Little
Chuch Around the Corner" and the
l.yrlc from "Hoops of Gold" to "Struck
Oil." Vaudeville, as usual, at the Grand
and Pantages.
Portland theatergoers will be glad to
know that Ralph Stuart has scored
an .unmistakable hit as Glenlster in
"The Spoilers." which was given Its
premier a short time ago at Baltimore.
In speaking of Mr. Stuart's perform
ance the Baltimore Sun said:
"Mr. Ralph Stuart, as the hero Glen
lster, gave a vigorous and forceful
portrayal of the character. In his
hands it was strongly and realistically
developed, tho gradations of the char
acter and its difficult shading from
the man of brute fore and elemental
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by love, without losing the Inherent
master of the man's nature, were ex
cellently done. He at all times carried
the sympathy of the audience, espe
cially In his meetings with Ms enemy
and his determination to get his
rights"
Thus It will be seen that "our Ralph"
has, since his departure from us, gone
Joyously up in the world.
Preparations for the society circus,
which will be held at the Armory In
April, are going ahead so briskly that
Its success seems already pretty well
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assured. It will be a Joint effort by
the Multnomah Club and the Third
Regiment. More than 300 people wiH
participate, most of them being well
known in social circles. The proceeds
will be equally divided between the
club and the regiment, certainly both
deserving and worthy causes.
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"MISS HOBBS" AT THE BAKER
Famous Jerome Comedy Opens To
day for Week's Engagement.
The Baker Stock Company is to the
front again this week with one of the
best offerings of any theatrical season and
in giving its patrons a splendid presen
tation of Jerome K. Jerome's inimicable
comedy. "Miss Hobbs" Will please every
theater-goer in Portland. All women whot
imagine themselves to be man-haters
should see "Miss Hobbs" and take warn
ing from the predjoaments into which she
JJyt h.ej" many wompn fricr men
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who are struggling with such women
should see the play and learn how to
manage them. Women addicted to the
club habit may learn valuable lessons,
and whether there are lessons to learn or
not. every one will have a good laugh
and an evening of splendid entertainment,
for "Miss Hobbs" Is excruciatingly funny
from beginning to end. Annie Russell,
that great favorite of alf stars, made a
tremendous success In the title role, and
Miss Lawrence Is said to quite equal
her. The whole company is happily cast
and as is usual with the Baker pro
ductions it will be richly and appropriate
ly staged.
- The plot Is more pretentious and con
sistent than is usual in modern comedy
attractions. The story tells of a fas
cinating young woman who imagines that
she bates all men, and that men are en
tirely useless from every point of view,
la order that ahe may inculcate her Ideas
on this Interesting subject to members
of tbe fair sex,. Miss Hobbs organized
an association of man-haters, and ' the
result can be Imagined.
A man decided to adopt retaliatory
measures. He summons to his assistance
a very matter-of-fact youth, a man about
town, and urges him to make love to
Miss Hobbs. Miss Hobbs eventually falls
from her high plane of thought - to a
contemplation of 1 matrimony and this
promptly breaks up her association. The
cast:
"Wolff Klngseart, "Klngsearl Major"....
Edgar Bauma
Perclval Kingsearl,- "Klngsesrl Minor"
Donald Bowles
Charles, a servant James Gleaaon
Miss, Susan Afohey . ..... Mina CroUua Oleaaon
Mrs. Perclval Klnssearl, "Beula"
. Maribel Seymour
George JeBsop Howard Russell
Miss Mllllcent Farey Ethel Grey Terry
Miss Henrietta Hobbs Lillian Lawrence
Captain Sands .William Oleaaon
AUGCSTIN DALY COMPANY.
Famous Organization in
'The Cin-
galee' and
A Countrtr Girl."
The Augustin Daly Musical Company
will present two musical comedies new
to Portland at the Heilig Theater this
week. Tomorrow (Monday) and Tuesday
nights, "The Cingalee"; Wednesday and
Thursday nights. "A Country Girl."
The company includes such well-known
artlMs as Sam Collins. Melville Stewart.
Hallen Mostyn, Harold - Vizard. Adam
Pockxay- Edwards Saxla, Genevieve Fin-
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lav. Viola Kellogg. Mary Quive, Laura
Butler, Grace Gresham and others, in
cluding a grand chorus of 50 selected
voices and dancers and augmented or
chestra. Both plays are by the same
composers, the books by James T. Tan
ner, lyrics by Adrian Ross and Percy
Greenbank, music by Lionel Moncton, ad
ditional numbers by Paul Rubens, auth
ors and composers of "The Geisha," "A
Runaway Girl" and "San Toy." The for
mer two are the beet of their combined
efforts.
The story of "The Clngalee" is laid
In Ceylon, and is more . barbaric in its
nature and centers around Nanoya, a
sweet little dusky maiden married by a
proxy at four to a native potentate,
Boobhamba, but in love with her mas
ter. Harry Vereker, a tea planter, with
whom she has taken seice to escape
her fate as one of many wives.
- In the story of "A Country Girl," Mr.
Tanner has agreeably blended romance
and humor, and In Nan, a country girl
living among the Devonshire hills, who
generously sacrifices herself In the In
terests of a man she loves, he has cre
ated, a very charming character. Seats
are now selling for the entire engagement
at the box-office of the theater.
"THE UMPIRE" TONIGHT.
Jolly Fred Mace In Musical Comedy
at Heilig Theater.
. The attraction at the Hellig Theater,
Fourteenth and Washington streets, to
night at 8:15 o'clock, will be the Jolly
comedian, Fred Mace, in the musical com-
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edy, "The Umpire." Among the reasons
for its popularity are .cited the modern
nature of Its fheme and the - modern
methods of presenting it, the utilization
of up-to-date features football and base
ball: a most melodious score brimful of
whistly hits, a book replete with refresh
ing comedy, a chorea of attractive ping
ing and dancing glrte and a snappy en
semble that fairly carries audiences away
with it by its sheer erpirit. There is an
attractive chorus of 40.
"THE FAST MAIL" AT EMPIRE
Spectacular Melodrama Opens This
Afternoon for Week's Run.
"The Fast Mail," which will open
at the Empire this afternoon for a
week's engagement. Is one of the best
scenic productions of this and many
other seasons, and -in many respects
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productions ever seen in Portland. The
play, which is by Lincoln J. ( Carter,
Is constructed on strictly modern prin
ciples, and the many exciting incidents
in it are enhanced by the marvelous
mechanical and electrical effects.
Mr. Carter has woven Into a con
sistent story all the good points of a
sensational melodrama. His dramatic
climaxes at the end of each act are
strong enough to sustain a whole play,
yet they are so well graded that the
spectator's interest never' flags
throughout the performance. The
clever clock trick at the end of the
first act never falls to take three or
four curtain calls, the Mississippi River
steamer, its engine-room showing a
practical furnace and the explosion
with complete change of scene behind
a curtain of rising smoke. In the rear
of which is eeen the wreck amid the
rushing waters, sends the curtain down
amid thunders of applause.
In the third act the full-sized freight
train with its familiar lettering of the
various railroads and its realistic en
gine, making its own steam, takes the
side track as the "Fast Mail" train
comes thundering along the main line
at the rate of 45 miles an hour and
snatches the mail pouch on which the
heroine has pinned a letter to her
sweetheart warning him of danger, is
the most- thrilling climax ever wit
nessed on a stage. In the last act
Niagara Falls is seen from the center
of Suspension Bridge amid the wild
torrent of rushing waters, the maddening-roar
and rising mist.
There will be matinees both Wednes
day, and Saturday find regular nightly
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"The Little Church Around the Cor
ner" at Star Tlioatcr.
"The Little' Church Around the Cor
ner," a new melodrama, will be played
by the Allen stock company at the Star
theater all this week, starting tomorrow
night. There will be matinees Tuesday,
Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.
Everyone has heard of "the little
church around the corner." It is a little
chapel where more actors and actresses
are married than any other church.
Once an actor died and when several
clergymen were asked to conduct the
funeral services they refused, because of
the man's profession. The little church
around the corner was discovered and the
pastor readily consented. The action of
the rector was talked about everywhere
among the profession and the church is
now one of the most famous in the
United States.
It Is this place of worship which has
been selected as the title of "The Little
Church Around the Corner." As a play
it is sometning new, for while a melo
drama. It is not the everyday kind with
explosies and railroad trains. There is a
villain who fastens the stain of his own
crime upon the weak hero, in the hope
of estranging the hero and heroine, whom
the villain wishes to wed.
There is a lively Irish character a
bright newsboy, who foils the plotter, and
many other characters such as are found
in everyday life. The "little church around
the corner" is shown and the scenic de
partment of the Allen stock company has
made an exact reproduction of the
famous chapel.
Manager Allen's company in Tacoma
played it a few weeks aeo, and It met
with unqualified success.
This afternoon and this evening willbe
the final performances of "Caprice."
"STRUCK OIL" AT LYRIC.
Popular Stock Company to Give
Famous Civil War Drama.
In the drafting days of the Civil War.
when men were torn from homes and
loved ones to defend their country, there
were many thrilling scenes, many deep
laid plots of scheming scoundrels. None
could be more thrilling than that which
is taken as the central plot of the famous
Civil War drama "Struck Oil." which the
Incomparable Lyric Theater Stock Com
pany wyi produce this week, beginning
tomorrow matinee.
The cast of "Struck Oil" will be as
follows: Sergeant I'lynn, Frank Fan
ning; Bben" Skinner, S. M. Griffith: Cor
poral Sharp. Charles Conners; Captain
Becks. Melvin Mayo; Dr. Pearson, Tho
mas Clarke:Peter Rowley, Melvin Mayo;
Billy Paterson, Master Ashton; John
Stofel, Herbert Ashton; Lizzie. Lily
Branscombe; Susan Stofel, Lillian Grif
fiths. There will be a matinee every da, and
a special children's matinee on Saturday.
Seats are now on sale for the entire
week, and may be reserved by telephone.
Following "Struck Oil" the Lyric will
give the first of a series of spectacular
productions, the bill being the faniouB
cowboy play, "Wells of Wyoming." which
has been stamped with approval by the
pilbllc and the prominent critics of the
East. There will be several additions to
the company, the new players to make
their first appearance in this famous bill.
Others changes of Importance to the
theater's patrons will be announced at
that time. To oblige patrons the theater
will place tickets for "Weils f
Wyoming" on sale six days in advance
of the opening.
"4 5 MINUTES FROM BROADWAY"
Klaw & Erlanger Present George M.
Cohan's Famous Success at Hellig.
Klaw A Krlanser announce the presen
tation at the Hellig Theater for four
nights, beginning next Sunday, March
3, of George M. Cowan's tremendously
successful play. "Forty-five Minutes
From Broadway," which lat season
scored one of the biggest artistic and
financlil hits the American ntas lias
witnessed for many seasons. It is now
making its first road tour with the al
ways fascinating and delightful Corlnne
in the principal female role, eurrounrled
by an excellent cast and a chorus. Klaw
& Frlanger have provided a most elabo
rate scinto setting, entirely new for this
season's tour, while all the wardrobe and
effects are strictly In keeping with this
firm's reputation for coftly and magnifi
cent productions. Seat sale opens next
Friday. March 1. at the box-office of the
Heilig Theater, Fourteenth and Washing
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"BUTTERFLY" COMES SOON.
Mall Orders From Both In and Out
of Town Received This Week.
Mall orders will be received all this
week from both in and out of town for
"Madam Butterfly." which comes to The
Heilig Theater March 7. 8 and 9, with a
matinee Saturday. Regular box-office
sale opens Monday, March 4, after all
mail orders have been tilled.
Puccini's "Madam Butterfly" Is taken
from John Luther Long's tragic Japanese
story which David Belasca made into a
one-act drama several years ago and
which had a run of nearly 1000 perform
ances in New York. It was the first and
most popular of 'all the Japanese plays
and music lovers who have heard the
Puccini masterpiece abroad have pre
dicted that the opera will be a sensa
tional success in this country. Mr.
Savage employed a special corps of
Japanese artists and workmen to design
and build he production.
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"MISSOURI GIRL" IS COMING
Character Drania at Empire Four
Nights Next-Week.
"The Missouri Girl," one of the best
character comedy dramas ever put on
any stage, will come to the Umpire
next week, and will be presented Sun
day, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday,
with Sunday and Wednesday matinees.
This popular piece has been seen in
Portland before but It is one of those
old favorites that will never grow old,
and will always be welcome on return
visits. The cast is said to be far above
the average, and the scenery most ap
propriate. "The very name, "The Missouri Girl,"
is infectious, and if all audiences do
not enjoy the production it will be be
cause they are stricken deaf and dumb.
You don't have to "show" this girl. Sli
Is one from Missouri who goes right
ahead without any directions. "The
Missouri Girl" will be presented for the
first performance at the Sunday mat
inee, and will be followed the following
Thursday by the Black Patti Trouba
dors. BLACK PATTI TROUBADOURS
Will Appear at Empire Latter Part
of Next AVcck.
The announcement that the Black
Patti Troubadours will appear at the
Empire Theater the latter part of next
week will be heralded with enthusiasm
by the many admirers in Portland of
this troup of funmakes and entertain
ers. There will be all the novelty
features of a black-faced organization,
including cakewalks, plantation sing-
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