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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN. PORTLAND, APRIL 21, 1907.-
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well goes dry, or something like
that, and Just so we never realize
how much we depend on the Helllg at
tractions for the week's entertainment
until there comes a dark week such as
last. The big yellow theater was a vert
table cave of gloom.
This week there is plenty of promise,
however. Tuesday night our old army
friend. Nat Goodwin, in "An American
Citizen," will open an engagement of
! three performances. Wednesday after
inoon he will play "When Wo Were
.'Twenty-one" and Wednesday night his
'early success, "A Glided Tool."
Thursday night "Mrs. Wlggs of the Cab
bage Patch," that Incomparable comedy,
will be seen on Its return from the Sound,
land on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, fol
lowing It will be Raymond Hitchcock In
The Yankee Tourist."
Monday of the next week Walker White,
aide, who has never appeared on the
Coast, whom I consider a "class A" actor,
will make his local debut In "The Magio
Melody," with Howard Gould in his sup
port. The thousands of friends of Howard
Gould here, who know and admire him
as a man and an artist, will feel a deep
Interest In his reappearance in this city
Whiteside comes under Liebler auspices.
The Baker did a corking business In
"The Admirable Crichton," a very novel
and Interesting play, which the company
did splendidly. Commencing this after
noon the Baker attraction will be "The
Prodigal Son," a big "glorified melo
drama." The Empire closed the Stalr-Havlln sea
son with "Hello Bill." one of the best
shows It has offered during the year. To
day the new Seaman Stock Company,
with Margaret Pitt, Raymond Whlttaker,
Lillian Fields, three especially capable
people, will open, a Summer stock season
of melodrama, commencing with "The
Black Hand," today's bill.
This week the Star will present "The
Heart of the Blue Ridge," the Lyric a
farce. "Snowball." and the Grand and
Pantages vaudeville.
The society circus, probably aa fine an
amateur affair of Its kind as was ever
given in the United States, made the lat
ter half of the week a blase'of glory for
the amusement-seekers. It was an event
In which the entire community may feel
a justifiable pride. A. A. O.
. "THE PRODIGAL SON" AT BAKER
Hall Calne's Latest Drama to Be
Produced Beginning Today.
Hall Calne's latest drama, "The Prodi
gal Son." will be played next week at
the Baker, starting with the matinee to
morrow. It Is said to be the famous
dramatist's best work. The story is ab
sorbing and typical of Calne. The Governor-General
of Iceland has two sons.
(Magnus, the elder, a plodder, but a good
man. The younger, Oscar, has been to
college in England and gives promise of
being a fine musician. The chief mer
chant of Iceland, a life-long friend of the
Governor's, has two daughters, the
youngest of which has been educated on
the continent. The play opens as the
elder daughter and elder son of these two
families are to, be publicly betrothed.
Tho younger son has, a short time before,
returned from England, and he and his
"brother's betrothed fall In love. The
elder brother gives up the woman he
loves to his brother and they are mar
ried. They have been traveling for a
year, when they stop at Copenhagen and
there meet the younger sister. Finally
the wife discovers them making love.
The two sisters have a strong scene, in
which the elder sister denounces the
younger. Soon after a child Is born and
the wife dies. In the meantime, the hus
band and the younger sister. Helga, have
. forced the Governor's name for a large
sum. Magnus, the boy at home, takes
the child to raise and attempts to secure
money to conceal his brother's crime.
Years later, when the old home Is about
to be sold. Oscar returns home under an
4 assumed name and offers to pay off the
debts if his daughter will come to live
with him. She refuses, but he leaves the
money, and then Magnus recognizes this
Is Oscar and goes after him. The prodi
gal returns and all ends happily. The
cast follows:
John Vldalln, Thomas Harper; Gudrun,
Martbel Seymour; the pastor, Howard
Russell; Oscar Stephensson. Donald
Bowles; Thora NeUsen. Lillian Law
rence: Magnus Stephensson, Edgar
Baume: Anna, Mlna C. Gleason; Mar
garet Nellsen. Luclle Webster; Stephen
Magnusson, William L. Gleason: Oscar
Nellsen. William Dills: the Sheriff. Wil
liam Harris; the agent. Lynton Athey;
Helga Nellsen, Louise Kent; Dr. Olsen,
James A. Gleason: the director, Lynton
Athey; Madame .Pandher, Volberg Al
frren; Erie Arnasson, Thomas Harper;
an American Senator, Edward Wilcox;
Eltn, Ethel Terry.
"HEART OF THE BLUE RIDGE"
Allen Stock Company Will Give Star
Patrons New Play.
The Heart of the Blue Ridge" will be
the attraction for this week at the Star
Theater. The Allen Stock Company will
present It tomorrow night and for the
rest of the week, with matinees Tuesday,
Thursday. Saturday and Sunday. This
wiU be the first time this drama haa been
seen In this city, although it is well
known and has toured the country and
been a success tor several years.
Strong, manly men are found In "The
Heart of the Blue Ridge" and the peo
fue who regularly auend the Star Tae-
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ater will find that this Is a play which
will suit them to a nicety. The author
has devised new situations and has
drawn his characters from a class of
people who lend themselves readily to
stage purposes.
Native honesty, uprightness and love of
truth are exemplified in "The Heart of
the Blue Ridge." Virtue triumphs and
vtllany is punished, and the story is told
in plain, forceful language by a gifted
and brilliant writer. There will be espe
cially elaborate scenic settings and the
lighting effects will be among the best
yet seen at this theater.
This afternoon and tonight the Allen
Company will give the last two perform
ances of the famous Western military
drama, "Northern Lights. " This has been
a record-breaking week at the Star The
ater, for the attraction has packed the
house at every performance.
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there will be two performances of It on
Saturday and Sunday nights, the first
at 7:15 o'clock.
"Snowball" presents a healthy jumble
of Incidents which serve to bring about
a complication that la uproariously funny.
Tet nothing Is abnormal, and every bit
of the plot Is logical and faithfully
drawn.
The stage effects for "Snowball" will
be beautiful. Special attention has been
given to casting the farce, and the parts
have been assigned to those best adapted
for their portrayal. AU the favorite
members of the company will have im
portant roles.
FARCE AT THE LYRIC THEATER
Famous Laugh Producer to Be Pre
sented by Stock Company.
The management of the Lyric Theater
has decided to give the playgoers of
Portland this week a farce comedy that
has made thousands and thousands laugh,
but which has not been produced In Port
land for many a day. This great farce,
"Snowball" by name, will be the bill all
week, beginning with Monday's matinee,
with a matinee daily and a special chil
dren's matinee on Saturday. As usual, J comedian, Nat C. Goodwin, supported by
NAT
GOODWIN TUESDAY
Famous Actor and Comedian Will
Present Three Plays at Hellig.
America's most foremost actor and
beautiful Edna Goodrich and an excellent
company of players will present three of
his greatest successes, at the Heilig
Theater. Fourteenth and Washington
streets, next Tuesday and Wednesday,
April 23 and 34. The opening bill Tues
day night will be "An American Citizen;"
at the special matinee Wednesday after
noon, "When We Were Twenty-One":
Wednesday night, "A Glided Fool."
During the many years in which he has
been an almost annual visitor to this
city he has lnvarlbly given such proof of
an extraordinary versatility that he has
won golden opinions from all those who
are capable of appreciating dramatic
art In the best form. It is not making
an insidious distinction to claim for Mr.
Goodwin the foremost place among actors
now before the public, for one has but
to take a comparative survey of his
work to perceive his eminence. What
other actor here or in England, can one
confidently name who would be equal to
the successful performance of so many
varied roles as Mr. Goodwin has pres
ented. When one considers that in his reper
toire are 'The Merchant of Venice," "The
Glided Fool," "An American Citizen,"
"David Garrick," "In Missouri," "When
We Were Twenty-One." 'The Genius,"
"Nathan Hale," "The Cowboy and the
Lady," and "The Rivals." will realize
that it Is a transition that requires the
finest and most vigorous dramatic quali
ties, and that only the actor capable of
the extremes of characterization could
adequately command and receive serious
attention from leading dramatic com
mentators. Seats .are now selling for
entire engagement at Helllg Theater box
office.
"MRS.
WIGGS"
TO RETURN
"Mr. Wlggs of the Cabbage Patch"
at Heilig Next Thursday Night.
Liebler . & Co., will present a special
return engagement of "Mrs. Wlggs of the
Cabbage Patch," at the Heilig Theater.
Fourteenth and Washington streets, next
Thursday night, April 25. The character
of Mrs. Wlggs, the optimist and philo
sopher, of the Cabbage Patch, takes rank
with many of the prominent comedy
creations heretofore presented upon the
American stage.
A very close second for popularity Is
the character of Mias Hazy, the forlorn
and lugubrious spinster in which the
dramatist has evolved something new and
likable in the psycnology of the unmar
ried. MtaS Hasy marries Mr. Stubblns,
"the prominent citisen of Bagdad Junc
tion" who has been provided by a matri
monial agency, and in the various scenes
between Mis' Hazy and her matrimonial
bargain the humor is irresistible. Lovey
Mary, In her transition from the pages
of the book to the stage, has been made
a very' lovable character who at once
wins the sympathy of the audience. '
The, Juvenile element in the stories of
""Mrs. Wlggs" and "Lovey Mary" is de
cidedly happy In its humorous appeal,
and plays an equally delightful part in
the play. Asia, European and Australia,
Billy Wiggs, Chris Hazy with his wood
en leg, Pete and the other sons and
daughters of the Patch, make the scenes
bright and merry with the play and sun
shine of childhood. And "Cuby." the
"fit horse" whose "lights was rlz," is
not forgotten in this background of -Juvenile
Jollity and plcnlclng. The seat sale
of "Mrs. Wlggs of the Cabbage Patch"
will open next Tuesday, April 23, at box
office, Helllg Theater.
RAYMOND HITCHCOCK, FRIDAY
Henry W. Savage Presents Favorite
Comedian in "Yankee Tourist."
Henry W. Savage will offer for four
performances at the Heilig Theater,
starting next Friday night, April 6, with
a special matinee Saturday, that favorite
of all American comedians, Raymond
Hitchcock, in a new three-act comic
opera, "A Yankee Tourist," the book of
which 'is by Richard Harding Davis, the
lyrics by Wallace Irwin and the muslo
by Alfred G. Robyn.
"A Yankee Tourist" Is founded on Mr.
Davis" farce, "The Galloper," in which
Mr. Hitchcock has already scored a most
positive success, but the Introduction of
two musical numbers into the play prov
ing so successful, Mr. Savage determined
to turn the farce into a comic opera, and
"A Yankee Tourtot" is the result.
Mr. Hitchcock is the possessor of hon
ors won by consistent and artistic en
deavor. He is a comedian whose comedy
is contagious and one of the most allur
ing features of it Ilea in the fact that he
does not find himself forced to the re
treat of so many players, the donning of
grotesque garb and the outlandish facial
distortions. In order to win his laughs.
He wins them honestly and because he
has an acuta oensa of humor and reaches
his auditors easily.
In the role of Copeland Schuyler in
his new vehicle he is admirably fitted
and new successes stare him in the eye.
The cast surrounding Mr. Hitchcock Is
one of the strongest in the country, in
cluding as It does Flora Zabelle, Helen
Hale. Walter Lawrence, Herbert Caw
thorne, Eva Fallon, Susie Forrester Caw
thorne. Harry Stone, Phillips Smalley
and the chorus' which typifies the Savage
standard.
There are an even score of lyrics in
the production. In the case of most of
them there will be found a lasting Jingle
and a "I want to be remembered" touch,
chiefly in "A Yankee Millionaire," "Gold
en Sails," '"When a Girl Is Born to Be a
Perfect Lady," "Irish Lads" and "The
World Goes on Just the Same." Tho
production has been staged under the di
rection of George Marlon, general stage
director for Mr. Savage, and this is a
mark of originality. The advance seat
sale will open next Wednesday morning,
April 24, at the box-office of the Heilig
Theater.
WALKER WHITESIDE COMIXG
Liebler & Co, Present Celebrated Ac
tor In "The Magic Melody."
What should undoubtedly prove one of
the most Interesting events of the local
theater season Is the appearance at the
Heilig Theater, April 29-80. May 1-2, of
Mr. Walker Whiteside, and his talented
company, under the direction of Liebler
& Co., in the new play, "The Magic Mel
ody." - The story is one of the most interesting
that has been given to the stage in many
a year, and the supporting company and
the production are both considerably
above par. Mr. Whiteside Is making in
this play his first appearance in a mod
ern role, and he will continue in such
portrayals during the next five years.
His work hitherto has been along the
lines of the classlo and romantic drama,
and be says be has considered that work
but as the foundation for something more
ambitious. -
The Magie Melody" is said to be one
of the best plays that has been given to
the publio this season, for it deals with
two of the most interesting phases of
modern New York life. Seat sale opens
next Friday, April 28. at box office. Hei
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Murray and Mack Coming to Helllg.
The Irish comedians, Murray and
Mack, will preeent their latest musical
play. "Around the Town,'
Theater, May 4 and 6.
at the Helllg
WILL SHOW THAW PICTURE
New Bill at the Grand Has Many
Attractive Features.
High grade vaudeville will be found
on the new bill at the Grand this week,
starting tomorrow afternoon. The
new programme carries several East
ern headllners. There are so many
Important acts on the bill that it is no
easy matter to select the one which
eclipses all the rest. What will be ol
timely interest will be the moving pic
tures. These represent the famous
Thaw-White tragedy under the title of
"The Unwritten Law." The pictures
show every stage of the case from the
time the girl is Introduced by her
mother to the architect until the trial
of the assassin. The European trip is
shown, as is also the room in the
tower, the Madison-Square roof gar
den, the swing and the trial. This is
the first time this picture has been
seen in the West, as it has only recent
ly been manufactured.
A comedy automobile act is offered
by Lavine and Leonard. This is a nov
elty from Europe and last Summer was
one of the funniest hits produced at
HammSrstein's Victoria. J. Bernard
Dyllyn, formerly with George H.
Cohan's "Little Johnny Jones" com-
pany, is a singing comedian who is fea
turing a lively song, "Just as Teddy
Did." Rawls and Van Kaufman are re
sponsible for a screaming farce called
"Mush." The Rlsleys are acrobats who
have made themselves famous through
their gymnastic feats. The act is neat,
graceful and attractive. The Wynne
woods have a character change act
oalled 'The Messenger Boy's Dream."
Ida Howell is a dainty singing and
dancing soubretts. This afternoon and
tonight the Grand will give the closing
performances of its current vaudeville
programme. Don't forget the new bill.
It is a hummer.
MARIONETTES AT PAXTAGES
Popular Show-House Secures Novel
Feature for New Bill.
Something new In the vaudeville line
has been secured by Pantages Theater to
head the new week's bill. In Ie Nolr's
marionette the very best act of the kind
In America has been secured. Nothing of
the sort has ever been put on before In
Portland, and these marionettes handled
by skilled ventriloquists, are bound to
make the biggest kind of a hit.
They will produce a stage scene a the
ater in miniature, with actors, musicians
and box-occupants included. The minute
the curtain goes up the fun starts and
the mechanical figures keep you holding
your sides until the show is ended. The
thing is a long ways out of the ordinary
and will amuse young and old alike by its
refreshing novelty and wholesome fun.
The best comedy team to be met with
in many a mile Is the Kings, in their
most laughable farce, 'The Henpecked
Sinner." Then the Bernstein dancing
duo. In all sorts of fancy dancing, will
be a feast for such as enjoy graceful and
clever dancing.
Evans and Barr are too well-known as
comedians to need much of an introduc
tion. They are coming back in a brand
new comedy act and they Intend to keep
their audiences laughing Just as hard as
when they were here before.
Cole and Cole are newcomers. They do
a Roman ring act, the best of the kind
going. Wha they don't know about the
Roman ring business isn't worth learn
ing. The old bill which still holds the boardsv
is good throughout and you can't help but
enjoy It. The Broadway trio. New York
favorites, and a long list of comedy acts
complete a bill that will afford you a
couple of hours of the most pleasant entertainment-
Interesting Pictures.
A very sensational film Is being shown
at the Nickelodlon. 'The Squatter's
Daughter" captured by Indians is being
tortured at the stake when rescued by her
faithful lover. The pictures show the
actual life of Indians, customs, ceremo
nies, etc.
KISKR FOR SCENIC PHOTOS.
Lobby Imperial Hotel.