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cidedly good-looking and perhaps the
chief of women athletes,
i Stanford and Stone are another team
of high priced comedians who have made
gay old New York laugh during the past
season. They are guaranteed to make a
dyspeptic laugh Immediately after he had
partaken of a hearty meal.
Then there's Marie Sparrow, whose ser
vices likewise come high. She has made
good in New York and the only thing that
lured her out this way was the attractive
financial lure put forth by Pantages.
Tills Is the greatest single comedy act
that has been West this year.'
Dare and Robbing are a brace of character-change
artists who have 'been on
the Coast before, but are new to Portland.
Their act Is a pleasing one throughout.
Leo "W hite, the popular young baritone,
has prepared another Illustrated song
which already is assured of a successful
run, as this singer is established as a
prime favorite in Portland.
The biograph will put on a bright come
dy series, "On the Stage,", which will
bring the laughs in plenty.
As to the old bill which ends with con
tinuous performances, you really ought to
see it. The speedy Vannans. the shad
owgraphists. the extempore poet In fact
the whole show is a hard one to beat.
GOOD VACDEVUXE AT GRANT)
Baker Troupe of Acrobatic Bicyclists
the Feature of This Week.
Big vaudeville acts and plenty of them
will be found on the new programme at
the Grand, beginning with the matinee
tomorrow. The feature is the Baker
troupe of acrobatic bicyclists. These peo
ple are without equals on the wheel.
Portland theater-goers will remember this
troupe as one of the sensations of the
burlesque season at the Baker Theater
last year. The bicyclists at that time
proved that they were no ordinary per
formers, but were offering the public a
genuine novelty. There is comedy as
well as daring and skill In this act. The
Baker troupe has appeared in Europe
and America and wherever the cyclists
have performed they have been the talk
of the town.
"Bille and the Actress" Is the title of
a funny arrangement which will be per
petrated by Walter Shrouds and Lizzie
Mulvey. They will introduce the comical
pantomimic keg and knock-about dance
from "Babes in Toyland." This is the
added attraction and it is guaranteed as
good, for Shroude and Mulvey are gym
nastic dancers In a class of their own.
"The Sheriff of Laramie" Is a "West
ern playlet written by Harry W. Babb
and staged by "E. Lorlng Kelly. These
two, with Miss Mazle Oliver, will present
the little drama. The players are not
unknown locally, having been seen here
on the legitimate stage. The scenes of
"The Sheriff of Laramie" are laid In
Wyoming In the days when bad men were
common as cattle and the action occurs
on the Bar Z ranch.
The Bennett Sisters have. a refined
sketch Introducing singing, dancing and
comedy character changes, concluding
with an operatic duet. Barrlngton and
his company of wooden-headed perform
ers is a ventriloquist considered a clever
voice-thrower. Everyone likes a ventril
oquist, and In Barrlngton they will hear
one of the best. Harry A. Brown Is a
college-bred Indian who Is a singer and
a cartoonist as well. Real Indians in vau
deville are rare birds.
START 01 HEW THEATER
1VORK REGIXS THIS MONTH OX
THE EAST SIDE.
rians Nearlng Completion for Cor--i
rtntf ' Showbouse and Ground
' Ready for Clearing.
Work on the new East Side theater
will begin within three weeks, according
to Wilding & Morgan, the architects who
are preparing the plans for the play
house. The theater is to be built for John
Cordray and Is to be located at the cor
ner of Grand avenue and East Stark
streets. The old buildings now on the
Bite will be razed In about three weeks,
by which tune the architects expect their
plans to be finished so that work on
the foundations may be started at once.
It Is the Intention to push the work
raDidly until the building is completed,
though at present no definite time is
named when the house will be ready to
open.
SELF-HELP FOR THE BLIND
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rly to the tark of learning a new
method of reading. Once they gret a
start in the alphabet, though, they
prow eager, learn quickly, and then
are anxious to teach others. The glor
ious consciousness has -come to them
that they can be of use by teaching
what they have learned.
Books for the blind are a most Impor
tant feature in modern educational move
ments. Far back in the sixteenth cen-
He Introduced Ragtime Into Europe
Colonel George Hinton Tells Some Interesting
Incidents of Sousa's Tour Abroad
BY ARTHUR A. GREENE.
IT'S a far cry from Boise, Idaho, to the
banks of England's liver Thames, and
few people are so lacking In their
appreciation of the bully West, ' as it
Is found at the former capital, that
they would be content to leave it as
a place of residence for a Summer
home on the shores of Britain's his
toric stream. There's no accounting:
for tastes, however, and Colonel George
Frederick Hinton probably finds that an
English home has its compensations. The
Colonel, who was here last week as man
ager of Lillian Russell, was at one time
editor of a Boise newspaper and corre
spondent extraordinary for The Oregonian
newspaper, so it will be apparent that he
is a man of high distinction. Why he
should relinquish his early honors is past
finding out. Possibly he foresaw the com
ing of grand juries and the Moyer-Hay-wood
embroglio and concluded that it were
the better part to be a showman. There is
a well established affinity between the
people of the press and the people of the
stage and from time Immemorial they
find in each other congenial companion
Ship. Colonel Hinton Is a conspicuous
example of the many newspaper men who
have turned their talents to the man
agerial department of the theater. He
is chiefly known to fame as the man who
Introduced ragtime Into Europe. Just
for that they should bury him in West
minster some time.
This undying distinction is his because
he took Sousa and his band over there
for a series of concerts in 1900 and it is
through him that copies of "Bill Sim
mons" and "Coon, Coon, Coon" are to
this day found in all well ordered homes
in the older land of culture and busted
nobilities. Colonel Hinton told me many
interesting anecdotes of the tour, all of
which are worth repeating and some of
which I feel -constrained to write.
For Instance he says that when the
band played at Windsor before Edward
VII and his folks, the royal audience
surprised the bandmaster with their famil
iarity with his resounding marches and
were fairly greedy to hear the syncopated
"coon" pieces. Encore after encore fol
lowed each selection and at the concert's
close the King personally thanked Sousa
and decorated him with an order. At 1
o'clock In the morning Sousa, Colonel
Hinton and the musicians were shown
over the castle by the Master of the
Household. At one point they stopped
to admire a particularly beautiful stair
case. "That,'" explained the guide, "is
new." Someone asked him when it was
bull.t and was told, "In the time of
George II," and the Master saw nothing
funny in his statement that it was of
recent construction.
During the evening Colonel Hinton
turned to Henry White, at that time sec
retary of the American legation, and asked
the name of the extremely beautiful and
splendidly gowned woman who sat with
the King's party, adding, "She Is the
handsomest woman in the room."-
"The lady Is my wife, Mrs. White." an
swered the diplomat Some men are
lucky In placing their compliments.
Peculiar conditions confront the mana
gers of public entertainments on the Con
tinent. For Instance, in France 10 per
cent of the gross receipts go to the
government and five per cent to the au
thors' and composers' society. This pro
vision plays havoc with the receipts, espe
cially in the provincial towns and makes
Klaw & Erlanger with their 5 per cent
exaction In this country appear positively
altruistic. Another requirement In
France is that a revenue stamp be placed
on every advertising bill posted in the
windows or upon the billboard.
In Russia the words of every song to
be rendered in a concert must be sub
mitted to the official censor. It happened
that when the band decided to go to St.
Petersburg, Colonel Hinton sent a young
man ahead to make arrangements. Short
ly after the arrival of -this agent In the
Czar's capital, the Colonel received a
telegram from him asking that he for
ward at once the manuscripts of . the
songs the woman soloist was to sing, as
the censor had made a demand for them.
They were mailed forthwith. A few
days- later, when Hinton arrived, the
young man said to him:
"The censor wouldn't wait for the
songs to arrive."
"What did you do?" asked Hinton,
alarmed lest his prima donna be refused
permission to sing.
"You didn't remember the words of her
songs, did you?"
"Not on your life. The only songs I
knew by heart were 'Annie Rooney,' and
Marguerite," and I gave them to his
nibs."
The lady thus received the imperial
permission to sing, but she managed to
work in her regular repertoire, as en
cores to the two classics nominated in
the bond.
From these few instances it will be in
ferred that the life of an American man
ager abroad is not all beer and skittles.
Colonel Hinton, although born in thiB
country and having in his time known
the chaste delights of life in Boise, now
makes his home in England and Is dis
loyal enough to say that it is the only
place In which to live. During his resi
dence in Idaho he formed an extensive
acquaintance in the Northwest and has a
number of friends in Portland.
In an extended experience as an Im
presario he avers that Lillian Russell
is the most easily managed star with
whom he has ever been associated. De
spite the lionizing she has received as a
professional beauty she is by no means
a "spoiled darling." She never has
"nerves" nor tantrums. According to
Colonel Hinton, In her cass it Is "hand
some is as handsome does." To me the
Russell engagement was doubly Interest
ing because the manager who expatriated
himself from Boise told me the history
of his life.
tury Lucas of Saragossa traced letters in
the hollow of a wooden block for blind
friends. In 16-19 Moseau of Paris devised
character in relief. In 1771 Valentin
Hauy 6aw the pitiful antics of blind men
at a Paris fair and decided to devote his
life to putting books In their hands. He
began his work with a little street beg
gar, for whose time he had to pay the
parents, and with this Paris gamin the
education of the blind through books was
begun.
Teach JTellow-XJnfortunates.
The blind have led the blind. William
Moon, who lived in the early half of the
nineteenth century, devoted his life to
teaching others like himself and invented
the alphabet which bears his name.
Sanderson, an English scholar, con
structed the first calculating tables
for the blind. Braille, of Paris, blind
at three. Invented the point system
of writing in relief, basing his alpha
bet on the cryptographic system of
Barbier. an artillery officer. David Mil
ler, a blind man, was one of the found
ers of the Royal Blind Asylum and
School in Edinburgh. Dr. Klein, also
blind, founded the Vienna Institute in
1S04. and in 1872 a blind American took,
abroad the training he had received here
and founded the Royal Normal College
and Academy of Music for the Blind in
London.
The blind have also led the seeing.
Homer, Milton. Ossian, the Celtic bard:
Carolan. the Irish lyric poet: DIodotus,
the stole philosopher and preceptor of
Cicero; Aufidius Bassus. the Roman au
thority on Greek history; Dldymua, of
Alexandria, theologian and teacher of
St. Jerome; Huber, the Swiss naturalist,
all were blind. America is proud of
Fanny Crosby, the blind hymn writer; of
James Wilson, of Virginia, one of her
early nineteenth century writers: of
Blind Tom, that combination of Idiocy
and genius. Madeline Wallace, a deaf
blind girl of New York, Is the first of
'her affliction to be received into the order
of the cloistered nuns of St. Dominic.
Edward Baxter Perry has for 20 years
played before American audiences, learn
ing before music was printed for the
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blind. Kate McGlrr, a girl of the West
learned all the seven systems of raised
print before she was 21. Thomas String
er, a pupil at the Perkins Institute, has
done some excellent mechanical and elec
trical work. Llnnie Haguewood, of Iowa,
used the Braille writing machine the first
time It was placed before her, and at a
recent exhibit of arts and crafts work
of the blind in Cleveland, O., Miss Emma
Stohlman gave a public exhibition of rug
weaving in colors. As piano tuners, the
blind have long been successful. In Bos
ton they have tuned the school pianos for
25 years. Two men in Berkeley, Cal., re
cently built themselves a bungalow un
aided. ", ; "-
"Work "Without Sight.
The Wisconsin Workshop for the Blind
at Milwaukee is the only one of its kind
In the country. Excellent baskets are
made there, and it is not a charitable in
stitution. It is a purely business enter
prise where the blind work and make so
much a week, supporting not only them
selves, but, in many instances, others as
well.
In 1879 Congress passed an "act to pro
mote the education of the blind," by
which the American Printing House for
the Blind in Louisville receives $10,000 a
year for printing literature in point type.
The Howe Memorial Press of the Perkins
Institute, endowed with $150,000 by pri
vate subscription, is the other large print
ing house for the blind in this country.
A few years ago Rev. Joseph M. Stad
dleman, of New York, printed a free
Catholic magazine for the use of the
blind. One of the greatest helps of the
age to those who .must read by touch is
the Ziegller Magazine for the Blind, a
free publication that Is financed by Mrs.
William Ziegler, of New York, and edited
by Walter G. Holmes. This publication Is
in Braille type and carries a particularly
high-class of literature into tne homes
of all who ask it.
Tomorrow The making of perfumery.
Simple Iiife Their Religion.
LONDON, May 11 (Special.) Simplici
tarianism, the religion of the' simple life
Is the latest new cult. Dr. Kenneth Mc
Donald Is Its founder and first minister.
The Simplicitarians hope to spread the
doctrine of the simple life, and to found
"simple life cities" in rural districts.
Their doctrine, says Dr. McDonald, "em
braces a. broad Christian teaching,
blended with the sanest and noblest so
cial and political movements.
"We are against the principle of town
life and desire to get the people settled
back on the land in garden city com
munities. We oppose vaccination and
every movement Interfering with the
liberty of the Individual. We plead for
simplicity in services for worship and in
church organization, and we are pledged
vegetarians."
When the Simplicitarians fall sick, they
will avoid doctors like the plague, and
leave Nature to work out her own
salvation.
Refuse to Go to Confession.
BAEiT SEBASTIAN, May 11. (Special.)
Spain seems to be on the high road to
become as free in Its religious convictions
as France. At a recent church festi
val a whole company of infantry with
Summer Normal
Music School
CONDUCTED BY
Calvin B. Cady
OF BOSTON
Portland Academy Hall
June 24 to August 2
For information apply to Mrs. W. E.
Thomas. Sec, at tha Hobart-CnrtU
BAKER THEATER
Portland's Fashionable Popular Price Theater. Permanent Location of
the Famous Baker Theater Co.
Phone Main 2
Geo. L. Baker
Gen. Mgr.
ALL WEEK, COMMENCING MATINEE
TODAY, SUNDAY, MAY 12
Clay Clement's Idyllic Comedy in Three Acts
THE NEW
DOMINION
A ROMANTIC COMEDY OF OLD VIRGINIA
Scenery and Settings Elaborate and Beautiful, i
Strongly Cast. Personal Direction of Mr. Arthur Mackley
Evening Prices : 25c, 35c and 50c. Matinees : 15c and 25c
Matinee Saturday.
NEXT WEEK A CONTENTED WOMAN
W.Seaman, rMDIDr TUFATITD Telephone Mala
unit iiiju ininiin
Manager
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HOME OF MELODRAMA
FOURTH WEEK OF THE POPULAR
SEAMAN STOCK COMPANY
STARTING. SUNDAY
MATINEE,
May 12 today
The Powerful and Thrilling Kentucky Play
An intense melodrama, dealing with the noted band of Mountain Outlaws.
More realistic and thrilling than "The Black Hand." Strong parts for all
the favorite members of the company. Stage direction Mr. Herbert Ashton
MATINEES WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY
Night Prices: 10, 20, 30, 50c
Matinee, 10, 20c
Fifth Week: WICKED LONDON
the exception of only ten men refused to
gro to church and confess.
In spite i of --thj--Intervention - of ."the
authorities, whichi can be very severe with
regard to the "observances of religious
customs, the soldiers persisted In their re
fusal. One officer said point-blank to his
superior officer that he would not be
ferced to- go to confession; neither -would
the men under him. ? "
The affair is causing ft disagreeable im
pression among the citizens.
Sir1 HEILIG THEATER Mr.
TONIGHT, 8:15 O'CLOCK
OSCAR WILDE'S GREAT DRAMA
"SALOME"
DDIfTQ $1-00,75,50,
L rVlVHO 35 and 25c
Seats Selling at Theater
Box Office
WEEK OF j O & rUX A sTTTQ FOURTH
MAY 13 1 JlH 1 WiJLO and STARK
BEST FAMILY THEATER. J.' A. JOHNSON, Resident Manager
CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCES TOMORROW
Dpi I A NEW YORK STANFOKD AND
DCLLrA FAVORITES STONE
GORDON JOLLY High-Class Enter-
tainers
Woman Bag-puncher. AND
..... DARE & BOBBINS
MARIE SPARROW WILD Character-change
Comedienne The Noted Funsters Work
LEO WHITE There's a roar THE BIOGRAPH
Pictured Ballad in every move "On the Stage"
THE BEST THERE IS IN VAUDEVILLE IS AT PANTAGES.
Performances daily at 2:30, 7:30 and 9 P. M.
Admission, 10 cents. Reserved seats, 20 cents. Boxes, 25 cents.
Take any seat at week-day matinees for TEN CENTS.
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Swimming
Clafle in the
Pavilion.
TH
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Free Sotrrenir
Days for Ladies
and Children.
FrM lldu Oiulnf Dtf
The Fairest Pleasure Park on the Pacific Coast
f4 and Most Modern.
IH Getting Ready for Third Anniversary Opening.
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ON THE WAY
cojrerr in.Arrs jrew marvel, "the spray of hfe"
SCHtLZOJfTTS ' IMPERIAL Hl'XGARIAX HUSSARS
Forty musicians, limited engagement.
OPERATIC MELODIES TX THE NEW BAJTD SHELL
THE GREAT DAVENPORTS PLATING TAG WITH DEATH
Most Spectacular Mid-Air Act In Country
JAPANESE DAY FIREWORKS CELEBRATION
There'll be Dragons Flying Thro' the Air
SNAKE FARM AND MENAGERIE
HTDE-AND-SEEK HOUSE KATZEN JAMMER CASTLE
AND OTHER NOVELTIES
The Fun Is where the crowd Is The Oaks
Only a hot taffy concession left for sale. , No applications for
positions wanted. Doable track and elsht-minnte ear service
to n-atea. . Frequent changes In concerts
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THE OAKS Grander and More Beautiful Than Erer THE OAKS
Reopening Marquam Grand Theater
PORTLAND'S FAMOUS PLAYHOUSE
Wednesday Night, May 15th, 1907
OPENING ATTRACTION
San Francisco Opera Company (Direction Frank W. Healy)
SEASON Or LIGHT OPERA.
' Five Nights and Saturday and Sunday Matinees. .
Tire Great Musical Success.
Ik
ANT
The Musical Comedy With the Remarkable Records.
One Continuous Laugh Set to Music.
. FIRST TIME IN THIS CITY.
Be on hand to greet Aida Hemmi, Teddy Webb, Florence Sinnott,
Carl Haydn, Maude L. Beatty, George Kunkel, Amy Leicester, J.
Albert Wallerstedt, Ruby Norton, Melvin Stokes and the California
Beauty Chorus.
Stage Direction of Joseph Miller. Musical Direction of Edouard
von Buechner.
PRICES 25c, 50c, 75c. Boxes and Loges, $1.00. Matinee Prices
25c and 50c. Seats on sale at box office,. 10 A. M. to 10 P. M.
Phone Main 2020.
LYRIC THEATER
Keating & Murphy, Proprietors
Phone Main 4685
SECOND
WEEK
WEEK OF MAY 13
P. R. ALLEN PRESENTS
SECOND
WEEK
MISS VERNA FELTON
AND
THE ALLEN STOCK CO.
IN THE NEW, SENSATIONAL MELODRAMA SUCCESS
-BEHIND-
THE MASK
MATINEES Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.
Prices 10c and 20c. Every evening at 8:15; Prices 10c,
20c and 30c. Seats may be ordered by telephone.
GET THE LYRIC HABIT
THE STAR
PHONE MAIN 5496
FOR THE WEEK OF MAY 13
The Washington Street Stock Comp'y
PRESENTS
THE GREAT SCENIC PRODUCTION
levil s
sialic
IN FIVE ACTS .
BY VERA DE INOIE
Founded on the Celebrated Dreyfus Case
Every Evening at 8:15. Prices: 10c, 20c and 30c Matinees at 2:30, Tuec
day, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, Prices 10c and 20c
Reserved Seats in Advance. Phone 549S
THE GRAND
FOR THE ENTIRE WEEK OF MAY 13
VAUDEVILLE DE LUXE
HEADED BT
The Baker
Troupe
Marvelous
Comedy
Acrobatic
Bicyclists
WONDERS OF THE AGBL
EXTRA
ADDED FEATURE
Walter, Schrode. Mulvey, Lizzie.
HABBT W. BASB & CO.,
In 'The Sheriff of Laramie."
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THE BENNETT SISTERS,
Singing;, Dancing;, Character Changes.
BAEBINGTON,
. Versatile Ventriloquist.
HARRY A. BROWN,
Indian College Singer and Cartoonist.
FREDRIC ROBERTS,
Illustrated Songs.
GRAKDISCOPE,
"Playing- Truant."
The average tractive power of freight Japanese Jlnrlkisha men disapprove the
locomotives In 1836 ten years ago was advent of the auto. They see In It a
13,900 tons, while today It has Increased dangerous rival. The expression of their
to ai.500 tons. This means correspond- disapproval usually takes the form of
lngly increased tralnloada, . J brick or a cobblestone. .