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RS. WARREN'S PROFESSION"
has been exploited at the Hei
llg the past few days, but seems
neither to have demoralised the town nor
reformed Its morals. Consequently
neither Its opponents nor Us champions
have been fully vindicated. After all Is
aid. It is a rather inconsequential affair,
and hardly worth even a teapot tempest.
To take the taste out of our mouths, we
are to be given Henrietta Crosman, a
comedienne par excellence. In a refresh
ing and diverting play called "All-of-a-Sudden
Peggy." I can cheerfully and
honestly recommend Miss Crosman. Her
engagement opens tomorrow night and
will extend until Wednesday night with
out a matinee.
Annie Russell, one of the most delight
ful actresses on the stage, will be seen in
a sumptuous production of "A Midsum
mer Night's Dream," the latter half of
the week. The Heillg management is to
be congratulated on securing two such
admirable attractions.
The San Francisco Opera Company
made a line Impression In 'The Singing
Girl" at the Marquam, and will offer
another line Inducement to theater-goers
In the shape of 'The Strollers" for the
coming week.
Although Its season is drawing to a
close, the Baker company continues to
command great interest in Its work, and
has just ended a very successful week In
"A Contented Woman." This afternoon
and all the week "The Dairy Farm" will
be the bill.
The Empire closed its brief season of
stock melodrama with "Wicked London"
and the house will be dark for the Sum
mer. The Lyric offered "The Counterfeiters"
quite successfully, and tomorrow night
and for the week will present "Polly
Primrose."
At the Star the attraction was "Knobs
o' Tennessee," well presented,, and will
follow with "Wedded but No Wife," prac
tically all the former Seaman company
being transferred to the Star1. . Vaude
ville continues at the Grand and Pan-
tages. A. A. O.
"THE DAIRY FARM," AT BAKER
Stock Company to Present Great
Rural Drama for the Week.
Starting with today's matinee the
Baker Company will present one of the
greatest. If not the very greatest, of
all rural stock plays. This la "The
Dairy Farm," which waa originally
seen here in 1903 at the Marquam
Grand, when it scored an Immense suc
cess. It has been played by all the
first-class stock companies throughout
the United States, as owing to the
large east required, it was found too
expensive for a road piece.
It ia a pure, sweet and wholesome
story. A the title Indicates, it is a
pastoral play and the usual farm char
acters are introduced. In many re
spects it resembles "Way Down East."
There is no problem to solve and
women with, pasts are barred. The
time selected for the story Is about
1854, and this enables the costumera to
introduce the styles then in fashion,
such as high hats and strapped trou
sers for the men, and hoopakirts and
pantalettes for the women. As to the
plot, it deals with the love of a sturdy
young farmer who marries a work
house girl against the command of his
uncle and for this disobedience is turned
out of the farm. The cast:
Joel yv'hltbeck William Dills
Sarah Newklrk Ulu Crollua Gleasaa
Mxa. Shear Luclltt Webstar
Haunt Iiztt Ehc&rs H..... Bthel Jones
Mary Nell Gibson
Peacoa Shears Leo Llndhard
Eunice Jans Perkins.. ..Lillian C. Field
Lucy Louise Kent
Simon Knim Arthur Mackley
Rlias Plugli - William Harris
'Arlmiora Whitbeck Marlbel Seymour
Jehn bparmiey Howard Russell
Squire Henley .William Gleaon
Nathan Kewkirk .. .Edgar Baume
Bob. Mary's son Donald Bowles
Amos Vatrbeck Linton Athey
lnminie (jruicucsnana ..Jsmes Uleaeon
Hiram Cole K4 W11.-OX
Nehemiah Xewbea-iQ ...R. Klpley
HENRIETTA CROSMAN MONDAY
Charming Actress In "All-of-a-Snd-den-reggy"
at the Ilelllg.
Henrietta Crosman in the' most popu
lar of her many New York successes, the
farcical comedy, "All-of-a-Sudden Peg
gy," will be at the Heillg Theater, Four
teenth and Washington streets, tomorrow,
Monday( Tuesday and Wednesday nights,
May 27. 28 and 29.
Miss Crosman's appearance will stand
most prominently among the season's
theatrical offerings, for she is recognized
as the greatest of American comediennes,
and sh, Is coming hare la a play, in which!
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she has eclipsed all former achievements.
brilliant as these were, and establishing
her as they have, as the most favored
exponent of legitimate comedy of any
woman now playing in the English lan
guage. It is a fact of which this actress may
well be proud that every dramatic critlo
In New Tork and in all the principal
cities of this continent has written her
down as the cleverest comedienne of the
present generation of players, without an
equal in delineating types of bright, fasci
nating womankind. Her triumphs have
been established in "As You Like It,"
"Mistress Nell," "Sweet Kitty Bellalrf"
and other comedies until her name stands
for resistless gayety, winsome merriment
and arch tenderness, and now in "All-of-a-Sudden
Peggy" she is more captivat
ing than ever.
"All-of-a-Sudden Peggy" is the clever
est comedy that has fallen to Miss Cros
man. It exploits her as an ebullient
Irish girl whose gentle birth has not
wholly eradicated a strain of wildness
which, however, takes no worse form
than gayety. Impulsiveness and self-will.
With wit characteristic of her race she
engages In pretty revolt against a scheme
to get her married to a man 'of her
mother's choice, but .not of her own.
While one matrimonial plot is hatched
to entangle her, she engineers another
that ensnares her mother, but yields her
own escape.
The cast Includes Frank Glllmore, Ern
est Stallard, J. R. Crauford, Addison
Pitt, John Marble, C. A. Chandos, Kate
Meek, Mattie Ferguson, Genevieve Rey
nolds and Jane Marbury. Addison Pitt
has been with Miss Crosman since, she
first became a star. He is a son of
the late Harry Pitt, a well-known actor,
and of Fanny Addison Pitt. His early
training was had with Richard Mans
field. .Mr. Pitt has been Miss Crosman's
stage manager for several years, and In
all the time he has been associated with
the star he has not missed one single per
formance. Seats are now selling at the
theater box office.
"THE STROLLERS," MARQUAM
Englander's Tuneful Comic Opera
to Be Presented This AVeek.
The San Francisco Opera Company's pro
duction of Victor Herbert's comic opera
the "Singing Girl" has sufficed to pack
the Marquam Grand Theater at every
performance, and the treasurer reports
that there will be no diminution In the
size of the audience at today's matinee
and night performance. Several principals
who had been in the background in "Fan
tana" had an opportunity in "The Sing
ing Girl" to prove their mettle and that
they did so goes without saying. Com
mencing tomorrow, Monday night, the
San Francisco Opera Company will for
one week, with matinees Saturday and
Sunday, present "The Strollers."
Harry B. Smith and Ludwig Esglander
adapted "The Strollers" from the German
of Krenn and Llndau, the musical comedy
being one of the most successful of its
kind ever staged in the foreign country.
Built ostensibly for laughing purposes
and with a score that possesses much
jlngly music "The Strollers" is acknowl
edged as a remarkable box-office winner.
Francis Wilson and his company had a
most successful run with the piece and
Marguerite Sylva gathered fame and for
tune with "The Strollers" on the road.
The San Francisco Opera Company pre
sented it at the Heillg last January and
gave the best of satisfaction. The com
pany is very pleasantly cast in "The
Strollers" and promise a splendid per
formance. Miss Hemml will be seen In tne part or
Bertha wife of the Stroller; as tuh the
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prima donna is. seen in a part that cot
only gives full scope for her vocal efforts
but an opportunity as well to show her
aDllity as a comedienne. Miss Hemml pos
sessing a sense of humor that la not
usually a feminine attribute.
As Aug. Lump, Mr. Webb is seen in
a part that he has played some 100 times
and which he baa carefully built up, so
much so that not one line falls to score.
He has some new topical songs and some
local verses that will pleas. Florence
Slnnott as Mimi, the dancer from the
Folies Bergere, has a part that fits this
dainty artiste like a glove and she will
introduce some new songs. George Kunkel.
who has been most successful as a
delineator of German dialect parts, will
play the Prince de Bompsky, and as
such he runs Web a close race for the
comedy honors.
J. Albert Wallers tedt, the young lover,
Roland, will also have some good
songs. Joseph Miller and Melvln Stokes
will play the young German Lieutenants
and with Miss Hemmi will do the "Lesson
In Flirtation" which is one of the gems, of
the opera. Amy Leicester will be Anna,
ALaudo Beattv. will appear ja Wia comedy
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ANNIE RUSSELXi AS .
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Famous Actress Will Present "A
" Midsummer Night's Dream."
The dramatic event of the current sea
son will be the special limited engage
ment of Annie Russell, who is to appear
at the Heillg Theater for three nights
beginning Thursday, May 30, with a
special Saturday matinee, as Puck, In
Wagenhals & Kemper's magnificent
production of "A Midsummer Night's
Dream." The entire production, one of
the handsomest ever revealed on
Broadway, and company numbering 127
people, will be brought from New York,
where it won the approval not only
of the playgoers who crowded the As
tor theater to the doors at every per
formance, but also of tha metropolitan
critics. All were unanimous in the
opinion that never in. the memory of
the present generation of playgoers has
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peare's best comedy on such a vast
seals and with such a royal disregard
for expense. Never before, say the
critics, has there been a production so
respectful of the text, so artistic from
a scenio standpoint, so capable in the
acting.
Of Miss Rusell's acting it has been
the universal verdict that neVer before
has Puck been impersonated with such
taste, spirit and imaginative feeling.
By the same token, never has the poetic
temperament In Miss Russell been so
charmingly in evidence. Her great tri
umph in this character lies in the man
ner in which she denotes the light mas
culine grotesquery of the spirit, at
once friendly and impish.
For the production, not only Is there
mechanical perfection but the staging
of the play Is dons with artistic ex
cellence not before approached. The
color schemes for the different scenes
are conceived with a sure artlstlo
sense; no harsh contrasts, but every
thing done in the mellow tints which
are a delight to the eye. What with
flowers, glowing mysteriously when
uck touches, themi awla Kith. feUtUUng
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electrle eyes and fairies who seem to
have solved the problem of aerial
flight, the perfection of stage effects
has been reached in this production.
A unique feature is the wonderful
ballet of fairies. A radical departure
has been made here, for Instead of
the conventional gauze dressed fair
ies, these are browns and greens the
fairies of Shakespeare's text, instead
of the fairies of the stage. Their ap
pearance, some swarming over walls,
some scrambling through trees, others
making great flight over tha country
side, have an electrical effect upon the
audience and call forth unbounded en
thusiasm. WEDDED, BUT NO WIFE.1
Reorganized Star Stock Company
Play Well-Known Drama.
There are several reasons why the
Star Theater will be more Interesting
than usual this week. First, there Is
the play, "Wedded, but No Wife," and
then there is the reorganised com
pany. Beginning tomorrow night the
stock company at the Star Theater will
have for leading man and leading
woman, Raymond Whltaker and Mar
garet Pitt, respectively. Thess people
have been playing leads with the Sea
man stock company at the Empire, and
now go to the Star. Miss Pitt played
the leading feminine role in "Ben Hur"
in Portland, and Mr. Whltaker has
played here with Nance O'Nell and
other stars.
The stock company will be greatly
strengthened and improved, and other
additions will be made next week when
Charles Conners and Lillian C. Field,
who have also been with the Seaman
stock company, will come to the Star,
opening in "Darkest Russia"
"Wedded, but No Wife" Is a sensa
tional melodrama such as makes an Ir
resistible appeal to women theater-goers.
It Is a dramatization of the fa
mous novel by Bertha M. Clay. In
book form and as a serial story In a
noted weekly publication, "Wedded, but
No Wife" enjoyed a noted prosperity.
The story has been read by more than
1,000,000 people.
"Knobs of Tennessee" will be re
peated this afternoon and tonight for
the .last times. Those who have not
seen this production of Hal Raid's mel
odrama should not miss these last two
opportunities. Call or order seats by
telephone.
"POLLY PRIMROSE," AT ITRIC
Successful Comedy-Drama to Be
. Given by Allen Company. .
When the Allen stock company
moved over to the Lyric theater, the
management announced that the best
of w.oId be proAu.ceat and that
there would be a variety, in order that
the person who had a liking for any
particular sort of play would be pleased
as well as tne patron wno UKes an
sorts of plays.
The company opened wicn a iarce,
followed with a drama, then a melo
drama. And now, for the fourth week.
Director Allen has picked out a famous
comedv-draraa of high class, wherein
is a plot constructed along artistic
lines, and wherein there is high-class
comedy enough to suit the most exact
ing. .
This play is "Polly Primrose." It
gives Miss Verna Felton a chance to
do some of the best work of her career
in the title role. It gives the other
favorites exceptionally good roles. It
admits of beautiful stage settings,
dramatic situations, side-splitting com
plications; everything that goes to give
the ring of sincerity and success to the
modern comedy-drama.
"Polly Primrose"" opens Monday .
evening and runs one week, with mati
nees Tuesday, Thursday. Saturday and
Sunday. Sale of seats for the entire
week opens at 10 o'clock this morning
at the Lyric Reserved seatS may be
ordered by telephone.
IaAST time tonight.
Rose Coghlan In "Mrs. Warren's
Profession," at the Heillg.
The last performance of the brilliant
actress Rose Coghlan and her excellent
supporting company in Bernard Shaw's
much discussed play, "Mrs. Warren's
Profession," will be given at The HelUg
Theater, .Fourteenth and Washington
streets, tonight at 8:15 o'clock.
The "wages of sin" are clearly demon
strated to be sufficiently death-like in
the living world to offset for all the nor
mal minds, the possession of mere crea
ture comfort. The St. Paul Dispatch of
April 15, says, "Virtue triumphs over
vice" as positively, if less obtrusively, in
"Mrs. Warren's Profession" as in that
other popular play, "The Lion and the
Mouse," which is most crudely amateur
ish in comparison with the work of
Shaw. Indeed the performance would be
far more worthy the personal attention
of clergymen than the puerile melodrama
to which the cloth is usually invited.
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theater.
MRS. LESLIE CARTER,
Distinguished Actress Coming to the
Heillg May , 7, 8.
Mrs. Leslie Carter, who Is accorded
the leading position among the emo
tional stars of the day, will be seen
at the Heillg theater June 6, 7. . In
her greatest success, "Da Barry," by
David Belasco. Mrs. Leslie Carter 1
making a final tour of the country in
this play, for she has secured a new
play for next season and this will un
doubtedly be the last opportunity to
see her in the role in which she has
achieved fame.
"Du Barry" is a play of the days of
Louis XV of France, and the engross
ing story framed on the incidents of
the life of Jeanette Vaubernler, after
ward Madame Du Barry, is to'ld in a
most dramatic manner. The milliner
who became the favorite of the King
and finally died by the Ttnlfe of the
guillotine, was one of the most
striking figures in French history and
the part is one that is admirably suit
ed to Mrs. ' Leslie Carter's tempera
ment. Owing to the length of the play
the curtain will rise promptly at 8
o'clock.
MR. CAD Y COMING TO PORTLAND
Noted Musical Instructor to Give
Normal Course in June.
It will be of special interest to Port
land people, in view of the fact that
Mr. Calvin B. Cady is expected here in
June for a normal course, to hear of
a coincidence In his career as an edu
cator, x
After returning from his study at
Leipzig, Mr. Cady taught some years at
Oberlin College, leaving there to oc
cupy in the University of Michigan at
Ann Arbor a chair of music especially
established for him. A pedagogue by
nature, he began at once to institute
reforms in methods of teaching. He
saw clearly that muric is a positive
factor in education and strove to bring
It into relation to other studies. While
at Ann Arbor he established a course
of various correlated branches, with
music as the central study. From this
course only a limited number of
students were graduated, its demands
being far beyond the average appre
hension; but those who followed it
ce'rtalnly attained to what the degree
of A. B. signifies.
. In the nineties Mr. Cady left Ann
Arbor for cucago, where he found
greater freedom to work out his edu
cational processes. In 1902 he moved
to Boston and two years later was
appointed by the New England League
of Education on a committee to ar
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