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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 15, 1907)
If CEO. L.kASK ' JTAGE PlRECTORTtHE CALIFORNIANS' IMTWE. GEISHA" AX THE MARQUAMjGRANP WEEK of brilliant Shakespearian , performances at the Heillg netted Louis James ,,uBt about enough to buy a good cigar. If there Is any good reason why "The Comedy of Errors" and "Merry Wives" should not have been patronized this deponent . Is prepared to suspend Judgment until the case Is ar gued. The lack of Interest In the James en gagement was s lamentable commentary. Tonight the Heilig will offer the ox cellent Stockwell-MacGregor Company In the most successful farce of recent years. "Mrs. Temple's Telegram." On Wednesday night, Jeasle Iiett, of whom this department predicted great . things a year or two ago. comes In Paul Armstrong's 'Salomy Jane," which ha been everywhere well received. Foil lng "Salomy Jane" comes another Ielbler & Co. attraction, that dear Jessie Busley In her Inimitable performance as Nance Olden, the girl thief of "In the Bishop's Carriage." Still later In the future, at the Heillg, are coming "Little Johnnie Jones" and "The Prince of Pllsen." This promises to become a paen of praise, for I must become enthusiastic over the past week's offerings at the Marquam and Baker. The latter got away first with "The Woman In the Case." which, while it Is not a children's .Christmas pantomime. Is a bully play, the best. In my opinion, which Clyde Fitch has ever written. The Baker's players, down the line from Marlon Barney, did the piece full Justice, and the result was something In the show way worth any body s going to see. In point of perform. ance and production, it approached the original. Not only approached, but caught up with It and ran neck and neck. This afternoon 'The Love Route,- m which Guy Standing made a mark last season, will go on for a week's run, and If one is to believe the indications, will ba puny. , The Californlana sang the dear, beau tlful, old "Bohemian Girl" very well la deed, so well In fact that the musical sharps who heard it have conceded much praise. - It will be repeated today, and is calculated to pleaso those who go to see and listen. Tomorrow night this musical oompany, reinforced by Ceclla Rhoda, a new soprano prima donna, will appear in "The Geisha," an opera that has been known to lure the birds from the oushes. The new Lyric stock company made its initial bow in "Forty-Nine." an excellent frontier play which served to put the new organization properly before the publlo. The same play will be seen at the Lyrio this' afternoon and tonight. Tomorrow night "All for Gold," a melodrama of parts, will occupy t.ie Lyric stage. The Star entertained Its patrons to the fullest extent with "The City of New York," a thriller with a great deal of merit which exploited the French com pany to good advantage. This afternoon the bill will change to "The Queen of the Highway," a play that never falls to get Its full share of responsive enthusiasm. The Empire opened with Lee Willard and a supporting company of merit In "A Texas Ranger," a Western play along somewhat novel lines. The new week opens this afternoon with "Chlo" Perkins in "The Uttle Prospector." The vaudevilles, Grand and Fantages, presented rattling good bills and drew their customary crowded houses. Their promises for the coming week look at- tractive. A. A. G. FrxXY COMEDY TONIGHT,' . ExcruciaUngly Comical Play, "Mrs. Temple's Telegram," at Heillg. The Heilig Theater, Fourteenth and , Washington streets, offers "Mrs. Temple's Telegram" a Jolly farce comedy, tonight at 8:16 o'clock. This comedy was pro duced at the Madison-Square Theater New Tork and proved to be such a suc cess that it ran for over 300 nights. Later it was presented in London and there duplicated its former triumph In this country. . It Is a mirth provoker of the highest order, the situations depend ing entirely upon natural consequences. Every line Is a laugh and the comedy is devoid of the slightest hint of "horse play." The company engaged to present thja . comedy has been selected with the utmost care. Each actor suiting the part to a nicety. The leading role will be assumed by Franklyn Underwood who has achieved wonderful success the past two seasons as leading man with the Bishop Players at the .Majestic Theater, San Franoisco and Ye Liberty Theater, Oakland. Edward Emery will assume his original part in the comedy, having played in the piece In London. Miss Francis Slosson will play Mrs. . Temple and the other members of the company Include. Norval MacGregor, Joseph Datley, Edward Lawrence, Miss Eleanor Gibson, Miss Claudia Colona and Gwyne Sterling. As one of the char . acters in the comedy says "That's Just what I was going to do." Be sure that you do It and see "Mrs. Temple's Tele gram. Seats are selling at theater. Popular prices. "TTTE IOVE ROUTE" AT RAKER Play In Which Guy Standing and Odette Tyler Were Featured. "The Love Route," in which Guy Standing and Odette Tyler were fea tured at Lincoln-Squar Theater, New York last year, will be given a typical Baker production this weak, and is a play In which this Immensely popular organization, anouia particular iy. f mm mi & : .:. .. . . . , y. . . : .- - -..,...:'.-::. Y- . r "V"W II I S I II fit IS t I II 1 1 "V I I n .: . ..... - . .-.: V -m m W V ' I '"' " "" m l'"B8Jt -ffli 'v ';' ' - V ' ' fy " "X ::r- HT st:geg6e. paglenn V . V - I f? -X - 9 ' 'h V - t - f LEADING MAM WITH THE.! WmMi jP - - f - ' '.III ; , 1. - 1-- s , - If iR.r.FRENCH STockcd . CTHt GEISHA" AT THEa I . ' 3 ! . v" jr . - -s4 -ssn Ss -k - S ... . j - I .,4 . , 44 TXTHE.KEIHGJSJ-MEATER, ' - V- , i.. ' w FRANKLVN VNPERWOOD IK" THE FARC E. COMEDX 'MRS. TEMPLES TELEGRAM HEILVG.THE AT 6 tift fine. It Is romantic, full of life and character, and gives opportunities for not only the leads, but nearly every member as well. The play opens in the New York of fice of the T. M. A N. railroad. There Is a meeting of the directors at which the president reveals his plan for a new branch of the road In Texas. The railroad, after a long legal fight, has secured permission to build the line, but one ranch owner refuses to allow the road to run across her ground. The president Bays they will have to use force, as they have the legal right, and places John Ashby, a young engi neer, in charge of the work, promising. If he gets it done in 60 days, to make him chief engineer of the road. Ailene Houston, the owner of the ranch, then arrrlves, and the president offers her $50,000 as compensation for the land. Ashby comes in and Ailene recognizes him as an old friend, though there was a feud between their families. When, however, she finds he Is to be In charge of the work she begs him to give it up. He refuses, saying that she would de spise him if be did give it up. - The directors then come In for her answer and she defies them all to build the road. The second act Is at the Houston ranch. The cowboys have destroyed the railroad's bridge, and the president and his secretary come to the ranch to protest. Ailene, with her superin tendent, Harry Marshall, takes them prisoners. Ashby and Billey Ball, the surveyor, have also been taken pris oners and are brought In bound. Ai lene tells Marshal to cut their bonds. Marshal Is In lore with Ailene, and hates Ashby. Ashby and Ailene are then left alone together, and Ashby tells her that he loves her. She begs him to give up the work, but he again refuses. He then tells her. that the engineer of the locomotive which was on the bridge when her men destroyed It was badly Injured. This horrifies her, but at length she determines to brazen It out and tells Ashby that she doesn't believe him. She goes off and Marshall comes in and insults Ashby. Ashby strikes him In the face and Mar shall draws his revolver to shoot him. AHene, however, rushes In between them and sends Ashby back to his work. The third act is at the barbed-wire fence separating the ranch from the railroad. Ashby tells Ailene that he la to cut the fence that night. Allene's 1 men, beaded tr Marshall, wast to THE SUNDAY OREGOXLAN, PORTLAND. SEPTEMBER 15, 1907. fight, but Ailene tells them not to un less she gives the word. The railroad gang comes in and begins to lay the rails. Suddenly Marshall is brought in dying. The gang on the other side of the ranch had begun to cut the fence, and had been shot in trying to prevent them. He sees Ashby and curses him, then, with his last strength, draws his revolver and shoots him. Ashby falls and AUene throws herself upon him. The last act Is In the Interior of the ranch. Ashby is convalescent and Is anxious- to know whether the line is built. No one will tell him, as the doctor baa ordered quiet. At length, however, AUene comes in and, with drawing the curtains from the win dow, shows him the line completed. He asks her who finished the work, and she tells him that she did, because she loves him. "THE GEISHA" AT MARQtTAM Japanese Musical Play Will Be Pro-, duced by the Californlana. "The Geisha." a story of a tea house, a Japanese musical play, in two acta, will be produced by the Californlana at the Marquam Grand for one week, com mencing tomorrow, Monday evening, September 16, with matinee Wednesday and Saturday. This clever conceit was originally performed at Daly's Theater, London, where it ran for nearly two years. It was then given by the Augustln Ialy Musical Company at Daly's Theater, New York, where It duplicated its Eng lish success. For several seasons it toured this country. It has been trans lated into French and German, and played In France,- Germany and Austria, with great success. The Antipodes and the Cape Colonies, not to speak of Brazil, Jamaica and the Orient, have all praised this excellently constructed comic opera. "The Geisha" tells both a Japanese and an English love story and the delights of the famous tea bouse of ten thousand Joys are shown to the audience with as much realism as they are in Japan to the tourists. Singing, dancing and group ings of a purely Oriental style add much charm, to the stature and. tba-Atmosnhere V:' ' "'St' v ' JESSE. IZETT, AS "SALOMY cANE .AT TWEjiLHEIUGjrHEAreRS that surrounds the little lady of the tea tray is harmonious both musically, scen lcally and dramatically. The cast will be a powerful one, and In it Miss Cecilia Rhoda, one of the pret tiest of American prima donnas, will make her debut to a Portland audience in the title role, O Mimosasan. Miss Rhoda has sung the part in New York, St. Louis and San Francisco, with the greatest success. She comes here from a Summer engagement as prima donna at Delma Gardens, St. Louis, a position she has held the past two seasons. She was the prima donna last season of the Schu bert's production of "The Beggar Prin cess," by Smith and Herbert, and made an unqualified success in New York. When in England with Edna May, she was accounted her equal in beauty, being of the distinctly Oriental type of beauty. Miss Zoe Barnett will have her first chance as Molly Seamore, the English glrL Miss Lonna Nelson will be the Juli ette Dlamant, the French girl, attached to the tea house as Interpretess. Miss Lu cille Sanders will be the stately Lady Constance, a role that fits her figure and style to perfection. Henry Cashman will get all the humor possible out of Wan- Hi. the Chinese proprietor of the tea house, while Richie itng as Reginald Fairfax, Robert Hosea as Dick Cunning ham. Leroy Jepson as captain K.atana, and Fred Waelder as the Marquis Imayl are all well cast. The smaller roles are all In good hands, and the chorus has been augmented for this production. Spe cial scenery, costumes, light effects and accessories have been prepared, and the production will be equal to the one al ready set. SAIiOSIT JANE" WEDNESDAY k ' Tdebler & Co. Present Jessie Izett In Charming Drama at Heilig. Beginning next Wednesday night. September 18, and continuing four nights, with a speolal price matinee Saturday, Llebler & Co. will present "Salomy' Jane" at the Heillg Theater, 1 Fourteenth and Washington, stxeota, CHIC" PERKINS NTHE ' LITTLE. PROrPElCTOK2.-J$AT THE E1MPU5EX New York critics, with an unison so uncommon as to be remarkable, de clared "Salomy Jane" to be the most refreshing and original play of the year. Llebler & Co, determined that the outside country should see it at Its best, have promptly sent it on tour, with a splendily equipped organiza tion and with the Llebler trade-mark of a complete stage production. Paul Armstrong has made a magnificent dramatization of "Salomy Jane's Kiss," as Bret Hart called his brief story. It Is a tale of picturesque and primitive passion. A young desperado, about to be hanged for cause, is asked by the vigilantes if he has any word to send to his people. An Indifferently, care less, beautiful daughter 3t Kentucky, living with her father among the Cali fornia redwoods, wooed in vain by many suitors. Is witness of the capture. Half In romantic tenderness, half In grim humor, one of the vigilantes sug gests that she assume the office of klslng him good-by. The kiss awakens the dormant passion in both of them, fires them to heroic attempts, and ends by the escape, with regeneration, of the desperado and his marriage to the slumbrously passionate wild wood beauty. The Llebler Company Includes that talented woman of strikingly handsome appearance, Jessie Izett, In the title role; Stokes Sullivan, lately playing leads with Charles Frohman and Will lam Gillette; A. 8. Llpman, who looks to the life the Bret Harte gambler of Poker Flat; Spottsford Aiken, Daniel Gllfeather. King Baggott, H. L. Salter, Burr Caruth, William C. Nugent. T. C. Hamilton, Gordon Morrison, Florence Gerald, Queenle Phillips and Viola Bavoy. The advance seat sale opens tomorrow morning at the theater box office at 10 o'clock, for the entire en gagement. "THE LITTLE PROSPECTOR" New Play of Mining-Camp Life Be gins With Today's Matinee. The second road attraction of the sea son will open at the Empire today. This is a new play of life among the mining camps and is reported as being a very unusually Interesting melodrama. The following sketch of the story will give one an accurate idea of what it is all about: Kitty Colwell, the pride of Chuck-luck, has worked several years on an old claim that has been, and is still, the Joke of the camp. It formerly belonged to Tom O'Dowd. who was shot by his helper. Hank Tregesser, when they had dis covered pay dirt. Tregesser put in an extra charge of powder to make It ap pear the- ledge was covered up acci dentally by the explosion, then left for i rvi-tr am his dpnlh parks uiiiyiiu v, n. w .wtiu, w bed, signed over the claim to Doc Col well, Kitty's father. In payment lor mea leal services, iin uvari vftiins' Testers novelist who came to Chuck-luck in quest of new - . . . . i . In characters tor nis ia.ieai bw, wj love with the little prospector and greatly assists her in working the claim. Tre gesser tells Frank Plunkett. a fellow con vict about to be released, of the value ef Chuck-luck no In turn promising to use every effort to obtain Tregesser's re lease. Plunkett came to Chuck-luck with Helen Black, she robbing her husband to get the money to float their scheme. He meets the doctor, gets him drunk and -..kii- i that nrit1nn B-lves him Sao. The doctor, to whom Chuck-luck is a great Joke, gives tae mine w nuimou iji amount, which he accepts. Kitty re turns from the mine, tells her father they have at last struck pay ore; tils sobers him, and he tells her what he has done. She is heart-broken and the doctor solemnly vows he will never touch a drop of liquor again. The end of act 1 finds Kitty in earnest prayer for her father's reformation. The play from this on con corns a fight for the possession of Chuck luck. TTegesser, dying with consumption, has been released from Jail and, coming to Chuck-luck, accuses Plunkett of mak lng no effort to get him out. Plunkett plans to kill TregesBer and blame the murder on Kitty. Tregesser overhears the plot and shoots Plunkett Instead. Then, turning on Kitty, who has been befriending him, testifies he saw her do the shooting, and she Is arrested lor the murder. At the trial Kitty's lawyer has been made helplessly drunk by the Black woman and John Holmes, so at the last moment she is forced to act as attorney for her own defense. She clears herself by a wonderful piece of stratagem and Tregesser is arrested for the murder. The last act takes place at the entrance to Chuck-luck mine and In it we find the Sheriff and the widow settling their love affairs. Tregesser Is dead, the Blao woman la "drummed" out of the camp amid the Jeers and laughter of the miners and Kitty and Harry are to marry and take the doctor off on their honeymoon. There are matinees at the Empire every Sunday, Wednesday and Saturday. "IS THE BISHOP'S CARRIAGE Llebler A Co. Present Jessie Bnsley at Heillg Next Week. The return of Jessie Busley and her company In "The Bishop's Carriage" to The Heillg Theater for one week, begin. ning Monday, September 23, will be wel come news to Portland theater-goers. It will be remembered that Miss Busley A SCENE FRO 31 "THE QUEEN OF created a profound . .-nsatlon when she appeared here last season in Channlng Pollock's dramatization of Miriam Michel son's novel, "In the Bishop's Carriage." The company supporting Miss Busley this season Is practically the same as when Miss Busley was last seen here. Hallet Thompson is William LatlmerH George Richards who at one time created a sensation throughout the country in Hoyt's "A Temperance Town," will ap pear as the bibulous Edward Ramsey, and George Gaston will be seen as the Bishop. The feminine contingent of the organiza tion has undergone some changes. Miss Caroline Harris will be seen as Mary Latimer and Virginia Reeves as Mrs Edward Ramsey; Ruth Lloyd will be seen as Nellie Ramsey, w-lle Maude Mon roe will be seen as Mag Monahan. The entire production will be given In the Llebler & Company's lavish manner. Seat sale opens next Friday morning, September 20, at box office, the theater. lor the entire engagement. "AMi FOR GOLD" AT LYRIO. Popnlar Hexr Stock Company Will Present Famous Melodrama. The second week of the already In tensely popular Lyrdo stock company will be devoted to a magnificent presen tation of the brilliant English semi military melodrama, "All for Gold," commencing Monday night. It is a play that will show the new organization to the best advantage, providing as It floes strong parts for Lily Branscombe, Her bert Ashton and Ralph Belmont, beside affording plenty of scope for the othjr popular members of th company. Man ager Murphy guarantees the performance and production and no expense has been spared to make it perfect in every de tail. "All for Gold" is a thrilling melo drama in a prologue and three acts. The prologue takes place in India at a British military outpost Captain Mark Milton (Ralph Belmont) Is to be shot for striking his superior officer and for cowardice. Before the court-martial he has sent for his wife (Jessie Stewart) and his child. Mrs. Milton brings the news that Mark has inherited a fortune of 10,000 a year. A scheming brother officer. Major Gordon Challia (Herbert Ashton) draws up the. will and substi tutes his own name for that of Milton's wife and claims the fortune. Private Bowles (Edmund Flynn) is a silent wit ness to Chains' changing of the will. The play proper opens 12 years later In the grounds of Major Challis. He is enjoying Milton's fortune. Mrs. Milton and her daughter Sybl (Madge Larrabee) are tenants of Major, Challis and he wants them turned out. He employs Bowles, who holds the real will over the Major. Bowles brings an old army comrade, "One Eye," to see the MaJr. They threeten the Major unless he pays. Major Challis has Mrs. Milton arrested for stealing but is denounced by "One Eye," who throws off his disguise and appears as Mark Milton, supposed to have been shot. The Major reaps the re ward of his villainy and goes to Jail, while the Mlltons are reunited and all ends happily. This afternoon and tonight for the last times "Forty-Nine" will be repeated. It has been a great hit. Everyone should see It. AT THE STAR THEATER "Queen of the Highway" Will Be ( Staged Today. 'Queen of the Highway," a romance of the West, will be the attraction at the Star Theater today and all the week. The B B. French stock company will open this attraction with the matinee this af ternoon, and will also introduce a new leading man, St. George Daglenn. This will give the French company two lead ing men. Charles A. Taylor wrote "Queen of the Highway," and Portland theater-goers are familiar with Mr. Taylor's plays. I each of whloh has been successful in THE HIGHWAY," AT THE STAR. pleasing. The Queen of the Highway' had a notable run in New York, anc was given a great production. Mr. Tay lor, although he wrote "King of thi Opium Ring" and other melodramas, de Clares that "The Queen of the Highway" is bis best. He considers that It ha. more surprises, more situations, romanct and Western spirit than his other plays The story is that of a woman who ba deserted her husband and baby girl t flee to the West. Once outside the pal of civilization she becomes associated i i
