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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 22, 1907)
THE coming of the rain brought Joy to the hearts of the showhouse man agers, for It meant a manyfold In crease In the box-offlc receipts. It Is only when the gentle showers de scend that the local magnate comes Into the fullness of his recompense, for people can hardly be kept away from the thea ters after the rainy days come. There were a lot of good temptations to crowd the playhouses last week, how ever, and that accounted In a measure for the heavy attendance. The season Is completely under way, the actors have settled down to the grind, the patrons have returned from their Summer vaca tions and everything Is regula again. Chief Interest naturallly centered In "Salomy Jane," with Jessie Izett featured In the title role. This was tendered by the Helllg, the first performance occur ring "Wednesday night. The Armstrong play, based on Br?? Harte's poem, Is an Interesting dramatic work, and was well Interpreted by Miss Izett and a typically competent IJebler & Company cast. Mon day night and for the remainder of the week, Jessie Busley, another Liebler star, and one of the most brilliant young ac tresses Portland has ever had tha pleas ure of seeing, will present her last year's success, "In the Bishop's Carriage." Week after next the first musical com edy to play the Helllg this season will camn at the untown theater. It will be ' "Little Johnnie Jones," to be followed later by the ever-dellelous "Prince of PU sen." William Faversham In "The Squaw man," Is promised for the near future. - A production par excellence was "The Love Route," at the Baker, and so good a performance has seldom been given here, or anywhere else by a stock com pany. Hoyt's "A Stranger In New York" goes on this afternoon, and as the Baker players excel In the Hoyt farces, a treat may be anticipated. George L. Baker and "Walter Reed left the first of the week to complete the de tails' for opening the new Baker theater in' Denver. Mr. Reed will remain perma nenty as resident manager, and I -. Baker will probably spend a month In the Col orado metropolis. Every good wish of Portland friends goes with Mr. Baker and Mr. Reed for the success of the new ven ture. . The Californians reached the highest mark they have set during the present engagement at the Marquam. "The Geisha," a beautiful, sparkling piece, con tains a number of gems, the most delight ful feature of the present performance being Cecilia Rhoda's singing of "The Jewel of Asia" number. Tom Karl sprung two distinct surprises on us In the shape of Cecilia Rhoda, soprana prima donna, and Zoe Barnett, contralto ingenue. Both these young - women possess unusual charms of voice and personality, and the management is in great luck to have secured them. "The Geisha" will be sung for the last time tonight. Commencing tomorrow night, '"Fatinitza," a mine of pretty music, will be presented for a week. The new Lyric stock followed up the first success with a superior performance of the melodrama, "All for Gold." It will be the bill this afternoon and tonight, to be followed tomorrow night with "Drusa Wayne," in which Maxlne Miles, the new leading woman, will make her first appearance. The French company continues to strengthen Its hold upon the Star clien tele, and most properly so, for, it is doing good work. 'The Queen of the Highway" was last week's bill. This afternoon "The King of the Desert" will be presented for the week. . "The Little Prospector" pleased the Em- " pire patrons, and "'For Mother s Sake," this afternoon and all week, will probably be a repeater. . Vaudeville continues at the Grand and Pantages. A. A. G. "A STRANGER IN NEW YORK" Baker Company to Be Seen In First of Hoyt Farces This Season. The first of several of the noted Hoyt plays to be seen this season at the Baker starts with today's matinee. Several others are to follow as the weeks go by, but soecial attention is called to "A Stranger in New York," as Portlandnrs will have the first opportunity to see It for many years, the coming week, and never before by a stock company. In It Hoyt deals with life In the great metropo lis as he knew it, or imagined It, and the many extremely laughable situations he concocted made the piece an Immense suc cess both In New York and for season after season on the road. The musical numbers are all catchy, and the Baker Company, besides containing members who are long experienced In that line of work, will be augmented this week, and not a single detail omitted. Like "A Milk White Flag," and the others that mad- such pronounced hits last year, "A Stranger, in New York" will be a most startling and pleasing surprise to patrons of Baker Theater from the mo ment the first curtain goes up this after noon. One of the best stage effects ever originated is the famous elevator scene In the hotel, and it was the talk of the coun try. The reproduction of this act will be exactly as the original. The plot of the piece deals with a clever, handBome young chap, who is a stranger in New York and who finds himself, after a night of hilarity, in one of the fashion able hotels. He Is mistaken for a noted person for whom an elaborate entertain ment and reception has been prepared, and before he can even explain. Is carried along with the flood. After several hope less attempts to stem the tide of fate, he finally yields to the inevitable. The cast: A Stranger in New York Austin Webb Wright Innltt Donald Bowles Carroll Sweat James Gleason Cummlng Swift William Dills I. Collier Downe Robert Homana Baron Sands William Gleason Wilt Chaae Howard Russell Wiley Fox Karl D. Dwlra Handle Grubb R. B. Bradbury Cal. O'Melllsh R. E. Bradbury Ioollttle Charles F. Lewis Clymer u Roy Bernard Ida Downe ...Mina Crollus Gleason Virginia Pryde Maribel Seymour May Ketch um Louise Kent Rosle Hope.. Dorothy Bernard Kitty Wilms Fay Balnter Fairy Storey Grace Burgess Wanda Knights Lucille Webster Hattle Marlon Barney JESSIE BUSLEY TOMORROW "In the Bishop's Carriage" Begins Week's Engagement at Helllg. Beginning tomorrow and continuing every night this week, with a special price matinee Saturday, Liebler & Com pany will present Miss Jessie Busley in the Intensely interesting drama, "In the Bishop's Carriage." at the Helllg theater, Fourteenth and Washington streets. This promises to be the most important theatrical event of the sea- THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN. PORTfiAND. SEPTE3IBER 22, 1907. fMmm JESSIE- CAXS&JAOr. THEATEte i r "CBCUIA son, this, Channlng Polllck's dramati zation of Miriam Mlchelson's charming story. - . When the play appeared here last season It came practically unheralded, both the star and the play were strang ers to the theater-going public, but Liebler & Company, the managers of the attraction, had reversed the usual order of theatrical practice and had taken the organization on tour with out first showing It in New York City and getting - the indorsement of the metropolis. The play has since been presented in New York, and the ver dict fully sustains that of the West. Miss Jessie Busley, the star, is one of the youngest women of the stage to enjoy stellar honors, but that George C. Tyler knew what he was about when he selected her for the difficult role of Nance Olden is evidenced by her almost electrical success in the part. Miss Busley, while young in years, is old In experience. Fob many years she was the principal comedienne with Charles Frohman's Empire Theater Company, during which time she created many Important character roles. The company with which Liebler & Company have surrounded Miss Busley this season is said to be one of the best acting organizations that the en tertaining firm has ever sent on tour. It comprises such well-known people as Hallett Thompson, George Richards, who at one time was famous as the originator of the principal comedy role In Hoyt's "A Temperance Town." In "In the Bishop's Carriage," Mr. Rich ards has the role of the bibulous Ed ward Ramsay. The bishop will be por trayed by George Gaston and Tom Dorgan is in the hands of Harry Eng lish. Ernest Joy will again be seen as the reporter. Among the new mem bers of the company are Ruth Lloyd, Caroline Harris, Virginia Reeves and Maude Monroe. Seats are now selling at the theater box offlco for the entire engagement. "FATINITZA" AT THE "MARQUAM Von Snppe's Opera to Be Given by the Californians. The offering for one week, commencing Monday night, of the Californians at the Marquam Grand will be Von Suppe's tuneful and stirring march opera of Rus sian and Turkish life, "Fatinitxa," one of the greatest successes of the original Bos tonlans, of which Messrs. Tom Karl and D. Dewey, who are now the owners of the Californians, were part proprietors, together with Messrs. Barnabee and Mac Donald. This famous work preceded the offerings of Sousa, Herbert and DeKoven, and its famous tunes set astir the hearts of all music lovers of Europe and America. Not alone it is musically a per fect score, but It is dramatically an excel lent book. It tells a true story of Turco- SAAYy ZZATtS-XSJS SiJ 7771 Us. HIWWWWTWUUWIIP is-1-- Si A Russlan life in the days when the great Bear was trying to subjugate the Mussul man. A magnificent production as regards scenery, costumes, properties, accessories and light effects has been prepared, and the cast will include Henry Cashman as Count Timofey Kantchukoff, the gruff, honest and love-sick polar bear. Richie Ling, who appeared in the Fritzi Scheff revival of this opera in New York last year and made a distinct success as the New York Herald reporter, will be the Julian Hardy; Leroy Jeppson, the excel lent light comedian, will be seen as the muchly-married and bibulous young Turk, Izzet Pasha; Fred Wilder, the character comedian, will be the lovable German Sergeant, Stelpann; Robert Hosea, the merry Lieutenant Osipp, of the Russian cavalry; Elliot Beamer. the Captain Vasil; Myrtle Dyngwall and Venoy Car men, the Dimitre and Ivan, the cadets. To Miss Lucille Saunders will fall the role of Lieutenant Vladimir Samoiloff, the dashing young lieutenant of the Circassian cavalry, a contralto part, which will show her beautiful voice to the best advantage, and will tax her acting ability to the ut most. She should compare most favor ably with the great exponents of the role, Matllde Cottrelly, Jeannie Winston, Hattle Moore,' Adelaide Phillips and Jes sie Bartlett Davis. The beautiful and talented prima donna, Cecelia Rhoda, will alternate with charming Blanche Auburt as the Princess Lydia Imanom, niece of General Kantchu hoff. and with whom Vladimir is in love. Miss Zoe Bartlett, Edna Malsonave, Anna Nolan and Lillian Leigh ton will be heard as the Pasha's wives, Nursidah "Zulelka, Dlona and Beslka." Miss Grace Marvin, the second contralto of the company, will read the famous shadow play of "Kara gols," with which the second act ends. "FOR MOTHER'S SAKE," EMPIRE Well-Known Marie Heath Rural Comedy This Afternoon. Starting with today's matinee the Empire will offer It's patrons the well known rural comedy, "For Mother's Sake." There will be the usual mat inees during the week on Wednesday and Saturday. Of the hundreds of books, musical compositions and plays launched each year, not over three genuine successes in the respective fields are ever found, oftentimes less than that number. Last season was a particularly noted one for failures in the theatrical field. But from the slough of failures Issued one dramatic effort of such extraordi nary and successful proportions as to call for more than passing comment. This property was "For Mother's Sake," which was quietly launched at the opening of the season In. Chi cago, without any waving of flags or firing of journalistic canons, depend,- -SCZA2T amor? jeyyrs . "STRANGER, W NEW VORA" AT 77&T fa I T AVIS 5 KATtibZZN TAYLCTZ JUT S7?WZs lng entirely upon its mei'ts as a play for its measure of success or failure. That it made a most emphatic hit the Chicago press record. This play is a rarity in the melodramatic field. While abounding in sensational scenes and situations, the text of the story is never lost sight of; It tells a story straight, direct and natural. Interpreted by. the best company ever in the field of melodrama. It is a play whose sit uations are strong and natural, whose men and women love and hate like men and women In real life, whose tempta tions and ambitions are like unto our own. "DIUJSA WAYNE" AT THE IiYRIC Franklyn Fyles' Great Play Will Open Tomorrow Night. Messrs. . Keating & Murphy of the Lyric have made arrangements with Franklyn Fyles, the foremost American playwright, to produce a number of his successes during the coming Winter. The first of them will be "Drusa Wayne," perhaps his greatest play, which will be presented for the first time Monday night. This bill will serve to introduce Miss Maxlne Miles, the handsome and tal ented young leading woman who has just come on from New York to join the com-r pany. - The title part in "Drusa Wayne" will be a fine opening bill for her, as the part is exactly suited to her personality. 1ST A number of other new faces will be seen next week, some of the best people in the profession. Including Miss Loma Nelson, Leslie Mitchell, Harry Bianchard and others. Besides these the favorites who are already established here, Lily Branscombe, Ralph Belmont, Herbert Ashton, Edmund Flynn and their asso ciates will be seen to good advantage in "Drusa Wayne." The company will be positively the best popular price organi zation on the Pacific Coast, barring none. The play - opens in the Silver Bow gambling rooms In Helena, Mont., with a roulette wheel running full blast and the room filled with gamblers. The action of the play has a wide range. Including New York City and the mining camps of the West. This afternoon and tonight will wit ness the last two performances of "All for Gold. "THE KING OF THE DESERT" High-Class ' Comedy Drama by French Company at Star. Beginning this afternoon, the R. E. French Stock Company, at the Star The ater, will present "The King of the Des ert" for the current week. There will be matinees Tuesday, Thursday and Satur day. "The King of the Desert" is another high-class comedy drama on the same elaborate order as "The Queen of the -AT TTiET 1 T Highway," which proved such a success the past week. It calls for a wealth of scenery, special mechanical effects and lights. Manager French has been prepar ing for the past 10 days and has had a corps of artists and mechanics building the production. It will be the greatest scenic production the Star Theater has sheltered since it was erected. Dave Wood Is the author of "The King of the Desert" and it has had a long career of usefulness. The only time it was seen In Portland before was about 10 years ago, when William A. Brady brought It to the Pacific Coast and pro duced it at the Marquam to advanced prices. Bobby Gaylor was starred In the comedy part. Those who saw "The King of the Desert" at that time will recall It as a sensational comedy drama with an Oriental background. The plot is fasci nating and there are few modern plays -hlch contain more action and Interest than this. For a scenio wonder this attraction will eclipse anything of the kind hitherto at tempted in a theater playing at popular prices. The stock company will be en larged for the occasion and there will be a small army on the stage. Seats for all performances are now on sale at the box office of the Star Theater NEXT SUNDAY AT THE HElLlQ George M. Cohen's Comedy With Music, "Little Johnny Jones." Much interest is being manifested by the theatre-going public of this city over the approaching engagement at the Helllg Theatre for four nights, beginning ona week from tonight, Sunday, September 29. of the musical hit, "Little Johnny Jones." For years past "Yankee Doodle Dandy," "Give My Regards to Broadway" and other musical gems from "Little Johnny Jones" have been sung, whistled and played on the piano and by orchestras all over the country. Therefore, to a large degree, the music of the production Is fa miliar to most theatre-goers. No musical play has been presented in many seasons that has attained such- an enormous de gree of popularity, as was attested last season by Its phenomenal run of almost an entire season in New York, over three months In Chicago, four weeks in Phila delphia and several weeks In Boston. The scenery and wardrobe Is said to be among the most beautiful and extensive In America, the three acts being gor geously set to represent the exterior of the Hotel Cecil In London, the steamship pier at Southampton, and a street scene in the Chinese quarter of San Francisco, while' the ensemble wardrobe Includes 11 complete changes, the whole represent ing an investment of many thousands of dollars. Seat sale opens next Friday, Sep tember 27, at box-office Helllg Theater for the entire engagement. "GIRIj WITH THE GREEN EYES" Clyde Fitch's Great Society Comedy Next at the Baker. Baker patrons will have an oppor tunity to see Clyde Fitch's play, "The Girl With- the Green Eyes," soqn, for it will follow Immediately after "A Stranger" in New York," and will open next Sunday matinee for the week. This Is the piece that Clara Bloodgood first starred in, under the Frohman management, and it -Is generally con sidered to be one of the best, if not the very foremost play the greatest American playwright ever created. The complex role of "Jinny" Allstln calls for truly artistic acting, and Is a strain upon a leading woman's nervous sys tem that few can withstand for but a short time. "THE PRINCE OF PILSEN" SOON Henry AV. Savage to Present Musical Comedy at the Helllg. Henry W. - Savage will present the famous musical comedy success, "The Prince of Pilsen," at the Helllg thea ter for three nights, commencing Thursday, October 3, with a special matinee Saturday. "The Prince of Pilsen" Is an established favorite and Henry W. Savage's name a guarantee of a finished performance and pro duction. NEW BILLING AT PANTAGES Long List of Fine Attractions Se cured for New Week. "Are you an Elk?" "Whether you are or not you will enjoy immensely the bio graphic phantasia on the subject at Pan tages theater today. It is only one of several big Vaudeville features which have gone to make the bill of the week Just ending an exceptionally good one. You are bound to enjoy the melodious Bell trio, and Wells and Sells, the trick cottage acrobats, Moss the equilibristic juggler, the Hebrew comedy team, the Wallace Sisters, and the others. It is a thoroughly enjoyable show and you should take this last opportunity of wit nessing it. For the new week another excellent