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X. THE meek and humble actor cut very little Ice during the week last past. It was the time for equine stars to ' shine so the shows which the theaters of : fered were not heavily patronized. "The Yankee Regent" and S. Miller Kent In . "Raffles," two good attractions, played at the Hellig, while "The Nightingale" at the Jlarquara, "A Hole In the Ground" at the Baker, "Woman Against Woman" at the Lyric, "The Sweetest Girl In Dixie at the Empire and "The Confessions of a Wife" at the Star, were other attrac tions. tUthough each was excellent In Its way: , The vaudeville theaters did not feel the slump so badly and both the Grand and Pantages did quite ustlsfactorlly. Things look much better for this week. "The Vanderbilt Cup," Elsie Janes' big New Tork success, opens at the Heilig to night for'three performances. Later "Un .. der Southern Skies" and Isabel Irving in Clyde fitch's new play "The Girl Who Has Everything," the former for Wednes day night only, while Miss Irving will fill out the remainder of the week. The Marquam will offer "The Wedding Day" the first half of the ..week and Its first traveling attraction, ; Paul Arm strong's splendid play,- "The Heir to the HoorahJ? .. .The Baker will give us "The Adventure ,; of , Lady ; Ursulal" which is ' to be rec , ommended as .an', interesting costume .' Jomedy.. '.'Human Hearts" at' the Em pire,'. "The Heroes of "98" at the Lyric, "Deadwood Dick'.' at the Star and vaude ville' at . the. Grand and Pantages, will serve to entertain all tastes. Next week the Allen company will return to the Lyric bin there will be no change in the policy of that. house. A. A. G. "A'AXDERBILT OTP" . TONIGHT Tuneful Musical Comedy Success at the Hellig Theater. Local theater-goers will be given an op portunity to see the production which , caused more comment In New York than j any five plays that were produced last .: jison, when "The Vanderbilt Cup" comes ! to the Heilig Theater, Fourteenth and ,: Washington "streets, tonight, tomorrow and Tuesday nights. It is thoroughly " musical comedy, the automobile being the i motive power from the rise of the curtain ; till Its fall. W. K. Vanderbllfs cup race at Mineola, Long Inland, is the founda- tlon of the delightfully funny situations. Mr. Vandervilt presents the trophy which is raced for by automobile drivers of the world each Autumn on the smooth roads . of Long Island. The story of the play hinges upon the efforts of a clever little , country girl, who overthrows a plan to defeat her millionaire uncle's car. Curtis wyiets, a wealthy gentleman, sends his lawyer to the country to bring back young Dorothy Wlllets, who Is to " be the old man's heiress. She Is in love with Dexter Joyce, a wine agent, and the ; three Journey to New York together and come to the Marjorle Wellington Hotel, a hotel which is strictly for women, a fact which gives rise to several amusing situ '.' ations. Here Dorothy falls in with Cla ' rinda Larkspur, who has sued Mr. Wlllets for breach of promise, and lost her case. , She is using her fascinations upon Gas pard. the old man's French chauffeur, in tending to get him to desert his car at the hist moment, and so lose Willetts' chance . for the pup. Dorothy discovers the plot lust In time to defeat It by substituting '- her lover as driver, and he brings the Wlllets car in as winner. The various complications, plots and counter plots all lead up to the great f-ensatlon of the production, the cup race. , It is said to be the most realistic scene . evr placed on a stage; the actual race in which two 90-horse-power racing cars are driven across the stage to the accompanl ', ment of smashing exhausts, flashes of Are . and the usual atmosphere that surrounds a contest of this sort. ; The cast for "The Vanderbilt Cup" con tains nearly all those who created the " principal roles In New York, where it ran for eight months at the Broadway Theater, and also had a three months' f run at the Colonial, in Chicago. The stage settings and electrical effects are ' promised to be as lavish as those which . marked the metropolitan runs. The ,'. smartest and latest importations of auto . mobile apparel will be worn by a score of Broadway beauties, and among the ' song hits promised are "My Little Chauf " feur," "Somewhere in the World," "The Light That Lies in Girlish Eyes" and "My Houseboat Beau." Seats are now selling at theater for the engagement. SEW BILL AT THE MARQUA3I San Francisco Opera Company Will riay "The Wedding Day." Owing to the fact that combination bookings necessitate the removal of the San Francisco Opera Company from the Marquam the company's next offering rrf ri'i 1" i 'rnTT r isV- I I 70m i xXx . v- I - J "iv ( '" i i1 i . i it'll I II 1 v-t-K ' . XJ 1'" Hi IwM 7 J; I , - ''a:'.ZCI'aSjRKA' AVTyZZ will be given five times only, the per formances being on the nights of Sun day (tonight), Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and at the Wednesday mat inee. "The Wedding Day," the opera that was written by Stange and Ed wards for the Joint starring venture of Jefferson d'Angells, Lillian Russell and Delia Fox, and which had, in addition to those clever people, such artists as William Pruette, Alf Whelan, Tom Green and Lucille Saunders, will be the offering. William Blalsdell will have the part of Polycops, the role originated by D'Angells, and in which that splendid comedian was succeeded by Blalsdell. Polycop Is said to be the very best thing done by Blalsdell, and his many new-made friends will be out In front to greet him. Aida Hemmi will have the role of Lucille De Herblay, the Queen's messenger, and according to Edouard von Buechner, musical direc tor of the San Francisco Opera Com pany, Mis Hemral is vocally the su perior of Miss Russell and' histrionical ly her equal. "Gene" Ormonde, a re markably clever young woman, who has been rapidly forging to the front, will be -entrusted with the Delia Fox part, that 'of Rose Marie, Polycop's bride. Cunningham's Due De Bouillion loses nothing by comparison with Wil liam Pruette's performance, and Maud Beatty has the part originally played by Miss , Saundere, and Wiener, Tom Green's. Kunkel, as -the sour-vlsaged old Saturnine Planchette, the assistant to Polycop, has the AlfVWheelan part, and he and Blalsdell will contrive to keep the audience in good humor every moment that they are on the stage. Dion McFadden, a sterling young basso, will have his first part of prommnce, that of Corporal Souffle, Lillian Ray mond, as Polycop's maiden aunt, com pletes the cast. The -only matinee of "The Wedding Day" will be given Wednesday, and theatergoers should bear in mind the piece will be given four nights only. When the company returns to the Mar quam Sunday night, November 17, It will put on "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" for the week. . "ADVENTURE OF LADY CRSCliA" Anthony Hope's Comedy to Bo Pre sented by Baker Company. Anthony Hope is best known to the masses by hla famous "Prisoner of Zen da," "Rupert of Hentzau" and "Phroso," three of the most popular asjl widely read works of fiction of the past many years. Another of this celebrated author and playwright's play "-je Adventore of Lady Ursula," will .be presented by the Baker Company all the coming week, be ginning with today's matinee. It is of the comedy order, a costume play of the period 1760. aijd scenes laid h England. All the characters are members of. the English nobility, and one. Sir George Syl vester, is a rich young bachelor' and an avowed woman hater. In a spirit of bravado ' Lady Ursula makes a rash bet that If she should faint in front of his house he would have her carried ' in and cared for In spite, of his vow that -no woman shall ever enter his doors. But Sylvester has her taken "to the porter's lodge." Lady Ursula has two .brothers, one in England and the other abroad. The one at home challenges Lord Sylvester, but she dresses In a new suit of her absent brother's and boldly enters Sylvester's home to attend a stag func THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 10, 190?. tion masquerading as her absent brother, i Her object is to prevent ' the "duel. A series of exciting events follow, and she challenges Sylvester herself. He, how ever, suspects her disguise, and manages to protect her. In the end, of course, the play ends happily, and a more delight ful comedy would be hard to Imagine. The cast: Earl of Hassenden Donald Bowles Pir George Sylvester Austin Webb The Rev. Mr. Blimboe. .. .William Oleason Mr. Dent ...William Dills Mr. Castleton Robert Homans Sir Robert Clifford Earl D. Uwire Mr. Ward JamVs Gleason Mr. Devereaux Howard Russell Oullton. aervant to Lord Hassenden R. K. Bradbury Mills, servant to 81r George Sylvester. . ..? C. H. Lewis Mlsa Dr.rothy Fenton. betrothed to Lord Hassenden .. -Mips Marlbal Seymour Mrs. Fenton. her aunt. .Mlna Crollus Oleason Lady Ursula Marlon Barney IIAIj REID'S "HUMAN HEARTS" Return ' of Famous Play Always Greeted With Pleasure. Starting this afternoon at the Empire Theater and running all week, with mat inees Wednesday and Saturday, Hal Reid's noted play, will be royally 'wel comed by theater-goers. The scenes are laid in the hills of Arkansas and the story hinges around the lives of Tom Logan and his wife, Jeannette, a woman who, reared In the city, finds life In a small country vlllae Irksome. She longs to get away, and af ter a stormy scene with her husband, In which she taunts him with his ina bility to supply the luxuries to which she considers herself entitled, she pre pares to leave him. At this Juncture an old lover of Jeannette's appears on the scene.' In her anger at Tom, she agrees to elope with Frederick Armsdale, who promises her all the luxuries, ease and indolence that she craves. Tom's father overhears the two plotting to go away, and upbraids Jeannette. A quarrel fol lows, during which the old man is killed. The guilty pair escape and Tom comes back and sees his father's body lying on the grounds He is discovered kneeling by his father's body, holding in hi hand a bloody knife. When asked who has committed the crime, he Is -V$, W K ixA -;rx - i gg'W " , X ' . ' . -j x. , x. ' ; . xH Ar : : ;xXxA- C Xlv ;X ,x tM iftNx fi 4; y x . X about t answer, when Jeannette and her paramour appear and denounce Tom as the murderer. The story of how Tom Is finally cleared by the evidence of a tramp, who wit nessed the crime, constitute a drama of more than ordinary heart Interest. Baker Company to Play "The Pit." Unusual interest 1 manifested in the : : - - Vi.r A forthcoming production by the Baker Stock Company of Wilton Lackaye's fa mous play, "The Pit." This is to be one of the biggest things, theatrically, of the year at the popular stock house, and hundreds are looking forward to it. It will be the first time at popular prices, for one thing, and another attraction Just now will be the great interest the masses of people everywhere are taking in the financial situation, and the many causes that lead up to such a crisis. The act showing the famous Chicago wheat pit will be the most startling ever seen on the Baker stage. "The Pit" will open at the Baker next Sunday matinee, No vember 17. "A Wife's Secret" Coming Soon. "A Wife's Secret," the melodramatic success, under the direction of Spencer and Aborn, which has met with well deserved approval everywhere this and the past three seasons, will make its bow at the Empire next Sunday matinee, November 17. with Grace Bayley In the title role. Miss Bayley Is reputed to be one of the cleverest emotional actresses in this country;' and her characterization in "A Wife's Secret" is said to be one of the tyest of her portrayals, the part being especially fitted to her personality and histrionic capabilities. She is sur rounded by a cast of artists of high standing. 'DEADWOOD DICK" STAR Thrilling Story or Western Life Will Be Depicted. "Deadwood Dick" will be the attraction at the Star Theater all week commencing with a matinee this afternoon. The R. E. French Stock Company has secured the right to produce this play for the first time in Portland. It Is a thrilling story of Western life, written by the master dramatist. Charles A. Taylor. In Western literature and history there is no character more familiar to the read ing public than "Deadwood Dick." He has been the hero of hundreds of stories