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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 1908)
THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, JANUARY 19,-1908. IN PORTLAND THEATERS f'ontlnnert from Puipe Two. of the Midnight Sun," In which the Al len Stock Company has scored such a big bit during the past week. It is a dramatization of Hall Caines great nov el, "The Bondman," and ha made them all sit up and take notice during the past week. Go this afternoon or to nlzht and have a good time with the Allen company. It is one of the best shows of the season. 'THE GINGERBREAD" MAX" Tuneful Musical Comedy Success to be Attraction at Heillg Soon. The tuneful musical comedy, "The Gin gerbread Man," will be the attraction at the Heillg Theater, Fourteenth ,Vnd Washington- streets, for three nights be ginning next Sunday night, January 26, with a special price matinee Tuesday. It was the aim of the Edwin A. Braden Company, which is responsible for the production, to give the music-loving pub lic something different, something satis fying, something out of the ordinary. A visit to "The Gingerbread Man" 1b nec essary to a full appreciation of ho'w well this enterprising management has achieved its aim. Adjectives fall to de scribe the splendor of the scenic equip ment, costumes and effects, the many songs, musical numbers and stage pic tures. The authors, Frederic Kankon, who wrote the lyrics, and A. Baldwin Sloane, the ' music. ; deserve unlimited credit for their work, and the critical verdict so far has been unanimous in de- ' daring it to be far and away the best work these two successful authors have accomplished. "The Gingerbread Man" will be pre sented by such well-known stage favor ites as Evelyn Frances Kellogg, - Helen Grey, Margo Savor, Nellie Nice. Fred Nice. Koss Snow, J. Maurice Holden, . Carrick Major, James 71. Lichter, Lute Vrohman and John Sanders and a beauty' chorus of 66. The advance seat sale will 1 open at box-offirfne, the theater, next Fri day morning, January 24. GEORGE WASHINGTON, JR." Brilliant Musical Comedy Success to Be at the Heillg. "George Washington, Jr.," one' of George M. Cohan's musicat plays, which is now being presented for the first time on tour since it was first produced two years ago, will be pre sented at the Heillg Theater on Feb ruary 3, 4 and 5 by the Cohan and Harris comedians, an organization under the direct manafrement of George M. Cohan and Sam H. Harris. Some of the numbers have even attained in ternational reputation, particularly the "Flag Song" and the "Virginia" num ber. The. company that will present the play here contains the names of many people prominent on the musical comedy slate, including Carter De Haven. Flora Parker. Willis P. Sweat man, Jack Rafael, John A. Boone, Ed ward Lester, Frank McNish. Jr., Joseph t.eslle, John Kauffman. Lee Myers. Klsle Arts and Lola Hoffman, assisted by a chorus of pretty girls who sing snd dance in true Cohan fashion, which is somewhat different from the l est. IIOYT S "A MILK WHITE FLAG' One of the Greatest of All Musical Farces to IlIow nt the Baker. The Baker Stock Company will repeat . one of the greatest of last season's suc cesses for the week following "The Mills of the Gods." which will open next Sun ' day matinee. January 26. This is the Farnimi of all the celebrated Hoyt plays, "A Milk Whlto Flag." which packed the Baker to the doors for nine consecutive performances last year. Its repetition is ' by popular demand, for no more laugh able, pleasing production has ever been seen in Portland than this. This year the caft will be very much as it was last, ..and there will be new songs, choruses and musical specialties introduced. It is a play one can see and laugh at many time over, for it Is so rich in satire, ' music and clever wit there is always a ; novelty and freshness about it. "Big-Hearted Jim" Coming. A notable melodramatic attraction, "Big-Hearted Jim," will be seen at the Umpire for the week after "A Desperate Chance," starting next Sunday matinee, January 36. This much-praised American comedy-melodrama Is In good hands, par ticularly the comedy, as the company in cludes some widely known comedians. Harry J. Jackson has given the four acts of the play, Including the two ambuscade scenes, an elaborate scenic equipment after the manner of the famous i'On the Bridge at Midnight." FIRST REHEARSAL OF CHORVS Training Js Begun for Music 'Festival to Be Held in April. The first rehearsal of the chorus for the music festival in April, under the Hcilig Theater management, T)ras most encouraging, both in point of numbers and in the quality of work. One singer experienced in chorus work was heard to say that she had never heard a chorus take up a work so readily as the one Wednesday night, giving promise of splendid results for the festival. The first work taken up by the chorus is Max Bruch's "Fair Ellen," which is the story of the siege of Lucknow and is full of dramatic effects and of the strains of the bagpipe the familiar "Campbells Are Coming" constantly recurring in the or chestra. Chorus rehearsals will be held each Wednesday night with W. H. Bojer in charge at Eilcrs Recital Hail, and it is safe to predict that Portland will be proud of the result. BIG CIRCUS ACT AT THE GRAND Adgie and Her Lions Will Be the Headline Act This Week. For the current week, commencing with the matinee tomorrow afternoon, the niannKcment of the Grand has been sent a particularly good vaudeville programme by Sullivan and Considinc. On the list will he acts of international fame and the headlincr will be the greatest animal act that has been seen in or out of a circus. This will be Adgie and her lions. There are few people in this country who have not heard of Adgie and her lions. .dgie is a woman who has the courage to enter a cage of wild beasts and subdue them. A number of years ago Adgie ap peared In Portland and her performance was the principal topic of conversation for weeks. Since then she has played every leading vaudeville theater in the United States. She duplicated her sensa tion in Cuba and even crossed the At lantic to England and Europe, where the act was. the talk of the houn.. This act. It will be seen, is no ordinary specialty, for It Is stamped with the indorsement of the public everywhere. Adgie . and her lions will positively appear at the Grand all this week. For the special added attraction the Grand will have Bob Stlckney with .his trained pony and dog. This makes two animal acts on the one bill, but each is a winner and will please old and young. : Anna Plum and her Broadway, beauties will contribute a quarter of an hour of merriment. Miss Plum is a musical com edy star and is on the Sullivan and Con eiiine circuit with a girl act in which show girls fro the great White Way participate. There .are few of these acts coming to the Coast and this is one of the best of the lot. The Three Heltons have a musical act which has not been seen here for several years. They are capital musicians, and play a number of instruments. Little Gladys is featured as the best trick buck dancer and xylophonist in the business. Nelson and Mtllege hav an original con ceit called "Glass Put In," and from the reports, received it Is an act which will make good. Ned Nye, comedian, will be among those present. he made good in the better class of bouses. - . George Hoyt, , eccentric singer and dancer, has a turn of his own. His sing ing is lively, his dancing of the best and he put forth a few minutes of good en tertainment. Fred Bauer, the Portland tenor, will sing a new illustrated song. An especially funny film ha been se cured for the moving picture machine, "Professional Jealousy.' BRIGHT VAUDEVILLE ACTS Pantagea Signs Up Number of Clever Entertainers. Good bill replaces good bill with un ending regularity at Pantages Theater. People, are wondering where all the good things -come from, for Pantages is never short of new acts and good ones. Some D'Urbano's Concert. The first rehearsal of the D'Urbano concert to be given at the Marquam Grand on or about February 23, will take place at BUers recital hall, Thursday, January 23, at 2 "P. M., sharp. The ladies who have already offered their services are requested to be present with instru ments and music-stands. Other ladies playing any kind of orchestral instru ments and desiring to take part in this benefit concert under D'Urbano's direc tion ere asked to send their names and addresses to the office, 3(H Fliedner build ing,' before Thursday, in order to take part in the first rehearsal. . ' Worship the God Binzuru. TOKIO, Jan. 11. Among all the numer ous gods worshiped by the Japanese, K5rf ti BABY ELEPHANTS IN THE JUNGLE DANCE OF "THE DEVIL'S AUCTION." way or other the bill never falls below a certain standard. The show just coming to an end has been one of the best. There were four features Frank Hall with bis man-eating lion the Mizakoff troupe in the Russian dance; Jolly Zebb, the comic opera star, and Miss Dodd, violinist. The supplementary acts, too; were good. As a matter of fact, there wasn't a turn on the bill, outside the illustrated songs and the moving pictures, that cost less than J100 for the week's engagement. The new bill, opening Monday, is to be essentially of the vaudeville variety bright, sparkling, amusing. Some of the cleverest people in the business have been hired and the salary roll next week runs up into money. At the top of the- list are three celebrated French singers and en tertainers, in selections from l'Opera Comique, Paris. They are the Delour Trio, with Mr. Marcus Dolour, the tal ented French baritone. This is an act that any theater can well be proud of, and the Pantages patrons will like it immensely. . By way of a second feature comes George L. Wade, the minstrel king. Most everybody knows of Wade, sje is one of the most popular minstrel men in the country and he turns loose a barrel of fun wherever he goes. Wade was last seen in Portland at the Marquam Grand with his own troupe. There are acrobats and acrobats and then more acrobats, but the Lulgi-PIcearo trio, late ol Italy, stand in a class oy themselves. Their sensational hand-balancing and their phenomenal new acro batic feats have put them in the expen sive class so that only the larger circuits can afford them. Nothing is too good for Pantages, however, and cost i not even a secondary consideration.. It is not con sidered at all. Marcello, the modeller In cloth, has something new. Interesting and cleverHis exhibition of building statutes out of cloth is marvelous. He comes from Paris, where MME. i G ..Ul'l t -::'- rii-prz n -.1:31 tar . A R E N O PIANISTE Marquam Grand Theater Monday EreM Feb. 3 Seat Sale Opens Friday January 31, at IOA.M. Prices $1.00, $1.50, $2.00, $2.50, $3.00; Boxes, $15.00; Logea $20.00. none is more popular, especially among the lower classes, than Binzuru, whose image is often adorned by devotees with a red or yellow hood, a bib and mittens. Binzuru was one of Buddha's 16 Rakan (apostles), but was expelled for violating his vow rf chastity by remarking upon the beauty of some woman. In casting him out of the inner circle, however, Buddha conferred upon him the power to cure all human ills. In remembrance of his punishment his statue in temples usually is placed out side the chancel, though that does not lessen the number of those who worship him. Believers rub his image on whatever part of the body feels pain, then massage themselves. Or a devout maiden has an aching tooth.. hies to a shrine of Binzuru and ties upon it a written prayer that her teeth may cease from troubling her ang that she may have rest from pain. Dig Up a Buried City. ; ROME, Jan. 11. The Italian government announces that the excavation of the bur- HEILIG THEATER 14th and Washington Phones Main 1, A 1122 Special Price Matinee Tuesday Three Nights, Beginning Tonight . Henry Miller Presents . HENRY WOODRUFF In the Great College Play Success BROWN OF HARVARD New York Tns New York Star, Cast and Production. Chicago 360 NightS "P't Th. m-c Theater 2SQ Nght. EVENING PRICES! Lowr Floor First 10 rows. . . .'. .$2 00 Lower "loor Last row 1.SO Balcony l.O0. T5c. .SO Entire Gallery .... 50 Heats Are Kow Selling at Theater. SPECIAL MATINEE PRICES: Lower Floor 10 rows .......,....'$1.S0 Lower FIooi 6 rows l.o Balcony First 4 row .75 Balcony Last 10 rows .50 Entire Gallery , 25 THEATER PHONE MAIN - - - 2 GEO. L.BAKER, GEN. MGR. PORTLAND'S FASHIONABLE POPULAR-PR ICR PLAYHOUSE HOMJE OF THE INCOMPARABLE BAILER STOCK COMPANY BAKER ALL THIS WEEK COMMENCING MATINEE TODAY Sunday, Jan. 19 MILLS THE THE GODS By George Broadhurst, author of "The Man of the Hour," which just closed an immansely successful week in this city "The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceeding fine" An intense drama of modern life, as first produced it Astor Theater, New York A powerful play, full of novel situations and great comedy scenes Stage direction William Sills Matinee Saturday. Evening Prices 25c, 35c, 50c. Matinees 15c, 25c. Next Week- -Hoyt's "A MILK WHITE FLAG" ATfARQUA IV JL Portland's Famous Theater. Phones Main 6, A1020 M GRAND ONE WEEK COMMENCING Matinee Saturday at 2:15 MATINEE' TODAY 2;15 CHARLES H. YALE SUBMITS FOR YOUR PLEASURE THE EVERLASTING evils Superior Scenic Investiture Tricks; In genious, Ludicrous Advanced Vaude ville Acts, Refined and Amusing; Chorus Costumed Extravagantly; Electrical Novelties Unequaled Prices: Evenings 25c, 50c, 75c and $1.00 v Matinees 25c, 50c and 75c led City of Herculaneum will be begun at once. The work will be "carried but by. the Italian government with Italian funds, and the advice of eminent foreign archae ologists will be gratefully accepted. The proposal made by Professor Waldstein. of Cambridge University, that the excava tions should be supervised by an interna tional committee Is finally rejected. The artistic treasures which should be un earthed are expected to prove far richer than those already discovered in the bur ied City of Pompeii, where Roman houses have been "uncovered, with manuscripts, fragments of Roman newspapers,, fres coes, and innumerable other strange relics of human life 1900 years ago. The difficulty In the way of excava tions in the past has been the fact that the surface deposit which covers the an cient city is occupied by modern villages. These have gradually spread and grown, thus hampering the explorer. The City of Herculaneum lies about five miles from Naples, close to the Mediterra- LYRIC THEATER Both Fftonec Main 4685, Home A 1026 Keating & Murphy, Proprietors WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY, JAN. 20, 'OS P. R. ALLEN PRESENTS MISS VERNA FEL TON AND THE ALLEN STOCK CO. IN MR. BARNES of NEW YORK A. COMEDY DRAMA MATINEES TUESDAY, THURSDAY, SATURDAY AND . SUNDAY PRICES 10c AND 20c EVERY EVENING AT 8:15 PRICES 10c, 20c, AND 30c. BOX OFFICE OPEN FROM TEN TO TEN CONCERT Miss Marjorie Miller Violinist -Jane Scotford Thacner Pianist -AT- ST. HELENS HALL Thursday Evening, January 30th, at 8 o'CIock TICKETS $1.00 nean. It was a great and populous center In Roman times.. but It was totally de stroyed, with the neighboring City of Pompeii, in A. D. 79 by a terrble eruption of Vesuvius. A poor village afterwards sprang up on the site, but this also was overwhelmed by a second eruption in 473 THE GRAND VAUDEVILLE D E LUXE WEEK OF JAN. 20 HEADED BY POSITIVELY THE GREATEST AND MOST EXPENSIVE ANIMAL ACT EVER SEEN IN AMERICA, ADGIE AND HER TROUPE OF FOUR LARGE LIONS, IN CLUDING "PRINCE," THE LARGEST AND FINEST SPECIMEN MALE LION IN THE WORLD. COME AND SEE WHAT HUMAN WILL AND KINDNESS CAN DO WITH BRUTE STRENGTH. Special Added Attraction, Bob Stickney With His Trained Pony andDogs Anna Plum and Her Broadway Girls. In Fifteen Minutes of Melody. Cbas. B. Nelson and Marie Millege Presenting Their Own Comedy Creation, "Glass Put In." THE THREE KELTONS Featuring Little Gladys, Amer ica's Greatest Trick Buck Dancer and Xylophone Soloist. NED NYE Comedian. JOS. K. THOMPSON "When the Old Mill Wheel Turns Around." TWENTIETH-CENTURY MOTION PICTURES, "BEN-HUR." THEATER PHONE MAIN 117 MILTON W. SEAMAN, Mgr Playing the STAIR-HAVLIN Eastern Road Attractions only EMPIRE Week Starting Sunday Tor,liriv.r 1 Q Matinee Today . . . January 17 MAJESTIC AMUSEMENT COMPANY, Inc., Presents ' the Greatest Melodramatic Sensation of the Age A DESPERATE CHANGE By Theodore Kremer, Founded on the Life of the Famous Biddle Brothers Oaring the Great Pittsburg Tragedy The Daring Escape from Prison The Fight for Life and the Capture in the Snowdrift The Greatest Snowstorm Scene Ever Produced on the Stage New and Startling Founded on Real Life. , MATINEES WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY Night Price 15c, 25c, 35c, 50c ' Matinee Price 10c, 20c INEXT ATTRACTION BIG HEARTED JIM A. D. The ancient city now lies from 40 to 100 feet deep under a mam of lava and volcano dust, compacted by ages. But the very calamity which destroyed it treasures. But for Pompeii, that buried city which has been exhumed In the past 150 years, no one would have known what a Roman town looked like, or how Eo- preserved for future generations its mans of the first century lived THE STAR PHONES: MAIN B4M Beginning SUNDAY MATINEE T A TVT -Q ATVn nONTlNIIINO A1.1. WFF.K JXll.17 THE R. E. FRENCH STOCK COMPANY Presents the Big New York Success MDMA FED First time in Portland. A Melodrama in-Four Acts Matinees Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 2:30;. Prices 10c and 20c. Every Evening at 8:15; Prices 15c, 25c and 35c. Seats may be reserved for any performance by either phone. WEEK OF JANUARY 20 PANTAGES FOURTH AND STARK STS. BEST FAMILY THEATER. J. A. JOHNSON, RESIDENT MANAGER ADVANCED VAUDEVILLE STARS OF ALL NATIONS GEORGE L. WADE ; "The Merry Minstrel." FRED BAUER Pictured Ballad THE BIO GRAPH "Professional Jealousy." Big Musical Comedy Feature THE TRIO DELAUR With M. Marus Delaur, the French Baritone, in Comic Opera Selections. From L'Opera Comique, Paris. LUIGI-PIC-CARO TRIO Remarkable Hand Acrobats MARCELLO The Modeler. GEO. HOYT, Eccentric Singer and Dancer. PANTAGES UNEXCELLED ORCHESTRA. Direction H. K. Evenson, Performances Daily at 2:30. 7:30 and 9 P. M. Prices: Upper floors(, 15 cents ; lower floor, 25 cents ; boxes, 50 cents. Any , seat at weekday matinees, FIFTEEN CENTS. . ' H 108.0
