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Newspaper Page TextI THE SUNDAY OBEGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 26, 1908. THE WEEK successive performances that any reference to its character is unneces sary. It is quite enough to state that the name careful attention to detail, pro duction and cast attains this "year as heretofore, which means the public will not be disappointed in their old friends from the New Hampshire farm. Anna Moore"s simple story that in a Kreat measure rights the injustice done her under false Impressions created by the village busy-body, Martha Perkins, Is Just as patent as ever in touching the heart of all. The unctuous humor of the village constable, his consequential swagger, and honest belief in his own importance are still among the joys that live forever. The village choir sings the old songs in a manner never excelled, and the reputation of "Way Down Kast" is fully sustained by this season's production. "BIC-HKAKIEJD JIM." . Ucst Western Play of the Season Opens at Empire Today. ' Big-Hearted Jim" a new and splendid Weaterfc play full of life, heart interest and action, will open at the Empire this afternoon for a week's run. The usual midweek matinees Wednesday and Satur day will be given, and so popular is this play expected to become from the very first performance that it is quite likely the popular home of road attractions will be crowded to the doors all the time dur ing the coming week. "Big-Hearted Jim" Is Jim Saxon, the Sheriff of Medicine Lodge. The Sheriff loves a pretty school teacher who has been the victim -of a false marriage. The deceiver appears at the Montana town. Medicine Lodge, look ing for an heiress, a Blackfoot Indian slrl. and knowing the schoolteacher's secret, tries to. use it to compel her to help him get the girl. A number of strong Western characters are intro duced and much comedy in both male and female roles. T'ne minor roles include miners, frontiersmen, Indians, and school children. Two acts take place in a stockade yard with an uprising of redskins threatened. Besides the Sheriff of Medicine Lodge, the pioneer, the heathen, the stagedriver over the Divide, the Montana Diamond and the Canuck are all in good hands, for Harry J. Jackson engaged an excel lent company to present the great West ern play, which is mounted in a pictur esque scenic dressing. WESTERN PliAY AT THE ITF'C Company Well Cast In "Jack Wclla of Wyoming." "Jack Wells of Wyoming" is the bill this week at the Lyric theater, with the first presentation tomorrow night. This .?. Iv-rnoon ami tonight will close the run of "Mr. Barnes of New York," a story of a Oorsican vendetta, in which the Allen stock company appears to the very best advantage. It is a play of thrillinsr interest, with comedy parts well east. "Jack Wells" Is a drama founded on the experience of a young couple who fall In love with each other In an East ern city, but become estranged. The 'young man leaves for the great West and becomes the foreman of a cattle ,r:nch in Wyoming. The girl, unaware of the whereabouts of her ono-tima lover, carries to the ranch on a visit to the owner, who is her uncle, and the fun begins. The play is full of excitement, such us life on the plains customarily fur nishes, and deds of daring and care less modes of existence are portrayed to the last suggestion, i Miss Felton hits a most congenial part in that of the young girl who comes to the ranch from her Kastern home, with ideas entirely at variance with those enter tained or the plains. Rupert Drum as Jack Wells will bring out all the good points of the part, and Forrest Seabury, . Miss Thompson, Mrs. Allen and the other members of the company are east in a manner that will make of the , play everything the author intended. . THE MOONSHINER'S DAUGHTER Refined Melodrama Will Be Pre sented at the Star Today. "The Moonshiner's Daughter" is the attraction for this afternoon and all the week at the SHar Theater. It will he presented by the, Krench stock com pany, considered the finest organiza tion in the West, making a specialty of refined melodram. Those who in tend witnessing the performances at the Sta.r Theater today should order 'seats as early as possible, owing to the regular Sunday rush. In the wide range of melodramatic fiction there is probably no other play which has treated of the South from a more interesting viewpoint than "The Moonshiner's Daughter." This play has been before the public several years, but always presented by traveling companies and charging fancy prices. This week, at the Star. "The Moon shiner's Daughter" will be seen for the first time as a stock- production. No traveling company is so good as the French stock company, and for that reason it Is assured in advance that the performance will be artistic and is bound to please oil who. go to the theater for enjoyment. "The Moonshiner's Daughter" has its scenes laid in the rocky fastness of the Kentucky mountains. The char acters are those rugged, fearless men who make whisky without paying a LYRIC THEATER Both Phones: Main 4685, Home A. 1026 Keating & Murphy, Proprietors . . WEEK COMMENCING JANUARY 27th P. R. Allen Presents Miss Verna Felton and the Allen Stock Co. in JACK WELLS OF WYOMING The Greatest Western Play Since The Squaw Man Matinees Tuesdays, Thursdays, Sat urdays and Sundays Prices 10c, 20c Every Evening, 8: 15; Prices 10c, 20c, 30c Box office open from ten to ten. Reserved seats will be held until two P. M. and eight P. M. IN PORTLAND CONTINUED FROM SECOND PAGE tax to the Government- They do not understand why the Government should compel them to pay for making this liquor any more than the Govern-, ment should force a tax for raising onions, and they naturally resist the interference of the revenue agents who attempt to break up the stills where the liquor Is made. For years there has been & constant warfare in the Kentucky mountains between the moonshiners and the revenue offcers. In the play at the Star an attempt is made to treat this question Impartially. There are detectives in disguise, good moonshiners and bad ones, and, finally, a trilling and exciting battle between the agents of the Government and the mountaineers. There is a love story in which the moonshiner's daughter loves and is loved by a young man engaged in the same business, and the unsuccessful rival is the one who be trays the still to therevenue men. "GEORGE WASHINGTON, JR." Cohan & Harris WillPresent Geo. M. Cohan's Musical Play. What has generally been regarded as George M. Cohan's best musical play, "George Washington, Jr.," will be pre sented at the Heilig Theater. Fourteenth and Washington streets, for three nights, begining next Monday ni;ht, February 3, with a special price matinee Wednesday afternoon, by the Cohan & Harris Come dians, an -organization that has rapidly attained prominence as the best musical comedy oruiization In America. .No musical play presented in recent years has gained such popularity as "George Washington. Jr.," It enjoyed a run of several months, remarkable for its big receipts, at the Herald Square Theater in New York and broke all records at the Colonial Theater in Chicago, playing the longest engagement ever played at that theater. The advance seat sale will open at the box office at the theater next Friday, January 31, for the entire engagement. FRA"NK DANIELS IS COMING Famous Funuy Comedian in "The Tattooed Man" at the Heilig. Frank Daniels will be seen at the Heilig Theater on Thursday, Friday and Satur day nights, February 6, 7 and 8, with a special matinee Saturday, in his new comic opera success. "The" Tatt-joed Man." in which Charles Dillingham is said to have secured for his clever star a vehicle which affords the popular come dian ample scope for his inherent laughter-yielding methods. "The Tattooed Man" ran for six months in New York and Chicago. The music is Victor Her bert's and the libretto is the work of Harry B. Smith and A. N. C. Fowler. Charles Dillingham hps surrounded the star with a notable cast, which includes Julia Brewer, luise Sylvester, Norma Kopp. William Danforth. Gilbert Clayton, George u onnell. Harry . Creston Clark. Nace Bonville and Harold Russell. There is a beauty chorus of sixty. "DAVID HARCM" COMING. One or the Greatest of All Modern Character Plays at the Baker.. Following "A Milk White Flag" at the Baker and opening next Sunday matinee, February 2. stock patrons of Portland will have their first opportunity of wit nessing W. H. Crane's production of Ed ward Noyes Wescott's beautiful and pow erful modern character play, "David Harum." The role of this quaint and whimsical country banker, philosopher, horsetrader. and philanthropist is one of the greatest character studies depicted on the stage. The role will be portrayed by William Gleason. of the Baker com pany, and no one who has seen or heard of this most excellent character actor's perfect- performances in Portland will doubt his ability to make the role of David a most delightful source of pleasure to everyone who sees him in it. "Dream City" Coming to Marquam. Lots of fun. plenty of music, a large and talented lot of principals and the prettiest and best singing chorus on the stage, combine to make "Dream City" a welcome visitor to the Mar quam Grand in the near future, espe cially when presented by a company headed by Little Chip and Mary Marble. The entire outfit,' lock, stock and barrel, will be at the Marquam when there will be laughter galore. Kdgar Smith and Victor Herbert are the author and composer respectively. The production comes intact from Weber's New York Theater, where it enjoyed a six months run last season. BRIGHT BILIj AT THE GRAND World-Famous Eddy Family Are the Hcadlincrs. When it comes to securing the finest vaudeville acts In the country. Sullivan & Considlne are always in the market, which accounts for the high-grade pro grammes which are always found at the Grand. The new bill, which begins to morrow afternoon, will be replete with some novel acts, and there will not be one number on the long list which will not afford satisfaction to the people who appreciate bright, modern, new and lively entertainment. The bright particular feature on the bill will be the world-famous Eddy Family. These people are wire artists and run. dance and do acro batic feats on the metal thread as care- THEATERS lessly as other people can on the ground. This act played the Grand a few months ago and was acclaimed by all who saw the act as the greatest of its kind ever seen. This, however, is the same verdict which has been passed In every town in Europe and America where there is a first-class vaudeville theater. The Eddy Family has been secured for a return en gagement aifd heads the new programme. For the special added attraction there will be Kader and his three wives and son. They have a novelty painting act. Kader. of course, is not an American, or he could not have ,that many wives. He is a real novelty and when he arrived in this country recently ie created a furore in New York. The St. Ong brothers are cycling wonders. Fred St. Ong does a monologue while the brothers pose on the bikes while he does the talking. After seeing other cycle acts, the St. Ongs will be all the more appreciated. ' Evan Evans Is a blackface monologist and if there is anything in family talent he will be a wonder, for he is a brother of "Honey Boy" Evans, one of the tip-toppers of the profession. Hasse and Mari ette are a couple of whirlwind dancers, going through the gyrations which never fall to please a vaudeville audience. De Voy and Evans are equilibrists of the comedy order. With the foregoing will be Joe Thompson singing a new ballad and moving pictures.' Today will be the last performances of Adgie and her lions, as well as the balance of the big vaudeville bill now on the boards. THE' BEST IN VAUDEVILLE Pantages Is Maintaining High Standards In Their Bookings. Four weeks of the new year have gone by and each succeeding show at Pant ages has been just a little better than the one before. Pantages is , making -a standard of its own, not measured' by local competition, but by a desire to give the best weekly entertainment found on the Coast. And In this the management may be said to have already achieved success. The show just concluding a successful week has been one of bright and lively acts. The Delaurs were a surprise with their selections from L'Opera Comique. They brought many music-lovers back for a second and third performance. The Luigi-Piccaro troupe proved themselves masters in hand acrobatics and the other acts proved far above the local stand ard. The show Is one which you will do well to see, if not already having had that pleasure. . For the new week . It gets tiresome week after week announcing new and better acts. But with the vast resources of the Western Vaudeville Circuit at hand, there is a never-ending stream of surprising features and each week's bill is really something of an improvement over its predecessor. The salary roll is continually on the increase. The feature of the new week will be the most re markable troupe of acrobats in the world. This is not an idle boast, for -the Flor ence troupe are admittedly the greatest exponents .of acrobatics living. Their feats verge on the impossible. There are five of them, one being known as the most beautiful woman on the vaudeville stage. Their services come high, but they are worth the money. The supporting acts are uniformly good. Second place in the list -may right ly be assigned to the three Kuhns, com edy musicians. George Alexander, in his original act, "The High-toned Hobo," is thoroughly funny and amusing. Claud Roode. the slack-wire king, late of Ring ling circus, has an act that always goes well, Alice Philbrooks and Sidney Reynolds, in a bright comedy sketch. "Miss Steno," are also known as clever people. A new illustrated song by Fred Bauer, the Portland tenor, and the ex clusive motion pictures conclude the new bill. "Peck's Bad Boy" Coming. "The bare announcement that "Peck's Bad Boy" is booked at the Empire all week, starting next Sunday matinee, Feb ruary 2. should suffice to fill the house at every performance, if there is still draw ing power In the best and most original comedy known to the stage in the past 20 years, dramatically presenting, in most effective shape, the most laughable char acter sketches by that arch-humorist. ex Governor George W. Peck, of Wisconsin, and holding up as-true a mirror of hu man nature and its freaks and foibles that millions have laughed to the verge of suffocation at their reflection therein. NOBILITY FEARS NEW BOOK Would Pay Conntess Warwick to Suppress Memoirs. LONDON', Jan. 18. The Countess of Warwick is in the comfortable position of being able to count upon the same amount of profit whether she publishes her memoirs or smothers them. Many persons of excellent rank In high society are frightened at the pros pect. of being subjected to her criticism, and so, the story goes, a syndicate has been formed which offers to pay a sura equal to the estimated revenue he would getfrom the book if she pledged herself not to write it for 10 years. As her avowed object is to get money Portland's Famous Theater Phone Main 6. Today and Monday Only Continuous Performance, Mati nees 2:30 to 4:30 P. M. Evenings 8 to 10 P. M. FIRST TIME IN PORTLAND The Greatest Motion Pictures ever i Exhibited. THE BURNS-MOIR FIGHT Thousands of the London Athletic Club's spectators in full evening dress in-jhe arena. Full and com plete. First time in this city. PRICES 25c, 35c, 50c MARQUAM HEILIG 3 NIGHTS -3 BEGINNING TONIGHT, SPECIAL PRICE MATINEE TCESDAT. NIXON ZIMMERMAN SERVE THE MERRY Ml SIC AI. FANTASS TP GINGER H E MUSIC BY A. BALDWIN SLOANE, BOOK AND LYRICS BY FREDER'K RANKEN Multitude of Emphatic Song Hits, Sung by a Beauty Chorus That Is Supreme In Vocal Execution. , A MEDLEY OF MIRTH. MELODY AND MAGNIFICENCE 52 PEOPLE INCLUDING COMEDIANS, SINGERS, DANCERS, SHOW GIRLS BEWITCHING CHORISTERS. Gorreoas Cwtumes, Mawlve Production. Iazzlin Electrical Effect. Pleases the Children and Tickle the Orown-Vps. EVENING PRICES: Lower Floor First 10 rows. .$ 1.50 Lower Floor Last 6 rows... 1.00 Balcony First 4 rows 1.00 Balcony Next 5 rows. . . . 75 Balcony Last 5 rows........ JVO Entire Gallery .50 SEATS NOW SELLING AT THEATER. BAKER PORTLAND'S FASHIONABLE HOME OF .THE INCOMPARABLE One Solid Week of Screaming Laughter, Merriest Music and Brightest Color,- Commencing Matinee Today, Sunday January 26th zHOYT'S: A MILK WHITE FLAG By Chas. A. Hoyt, author of "A Midnight Bell," '.'A Bunch of Keys," "A Trip to Chinatown," "A Temperance Town" and many other most famous American musical farces. Last season's greatest success A satire on militia, society and other things New specialties, Choruses and musical effects. - , William Dills, Stage Director. All musical numbers, choruses, spe cialties, under the personal direction of Miss Maribel Seymour. MATINEE SATURDAY EVENING PRICES 25c, 35c, 50c. MATINEE PRICES 15c, 25c. Next Week: DAVID HARUM enough to enable her to establish a So. ciallst daily paper, there obviously Is a possible basis of arrangement. But the more the Countess recalls her remin iscences the more interested she is In the work, and it is not unlikely that she may cpme to love it for its own sake. ' STUDIES COLOR OF HAIR Redheads Found Plentiful In North of Scotland. GLASGOW. Jan. 25. (Special.) It seems that re hair is found in distinct excess north " of the Grampians, and especially In the northeast of Scotland. Rocher. who has made the question of pigmentation a special study, and .has just been helped to conclude a color survey of the school children over 500, 000 of Scotland, announced this as one of his results in a lecture to the Edu cational Institute at Dumfries. In most European countries, he said, there is a distinct predominance - of one type over the others. In North Germany and Swed en it is the blonde type: in' Italy the brunette. No such predominance is found in Scotland. Dark hair and fair are present in equal proportions. The dominant color among Scottish children is brown, and it has to be shown now far brown is real ly a blend of fair and dark. If it is so. there is evidence of the formation of a new type in Scotland. The proportion of red hair throughout the country is a little over 5 per cent high compared with the Continent. One cannot overtook the reference of Itlsll c A R R E N O a.Sia?it.isE5&Hr PIANISTE Marquam Grand Theater Monday E?e., Feb. 3 Seat Sale Opens Friday January 31, at lO A. M. Prices $1.00, $1.50, 2.00, $2.50, $3.00; Boxes, $15.00; Logei $20.00. i . - ,s .,1 tfy tm. S MME. ."'. llilliliiliiillffif THEATER 14th and Washington Phones Main 1, A 1122 ORIGINAL LIBERTY THEATER, NEW YORK CITY PRODUCTION BREAD J MAN 52 SPECIAL MATINEE PRICES: . Entire Lower Floor $1.00 Balcony First 4 rows 75 Balcony Next 10 rows. .50 Entire Gallery 5 THEATER PHONES: MAIN 2, A 5360 GEO. L. BAKER, GEN. MGR. POPULAR-PR ICR PLAYHOUSE BAKE A THEATER STOCK COMPANY. Tacitus to the red-haired Caledonians. Some curious facts brought to light sug gest that red hair Is not entirely or strictly a racial trait. It may have some peculiar physiological if not pathological THE PHONES: Beginning this Afternoon, January 26th AND CONTINUING ALL WJSEK, ' ' THE R. L FRENCH STOCK COMPANY Presents the Sensational Scenic Melodrama, ' ' THE .'v":v. MOONSHINER'S DAUGHTER In Four Acts, by -Arda La Croix. . v .; Matinees Sunday,' Tuesday, Thursday. and Saturday at 2:30 F. M.; Prices 10c and 20c: .Every Evening at 8:15; Prices 15c, 25c and 35c. Seats may be reserved by either phone. . Week of Jan. 27 BEST VAUDEVILLE ADVANCED Stars of THREE KUHNS Comedy Musical Act. ACROBATIC FEATURE 5Tfie Florence Troupe -5 Recognized as the Cleverest Acrobats in. the World. Presenting striking new feats CLAUD ROODE Slack Wire King, late of Riugling's w FRED BAUER . Pictured Ballad. PANTAGES UNEXCELLED ORCHESTRA DIRECTION H. K. EVENSON Matinees Daily at 2:30 P. M. Nights, 7:30 and 9 P. M. Prices : Upper Floor 15 cents ; Lower Floor 25 cents; Boxes 50 cents. Any seat at Weekday Matinees, FIFTEEN CENTS.. MARQUAM GRAND PORTLAND'S FAMOUS THE AT ER PHONE MAIN 6 r- FIVE NIGHTS ONLY MATINEE SATURDAY TUESDAY EVENING, -J AN. '28 Wm. A..Brady'a Magnificent Production Which Two Thou . nd Cities Have Received, Five Million of People Have' Applauded, Millions or Dollars Have Been Spent On, and the End la Not Yet In SIR kt for "WAY DOWN : EAST AVted by the Same Great Company Presented With Same Perfect Stage Fl ttlnnn There la No Other play In the World I.tke It Ita Parity Hu Become a Proverb and Ita W'holeaomeneaa a Household Word. : 1 PRICES -Evening, 25c, 50c, 75c, $1.00. Matinee, 25c, 50c, 75c EMPIRE Playing the STAIR-HAVLIN MATINEES SUNDAY, WEDNESDAY, SATURDAY All Week Sj,s Jan. 26 Klimt & Gazzolo's New and Successful American Comedy Drama BIG HEARTED JIM A True Melodramatic Success A Powerful Play of the West New Production Success Everywhere A Genuine Creation from Life in Montana Twenty Years Ago Rich in Humor of Western Character "Big-Hearted Jim" Is a Big-Hearted Play Don't Miss It. " Night Prices 15c, 25c, 35c, 50c. NEXT ATTRACTION connection. Mr. Rocher has found a dis tinct difference between the color dis tribution of children in densely popu lated parts and in rural and less popu lated districts. STAR MAIN S49D 1488 Foorth and Stark J. A. JOHNSON, Resident Manager VAUDEVILLE All Nations . GEORGE ALEXANDER "The High-Toned Hobo." Alice Philbrooks and . S. Reynolds, "Miss Steno.'' THE BIOGRAPH New Motion Pictures. THEATER PHONE MAIN 117 MILTON W. SEAMAN. Mgr Eastern Road Attractions only All Matinees 10c and 20c. " PECK'S BAD BOY ' THE GRAND VAUDEVILLE DE LUXE JAN. 27 WEEK OF Return of THE GREAT, EDDY FAMILY The most sensational Acrobatic Wire Runners and Jumpers on the stage today. Positively the greatest act of its kind in the world, beyond any jihadow of doubt. Special Added Feature, ABADELAH KADER Assisted by his Three Wives -and. Son, "NOVELTY PAINTING ACT" EVAN EVANS Blackface Monologist. ST. ONGE BROS. Vaudeville's Greatest Comedy - Cycling Novelty. HASSEAND , MARIETTE , WorMTs Greatest Whirlwind Dancers. DE VOY AND EVANS Eccentric Erjuilibristic Novelty. josepO. THOMPSON Rendering "Good-Bye, Sweet heart, Good-Bye." 20TH CENTURY MOVING PICTURES, "HIS FIRST ROW" An investigation of 100 of New York 1900 atreetcam made recently hnwed that in werllthy. 401 had flat wheel. 7J rattled nMtresbly, 2AU were wtlnont head lam ns. 102 with broken U, 1006 wltik ) nofse from tho rear.