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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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THEATER
14th and Washington
Phones Main 1, A 1122
ORIGINAL LIBERTY THEATER,
NEW YORK CITY PRODUCTION
BREAD
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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
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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.
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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.