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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, FEBRUARY 23, 1908.
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THE bills at tho various theaters to
day will be at the Marquam, Clay
i . Clement and his company la "The
i New Dominion": at the Baker. "Grau
i stark"; at the Empire, "fThe Battle of
I Life," and at the Star the new melo
; drama, "Adrift In the World." These
'are all matinee openings for this after
noon. At the Lyric "The Nancy Hanks"
i continues this afternoon and tonight, to
be succeeded tomorrow- night by "Ca
mille." The vaudeville theaters change
tomorrow afternoon.
, The Huilig will be dark tonight, open
, lug for Paderewski tomorrow night. On
i Wednesday, Frank C. Eiclienlaub, the
j brilliant young violinist. Next Sunday
come Herbert Kelcey and Effie Shannon
in "The Walls of Jericho," for four nights,
and following them W. S. Hart and
; Frank Campeau in "The Virginian." The
' next big musical attraction following
i'Taderewski will be lime. Lillian Blau-velt.
JILAY CXEMEXT TODAY.
"Opens at Hie Marquam at Matinee
' ' in "The New Dominion.-'
j Clay Clement, who opens a week's en
gagement at the Marquam Grand with
a matinee today, in the charming play,
-t '"The New Dominion." is an actor of
; tried and quite exceptional talents. To
i great natural ability he adds the grace
; growing out of long and arduous prac
tice of the art of which he is so repre
sentative an exponent and exemplar. In
; physical endowment Nature has been
kind to him. lie. a commanding figure
!in tragedy, a fascinating personality in
comedy, a unique force in melodrama,
-, as all that have seen his Mathis in "The
J Bells" must recall, and the incarnation
iof "temperament," which is and must al
! ways be the distinguishing mark of the
'actor who really, succeeds in impressing
himself and his work on the public
:. mind. ,
', i Clay Clement plays "Hamlet" In the
; spirit of the scholar and poet,; and in
J the manner of the Royal Prince, with
; curious refinement and noble distinction
of manner, to say nothing of his beauti
'ful delivery of that Incomparable text and
. the mournful chartn of bearing that one
; Involuntarily associates with great im
. personation of that strangest- and sad
f dest and most tragic of human concep
i Cion.
" In comedy the feathery Clement touch
1 is proverbial, there lias not been anyr
; !hiitg neater., anything- more buoyant,
anything more humanly sympathetic,
.Anything so irresistibly laughable, in re
Jcent years, as the Clay Clement Hohen-
stuuffen. 1 -. . ,
Ho has the gait of an actor. the' figure
;of an actor, as tho ideals demanded,' the
;quality and volume of voice' that great
(acting must have; knowledge of theat-
rical effects and the best way to pro
' duce them; and he is a man of inilexible
.'purpose; of self-respect to the point of
self-sacrifice, when considering his art.
well-defined ideas and tireless ambitionJ bury; Allode, guard to Yetive, Charles
jto scale the highest of histrionic rer.own. ' IewLs; Dannox, guard to Yetive, James
'.air. Clement will continue throughout the ' Murphy.; Lady Misrox, Misa Hilda
'eek with a second matinee Saturday, j Graham: Lady Linnox, ijiss Elsie Gar
s i ; rett; Teel, Hiss Fay Bainter; Aunt
I ''GRAUSTARK" AT THE BAKER,
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jrirst Portland Production of George
' Barr McCutcheon's 'oveI. .
5 The first dramatization of George BaiT
McCutcheon's popular novel "Graustark"
was seen in New York the last of Jan
Juary and will be seen in Portland all this
week at the Baker Theater. It will open
tiiis afternoon and the only other matinee
will be Saturday. "Graustark" is one of
tue most popular and widely read of all
.'the light books of romantic fiction of the,
;day. and every reader will no doubt be
eagerly desirous of seeing the play as
presented by the Baker Stock Company.
It is of the order of Anthony Hope's "Tho
i Prisoner Of Ze.nda." the scenes being laid
'in the imaginary European principality of
Kdelwelss which is reigned over by the
(beautiful Princess Votive. Gren'ville
jLorry '" and Harry Ansuisli " are
two young and adventurous Americans
who go over to Edelweiss searching for a
certain woman whom they afterwards
fearn is -none other than the Princess
Yetive. and they also learn at the same
time of a cowardly plot to kidnap her.
"They enter into the game with char
acteristic r.erve and promptness to pre
vent the rascals from carrying out their
plan and become embroiled in the affairs
' of the country to a most serious extent.
I.orry soon becomes wildly In love with
the Princess and circumstances favoring
Ills suit, pursues ft to the end. There is
a . mixture of daro devil comedy and
thrilling events that decide life and death,
and through them all our young intrepid
Americans come out with flying colors.
Miss Izetta Jewel who gave such a de
lightful portrayal of Nance Olden last
week, will play the Princess Yetive, and
besides the' other clever members of the
Baker Company, there are a large num
ber of supernumeraries and extra people
required to presvnt this strong, romantic
play. The costumes, scenery and stage
settings are uu to the high standard that
is never permitted to fall at the Baker.
The entire cast will bo as follows: G-ren-fell
Lorry. an American. Robert
Homans: Harry Anguish. - his friend.
tJonald Bowles; Prince Gabriel, of Daws
fiergen, James Gleason; Baron Danglers,
of Graustark. William Gleason: Prince
Polaroz, of Axphiane. Rdward Lawrence;
JHrince Iiorenz, his son,. Denton. Vane;
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Sitzky, bell boy at hotel, Howard Russell;
Ostrom, guard to Gabriel, R. E. Brad-
Yvonne, Mina Croliue Gleason; Countess
Dagmar, lady-in-waiting to Yetive, Miss
Louise Kent; Therese, Yetive's maid.
Miss Maribel Seymour; Yetive, Princess
of Graustark and "Miss Gugenslocker,"
Miss Izetta Jewel; Graustark guards,
Axphiane guards, Dawsbergen guards,
court ladies and gentlemen, etc.
"A BATTLE OF LIFE" TODAY
Thrilling Western Melodrama to
Open This Afternoon at Empire.
' This afternoon at the Empire the start
ling and novel melodrama, "A Battle of
Life," will open for, the week.
The scenes of thif: beautiful melodrama
are taken from Brete" Hart's famous
writings of California, and vividly pic
ture "the days of old, the days of gold,
the days of '4P." Richard Gordon, an
Eastern adventurer comes to California
and succeeds in winning the heart of a
beautiful young Mexican girl, and in spite
of'tlie fact' that he has a wife already,
has an illegal marriage ceremony per
formed. After several months, however,
his crime is found out and ho becomes
not only a fugitive from justice, but also
from the girl he has wvonged. Ho seeks
refugo in the heart of the Sierras, but
without avail, for she follows relent
lessly. Finally he eludJR her for a 'time, but
his greed for gold overcomes his caution
and in the end Justice overtakes him. In
her desire for personal revenge, his un
lawful wife seeks to kill him with her
own hand, but is prevented by the inter
ference of a Mexican outcast who Him
self gives the death blow, but not until
after Gordon has inflicted a fatal wound
upon. him. The . play Is true to life and
gives vivid pictures of life in the great
Southwest during the days of wild ro
mance.. The . character of the Mexican
girl, Dolores. Is a powerful emotional
role. and will.be played by -Miss Ethel
Tucker, an ;actress .of rare power and
ability.. There will be matinees .Wednes
day and Saturday. .
"CAMILI.E" .AT THE LYRIC
Verna -Eellon and" Company Will
0 Present Emotional Drama.
The most- ambitious effort of Verna
Felton a career, will be .made, this week.
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commencing tomorrow night, when that
talented young leading woman will make
her first appearance in the great emo
tional drama, "Camille," supported by the
full strength of the Allen stock com
pany. Iiss Felton will be the youngest
woman who has ever played the part in
America, and her work will be watched
with interest. The rehearsals so far in
dicate that the work, not only of the star,
but of every, member of the company,
will set a new pace for popular-priced
stock performances.
"Camille"' is the foremost of problem
plays. It has been the favorite of such
famous actresses -as Bernhardt, Clara,
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Morris, Mrs. Langtry, Mrs. Patrick Camp
bell, Modjeska and others. It is the
hardest test of an actress' ability. The
management has provided a production
worthy the play and the ambitious effort
of the young leading woman. A nov
elty will be installed at the Lyric com
mencing Monday night, when the moving
picture films will be shown between acts,
two complete films being used at each
performan.ee. In tho future this will be
a regular feature of the Lyric's perform
ance. Everybody is interested in good
motion pictures, and these will be the
best made, the kind you pay , 5 and 10
cents to see. The new policy of the man
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amusement value than any other theater
in America.
Lyric Matinee Today.
The matinee and night performances at
the Lyric will close the run of that funny
farce, "The- Nancy Hanks," in which the
Allen stock company has been so uni
formly successful during the past week.
ADRIFT
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THE WORLD"
Xew Play Will Be Presented at the
Star Theater Today.
"Adrift in the World." Did you ever
hear of that play before? No, of course
not. unless you read the Eastern papers
closely, for "Adrift in the World" has
never been played on this side of the con
tinent.. It will be seen in Portland for
the nrst time this ai'terncon, when the
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Richard E. French stock company pre
sents It at the Star Theater. The play
will run all week.
Manager French heard of the whirlwind
success the play was having in the East
and opened negotiations for securing it.
At first tho owners did not want to re
lease it, as; "Adrift in the World" was
making so much money that the owners
contemplated sending out a road com
pany to viplt the Coast with it. After
much persuasion and by paying a heavy
royalty. Manager French eventually suc
ceeded In inducing the Eastern managers
to permit the stock company to play it
her.
It is the policy of the French stock
company to present as many new plays
as 4)oa3ible. The management realizes
that the theater-going public is ever
clamoring for something new. It wants
to see plays that have not been presented
befme by other companies. To please the
public, Manager French I obtaining
every good new play lliat he heare of,
and that is why so marly novelties are
produced on the stage of the Star.
"Adrift in the World" is one of these
new pieces, and from what the reviewers
said -of it in New York it must be a
crackajack. It is not a howling melo
drama, but is a refined, sensational play,
with excitement, humor, love and adven
ture. It telip of the etruggW for exist
ence in a large city, the temptations to
be met and overcome and the philosophy
of virtue and hard work. "Adrift in the
World" promises to be a bill which will
please the most exacting patrons of the
Star, and it will show, the stock players
In a very favorable light. The scenery
will be appropriate and the costuming
correct, as these are details which never
escape the attention of the stage man
ager. Matinees of "Adrift in the World" will
be held today, Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday. Seats can be reserved by tele
phone when convenient.
KELCEY AND SHAXXON.
Famous Players in Society Drama
at Heilig Theater Next Sunday.
The famous players, ,Mr. Herbert
Kelcey and Miss Effie Shannon, to
gether with an excellent supporting
company, will present the much-talke'd-about
society drama. '"The
AValls of Jericho," at the Heilig Thea-
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rourteenth and Washington
streets, for ftftir nights beginning next
Sunday night. March 1. with a special
price matinee on Wednesday after
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The Wall of Jericho" is a, play with.
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a purpose, one calculated to make peo
ple think and act. It is written by AI-;
fred Sutro'. and was his first big pliiy
to receive porijuction. His aim was to
reveal the emptiness and viciousness
of "high society." and so well has he
succeeded that "The Walls of Jericho"
was the leading attraction at the Gar
rick Theater in London for over two
years. A similar record of success was
its reward in America, where it was
highly popular at the Savoy Theater,
New York, for a whole season.
There is a ring of sincerity sur
rounding "The Walls of Jericho" that
makes one feel how real it is, and its
story is one of absorbing Interest. It
concerns one Jack Frobieher, a man
who has won fortune by his own pluck
and industry. Ho returns from Auk-,
tralla, where his money was earned,
and marries Alethea, the daughter of
the Marquis of Steventon. She takes
him Into society, into a society where
one is not supposed to think, or do,
or feel: where hypocrisy and pretense
have utterly supplanted truth and gen
uineness; where every man makes love
to every other man's wife, and every
woman smokes and gambles and en
joys being1 made, love tp. Frobisher is
smothered in this atmosphere. His
will leaves him. He permits his father-in-law
to borrow money from him, his
wife to flirt desperately with a pro
fessional rake. The proposition to turn
out of the marquis' house a girl- who
has been ruined by the marquis' son
rouses- him somewhat Th- -arrival of
an old Australian friend rouses him
more.
The discovery of Alethea in the arms
of the other man rouses him most. In
sentences full of naked words he ac
cuses his wifo of all tho neglect and
folly of which she has been guilty,
bidding her choose between going with
him to the free air of the Antipodes or
remaining in London without him.
"You have been willing that our chili
should drink the milk of another wom
an," he says. "You have neglect
ed him while you played cards
and listened to love speeches. That
ran go on no longer. You are
not my mistress; you are my
wife. I married you to be my com
panion and partner. Yon are neither."
The change in the man is too great for
Alethea to understand at once. She
cannot comprehend the rigidity of one
who has been so pliably her husband.
She refuses to accompany him to Aus
tralia. In the end, however, she con
sents, and the two go together under
tho shadow of "The Walls of Jericho."
The advance seat sale opens next Fri
day, February 8, for tho engagement.
CHARLES B. HAXFORD SOOX
Eminent Tragedian and Actor Will
Present Three Plays at Heilig.
The eminent tragedian and actor, Mr.
Charles B. Hanford will be seen at tho
Heilig Theater In the very near future in
the following excellent re.nertoire of plays.
"The Taming of the Shrew," Shake
speare's most delightful comedy in whieli
this clever player has no equal on the
American stage: this comedy will be pre
ceded by "The Old Guard," both being
given'on the same evening. Mr. Han
ford's excellent presentation of this beau
tiful drama will easily bo recalled by.
Portland theatergoers. A magnificent
production of "Antony and Cleopatra",
will be Included in the list of plays as
well as 'Mr. Hanford's scholarly portrayal
of "Shylock" in Siiakespeare's classical
drama, "The Merchant of Venice." Tho
early coming of this noted actor and his
able company of players will lie welcome
news to his many admirers in this city.
Already parties of Shakesperean schol
ars and clubs are planning to attend tho"
entire series of legitimate plays.
"THE VIRGINIAN'
IS COMING
Famous American Western Drama
Coming to the Heilig; Theater.
The Western play. "The Virginian." will
be the attraction at the Heilig Theater,
Fourteenth and Washington streets, for
three nights beginning Thursday night,
March ' 5. with a special price mutinee
Saturday. The following is taken from
several of the Eastern papers:
" 'The Virginian' is one of the few Teal
ly splendid bookmade plays. Theater
goers can consider themselves fortunate
that a man of W. S. Hart's artistic ability
has been obtained- to portray the. brave,
manly, generous and ' honest Virginian.
Mr. Frank Campeau never overplays the
part of Trampas. the typical bad man of
the West." Herald, Rochester, N. Y.,
September 6, 1SW7.
"W. 3. Hart, who plays the title role of
'The Virginia;),' which opened the centen
nial season at the Walnut, scored- a de
cided hit. From the moment he stepped,
bashfully, on the stage until the final cur
tain, the audience was 'right with him.' "
Press, Philadelphia, Pa., September 24,
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"ZAZA" AT BAKER THEATER
Izetta .Jewel to Portray the Role of
Many Lights and Shades.
The Baker Theater Stock Company will
attract unusual attention by giving a
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