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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. PORTLAND, AUGUST 23, 1903, 2 tit ' if ; ,: ..... . . " I ' : rv i - i r . ...... . 0 - 1 tJ-,' - ; . 15 tTC5SE L . lASTCY. "N1C5HT ON V .HOUSE BOAT t-xeni:uri theater WEEK OTWJQ 24 THE opening of the Orpheum was the one event of particular impor tance during the week that is gone. Barring the fact that there -was a ad lack of orchestral music until Fri day night, owing to a disagreement between the Musicians' Union and the ' local managers, the affair was a com plete success. The Grand and Pantages continued to offer a very fair article of vaudeville, and attracted their usual quota of pat rons. The Baker and Bungalow will be open and In running order before long, and about the middle of September the Heillg will be doing business at the old stand. Meanwhile vaudeville has the call, and Is reaping its reward in capacity audience and enthusiasm. The first of the "legitimate" theaters to open for the season Is the Lyric, which will present the Blunkall stock company this afternoon in "The Con fessions of a Wife." Wardo Howard, Charles Conners, Lillian Griffith, not to mention E. J. Blunkall, are in the cast, and will probably give a good account of themselves. BAKER SEASOX SEAT SALE Stock Company Will Open In Its Xew Home In Two Weeks. It is no.v announced for the first time that the famous "season seat sale for the Baker Stock Company, which an- . nuallv attracts so many hi ndreds of the patrons of that popular orf anlzatlon, will oDen at The Bungalow, ftie new noma of the company, at 10 o'cl'rk Wednesday morning. September 2. Tbi date has Deen set as late as possible In order that everyone may have oppoi tunlty to return to the city from. Summer vacations. Next Saturday evening. August z, tne oeauu ful new home of the co npany. which has so sptly been named t le Bungalow, will bs thrown open to pu'ilic inspection, and an informal reception will be held by Manager Baker and fie company, as well as the different attaches of the house, in order to permit pitrons to become ac quainted with the aurroundings, the ins and outs of the new playhouse, and to decide what seat locations they desire to occupy for the coming year. Every thing will be in perfect order, and it is the general verdict of all those who have seen the inside of the Bungalow that it is an ideal home for the ever popular Baker Stock Company, and its high-claaa patrons. The company, which has so long held popular favor in this city, remains in tact with the single exception of the leajlng man. who a announced last Sun day is to be Sydney Ayres. The open ing bill will be Xat C. Goodwin's famous comedy success, "A Glided Fool." which will open Sunday matinee, September 8. ORPHECM'S FIXE NEW BILL Second Week's Programme Shows All-Star Attractions. There was considerable speculation among the theatergoing public prior to the opening of the Orpheum Theater as to Just what was meant by advanced vaude ville. Those who were of a speculative turn of mind and fortunate enough to se cure seats during the opening week have ceased to wonder and are now proclaim ing marit, et ttriVAnred V&UdVille In no uncertain terms. That the opening bill was appreciated is attested by the gener ous applause and repeated calls of the performers. Every act booked on the Orpheum cir cuit as played in Portland is the same ns Is played in St. Paul. Minneapolis. San Frar Cisco and other points. The bill for the coming week, beginning Monday mat inee, consists of all-star attractions. The distinction of being the first woman to do a black face turn is accorded Miss Bertie Herron. "The Original Minstrel Miss" is what she is familiarly called. - In refutation of the theory of the poet that success Is "not attained by sudden flights." - Miss Herron a few years ago Jumped from absolute obscurity to a round that was fairly near the top on the ladder of success. Her first appear ance on the stage was as the central figure In New Wayburn's Minstrel Misses, which made a tremendous hit on the New York theater roof garden five years ago. Enthusing over Miss Herron's work, the newspaperes dubbed her "The Little May Irwin" because of her promise as a come dienne. One of the most striking vaudeville novelties to be seen here this season will be the latest production of Jesse L. Lasky, entitled "A Night on a House boat." The noTtl scenic setting is that of an elaborate, double-decked houseboat gaily decorated with garlands, flags and lanterns, and enlivened by a party of young people and their chaperon, all en Jovlng a Summer outing. The time is the Fourth of July, and Reginald DoObleday, a rather foppish Englishman, pays a visit to. the boat. This character is played by O'MaHey Jenr.inus. the well-known Eng lish comedian, and the comedy he ob tains from the part is undoubtedly one of the best hits In vaudeville. The parts of the Darling Twins are played by the Misses Shaw, the well-known daughters of the famous whlsUerA Alice, Chaw. A J - . . . i ILw n Ml l ) -mlss etssic greemwood ' 'I3nxa.c5e:s this week:., goers. As Is generally known, It Is to play the popular price Klaw & Erlang- er road attractions, which consists of such well-known successes as the Cameron Company, "A Koyal Chef," "The Cat ana tne Fiddle." "Little Johnny Jones," "The Isle of Spice," "Sis Hopkins," Murray and Mack, "Babes in Toy-land," Paul GUmore, "The Gingerbread Man," -"The Devil's Auction," "The Land of Nod," and so on, none of which has ever before been presented here at less than $1.50. "THE TEDDY GIRL" AT OAKS Allen Curtis Company In Xew Bill Tomorrow. One of the best bills the Allen Curtis comedy company has offered during the Summer season is "The Teddy Girl," which will be the offering for the week commencing Monday night, August 14. All the well-known favorites, includ ing Allen Curtis, Marguerite La Ponte, Winifred Green, Dave Caston, Albert Leonard, and the others. The bill is one ideally adapted to Summer amuse ment, the plot being a mere thread, with Interspersed Jokes and song hits. All the comedians and other principals not to mention the chorus .are to be seen at their best. Among the song hits will be: "A Lemon in the Garden of Love.". "I've Taken Quite a Fancy to You," "Pride of the Prairie," "A Bare Old Bird," "Just Because He Couldn't Sing," "Love Me, and the World Is Mine," "Insanity," "What's the Use t's Dreaming?" "Everyone's in Love with Salome," Be sure to see the musical comedy at the Oaks this week, beginning tomor row night. COXTESSIOXS OF WIFE" in Xew Blunkall Stock Company Sensational Jlelodrama Today. The opening of the new Blunkall stock company this afternoon at the Lyric is attracting general attention. The organization contains a long list of favorites starting with Ervin J. Blunkall. one of the most popular lead ing men who has ever appeared in t Mb jsns, sjsisssiiiwpssiiiiawiiMsi nwsjssjn wssssjssjp issjh is . y- . .... I II -Llj, y'": j -'-'. ill I pttif. V II "T X B Iff I J.V if- I 31 -lilXIAN G.321TFJT1-1S OT THE EiLU-NKALL, STOCK CO. THE -LVRIC " , -LLXK C.TJX2TIS 'fr'yp MANAGER, s-ViJLlo raUilOAL. COMEDY CO Ox AT THEOAK5 college athlete, a lispirg girl, a college boy, the chaperon, and a stunning ath letic, girl, are some of the other Interest ing characters. Martlnnettie and Sylvester, remarkably agile and strenuous comedians, who are often called "The Boys "With the Chairs," provide a novelty in acrobats. While Joe Sylvester is a well-known clown. Clark Martlnnettie is a remarkable athlete, and together they occupy ten minutes of hi larious laughs and most astounding bumps. John and Mae Burke are showing In a clever little musical comedy act by Will M. Creasy, styled "How Patsy Went to War." Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Connelly present a delightful little playlet, "Sweet-Hearts," which depicts true to life the cooing lover and the bashful maiden. The international favorites, John W. World and Mindell Kingston's sketch, "It Isn't What They Do; It's the Way They Do It," is one continuous round of pleasure, and Mr. World simply clinches the reputation he established years ago of being one of the best comedians in vaudeville. A Merry-Go-Round of music, melody and mirth is the pleasing title given by Alf Grant and Ethel Hoag to their ef forts at entertaining. This team has ap peared In New York productions for sev eral years, and this Is their first appear ance on the Pacific Coast. Ths 0pl.un moving pictures are also one of the fea tures. . XEW BILL AT PAXTAGES Double Headline Attraction This Week at Fourth-Street House. The coming week promises to see an ex ceptionally strong vaudeville entertain ment Rt the Pantages Theater. The New York booking agents have collected a great array of artists for the new bill commencing at Monday's matinee. The Bottomley troupe, aerial acrobats, have first place on the new programme; too much cannot be said of this great aggre gation. Theirs is positively one of the greatest casting acts before the public. The aerial work of this troupe has never been duplicated by any other company of acrobats in America. The second feature on the bill is the Whankdoodle quartet, four genuine com ical unbleached Americans from Dixieland.-introducing coon-town cutups. plan tation scenes, singing and buck and wing dancing. Leonl and Dale, present "A Lesson in Opera." a very clever singing turn. - with plenty of good, wholesome comedy Introduced between the lines. Polk and Polk, the greatest bounding springboard novelty acrobats on earth, whose act begins where others left off, will be one of the principal hits next week. Miss Bessie Greenwood, is known as the lady with the phenomensl voice: she reaches a higher note than any other songster in the world; higher than Jenny Llnd, blgber even, .than tha great Aau- jari, who is credited with having reached the veryHop note ever sung by the human voice. Miss Greenwood Is a Brooklyn girt, whose vocal range Is not a freak, but la said to be the most remarkable in the world. Mr. Elliott Beamer, the cul tured baritone, will sing the new pic tured ballad, ana the blograph will pre sent a new series of the very latest mov ing pictures. It takes a good show to lure the publlo out this hot weather, even to such a delightfully cool theater as the Pantages, where all the best American and Euro pean vaudeville acts can be seen. The patronage this week was all that could be desired by the management. O Hana San and company proved to be a big drawing card. Today will be the last op portunity to see the present show, con sidered as being one of the greatest vaudeville entertainments ever seen at popular prices in Portland. Every act on the programme will please you. Be sure and select the Pantages for today's diversion. also a paper tearer. "By the Old Oaken Bucket, Louise," will be sung by Fred Bauer and "The Gilded Fool", will be the subject of the Grandlscope. Today will be the laet performances of the present bill, which is headed by the world's champion swimmers, the Finneys. This is an act which must be seen to be appreciated. There 'is nothing else can compare with it for novelty. BARXEY - FAGIX AT GRAND World-Famous Double Headllner on Bill Opening; Tomorrow. Vaudeville acts of the best are always found at the Grand, where the house is always comfortable. These are reasons why the Grand is popular. Sullivan & Consldine are constantly seeking new attractions and for the coming week beginning tomorrow with the matinee, there will be a particularly strong pro gramme. Barney Fagin, the world famous dancer, will be the headllner, as sisted by Miss Henrietta Byron. They have an act called "The Entertaining In terlude." Mr. Fagin is known wherever there is a first-class vaudeville theater and his admirers are without number. This will prove one of the most popular acts of the Summer at the Grand. The act is brought direct from the East. For the special added attraction, the firm offers Florence Modena and com pany, in a tabloid farce, "Bargain Mad." This la a sketch built on the erase some women have for trying to secure bargains at department stores. Every woman shop per in Portland will appreciate this play let and it is cheerfully recommended to husbands as" well. On many bills Harry Kraton and his as sistants have been headliners. They come to the Grand with their noted specialty, "In Hoopland." Kraton knows more about trained and educated hoops than any other man in the world. He can make his hoops do everything but talk. A prima donna will appear on the programme. This la Miss Alice Robinson, ' who has been heard with a number of operatic suc cesses. She will render a repertoire of classic and popular airs. "Captain " Barnacle's Courtship" Is the sketch In which Alf P.- James and Kate Price appear. There are few acts in vaudeville more comical than this. Fred Morton Is an all-around entertainer and aside from delivering a monologue he is , SEASOX AT BAKER THEATER Opens Xext Sunday Xlglit, August SO, With Cameron Opera Co. The Baker, under Its new conditions. IB-RHETV rACAN -AND ..HENRIETTA. BYJ5CK CT THE S,E2AND. IN THEIR. 31NG1JSKS.AND EiJClNGi -JNTI?JU.AN ENTl?TAININi ODDITY- St will open the regular season next Sun day night, August 30, the first attrac tion being the daJnty comic opera star, Grace Cameron, at the head of her own company of 60 people, presenting "Lit tle Dolly Dimples." The piece is found ed on Miss Cameron's great success bearing this title during the run at the Casino Theater in New York City of Fred C. Whitney's "Plff Paff Pouff," and after the song "Dollie Dimples." which gained its popularity through Miss Cameron's unique rendition. She is meeting with great success in her role of Dollie, and the play, which is the work of the eminent dramatist and composer, C. Herbert Kerr, is said to bo meeting with unqualified success whereever it has appeared. The Baker has long been one of the most popular - and well-known play houses In the West, and its change of policy the coming season has caused no end of comment among theater- city. The new leading woman will be Wanda Howard, who won her way into the hearts of the local public long ago and has ever since been held in the highest esteem. Charles Conners, one of the finest comedians in stock, will come back for the season. That's enough said. Every body who knows Charles Conners has the highest regard for his work. He has made thousands laugh and Is now at his very best. Lillian Griffith, the eminent character actress, will also be given exceptional advantages with the new comDany. Manager Ford and Director Blunk all are determined to give their patrons something better than they ever saw before at the prices of admission. Everything that is calculated to make a performance more attractive will be provided. New scenery, electrical ef fects and properties as well as new costumes will add great charm to the productions. "The Confessions of a Wife" is one of the most thrilling of recent melodramas and holds the inter est spellbound from beginning to the end. See all the clever members of the Blunkall company in this great play. Remember that the opening perform ance occurs this afternoon. ENTERTAINING CHAT ABOUT MUSICALLY GREAT OF PARIS, BY EMILIE R BAUER American Woman Has Charming Visit With Claude Debnssy, Most Retiring Genius Interesting Gossip Con cerning Raoul Pugno, Edouard Colonne, Harold Bauer and Mary Garden. PARIS, Aug. 10. (Special Corre spondence.) It has .been so inter teresting to write of Paris that I have quite neglected some of its most interesting inhabitants. No one need be told that Paris is the center of noted people, not alone qf Its own country, but of the entire world. At this season there are as many Americans here as there are Frenchmen. Indeed, more, as most of the Parisians have long since fled to cooler haunts. One of the noted exceptions Is Claude Debussy, the great composer of "Pelleas et Mellsande," who is one of the most difficult people to meet. In a very charming visit which I enjoyed with the noted Frenchman, he explained this reti cence as due to his extreme dislike of hearing people struggle with the French language, and his own inability to speak either English or German. He lives In a superb mansion on the Avenue du Bols de Boulogne, where he is surrounded with only the most artistic and the most lux urious things. ' The greatest piece of news that De bussy vouchsafed was the fact that he Is setting to music Edgar Allan Poe's "Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Devil in th'e Belfry." for both of which he expressed an Intense admiration. He said that the work wiU not be an opera, but it will have a new 'form and, as In the case of the Maeterlinck work, it will also be In prose. The contracts for this are already made with the Metro politan Opera Company, but it will prob ably not be ready before next year. He expressed deep interest in America and both admiration and surprise over its appreciation of "Pelleas et Mells ande." which work is very dear to him. He has some decided Ideas on the sub ject of composition and said that he would never be guilty of writing on the same lines that had brought success to i another work and that he would rather never touch a pen again than to repeat himself, even In form. What he-will call the new work, he has not yet decided, but he states absolutely that it Is not an opera. He also said that the two works must be presented on the same evening and that they will enlist the services of ths best artists in the world. - Many know the joys of a visit in the brilliant, the radiant city of Paris, but few have the opportunity to know coun try life as it is at its most exquisite, especially when this picture Imay be drawn from the home of one of the most noted artists Raoul Pugno. It would hardly be possible to appreciate the sur roundings without a word concerning the man and what he represents in the mu sical world of Europe. His portly form and his heavily bearded face are well known and dearly beloved In every sec tion of Paris, as there is no section where he is not known. He was not born in luxury far from it, but there was not an Instant during this life when he did not have an Inordinate craving for the beautiful. At first this beauty could only be found In nature and his love for this greatest of all gifts to mankind became a mania the blue skies and waving trees were for him the only realities and later his love for beautiful furniture and sur roundings became Jfte as fully devel oped. Hence the hsme of this great artist Is not alone the reflection of a deeply poetic nature, but It Is the outer shell of one who understands the beau ties of nature as well as of art, and the pictures which adorn his rooms prove that Pugno is as thoroughly a connois seur as if he had pursued art with the same devotion that he did music. It is well known that he was made Mayor of the charming little hamlet In which he elected to make his home, and, although he has one in Paris, it is in Gargenvllle that he takes his real delight. This tiny little village takes on the im portance of a Weimer, as pupils come here from all parts of Europe and Amer ica, to enjoy a few lessons from the "Grand Maitre." as he is affectionately called. The large rambling house, which Pugno delights in recalling as having been a barn and a butcher shop opens onto a little street hardly ten feet wide, without an inch of ground in the front, but back of It lie miles of rolling green which he has converted Into the most wonderful garden spot conceivable. There is a personal note throughout, as every nook and corner and there are wonderful nooks and corners has been designed and planned by himself with the aid of his charming wife, who is his right hand in everything. . One of the most valued and valuable possessions Is a statue entitled "Nar clse," which Is one of three by the noted sculptor Charpentier. One is in the Luxemburg, and the other is in one of the provinces. "Narclsse" is placed in a pond in which sport a school of the most remarkable goldfish I have ever seen. They are as large as salmon trout, and as brilliant as burnished gold. Whether in the vege table garden or in the orchard, every where lurk picturesque and purely artistic bits of relief. Here a trellis, there a tower, or-a colonnade at the top of a ter race, or a bit of unique landscape garden ing which make the place entirely Indi vidual and of Indescribable beauty and interest. Pugno is working hard this Summer on composition end he has a very large class, to which he devotes both time and an Im mense amount of enthusiasm. After some of his lessons, he comes into the garden back of the house and his ecstasies over the talents of the different pupils are quite as Intense as the enthusiasm of the .vv.nlnw (I,. rtlBtMH ft MTV pupils over the teacher. He is anxiously JLad Mala 202a. 1 awaiting another tour In America,- which will probably be made next season, as he loves the country dearly and remembers every detail of every section which he has visited. Another great man who lavishes much affection upon America and Americans is Edouard Colonne, the conductor of the Paris Philharmonic and the founder of the Colonne concerts. Colonne is one of the leading musical forces of the world, and he is a great power throughout all of France. With his Interesting wife and little son, the French conductor lives in a superb home on Rue Louis-David. This also reflects the tastes of the brilliant man and of his talented wife, who is one of the noted vocal teachers of Paris and whose pupils are to be found among the successful artists at the Grand Opera and at the Opera Comique. Among the in numerable trophies which surround Colonne in his home, there is non more Interesting that the superb bronse of Berlioz, presented to the master by the descendants of the noted French com poser as a tribute of appreciation of what he has done to perpetuate the memory and to present Berllox as he should be presented to his own people. Madame Colonne did me the honor to have several of her operatic artist-pupils give a song recital for me before leaving for her home in the country, and I was charmed by the exquisite style and by the rare finish of these students. M. Colonne Is deeply Interested in her work and lends a fine moral support by his encouragement of the young artists. In the charming little garden in the rear of the house, Madame Colonne serves tea In the hot afternoons with the grace of a queen, and they rate themselves lucky who are bidden to her affairs. Harold Bauer Is not resting upon the laurels gained again In America, but he Is teaching a very large class containing many American men and women, who ap preciate the tremendous art of this re markable man. Nothing could be more Interesting than his class lessons, during which he entertains about fifteen each time. These assemble in his home In Rue de Ville Juste and as many as may de sire play for his critical opinion before the other members of the class. Nothing can be more simple than the manner in which he walks up and down as the stu dent Is playing, and after the work Is over he goes back over it, measure by meas ure, with here a correction and there a correction, and. seating himself at a second piano, he illustrates his sugges tions without a note of music before him and without knowing beforehand what the pupil may select for criticism. One of his most remarkable corrections and one which particularly reveals the spirit of the man. impressed itself upon me. To a charming pianist he said: "I wish I might have enjoyed that mora than I did, because I think you played It beautifully but your mannerisms dis tracted me so that I really do not know what else you did. Now, believe me, an audience feels the same way, and I be lieve that simplicity Is the first great note to be sounded in art." Speaking of Debussy, this wonderful analyst whose powers of expressing ex actly what he means In words as well as In music are among his greatest assets, said: "Not that way! If you cannot catch the picture which Debussy meant to convey, and, after catching it. If you cannot translate It Into tones, do not play Debussy, because unless one can inter pret exactly what he means, and unless all the atmosphere, all the imagination and all the subtlety are there, his works must be left absolutely alone." Bauer will open his great European season in London in September, after which he will make an extensive tour through Russia and the Netherlands. He is now rejoicing over some remarkable "finds" with which he regaled me during my last visit. The composer of these "novelties," by the way, is Bach. Mary Garden has Just closed one of the busiest seasons in which the Scotch American singer has ever indulged. The long strain In New York was supple mented by another at the Grand Opera here. Miss Garden has a superb new apartment at the Avenue Malakoff, not far from Anna Gould's palace. Miss Gar den, while American, Is entirely French In her tastes, and her home is furnished almost throughout in Empire style. She has many works of art, including original sketches by Watteau, Fragonard, Tie polo, Boucher and Reynolds, and a quaint statuette of Aphrodite, which, by the way, is one of Miss Garden's most notab.e roles. Miss Garden has just left Paris for Switzerland, where she will rest a month before going to Richard Strauss to rehearse the title role of "Salome," which Mr. Hammersteln plans to give this year. Miss Garden confessed that the Jeweler will have more to do on her costume than the dressmaker. She Is copying three pictures of Gustav Moreau, two of which are in the Luxembourg, and one in a private collection of a friend. The Jewels are to be rubies and diamonds. As has been already stated. Miss Garden will do the dance herself. Instead of substi tuting a special danseuse, as has always been done heretofore. Miss Garden ex pects to sing "Salome" In Paris in April, when It will be produced for the first time. Before sailing she will sing Ophelia In "Hamlet" with Renaud In the title role. In the New York production of "Salome." Dalmores will Impersonate Herod and Dupanne 1 will sing John the Baptist. EMILIE FRANCES BAUER. At the Unique. Ths crowds that have visited the new Unique Theater on Fourth street have shown the excellent judgment of Minor Lewis in securing the best available tal ent. The singing of Angela May and her imitations of Anna Held are the star features of the performance. , Hunting Deer With Hounds Illegal. PORTLAND. Aug. 17.-(To the Editor.) Being a stranger In Portland, I would like to know n it is against tne law to use hounds in deer hunting. OlvmDla Beer. "It's the water." Brew. ery's own bottling. Phones, Main 671, A 247. Prices talk at Rosenthal's shoe sale. I Tour mouth similar In any way to ths above? If so. no need to wear a wobbly, unusable partial plato or ill-fitting ordinary brides work. The Dr. Wl ytem of "TEETH WITHOUT rLimB'' The result of 21 year xnric. th new way of replacing teeth In the mouth teeth in fa.et. teeth in aDDear&nce. teeth to chew your food upon, as you did upon your nat ural onea. uur xorce im so ui Kauizeu w cau do your entire crown, bridge or plate work In a day if neceaaary. Positively pain- leas extracting. Only hlgh-claas. aclentifla work. WINE M.'TL IU., I-U. Dr. W. A. Wise. Mgr., 21 years In Portland. Second Xloor falling diqk., inira ana Washington streets. Office hours, 8 A. M. 8 F. M. eunaays, v 10 i ai. raimw s'nonea A
