The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, August 23, 1908, SECTION FOUR, Image 37

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Newspaper Page Text3 , THE SUNDAY OltEGOXIAX. PORTLAND, AUGUST 23 1903. DAILY MATINEES 15-25-50C DAILY MATINEES 15-25-50C CIRCUS DAY IS fJEAR -THE- "AUTOS THAT PASS IN THE AIR" IS THE LATEST CIRCUS FEAT Big Show to Be in Town Next Tuesday and Wednesday. VAUDEVILLE DE LUXE WEEK OF - - S - D ti ! . A Phones Main 6 and A 1020 ' l A THEA TER SMALL BOY EXPECTANT Thin Year's Show Heralded by En thusiastic Press Agent as Very Biggest and Best Ever "Made" Pacific Coast. There are three particularly happy days In the American calendar, Christmas, Fourth of July and circus day. Of these, circus day Is easily the merriest. As if drawn by an Irresistible magnet, youth and age respond to the lure of the se ductive posters, the same old posters that have charmed and controlled our imagina tion since boyhood. In the world s history circuses have al ways been Interesting features in the en tertainment of humanity. They bring into each city or town visited an amount of enjoyment for old and young which can not be calculated. The children are sim ply wild with delight from the earliest dawn of circus day the eager expectancy of the street "parade, home for the hur ried dinner, then the show grounds, all the marvelous wonders of the menagerie tent, nothing but Joyous merriment clear up to the last act of the enormous three ' ringed circus. The older people, even the "rounders, are reminded of the happy days of youth. Here is one occasion in life, at any rate, where everyone may be young again, may feel and act like boys and girls in a good, old-fashioned, wholesome manner and yell and applaud when a particularly daring , equestrian or bicyclist performs some astounding feat. The circus, like most earthly things, may have its follies; but somehow It holds a steady place in the human heart. It strikes a sensitive chord, however old we may be. There is no real, red-blooded man but feels the thrill of merriment when he hear the circus bands, and gets a glimpse of the parade'. Its novelty never grows stale. To the youthful Imagination this is par ticularly so. The recollection of circus day in our youth is sincerely cherished. Those gay and fearless bareback riders were there ever mortals so favored, es pecially when they vaulted through a hoop, alighting on the steady back of the beautiful white horse T The old clown was there every anything in life so funny, or so wise, as he grimaced with his paint ed face, and ran against the tent pole, mourning the accident to his unharmed, gilded nose? The equestriennes in spot less pink and white with gauzy'skirts to the childish fancy seemed like angels fly ing through the air on the cushioned back of a softly cantering horse. We recall the old shabbily-dressed sailor coming into the ring, mounting a rushing steed, and, throwing off his ragged gar ments, appearing in his tinselled glory. Then the wire rope walker, as dainty a fairy as ever fluttered out of fairyland; the trapeze performers flitting from perch to perch like a bird in the woods; the man who could do a double somersault over the backs of 16 horses and three ele phants. While imagination waits on memory, there is no end to the reminis cences. Xo Institution In the. world gives so much wholesome pleasure and Instructive amusement to the little folks as the cir cus. The modern creator of circus pro grammes arranges his performances to in clude many special features, which will appeal to the children, recognizing at the same time the fact that what amuses and ,, s- 1 In striving to surpass all previous achievements in the way of sensational thrillers the management of the Barnum & Baifey Greatest Show on Earth, which visits Portland Tuesday and Wednesday, seems to have gained that end In the new automobile act announced for this season. It is the result of two years work and application by two French engineers entitled "Autos That Pass In the Air." An almost perpen dicular incline plane built of steel resembling in its solidity a section of elevated railroad structure runs from the canvas dome to the center of the arena. On a landing at the top of this incline are two automo biles one red the other blue, in charge of two young French women acting as chauffeurs who await the signal to start. When it is given the two machines dash down the incline. At a given point a slight up ward curve sends the leading red auto swiftly skyward, where the machine makes a complete backward somersault. Timed to the nicety of a fractional second the blue car passes swiftly under the red one, and. leaping a. gap, lands upon a platform prepared with heavy steel springs, thus minimizing the. force" of impact. the red car following closely upon the same platform. ,''.'. educates the children has an equal attrac tion for their eiders. The proprietors of the Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show 6n Earth are really commercial philanthro pists. Immeasurable happiness will per meate the entire atmosphere next Tuesday and Wednesday. The circus is irreeistihle. Tou cannot escape the fever. You laugh and chatter with the little folks.' to whom a circus is the great event of their lives, more anx iously anticipated than the Joys of Christ mas or the celebration of Independence day. : DRAGGING THE WORLD FOR TENORS Paris Hails a Montpellier Bartender, Falandry, as Singer Equal to Caruso. HIS name is Falandry. Yesterday he was an obscure barkeeper at Montpeller. Today he has his private sitting-room and bath at the luxurious Thiers establishment for worthy stu dents; 200 cash for clothes; 6y per month pocket money and tuition, spe cial push and interest at the Paris Conservatoire. Tomorrow he will be a world celeb " rity, the idol of the crowd, arousing ' wild enthusiasm, petted, envied. Yet not by work or talent. Falandry has Just a voice, the rarest in the world. He is a tenor, greater, even, than Caruso. How they found him and three other golden voices, Frans, Dominique and Vil i leneuve is the story of the search for t unknown tenors, organized over all ' France by newspapers, opera and Con servatoire directors. Everybody knows the scarcity of great operatic tenors. Whether it be Mario ; fleeing from a love Imbroglio to Paris i and must earn a living; Tamberlick. the briefless lawyer, seeking his bread in the opera chorus, or Caruso wearing his voice for a dollar in the Naples wine shops, the world seems to find its tenor princes by mere chance. Once found, they need not be actors; may be fat, without stage presence; ignorant, eccentric and capricious the voice pardons everything. Dupres made them change an opera so that he oould sing on horseback, wearing gold spurs. Caruso will not sing in a theater for less than C500 a night. His contract with Conreld assures him $300,000 a year till 1911. The Gramophone company gives him 140.000 a year and his society dates net him 140.000 a year more. . "Are there really so few tenors or are they spoiled, undiscovered?" recently asked Camllle Saint-Saens, the composer. "Start a search," said Castlebon do Beauxhostes, editor of the Toulouse Dis patch. "A dragnet for nonprofessionals," said Jean de Reszke. now voice manager of the Grand Opera. "Why not?" said Albert Carre, mana ger of the Opera Comique. And so. within, a month, the Temps. Matin. Gaulois, Echo de Paris and Gil Bias, acting with the Petit Nlcois, the France of Bordeaux, the Toulouse Dis patch. Petit Bourguignon of DIJon and the great trade papers, Muslca and Comoedla, let it be known that on certain dates at Paris, Dijon and Toulouse .the Conserva toires would be supplied with special Juries--free from local-prejudice or favor to hear nonprofessional tenor voices. The best would be sent up to compete to gether at the Opera Comique in Paris where four winners, at least, soirtd be assured brilliant futures. At Toulouse alone, 156 tenors, young and old. let loose, their voices. "We don't care for training." explained Nussy-Verdler, nephew of Saint-Saens. "What we're looking for is the voice," said Valentin Due. ex-tenor of the Opera. "Sing out. any old way!" They did. When they came on a few arpeggios, some would warble: "Ya. ya. yau!" and others "Ha. ha, haa!" and others "Pa, pa. paa!" One - tenor, 16 years old, weighed 2T0 pounds, and had a sweet and tiny voice, a twitter. "He will not go to America, even for the prices of Ca ruso," said his mother, "but he might sing at the Grand Opera In Paris if 1 could be always with him." There were lawyers, carpenters and coppersmiths, wood carvers, postofflce clerks and farm boys, dentists and sol diers, cafe waiters. Joiners. What is it that swells a man's head .Just as soon as he sings even a bad tenor? At Dijon 60 and at Paris SO tenors showed up. As at Toulouse, though reg ularly without instruction, each had a good operatic song by heart. No unknown tenor could wish for a bet ter hearing. In the coquettish little Fem ina Theater of Paris the auditorium was half filled with famous experts, while the gallery held the Jury. In the center sat De Reszke, with the two directors of the opera, Mensager and Broussan, Gustave Doret, of the Opera Comlque: Tsnardon, the great teacher, and Mmes. Breval. Heglon and Tsnardon. It was excessively businesslike! a grand piano;, a most finished accompanist; 80 tenors and a little bell. In the hands of the Jury. When the bell rang It meant "23 don't linger!'' Among the 300 tenors of Toulouse, DIJon and Paris, the unbiased, tenor-seeking Jury found Just 25 fit to compete together at the Opera Comique! The known scarcity of great tenor voices is thus once more proved; but was it not strange that it took all this ma chinery, to discover voices like Falandry, Frans, Dominique and Villeneuve? Fal andry had actually been refused aid by the Montpellier conservatoire! A few months previously in the Rue de la Medlterranee, of Montpeller a long street In a bad neighborhood a strange thing happened nightly. In the dark, tired workingmen, spreelng clerks and lost girls would stop, stricken by a voice, a tenor voice that sent up to the stars such arias with such a generous ease, such magnificent prodigality, that even brutal rounders would creep toward it, touched by new emotions. A Montpellier druggist stopped one' night and heard the singer. Who could sing like that? It was Falandry, young bar keeper of a tough Joint; but what of that? "I'll speak to some one capable about , you." promised the' discerning druggist. And soon Justamann, piano professor of the Conservatoire of Montpeller, was en thusiastically coaching the barkeeper tenor. N Falandry alone was not enthusiastic. As a youth he had prepared fox the School of Arts and Grades and had to stop for lack of means. As conscript-soldier he worked night and day to enter the school of Versailles for. officers and failed for similar reasons. When he quit the army he found nothing better than barkeeplng. "You'll see nothing will come of my singing either," he said darkly. .And sure enough, the Montpellier Conservatoire was blind enough to finally refuse him even $10 per month credit. Before the most brilliant public of its kind in all the world, the voice of the despised barkeeper rose and soared In utter triumph, like the birds of his song, "Olseaux Legers! ' This time there was no doubt that the tenor of the world was found. "He has ten million francs in his throat!" exclaimed Albert Garre. "Don't say things like that." said Hammerstein. "You'll swell his head." But. had Falandry not been there, Frans, Dominique and Villeneuve would have quite Justified the search for tenors. Frans, glove counter clerk at the Prin tempes department store. Is a trained singer, complete almost; good musician, handsome physique, with authority. His voice is of surpassing volume. eclat and homogeneity. Yet in the ordinary course of things he could not get a hearfng or engagement. Now they've snapped him up for the grand opera, where you will soon hear him singing, "Rachel, quand du Seigneur!" hi XaJJuive" a-tenor star of the first Paris order.. Dominique, clerk from, the Dijon post office, utterly untrained like FaJandry and Villeneuve but with a tenor voice so high, free, sweet and easy that It may grow to Caruso value, goes to the Con servatoire' of Paris. ' : And Villeneuve,' the Beziers farm-boy, goes to the- Conservatoire with Falandry and Dominique. In the Jury and among the experts there are those who prophesy the greatest kind of future for him. What a change for the farm boy and what a triumph for his humble backer. who runs a men's furnishing store in Be ziers Paris Letter to Kansas City Star. Queen to Visit Mother. LONDON, Aug. .22. (Special.) Prep arations are going on busily at Osborne Cottage, Isle of Wight, for the reception of the Queen of Spain and her two chll- 1 Oc GREAT BIG, HIT lOc IT'S GREAT UNIQUE IT'S " IT" Opposite Pontages, Minor Ltivli, Prop. . ANGELA MAY Mrtklnic, yietares, Song", ; Surprises. SPLENDID AQUATIC EVENTS Three days of foa, excitement sad interest YACHT RACES, LAUNCH RACES BOWING RACES, SWIMMING RACES Ample hotel and lodging accommodations. Swedish - Norwetrijui SMiirerfoat with noted soloists. Conntrr Fair. Balloon Ascensions, ticht sod slaok wire vsikine. aolendid vmndeville sMrsctloiM. Trained animal Derformanoe.. U. S. worships. Coolest, moet nLeasant log BwOpMidou srsnta address .--- SECRETARY, Re&atta AssttMmM, ASTORIA, OftEQON .r J .Witr; 111 iaW' 'te'W : SPECIAL RAILROAD RATES One mod One-X bird Fare for Koud Trip. Tickets good from August 26 to Augwt 31 r.ifflHgggrnramiiia 5 IS Always Cool Here. THE fencer Baths Open 9 A.M., 10 P. M. MATINEE 3 P. M. TODAY, and 8:15 in Airdome Tonight. The popular Curtis players in "CHOW CHOW" Monday night, a new, tuneful comedy-drama, with a big stick in it ; "The Teddy Girl" Remember next Wednesday! Children's Prize Day OAKS CARS START 11 A. M. 5 15 Dancing, Music by Prasp's Union Orchestra; Nickelodion Show; $g Babv Incubator; Tickler: Figure Eight. WATCH FOB DATE OF FIDDLERS' CONTEST Ladies Free Monday. . Cars First and Alder, Paying Particular Attention to the Entertainment, Com fort and Convenience of ladies and Children. FORMERLY MARatAM GRAND ADVANCED VAUDEVILLE WEEK COMMENCING Presenting- at All Times the Best of European and American . Vaude ville -Attractions. MONDAY MATINEE, AUG. 24th FOLLOWING AIA-STAR FEATTRE ACTS JESSIE I LAKKEY'9 A Night on House Boat A singing and dancing novelty of the Summertime. Alf . Grant and Ethel Hoag presenting a merry-go-round of music, melody and mirth. JOKS W. . MTNDELL World and Kingston "It isn't what they do It's the . way they do it." Hilarious laughs and boisterous bumps Martinettie and Sylvester "The Boys with the Chairs." Bertie Herron The Original Minstrel Miss." John and Mae Burke "How Patsy Went to War." Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Connelly In their delightful little playlet, "Sweethearts." Orpheum Motion Pictures Latest In Motion Photography. PERFORMANCES EVERY EVENUfG AT 8:15;' MATFNEE DAILY AT 2:1 Evening Prices 15-25-50-75c Evening Prices 15-2S-50-75C DAILY MATINEES 15-25 50c 1 DAILY MATINEES 15-25-50C PANTAGES THEATER BILL CHANGES MONDAY ADVANCED VAUDEVILLE STARS OF ALL NATIONS AVrk Ending Todays O. Han a San & Co., the Qelsha's Dream: Sldi & Co.? Pastimes on the Battlefleld; Trainor & Dale; Merritt & Love; Kauffman Bros., the Great Black-face Comedians; Elliott E. Beamer; Motion Pictures.- WEEK, BEGINNING TOMORROW LEONl DALE, A Lesson in Opera. BESSrE GREENWOOD, The Lady , With the Phe nomenal Voice. THE BIOGRAPH, Presenting a New Series of Motion Pictures. BOTTOfilLEY TROUPE Greatest Casting Act in America . SECOND FEATURE. Whangdoodle Quartet Presenting; Plantation Scenes. Coon-Town Cut-l ps In Buck and Wins Dancing. POLK A POLK, Springboard Novelty Acrobats. ELLIOTT ' BEAMER, Celebrated Bari tone Soloist. THREE PERFORMANCES DAILY AT 2:30. 7:30 and 9:00 P. M. Popular prices: Lower floor, 25 cents; dress circle, 25 cents; balcony, 15 cents; box seats, 50 cents. Any seat at weekday matinees FIF TEEN CENTS. dren. who are to arrive there In Septem ber. Her Majesty will stay with her mother. Princess . Henry .of Battenberg, for abbut a month, and this visit will be entirely of .a private character. Mean- while efforts are being made by those who are in a position to do so to put an end to the coolness which has existed between the King of Spain and Princess I Henry. MONDAY, AUG. 24 Are you watching our stars? Well, we are going to show you a few this coming week, and we will start with that big East ern act, N FAGAN 6 BYRON Barney Henrietta it In their Novel Sinking and Dancing Interval, An Entertaining Oddity" FIorenceModena&Co. In the latest Farcical Satire, en titled, "BARGAIN MAD." Harry Kraton Co. Novelty Hoop Jugglers. Alice Robinson Prima Donna Soprano. Alf P. James and Kate Prior Presenting ''Captain Barnacle's Courtship." Fred Morton Novelty Entertainer. Fred Bauer Portland's Favorite, rendering "By the Old Oaken Bucket, Louise. " Grandiscope Displaying 4 4 The Gilded Fool." . There were 3,02.6rtO cords of wood used in the United 8tate In the manufacture ot paper pulp )ant- year. Just twice nn muh as was used in lftfl9. More than 2.5O0.000 tons of pu)p were produced. The pulp milln used SOO.oort more cords of wood in 10O7 than in the previous yar. CIRCU 25th and 0 Raleigh Sts. L DAYS V AUG. 25,26 THE WIDE WORLD TRAVELED: D WORLD CONQUERING (TJ A BAILEY) ro, J -M A Menagerie of 100 Cages. 70 Elephant and Came!. A Family of . Clrattet. Only Two-Horned Rhinoceros in .Captivity.' A Thousand 'Animal Wonders. 7 Filling 6 Arenas, The'Big Hippodrome and the Dome'of the Largest Tent Ever, Made. xltX Taklnn ia Vrw rn n all tha Farth' Sansatlons X'V - o - j ... ... . v . i and Blending. all Concrete and Perfect Into theJSreatestClrcus3 numan tyes Ever eeneiov r, Afl New York Said K was the BlBflist and Best Ever Seen In Madlsol&uiarejtarden AUTOS THAT THESISTERS A Dee-th- Deuin Feat That Defiesv Imitation PASS III THE AIR LA.RAQUE In their mad Auto 'Race, passing each other In separate i' cars while flying ;'l and somersault ! Jng In the Air Baby Bunting, A Tiny Nursing BabyiElephant Smaller than a New Foundlandj Dog.' Frisky andCutej as; Kitten. The Circuses ,and Amphitheatres of . Europe Depleted, To Make ThisiYear's ' ShowjtTremendously , More Glorious Than Ever - Among tha Imported Artil.of Jrorld-Wldo Renown Arei Italy'sJEqaestrian' The PetroPs Great . Acrobats, iTbe.fredianis Russian Animal Circus; Austria's 10 Melietles, France's Great Fassios Marvelous Acrobats r And Amazing Moustiers LESJAROIS. 10 VIEMKESE AERfAUSTS AND 1 50 OTHER ARTISTS Imm4 inm Air 4, Prodocfaf S.biitI.d.1 Act! M W4 At 9:30 O'CLOCK TUESDAY MORNING BIG. NEW, FREE, STREET PAR'ADE IhvIhk Show Grnnnda at 9i30 Tnesdaj- morning, the parade wUl more through Overton atreet to Twentieth treet, to Waahlnirtoa mtrert, to Fifth atreet, to Taylor atreet, to Third atreet, to Everett atreet, to Seventeenth street, to Overton atreet, thence to clrcua lot. fin' Ticket iN AdmlU To AH.I aLtf J laa, - . . f vmiaren unaer i iesrs, naii-rnce. fyr f), 2 Performances Dally at 2 6 8 P. M. Doors Opan at 1 O 7 P. M. Reserved Seats and. Admission Tickets on sale show days' at Graves Music Store, 111 Fourth street, at ex actly the same prices charged on the show grounds.