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, 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
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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-
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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
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One mod One-X bird Fare for Koud Trip. Tickets good from August 26 to Augwt 31
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Here.
THE
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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:
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WORLD CONQUERING
(TJ A BAILEY)
ro,
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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
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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
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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'
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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.