..'4 r a qi 0& THK Hcond week of "The Grl of the Golden West" equally as suc cessful as the first, and Manager Baker haa decided to continue the -fascinating Belasco drama for a third week. Thla smashes all records for stock pro ductions In Portland. The Man of tne Hour" repeated ad vantageously at the Heillg. the company being about on a oar with that which presented It here last aeason. The Or pheum bill was up to the average and pleased Its audiences. The Lyric with "My Jim-' and some mora of the Salome dance. The Star offered a thriller called "The Four Corners of the Earth." which kpt the pulses throbbing. At the Baker "The Isle of Spice" attracted Ita ouota of patronage. The Grand full nd Pantages were good as usual. This week's attractions are "A Knight for a Day" at the Hellig. to be followed later by "The Clansman"; "The Girl of the Golden West." at the Bungalow; Richards A Tingle's Minstrels, at the Faster; "Toung Mrs. Wlnthrop," at the Lyric: "The Rocky Mountain Express." at the Star, and promising vaudeville at the Grand. Pantages and Orpheum. MUSICAL COMEDY TONIGHT 'A Knight for a Day" Begins Four Nights' Ran at Heillg. - First of the big new musical shows to reach the Pacific Coast this season Is "A Knight for a Day," which will be revealed at the Hellig theater this evening and remain for an engagement of four nights. It la worth while to observe that this musical comedy comes with a record of unprecedented success In Chicago, where it ran for a solid year, and subsequently ran for five months la New York and a similar term in Boston, where it waa the only work, musical or dramatic, to survive the heated term of the past Summer, obviously. "A Knight for a Day" must have uncommon merit, and this Is said to lie in liie book and music quite as much as in the efforts of the strong tonipmv which has been selected by Manager 11. H. Frazee to Interpret them. A musical comedy with a coherent and consistent plot. It Is declared to 1. and the fun of the play is said to be natural the result of telling and highly ludicrous situations. rather than through the actions of "mug . glng" comedians. Bobby Barry, the undersized and energetic comedian, with food voice and funny underpin ning, will be seen as Jonathan Joy, the waiter who resents the forgetful iietis of a natron to give him a tip for service and avails himself of some documents left behind by the guest to impersonate that person. His affair of the heart with a slow-spoken, ex citable servant girl, inimitably por trayed by Miss F.lsle Herbert, and their aitventurea in and about a female semi nary near Chicago, and subsequently upon the Island of Corsica, whence the anion of the play takes flight, afford much of the fun. Others prominent in the cast are Gertrude Hutciiceon. the handsome and vnlceful soprauo: Isabelle Wlnlocke, Eleanor Irving, Eugene Moulan. James II. Rrcnnan. jaim-s McCormick and t;eorge Stevens. There are nearly a s'ore of musical numbers. Including i'alf a doien ringing song hits. The press of Tacoma and Seattle have been a unit In declaring "A Knight for a Day" quite the best thing seen on the Coast in many moons. Seats are now tilling at theater for the entire engagement. MINSTRELS AT THE BAKER 'an to us Richards & Pringle Fun makers Open This Afternoon. Manager George L. Baker, of the Baker Theater, has been successful in securing Rlckarde A Pringle'a famous minstrels for tie week beginning with the matinee today. The regular matinees Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday will be given and popular prices will prevail. This is the last chance you will have to see thla dusky band of entertainers for some time, as they go abroad next season for an extended tour. The personnel of the company this sea son Includes such well-known names as t'larence Powell. Pete Woods, Happy Reaurrguard, Fred Simpson, William Robson. Billy King. J. W. Cooper. Alon io Moore. Sidney Klrkpatrirk. Charley Soott. Marsh Craig. Herbert Lashe, Wil son and Viney, Simon Bonomor and his big troupe of Arabs, and a host of oth rrs. The beautiful new electrical first part. "The Meeting of the Alumni," Is a radical departure In minstrelsy, aeons and aeons beond anything attempted by competitors; really It Is the acme of perfection. There Is a big singing and dancing act. "Plantation Pastimes." In which the full strength of the company appears. Cooper and hts wooden headed family keep the audience In roars of laughter. Clarence Powell, the corpu lent .comedian, who talks about his fam ily, has several new ones for you to think over. Moor, a Hindu Importation, has an act the like of which you have never seen before. Craig is as big a mystery as ever, and the beautiful and screamingly funny musical burletta, "When the Troop Struck Town." Is along entirely new lines. The parade will be given at noon. PLAY TO RUN ANOTHER WEEK "The Girl of the Golden We-" Con tinues at the Bungalow. The success of "The Girl of the Golden West" at the Bungalow has been noth ing short of phenomenal, and after two weeks of solid "standing them up" at every performance. Manager Baker de cided to run It for another full week, which will start this afternoon. The ad vance sale for this third and positively last week of the plT i already large, and those who during the past two THEygrt weeks have gone to the Bungalow only too late to get seats should not be dis appointed again. Get seats at once and see the most' beautiful ahow Portland has ever had at popular prices, and in fact one of the most beautiful this city has had tho privilege of peeing at any price. Packed audleaces have been held spell bound till near the hour of mldnlght. four hours for the curtain, mind you, glides silently up sharp on the stroke of S. and the flight of time la entirely forgotten or unheeded In the absorbing Interest and fascination of the play, the scenes and characters. Miss Jewel, as the Girl, of course, holds first place in the hearts of the audi encesfor she is only a dear lovable girl the only one in the play, by the way. and how she makes you feel it, the wonderful womanly depths beneath the somewhat uncouth exterior, and Sydney Ayrcs is the man, handsome, big and romantic enough to appeal to the heart of every woman In the world. Donald Bowles, to whom Is due the credit of en tire direction of the stage during the preparation and action of this great Be lasco play, also plays the Sheriff, one of the star roles, and his scenes are the acme of acting triumph. Mina Crolius Gleason and James Glea son give extremely artistic portrayals of the Indians, and Howard Russell and William Gleason both have typical roles of charactera to be found in early Cali fornia. Do not miss the last .short scene, though It be late, when the curtain rises on It. It is the most beautiful stage picture ever presented In this city, and Is a fitting climax to this most wonderful play, "The Girl of the Golden West." SCENIC PLAY AT STAR THEATER "Rocky Mountain Express" Full of Sensational Incidents. As a scenic production the new melo dramatic play, "The Rocky Mountain Express" Is far ahead of anythlnn yet attempted. The play opens at Windy Gap hotel, a characteristic Western tav ern, and the scenes from .there on are picturesque and exciting in the ex treme." Among the other scenes pre sented Is a pass In the mountains, with deep gorges and rising plateaus. An other Is the avalanche and snowslide. This Is an Immense effwt that causes great surprise and wonder. Windy Gap railroad station and the switch at Dead Man's siding also are marvels of the scenic artist's art. Pos sibly the crowning effect of all Is the flight of the Rocky Mountain express, which Is so realistic .that it fairly brings the audience to Its feet. The story of the play Is both interesting and sensational, built for laughs, tears and thrills, con structed upon new and novel lines and played by a company of splendid ac;ors specially engaged from the best players In the mimic world. Four acts and several scenes are necessary to tell the story of "The Rocky Mountain Ex press." which the Kllmt & Gaxzolo Amusement Company brings to the Star theater October 11. The next attraction at the Star theater will be Hal Reid's best play. "At Cripple Creek." which holds Intense heart In terest. "THK CLANSMAN" AT JIEILIG Great Race Play Will Open Engage ment Next -Thursday. The local premier of "The Clansman" at the Hellig Theater next Thursday evening will be a notable event in the dramatic and social annals of the city. "The Clansman" comes to the Heillg for a series of four performances on the evenings of October 15. IS and 17, and a Saturday matinee. With Its tre mendous significance as the White Man's Play of the Twentieth CenMiry, its passionate story of the scenes fol lowing the Civil War In the South. Its comedy and pathos of old aristocratic regime, and ita beautiful scenic pro duction and Ku Klux Klan cavalry of mounted men and trained horses. It possesses all the elements to Inflame curiosity and set expectation on tip toe. "The Clansman" was dramatised by Thomas Dixon. Jr, from his two widely read novels, "The Leopard's Spots." and "The Clansman." Briefly, it shows how Anglo-Baxon civilisation was saved and the South recovered Its civil liberties In the reconstruction era In 1S67-0. The scenes are laid in the South Caro lina hamlet of Piedmont at a time when the "carpetbaggers" and negroes .4 7 JTfc Hi 'li tendril . 1 4 $ V. f 0 zrrr THE AT THE lf jf j 7 e usurped the state government and the native white population seemed help less. The hero of the play. Captain Ben Cameron, organizes the secret order of the Ku Klux Klan, and defeats the designs of the "scalawag" white gov ernor and his mnllato ally, Lieutenant Governor Silas Lynch. The Ijeroine Is a Northern girl, Elsie Stoneman, whose father encourages the Black League, but finds himself awakened and dis illusionized when his mulatto protege dares to ask for bis daughter's hand In marriage. This and the convocation of the Ku Klux Klan In their mountain cave, where they try a negro criminal for his life, are said to be the most thrilling scenes In the play. It Is good news for Portland that a drama which has been so mnch talked of and so widely commented upon as "The Clansman" will be presented here by practically the original company. The principals include Franklin Rit chie. Eugenie Hayden. Maude Purand, Farrr Maxwell. Charles J. A llson, George M. 13oVora,1I. J. Jordan, Ruth 7 W W ;. . " . e-. -. I i n PORTLAND. VSf 1 Jlft rVlTATZOAfS' 9 it Hart, Claire Mersereau,"J. L. Sweeney, Gage Bennett, Gua Inglls. Harry Quln lan, Jjhn J. Flanagan, Earl Lee, Edna Davis, John V. McDonald and Mortimer Earl Ritchie. There are 76 people In the cast, and four scene sets In the pro duction. ''Checkers' at Heilig Next Sunday. Henry M. Blossom. Jr.'s. "Checkers." one of the emphatic hits of the last five seasons, will be seen at the Heillg theater for three nights begfnning next Sunday. October IS. This Is said to be one of the best plays seen on the stage in a long time; tie best in many senses. 1 w&ISrfSSw Vi, OCTOBER 1903. 7 A Tf-E JilTTZZ Cl i ' - i iff Conservative critics have pronounced it clean and free from the suggestive. It is nt for the young and the old and middle-aged alike. It appeals to all classes of theater-goers. Hans Rob ert still has the title role, while Miss Helen Ormsbee, a daughter of Hamil ton Ormsbee, dramatic critic of the Brooklyn Eagle, will be seen in the part of "Pert," Checkers sweetheart. YOUNG MRS. WINTHROP" Blunkall Stock Company In Domes tic Drama at the Lyric. Commencing this afternoon the popular .Blunkall company will present at the Lyric for the coming week that beautiful domestic drama, "Young Mrs. Winthrop," considered by many authorities the finest American home drama ever written. It Is the masterpiece of the late Bronson Howard and never fails to arouse the most ardent admiration from theater goers. The play concerns a young married couple who do not get along well because of the wife's frivolous conduct. They finally decide to separate and call In a lawyer, a practical-minded man but one who also has a tender heart and is a sincere friend. In arranging for a dl- L vision of the property he comes upon a deed to a lot in me cemu;ry wiiere iiieir baby to buried and this simple purpose serves to bring the wife to ber senses and they are reunited. This affords excellent opportunities for the leading people and Mr. Blunkall as the husband will give one of his finest performancea. Miss, Howard in the title role has a strong part. The others are well eaet. "The Time, Place, Girl" Coming. John E. Toung, whose success as Johnny Hicks, the slangy easy-going gambler In "The Time, the Place and the Girl," has gained him new promi MiW J X tT070M fir J 7 ft c-" nence, is a fellow of some rare athletic ability. He belongs to several athletic clubs as well as aquatic organizations and crews, and as a youngster won severa4 medals In amateur boxing and wrestling contests. John E. Young, the comedian of "The Time, the Place and the Girl" company, to be seen at the Heilig theater October 21, has signed a five-year contract with the Askln-Singer Company, his managers, with the understanding that at least three new plays shall be written around him in that time. ORPHEUM'S ATTRACTIVE BILL De Haven Sextette and Miss Hope Booth Headliners This Week. There are many headliners and an abundant wealth of comedy for the week commencing Monday matinee at the Or pheum. Startling and unusual things wilt be most plentiful, and the Morrison-street theater will be the best place In the city to be startled. It is not an easy task to excel the bill of the past week, but from all appearances the coming bill will eclipse the same. The De Haven sextet, with Sydney C. Gibson featured, is a pretty, little singing and dancing ensemble act that has been playing in and around New York for more than a year. The setting Is a pretty garden in which a fete la being held, and the six sprightly dancers ana Mr. Gibson frolic through the 20 minutes of the num ber with a great variety of singing and dancing creations and many costume changes. The title is "The Understudy." Miss Amelia Summervlile, who makes her first appearance on a local stage at the Orpheum, Is one of the best-known musical comedy comediennes In America and her vaudeville debut has been an event of uncommon Interest. Miss Sum mervlile created the part of the "Merry Mountain Maid" in the original "Adonla" company and for years she has been s; . I '.- JT "ii i mm, --TOB,,it- IU " Is- , , t V f, j? . III - V t III h 4 ' ' r t t i ' t y J ' ' 1 J ;-V J r I esjf.' .-. ., wx &EKVRVDf"HrErow, riwi ' WITH KNftfHT FORA DAY identified with prominent Broadway pro ductions. The dlatlngulshrd comedienne.. Miss Hope Booth and her company, present "The Little Blonde Lady" by George M. Cohan. It is In Mr. Cohan's characteristic areln. bright, snappy and sure-fire com edy. For his topic the Yankee comedian and playwright has taken dramatic criti cism and he treats It In a semi-sarcastlo manner that Is clever and laughable. For Miss Booth he has provided a part that Just fits this dainty and charming young comedienne to a nicety. Paul Valadon. the magician, is unique. He is inventive and original, and for the five years that he was permanently fea tured at England's famous temple of mystery, "The Egyptian Hall." he evolved a aeries of Illusions that startled all London. Howard & Howard, two distinctively clever youngsters in their singing and dancing comedy, "The Hebrew Messenger Boy and the Thespian." Lewis & Green, a comedy pair, will be seen in their laughing sketch called "En gaging a Cook," by Oscar I-ewla, whlrn Is full of bright dialogue, humorous sit- jE-ni , uatlons and a few surprises. Several musical numbers 'are Introduced. Black & Jones, eccentric dancing come dians, by name, nature and color are clever entertainers. For years they have been appearing abroad. Much favorable commendation is being shown over the beautiful music rendered by the Orpheum orchestra. The motion pictures close the show. "Brown or Harvard" Next Week. "Brown of Harvard," which has been announced to follow "The Girl of the Golden West" at the Bungalow, will open next Sunday matinee. Of course It was to go on today, but extending "The Girl of the Golden West" for a third week has caused the postponement, and the public will get all the better perform ance of the piay when It does come along. "Brown of Harvard" is an exact por trayal of college life, and depicts many familiar scenes of America's great college of Harvard. CIRCUS ACT ON GRAND'S BILL Globe Perrormers Were Featured With Barnum & Bailey. No better vaudeville bill could be de sired than the one Sullivan & Consldlne have been giving at the Grand the past week, with Frtavolo, the milk-can mys tery and the rest of the great pro gramme, but the amusement firm prom ises to send a bill up to the same high standard for this week, commencing to morrow afternoon. An act that can be featured by Barnum & Bailey must be out of the ordinary and of unusual merit. The Sisters Yllerone. the beat globe per formers in the world, have such a sen sational globe act that the greatest show on earth was glad to feature these girls. Sullivan & Consldlne secured tho fa mous circus attraction and the YUerones (Concluded oa Pags a.) y7 x