TITE SUXDAY OREGOXIAN. PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 8, 190S.
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A SOLID week of 'The. Squawman"
so admirably done by Dustln
Farnum and hia company at the
Heilig was the most Important theatrical
event of the current season. So much
has been said of both star and play that
further comment would appear to be sur
plusage. James J. Corbett, who has
actually developed Into a light comedian
of no uncertain ability, and a capable'
little company gave a pleasing entertain
ment at the Baker with the farce
"Facing 'the Music." The Orpheum
offered a creditable bill and continued
to hold Its large clientele. There was a
general verdict of excellence pronounced
upon the performance of "Men and Wo
men" given by the Baker Company at
the Bungalow. Both the Lyric and Star
presented melodrama. "Midnight In New
York" the bill at the former and "The
Montana Limited." at the latter.
The big act at the Grand was Llnd. the
female Impersonator, and at Par.tages
the Shepp trained animal show.
For four uights and a special "Wednes
day matinee the latest New York dra
matic success. "Paid In Full" will be the
attraction at the Heilig commencing this
eening. "Sky Farm" opens with a mati
nee today at the Bungalow. "Just Out
of College." a new George Ade comedy,
begins a week at the Baker this after
noon. "Hittle Alabama." at the Lyric,
will be the vehicle of the Blunkall Com
pany this afternoon and all week, and at
the same time "Brown's In Town" will
be offered at the Star. The vaudeville
bills promise to be quite up to the
standard.
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TONIGHT
1'imous Eastern Success Comes to
Heilig for Ftour Nights.
Beginning tonight at the Heilig
Tht-ater. Fourteenth and Washington
streets, and continuing the following
thie nights. witIT a special matinee
Wednesday, the attraction will be the
famous Eastern success, "Paid in Full."
I'nder the management of Wagenhals
and Kemper this play haa for practical
ly a year past been the season's amuse
ment sensation, not alone of New York
.City, but of Chicago. At Wagenhals
Kemper's Aitor Theater. New York,
and at the Grand Opera House, Chicago,
the play ran last season for ten and
five months respectively. Invariably to
crowded houses. The New York and
Chicago critics, without exception, ac
corded It unlimited praise. "Success" is
what the New York Herald said;
Triumph." said the Telegraph. Alan
laie in the American called It "the
best find of the season." and the New
York World stated that It "held the
audience breathless."
In Chicago the verdict was the same.
The Tribune called It "absorbing." the
Jtecord-Herald "vital and significant."
Amy Leslie In the News said It was
"laughing with rich comedy." and the
Inter Ocean wrote. "It is one of the
strongest dramas of American life thut
has been giver, to the contemporary
stage."
"Paid in Full" will be presented
here with a brilliant cast of specially
selected players and with the Astor
Theater production which Is a triumph
of stage realism.. The play Itself is one
compelling attention through every
moment of Its action. Briefly the
story concerns the proposition of a
newly mart led pair trying to live In a
great city in a weekly Income of J1S.
The husband handles thousands of dol
lars yearly as a collector for his firm.'
Everybody about him prospers but his
salary Is not Increased. He sees his
wife suffering for ordinary comforts
and finally he steals. The natural
working out of the . plot from this
start Is most consistently done and
from it a play is evolved that holds
the Interest undeviaiingly and la un
doubtedly the most powerful. Interest
ing and human drama of the day.
Harper's Weekly, In speaking of Eu
gene Walter's play, "Paid In Full,"
ys: 'The thitd act of the American
play, 'Paid In Full.' which Is present
ed at the Astor Theater. Is one for
which the author. Eugene Walter, de
serves much commendation. The play,
from beginning to end. Is extremely
w-ril done, both by playwright and
company, and with interest' might well
be added to the title as an expression
of wjiat the audience derives from it.
The play deals with humble per
sor.s; humble, that Is, in comparison
with the 'high society' folk one is ac
customed to see strutting through the
measures of social drama, Mr. Walter's
third a t Is Just what It should be,
unlck. alert. full of Interest, and a
striking cl!mx of the play. After
fflnE ! tnere was a reasonable sus
plcluu that a fourth, act rultt epull j
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the drama, at least might destroy the
force of the third. However, Mr.
Walter's fourth act does not mar his
play In any way: if anything, it adds
In accentuating the strength of the one
which preceded it."
"SKY FARM" AT BUNGALOW
Edward E. Kidder's Rural Success
Opens Today for First Time.
The first production of Edward E.
Kidder's latest rural comedy success
"Sky Farm" will be seen in this city
at the Bungalow for the week opening
with today's matinee. No greater con
trast could be offered between this
delightful play of simple life, and the
one Just closing "Men and Women"
which la a drama of life in the high places
of society in one of the world's greatest
cities. About three good rural comedies
a season is the usual offering of the
Baker Stock Company, and this Is the
first this season. It was selected from a
dozen or so from the pens of the best
authors of the day, and Is believed to be
extremely well fitted to the Baker Stock
'Company. The scenes are most beautiful
and breathe the atmosphere of glorious
New England In its ideal form. It covers
a period of the four seasons. Spring, Sum
mer. Autumn and Winter, and each one
Is depicted with wonderful effect.
The action takes place in and about the
little village of Cedercrest. Mass. Milo
Towers, the minister, has two lovely
daughters Marigold and Jonquil. The for
mer has been secretly married to Warren
Breese. only son of old Benjamin Breese.
the rich man and hard-fisted autocrat of
the country round about. The time has
come when Marigold must have her mar
riage acknowledged, before the world or
be disgraced but on account of a legacy of
IfO.OOO which her husband will lose if his
marriage becomes known. Warren is forc
ing her to keep the sexual. The parsonage
where they were married is destroyd by
fire with all records of their wedding, the
only thing left being the marriage certifi
cate, which old man Breese ploLs to gain
possession of in order to deny the mar
riage and force his son to marry else
where. Many characters one would expect to
find In these surroundings are Introduced,
and the opportunity for clever character
and comedy work is abundant. There is
no question but the members of the
Baker Stock Company will do full justice
to every possible detail. Mr. Bowles.
stage director, bas bended every ettort to i
get the desired results. The cast is as
follows:
Benjamin Breese William Gleason
Warren Breee John Thome
Whston Tuttle James Olesson
Pleepv Jackson .....William Dills
"NeiKhbor NixOn" Donald Bowles
Canaan Klrke William Wolbert
Stephen Tully Howard Kussell
Caleb Hanks Walter Kenfort
Rev. MHO Towers Ronald Bradbury
Marlro!d Towers lsetta Jewel
Jonquil loulee Kent
Abhv Collett Mlna Crollus (Jleason
Widow Wliklns l.ucllo Webster
Augusta Victoria Patricia Wilklns
Maribel Seymour
Cordelia Brown Hasel Jewel
Tho Village Choir .
Miss Ruth Lechler. Miss Keogh. Floyd
l.yneh. Herbert Wilson; organist. Miss R.
Bradbury.
"JIST OUT OF COLLEGE"
Sparkling Comedy by Author of
"The Merry Widow" at. Baker.
George Ade's sparkling comedy,
"Just Out of College," will be present
ed at the Baker for the week 'starting
tonight. The play has a plot of the
good, old-fashioned kind that has be
come almost a lost art. In "Just Out
of College" there is the same Ade gal
lery of types, familiar and unfamiliar,
and the dialogue Is rich in allusions to
American conditions that must amuse
every one who thinks about them. The
story tells of a rich pickle manufac
turer absorbed in business and allowing
his woman's-rlghts wife to live her
own life and attend to hks daughter
Caroline.
She has picked up an Impecunious pro
fessor of "repose" aa a suitable husband
for Caroline, but the girl has fallen in
love with Edward" Worthington Swinger,
a clean-cut, bright young chap, just out
of college, and he is Introduced to the
old gentleman. At first, Pickering, the
pickle man, can't see the young man at
all, but he changes, his mind after he
has had a session with the professor,
and. finding that the college boy is en
nilcas, stakes him to $30,000 to start in
business. The young fellow starts a rival
pickle factory, and, making a big
splurge by circus methods, succeeds In
selling out hia newly-formed company to
the pickle trust, of which Pickering is
the head. Of course, when he makes
his fortune, he wins the girl, and all
ends happily.
There are many side Issues, such as
the advent of Aunt Julia, from Duluth.
who is supposed to be dead, and whose
appearance on the scene at a critical
moment is the signal for a burst of
hearty lauchter. The company will not
arrive in time for a matinee today, so
the usual bargain matinee will be given
Wednesday and the regular matinee
Saturday.
"LITTLE ALABAMA" AT LYRIC
Blunkall Company In Fine Produc
tion of Southern Drama.
Commencing this afternoon, the ever
popular Blunkall stock company will
offer one of its most Interesting attrac
tions. The Lyric management has ob
tained the exclusive rights to this de
lightful Southern comedy-drama, which
Is one of the most delightful plays on
the present-day stage. It deals with
life in the South, the plot being founded
upon the exchanging of babies. One of
these children is an aristocratic white
child, daughter of a wealthy planter,
and the other an octoroon baby who Is
exchanged by the villain. Years after
ward,, when the two babies have grown
Into young women, the plot is exposed
and In the end all works out satisfac
torily. The play teems with comedy,
heart interest and sentiment, and is cal
culated to please theater-goers of all
ages and tastes.
Charles Conners, the distinguished
comedian, whose return to the company
has been the o-casion of much satisfac
tion will appear in one of his very best
comedy roles, that of an old-time South
ern darkey. Ervin Blunkall. as the
stalwart hero. Is to be at his best, while
Warda Howard, Dorothy Davis, Carl
Berch and other members of the cast
will be seen at their very best, '
'BROWN'S IX TOWN" AT STAR,
Great Farce Will Be Seen All This
Week.
There have been" farce comedies and
more farce comedies, but when Mark
Swan wrote the one called "Brown's in
Town," he little realized that it would
turn out to be one of the very best ever
produced on the American stage. But
such was the case as can be easily seen
by the long successful runs it has bad
In the large cities throughout the East
ern States.
The author in writing this piece has
not used the old ideas which have been
worn threadbare, but has brought to
gether a number of bright and witty
little scenes which when gathered into
a ball seem to have made a tangled
mess that takes with it everything that
comes within its path.
A young man who has not finished
his education madly, falls in love, and
without his father's consent marries
the idol of his heart. In order to keep
it a secret they hide themselves in
the country under the name of Brown.
A friend comes along and they explain
that they are visiting people by the
name of Brown. More friends come
along and the same story is told. At
last their friends want to see Brown
and one by one each Is made to play
the part of Brown until the air is blue
with Brown.
The last straw is the arrival of the
young man's father. The poor old man
Is shamefully deceived for a time but
when several Mrs. Browns appear and
only one Mr. Brown can be found he is
told that his son Is stopping with a
Mormon. The old man then Bhows his
temper and he is about to take his
boy home when the truth comes out
and of course all Is forgiven.
There is no better medicine than a
good hearty laugh and those who at
tend the Star Theater the coming week
can count on being heartily insured
against doctor, bills for some time to
come.
The engagement will open wilh a mati
nee today and continue throughout the
week. ' .
"Too Proud to Beg" Coming.
The attraction at the Star Theater,
week commencing with Sunday matinee,
November 15, will be Lincoln J. Carter's
great detective story, "Too Proud to
Beg." The heroine, who is thrown on
her own resources with her two chil
dren, spurns with contempt the smooth
villain's advances for her heart and
hand and his offer of gold, preferring
starvation and death to a loathsome
marriage The husband makes his ap
pearance after a serious illness. At
this point his two children are stolen by
the rejected suitor and the husband
starts at once to find them. Being a
detective, he disguises himself, locates
their hiding place and rescues the babes.
The story finally ends in the hero mak
ing himself known to his enemies and
justice is meted out to the guilty ones,
while he is once more united to his
happy family- The cast Is an excellent
one and the players all act their parts
with vim. dash and enthus'asm.
"Little Johnny Jones" Coming.
"Little Johnny Jones" comes to the
Baker Theater all week, opening next
Sunday. November 16, when doubtless
the legion of followers of that most pop
ular of all musical comedies will wear
the smile that will not be eradicated,
foe l a surety no jollier, snappier at
more rib-tickling play has visited the
classic precincts of this village for many
a day. George M. Cohan has succeeded
in evolving a musical comedy with a
real plot, and there is just enough love
interest In "Little Johnny Jones" to keep
the folks who lean towards the senti
mental side of life In a delightfully pre
occupied condition.
"The Man on the Box" Next Week.
Manager Baker, of the Baker stock
company, has secured the stock rights
to produce Max Flgman's great comedy
success, '"The Man on the Box," in this
city, and it will be presented by the Ba
ker company all week following "Sky
Farm," and opening next Sunday mati
nee. November 16. This is Grace Liv
ingston Furniss' dramatization of the
noted Harold McGrath novel, and has
been seen here on two occasions before
at the Heilig.
BRIGHT BILL AT ORPHEUM
Every Act Rated as One of the High
est Class.
The new Orpheum bill' for the week
commencing Monday matinee Is an un
usually clever mixture of music ' and
dancing, some novelties from abroad,
some extraordinary athletic stunts and
some smart comedy. The show, from
an expert's standpoint, would be rated
as an exceedingly clever offering In
vaudeville. The bill consists of the fol
lowing: 1
Hall. McAllister and company, Linton
and Laurence, the Italian Trio, Four
Orans, Netta Vesta, Ernie and Mildred
Potts, and Ernest Van Pelt and com
pany. Miss Netta Vesta, the dainty singing
ingenue, who Is now playing the West
ern territory for the first time, is a
popular musical comedy feature in the
Bast, where a few years ago she played
Dorothy In Julian Mitchell's "Wizard
of Oz," and other principal musical suc
cesses. The Four Orans are touring America
for the first time in an acrobatic novelty,
"On the Sea Shore," which is something
entirely new in this style of amusement.
The scene represents a seaside picture,
and here they cavort in appropriate out
ing costumes.
The Italian trio, coming from Naples,
provide a great treat for all lovers of
music. Their vocal renditions' are of
such standard hlch-class numbers as
"Miserere." from 11 Trovatore, and l)i
Capua's Terantella. and wilh such popu
lar numbers as "The Palms" or "For All
Eternity." thus giving their repertoire
brightness and variety.
Linton and Laurence are seen In a
comedy sketch which Is termed "Mar
ried Now." This little skit has just
enough plot to hold together a charming
singing and dancing arrangement which
is handled with neatness and smoothness.
A combination novelty is presented by
Ernie and Mildred Potts. The act Is
primarily a bag-punching turn with Mrs.
Potts as the star. Mrs. Potts is a petite
soubrette, who with pretty costumes and
clever songs and dances is found to bo
very interesting.
Ernest Van Pelt and company are pre
senting a clever little skit in one act en
titled "A Deal on Change," by Edmund
Day. The scene Is laid in a broker's of
fice in New York City, where a heavy
deal Is on In stocks and the enthusiasm
as exhibited by the brokers when they
are endeavoring to corner the market ia
accurately portrayed.
Hall McAllister and his company are
presenting "The Girl of the Times,'
which is a one-act episode by Fred Isiblo.
Mr. McAllister, when last seen in the
West, was leading man of Miss Margaret
Anglin's company. He is the nephew
of the leader of New York s 400. Ward
McAllister. Hall McAllister Is not only
an excellent actor, but ia also a great
admirer of athletic and outdoor sports,
and while a student at Harvard held
the amateur middleweight boxing cham
pionship for two years.
The usual high-class music will be ren
dered by the Orpheum orchestra, and
the moving pictures will close the show.
ENGLISH ROCKERS AT GRAND
Laura Jaffray Show In Great Eng
lish Girl Act.
On the new vaudeville programme
which Sullivan & Considine send to
the Grand this week, starting with the
matinee tomorrow, there are more than
half a dozen features, as well as other
good specialties. The Five English
Rockers, with the noted perfarmer,
Laura Jaffray, will be at the top of the
bill. This is a girl act which was
brought to America a few months ago
and was the sensation of New York
during the Summer. It is an act in
which singing and dancing play an Im
portant part, and the scenic effects, thn
electric lights and the costumes, are
all novel. The girls use rocking-chairs
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