The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, December 27, 1908, SECTION FOUR, Image 33

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Newspaper Page TextMADAME NORELLI HOME FROM EASTERN TRIUMPHS Portland's Great Singer Discusses Things Musical, -and Says Dramatic Element Is Supplanting Pure Singing in Opera. r - i i -. i . ! r - -i i - - ..w . -n. : ; , . - . . : . ' w,, - tr '.'' i i : sx .",--(" v -f " - M.VDAALE JENNIE 'OKELLI, FROM PHOTOGKAI'II OK PAINTING Bt BOSS ALMA HOOBtlUi. OF SEW l"OKR CITT. fLM ADAM GEXNIE NORELLJ, Port 11 land's gifted singer, who has " gained such a high position for herself In the musical world through her work In grand opera and concert In both Europe and America, returned to the city Wednesday afternoon after IN PORTLAND Continued From doubtedly create a sensation by their dar ing bicycle riding. Every possible trick that can be done on unicycles and bicycles Is executed by them without flaw. Clever bits of comedy are thrown in to make an entirety, which is said to draw over whelming applause. John Rucker, the Alabama Blossom, will make his first vaudeville appearance In Portland, be having been here about six years with the famous colored comedians, Williams & Walker, In "The Sons of Ham." Mr. Rucker haa a rich voice and he sings a number of coon songs. Martines & Martinez are Spanish sere naders who will play on mandolins and sing. Jean Wilson, Portland's popular baritone, will sing that beautiful illus trated song. "Your Lips, Your Eyes, Tour Golden Hair." The biograph will present the very latest animated pic tures. direct from the factory to the Pan tages Theater. GREAT BILL AT TILE GRAXD Mile. Summerville and Dancing Horse Columbus the l"eature. For the coming week, which ushers In a new year, the .Grand will present a vaudeville programme In Keeping with the event. All the acts will be new and they will be features such as have rarely been assembled on one bill in Portland. The new year will be started right at the Grand and there will be a strictly first-class entertainment. The feature se lected for the bill, which opens with the matinee tomorrow. Is Mile. Summervllle and her dancing horse, Columbus. Mile. Summervllle and the horse were the star r'IBM' . I II II" 111 ".OTam . II W""" ' II" I"""'-'-- -': :r -:: 'I 'v ' I L'.v .. .i i WM ; jf I " f '' ! ; " - A i rdvf- .. fi f " ' " ' " 1 S : ll !,.' I . .mi i ii T i- - nun -- i i sflTs i tiinii mi -n-1 - lUil '"- SOX OK GEKMASV'S CROWX PKIXCE. The are the children of the Crown Prince of Germany, pictured only two they live. They are Wilhelm Frledrloh and Louis Ferdinand. The elder .s to day These little chaps are quite unconscious of the storm now raging in Germany, - s-; s V1 Sir.. J . 4 4 1 'A ".a an absence of more than a year. Dur ing much of that time she was prima donna of the Italian Grand Opera Com pany and appeared in all of the large cities of the East and Middle West where her beautiful voice and excep tional dramatic gifts won for her the THEATERS Pag 3. performers of the "Ranch 101" show last Summer, conceded the best of wild west entertainments. Horse and rider are well matched and something out of the ordi nary can be expected. Every patron of the big vaudeville the aters of the East Is acquainted with John Birch, "the man with the hats." He does a protean act which Is unique. Birch also does a one-man burlesque on popular mel odrama which has never been surpassed for travesty. This will be the special added feature of the new programme. "Looking for Betsy" Is the title of a rural sketch in which Holmes and Hollls ton will appear. Mr. Holmes is the author of "One Night in June," a rural comedy-drama which had a great run of popularity on the Pacific Coast three sea sons ago. Alice Weston and Maud Fran cis are experts with the rifle and re volver, and their specialty consists in plain and fancy sharpshootlng. Character singers and dancers are Pane and Lee, a couple of versatile vaude villians. Brown and Hodges are Indians who are singers and cartoonists. The act will be a novelty. A new Illustrated bal lad by Frederick Bauer and a new life motion picture for the Grandiscope will round out the entertainment. This afternoon and tonighht will be the last performances of the present bill, which has as headliner "The Soldier of Propville." In which Mr. and. Mrs. Es monds are appearing. 'The Alaskan" Coming to llellig. The beautiful comic opera success. "The Alaskan." will be the attraction at the Hellig Theater, Fourteenth and Washington streets, for four nights, be ginning next Saturday, January 3. Miss HEIR-APPARENT TO GERMAN THRONE AND HIS regard of opera-goers. Since completing .. In Tuna Vad. her operatic engagement ame Norelll has made a very successful concert tour, appearing with the sym- I Chicago, Minneapolis and St. Paul and other cities. She will . 4n rhlairn Id tu I open ner concert bccmju x... In January. . Madam's oppressive race radiated hap piness as she told of her experiences during the past season. "It seems very good," she said "to be home' again after so many weeks of work. But I have' enjoyed It oh, very much. People everywhere have been so kind, so appreciative; so ready to respond to the emotion one Is trying to express. When the audience sends back to the singer that subtle something, that understanding r might call It that touches one as lightly as a caress, the artist has nothing left to wish for. More and more have I. felt this appre ciation in Americans, and I believe more strongly than ever that America is one day to be the greatest musical nation In the world. "Americans are the most exacting au diences. Only a few weeks ago I sung in Fargo, N. D. That sounds such a long way off, doesn't It? I was engaged to sing , at the Fargo Musical College. When I entered the college hall there were rows of Intelligent, eager, ex pectant faces. My programme was made up of old Italian arias, and new German, French and Scandinavian songs, and it pleased, me so very much to see the way those young people re ceived the music, how they digested it. so to speak. The " next week I met that splendid artist and woman Madam Nordica, In St. Paul and was telling her about my experience In Fargo. She said: "My dear, you sang In Fargo; I sang in a smaller place 100 miles beyond there. Think of people In an Isolated place like that putting up money to have me come and sing for them. Does it not mean that we Americans are be coming one of the worlds greatest musical nations?" Madam Norelll. though a lyric so prano, and thoroughly trained In the bel canto method, has nevertheless sung many of the roles for dramatic soprano. Including Wagner's "Elsa" and "Eliza beth." While expressing the greatest admiration for the Wagnerian and mod ern Italian opera. Madam Norelll could not conceal her preference for the finer type of vocal art as exemplified in the works of Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti and Verdi. "1 love the Wagnerian roles." Madam Norelll exclaimed, clasping her hands together In an ecstacy of feeling. "They are so full of expression and nobility. It is a great moment to sing those har monies that sink into one's very soul with the music of the orchestra surging about you. They express every emo tion the human heart can feel. The world of art would miss so much, so much, without them. But after all It is the voice the artist loves. The bel canto did not pretend to express pas sion or emotion, but to enable the hu man voice to produce all the exquisite tones of which It is capable. For my own part I have striven always to ac quire as much as I can of that style of singing. "Mozarts music is the purest bal canto and whoever can sing his music knows what that kind of singling Bhould be. People complain so much that Madam Melba's voice has no feeling. Ah, that Is the great voice of this world. Oh, to sing like that! Who cares whether Melba has emotion or not. She doesn't need to have. The new composers have made their themes so dramatic that more and more the dramatic element is coming into opera, and supplanting the pure singing, as I express it. Puccinis operas have re tained much of the bel canto; that is what makes his operas so lyrical in spite of their dramatic themes." Lora Lelb, who sings the leading so prano role In "The Alaskan," although one of the youngest prima donnas on the stage, has had a wiae experience In operatic work. Her first venture was made with Charles H. Yale's spectacle. "The Evil Bye," In which she enacted the leading feminine part. The succeeding two sea sons she was wltn John C. Fisher's "The Silver Slipper" as prima donna, following this engagement with "The Geezer of Geek," "His Honor, the Mayor." "The Belle of Mayfalr," "Coming Thro' the Rye," etc. Miss Lelb possesses an unus ually high soprano voice. Florence Koberts Coming to. Hellig. The new play In which Florence Roberts will appear at the Hellig Theater for four nights, beginning Thursday, January 7, Is "The House of Bondage," and is the work of Seymour- Obermer, an English man, who promises to attain a great vogue In this country. If reports are to bo credited. From the opening night of "The House of Bondage," which was launched without any undue sounding of trumpets, or other heralding common to theatrical enterprises, the world seems to have traveled with magic speed that an uncommon contribution had been made to dramatic literature. Miss Robert Is supported by a strong company Including Arthur Forrest, Thurlow Ber gen, Kent Bosworth, Harry Gibbs, Ann Warrington and Mary Bertrand. "Devil's Auction" Next at Baker. Charles H. Yale's "Everlasting Devil's Auction." which is now announced as presenting the 2Sth edition of this really wonderful show-piece. Is announced as a forthcoming attraction at the Baker opening next Sunday, January 3. for one week. Most elaborate changes have been made In the latest edition, in the way of new and very capable artists, magnificent scenic accessories, superb costuming, at- BROTHER. weeks ago in Potsdam where be Lmperor of Germany some which threatens their birthright. HEILI SIX NIGHTS, BEGINNING TONIGHT SPECIAL PRICE MATINEES NEW YEAR'S AND SATURDAY THE SHOW OF Cohan and Harris Present Geo. NOTE THE GREAT CAST Hazel Lowry. Jo seph M. Sparks. Suzanne L e o n -ard. West ford W 1 1 m e r . W. Douglas Ste venson, Charles Willard, Walter p . R I c hardson. Alf Helton. Thos. Emory. Percy Helton, Ella So thern. Mae Hel ton. Kttthryn R. Perrv, Hull ell PJncus. Lester Templeton. Stan ley Fields and per feet Cohan Chorus. M FROM OSTON BIGGEST HIT IN YEARS PRICES Evening $1.50, $1.00, 75c, 50c oc, oui fcw- Seats Now Selling at the Theater BAKER GEO. L. BAKER, GENERAL MANAGER The Theater That Plays Big Road Attractions at Popular Price. A PRICES Evenings, 25c to $ 1.00. Next Attraction tractive ballets, newly imported European features, special and exclusive vaudeville novelties and the most elaborate trans formation scene called "Amor" (love) ever presented in this country. "Zaza" Xcxt "Week at Bungalow. "Zaza" was originally announced to be presented by the Baker stock company for Christmas week, but was later post poned on account of Manager Baker s de sire to give a large number of his patrons "A Midnight Bell" at their special re quest. The opening will now be next Sundav matinee, January 3. and ever since the first announcement. Inquiries in regard to the play have been coming Into the office, which go to show the Immense popularity of the famous emotional drama with theater-goers.. "Jane Eyre" Coming. "Jane Eyre," a dramatization of Char lotte Bronte's book of the same title, will be the offering .at the Star Theater week of Sunday matinee, January 3. Jane Eyre" is probably one of the most popular and widely-read novels of the present generation. The dramatic ver sion Is said to follow the original manu script very closely, making a play that is amusing. The cast is said to be above the average and Is headed by the charm ing young actress. Miss Dorothy Turner. DIAMOND SWINDLER GONE France and Greece look In Vain for Iicmolne. PARIS, Dec 26. (Special.) Where Is Lemoine, the maker of artificial di amonds? It was announced a few days HEILIG THEATER 4 Nights K" Sun., Jan. 3 Mr. John Cort Presents the Beautiful Comic Opera THE ALASKAN SEAT SALE OPENS SEW YEAR'S MORNING PRICES: Iyower Floor 180 Lnwr Floor, Tjft S Bows 1.00 Balcony M, 75c, 600 Gallery B0 Siberian Eskimo jio0? Village ndWsK Open 10:00 A. M. to 10:30 P. M Continuous Show G THEATER 14th and WASHINGTON 8T8. fHOXKS MAIN 1 AND A llz THE SEASON M. Cohan's New Musical Play O ALL GEMS "My Small Town Gal" "Harrigan" "Jack and Jill" "Waltz With Me" "Ain't It Awful" "Boys Who Fight the . Flames" Music That Will Make You Whistle ilsi3 Matinees $1 THEATER Oregon Theater Co.. Inc. Lessee Trlepbont-s Mala a A 03 ALL WEEK STARTING TONIGHT Sunday, December 27, 1908 Special BarKralm Matinee Wednea dav, STK5 any seat. Grand New Years Miitlnee Krlday and resular Satur day Matinee. Chas. A. Miller (Inc.) presents James A. Heme's Great American Home Play Now In Its fifteenth year, of un paralleled success, with the eminent character actor, ARCHIE BOYD As UNCLE NAT Supported by a carefully selected company. THE GREATEST LADIES' AND CHIL DREN'S PLAY EVER WRITTEN Fridar and Saturday Matinees 25c, 50c The Devil's Auction ago that the Greek government had re ceived Instructions from the French au thorities to extradite Lemoine. The Greek police made a careful search for the fugitive, but It was soon discovered that the demand of the French government hadl arrived too late. Liemoine, it seems. VAUDEVILLE DE LUXE WEEK OF MONDAY MATINEE DEC. 28, 1908 QUINTESSENCE OF REFINED VAUDEVILLE, HEADED BY MLLE. SUMMERVILLE And her Wonderful Dancing Horse, COLUMBUS Special Added Feature, JOHN BIRCH "The Man "With the Hats." HOLMES & HOLIISTON In a Rural Comedy Sketch. PAYNE & LEE , Singers and Dancers. BROWN & HODGES Indian Cartoonists. FRED BAUER Singer of Pictorial Lyrics. GRANDASCOPE Latest French Motion Pictures. SHORE ACRES We GRAND '- L . ,-.c.J 'm.HS' LI! IM ' I d i t-- I MW Phones Main 117 A 4224 Empire Theatre Co. (Inc.) Lessee. PORTLAND'S FASHIONABLE POPULAR-PRICE PLAYHOUSES. Home of the Incomparable Baker Stock Compnny. NEW YEAR'S WEEK ATTRACTION OPENING SUNDAY MATINEE DECEMBER 27, 1908, TODAY Leo Dietrichstein's Famous Three-Act Farce-Comedy, ARE YOU A MASON One of the cleverest and most popular farces ever written. Let the old year run out laughing, and the new come in with smiles. Full strength of the company. Stage under the direction of Mr. Donald Bowles. SPECIAL MATINEE FRIDAY, NEW YEAR'S DAY Regular Matinee Saturday. Evening Prices always the same, 25c, 35c, 50c. Matinees, 15c, 25o. NEXT WEEK, ZAZA THE STAR PHONES MAIN S496, A 1496 PLATING ONLY STAIR-HAVLIN EASTERN ROAD ATTRACTIONS COMMENCING SUNDAY CO at U3 B3 U3 5 E. J. CARPENTER'S Great Scenic Comedy Drama Why Girls Leave Home Clean, Wholesome, Interesting, Instructive The best educator of one of the greatest problems our country has to deal with. Strictly MORAL and UPLIFTING fi-l MATINEES WEDNESDAY, Night Prices 15c, 25c, 35o and NEXT WEEK T. M. A. Benefit, at the Orpheum Theater, New Year Eve. had arrived at Plreaus a few weeks ago under a false name. He had taken the Athens train, visited the museums, the Daily Mat. (ex. Sun.-holl.) 15-25-SOe Phones Main 6 and A 1020 1 THE A TER rORMEP.1T MAKQLAM GRAND ADVANCED VAUDEVILLE WEEK COMMENCING Pyln Particular At tention to the Enter tainment, Comfort ana Convenience of Ladies and Children. MONDAY MATINEE, PEC. 28 - roLLomxo all-star feature acts First Vaudeville Appearance Here ot Famous GEORGE PRIMROSE America's Favorite Minstrel, and His Dancing Boys. , MR. and Mrs. GENE HUGHES Presenting The Thousand-Dollar Playlet. "StJPPRBSSIXt. THE PRESS." THE THREE Y0SCARYS Europe's Foremost Athletic Eccentrlquea. A-BA-BE'S Pictorial Post-Card Album, Tntroduo- Inic a series or aiiniaturo i itui'-auA. PERFORMANCES EVERY EVENING EVENING PRICES 15-2S-50-75C llT Mat. (ex. Snn-holl.) 15-SS-.10e PANT AGES THEATER BILL CHANGES TOMORROW ADVANCED VAUDEVILLE; STARS OF ALL NATIONS WEEK ENDING TODAY The Johnson Students; The World's Comedy Four; Martelli and Rossi; Conn, Downey and Willard, The Bernsteins; Jean Wilson and Silent Tait. WEEK BEGINNING MONDAY MATINEE DECEMBER 28th Engagement Extraordinary of George Homan's Masterpiece, "A NIGHT WITH THE POETS" Twelve People in the Cast, Including a High-Class Quartet, Living Pictures and Tableaux. A $5000 Equipment. JAMES E. HENRY AND DORO THY YOUNG, Presenting "Nevada." MARTINEZ AND MARTINEZ Spanish Serenaders. JEAN WILSON Illustrated Song, "Your Lips, Your Eyes, Your Golden Hair." THE PANTAGES ORCHESTRA, ALWAYS A FEATURE 12th and Morrison Streets THEATRE MATINEE, DECEMBER 27, '08 Q m w en en ps SATURDAY AND SUNDAY 50c. Matinees 15c and 25o - "JANE EYRE Acropolis, admired the Parthenon, and then left, tnking care to cover up his tracks. Dally Mat, (ex. Sun-holl. 15-25-500 Pr e m a n 1 1 n r t all Times the Best ot European and Ameri can Vaudeville At traction. I THE CHADWICK TRIO In a Short VHrce-Comedy, JX)R SALE WMWIN'S l'ARM." With Ida May Chadwlrk. "The Hce Haw Girl," Champion Lady Buck Danrer of America. Alice Winona, Maud Francis Co. World's Greatest Rifle and Pistol Shots. World's Tour of MLLE. PERTINA The Celebrated European Drinseuse. O It P I1KDM PICTi:KS OIU'HKIM ORCHESTRA AT 8:15; MATINEE DAILY AT :! EVENING PRICES 15-25-S0-75C Hnlly Mat, (ex. Snn-holl. 1S-2S-; THE WALTHOUR TRIO, Trick and Comedy Cyclists. JOHN RUCKER The Alabama Blossom, Comedian. THE BIOGRAPH Presenting the Very Latest in Motion Photography.