THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, AUGUST 15, 1909.
Gossip and
pHE coming: season promises some
' I " fine bookings for the Bun&alow
I and Manager Pangle Is feeling;
quite well at himself. The Interna
tional grand opera company, of which
Madame Norelli is one of the prima
donnaa, and which contains a number
of other well-known principals, will
Bins; a week's repertoire beginning Sep
t ember S. The San Francisco papers
give the company glowing notices, and
Ban Francisco knows grand opera.
Coming In order thereafter will be "A
Gentleman From Mississippi.' ino
Traveling Salesman." BUlie Burge in
'Love Watches." George Cohan in
The Yankee Prince." "The Three
Twins," Chauncey Olcott. Blanche
Batcn. Victor Moore. "The Climax."
-Paid In Full." Oustln Farnum in
"Cameo Klrby." "The Shepherd King."
"King Dodo," Henry E. Kixey in "Mary
Janes Pa," Xo," the new Chicago
musical comedy, and a lot of other in
teresting things.
-The Merry Widow" closed Its Call
. - i. Airrf&v nlrht and
lumMk
started for Salt Lake City on its return
trip, after breaking all records made by
any company that ever played the Pa
cific Coast. The gross receipts are ex
pected to reach a total of 1.0 for the
ylx weekv
Doctor Cupid may be expected to figure
prominently in Henry "W. Savage's pro
duction of "The Love Cure," the new
Viennese operetta. A ballet with 1 cu
p!ds dancing on their cute little toes
will furnish one of the surprise numbers
' In the piece when It opens at the New
Amsterdam Theater, August SO.
"The Circus Man." by Bugene Presbrey.
with which Klaw Ac Erlarer and Joseph
Brooks will open the Fall season at Mc
Vlcker's Theater. Chicago. Is in active
rehearsal at the New York Theater. Mac
lyn Arbuckle will play the role of "The
(' Circus Man." One of the principal char
; acters In the comedy is Imogene. a sou- j
brette elephant. Mr. Arbuckle is com
' pelled to rehearse dally In costume with
Imoene at the Ben Hur stables in New
York City. This is a necessity, as Imo
gene must become thoroughly acquainted
with Arbuckle In his costume, as she will
have to follow cues like a real soubrette.
and her trainer will not be on the stage
with her. Imogene first met Mr. Ar
" buckle the second day of rehearsals. A
book of cues has teen written for her just
like a real actress. She carries it in her
trunk.
Miss Lucia Chamberlain has arranged
to visit New York late this month to as
sist at the rehearsals of her dramatised
novel. "The Coast of Chance." The San
Francisco authoress then will meet for
the first time Mr. Hamilton Kevelle and
Miss Jane Oaker. who are to embody the
characters of her favorite brain-children
Flora Gllsey and Lord Crew. She will
also aid Eugene w . Presbrey. the adapt
er and stage director, in making the
scenes and situations a vivid deplctment
of California life.
1 Frits Leiber, leading men with Rob
ert Mantell, was born In Chicago. He
was intended for the ministry, but could
not resist the call to the stage. His
inches got him an engagement, and his
talent and perseverance have kept him
there. He secured his first part by ac
cident. He Just happened along one day
when a Chicago stock company found it
self in need of a Private Jones for "The
Girl I Left Behind Me." It was a big
role for a beginning, but he received
enough encouragement to continue. Then
he played the lead In a piece called "The
Broken Heart." Next came two weeks
In "Darkest Russia," then "Faust" and
"A Fool's Paradise." His first real
chance came when he was engaged for
the Ben Greet Players. He remained
with them until last season, appealing
in IS Shakespearian productions, and
playing Prospero, Orslno and Marcus
Brutus. The season before last he was
with Julia Marlowe.
Miss Dorothy Donnelly, engaged for
the heavy emotional role in the French
Tlay "Madame X." will have a difficult
task and one seldom required of an act
ress. In the first act she must Imper
sonate a young wife of 20. In the next
act she must portray a woman of more
than 40 with a highly colored past.
Soon as Henry W. Savage turns over
his next musical production. "The Love
Cure." to the tender mercies of the New
York 'public he will devote his attention
to "Mary Jane's Pa." Henry E. Dtxey
. Is now rehearsing Edith Ellis' big com
edy, which begins its season at Red Bank,
August 26. It will have a tour to the
Faclflc Coast, and return for an ex
tended Boston engagement late in the
season. Helen Lackaye, the talented sis
ter of Wilton Lackaye, will be the Por
tia Perkins, and the rest of the company
will be the same that carried the "Mary
Jane's Pa" through Its New York and
Chicago success last season.
The New York Globe says of '"The Gay
Huawars." the new Savage operetta: "The
music of this Kalman operetta has plenty
of dash. and. with its Hungarian color
ing and Its martial clatter of drums and
trumpets, it is vigorously effective. The
lively march in the first act. "The Gay
Hussars," first roused the audience from
Its hot weather lethargy. The pretty
cong. . "O, Silver Moon." also pleased.
Marcel's "Please Give Me a Kiss." the
audience was whistling before the even
ing was over. And In the last act Miss
Florence Reld had great success with her
song about the "bold, bad men." and
Bobby North as Wallerstein could have
gone on singing about his "friend Lebei"
until verses and daring had given out. It
is worthy of note that the first finale ts
decidedly novel in light opera, and the
second finale exoeptionally spirited."
"The Air King." a new opera by
Harry B. Smith and Raymond Hubbell.
will be produced by Klaw Erlanger
early next FalL
Lillian Russell will arrive in New
York next week. She spent the Sum
mer in London and Paris. Her com
pany ts already in rehearsal in "The
Widow's Might." a comedy by Edmund
lay. in which Joseph Brooks will star
Miss Russell this season.
"The Roundup." Klaw & Erlanger's
Mg play of the Southwest, is in re
hearsal with Rapley M crimes in the part
of "Slim" Hoovsr. The season opens
In Boston. After touring New England
the show will go South and to the Pa
cific Coast.
Mary iertrand has been engaged for
the leading feminine role in "Through
a Window," taking the place of Lillian
Albertson. who retires temporarily
from the stage. Miss Bertrand won
her spurs on the Pacific Coast. She
has displayed such talent that her man
agers have placed in her hands one of
the strongest parts in the plays of
the coining season.
Klaw Erlanger have obtained for
Mclntyre and Heath a very amusing
and entertaining production in "Mc
lntyre A Heath in Hayti." John J. Mc
Nally wrote tne book and lyrics, and
Jerome & Schwartx the music Mr.
McNally takes his characters from
. French xJck to Hayti, where they be
. come the central figures In a lively
I revolution. In the cast are Julian
tRoe, Mabel Scalby, Toby Lyons, Ma
rion Stanley, Jane Burby, Adele Row-
Chat of Plays
EDITED BY ARTHUR A. GREENE.
land, Alfred Fisher, John H. Pratt, Carl
McCuilogh and Fletcher Norton. Mc
Intyre and Heath will be surrounded
by a large and effective chorus of sing
ers and dancers. Scenic settings and
costumes will be elaborate and taste
ful. The first performance will be giv
en August 23. In the Euclid-avenue
Opera House. .The comedians will open
the Circle Theater August 30. This is
the first time Klaw Erlanger have
ever opened a show in Cleveland, al
though It is the home town of Mr. A.
L. Erlanger.
Georpr C. Tyler, the managing di
rector of Liebler A Co., has returned
from a remarkable automobile tour in
Eurdpe, In the course of which he cov
ered 20,000 miles.
Regarding his plans for the coming
season. Mr. Tyler says: "Our two most
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bla::"he ring, who has made A GREAT HIT AS MRS. CARRIE
MARGIN IN "THE M1DMGHT SONS " ON BROADWAY.
Important early Fall productions in
New York will be the appearance of
Viola Allen in F. Marion Crawford's
The White Sister," and Walker White
side In Zangwill's The Melting Pot.'
The former play, which, by the way,
was the last work of the great novel
ist, was first produced in Chicago last
Spring, and In it Miss Allen achieved
one of the most notable triumphs of
her notable career. The Melting Pot
was also seen In Chicago and the West
during last season. In Chicago it ran
for more than 20 weeks a rather re
markable record.
"It is significant to note that both
of these plays are built upon themes.
The White Sifter" deals deeply with
religious thought, while The Melting
Pof occupies Itself entirely with one
of the most poignant problems with
which we Americans as a nation are
face to face.
"I say that this Is significant be
cause I believe that It Is an evidence
of the development of our modern audi
ences. Our wonderful school system Is
reaping its harvest. There is a crav
ing In America throughout all Amer
ica for education. A craving which
constantly Increases as It Is fed. The
proof of this is on every hand. One
sees it in the statistics of our libraries,
in the enormous and growing popular
ity of educational lectures, in the vast
improvement In the tone of our maga
llnes, in the constant Increase of Euro
pean travel, in hundreds of other ways
which one can enumerate without a
moment's thought. Its Influence is
readily apparent in the theater, which
is at last filling its proper sphere.
"It is my belief that nowadays a
play that Is to achieve the greatest
success must be built upon a thought
theme of present or universal Inter
est. I think that in the theater, the
storyteller pure and simple is no long
er supreme. He must, I believe, con
tend with the thinker and the teacher,
and In order to contend with them his
story must possess unusual qualities.
He may still win success, of course.
but it is Imperative that his story con
tain the most unusual charm. In other
words. I hold that nowadays the play
Is no longer entirely the thing it is
the thought back of the play that
counts. The bulk of the American pub
lic no longer go to the theater for en
tertainment alone, but for education
as well. The playwright's highest ap
peal must not be to the emotions out
to the Intelligence the mind of his
auditors. He should draw tears and
THE THEATERS
Continued From Page S.
In the free organ recitals which are given
dally.
LIRE RATI AT THE OARS TODAY
Popular Leader and His Famous
Band In Two Concerts.
No event In a musical way has caused
so much favorable comment as the for
tunate securing of Li be rati and his com
pany of eminent artists comprised in
his famous band and a large group of
grand opera singers, who are to appeaf
for one day only at tne uekj toaay.
Two concerts are to be given, one at
2 '30 o'clock m the afternoon and the
other at S:15 o'clock In the evening.
Llberati and his crganlxatlon have
Just closed a successful engagement at
the Alaska-YukonPaciflc Exposition and
are on the way to fill an engagement at
Idora Park at Oakland. After Manager
Cordray exchanged several letters with
the eminent bandmaster he finally suc
ceeded in Inducing him to stop off Sun
day in this city and give visitors at the
Oaks an opportunity to hear the greatest
cornet soloist In the world and his or
ganization in two ' concerts.
This engagement was not closed with
out the expenditure of a good round sum
of money, but the policy adopted by the
new management of the Oaks is to fur
nish the highest class of entertainment
possible to secure, for he believes the
public will appreciate his efforts and
wil! give him the support of their pres
ence at the beautiful park embellished
in the highest manner through landscape
gardening, flowering rosea and erection
of buildings designed for the entertain
ment and amusement of visitors.
Beginning today Mme. Scholl will ex
hibit her trained Hons in acts calculated
to please young and old alike. She has
been engaged for a limited time.
RAILROAD DENIES CHARGE
Louisville XashTille Stock ot
. Watered, Says Smith.
LOUISVILLE. Ky.. Aug. 14. In a letter
to the Courier-Journal today. President
Milton H. Smith. Df the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad.-takes exception to the
call of a newspaper writer to commercial
and Players
laughter, of course, but more important
than this, he must stimulate thought.
"Though I have long inclined to this
belief, our experience last season had
made my opinion upon the subject posi
tive. The successes of 'The Dawn of a
Tomorrow," 'The Battle,' 'The Man
From Home.' The Melting Pot,' 'The
White Sister" all plays built upon
strong themes of present interest
seem, to justify me in my present po
sition.. 'Accordingly during the present sea
son we will produce a number of plays
of a similar type. For instance, C. M.
S. McLellan, author of "Leah Kleschisa.'
has delivered to me the manuscript of
a wonderful play called 'Judith Za
ralne," which deals in the most .acute
and powerful fashion with the ques
tion of competition of commerce. The
scenes of the play are laid in America,
and I believe its production In New
York will create a sensation, for not
only is Its thought tremendously im
pressive, but its drama is vivid, virile
and sweeping. Similarly Israel Zang
will is at work upon a play a play
which he hopes to be his finest effort
upon the subject of peace universal
peace anong the nations and all the
peoples of the earth. I believe this
theme, handled by such a man. would
result In an absorbing drama.
"In a somewhat different vein for
Its tone is that of humor Booth Tark
lngton and Rarry Leon Wilson, the au
thors of The Man From Home." have
written a brilliant comedy, 'Foreign
Exchange.' Despite the lightness of its
spirit, tho play considers fully a very
serious problem the impossibility of
reconciling the European and American
ideas of love and marriage. It is the
opinion of the authors and myself that
the American girl is far too pure
minded for the foreign man.
"We will produce this play in Sep
tember at the Grand Opera House In
Chicago. It will be the first of a series
of original productions which we will
make In the same theater during the
season, fcr the success of 'The Man
From Home,' The Melting Pot," and
The White Sister' has shown us that
Chicago has now become one of the
great play-producing centers of the
world.
"Another play that will be one. of
this Chicago series Is 'A Little Brother
of the Rich,' a dramatisation of Joseph
Medlll Patterson's novel, by the au
thor and Miss Harriet Ford. This too
is a play built upon a thought certain
phases of the American desire for suc
cess at any cost.
"But of course we do not propose to
Ignore the storyteller. Indeed, while
primarily our desire is for plays deal
ing with thought, the appearance of a
beautiful story always delights us.
Such a story, I think, we bave in Ed
win Milton Royle's new play a sequel
to his great success. The Squaw Man."
This Is a wonderfully human love story,
written In the vein of the highest ro
mance. In it Mr.. H. B. Warner will
be seen for the first time as a star.
We will also produce a delightful com
edy by Tarkington and Wilson, with
the felicitous title, 'If I had Money.'
In this play Madge Carr Cook, the fa
mous creator, of 'Mrs. Wiggs," will be
the star. Besides these we have ar
ranged with Anthony Hope to write us
a new play In his most delicately ro
mantic manner."
boards in Southern states to prosecute
suits 'Ho prevent stock-watering of the
capital stock of the Louisville & Nash
ville." Agreeing that this call Is predicated
upon news dispatched that the railroad
"'has accumulated such surplus that It
purposes to increase the capital from
,000.00u to J75.000.000 or JIOO.000,000," and
that the capital stock "is largely water,"
Mr. Smith says:
"The results of the operations of the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad are mat
ters of public record and It is known to
all who have Investigated that there !s
no water In its stock; that there is not
the slightest evidence that anyone con
nected wifh the management of the com-
TP Ms
AJTJEOTJNCEMEXT EXTRAORDINARY
TWO GRAND CONCERTS
AND HIS
FAMOUS
ASD CONCERT COMPANY
ONE DAY ONLY SUNDAY, AUG. 15
Afternoon 3:30 Eveulna- SilS ,
Notwithstanding the magnitude of this attraction, there will be no extra
cnarge free to all visitors to The Oaks.
SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION
MME. SCHELL AND HER TRAINED LIONS
E.VHRE PARK CROWDED WITH AMUSEMENT FEATURES.
CARS EVERY FEW MINUTES, THIRD AND YAMHILL, AND
EAST MORRISON AND EAST WATER .
DAILr MATINEES 15c. 38e, 50c
ADVANCED A VAUDEVILLE
Monday Matinee, August 1 6
Week
Starting
JOHN HYAMS 6 LEILA HcINTYRE
FAVORITE PLAYERS IN A QUAINT OFFERING,
- "THE QUAKERESS,"
A COMEDY OF CLEVERNESS, BY HERBERT HALL WINSLOW.
The Acme of Animal Training. HAYES 6 JOHNSON
ROSE ROYAL In Their Amusing Oddity.
And Her Famous Arabian Horse "A DREAM OF BABY DAYS."
"CHESTERFIELD."
CUNNINGHAM 6 MARION Jf5JS5S,L
Somewhat Different Comedians.
WOODS & WOODS TRIO CATHRYN ROWE PALMER
In "An Elopement by Wire."' An American Comedienne.
Evening Prices 1
DAILY MATINEE 15c, 23e, 60e
PANT AGES
ADVANCED VAUDEVILLE
. WEEK CoVlMENCINC Jk lf f f
MONDAY MATINEE Jr- SJ VJe J
SENSATION OP EUROPE
6 THE BONESETTI TROUPE-6
SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION
Miss Mary Hampton, late Belasco star, and first time in vaudeville,
in Edmund Day's happiest conception, "The Melodrama."
THE GOYT TRIO
European. Act, Featuring the
Famous Acrobatic Canine,
"Daisy."
MARTIN BROTHERS
Premier Xylophone Artists.
LEO WHITE
Illustrated Song.
Popular Prices. Matinee Daily. Curtain, 2:15,, 7:30 and 9.
pany has even considered an increase In
the capital stock In the manner Indi
cated." Mr. Smith further cites a reported de
crease o $3,004,686.08 In gross receipts of
a hm ftmrAl vear ending June.
me mi -
1909. irom those during the fiscal year
ending June, 1807.
NEW BERRY DISCOVERED
Cross Between Raspberry and Straw
berry Said to Be Marvel.
OAUE3NA, 111.. Aug. M. Horticulturists
of this vicinity are excited about a new
berry which. If claims made about it are
true, may revolutionise the berry-growing
Industry of the state.
The berry, called the raspherry-Btraw-
BASEBALL
v Urreatlon Park.
Corner Vaughn and Twenty- Sta.
VERNON
vs.
PORTLAND
- AUG. 10, 11, 13, 13, 14, 15.
Games begin week days 8:30 P. M.;
a ,- r r.
stand, 60c; Boxes, 25c extra. Children:
Bleachers, luc; uranosiano,
T arila' Da-r FrtdaT.
Boys under 11 free to bleachers
Wednesday.
Actors Wanted
. . . j, I . 1 1 1 lrlnla rt
Wantea immeuiaicij " ' ' v
vaudeville acis, mu ,'
musicians, etc. Particulars phone Main
8458 or can ozon "uibiuu
KEWU THEATRICAL AGENCY.
PORTLAND'S
GREAT AMUSE
MENT PARR
JOHN F. CORDRAY
Leasee and Manager
IR..ATE
EAND
(9aa7 and Holidays Night Prices)
Phones Main 6 and A 1"?0
5c, 25c, 5Qc and 75c
(Sundays and FoHdaya Night Prices)
THEATER
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HARVEY & LEA
Humorous Hebrew Comedians.
GLADYS MIDDLETON
Charming Character Vocalist.
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berry, has been grown at Quincy, It Is
said, and Is a cross between the straw
berry and the raspberry. . It is said to
have originated by accident, bees having
carried pollen from one berry's blossom to
the other. A Quincy farmer who has
grown the berries for three years, says
VAUDEVILLE
WEEK OF AUG. 16
THE GREATEST CYCLING SENSA
TION IN THE WORLD 4
IN THE REVOLVING LOOP THE LOOP
Three Dare-Devil Cyclists, rid
ing in a revolving globe, going
in opposite directions, with the
globe revolving at the rate of 60
revolutions a minute.
The Wood Brothers
Famous Irish Athletes.
Clarence Sisters
A Pair of Australian
"Nuggets." '
Vera de Bassini
' The Italian Nightingale.
Mitchell and Cain
"The Frenchman and the Other
Fellow."
Murphy -Whitman & Co.
In a Dramatic Sketch, "The
Prodigal GirL"
Fred Bauer
Illustrated Song.
Grandascope V
Latest in Moving Pictures.
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OPENING
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WEEK COMMENCING
SUNDAY MATINEE, AUGUST 15
OPENING OF-
THE ATHON STOCK CO
PRESENTING EFFIE ELLSLER'S
GREATEST NEW YORK SUCCESS
A DRAMA WITH A MORAL 99
GREATER THAN A SERMON .
Elaborate Sconio Production
MATINEES SUNDAY TUESDAY THURSDAY
SATURDAY CURTAIN. 8:1 5 MAT I N EES 2:1 5
STAE .THEATER
' Portland' Most Fashionable Motion Picture Theater
t Supplied Exclusively By the MorCon Film Exchange
BIG ADDED FEATURE!
RUBELMAN
FAMOUS RUSSIAN VIOLINIST!
ON HIS FIRST WESTERN TOUR
Gift of Youth Out of Work
MythicaL ' ' Romance.
Obdurate Father j.TS Hawaiian Islands
Drama. Stereopticons.
Wild Ass' Skin Latest Ballad
Weird. Illustrated.
This Theater Will Open
the bush Is three feet high. It has a- more
delicate flavor than either the straw
berry or raspberry and there Is a linger
ing after-flavor.
No cultivation, it is said. Is needad. In
PORTLAND, 2 DAYS ONLY
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SHOW GROUNDS 25TH AND RALEIGH
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g85 SSScgS ifefjl 100JCA0ES
- "smOMjESTOFALL M HOLDING 8000 LBi
EA fflti STRONG MEN y
560 Acrobats and the 12 Lorch Family iflc!5j7
Vp'L -60 Aerialists and the 10 Flying Jordans
w 60 Riders the Renos and Daisy Hodgini
NOwvSw 50 Clowns, the World's Funny Men IN
FIRST 7lMfcy&s&i$yfe$ "If r. TH6
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p Tlu RutiBjj, Uijpst street Farads J-7L - yiff S
EVER SEEN ON EARTH
AAmluloa tickets and numbered renwred ! will be on sale Ouri.iK
the encasement la the SHERMAN. CIAY CO. I-IAVO STORK (OPPOSITE
POSTOFKICE, at exactly the aame price chanced In the recular ttcltet
ttasons oa the show grounds.
THEATER
Phones Main 46S3i A 102.
rrlces 30, 20 and 10 rents.
OPENING
WEEK
at Noon on Sundays Only
the Fall or early Spring the stalks are
mowed close to the ground and new
shoots that follow bear the fruit, their
growth being so vigorous as to kill off the
weeds that spring up.