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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 29, 1909)
" ssssssssss be the superior of any similar agsrega- f ' ' : - as" v sssssssssssssssbsssssssMssssssssssssss1 ; tion of voices in this country today. v Tr1 TT- A T y spsssssssssMbssssssssbs No doubt Portland will give the Ohio AT W ,: ' A V - M . ifS'-J W-t-w mmB--r chorus the same gratifying reception it 1 W y ! -jj Yl fl J I accorded the Mormon choir, which cer- f v""s s tl BK W & f J VTiarX I tainly sang itself into the hearts of the I ?fi ' II W Ww l i Sf II I people a week ago. This city may never I (,Jl! ' '" B li t M V I again enjoy two such feasts of song as Jl I J V V M H II ff 1 ,v II Manager Baker has given all muslo- Vl " rT sk - jasssa Iff . I M W r Cs-M I JanJr I lovers an opportunity to listen to In the THE unspeakable. "The Girl From Rector's." played to a small finan cial profit at the Bungalow last week .and to a considerable loss in the sum total of public morals. As a rule, the decent element remained away, and It received little aid and comfort from that class of theatergoers. The International Grand-Opera Com pany will come on September S In a fine repertoire, and will serve to take ths bad taste out of our mouths. The open In opera will' be "Alda," and the fol lowing will be the order: Monday night. "Lucia.;" Tuesday, 'Fedora:" Wednes day matinee, "II Trovat ore;" Wednesday, "Rlgoletto;" Friday "night, "Carmen,;" Saturday matinee, "La Travtata," and Saturday night a composite bill, "L'Aml co FTltx." absolutely new to American audiences. "Rustlcana" and "Pagliac ci." All. the principals will appear dur ing the week. It will be a source of considerable pleasure to see Izetta Jewel and Don ald ,Bowle3 In a Joint starring produc- tlon'of "Salomy Jane," Paul Armstrong's play founded on the Bret Harte stories. The engagement will be for one week, at the end of which Miss Jewell will go to New York to commence rehearsals with OUs Skinner. The Lyric's offering Cor the. new week, will be "The Ranch King," commenc ing this afternoon. The vaudeville houses chsnge bills to morrow afternoon, as usual. POWERFCL ACT AT ORPHETJM Circumstantial Evidence" Is Qne-of Biggest Hits of Season. Prominent on next week's bill at the Orpheum, beginning Monday afternoon, August 30, Is a powerful comedy drama by Harrison Armstrong, entitled "Cir cumstantial Evidence," which Is one of the greatest hits In vaudeville. Here Is depicted a scene that Is one of the greatest features of our National law. Mr. Armstrong has practically run the gamut of human emotion: it la an act that people will think about: throughout the whole story there Is a sweetness and cleanness that Is positively refreshing: pathos and comedy are Intermingled In the act with delightful sequence, and It may be truly said to be absorbing in its effect upon an audience. Ed Wynn and Al Lee. famous original comedians, are presenting a novelty com edy act called "The Bllllken Freshman." The offering Is not a sketch, as the title would Indicate, but a clever combina tion of witty conversation and catchy songs of the campus. A feature of the act is Mr. Wynn's college boy hat, which is a remarkable top piece; he transforms it into all sorts of peculiar shapes and he gets a surprising amount of fun in it. Charles Montrell Is one of the world's famous European Jusrglers. this being his first appearance In America in over two years. He is in a class by himself for skill and finesse, and like Cinquevslli. his Jurgling is augmented by comedy effects. Rose Crouch and George Welch are pre senting a splendid little comedy sketch of unusual merit, which is filled to the brim and overflowing with action, bright, clever comedy lines, and also contains a nnmber of late, snappy popular songs. Harry H. Richards, assisted by Misses Dorothy Daley and Adele Ferguson, are presenting a charming little operetta, called "Love a la Mode." which Is best described as replete with comedy situa tions, high-class musical selections, and effective costumes. Masters of the xylophone are the Mu sical Johnstons. These nimble-fingered artists play with remarkable accuracy and their speed is little short of marvelous. Beth 8tone. the "Topsy-Turvey" toe dancer, after a number of seasons with various big Eastern successes, including "The Little Cherub." is Introducing vau deville audiences to a number of clever novelties, besides dainty roe dancing and some others of the whirl-wind variety. She has a rare personal attractiveness, and her numbers are beautifully gowned. "THE RANCH KING" AT liTHIO Athon Stock Company to Appear la IMay of Western Hills. In two weeks the Athon Stock Com pany has won the public heart at the Lyrio by giving meritorlaua productions of dramas and plays never seen In Port land before. The players have large followings already and Portland's only stock company bids fair to be the most popular ever In the city. For the third week, commencing with today's matinee, the Athon Company will present for the first time In Portland Joseph Clifton's great story of the West ern hills. "The Ranch King." It is a powerful tale, a play filled with tears and laughter and wholesome philosophy and kindlv humor, as pure and clean as the unsullied snow, without the Intima tion of anything unseemly and without manifestation of violence upon the stags Just a sweet story and an original plot, against a background of delicious West ern atmosphere, through which moves characters the people of the West love ss their own. Miss Knowles will have a delightful light comedy role which will win her more hearts. Parts will also be taken by Alice Condon, Susie Howard, Louise Hartt. Robert Athon, Sidney Fum. Percy Kilbridge, Jack Bennett. Frankivn Murray. Lee Hatton, Ralph Bell and others of the company. It will be another elaborate scenio production, on a scale more magnificent than that of last week. - which the critics prslsed. Lee Hutton and his assistants have been at work for two weeks on the scenery for "The Ranch King." There will he a sonvenir matinee on Tuesday and another 'pink tea" matinee on Thursday. These matinees proved so i v f I . . i v ' i l 1 J ill s - 2 sczrse eoAZ csjeccsrsTyfJVTVz, js-KtoJrs: 0 V A popular last week that the house was sold out at both. Regular matinee Sat urday, too. and every night during the week at 8:15. Following "The Ranch King" the Athon Company will present the famous farce comedy, "A Runaway Match," a style of play In which the members of the company excel. Seats always selling one week In advance. You'll like., the Lyric. GRAND KEEPS TP ITS PACE Vaudeville House Will Give Three Distinct Topllners Next Week. When It Is said that three of the acts on the "new bill which opens at the Grand tomorrow are real headllners, some Idea to gained of the excellence of the com ing programme. The feature position, however. Is assigned to Edwin Carewe Ic Company In "Pals." This IS said to be a thrilling, original and Interesting one-act drama. It was originally used by James J. Corbett, and was presented i 1 y t. 1 TTROl.KAW UART15T AT THK OAKS. X 1 4 vX-s in all the leading vaudeville houses -Of the East.' This will be Its first presenta tion In the Northwest. The diamalet comes with the best of recommenda tions, and jir. Carewe Is an actor of ability who has surrounded himself by a number of clever people. Another act is the number of Tom and Stacie Moore, whose specialty Is called "The Act Beautiful." Miss Moore wears some fins Imported gowns and Mr. Moore la a comedian with original Ideas. One of the amusing Innovations of the team Is the Introduction of a peach-basket hat two feet high and covered with real fruit. Mort Sharp and his six dancing belles will be a winning number. This act gives echoes of the plantation, and the songs and dances are all of the kind which are typical below the Mason and Dixon line. Billy Court Is a Scotch comedian, with a brogue that Is the real article. Ho has some songs and stories which ,have the odor of the heather to them. The Ahlberg Brothers are German acrobats who brought some new feats to the 45, - SUNDAY OREGOXIAV PORTLAND. AUGUST - --- iuw -r , uw 7..it. when they arrived Inst month. There will be a new illus trated ballad by Fred Bauer and brand new reels for the Grandiscope. All these acts will form one of the best vaude ville shows of the year. Today closes the present hill, headed by Hugh Lloyd, the king of cord elas tlque. ' CLEVER ACTS AT PANTAGES Well-Balanced Programme This Week at Fourth-Street House. It takes all sorts of clever acts to make vaudeville entertaining, and a well mixed programme Is on the schedule at Pantages next week, opening tomorrow afternoon. While several of the acts are worthy of and have played positions of honor in the "continuous," the offering unique is presented by Hanson and Jen nie who startled all Europe this Spring with their marvelous feats on the rolling globes. While packing the famous Jar din de Paris nightly, they were engaged for a limited season In America, and all their time Is being played exclusively on Pantages routings. After many dif ficult and daring feats on the spheres, the act Is closed by Hanson climbing a staircase while locked; inside the globe, a feat never before attempted. It Is the act wonderful of its kind and Port land vaudeville-goers are offered an "at traction unique in every detail. In a remarkable musical act appear Martinettl and Grossl. a recent head liner in Berlin theaters, who are excel lent musicians, and introduce their act In a clever way. Martlnetta enters the stage on a bicycle, which falls to pieces, every part some sort of a musical In strument. Clarinet, trombone, flute and other instruments of the same sort are played and the melodies are not of the t'.ring kind, but snatches from all the latest ragtime. Hamilton and Ronca are clever musical comedians who pose as the original crea tors of mirth. Miss Ronca is a cnarm- ! lng violinist who includes an tne latest hit. In her renertolre. while Mr. Hamil ton's singing is a distinct feature of the programme. The duo appear m sypa, costumes and their act is effervescing with clean comedy and dainty songs. Three remarkable contortionists are mo Shelvey brothers, who do a series of ac robatic feats startling In the extreme and presenting one of the hits on West ern "time" this Summer. Miss Nada Moret, a chic Parisian by birth, but a dane-hter of the land of the kangaroo by adoption. Is a delightful monologulst who is very entertaining with her droll stories and lightning changes. Tegge and Daniel are a team of German comedians wno are really funny with their chatter and paro dies. , Leo White will sing a new picture nai led and the Pantageecope ana tne or chestra will offer the very latest in ani mated events and music. CLEVER SINGER AT. THE STAR Misa Elsie Edwards, English Artist, Opens Engagement Today. The management of the Star wlll.pfe- sent, beginning with today's programme, one of the greatest offerings ever ex hibited in a Western theater In the form of a character singer, Miss Elsie Ed wards, who Is well known in England as one of the best and most original. Miss Edwards certainly has the accent and pe culiar way of rendering these songs which Is true to life. As an example or wnai may be expected her programme will contain "My Ain Folk, Ows Enery Awkins." and "Yip I Addy I Ay," the famous songs of the British Isles. In addition to this will be the usual splendid programme of pictures, air oi which are so good that tne csiar man agament hardly knows which to feature. "Broken Tie" is perhaps the one that will make the strongest appeal to the hearts of the people, as it deals with the lives of a husband 'and wife and their little child. They are people of good standing and socially refined, but do not understand each other, and after a lew misunderstandings they conclude to live apart. The father Is given custody of the child, which of course proves hard on the baby, as she longs for her mother's love and care. Visits at frequent Inter vals only serve to make her long for her more, and in the end the little one's love brings the estranged pair together. Other Interesting pictures are "The Evil That Men Do," a thrilling drama, "The Professor's Dilemma," a splendid com edy and "Sevres Porcelain," a great mystery- play. CROWDS JUST KEEP COMING Oaks Continues to Prove Strong Drawing Card With Public. The management of the Oaks Is much pleased with the evidences given dur ing the week that the efforts made for the entertainment of visitors are so well appreciated. The attendance is growing rapidly, there being several large parties of tourists among the vis itors during the week, and the Oaks has become the favorite place for resi dents of Portland to take visitors to the city as an important part of their entertainment. The really fine concerts given by Donatelli's band and vocal solos by Sig A. Dumond, the eminent- tenor, draw crowds of music-lovers every aft ernoon and evening. . There is every reason to believe that a tremendous crowd of visitors will be present today to enjoy several new attraction! offered in addition to the host already installed. The most unlaue exhibition seen In here I 29, 1909. yzjor cavoojv wz&ffjeAtfCff JC7W Portland will be that of a wedding cere mony in public, the bride and groom to be inside the lion's cage while be ing united In marriage. The license has been secured and the ceremony wlU be conducted In a perfectly legal man ner. No couple was ever married In Portland under such unuBual surround- "KSThe much-advertised "Desperado" will be the act to thrill the vast crowd, as it has been declared to be the great est sensation of the age. Dressed In the costumes of their na tive land, the Tyrolean Quartet will sing the songs and dance as they did when at home in far-away Tyrol, In the high Alps. Take cars at Third and Yamhill. Five-cent fares from all parts of the city. "SALOMY JANE" AT BAKER Mlsa Izetta Jewel Will Make Her Farewell Appearance Here. Izetta Jewel, the popular leading lady of the Baker Stock Company last season, will be seen at the Baker for one week, commencing Sunday matinee, n,n,,mh B. In Paul Armstrongs drama, "Salomy Jane," which was dram atized from Bret Mane s ituuuua "Salomy Jane's Kiss." It was only after careful consideration that Manager Ba ker decided the part oi saiomy j-o i be best fitted for Miss Jewel's farewell engagement, prior .to her leaving for the East, where she Joins Otis Skinner, u, not,, alan announces that he has engaged Donald Bowles to stage this production. Mr. jaowies is u way from Minneapolis, and he will lm- HHP" WW"" - 7, -e m 1 Young Couple Will Face Lions and Matrimony at Same Time Aimie Bailo and Joseph Pepa to Be Married in Case of Wild Beasts at the Oaks This Afternoon. " ayw -, - " I HEN a young woman makes up w her mind that her wedding Is to be conducted under such-and- such circumstances, it Is the part of wis dom on the part of her prospective hus band to say, "Yes, dear," and fall into line. Pretty Annie Bailo, a cashier at the Oaks, was won some . months ago by Joseph Pepa. After the young Couple had plighted their troth Miss Bailo fell In love with anothei In fact, two others. Prince and Babe, Mme. Schell's huge African lions. Thereupon she told her affianced that when the time came for their marriage it must be solemnized in the cage with the Hons. Now, "Joe" Pepa is somewhat of a courageous man ..himself, as his occupa tion indicates, tliat of an aeronaut. He says that from boyhood he always has been partial to any sort of sport or occu pation that carries with it an element of mediately upon his arrival in Portland 'take full charge of the company which has been engaged to support these two Portland favorites. Two years ago "Salomy Jane was produced at the Liberty Theater. New York, at that time occupied by Eleanor Robson, who was playing in stock with that great actor, holbrook Blinn, as leading man. This was the sixth of new plays produced by Miss Robson during the season, and at the time the critics were all high In their praise, not only of Miss Robson's artistic work, but of the piece Itself. This will be the last time Miss Jewel and Mr. Bowles will be seen In our city playing in the same piece, and both have friends and ad mirers by the hundreds. GREAT CHORUS IS COMING Splendid Musical Organization From Ohio Gives Concert Here. The man behind the baton of the Ohio Male Chorus, which makes its ini tial bow to a Portland audience at the Baker Tuesday evening, will be Profes- sor Hugh W. Owens. When the A.-Y.-P. Exposition contest was arranged for at Seattle, with a $1000 cash prize of fered for the best singing chorus, open to all comers, the Ohio Male Chorus, al ready victors in over a hundred con tests, placed the organiaztion in the hands of Professor Hugh W. Owens, of Chicago, to lead them to victory. This chorus of 50 picked voices is the strongest organization ever sent out from the State of Ohio. Individual members have won fame both at home and abroad, while the chorus, as a whole. Is pronounced by able critics to danger. When his sweetheart announced they would be wedded in a lions' den instead of blanching at the suggestion he simply said: "That suits me, Annie; hunt up your lions." They came to Port land to find that Mme. Schell, with Prince and Babe, were at the Oaks, and Immediately set about arranging for the ceremony agreed upon. . This afternoon in the presence of the vast crowd certain to be attracted by fhe unusual event the two will be united at the Oaks by a minister, who. however, will be stationed just outside the cage. The bride is a striking blonde, who was born in British Columbia, but has spent most of her young life in Los Angeles, where her parents reside. "Joe" Pepa is of French-Italian stock, and has followed ballooning for several years, having had many miraculous escapes. It was he that made the last ascension from fhe Oaks, and in the descent was hurled against a pile of lum ber, sustaining a painful bruise on his leg. Miss Hamas May Give Concert. Mis Elizabeth Harwas has returned from Seaview, where she has been rest ing before leaving for her Winter season. She Is now considering several plans for her future work, any one or wnicn wm mean a brilliant career. As she has sung so little in public since coming home her friends are urging her to give a concert' before her departure, and she may consent to do so. A DRINK OF "RED LICKER" Mnrse Henry Watterson and the Tklrat of Nations. Washington (D. a) Post. Marse Henry Watterson has been hav ing a peck measure of fun with a preacher and an" editor, and all about a drink of red llcker. or its equivalent. Col. Watterson's edirorlal reminas one i Voltaire, but It Is "without tne scorpion virus of the scoundrel who wrote la Pucelle," and yet we must recall "Can dlle" while reading what the colonel has to say In reply to Preacher Pickett and Editor Summers. What could be finer than thlsT It must have come from the land ot cotton. 'Sim mon seed and sandy bottom. "Now. the terms wine and beer cover many hundreds of different beverages. Each country produces its own peculiar types of wine and beer, and each type has its gradations. The wine of France Is not as the wine of Germany. There Is a difference even between the wine of the Rhine and the wine of the Moselle, which empties into the Rhine. There arc the wines of Spain and Portugal much too strong and almost obsolete of late years. There are the Italian wines and the Hungarian wines leave the Tokay and the Lachrima Christl alone. Brother Pickett! The beer of England is not as the beer of Bavaria, nor the beer of Munich as the beer of Berlin, though this latter is Improving: nor yet the beer of Wurzburg. There- is the deep, dark, insinuating Kulmbacher don't you go monkeying with that. Brother Plckettl and again, there is the liquid amber known as Pllsener which you and your bovs can drink till the cows come home without feeling it. (Ask Louis Seelbach If you can't.) Down in Georgia they say that "near-beer" tastes and smells ex actly like whisky, and up In Maine we know that "old cider" means apple brandy." That Is Thackeray reincarnate, but with the cynicism of the author of Col. Newcome and Becky Sharp eliminated. It Is suggestive of Pope, too, and pity it is that Watterson, when yet a youth, did not saturate himself with Swift. Watterson is now in the October of life, nearly threescore years and ten. one year younger than Tom Reed would be if living, but here is a passage in the fun that he pokes at Preacher Pickett and Editor Summers that brings us to think that Marse Henry is yet in the effer vescent month of glorious May: "The 'six-bottle' men of London In fhe eighteenth century went long ago to keep company with the 'seven-barred gate men' of the shires, and 'old port' and 'madeira' are rarely seen nowadays on the host tables. Intoxication is in fact no longer or anywhere, tolerated by . society. The Rhine barons and the no- . blllty and gentry of England have, re formed themselves without any prohibi tion enactments, whilst in fhe Latin countries drunkenness is substantially un known either among the aristocracy or the peasants, who use the lighter wines. "Brother Pickett refuses to see the facts as fhey are. Instead, he takes his Iso lated view, which appears to be limited to the narrow stria of territory lying betwixt the groggery and the gutter. He does not discriminate. In vain for any one to Inform or admonish him. Thus, for example Look not upon the wine when 'tis red. Take white -wine Instead. Gaze never upon the wine In the cup. Just drink It up. And so on. Colonel Watterson Is one of those old fashioned Democrats, of the school ot John Hampden. Edmund Burke and Thomas Jefferson, who do not believe that an act of Congress cquld help Ra hab of Jericho or Magdalene of Judea. He is fool enough to think that public decency Is a thing that that state may regulate, but that personal morality Is a thing for the family, for the church, for the social gathering, for public opin ion. He Is old enough to remember that the Southern man who was cruel to hla slaves was outlawed from good society in every slave state. The silent statute of public opinion Is Infinitely more effect ive than acts of Congress. There be those who think that this prohibition wave will go as did the Know nothing craze, and they would have iis gef back to fundamental principle thai you cannot make men honest, nor women chaste by statute. OHIO CHORUS WIMS PRIZE Captures First in Singing Competi tion at Seattle Fair. Manager George L. Baker, of Baker Theater, yesterday received the follow ing telegram from Manager Evans of the great Ohio Male Chorus, which, is to be heard at the Baker for one grand concert only next Tuesday evening: "The celebrated Ohio. Male Chorus won chief male chorus prize at exposition this evening, defeating all competitors. Roberts won tenor solo prize over SO contestants." This was cheering news for Manager Baker, who has taken some risk in offer ing a big guarantee to these famous singers for the one appearance in this -city, and serves also to increase the Interest already felt In their coming by all lovers of music. The Mormon Taber nacle Choir was heard here last week as it was on its way to Seattle, and It was an event never to be forgotten by all those fortunate enough to be present. Now that the Ohionans have captured the big prize they will be doubly wel coniMi 1' ru. I LAST C0NCERJ0F SEASON Rosebrook and His Band to Play a'. City Park This Afternoon. Rosebrook and his band will play a the City Park this afternoon, the con cert to start at 2:30. This will be the last park band concert of the season, the appropriation made for that pur pose having been exhausted. Follow ing is the programme for today: Overture, "Rotamunde" Yr. Shuber. (ft) "Apple Blossoms," a tone porm . Roberls (b) "Bolivia." (both new) Jce Julian "Invitation to the Dancie" Weber "Forest Whispers." new Loiey "Second Hungarian Rhapsody" Llt Flute adenza by Millard. Intermission Ten minutes. Scenes from "Cavallarta nustlcana" Mnscasni Variations on "My Old Kentucky Home" Incidental cornet aolo by Rosebrook . Dalhey Intermerao "Kisses." new. Raymond Hubhell March, "Algrerla." new Herbert American Patrol Meat-ham Excerpts from "The Serenade" Herbert "Star-Spangied Banner."
