if if !tf POLLOWING the gTand opera season of this week, the Bungalow will '6ffer"A Gentleman From Missls-1ppl."-wtth- James Lackeys In the cast. Later -comes "Paid In Full." with Ruby p.rldgesT " "Underlined for later In the onth are "A Knight for a Day. rne Ime. t&e Place and the Girl." and Dus- In Farnum In his new piay, - v-ajneo irby." This afternoon Izetta Jewel and Don- Id Bowles, ably supported, win com- tnence a week'a engagement at the Ba iter In "Salomy Jane," This will be Miss Jewel's farewell to Portland, as she leaves Saturday night, after the per formance, for New Tork to begin re hearsals as leading woman with Otis Skinner In his' new play. The follow ing attraction at the Baker will be 'Fifty Miles From Boston." The Shu berts will open their local campaign on September 12 with "Girls" at the Star, for a full weeflc As yet no announce ment of subsequent attractions ha been made. ' The vaudeville theaters. Orpheum. Grand and Pantages. continue present bills this afternoon and tonight, chang ing tomorrow afternoon. The Lyrlo opens this afternoon In "A Runaway Match." GRAND OPERA OFEXS TONIGHT "Alda" Will Be the Bill With Mme. Bertossl la the Title Role. This evening at the Bungalow Thea ter, Twelfth and Morrison streets, the International Grand Opera Company will open the regular season of the house by the Introduction of one week of grand opera. This company Is an organization which has been playing for the last two seasons In Eastern cities and has Just filled a phenomen ally successful engagement of six weeks in San Francisco. Since then the company has played Los Angeles for two weeks and the Southern California cities. The opening bill will be Verdi's "Aida." with most of the principals In the cast. As this coVpany is composed of 100 principals, chorus, and their own orchestra, composed of 25 selected operatic musicians. It Is able to pro duce a different opera nightly. J Mme. Bertossl. the well-known Ital ian dramatic soprano, will sing the role of Alda. Radames will be portrayed by the young American tenor, Louis Samoloff. who has achieved such suc cess, in this part in Europe, as well as In his late engagement In San Fran rlsco; the Princess' Amnerls, ' by Georgian Strauss, a contralto of great , and powerful voice and fine stage ap pearance. The King of Ethiopia will be Impersonated by Arcangell. Gravin will sing the basso part of the High priest Ramphls. Monday evening "Lucia di Lammer moor," in which Madame Jennie Norelll, who formerly was a resident of this city, will sing the title role, will be given. Mme. Norelll has received great praise In this character, also of that of Vloletta In "La Travlata," which she will sing at the Saturday matinee. Sig ner Bari will be the Egardo, the tenor role, while the character of Sir Ash ton wrH-be-portrayed by Zara:" i Tuesday evening Giordano's "Fe- flora." in four acts, will be presented. 1 This Is one of the most Intense dra matic operas ever written and re quires artists of the most dramatic In stinct to portray the difficult roles. Mme. Therry will Impersonate the part of Fedora, of which she Is the orig inator, having created the part In Paris. Colomblhl, who Is designated by the press as the "actor singer" of the company, will be the Ivan Ivanoff. At the 'Wednesday matinee the old but irore favorably known opera. "II- Trova fore," with Mme. Bertossl as Leonora, jrlil be sung. Azucena. the old gypsy woman, will be portrayed by Miss Strauss. This ' Is one of the first char acters this eminent, contralto ever sang, and It Is said that the portrayal of this character is one of her best. Manrico, the soldier tenor, will be sung by Samo loff. while Count of Luna, the rival, will be Impersonated by Zara. Wednesday evening "Rlgoletto" win produced: Gllda. the leading soprano, will be sung by Mme. Norelll. The Iuke pf Mantua will be sung by Slgnor BarL i Thursday night there will be produced the double bill of 'Cavallerta Rusticana" and "I PagllaccL"' These operas demand (wo of the principal sopranos and tenors of the company. "Rusticana" will have tolomblnl and Bertossl. Zara, Zarad. Giu liano and Frascona. In "Pagllacet" will be heard Mile. Donner. Mme. Samoloff and Arcangell. who will sing the part of Tonlo. the clown. The singing of the "Prologue before the curtain by Arcan gell Is- spoken of aa one of the beat renderings of this difficult piece of music ever presented. On Friday evening the French artist of the company, Mme. Therry. will be Xhe "Carmen" In the title role of that opera. Therry' rendition of this ch&rao :er Is purely a French one, as she wa designated in Paris while playing -It at lha Ooera Comlque as "the Carmen of the French." Colomblnl - will render hla-H great characterization of the jealous sol dier lover Don Jose. Zara will be the ireador as Eseamllle. whose rendition cf the toreador song Is one of -the fea ture of the opera. The plcturesquenes if the opera "Carmen." Is one of the feature of this company, aa the cos tume and scenery are historically cor rect In every detail. Saturday afternoon will be the farewell appearance of Mme. Norelll in one of her famous characters of Vloletta. In "la Travlata," the operatic translation N of Dumas' "Camllle." This Is another opera In which Norelll has achieved marvel ous success. George Dumond will be ung by Barl. I : . - V GJZAHD' QfZTjeA CO. -47 1 & "7 V1? J A. whlle'the baritone Zara will impersonate his father. Saturday eevnlng a composite bill will be produced - that will require the ser vices of the entire principal, chorus, etc The one-act opera of "Cavallerta Rusticana" will be the opening bill, fol lowed by Pagllaecl" and the new Maa cagnl opera, Amlco Fritz." STORY OF JKAN" VAXJEAX TOLD Star Depicts Life of This Interesting Character In Picture. The Star today offers Mile. l'AlberUs" dog and monkey-cirous, consisting of H Intelligent little dogs and two very cute and entertaining little monkeys. Mile. d'Albertis . nas spared neither pain in training nor money In securing these wonderful little pets, and this Is cer- tainly the treat of the seaeon.- The pictures are also of splendid char acter, the feature film being entitled "The Galley Slave," and I the firat of five of these pictures which will be taken from Victor Hugo's famous novel, "Les Mlser- 1 THE MAH4TITR9 IX CXTDE FITCH'S CXEVER COMEDY. -GTRXS. V -BUATGjILOIV 1 ,5 V 5 v. ables." It is an Intensely Interesting story ef Jean.Valjean's Imprisonment and the incident Immediately following hi release. He ' Is Imprisoned aa a punish ment for having, stolen a loaf of bread to feed his poor starving family. Upon his entrance to the prison he at once begins to worry about his wife and children, and of course trie to escape to go to their relief. This only' leads to his sentence be ing prolonged. Poor Jeam losing all hope, when he -does leave the prison, he steals from a good bishop who has shown him naught but kindnee. He is caught and brought, with the stolen property, back to the bishop. The bishop refuses to claim the property and declare that he had made a gift of the stolen goods to the captive. The poor man, won by the bishop's kindness, 1 Inspired to try and be like him. and becomes famous and an Influence for . good throughout his circle. This will be followed by four other pic tures from "Les Miserable" and other Interesting film. 'Paid-in Pull' Coming to Bungalow At the" Bungalow- Theater, 12th and -1 J (a a. m -fXQM 5ALO?y 04 11 " --I i U$ - fl t ' y II 7 Morrison streets. September J. 17 apd 18. the n-agenhals & JCemper Company will present Eugene Walter's "Paid In Full,' a play of contemporaneous American, life, by everybody considered the greatest and the most entertaining drama produced in this country In years, and beyond all question the most popular. No - other play has ever earned such a reputation a "Paid In Full" has attained. Its suocess Is truly sensational. It made such a tremendous hit In New Tork .that It ran there for two years, the only play not musical comedy ever to remain all Summer on Broadway. It is the refgn lng success everywhere"that It has been In. New York. tF1ve companies played It all lat season. The same are appearing In It. now. ' XEWETi-BOWXES ENGAGEMENT Portland Favorites Appear In "Salo mj Jane" All Week at Baker. The announcement made by Manager George L. Baker that two of his fore most favorites of the gTeat Baker Stock Company, Izetta Jewel and Don ald Bowles, would make one more week's appearance In this city before going East to accept new positions has caused thrills of delight in more than a few hearts of Portland's theater goers, and matinee girls specially. The advance sale of seats has been .one con tinual rush from the beginning. The engagement will open this afternoon1 In a superb production of."Salomy Jane," Eleanor Robsop.'s great success, and will continue one week only, with a special Labor Day matinee Monday (tomorrow) and the regular Saturday matinee. ' "Salomy Jane" Is a beautiful story oi SEPTEMBER 5, 1909. J: the California hills, Just as "The Girl of the Golden West" is. and gives both Miss Jewel and Mr. Bowles opportunity for extremely clever acting. It com mands an especially heavy royalty and was secured only by special arrange ments wltlk the owners for this un usual event. Miss Jewel will play the role of Salomy Jane created by Miss Robson, while the part of the outlaw will .be nlayed' by Mr. Bowles. The 'scenes showing the California hills -will b most beautiful with glorious light ef fects; Although the seat sale has been unusually heavy there are still good seat for nearly every performance, and no theatergoer should overlook this coming week at the Baker. GREAT BILL AT THE ORPHEUM Guerrero, Murray and Mack and Tom Waters on New Programme. An entire new" bill will occupy fhe board at the Orpheum for one week beginning with the matinee tomorrow. , The head liner for the week ,1a the famous Spanish artist Rosario Guerrero, assisted by Sig. L, Paglieri in a beautiful musical "pan tomime, "The Rose and the Dagger." It 1 a masterpiece without words, with ex quisite musical accompaniment and varied emotions. Guerrero wears & number of handsome and fetching gowns. Her per sonal attractiveness and her dancing make her one of the big hits In vaude ville. Tom Waters, known throughout the en tire' country as a comic opera star of rank having appeared for a number of seasons with "Coming Through the Rye," "Mayor of Laughland." etc, will be seen in his original piano pastime, song, dance, T sM I I ' story and mimicry. His brief appearance in vaudeville is Just prior to his sailing to Europe to fill a number of engage ments In England's famous muaio halls. Mr. Waters Is perhaps one of the best known mirth-producers in America; his performance is a scream from start to finish. . . . Margaret Fealy and company In pre senting "Witches'- Hour and Candle Light." a onet-act sketch by Pauline Phelps and Marioi Short, have a unique and novel act which has caused mu,ch favorable comment. "An Argument -In Harlem" Is the ve hicle which serves to Introduce Charles A. Murray and Ollie Mack to vaudeville audiences. It Is filled with brlgnt dia logue, has an abundance of mirth and contains a number of the latest and best nnrv,,l,P rm- Mt Mnrrav and Mack are Murray and Mack are always a great drawing card. From their European triumphs Spauld Ing and Riego have returned to America. They are clever comedians, who have a delightful new and novel act, during the course of which they perform all sort of daring feats on the horizontal bar. also a series of exceedingly difficult acrobatic work. "The Girl Behind the Veil" is one of the musical treats of the season, being a high-class and refined singing act. Charles D. Weber in an original Jug gling . act, in which he accomplishes seemingly Impossible feats and shows himself to be a complete master of all that is fascinating, and surprising In the art of Juggling. , . REAL SNAKES AT THE, GRAND Dramatic Scenes Shown From Cleo-, patra Life at This Theater. Seven acts will comprise the new vaude ville programme at the Grand for this week, commencing tomorrow afternoon. The principal act will be Bothwell Browne and company in "Cleopatra" and the "Live Snake Dance." Mr. Browne la con sidered one of the very best of the female Impersonators. The act is staged in Ori ental splendor and will reproduce the style of the days when the Queen of the Nile reigned supreme. The other mem bers of the company, are Ernest Young, Paul Stanhope and Myrtle Guild. An act which all music-lovers will want to hear Is Rlnaldo. On the occasion of his former visit to the Grand he was a sensational success, and since then his fame has spread widely. His repertoire Includes Tobani's Hungarian fantasia, "Killarney" and "Annie Laurie,"r med ley and a "rag" by himself. Selbinl and Grovini are whirlwind acro bats. Jugglers and' equilibrists. "The.Millionaire and the Iceman" Is the title of the funny turn of McFarland and Murray. These- men are natural come dians, who keep up a constant fire of funny Jokes and doings. The .Steele sisters are handsome young Australian girls who are said to do a very clever act comprised of coster sing ing and character changes. They are fa vorites wherever they have appeared on the circuit. "The Witch's Power" Is a dramatic playlet, with Will S. Marion and Vira Rlal. The plot is one of mystery, hyp notism,: complications and is always dra matic. . . There will be a monologue and songs by Will Morrissey, . who. is. said to have many new stories. Fred Bauer will, sing a. new illustrated song, and brand-new reels will be shown on the Grandiscope. . . This afternoon and night will be the last of the present bill, with "Pale," Tom Moore and Stasia, Mort Sharp and his dancing girls, and others. ROARING FARCE AT Blondell and Company Will Appear In "The Lost Boy." In a riotously funny farce comedy, Ed ward Biondell and company will make their first bow to Portland audiences to morrow afternoon at Pantages, In his original farce, "The 'Lost Boy," The playlet Is an adaption from Blondell's famous play "Through the World," in which he starred in the East during the past season. The plot has to do W. Co XtCS1 VA7S2?J?J3JJSG with more or less humorous adventure! of a country boyln the city, lost and friendless until he drops Into the hands of the "city lady." The principal feminine roles are skillfully played by Miss Clara Everett and Miss Arllne Shade, both actresses of unusual ability. The original ragtime musical act la offered by the Five Spillers, a quintet of remarkably clever colored folk, three men and two women, who Jingle the latest from Ragtime Row on the piano, saxophones, xylophones . and trombones. A clever dog act, which Includes a great deal of comedy. Is to be found In Buckley's carilne aggregation. Buckley has trained his dogs so they are true actors. In these days of the ordinary It Is hard to find a truly funny German corn median, but If past performances are any Indication, George Yeomans will receive a hearty welcome when he does his monologue skit, which is called "Just a Jerman Jester;" A dainty singing and dancing sketch will . feature rlrene -Le and her - Cn -Kid, who elng many of the latest popu-.. lar melodies, with clog dance accom paniment. . Dorothy Lamb and her assistants have a delightful comedy playlet, "A Night With the Red Men," which keeps the house In a gale of laughter. Leo White, will have a new illus trated song, and the latest In animated events will be shown by the Pantage scope. LONG LAUGH AT THE LYRIC pit Will Be the Bill for Kcal do7 1 lal Will JJC v Coming Week. It is time, to laugh the rainy season Is approaching, the crowds are back from the resorts and settling .down to business for another year and every one wants to laugh .because everyone is prosperous. . Therefore at the Lyrio this week there will be a laugh two hours and thirty minutes long, a pro duction by the Athon Stock Company of "A Runaway Match," the great sorrow-slayer and dlstress-dispeller. It is a famous farce and will be given, commencing today matinee, with beau tiful stage settings, with the women of the company appearing in lavish gowns and hats, with a strict attention to dramatic detail and with a cast of peo ple especially fitted for playing the rapid-fire, quick-action business called A GENTLEMAN FROM MISSIS SIPPI" COMING TO THE BUKGALOW. V n Miss Olive Harper, Who Play One of Leading Rales. "A Gentleman From Mississippi", comes to the Bungalow Theater September 12, 13. 14, 15 next, fol lowing a New- York run of over one year. The play Is a comedy of Washington official life, and Is the work of Harrison Rhodes . and Thomas A. Wise. It Is put forward by William A Brady and Joseph R. Grismer. "A Gentleman From Mississippi" tells of the. speedy education, In the devious wavs'of Washington's official and social diplomacy of Senator "Bill" . Langdon. an easy-going, guile-' less and honest chap from Missis sippi, sent to the Senate by "the Interests" in the belief that he will prove pliable through his' Ignorance of procedure. The role of the Senator will be played by James Lackaye. A quintet of pretty women will be seen in the. feminine roles, among them Miss Olive Harper, and the play will . be presented with complete scenic . equipments. 0