THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, AUGUST 18, 1912.
POPULAR PRICES
GOOD OLDTIME TUNEFUL OPERAS
TO BE HEARD IN PORTLAND AGAIN
DeWolf Hopper and Other Stars Coming to the HeOi in "The Mikado," -Pinafore," "Patience" and "The
Pirates of Penzance," Supported hy Chorus.
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THE Gilbert 4 Sullivan Opera Com
pany! What delightful memories
does the use of this title conjure
up. It is now more than SO years since
the genius of these two masters re
freshed the earth with melodic and po
etical Inspiration. And yet their good
works live on and on to be enjoyed by
new generations. How much depends
upon the adequate interpretation of
their operas need not be dwelt upon
here further than have it said that the
use of the name. "The Gilbert & Sulli
van Opera Company" Is being lived up
to. in every way possible by the man
agers, who now. after this long lapse
of time, are reviving four of the most
popular of the Gilbert & Bullivan
operas.
The first revival, of the present series
was made two seasons ago by Messrs.
Shubert and William A. Brady, under
whose auspices the present tour Is be
ing conducted. The opera selected was
"The Mikado." A year later came
"Pinafore'" and then "Patience" and
finally "The Pirates of Penzance."
Stars la Casta.
These are the operas Included in the
repertoire. The organization, which
has been put together with studied care,
includes De Wolf Hopper, who is too
well known to need Introduction;
Blanche Duffleld, a newly-discovered
prima donna, and to whom will fall
the principal female roles In all of the
works; George MacFarlane; Eugene
Cowles. Kate Condon. Arthur Aldridge,
Arthur Cunningham. Viola Gillette,
Alice Brady and Louise Barthel.
Of these four works. "Pinafore" en
joyed more popularity in America than
the others, but "The Mikado? and "The
Pirates of Penzance" followed closely
for first honors. At one time there
were as many as 90 companies tourtng
the States presenting "Pinafore." "The
Pirates" .was produced for the first time
In this country, both Gilbert and Sul
livan being on hand. "Patience" was
both an artistic and financial success,
but it was thought the public of today
would not appreciate the satire. This
did not prove to be the case, however,
when the revival was made last Spring
at the Lyric Theater, New Tork.
Engagement Opens at Helllg.
In preparing for these revivals the
Shuberts and Mr. Brady established -a
permanent Gilbert & Sullivan chorus.
Jn "Pinafore" especially such' demands
are made upon the male chorus that
perfect voices are absolutely essential.
This is equally true 01 ine nusnnf
chorus in "Patience." and the police
man chorus In "The Pirates.'1 The
orchestra, under the leadership of
r.anl. Pnntt will Tia rniYinOKeri of soe-
clal. instrumentalists, who travel with
the organization.
The Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Com
pany will inaugurate the 1912-13 season
at the Helllg Theater as the opening
attraction for the week beginning Sun
day, September 1. Following are operas
to be presented: Sunday, Monday, Sat
urday nights and Sunday matinee, "The
Mikado"; Tuesday, Wednesday nights
and special matinee Wednesday, "Pina
fore"; Thursday night. "Patience";
Friday night, "The Pirates of Pen
zance."
CHAT AND GOSSIP OF PLAYS AND PLAYERS
EDITED BY LEONE CASS BAER.
GOOD news right off the reel to
start this week's gossip. Alice
Fleming is to be leading woman
with the new Baker stock, which opens
In early September. Manager George
L. Baker engaged Miss Fleming by
telephone, evidently wanting to grab
her services for his company before
she listened too long to a call that
had come out of the Far East. Noth
ing more concerning the new organiza
tion has been given out other than
this announcement and the news that
Mabel Baker (Mary Edgett) has been
engaged. Mr. Baker is expected home
the latter part of this week, coming
by way of San Francisco. It is ex
pected that he will have several large
surprises to spring In the way of the
atrical news. Miss Fleming is the
"choice of the people." She is not by
any means unknown to us. her work
last year and again in a special en
gagement this Summer being sufficient
guarantee thai Mr. Baker haa once
again spoken wisely.
Ida Vernon is once more to appear
with William Hodge in "The Man From
Home." Miss Vernon is one of the
links between the past and the pres
ent of the American stage. She was
once Edwin Booth's leading lady and
engaged to be married to that great
actor. She was the star of the com
panv in which the present Mrs. Fiske
made her debut. . She was famous as
"Camille" when that play was still
fairly new. She created the role of
Sister Genevieve in the "Two Orphans."
This season will be her 45th of actual
stage experience and her sixth in "The
Man From Home."
Ida Conquest, since last October 23
Mrs. Rlcardo Bertelli, is awaiting the
coming of the stork at her Summer
home. Casetta Rosa, in Elmsford. N. Y.
The event is expected to transpire late
this month.
Signorl Bertelli. the mother of the
retired actress' husband, is reported to
be on her way from Genoa. Italy, to
be with her son and daughter-in-law
on the auspicious occasion. She Is the
widow of Admiral Luigl Bertelli, late
of the Italian navy.
The former Miss Conquest withdrew
permanently from the stage upon her
marriage to Mr. Bertelli, at her old
home, Brookllne, Mass last Autumn.
The Liebler Company announces that
Nat C. Goodwin will not appear In its
"Oliver Twist" production when it is
sent on tour next month. Back of this
announcement is the report of the sep
aration of Mr. Goodwin from his man
agers, based on a letter which he sent
a them last week. The usual call for
rehearsals was issued. Mr. Goodwin
receiving notification that "Oliver
Twist" would open at the Illinois
Theater, Chicago, about Labor day. He
replied at once and his letter is said
to have contained the information that
he would not be present when the roll
was called. The story goes that he
wrote to Hugh Ford that he had signed
to play a six weeks' engagement in
ri(,T To,ut" at thn Morosco Theater.
Los Angeles, and this would keep him
on the Coast. The Los Angeies man
agers are said to have written to the
Liebler Company that they had the
UM.jann vnnlnii nf the nlav. but that
they would prefer the Comyns Carr
version If the LleDiers wouia sena ii
on. The advice is also said to have
been added that It would not be worth
while for the Liebler all-star company
to come to Los Angeles after the Mo
rosco Company piayea -uuver iwisi
for six weeks. Another report says
tv.f.4- t nartuv Manners is rewriting
a version of the play for Mr. Goodwin.
The Liebler Company nas smiiea
Wilton Lackaye to the part of Fagin,
anA..a aiir will bs found for
the part of Bill SykeB, opening as al
ready arranged.
. .
Daisy Wood, sister of Alice and the
rest of the Lloyds, has been booked
for an eight weeks vaudeville Jaunt
In the East beginning March .17 at New
Haven; Conn.
Wllllard, "the man who grows" and
who Just completed a tour of the Sul-livan-Considine
Coast towns, is going
East to try and convince managers
there he has a novelty in his growing
speeialty. Wllllard can stretch himself
seven Inches higher than his normal
measure. During the Coast trip he
managed to squirm Into considerable
front-page space on the daily papers
by giving public exhibitions of his feat
and occasionally surprising the Bertll
lon officials. Willlard has been
booked abroad by Ernest Edelsten.
who saw the act during his recent trip
to this country.
uo..i. rHvi tha new musical
comedy written for Kolb and Dill, has
ended Its run of eight nignxs ai iu
Majestio In Los Angeles and will be
taken on a tour in Northern California
before it goes to New York. There
Its title, "Peck o' Pickles." which
seems peculiarly appropriate for Dill,
will be changed to "Now and Then."
cronv etmmr a Los Ansreles stage
director, wrote the piece, and for over
a month it had been in renearsai pro
paratory to Its premiere on Saturday,
August 10. Performances were given
at Santa Ana. Riverside and Redlands
before the Los Angeles presentation.
The piece contains 20 song numbers,
16 of them elaborate chorus affairs.
It s of the dream variety a.oio anu
Dill appearing as German merchants
t UnD.anhllaAKfl VlllAtTA. A D 1111 1 V
league Is organized damaging to their
business and they seek relief In the
trusty Jug their dreams constituting
tii. itnpv Ana (Irwa m lands them as
active participants in Lincoln's Inau
guration ana tne secona carries mem
forward into 1960 after the dethrone
ment of King Theodore the First. In
teresting rumors have it that our old
friends, John uurion. comeaian, anu
Donald Bowles, as a Juvenile actor, are
t-n 0---. YTaat with the comMnT. Can't
you Just see nice old rotund John B.
dancing In the miasi 01 a Duncn 01
chorus dames?
MonJay for his new comedy, "The Per
plexed Husband," with which the Em
pire Theater will inaugurate its 2 2d
season. Alfred Sutro, author of the
piece, arrived from London on .Satur
day, August 10, on the Celtic. The
playwright's last visit to America was
on the occasion of the performance of
his play, Tne waiis or jerjeno. - nnrjr
Boland is again to be Mr. Drew's lead
ing woman.
Blllie Burke, with a company of 42
men and women nearly half of them
f.nm F.nfir1a.nd betran rehears
als of the newest Pinero play, "The
jllnd tne rami uin, " mo
tm v.v Vnr-lr. nn Aueust 12.
Twenty' of Miss Burke's company are
seen only in me secona .----
Mind the Paint Girl," as a production
Is so large and would be so difficult
to handle on tour, that the piece will
be seen only In the larger cities this
year.
Julia Frary, who played the big and
beautiful sister to the slim Princess
pi.i. T.nf. In i or- nl n V of that title.
J.D113 tiakita . .- - . - -
has given out for publication the fact
that she is going to do rosrnea mu re
tire from the stage. The announce
ment somewhat loses Interest in that
Miss Fiary neglects to mention the
name of her husband-to-be.
Under a heading. "Where They Were
Ten Years Ago," Johnson Briscoe, in
the New York Morning Telegraph, re
cites briefly of a few folk we know.
He says: "Clarence M. Brune, the hus
band of Minnie Tittell Brune. might
. 1 n ainn .mnn thfl T.ftnfiOn thor-
oughtares. for he was in that city re
hearsing at the rrwceis inwier mo
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Heilig 7 ggp Sunday, Sept. 1
A A THEATER " .. , ....
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special inaunce vr -;uu:uai
MESSRS. SHUBERT & WILLIAM A. BRADY PRESENT
The Opening Attraction of the Season 1912-1918
The Gilbert & Sullivan
Festival Company
From the New York Casino Theater, With
DE WOLF HOPPER
m ivrHE DVFFIELD KATE CONDON ARTHCR CUNNINGHAM
Si-rKXF rOWlBS ARTHUR ALDRIDGE ALICE BRADY
GEORGE MacFARLANB VIOLA GILLETTE LOUISE BARTHEL
Anil the New York Casino Chorns and Orchestra In a Revival Festival
And tne ,.llbrt Sullivan's Greatest Comic Operas
IN THE FOLLOWING COMIC OPERAS
Sunday. Monday and Matinee THE MIKADO
Saturday Nights, and Saturday Matinee
Tnesday and Wednesday Nlghta PINAFORE
and Wednesday Matinee
Thursday PATIENCE The Pirates of Penzance
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11 rows, 60c Entire gallery. 60c. Box seats, $2.00.
MAIL ORDERS RECEIVED L?dotbofttn
Beginning Monday, Angus 28
Regnlar Box Office Sale Open. Tak Precedence
Over Box Office Sale
Addre.. Lelten, Make Ctack. 4 M.jt ;d,P,TtW,! T"
Fangle, Manager Helllg Theater.
leading part in Theodore Kremer's mel
odrama, 'The Fatal Wedding.'"
Ten years ago Gertrude Hoffmann
was giving a further indication of her
versatility, doing a black-face act, with
a decided comedy make-up. at the Cher
ry Blossoms Grove, atop of the New
Tork Theater. ,,.
Lucia Moore was playing Juliet at
the Teck Theater, Buffalo, with the
Baldwin-Melville Company, and the
Romeo was no less a person, mind you,
than the versatile Maude Odell.
Bonita was the chief magnet which
drew folks to see "Wine, Women and
Song." this day being on view at Ker
nan's Monumental Theater, Baltimore.
Madge Carr Cooke, Mabel Taliaferro,
Helen Lowell and Will T. Hodge, all
destined for stellar success, were in me
cast of "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage
Patch," at the Grand Opera-House, Cni-
caK . . .. .
Julia Giriord, aesunea m ' "
titlb of Mrs. Robert FItzslmmons, was
, wiia nf Zerllna In "Fra
Dlavolo." with the Andrews Opera Com
pany at the Lakeview uneaicr, .un
ell. Mass. w "
xieui y ........ . - -
tangled" for the first time In America
at the ColumDia xneaier, du r
and included In his support were Hilda
t. T...i. RnaiAv. John Glenden-
ning, J. Hartley Manners and Stanley
Dark.
Nora Bayes and Bobby North were In
. . . rtiA wviiri nt the Town.
tne ti v. ....... - - -
as played by the resident burlesque
company ai rcnt nom.,
Francisco
Lottie Kendall (this season to play
the Widow Crocker In "The Prince of
PUsen") was warDimg mai
mous ditty, "A Pretty Girl, a Shady
Nook," as she wore the trousers of
Prince Mataya in "Wang," with the
Olympla Opera Company at Athletic
Park, New Orleans.
Edna Wallace Hopper was the par
ticular pet of the gilded youth as she
sang- and danced ber way through
"Yankee Doodle Dandy" at the Casino.
Blanche King had at last gained her
coveted Broadway recognition and we
Just sat' back and listened with glee
while she sang "In the Goog Old Sum
mer Time" at the Herald Square Thea
ter in "The Defender." G'wan! was that
ten years ago? Sure it was.
Cheridah Simpson and Ida Brooks
Hunt are doing a vaudeville turn at
. u T.lnn Qniiar. In Na Tnrk CltV
and will later go on a tour of the Keith
theaters.' They are giving songs wnn
which their earlier careers haver been
identified.
A mall tube line 7H, feet la diameter Is to
be constructed In London by the British
Postofflee.
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NAT GOODWIN
IN
OLIVER TWIST
TODAY
NEW BILL STARTS MONDAY
"CERVO DUO"
A Feature for Any Circuit
"THAT TRIO"
A Musical Riot
STAR THEATER
THF.IR LIVES FOR GOLD"
Gripping Life Battle
THE STRIKE"
A Social Study
"JIMMY- AS A JUDGE"
and
THH OLD SWIMMING HOLE"
Two Comedies
"CARSON TRIO" and
"MISS LESLIE"
Musical Features
ARCADE THEATER
A MAN AMONG MEN"
Circumstantial Evidence Unsafe
TOODIES" and "A GAME OF
CHESS" Two Comedies
"TONY SAVES HIS LITTLE
SISTER" Sensational
"GRAZELLA THE GYPSY"
Parisian Love Story
"LEE AND CHANDLER"
Sister Team
"ARTHUR ELWELL"
A Baritone
SUNNYSIDE
"THE BLOOD STAIN
Circumstantial Evidence Drama
"A SUMMER IDYL"
Delightful Farce
"GAUMONT WEEKLY" "
Interesting
"WATCH THE PROFESSOR"
Detective Story
"A MUSICAL HIT"
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Beginning
Monday Matinee, Aug., 19
PORTLAND FAVORITE RETURNS
Edmond Hayes
and Co.
"The Piano Movers"
Harrison Arm
strong's Players
I n "Squaring A c
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In "Stammering
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ORCHESTRA
GRACE
CAMERON
The Dainty Sinter of Rol
licking Songa,
Carl McCuikugh
The
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Bounding
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The Kemps
In
"Matrimonial Biles"
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Another of Molasso's Wonderful Pantomime Productions
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10 Parisian Dancers In the Cast 10
The Peerless Xylophonists Welcome Return of the Master of
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Lowe and Edwards T c
Offering Classic and Ragtime Se- uuc vuua
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Jack Allman Von Hampton and Josselyn
The Irish Tenor Singing, Talking and Dancing
Another Big Girl Act Frederick Wallace Presents
"THE LEAP YEAR GIRLS"
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