the Sunday oregoniax, Portland. October 13, 1912.
CHAT AND GOSSIP OF PLAYS AND PLAYERS
I BEGINNING TONIGHT
SPECIAL PRICE MATINEES WED. AND SAT.
HEILIG
II Phones Main 6 and A 1020
EDITED BT LKOXB CASS BAEB.
rALTER B. GILBERT, who Is one
of the most likable - and all
round capable players George
L. Baker ever Introduced to. Port
Janders through his stock company,
has jumped Into Immediate popularity
as Juvenile man with the Orpheum
Players at the Chestnut street Theater
In Philadelphia. This Is by the
way the same theater in which Mar
lon Barney has played leads for the
past three years. Of Mr. Gilbert, one
Philadelphia paper says some right
nice things in a sort of biographical
strain:
"Walter Gilbert, the new member of
the Orpheum Company at the Chestt
nut Street Theater, who has Jumped
In Immediate popularity with the many
patrons of that favorite play-house.
Is a Philadelphia!) by birth and is well
known to the theater-soers of this
city. In spite of his youth, he has had
great experience and has appeared in
more than eight hundred different
plays, covering the entire range of
camoder, drama, musical comedy, comic
opera and farce. He has been a favor
ite In stock companies in Cincinnati,
Rochester, St. Louis, Indlanopolis, Los
Angeles. Portland and Brooklyn. He
may be remembered by Phlladelphlans
as having played for many seasons
with the Forepaugh Stock Company
during the days of George Learock and
Carrie Radcllffe. In St Louis he played
five summer seasons at the famous
suburban earden. As extremes in the
plays, in which he has appeared, Mr.
Gilbert mentions with a smile., the fact
that he has played in "46 Minutes From
Broadway, as well" as in "Hamlet, and
even slaved the part of the dog in
"Peter Pan."
During the few weeks he has been
with the Orpheum Company he has
sriven anlendld demonstrations of his
versatility, and he has already scored
an emnhatlc hit with everyone who
has seen him."
George Broadhurst's highly success
ful play, "Bought and Paid For," which
has been running for a year at Wil
liam A. Brady's playhouse. New York
City, and which will be the attraction
at the Heilig Theater for seven nights,
beginning tonight, contains, as every
body knows, a remarkably powerful
-n in which Robert Stafford, the
miiiti.inlilinTitire hero of the story,
noes things under the influence' of
champagne which he never would have
thought of doing while perfectly sober,
such, for instance, as seizing a heavy
andiron from the fireplace and smash-
Ing in the bedroom door 01 his wne,
who has run away from him and locked
herself in. It has occurred to a num
ber of leaders in the prohibition cause
that there must be a lesson in such
a situation as indeed there Is and
many have been to see the play, among
them a prominent memoer 01 me .
T. U., who found herself on Wednesday
afternoon seated next a young matron
on one side and a sprightly matinee
miss on the other.
The big episode passed and the cur
tain was rung up six times in response
to the applause of the audience.
"I call It shocking," said the- temper
ance advocate to the young matron on
the left, and looking every bit as In
jured as her words Indicated. "Don't
you?"
How's that?" Inquired the youthful
married woman, elevating her eye
brows. "Why," indignantly and without com
mas, "for one's husband to come home
in such a condition and talk like that
about having bought and paid for his
wife, and insist on kissing her and act
maudlin about how sweet she looks,
and then force his way into the privacy
of her boudoir isn't It enough to make
one hate the very thought of intemper
ance?" "O, I don't know," returned the
young married woman, thoughtful".
"Did you ever have a husband swear
off?"
"I should think not."
"Tuen you never will know now to
let well ' enough alone. My husband
used to be a good deal like the man in
this play came home full once In a
while and usually brought me some
thing nice like a ring or an order for
a sealskin, or maybe only a big buneh
of American beauties or a box of bon
pons; but he had been thinking of me
while he was getting his mue ioaa
and he was happy as a lark-full of
silly jokes that tickled him half to
didn't Injure me. Well, I
didn't like It."
"Poor dear: what did you do?
"Made a fool of myself; got him to
promise he wouldn't take a drink for
a year: and he won't. He's that kind
of a man," she sighed deeply.
"I think he must be splendid. Tou
did exactly right, my dear."
"Perhaps I did. but I doubt it. Jim
comes In as regular as clock work now
and as solemn as a Judge. If the dog
runs up to him she gets a kick in the
ribs llkj as not, and If there is a chair
In his way he slams it to one side and
swears at It as If it was a regular hu
man being. If I speak to him he says
'yep' or nope,' and reads the paper
like he expected to find his aunt died
and left him another hundred thousand.
Sometimes he kisses me, and sometimes
he doesn't When he does It is like a
rnu nicking: at a piece of cuttlefish.
As for rings and sealskins and flowers
nd uuidv not a bit like It I haven't
.n this nlav vet but I'll bet that in
the third act Mrs. Stafford is going to
ask her husband to swear on, ana
w.ien sh- does. I'm even, for I'll know
T am not the only Idiot who didn't
Vnnw she had a good thing."
To he." remarked the matinee girl
as the curtain rolled up.
a very prolonged - and enthusiastic
demonstration, after which the act was
resumed and the play continued with'
out further Interruption. .
"The long, steep stairways, sharp
turns and narrow doors made the old
New Market a veritable firetrap and
that it was not the scene of a serious
catastrophe was due entirely to luck.
It required about half an hour to
empty a full house."
- With, the name ' Oregon appearing
several times in big headlines Char
Iotte Greenwood gets this press story
over in the New York Review. She is
appearing at the Winter Garden' and
"I Still Retain My Girlish Laughter"
one of the ditties with which she is
holding a claim to attention in " the
metropolis.. Says Charlotte: -
"My reach with outstretched arms Is
72 inches from tip to tip. which,, com
bined with my height probably In
spired the following letter:
" 'My dear - Miss Greenwood: After
enjoying your performance at the Win
ter Garden I would like to meet you
and have you know my wife and daugh
ter. I. am here from -Oregon, seeing
the sights, and, believe me, with your
root pointing skyward ana your arms
waving in the air you are one of them.
I own a very large' pear. orchard near
Portland, Or., and any time next sum
mer or this you will be & welcome
guest Our trees are -quite high and
stepladders are few, and you, -with your
reach, would soon become the Prize
Pear Picker and Pride of Portland
Plantation. Yours respectfully, Silas
Hoppe.' " ,
A big array of talent that would
look familiar on a vaudeville bill Is
the cast in "The Charity Girl," Just
produced in New York. Ray Cox and
Ralph Hen take an airship ride Ray
used this hit in her vaudeville act
here last Spring. Blossom Seeley has
a "curiously offensive'' song in which
as a Ghetto girl she flouts the advances
of charity, and which the New York
reviewers have politely panned.
Annabelle Whltford is of .the list of
entertainers so Is Marie Flynn, who
sung the title role In "Madame Sherry'
on Its second visit here. The Marvel
ous Millers, dancers, and the Turner
twins are in it too.
Down In San Francisco, Nat Wills Is
confiding to his friends that the stork
is hovering over his house in Long
Island. Mrs. Wills is known to the
public by her professional name of La
Titcomb. She appeared at the Orpheum
last season with her husband.
Henry Woodruff, who is probably one
of the worst actors in the world. Is
going Into vaudeville. In the comedy
playlet, "A Regular Business Man," by
John Stokes, which Douglas Fairbanks
used for awhile. ,
Variety has this delicate fling to take
at Fritzl Scheff anent her appearance
in the premiere of her new musical play
In Philadelphia.
" 'The Love Wager" with Fritsi Scheff.
ill leave the Chestnut Street Opera-
House this week, also the memory of
Miss Scheff's remark on the opening
night, when in response to continuous
applause for an encore, the prima
donna, with something approaching
contempt in her look, said, .as she
glanced at the audience. 'All paper out
there.' The noise In front immediately
ceased. It did not make Itself again
beard during the performance.
'There was some paper given out tor
the premiere of the Jos. M. Galtes show,
but how the ' artistic Fritzl could so
quickly connect with the box- office
hasn't been answered by any of the
retired theatrical folk who reside in
this town.
Miss Scheff made it very apparent
she was of the regular three-star brand
upon entering the opera-house. Of the
trio' of dressing rooms on the stage
(two on one side and another on the
other) Fritzl simply remarked she
wanted only all of tnem ana sne got
"em."
"
Harry Bulger closed "The Flirting
Princess" in Grand Rapids this week,
after playing ' 68 consecutive . weeks
through the Middle West and West The
show, one of Mort Singer's, will go to
the storehouse. It will be seen in stock
next season.
Ronald Bradbury, a former Baker
player, has been with Mr. Bulger en
tour.
Mike Bernard and Willie Nelson will
resume partnership again for vaude
ville engagements Immediately after
Weston closes with "The Whirl of So
ciety." Bernard is filling an engagement at
Rector's, topping the features engaged
for the Cabaret performance.
Robert Wayne, of the present Baker
Comnanv. was a member last season
of the Orpheum stock.
The invitation extended to readers of
this department to send In communi
cations relative to early day theatricals
v,. hrnnirht many interesting re
sponses, one of which is published to
.! V-
"Notwithstandlng long, tedious and
expensive steamship and stage trans
nnriatlon and the comparatively mea
ger population of Portland prior to the
completion of the Northern Pacific
Railway in September, 1S83, the city
secured an occasional high-class at
traction. At the Oro Flno Theater,
located on the site of the present
Vnlon block, at First and Stark streets,
during the '60s and very early "70s,
appeared Julia Dean Hayne, Laura
Kecne. one or two of the leading
tragedians of the time and some of the
noted singers. Mr. and Mrs. r. ji.
" Bates, parents of Blanche, were popu
lar attractions, as were the Waldrons
and the Plxley Bisters.
"At the New Market in Its early days
were lima De Murska. the Hungarian
Nightingale," whom some of the old
time critics rate as peerless; Chevalier
De Kontskl. the famous pianist and
composer of The Awakening of the
Lion'; Mme. Anna Bishop: Gottschalk,
the basso; Remenyl and Camilla Crso,
violinists: Augusta Dargon, dramatic
reader; William tl Sheridan, of Louis
XI fame; Lawrence Barrett Charles
Vivian. 'Father of the Elks.' was a
frequent and exceedingly popular at
traction at both the Oro Flno and New
Market.
"John Jack and Annie Firmln often
appeared at the New Market in old
time emotlonals and lurid melodrama.
An unusual Incident that won an ova
tion for John Jack from a packed
house occurred one night in 187$. He
was appearing In 'The Two Orphans'
and In the midst of his part in the
second act stopped short stepped to
the footlights, 'read the riot act' and
delivered a scathing lecture to a noisy
hoodlum In the gallery. His action so j
pleased the big audience that it made j
David Belasco, in an Interesting, but
altogether too brief article In the cur
rent issue of the Century Magazine,
entitled "The Playwright and the Box
Office." has some pertinent things to
say about that much-maligned adjunct
of the theater. The erudite David tries
to show that the box office is quite a
benefit to the profession of playwrlt
ing that if it were not for the box
office we would long ago have ceased
. i. nia..B ariHrGM tn hiimATlltv
and that "the theater would have been
comnletelv arlven over to the intel
lectual aristocracy known as "high
brows." He also maintains that Shake
speare wrote his plays for the Globe
Theater with the box office point In
view, influencing him to no small ex
tent The article is also interesting
in that Mr. Belasco gives some very in
teresting advice to aspiring young
playwrights. The advice Is negative
rather than positive; It Is a collection
of "don'ts." The "Wizard" says It Is
Impossible to tell Just what the public
wants. He skims over the whole hor-
TOUR OF
Mme. Ellen Beach Yaw
The Great
Coloratura Soprano
and
Franklin Cannon
Solo Pianist
IN CONCERT
SATURDAY EVEN- .
ING, OCT. 19
AT
Hotel Multnomah
Ballroom
Under Direction
Hotel Multnomah
Seats $2. Secured now
at office Multnomah
Hotel .
lzon and marks out the pitfalls that
the dramatic worker is to avoid. He
must avoid over-decoration of themi
In other words, If he is a faddist he
must not foist his fad on the public; he
must not strive for a style of teselated
beauty." Again, he must not go. in too
much for realistic style. He must ac
quire the knack of knowing what to
reject and what to retain. He con
cludes his article by saying "the box
office should be the servant and not
the master."
The New York Review publishes an
editorial on what It chooses to call Miss
Swinburne's Narrow Escape, which. In
view of her tremendous success, will
be accepted for just what it is worth.
At any rate It is just what It pretends
to be an "inside bit of information.
This Is the story:
. ''What Erlanger does not know about
theatrical talent Is illustrated by the
inside story of Ann - Swinburne - and
The Count of Luxembourg.'
"The critics of the New York papers
and playgoers who read their glowing
praise of Miss Swinburne s personality,
acting and singing after the first per
formance of the play here, will be astonished-
to learn that if Erlanger had
had his way this actress would never
nave opened at tne NewA.msterdam.
"In Boston The Count of Luxem
bourg' was a failure, and, according to
the Bostonese idea, so was Miss Swin
burne. Erlangcr seemed to have taken
this verdict as final and Immediately
rushed two other young women to the
Hub and began rehearsing them In Miss
Swinburne's role to supplant her at the
New York 'premiere.
That Bhe had talent of an unusual
quality and degree which was bound to
make itself felt before real audiences,
Erlanger could not see.
"That Miss - Swinburne appeared on
the opening night at the New Amster
dam is due mainly to the fact that the
other young women had not mastered
the waltz up and down the stairway,
which Is quite difficult mechanically.
Had one of them been able to get
through that number satisfactorily Miss
Swinburne would not have gotten a
New York opportunity, and the story of
The County of Luxembourg might have
been far different.
'Erlanger seems to stick to the Pat
Casey idea of art and nothing but sheer
good luck pulled- him out of a hole
from which he could not extricate him
self of his own volition."
Lula Glaser, who came last season in
Miss Dudelsack, Is making her bow
In a typical musical comedy vaudeville
vehicle with a Plot a Soldier Tenor,
an Ingenue and a doting but grumpy
Old Uncle. Thomas D. Richards, who
was with her In Miss Dudelsack Is
again her leading - man, with Lester
Browne as the uncle. ,
'The Social Whirl'' opened at Kan
sas City Sunday night with Al Jolson
returned to the cast Jolson was out
of the Chicago engagement for a few
performances through a cold.
"The social wniri - is. neaaea tor tne
Pacific Coast.
WILLIAM A. BRADY. Ltd, Presents
THE GREATEST PLAY
OF" THE DAY
AND
GEORGE BROADHIRST
FOR
FROM OCEAN TO OCEAN -
The Play That Has Everybody Talking
JIrct From a Year's Run at William A. Brady's Playhouse, If. T. CHty
It Has the "Punch." Bis, Throbbing?, Real. SanKranclnco Chronicle.
PRICES
Evenings Lower Floor, 11 rows, 2.00; 7 rows, J1.50. Balcony. 11.00,
75c. 60c. Gallery, 35c, 25c Both Spe. Price Mats. fl, 75c. 50c, 36c, 25c.
SEATS NOW SELLING FOR ENTIRE ENGAGEMENT
-SEAT SALE OPENS NEXT FRIDAY, OCT. 18:
HEILIG
4
OCT. 20
THEATER
NIGHTS
BEGINNING
Special Price
Matinee Wed.
A. H. WOODS Presents
THE
FAMOUS
JULIAN
ELTINGE
In the Musical Comedy Triumph
"The Fascinadng Widow"
: PRICES
Evenings, 2, (1.60, $1, 79c, 50c
Sat Mat, $1.30, t 75c and 50c
The Star
and Play
We Have
Waited 2
Years to
See
ORIGINAL
COMPANY
-SEAT SALE OPENS TUESDAY, OCT. 22-
EILIG
, THEATER
0 NIGHTS
J BEGINNING
THURSDAY
OCT. 24
Special Price
Matinee Sat.
I so
juetufnn.
tmrmoe rut TLA It
PRICES Erenlnirs, S1.RO. SI. 7.1e. 50c.
! 85c, 2Sc. Sat. Mat, f 1, 75c, 50c, 35c, 25c
AX OTHER
Cohan &
Harris
SUCCESS
1 Year
-IN
NEW YORK
7 Months
IN
CHICAGO
THEATER
Geo. L. Baker, Manasrer
Phones Mala 2, A 6380
Morrison and 11th Sis.
Home" of the Popular Baker Player
All Week Commencing Matinee
Today, Oct. 13, 1912 ,
The Foremost Western Comedy of the Ace
BY PAUL ARMSTRONG
Author of Alias Jimmy Valentine, The Deep Purple, Salomy Jane, and
other successes
A harvest of laughter A pretty love story
Strong dramatic situations Rich stage
settings Full strength of
the company
Slase Direction of William Bernard
Prices Evenings, Lower Floor 50c; Front Balcony, 36c; Upper Balcony, 25c
Matinees Sundav, Wednesday. Saturday 25c only
Monday Bargain Night all seats 25c
NEXT WEEK THE SPENDTHRIFT FIRST TIME IN STOCK
Fourth and Stark 51.. THEATER Ft"irth and Star St.,
Home of Refined Musical Comedy-
Week Starting Tomorrow Matinee
Uie
Keating & Flood Musical Comedy Co.
-IN-
"Papa's
0 !
oaoy
The Great Laughing Success
First Time in This City
9 1 ;
Week Days, Two Performances Nightly at 7:30 and 9:10. Sundays
at 6:45, 8 and 9:15 (Commencing Tonight). Matinee Daily at 2:30.
Admission Evenings, 15c and 25c. Matinees (Except Sundays and
Holidays), Any Seat, 15c'
Friday Night The Rosebuds' Contest
PEOPLES THEATER
Coming Wednesday October lath,
SARAH BERNHARDT
IN .
"LA TOS0A"
"THE TIE ETERNAL" .
Domestic Problem.
"DOTTY THE DANCER"
Exceptionally Splendid.
"THE COTTON INDUSTRY"
Industrial and Educational.
" "THE REFORMATION"
Western Drama.
"MISS IRENE DOYLE"
Harpist.
"THAT TRIO"
Musical Feature.
ARCADE THEATER
"LUCILLE "
Famous Three-Reel Production of
Popular Novel Produced by
Popular Request.
"THE SIMPLE LIFE"
From Start to Finish One Long
Laugh.
Last Week of the Popular
"CERV0 DUO"
Coming; Wednesday,
"THE SERGEANT'S BOY,"
Two-Keel Bison.
SUNNYSIDE THEATER
The Hit of the Season,
"MISS ROBINSON CRUSOE"
Two-Reel Thanhauser Drama.
"CANNED HARMONY"
1000 Feet of Laughter.
"LOVE'S SUPREME TEST"
Positively Great.
"ARTHUR EL WELL"
Singer.
Coming? Wednesday
STAR THEATER
LOVE WILL FIND A WAY"
Excellent Drama.
"A FOOL AND HIS MONEY"
Side-splitting Comedy.
"A SISTER'S DEVOTION"
Western Thriller.
"THE PEDDLER'S FIND"
Clever and Original. Unusually Big.
wun All-Jewish Cast, Including;
. One Blind Actress.'
SPECIAL,
"KARP'S ATTRACTIVE
ORCHESTRA.
Nothing Equal to It In Portland.
Fareirell Week of
"MISS BESSIE STOKES"
Talented Vocalist.
Coming; Wednesday, October 18,
"DOCBLI.X DAN,"
Great Irish Drama.
Open Evenings Till 10:30
When It's Music or Pictures, Go Where the Crowds Go
Ok
7
JEROME B. BEMICK & CO., Proprietors
322 Washington Street Portland, Oregon
All Late Hits 15c, 7 for $1.00
ARMORY
Wednesday Matinee and
Evening, October 16
U.S. Marine Band
"The President's Own" i
Lieut. Wm. H. Santelmann,
Leaden
Mrs. Mary Sherier,
Soprano Soloist.
Matinee, 3:15; Evening, 8:15
Tickets on sale now: Kohler &
Chase Music Department,
Graves' Music Store.
Rowe & Martin.
Concert Direction
Eugene Kuester.
ADVANCED VAUDEVILLE
Besjlanlng Monday Matinee, Oct. 14th
THE DISTINGUISHED ACTRESS
MISS AMELIA BINGHAM
In
"Her Original
Idea
NELLIE
NICHOLS
Dainty Singer
Famous Clown
SLIVERS
In Pnntomtm
AZARD
BROTHERS
"Big Moments
From
Great Plays"
FRANK
MORRELL
Slnarlaa; MlnXrcl
LEWIS
AND DODY
The Tvro Sanaa
FLYING
RUSSELLS
ORCHESTRA MATINEE DAILY PICTURES
Matinee Prices, 15c, 25c, 50cj Night Prices, 15c, 25c, 50c, 75o"
UNEQUALED VAUDEVILLE SEVENTH AND ALDER STS
Week Commencing Monday Matinee, Oct. 1 4th
,
SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT
Schepp's Comedy Circus
Vaudeville's biggest and best treat for the little folk. Educated ponies,
dog's and monkeys participate in the performance. NOTE Owing; to
many requests, a special Children's Matinee will be given Oct. 19, at
2:S0. when the younger patrons of vaudeville will have ample oppor
tunity to learn how animals are educated for the stage, and all will
. enjoy free rides on the clever equlnes.
Six American Beauties Miss Mabel Johnston
Leading Musical Comediennes The World's Greatest Woman Ven-
trlloqulst
-- Al lura
Espe and Roth Cal Stewart
Presenting Vaudevllllan Novelties The Original Uncle Josh
Pantagescope Pantages Orchestra
New Animated Events H. K. Evenson. Director
Popular Price. MATIXEB DAILY. Boxes and First Row Baleouy Re
served. Box Office Open Prom 10 A. M. to 10 F. M. Phones- A 2236,
Main 4636. Cnrtaln 3l30, TilS and 0.
2:30 MATINEE EVERY DAY-2:30
Week Oct. 14
SULLIVAN & CONSIDINE
ACTS, ALL HEADLINERS
THE BEST VAUDEVILLE
IN AMERICA
AT OUR
SPECIAL
SUMMER
PRICES
The
Verona
Troupe
OF LADY CYCLISTS
6 DashlnflT Beauties
and
MASTER WAI.LIS
England's Best Wheelman
Robt.Hildreth&Co.
' In the Playlet
The Four-Leaf Clover"
Klass & Bernie
On Violin and Accordion
MOTION PICTURES
MATINEES
10c
ANY
SEAT
NIGHTS
10c 20c
The
Waltz
Dream
A ROMANTIC STORY OF
THU SOUTH SEAS
Beautiful Music, Dances
and Scenery
Bohemian Quartet
In Swinging and Melodi
ous Songs
Neuss & EldYed
the
"Yaphanlc Guardsman
ORCHESTRA
HARPSICHORD RECITAL
FRANCES PELTON-JONES
With the Assistance of
WILLIAM EDWIN CHAMBERLAIN
baritone:
Presenting- Salon Music of the 17th and 18th Centuries en Costume
Louis XVI Period.
Multnomah Hotel Ball Room
Friday Evening, October 18
Tickets two dollars, on sale at Eliers Piano House.
BUNGALOW THEATER
Morrison and Twelfth GEO. I BAKER, Manager.
ONLY TWO MORE PERFORMANCES OF ' GREATEST AMERICAN PLAY.
IN OLD KENTUCKY
THIS AFTERNOON ANTJ TONIGHT.
Don't miss seeing it. It Is the treat of a lifetime.
sirong cast
Beautiful play
(The Famous Pickaninny Band
See all the well-known feat urea) The Kentucky Thoroughbreds
The Exciting Race Scene
Pxicea Matinee. 25c 60c; Evening", 26c, 50c, 75c. $1.00
The Grand Coanatable Ialand, off th
coast of French Guiana, la a Prtnch pos
session. It Is Intended to bo used as a
light house station by tho French Govern
ment, and this fact will limit to some ex
tent tne removal ok pnospnate roc now
belnff worked .on th Island.
Invert sugar, which was first manu
factured In Germany for commmerclal pur
poses about 20 years' ago, is used for the
Improvement of wine, for the production of
wine according to Petiot's process, in tho
preparation of champagne, Jlquers, fruit
preserves and fruit sirup, and especially as
a suostitute for honey.