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BY LEONE CASS BAER.
TWO noteworthy productions are on
the calendar at the Heilig this
week. One is "The Girl Prom
Mumms." said to be sparkling- and intoxicating-
in comedy, and the other is
Eugene Walter's dramatization of John
Fox Jr.'s great play, "The Trail of the
Lonesome Pine." Mrs. Walters, who is
professionally known as Charlotte Wal
ker, is the star of the last-named piece.
"The Girl From Mutima" opens tonight
at the Heilig. and will end its engage
ment Tuesday night. Olive Vail, a
San Francisco girl, and one time of the
Tlvoli Opera Company, is the prima
donna. In the company in support of
Miss Vail are J. I. 'Oliver, Jackson
Barry, John E. Frank, Frank Bertrand,
Nellie Waters, Laura Crews, Marjie
Dow and Hazel Regan.
"The Trail of the Lonesome Pine"
comes to the Heilig on Thursday night
and ends its engagement on Saturday
night. There will be a matinee Sat
urday. Charlotte Walker has nevei
appeared here. Eugene Walter, how
ever, is well known on the Coast. He
used to be a reporter on a Seattle pa
per. This is the play in which Vida
Reed played a season ago. The many
thousands who have read the story
form of "The Trail of the Lonesome
Pine" will be impatient to see the play
which Mr. Walter, clever dramatist, has
evolved from the delightful narrative
ef the Virginia hills.
Today at the Baker "The Lady From
Oklahoma" opens its week's engage
ment. This is said to be an unusually
brilliant comedy with a stiff punch,
an interesting plot full of excitement
and laughs. The second act is a sen
sational one, showing the inner work
ings of a great Fifth-avenue beauty
shop. The fact that the comedy has
never before been presented here lends
additional interest.
"Stop, Thief," a farce written by
Carlyle Moore, will be the bill at the
Heilig all next week. One year in New
York is the record of this unique play
of mystery. Follows then "The Bird
of Paradise" for the week of Novem
ber 16. Oliver Morosco produced it and
Richard Walton Tully wrote it.
"Fixing the Furnace" is the title of
the headline sketch at the Orpheum.
George Rosland and company offer it.
Yansci (pronounced Yanksy) Dolly and
Harry Fox are added features.
"Court by Girls," a big musical ex-travaganza-ette
based on Gilbert & Sul
livan's "Trial by Jury," headlines the
Empress. "Nature's Nobleman," a
drama characterization of Abraham
Lincoln, will be the extra attraction.
The big act at Pantages is Allsky's
Greater Hawailans in "A Night in Ha
waii," a reproduction of the Paradise
of the Pacific. The Lyric offers "The
Aviator." with a swimming exhibition
added.
"GIRD FROM MUMMS" TONIGHT
Olive Vail Heads Musical Comedy
"Which Opens at Heilig.
Comedy, excellent music and a ca
pable cast are factors upon which a
musical comedy success depends, and
these are the factors which have placed
"The Girl From Mumms," with Miss
Olive Vail, which comes to the Heilig
Theater, Eleventh and Morrison streets,
three nights, beginning tonight, in a
class by itself. The book, by J. A.
Lacy, is a riot of fun. It has a real
plot, making the situations genuine ana
not forced, as is so often the case. The
music, by F. A. Bohnhorst, is a revela
tion, and has already earned for that
composer a front rank In the field of
light music. Without a trace of a com
mon run of music, it affords a genuine
pleasure in its very tunefulness, and
already "There's a Reason," "The Road
to Philadelphia." "Teach Me." and "The
Girl of Mumms and Mine," are song
hits. Every indication points that
"There's a Reason" will prove the big
pest hit since "Every kittle Movement"
entranced the country.
With the advantage of excellent book
and muslo the management is present
ing a cast of superior merit. Miss
Olive Vail in the title role has the best
part in which that popular and tal
ented artist has yet been heard. That
alone would insure success, and sur
rounding Miss Vail are such artists as
J. I. Oliver. Jackson Barry, John E.
Frank, Frank Betrand, Miss Nellie
Watters, Miss Laura Crews, Miss Mar
jie Dow and Miss Hazel Regan.
The mounting of the piece is in keep
ing with its merits.
MISS SHOEMAKER WILL STAR
In "The Lady From Oklahoma" Tal
ented Actress Has Chance.
Manager Baker is building a record
this season for plays entirely new to
the stock field in this city, and, be
ginning this afternoon the Baker
SStock Company will present "The Lady
from umanoma, - a comedv alontr or
Iginal lines, at the Baker Theater. The
theme is one that compels sympathy
immediately, and the three acts are
filled with incidents and situations that
find Instant response.
Mrs. Joel Dixon Is a little Western
woman, whose husband, upon acquir
ing wealth and political prominence,
grows away from her. This is largely
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her own fault, but she suddenly wakes
up upon learning of the presence of
another woman, and, going to New
York, she gets busy making up for
lost time and fitting herself to take
her place by his side socially. She is
a unique, original character, with a
strong mind, plenty of money and a
saving sense of humor. She hires in
structors to polish her up mentally and
physically, and the second act, which
takes -place in a big Fifth - avenue
beauty parlor in full blast, is quite a
sensation in its way. There are hair
dressers, manicurists, massage artists,
electric baths and all the other para
phernalia, with victims undergoing the
sweet tortures which feminine martyrs
suffer in their efforts to fight old
Father Time. This act is a roar of
laughter from beginning to end. Mrs.
Dixon takes her medicine right down
the line, and in th end wins, for she
is a pretty woman, and Just needs the
polish to change her so that her hus
band hardly recognizes her. She then
mixes up in the political 'game and
teaches him things he never dreamed
of before. The role is a great one for
Dorothy Shoemaker, and & splendid
performance of it may be expected
from this talented leading woman. The
usual matineeB will be given Wednes
day and Saturday, and the bargain
night tomorrow.
HEADLISER HAS REAL "FTNISH"
Harry Fox and "Vancsi Dolly Are
Leaders at Orpheum. v
Departing from the field of the le
gitimate for its headliner beginning to
morrow matinee, the Orpheum will pre
sent Harry Fox and Yancst Dolly with
their smart fooling songs and dances.
One critic recently said of them: "There
is a finish to the turn that tells of Old
Country training. It has the spontane
ous character and vital spark that hold
from the first appearance until the last
drop."
This clever team realizes that the
public wants new and original methods
and these are coupled with so much na
tive ability in their new Jokes, we:l
told, dainty songs, charmingly sun?,
and clever and graceful dances, that
they have 20 minutes of the happiest
sort of vaudeville entertainment. Mr.
Fox was formerly with the Millership
Sisters and Miss Dolly is one of the
famous Dolly Sisters.
In a wholly different direction are
the impersonations of Dave Genaro and
Ray Bailey, whose act in three scenes
depicts various styles of descriptive
dancing. They first show an Italian
wedding episode and close with a won
derful flirtation dance. Their reputa
tions are international.
At last the furnace has come into its
own and will be the leading feature in
the farce, "Fixing the Furnace," pre
sented by George Holland and com-
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pany. Familiar episodes mark . the
course of the act.
Another mirth-provoking act comes
to hand in Harry Armstrong and Billy
Clark, the comedy song writers, who
will sing their latest creations. Their
good voices and splendid piano playing
make them a pleasure.
From the ranks of the band soloists
come Virginia Rankin, who is making
her vaudeville debut as a premier vocal
ist. In addition to an immense, reper
toire of songs she adds stunning gowns
that delight the eye.
Champions of all Europe in the dif
ficult art of double Juggling are the
Blank family. Many of their feats are
really extraordinary. One of their mem
bers is an attractive young girl.
The Flowery Kingdom has no equals
in the production of equilibrists and
foot Jugglers, as the Kltaro Four will
again demonstrate in their most pro
ficient work.
The bill of this week. toDDed bv S.
Miller Kent in "The 'Real Q," closes
with tonight's performance.
SOXG , TROUPE AT EMPRESS
"Court by Girls," Travesty Operetta,
TVill Headline New Show.
"Court by Girls," a big musical com
edy written, by Thomas J. Gray, comic
writer for a big New York theatrical
publication, and Max S. Witt, vaude
ville producer, will be the headline at
traction at the Empress this. week.
The new act is presented by a com
pany numbering one dozen, with ten
pretty girls; the lyrics are catchy, the
songs are melodious, and eccentric en
semble and solo dancing is a feature.
The "Courthouse Glide," a dance pre
sented by the district attorney, law
yers and the girl Jury is one of the
feature dances. "Court by Girls" Is
based on "Trial by Jury," the cele
brated comic opera fathered by Gilbert
and Sullivan.
The extra attraction in the new show
is a former Orpheum act. This is "Na
ture's Nobleman," a dramatic sketch
based on an incident which happened
in Washington, ki. C, in 1863. A char
acterization of Abraham Lincoln Is
featured in this act. this role being
taken by Arthur Cogliser, who is said
to give the best impersonation of Lin
coln ever staged. The playlet "is built
around a visit of Lincoln to a book
store on Pennsylvania avenue In
Washington the day after his Gettys
burg address. The company presenting
the little drama is known as the Wal
ter N. Lawrence Players, and the cast
includes Arthur Cogliser, Fred A. Sul
livan. Charles Stedman, Al Bollard and
Charlotte Julien.
Anthony and Ross, Italian comedi
ans, fill third place in the new show.
These entertainers have been making a
record hit along the circuit, Judging
from curtain calls. -
Next are John Gardner, the English
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Yankee girl, who will entertain with
patter, songs and dances. Miss Lowrie
is a handsome woman.
Then come Smith. Voelk and Cronln,
a merrymaking trio. Cronln is the
comedian. Smith specializes singing
and Voelk, who presides at the piano,
is a graduate of the Berlin Conserva
tory of Musi
W. J. DuBots. Juggler extraordinary,
will complete the new show.
"In 1999" and Derkin's dog and mon
key pantomime company will appear
for the last time at the Empress to
night. Moving pictures of the Interstate
bridge parade and celebration taken
especially for the Empress will be
shown all week.
HAWAIIAN TROCPE IS FEATURE
Pantages Headline This Week Is "A
Night In Hawaii."
"A Night in Hawaii" will be pre
sented & the featured attraction at
Pantages for the week commencing
with the matinee tomorrow at 2:30
o'clock. Every member of the company
Is a native Hawaiian and Charles Allsky
manager of the act, has Just returned
from a long visit to the island, where
he gleaned the settings and themes for
the attraction. He also signed the
native entertainers and brought them
to America.
It was Mr. Alisky who brought the
first party of Hawailans to the United
States several years ago and presented
them at the American Music Halls of
New York and Chicago under the man
agement of William Morris. Their
triumph "a: as phenomenal and the sec
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fair to outrival their
"A Matrimonial Contest" with Miss
Flo Morrison and a large company is
another attraction of the bill. "A Matri
monial Contest" will' offer something
new in vaudeville, the spectacle of a
marriage on the stage at every per
formance. Miss Morrison has been seen
here in several leading road produc
tions, but this is her first appearance
in vaudeville.
The American Trumpeters' Trio have
an act that recommends itself. The
members are accomplished musicians
and, they will be heard on bugles,
cornets, 'cellos and guitars. They have
a wide range of selections.
Dorothy Vaughn is a most charming
comedienne and her various song suc
cesses undoubtedly will make her a
local favorite.
Ragtime at its best will be rendered
by Carter and Waters whose witti
cisms will also prove attractive. They
are experts at the rendition of synco
pated melodies. The Pantagescope will
offer new animated events.
"A Winning Miss," the big Boyle
Woolfolk musical comedy success with
Johnny Philllber and company of 1,
will be seen for the final performances
this afternoon and evening.
LYRIC PRESENTS DIVING ACT
De Young Sisters and Lilian Flora
Are Talk of Two Continents.
One of the most sensational swim
ming and diving acts ever offered local
theatergoers is that presented by the
De Young Sisters and Lillian Flory.
which will be a feature of the bill at
the Lyric all next week. This act has
been the talk of two continents for
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the past three years, and Keatini? and
Flood have spared no expense in se
curing this number for their patrons.
The usual musical comedy offering
will be in evidence In "The Aviators,"
a brilliant musical tabloid under the
direction of Thomas J. Bundy, the new
director of the Lyric forces. There Is
plenty of comedy and situations may
well be imagined from the story which
tells of two aviators who are wrecked
in an isolated region of the Turkish
Empire. Neither can speak the lan
guage of the country and the difficul
ties they experience in getting out
of their predicament is extremely hu
morous and gives Gus Leonard and
Billy Onslow, the aviator's, an oppor
tunity to romp through as lively a skit
as has been offered at the Lyric for
some time.
The scene being laid in the far East
gives ample opportunity for attractive
stage setting, costuming and effects
and full advantage has been taken of
each chance to build up a pretty and
pleasing production. Special attention
has been given the musical end of the
programme, which includes a number
of the latest popular song hits, be
sides the regular music of this beauti
ful little operetta.
Tuesday and Friday nights the
chorus girls' contests will be an added
attraction. The new bill will open to
morrow and will continue for an entire
week, with a matinee dally.
POLICY - OF ARCADE CHANGED
Film Theater Announces Additional
Attractions in Photoplays.
The Arcade Theater announces a
complete change of policy. Instead of
two, it will present three complete
changes of programme weekly. Sun
days, Tuesdays and Fridays and in
stead of four reels to each programme,
it will offer five reels, or 6000 feet, to
its shows. Above and beyond this,
however. It is in the quality of the
films in which the most important
change is made. It has purchased the
exclusive 'right of selection and will
put on its programmes the choice of
the pictures produced by the Universal
Company, selecting ts five reels three
times a week out of 30 and accepting
only the best.
For today's change, the programme
consists of a two-reel subject featuring
Florence Lawrence. When Florence
Lawrence appears In a play It must be
worthy of her efforts. There are scenes
in this splendid photoplay which. In
magnitude and perfection of detail,
surpass all previous attempts. "Jewels
of Sacrifice," a Rex, is a most beautiful
drama wth a forceful moral lesson.
"His Conscience" is a Western drama
along rather new lines. The comedy
of the bill is a new Joker production
entitled "Throwing the Bull," a comic
satire on the thriller In melodrama.
00EDY AND PATHOS MINGLE
Globe Announces New Programme
for Week's Beginning.
The Globe's headliner today Is a
beautiful two-reel drama, "Janet of the
Dunes," by Harriet T. Comstock, au
thor nt "Joyce of the North Woods,"
and put over in the elegant style for
which the Edison Company is noted.
The story, the acting and the scenery
are all good and will please all who
sea it.
"The Endless Night," on same pro
gramme, is a pretty love story, with
Arthur Johnson and Lottie Briscoe as
the leads. John is in love with Lottie
and they are betrothed, when John
learns he is about to become blind. To
save Lottie from a blind husband he
endeavors to kill her love for him by
rude actions and succeeds, but after
ward, when Lottie learns of his afflic
tion, she realizes his sacrifice, seks
him out and compels him to fulfil! the
engagement, so that she may take care
of him.
"Mandolin Mantell" Is a really good
comedy of the quiet order. Mantell is
so taken up with his music and his
ladylike ways that he lets his more
manly. cousin get away with his sweet
heart. The action is good and funny.
Miss Dorothy Lewis and the organ
""urnish the musical part of the enter
ainment. WAI.TKR-FOX
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Trail of the Lonesome Pine" to lie
Seen at Heilig Thursday.
"The Trail of the Lonesome Pine,"
Eugene Walter's great play, founded
on John Fox, Jr.'s widely read novel
of the same name, is the attraction an
nounced for the Heilig Theater for
three nights, beginning Thursday even
ing, November 6, with a special mati
nee Saturday. The story Is of the
evolution of June, a little barefoot
mountain girl, light-hearted and care
Tree, who learns to love a kind young
Northern man who comes prospecting
in the Cumberland Mountains. John
Hale, the engineer, meets the moun
:ain girl, unlearned In books, but with
i line nature and, seeing her ambition
for "Ia-rnin," takes the girl down to
.lis cabin in the gap, with one of the
mountain women as chaperon. There
June goes to school. While imbibing
uook knowledge she gradually comes
to love the young engineer more and
.nore and thus there are many, compli
cations, for the mountain people gos
sip concerning the intentions of the
man who is paying so much attention
to the little girl not In his own class.
Because of a misunderstanding about
Hale's Intentions toward the girl her
kinsmen open up a feud, and in the
hlrd act June nurses Hale's chum. Bob
tJerkley, who has been shot by a rival,
Dave Tolllver. Hale comes to the
cabin in the capacity of officer of the
law to arrest Dave, but from the
little mountain girl the two Northern
men get a new idea of duty and sacri
fice. On the fourth and last act the
curtain falls as the sun is Just coming
over the trail of the Lonesome Pine.
Judd Tolllver has learned that there
is a better way of settling disputes
than with guns and bloodshed. Hale
has learned how much he needs little
June and the lovers are last seen in an
embrace that tells of the wedding cere
mony to oome very soon.
The original cast, which will be seen
here, includes Charlotte Walker as
June, W. S. Hart, George Bancroft,
Daniel Jarrett, Jr., Lillian Dix, George
Woodward. Alice Martin, Cyrus Wood
and Willard Robertson.
"LION AND THE MOUSE" NEXT
linker Players Will Stage Klein's
Famous Flaj-.
One big success after another marks
the progress of The Baker Players thi3
season and small wonder the playhouse
has become bo popular. Opening next
Sunday matinee, Charles Klein's fa
mous play, "The Lion and the Mouse,"
will be the offering, it being over thre3
years since it was last seen here. No
more sensational success has ever been
produced on Broadway than this was
and its popularity still lives. It de
picts the battle of wits between one
letermined little woman and the great
est king of finance known to Wall
street, and so naturally Is It told and
so perfectly reasonable its occurrence
that the audience is not called upon to
draw upon Its imagination to such a
degree as is often made necessary in
late plays.
Dorothy Shoemaker will play the role
of "the mouse" and Louis Leon Hall
that of John Burkett Ryder, "the lion,"
with Edward Woodruff as Ryder's son,
and all the other members in the sev
eral strong acting parts. The produc
tion Is confidently expected to be one
of the best seen on the Baker stage the
present season.
Columbia Theater.
Another big attraction entitled "The
War Makers," a Vltagraph drama in
two reels, has been secured for the bilf
opening tomorrow at the Columbia. It
Is a story of diplomatic circles In Wash
ington, D. C and embraces a clever
plot and many gripping situations.
A Russian Ambassador has been or
dered by the Czar to secure plans of
fortifications of the various American
forts. To do this he determines to
give a big dinenr in the Embassy and
invites the Secretary of War. In a
forged letter he tells the Secretary to
bring with him the plans. By drugging
the wine with a sleeping potion, he
easily secures the plans and gives
them to a woman confederate to carry
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