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TTTT5 KTrVDAT OREnONTAN, POTlTtATTO. NOVEMBER 23, 1914. 3 ELSIE FERGUSON, NEW YORK FAVORITE, RECEIVES HEARTY WELCOME BACK IN NEW EMOTIONAL PLAY Star in "Outcast" Shines in Depiction of Passionate Grief, Revealing Artistic Characterization Exceeding Finish Shown by Her in. Former Boles. "Suzi, Hungarian Operetta, Has Redeeming Finale "Mary Goes First" Has Dull Moments--"The Only Girl" Pleasing Adaptation. . 1 Iw . I I U h4 : L - fir '- - ' 'M t fy?2 SS. Ti amp "j V -- - mi v sfseor j! , v?l a - ' : TT r K fV ' ; ( x '-v HY LLOYD P. LONERGAN. NEW YOKK, Nov. 2 Special.) Elsie Ferguson, always popular with Metropolitan theatergoers, lias been cordially -welcomed back to town. She is now at the Lyceum The ater, in "Outcast." a new play by Hu bert Henry Davies. "Outcast" is bv no means in the usual vein of the author. Both the leading characters in the new drama have suffered in life after enjoying it. and just when the action of the play begins they are at the ebb of their fortunes. The man jilted by the woman he. loves, who has that day married another, Is well under the In fluence of liquor and drugs when his friends come to make the vain effort to cheer him up. It is a soda bottle sent flying out of the window that falls on the head of the heroine, which brings her into the room. Bhe too, has come to the end of one phase of life. She is American and the first phase of her womanhood be gan In seduction and is ending in hunger. The two are attracted to each other and their relations grow closer. So great does her affection for him become that she resents the secret nature of it. But his real love Is still with the woman who Jilted him for another. He cannot forget her even thcugh the other woman brought him back to respectability and prosperity. 3t is when his old love returns that the woman demands she shall be seen la public with him. Old Love Returns. Still, the shadow of his first love hangs over him and their happiness. After a while the .woman who jilted him wearies of her rich husband and wants to bolt with the man she would not marry. He is ready, but the woman who came to him when he was most In need will net be thrown off. It is in viewing th sufferings of this woman and thinking of the pain she has caused her own husband, that the former love decides to go back to her good, dull husband. Bhe goes. The field Is clear now for him to marry the woman who has saved him while In cidentally he was about the task of sav ing her. But she will not marry him. They will go away together, although she professes to believe that wife is a. name for only a good woman. One rather thinks that alter a while, how ever, sho will feel herself good enough to be entitled to the name. The best that Mr. Davies has accomp lished in "Outcast" is to provide Miss Ferguson with opportunities to show her talents in their varied phases. And it was in its variety that her acting was perhaps most brilliant. Her rough humor as the girl of the street 'was no less amusing than.- her humorous description of the life she led in the home that her rescuer had found for her. It was in her outbreak of pas sionate grief at the thought she was to be abandoned rn favor of another woman that she exhibited what used to be called emotional acting of a higrh character, sincere, poignant and touching a depth of feeling she had never revealed before. All her per formance was exquisite in its artistic finish, which does not mean that It sacrificed a bit of naturalness. Last Tableuu lnnplrlnjr. There was nothing in "Suzi," now at the Casino, eo inspiriting as the final tableau, which the audience saw as the curtain was lifted for the last time. Then Jose Collins, raised high cn the shoulders of the soldiers, was surrounded by the rest of the char acters in the new Hungarian operetta. The light fell only on this vivacious group, while the chorus of the waltz the one distinctive air in the common place score was sung. It was la pretty finale to "Suzi." It is quite conceivable that "'Suzi" might at one time have been regarded as a striking novelty. But there must be something distinctive in every comic work with music that is destined to attain success. Either there must be Kucn a score as can possessed or there must be humor la the book or in hi V "-SWA. cf Aits iPAesJ&fji TSzezdifef. the interpretation, uncommonly fine comedy or especial attention to the musical pari of the performance. It was difficult to discover any of these features in "Suzi." Lew Fields pro duced the work with care and Bkill. which he has acquired during his long experience. But he could not make fun where it did not exist. Connie Ediss. with her adipose cacKie; xom .nc.augnton, with an amusing makeup which was the be ginning and end of what he contributed in tne way or tun to me performance, and Lew Hearn, whispering laboriously when -he was supposed to be singing, but mildly humorous in a neat way, were -the trio that had to supply the material which was to make the audi ence laugh. , There were some dull moments at the beginning of "Mary Goes First." with which Marie Tempest is beginning her i ar swell season at tne Comedy Theater, They were, moreover, cf that intense British dullness whicn is to American audiences impenetrable. The talk was of politics, local affairs in an English village and of everything equally re mote from the present Interests of home: ok the: famous baker platers SPECIAL THANKSGIVING OFFERING BV REQUEST OF" HUNDREDS Week Beginning Today, Sunday WllIIaBi Powell. M ALSO, THE REGULAR BARGAIN PERFORMANCES ALL SEATS (Except Box) 25c MATlSlfiS , MONDAY NIGHT NEXT -WEEK-READY &SZ??'. Week Beginning Monday Afternoon, Nov. 123 Joseph E. Bernard & Hazel Harrington WHO B SHE? CLEVER COMEDY PLAYLET BY WILLARD MACK PRETTIESTUGGI ACT IN MclNTOSH & HIS NICHOLS-NELSON MUSICAL MAIDS TOf-lITDC QUARTET OP SCOTCH SINGERS, IlWUm DANCERS AND IN STRUMEN- - WITH THEIR TRAINED HOOPS T A LISTS FKED HILDEBriAND WARDuLL & HOYT The Elongated Comedian "THE ITALIAN AND THE BOSS" bAVia & MAI HEWS feature " Original Texan Tommy Danccrw PHOTO PLAYS AFTKRSOOSS CONTIM LOUS MIGHTS TWO SHOWS l.tUAl! I A PTE HOLIDAYS) .-.NIGHTS THREE SHOWS. Beginning; u0 American spectators. So the start of the piece was not auspicious. But there was an improvement once Marie Tempest appeared on the scene. Her THEATER Phoneai Mala 2, A S3 Broadway aaa Marrlaoa GEO. L. BAKJSH. r. Matinee, November 22, 1914 Israel ZuirirUl't beautiful lay ' ERELY ARY ANN M As played with such remarkable success by Eleanor Hobson. The story of a pathetic little London slavey. Rich in comedy, romance and heart throbs. A play you never forget that you can see and enjoy time and time again. Stage under direction of Thomas Coffin Cooke. Evenlns prlceat 25c, 35c, 50c, 75c ( box -rata Sl.OO. San. Sat. and Thuradnj- matinees, 25c, 00c; box, 75c. NOTE THE SPECIAL, THANKSGIVING DAY MATINEE THURSDAY. . MONEY. BROADWAY AT YAMHILL . ,ll30-5rt0 .730 and 9:15 R NOONS. CONTINUOUS. 1 13 k,xi piquant personality served to dispel the cloudy atmosphere of Mr. Jones' little play. It is a narrow little play In its Interest and full, as so many of the playwright's plays are, of the parochial spirit of small town life in the upper middle class of England. It must be admitted that Miss Tempest proved a splendid remedy, for the provincialism of the comedy, "Mary Goes First." is not altogether comedy. There are ex aggerated episodes, such as those deal ing with the parvenu's coiffure, which are broadly farcical. But any accident that served to dispel the intensely Brit ish character of the proceedings was welcome; Mr. Jones, with his custom ary deftness, has told a story which is so little worth the telling that one is aghast at his power to remember it through three acts. Moaleal Camedy Arnuias, "The Only Girl," a "musical farclal" comedy which Joe Weber produced at the Thlrty-nlnth-Slreet Theater, was frankly announced on the programme as adapted from "Our Wives," by Hen ry Blossom, who has prepared the book and written the lyrics, and Victor Her bert, who has added the score. - Given a young man. a writer of lib rettos by profession and a bachelor by practice, who is seeking a composer and finds her In a charming young woman who lives upstairs and whose muslo haunts him. Add to that three old friends who have deserted his bachelor quartet to marry and a soub rette who-wants a part and brings her half-dozen friends to add the occasion ally needed chorus, and there are the beginnings of the plot. The end is in plain sight, but on the way there is much that's amusing, and Mr. Blossom has supplied more bright lines than fall to the lot of most comedies. Mr. Weber has got together an ex cellent cast for his return manager ship. Wilda Bennett, as the composer heroine, was modestly charming in looks and sang agreeably, while Adele Rowland as "Patsy." the soubrette with the obliging chorus in tow, had to keep ' on dancing when she'd ex hausted herself singing. "You Have to Have a Part to Make a Hit." The three husbands were Richard Bartlett. Jed Prouty and Ernest Torrence, while the three new wives, whose first meeting made a lively second act, were Louise Kelley. Josephine Whittell and Vivian Wessell. Fenrth Production to Sncceed. Klaw & Erlanger have added a fourth to the successful musical plays which have been seen In recent aeasons at the New Amsterdam Theater. This quartet includes "The Pink Lady," "Oh, Oh! Delphine," seen first at the Knicker bocker Theater, although it was later at the New Amsterdam: "The Little Cafe" and now "Papa's Darling." The new piece fesembles Its predecessors in many particulars. It is In the first place founded on a popular French farce; its music has been provided by the-prolific Ivan Caryll and in the In terpretation of the piece are. some of tne actors most popular in one or an other of the previous plays of this aeries. Among the actors who did their share In recalling the three previous plays of the series were Frank Lalor, who did so much for the fun of "The Pink Lady," and from that same com pany Alice Dovey, Jack Henderson and several of the beauties recognizable in the chorus, while from "Oh, Oh! Del phine," came Octavla Broske and Frank Doane. Spokane Pastor Called- to Albany. ALBANY, Or., Nov.' 21. (Special.) A call- to the pastorate of the First Baptist Church of Albany has been extended to Dr. C. A. Cook, of Spo kane, pastor of the Union Avenue Bap tist Church, of that city. It is not When It's Nnale or Pletarra Go Where the Cronr4a Go. "fit 2npi anfSArfi Jerome S. aUnilua Oo, IToprlators, 322 WASHINGTON STREET Between Sixth and Broadway. Music at 15c SEVEN BEST SELLERS. AT THE MISSISSIPPI CABARET Our Latest Hit BACK TO DIXIE. LAND, AT THE BALL, CHINATOWN, MY CHINATOWN, NIGHTIME IN BURGUNDY, THE DRESS MY MOTHER WORE, I WANT TO LINGER. These Seven for $1.00 Ad le each if ordered by mail Thanksgiving Cards Xmas and New Year's Cards Booklets, Calendars LYRIC Theat er 4th and Stark Sts. Where musical comedy reigns supreme. "Week commencing' tomorrow matinee. Keating & Flood present. The Girl from Egypt Featuring September Morn Matinees every day. Continuous performance every night, start ing at 7:30. Tuesday Night Amateurs. Friday Night ' Chorus Girls contest. Thursday (Thanksgiving day) special performances. MEILIG- TODAY SUNDAY and TOMORROW CONTINUOUS 1 TO 11 P. M. MOTION PICTURES AUGUSTA EVANS FAMOUS STORY T. ELMO Popular Prices StiiSm: 5 S NEXT TUESDAY, NOV. 24 SPECIAL PRICE MATINEES Thanksgiving Day and Saturday Klaw A Erla: S Present Exquisite Play of Fact and Fancy THE POOR LITTLE R Precisely as Played for T Months at the Hudson Theater. N. Y and' AD. Season In Boaton, Philadelphia and Chicago. FOR ALL AGES FOR ALL CLASSES FOR ALL TIME " J7"rl,J'"r B, Bt Comedy. Sentiment and Speetaenlar Beanty Ap peals to Every GrownLp, to Every Parent, to Every Educator. THE ONLY COMPANY PRESENTING THIS PLAY rVfJ?,?,K8.7"Lowr oor. 1.50. Balcony, 1. 75c, 50c. Gallerv. 50c. toth Matinees Lower Floor, $1. Balcony, $1. 75c, 50c Gallery. 50c. SEATS NOW SELLING AT BOX OFFICE MAIL ORDERS NOW 3 SSS? MONDAY, Return of Last The BIRD OF PARADISE THF DRAMATIC NOVELTY OF THE DECADE. PLAY OF A WOMAN'S SOUL. Evening's Lower Floor. M.50; last 3 rows. 1. Balconv $1 75c 50c Gal. iery 50c SpScUU Price Wed- Mat. Lower Iloor. 1. Balcony. J5-50C. Ua4- Box Office Sale Opens Friday, Nov. 27 Mall Orders Received Now. known yet whether or not Dr. Cook will accept the position. The local church has had no regular pastor since the resignation of Rev. Elbert H. Hicks, who Is now on a tour of the world. New Douglas Hoard Levies Tax. ROSEEURG, Or.. Nov. 21. (Special.) At the first meeting of the County High School Board, created by a meas BROADWAY AT STARK Week Beginning Tonight, November 22 DOUBLE HEADLINE BILL! PRINCESS AJA In ner Famous Cleopatra Dance IMHOFF, CONN & COREENE LTr MINNIE ALLEN - - - mm BARRY & WOLFORD - GENEVIEVE WARNER- -EL RE Y SISTERS asr. 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Phones BigTime Vaudeville JOIIVX V JOHNSTON And His CollcRinr.s Taking Things Easy MATINEE FRICES Lowr Floor 5ft2rc Balcony 25-1.1e Boxea, LoKei 75c 2C 55 j Co v 2J Ov ANNA 4ka a H ARR AH idcCONNELL & NIEMLYER Special Added Attraction Urleans Lreoles Foremost Musicians Reserved hy phone, Main 4636, A 2236
