THE SUNDAY OHEGONTAN, PORTIiANO, XOVE3IBER 7, 1915.
20 years. The Beyers, two men. not
only offer amusing comedy but give an
exhibition of expert riding.
The Orpheum Travel "Weekly with
moving-picture views taken abroad
will complete the show. The Orpheum
concert orchestra, under the leadership
of Frank Harwood. will give a half
hour concert preceding every matinee
and every night show.
LrV-sV. "TX IV&.M - i&u Jm&5 a Iran - - r v5v-
BY LEONE CASS BABR. 1
EVERY once in awhile someone
with a mission or nothing to do
at all sits down and writes "at"
Trie. Once in awhile they write
to" me. but mostly it is "at." One
euch has just sent me several pages of
finest tipencerian to point out to me a
neglected duty and bring it to atten
tion. Apparently, oh highly apparently,
I have been guilty of not the sin of
commission, but the sin of omission
and if 1 remember my catechism at all,
one is quite as bad as the other. Any
way 1 have neglected, it seems, to help
uplift the drama for the grandmothers
and grandfathers. My correspondent
kindly thanks me for what heor is it
a she? calls a noble effort in the di
rection of uplifting the drayma for
the sweet young things and their
young brothers, and their mothers and
their fathers, even the hired girl and
her swain, but nary an uplift have I
directed toward the understanding of
the grandmas and the grandpaws.
These harrowing bits I take from the
letter, and if you have any imagina
tion at all you too may see the simple
domestic scene all messed up and
blighted by the superabundance of
eophisticated youthful knowledge.
Bays the letter:
"Dear Sir (and heaven bears witness
that I'm not) :
"My death old grandmother has asked
me to tell her something about modern
plays, and particularly to explain
what is meant by the sex-drama, the
inevitable triangle, the what-shall-I-tll
- my - son - and - daughter drama.
Grandma has just heard of "Slightly
Damaged Goods" at a quilting, and
wants to know what it's about. Also
If "Peach Bloom, or What Shall I Tell
My Child" is fit for its grandma to
read. She asks me about their plots.
What can I tell her without subject
ing her to the imminent risk of a
Btroke of apoplexy? . . . What I
em asking you to do is to comment on
the fact that all these muck-raking
clinical plays and medical research
dramas which are supposed to warn
the rising generation, and point out
dangers to them, and which possibly
may educate them, are a shock and a
positive offense to the good taste and
delicacy of our aged relatives. "What
is this play so-and-so?'" queries my
grandmother, and I am compelled to
skid all around on the thin edge of
truths concerning some of the remark
able latter-day plays. . . . How can
I protect my grandmother from the
outrageous ideas promulgated in the
training and education of her grand
children? . . . .'
My correspondent signs only initials,
but since -every one has grandmothers.
or has had. I'll pigeonhole my remans
on anonvmous contributions ana
ceed to answer D. F. C.
From now on my already lukewarm
Interest in the general attempt to re
form the youth of the land will now be
dampened considerably with a fear and
a foreboding for its effect on the old
folk the sere and fading. Grandma
must not go on dramatic slumming
parties with her 16-year-old grand
baby. Even a newspaperish imagina
tion that is to say, an imagination
f air-to-middling vivid starts up in hor
ror at the vision called up of 98-year-old
ignorance brought in contact with
the drama of the sin-soaked sirens, the
comedy on birth control and the eu
genic sketch. We have been told that
our daughters must learn of these
things; that they must know the down
eittings and uprisings of the scum of
the world in order to etay sweet and
pure and decent. Just the exact psy
chological process as it is worked out.
I have never understood but we are
told it must be and that's all there is
to it. But in all these seasons of up
lifting the young and saving them
through "The Lure" and "Damaged
Goods" and "Was She to Blame?"" and
Whose Child?'" and others like these
staged or filmed I have never had a
bulletin on the ignorance of grandma.
It is really worth while stopping to
consider if our elderly relatives should
be permitted to pass Into the glooming
and the sweet night of their long, hap
py useful day with no effort put out
to uplift them. To disturb their
dimmed visions and failing faculties
with "close-up" pictures of the under
woild, or not to disturb them that
is tho question. ... If we reform
them at all It must be done rapidly
and with a fine disregard for procrasti
nation. All reformers work that way.
Hesides, plays are like the modern
dances in that the grapevine twist of
todav may be an obsolete hop of to
morrow. The "Blindness of Virtue" of
yesterday may wear double visloned
spectacles on a later day and the ad
vanced dramatic thought of this day
may be innocuous platitudes with an
other day's dawning. . . . Too, I
take it that we are talking about old
fashioned grandmothers. At least I
am. The modern grandma, with her
short skirts, roller skates and Robert
Chambers' novel, is younger than her
granddaughter in all but years.
The only eolution I can think of is to
be absolutely deaf to grandma's pleas
for uplift. Put a censorship on her
literary activities. Do not let her read
dramatic news and keep her away from
the theaters and the movies. Put
period to her conversation when it
drifts toward the wages of sin or
Thedabaraesque discussion, or why
men leave home. Wrap dear old grand
ma's eyes and ears in the mantle of
Ignorance which we are lifting from
the eyes and understanding of our
young.
After which we will now pass on to
the subject for the day namely, the
coming attractions.
"When Dreams Come True" is the
next attraction at the Heillg. it ar
rives on next Thursday night and with
a matinee rounds out the week. It is
the first musical comedy written by
Philip Bartholomae, the author of
"'Little Miss Brown" and "Over Night."
According to reviewers. Philip Bartho
lomae'e dreams seem to be coming true
in the material sense of pleasing audi
ences who are in search of something
light, amusing and at the same time of
sufficient merit to distract attention
to more serious things.
In conjunction with Silvio Hetn, the
provider of the music. Sir. Bartholomae
Jias put forward in "Whf a Dreams
Come True" an interestingfival of the
t 'A 'fx - vJPCsZ - - Cm? -l V - 'Jin WwrTi a l
iPrhi . Vi.KJ M1 r"'1- " -''i,
1 v' ev ks--' V. ' 1 In
J-ii' " - t' lX6 Nf-w J,-V:aJI
mueical plays which have gone before, mm iiii . , V ; ' V ' -i
and he has managed to inject a aatia- feQjlil f ; :5,lw"iiiia ,J?!W H sentimental-sons and an
factory amount of some of the charac- 1 mmadmdammml f&?.r- A x-z.Af'i- :. Imitation of Harry Lauder,
teristics of his comedy essays. Along I : :,f--x.::-i I . . f V s-SBi -V Ben Beyer and company offer a
the producing line the stage manager I I ,4 t t " nov!l bicycle act. A recent review of
has likewise done well in costuming, I I ,' T J V 1 - this act extolled it as having manv
8eleCUO ?PeCii?8 tlf" I I ' ' 7" C5 X V -w features "though bicycle
settings generally, in addition to the I , , - t ,s I - f t ' ' ' have been in vaudeville for more than
to the
are all taken bv
players well enough known to draw on
ineir own accounts.
Mr. Hein. f nom the standpoint of the
popular catchiness in his smrial mn.
sical numbers, .maintains himself well.
x cm me nearly two score that are
proviued. Chief among these is "When
Dreams Come True," the song which
bivcb mo jjio.y us title ana wnich runs
tnrougn some of the orchestral instru
mentation.
Rex Beach's play, "The Silver Horde,"
"vcuo ai me Mntr toaay, and no more
popular choice for a stage production
could have been made. This story of
saimon run on the Frazier River,
i,""tl. im us weaitn oi tnriiiing in
cidents and scenic beauty, offers every
nistrionic advantage to the Baker
x-iajers. ine engagement is for the
entire week, with matinees on Wednes-
uttjr anu esaturaay.
Eddie Foy and the seven little Foys
will be the headliners at the Orpheum
beginning this afternoonr The Foys
are appearing in an act which has sev
eral new features. Reinie Davies, "The
Lady Beautiful of Vaudeville," also is
a- big feature of the new Orpheum
show. Ned "Cork"" Norton and Girly
Girls toplines the Empress" new bill
opening today, in a mimical melange
called "A Night on a Pullman." An
added attraction is "Mahatma," a tele
pathic wizard.
uPantaees the headline attraction
will be "A Broadway Revue." featur
ing Billy Batchelor, the comedian, anJ
a lot of pretty dancing, singing girls.
COMEDY
COMING TO JIEILIGJ
"When Dreams Come True" Will
Open Run Next Thursday.
"When Dreams Come True," a new
musical comedy by Philip Bartholomae,
will come to the Heilig Theater,
Broadway at Taylor, next Thursday,
Friday and Saturday nights, November
11, 12 and 13. with a special matinee
Saturday.
Barrett Greenwood is at the head of
a cast enlisting the services of some of
the best-known names in musical com
edy; Lorraine Lester, Dorothy Quin
ette, Margaret Wolf, Jayne Chesney,
Harlan Briggs, Beatrice, the dancing
violinist. Edith Tressider. James Hun
ter and others will be In the-line-up
of principals and a dainty, demure
chorus of dancing darlings will help
to while away the evening for "the
tired business man." The dancing
numbers, of which there are nearly a
score, will be a feature of the enter
tainment. ,
"When Dreams Come True" has for
its theme the adventures of a young
man who has been living a gay life in
Paris. Forced to forsake the French
Capital, he starts home and falls in
love with a young American on the
voyage. Ashore, romance progresses
running now and then into melodrama
and farce, but ultimately culminating
in a happy climax.
The musical numberx ar. n
posed by Silvio Hein. who ha,
much
'""" s a composer of
light
opera.
The gowning of the feminine contin
gent with "When Dreams Come True"
is a feature that will be especially
pleasing to the women. The gowns are
modeled from the latest European cre
ations and are elaborate in texture and
style.
"THE SILVER HORDE" HERE
Baker Players to Present Dramatiza
tion of Noted Rex Beach Novel.
The thousands of readers of Rex
Beach will be delighted with the an
nouncement that the Baker Players
are to be seen in the dramatization of
his "The Silver Horde" this week, com
mencing with today's matinee. The
rugged, redblood stories of Alaska by
Beach appeal as no others do because
he makes his characters and scenes
come so close to us.
Of a different life, still thev are so
strongly drawn that a feeling of under
standing is created that makes one
follow them through their different
startling "adventures with a sympathy
hard to describe at first. He doesn't
tell you about them he just takes you
along with, them into a strange new
world makes you share their dangers,
fight their fights and rejoice in their
triumphs.
"The Spoilers" and "The Barrier,"
also well known to all book lovers,
deals with the thrilling gold rushes of
the early Klondyke days, but for "The
Silver Horde" Beach has taken another
theme the mighty run of salmon in
the waters of the North.
It is the story of Boyd Emerson and
Cherry Malotte and the terrific fight
they put up against the powerful can
nery trust that, previous to this time.
had everything throttled and everyone
else powerless to move a hand. With
,
the exception of the second act, all the
scenes take place in the North.
Among the familiar characters of the
book who appear in the play are Emer
son (played by Edward Woodruff),
Cherry Malotte (Frances McHenry),
Bait, Constantine. Marsh. Fingerless
Frazier. the Waylands and others. A
magnificent scenic production will be
given and the play will run for the
week beginning thfs afternoon, with
matinees also Wednesday and Saturday.
BILL AT PANTAGES GROWS
Additional 3 0 Minutes of Bis Time
Vaudeville Is Announced.
An additional 30 minutes of big-time
vaudeville is the new policy at Pan
tages. making a programme of two
hours' duration, with no advance in the
popular prices.
The change will be made commencing
with the matinee tomorrow, when the
new bill wiU .be headed , by New York's
Rialto latest musical success, "The
Broadway Revue,'" with Billy Bachelor
and a large company, including a
chorus of beauty models. The mati
nee curtain will raise at 2:15 and the
first evening curtain at 7 o'clock. The
second night curtain will go up at
9:05.
The change Is the result of the de
termination of Alexander Pantages to
offer at popular prices the best and
the newest in vaudeville, bringing 'the
leading attractions to Portland first
by his circuit. Six big-time acts are
being booked "weekly, and "the increase
in the number of acts has caused the
extension in the time of the perform
ance. First row balcony and box seats
will continue to be reserved by tele
phone or at the box office.
"The Broadway Revue" will bring
the latest song hits, the prettiest girls
and the cleverest funmakers, and It
will prove an attraction that every
show shopper will enjoy. The produc
tion is staged by J. C. Brazee in his
customary elaborate manner.
Ed Vinton and Buster are two favor
ites in vaudeville, Mr. Vinton being
an able entertainer, while his little
canine assistant is one of the brightest
of funmakers.
Alexander and Scott are "from Vir
ginia," and their act is one of those
rare artistic productions replete with
the melodies of the South, bright lines
and the impersonations are excellent.
Charles King and 'Virginia Thorn
ton, the well-known road stars, will
present the powerful .dramatic playlet,
"The Greater Price."" which they will
introduce to Portland audiences for the
first time. The theme of the play Is
a remarkable conflict between capital
and labor.
Prince and Deerie are famous dis
pensers ofjoy, and their new songs
and lighting patter will make them
one of the big hits of the bill.
Wille and Hassan are amazing equil
ibrists whose power of balance seems
almost superhuman. The feats are new
and they will prove an important num
ber. The Marvel movies are first-run
exclusive pictorial events, which will
nlblEpe,,,n "Y1" theaters.
Mardeon, the king of handcuffs, will
close his sensational engagement with
the
continuous performance today, the
curtain rising at 2 o'clock this after
noon and continuing to It o'clock.
ORPHEUM ACTS ARE LAUDED
Eddie Koy and Family Win Un
stinted Praise in Seattle. '
The Foy family, presided over ' by
Eddie Foy, will reign supreme as head
liners at the Orpheum this week, be
ginning this afternoon, in a rollicking
musical and dancing act in which Eddie
Foy, Mrs. Foy and the seven little Foys
participate. Each of the little Foys is
talented in one line or other, an in
heritance from their gifted father, and
their combined vaudeville entertain
ment is Vivacious without a draggy
moment. The youngsters sing and
dance, one is clever at mimicry, includ
ing an imitation of Papa Foy, and at
the last, when the father and seven
children appear in an ensemble number,
the Unusual spectacle of a whole family
in vaudeville wine encore after encore.
The Seattle Daily Times said In com
menting upon the act of the Foys:
"Foy is more than one of America's
best-liked comedians and dancers and
the world's worst singer; he has expert
knowledge of what audiences like
through having faced many thousands
of them, and eo he has put his own act
together in such a way that there is
not a wasted moment. The Foy act is
even better than the old one and the
audience applauded to 'the triple come
back. Foy flees cutely from one novel
ty to another; from the opening tele
phone transparency, which is new, to
the carpet-bag magic, which is not
new, to solos and choruses by the chil
dren, an excellent imitation of himself,
a lot of good byplay with the baby
and a rousing Texas Tommy dance by
a boy and girl."
"The Lady Beautiful of Vaudeville"
heilig NextTs,7Nov. 11-12-13
mmmwsm
mmmmmr' mmm
Excellent Cast Stunning Chorus
Superb Production
Evenings Lower floor', 11 rows, $1.50; 7 rows, $1.00; balcony,
$1, 75c and 50c; gallery, 35c and 25c. - Popular-price
Saturday matinee, $1, 75c, 50c, 35c and 25c.
Box Office Sale Opens Tomorrow
I is next. She Is Reine Davies. who as
L "single" and as the head of a sup-
I , . ,. . ,
' Prtine company, gained distinction in
the vaudeville field. Not long ago she
quit vaudeville to become the prima
donna comedienne with Willie Collier's
initial musical comedy exploit' In' "For
ward March." Miss Davies is praised
as be!ng the handsomest woman on the
American stage. In her vaudeville act
she sings several songs. featuring
"Araby." a Japanese number, . and a
new patriotic song. Miss Davies is as
sisted by a pianist and a baritone
singer. She has an alluring gown for
every song and her act is exceptionally
well staged.
The .Five Annapolis Boys are down
on the programme as "The Kings of
Harmony." Each member of the quin
tet has attained success in light opera
or musical comedy, and critics have
lauded them as possessing the best
solo and blended voices of any vocal, act
before the public today. They carry a
special warship setting and their en
tertainment is novel throughout.
The Leightons are a mferry trio of
men who have a bright line of comedy
talk In a skit called "The Party of the
Second Part."' In praise of this act,
the Seattle Daily Times said:
"The Leightons are the next largest
success on the new bill. These three
men, with their well-chosen songs, neat
dances, comedy business and Mclntyre
& Heath show troupe dialogue, have
an offering that would tickle any
vaudeville audience in the land."
Then comes Olga, modern dancing
violiniste, who does the fox trot, hesi
tation waltz and clogs and jigs while
playing the violin. Olga Is a pretty
girl, her gowns are gorgeous and her
act unique.
Glen Ellison, "the Scot without a
kilt,'" entertains without relying upon
costume or eccentric make-up. Ellison
is a graduate of the London Royal
Academy and was one of the vocalists
to- accompany the famous John Mc
Cormack in his trip around the world.
Lkt THE ONLY HTfiH-CTiASS
VAUDEVILLECIRCUIT
WEEK BEGINNING
SUNDAY 7
EDDIE FOY 1
m FORM
S 5
1 THE
1 SEVEN
1 LITTLE
& iWi w. Matinees Dally,
M - -s - CkA
W? le, 25e, soe W Mtrf
B
ATL7T,Tn THEATER
liL 14 Broadway and Morrison
Home of the Popular Baker Players
Week Opening Today, Matinee Sun. Nov. -7, 1915
Superb Dramatization of the Widely Read Novel
' THE
SILVER
HORDE
By Rex Reach, Author-of "The Spoilers," "The Barrier"
and Other Thrilling Tales of Alaska.
Scenic effects unparalleled. A gripping drama that appeals to
every lover of wild life. Secure seats in advance. There is always
. a great demand for every Rex Beach play.
Eflr prices 25e, SOei box and lege, 73c. Matlncea til aeats
except hex ana lose), 25c only. Bargain night Monday, 25c alno.
Next Week "Polly of the Circus
"POIiliY OF CIRCUS" COMIXti
Margaret Mayo's Success to He
Staged at the Baker Next.
Everybody has heard of Margaret
Mayo'B "Polly of the Circus," which
will be produced by the Baker Players
for the week following- "The Silver
Horde," and opening next Sunday mati
nee. This will be one of the events
of the season, coupling as it does, Uva
drama with the circus element ia
amusements. The story is ,a pretty one,
dealing with the life of a little cir
cus rider who gets injured and is left
behind in a small village as "the show
must go on.".
She is taken in the parsonage and
the minister, the young Rev. John
Douglas, has her tenderly taken care
of and then takes it upon himself to
teach her. His interest in the unusual
little girl grows until the narrow gos
sips begin to get busy and finally drive
her away. The return of the circus to
the town later and the finding of his
little charge by the minister whose
interest in her circus work has never
been the same since she learned more
of the outside world and who refuses
the demands of the brutal ringmaster
and decides to remain this time to
become the wife of the man who has
learned to love her.
The final scene, the departure of th
circus at night, is one of the most
fetching ever introduced on the stage.
Horses. Shetland ponies and other cir
cus attractions, will be introduced in
the action of ' the play, which will be
a novelty that will greatly please tne
children as well aa grown folks.
FJIPRESS B1XL. IS BREEZY"
Xed Norton and Girls Head Show in
Musical Comedy.
Beginning this afternoon a breery
bill of New York vaudeville talent will
be featured at the Empress Theater.
Heading the bill will be Ned ("Cork")
Norton and girls in a musical comedy
entitled '"A Night on a Pullman." It
is snappy Broadway offering, com
prising late song hits, new dancing and
comedy. The girls are attractive, wear
ing Parisian creations. Mr. Norton is
a well-known artist and has for many
years been featured on the "big time"
circuits throughout the United States
and Europe.
An event of the season will be "Ma
hatma," the woman of mystery, said to
be' one of the big acts of its kind be
( Concluded on Pane 3, Column 2.
REINE DAVIES
Lady Beautiful of Vaudeville
ANNAPOLIS
BOYS
THE LEIGHTONS
OLGA
Modern Dancing Violiniste.
GLEN ELLISON
Scot Without a Kilt.
SI
C5
i1
BEN BEYER AND
COMPANY
ORPHEUM TRAVEL
WEEKLY
500 H 10c Q
isireets.
Milton W. Seaman,
Manager.
t