THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAM),' MAY 21, 1916.
NEWS OF THE THEATERS
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country, but that may still be found
In the British provinces. He is nil
actor the stage Is his world and act
ing la his life. "Stony broke." he asks
for a 'part" and refuses 1000 ster
ling instead. He admits he drinks
how can he give tongue to "the Im
mortal One" on ice water, when even
the great Kean could play Shakespeare
only on brandy and' claret? but he
boasts he ever missed a cue. His
"gall" Is monumental and his wit is
ready. His ambition is to show Lon
don how Othello really , ought to be
played and In the comedy he gets his
chance.
Mr. Skinner has played many a
charming rascal In his time. There
was Hadji the Begger In "Kismet," for
instance, and there was that Balzacian
scalawag. Colonel Philippe Bridau. in
"The Honor of the Family." But he
lias made none of hie scamps (and he
Joves them all, he says) more lovable
than this Tony. In New York they said
this Impersonation waa his masterpiece.
As ror the play, it is one of Mr. Jones'
Very best. 'Jts situations are humor
ous, its dialogue is witty and its satire
makes one laugh, not wince. A lot
of its fun is aimed at the knighted
actor-managers who lord it on the Lon
don stage and at the foolish little mati
.nee girls who adore them.
In the supporting company are Janet
Dunbar, Enid Bennett, Luella Smith,
Walter Gibbs. "Walter P. Scott, John
Rogers, Harry Dodd, Henry Crocker
and Ernest A. Elton, for each of whom
there ia a well-drawn character.
BEA LION'S AT PAXTAGES
tiving Xymplis Also Take Part In
, Headliner This Week.
Like a glimpse into the secrets of
the eea will be the remarkable specta
cle presented by Winston's Water Lions
end Diving Nymphs, which are featured
on the programme at Pantages for the
week commencing with the matinee
tomorrow.
Klve huge sea lions and two exquis
ite mermaids participate in this great
est of aquatic acts. There are no mir
rors from which the reflections are im
perfectly seen. The big tank of water
is of glass and the audience looks di
rectly upon the wonderful performers.
The pretty girls accomplish many re
markable tricks under water and the
lions have been so well trained that
they not only imitate their attractive
companions, but they have an amazing
routine of their own.
The special attraction of the pro
gramme will be offered by the Six
jserenaders, the noted entertainers
whose songs have been the big vaude
ville hit of the Spring season. Wher
ever the Serenadera have appeared
they have scored heavily and this is
their first appearance in Portland.
Walter Clinton and Julia Rooney
have a delightful one-act farce entitled
"What Everybody Likes." Both are
clever dancers and Miss Rooney is a
sister of the noted comedian, offering
an impersonation of him that is truly
like Pat Rooney, who has made so
many rock with laughter.
Richard Wally is a clever Juggler
who has invented numerous new feats
temake his act attractive. He also
offers some amazing feats on a bil
liard table. He is considered one of the
best trick billlardists In vaudeville. He
will be supported by his own company.
As the Prune Center cut-ups Roach
and McCurdy have struck upon a rpode
of entertaining which has rendered
them prime favorites. The scene of
their fun-making is cast at a small
town depot, and there is not a dull mo
ment in the progress of the act.
Morris Golden is the talkative vio
linist whose work has won him much
favor. He will introduce original of
ferings in an original manner.
"The Iron Claw" has reached its
eighth episode, and the climaxes grow
more thrilling as the sensational film
aerial draws to a close.
"My Portland Rose," a Rose Festival
melody by Parris E. Emery, a Portland
boy, will be featured by -.the Pantages
orchestra under the direction of H. K.
Evenson.
"The Junior Revue of 1916" will be
. aeen at the continuous performance to
day for the final times. The first cur
tain will rise at 2:15 sharp.
HIPPODROJIE HAS NEW BILL
performing Baboon to Present Pic
tures to Children at Reception.
Hippodrome offerings fori three days
starting this afternoon are all of high
class. Six feature vaudeville acts list
ed are unusually good and are sure to
please the audiences.
An oddity and almost uncanny fea
ture Is that of Pedrlnl's somersaulting
baboon. This weird animal, almost
human In appearance and intelligence,
performs any number of tricks. So
trreat a feature is this wonderful ba
boon that a special reception on the
etage has been arranged for Monday
Afternoon at 4 o'clock for the kiddies.
The baboon himself will hand out his
photographs to the children.
Three Musical Stewarts offer "A
Garden of Harmony" that is full of
novelties.
Jane O'Rourke will entertain with a
sketch, the title of which is "As It
Was." She is a performer with an es
tablished reputation.
Mossman, Gordon and Vance form
the 1916 Model Trio, an amusement
combination that is hard to beat. They
do a lot of good things, not the
least of which is the song of Miss
Phyllis Gordon, "Are You Half the
Hah Your Mother Thought You'd Be?"
Ray and Wynn have an act that fea
tures singing and dancing in an es
pecially clever way. Their billing, sug
gestive of the refreshing quality of the
offering. Is "Nifty Splatters of Songs
and Chatter." .
Sensational and comedy acrobatics
are presented by the Baltus Trio, a
bit of entertainment that is bound to
appeal to all as exceptional.
The photoplay part of the coming
Hippodrome programme is fully up to
what might be expected, for it com
pletes the show and is of the same
class as the vaudeville numbers. First
run features prevail in this depart
ment throughout.
"Who's Guilty?" the series by Pathe,
featuring Tom Moore and Anna Nils
son, will be shown, presenting another
episode in this engrossing picture. Be
sides, there will be first-run comedy
and scenic education films, all of
which are of high class.
Hippodrome shows are continuous
from 1 to 11 P. M. daily and, because
of the crowded houses that are the
rule, the management advises patrons
to come early in order to be" well served
as to getting desirable seats.
'PASSIXG SHOW" DUE MAY 29
Kevue Prom Winter Garden Said to
Excel All Previous Efforts.
"The Passing Show of 1915." heralded
as the greatest and most gorgeous of
all the mastodonic New York Winter
Garden shows, is coming to the Heilig
Theater. Broadway at Taylor street, six
nights, beginning Monday, May 29. with
popular matinees Wednesday and Fri
day and a special matinee Saturday.
During the several years that have
elapsed since the opening of the Win
ter Garden it has been the constant
aim of its directors to make each suc
ceeding revue Just a little bit better
i than its predecessor, and usually they
have succeeded. Particularly true is
this of ."The Passing Show of 1915." In
It they. have outdistanced all others.
both scenically. musically and "glrlily."
Twelve monster stage pictures, each"
more pretentious than the other, com
prise its scenic investure, and its book
includes every live topic of the day,
from the quaintly-pleasing dialogue of
the opening rural scene from "Expe
rience" to the great war scene, in which
the audience is thrilled speechless at
the sight of the destruction of a huge
city by a fleet of aeroplanes.
One does not look for grand opera in
these big spectacular shows, but the
music-lover in search of the Jingly,
whistly melody is sure to get his de
sires more than gratified. More than
30 numbers of this variety are showered
upon the audience during the course of
the performance.
As a matter of course, one always ex-
pects .the chorus of a Winter Garden
show to be the last word in charming
femininity, and in this latest offering
they will not be disappointed, for it
Offers the last word in beautiful and
youthful choristers, each lovely siren
seeming to be a bit fairer than her sis
ter. .
As its name implies. "The Passing
Show of 1915" is a revue or series of
travesties on the more popular plays
of the last New York season a bit of
polite burlesque on each "Experience,"
"Under Cover," "Androcles and the
Lion," "Twin Beds," "Trilby," "Daddy
Long Legs," "Polygamy" and "The Song
of Songs."
A more than usually excellent cast
Is intrusted with the principal roles in
theee travesties, the list of favorites in
cluding George Monroe, Eugene and
Willie Howard. Marilynn Miller, John
T. Murray, Daphne Pollard, Edmund
Goulding, Helen 15 ley, Ernest Hare,
Clarence Harvey, Miller and Mack, Sam
Hearn, Alexis Kosloff, Flora Lea, Lyda
Carlisle, Arthur Hill and Marie Flood.
LYRIC AUDIENCES WILL DRINK
Honeymoon Girls Will Invito All to
Sample Loganberry Juice.
The Alhambra Musical Comedy Com
pany at the Lyric Theater will present
the coming week the splendid farce
comedy drama, "The Northerner," with
a dainty little lov plot and witty
comedy lines. There will also be pre
sented the latest song hits by mem
bers of the cast, assisted by the Hon
eymoon Chorus girls and the Alhambra
Four.
This clever company in their first
week made a decided impression on the
many Lyric patrons, and by their ef
forts t amuse are likely in for a long
run at this home of musical comedy.
For the coming production the en
tire large cast among them Chole
Bell, Francis Williamson, Barbara Haa
land. Donna Boud, Walter De Laar,
Val Howland, Jack Owenby and S.
James all have excellent parts Just
fitted to their ability as entertainers.
Miss Elsie Moore, director of the
VIOLINIST AT TAD THEATER
PLAYS 0 S1SOO INSTRU
MENT. George Eben McElroy.
A 1600 Stradivarius violin
plays an important part In the
musical programme of the T &
D Theater, George Eben McElroy.
son of Willis Eben McElroy. the
director, being the owner of the
valuable Instrument.
Violinist McElroy is the lead
ing artist of the ten-piece or
chestra, and during the coming
weeks his violin will be heard in
many solo offerings.
He has been associated with
some. of the foremost symphony
orchestras of the country. He
was leader of the American Con
cert Orchestra, which made such
a success at the Oaks Amuse
ment Park during the season of
1914.
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Honeymoon girls, has created some new
dance steps for the chorus that will
be featured In among the song num
bers. What promises to be two of the best
musical numbers yet presented during
the season will be a war song, called
"Tell Me Why You're Not a Soldier,
Too," with special scenic and electrical
effects, and an audience number, "Al
ways Ask for Loganberry Juice." in
which the Honeymoon girls have a spe
cial march through the body of the
house, inviting the audience to sample
the drink that helps make Oregon
famous.
The management of the Lyric an
nounces that every Monday evening
will be set aside as tryout night. Any
person or persons thinking they have
talent to entertain an audience are in
vited to present their act and give It
a real tryout before a regular audi
ence. This may be the means of dis
covering new talent that will through
the tryout be able to obtain bookings
on a regular vaudeville circuit.
Tuesday night money is given away
iSif ?A CZ'-S oT-
in front of the Lyric. Friday night
after each performance the Honey
moon girls will hold a chorus girls'
contest. A bargain matinee is held
dally.
STR.VX1) HAS HIGH-CLASS HILL
Classy Vaudeville and Sensational
Movie Play Offered.
Photovillen the new bill opening at
the Strand tbis afternoon will include
such high-class vaudeville as Burk
hart and Edwards, the famous "Loop
Hound" comedians, and has for its pic
ture feature the sensational Bluebird
release. "A Son of the Immortals." star
ring J. Warren Kerrigan, already a
Strand favorite.
Loon Hound" is an epithet peculiar
to Chicago. It refers to those whose
lines, either for businens or pleasure.
but more particularly the latter, are
cast In the big and busy downtown dis
trict known as "The Loop.
Burkhart and Edward have a lot or
diverting chatter and some songs on
which the copyright is still young. One
of the boys is a polite "souse" who
means no harm to anyone, but who
imply can't arrive where he a go
ing at."
Another clever act, and one that was
a hit at the Oak Theater at Seattle last
week, is Prevost and Goulet. a comedy
acrobatic team with some funny talk as
they tose each other about.
Nan Aker has nothing at all to do ex
cept keep a whole room full of "dum
mies" supplied with conversation. Miss
Aker is said to be one of the cleverest
ventriloquists in vaudeville. She has an
assistant who controls the puppets'
movements by means of wires from the
wings.
La Salle and Pankini are a neat and
nifty song-and-patter pair who have
good voices and Jokes of recent date.
"A Son of the Immortals" tells the
story of a Yankee who is suddenly ele
vated to the throne of a Balkan king'
dom. He breaks all the rules of king
ing, stirs up the politicians, passes
many dangers and. coming to the ell
max. the American spirit is triumphant.
Kerrigan makes the most of a big od-
portunity in this stirring film.
MAT ROBSOX IS COMING HERE
Star to Appear at Heilig in "The
Making Over of Mrs. Matt-"
What promises to be a real treat for
theatergoers is the announcement that
May Robson. the brightest and most
versatile of the comediennes now be
fore the public. Is to hold the boards
at the Heilig Theater, Broadway at
Taylor, next Thursday, Friday and Sat
urday, May 25. 26 and 27. with a popu
lar matinee Saturday, offering James
Forbes' best comedy, "The Making
Over of Mrs. Matt."
Of this comedy it is worth knowing
that it came from the versatile pen of
the man who wrote "The Chorus
Lady,". "The Traveling Salesman" and
other successes. In this play. Miss
Robson displays her power of render
ing mother love, as well as romance.
with a deft hand, and her talents bring
forth the bubbling Joy of protecting
maternal affection with a whole-souled
Inspiration and naturalness that will
no doubt win for her new laureta to add
to her many clever Impersonations.
"The story of "Mrs. Matt ranges
around a good, young, old-fashioned
woman who helped her husband into
ric'ies. and who retains all the quali
ties or a true-minaea woman, despite
the desire of her husband to have her
become a social butterfly." She has a
son. whom the father tries to force into
a marriage with a "society bud," but
the young man, loving in another direc
tion which finds favor with the mother,
causes a ruction between the latter and
paterfamilias.
Mr. Matt is also desirous that his wife
enter society, and engages a social re
generator to teach his wife the manner
of the elect. With a subject of this
nature, those who know May Robson's
viewing of the comic side of every
serious question, can well Imagine how,
and with what mirth and laugh-pro
voking moments she will handle this
theme.
Miss Robson in this play has clever
support, among them Jack Story.
Smith Davies. George F. Hall. Cy
Weavers. Edith Conrad. Edith Warren.
Rldler Davies, Marie Pavey and Fred
Towbrldge.
The production for this play will be
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on a par with Miss Robson's well
known proclivities for doing and pre
senting everything In the most up-to-the-minute
manner and finish.
EX-ENVOY SUES EDITOR
Henry Lane Mil son Asks $350,000
Damages From Norman Hapgood.
WASHINGTON. May 18. HenryUn
Wilson. ex-Ambassador of the United
States to Mexico, and in that capaclty
dean of the diplomatic corps in the
Southern republic, and prior to that
time Minister to Belgium and Chile, has
filed suit in the District Supreme Court
for $350,000 damages against Norman
Hapgood, formed editor of Harper's
Weekly, for alleged libel.
It is alleged that libel was committed
by the publication in Harper's Weekly
of special articles and editorial com
ment tending to connect the plaintiff
witt the plot which led to the assas
sination of President Madero. One of
the articles complained of was enti
tled "Huerta and the Two Wilsons."
ana? was written, it is stated, in the
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Chapter Two of
Another chapter of the most elaborate
photoplay ever produced "Gloria's Romance" appears
today with a full synopsis of the preceding chapter. If you are inter
ested in high class picture entertainment, see this production by all means!
By Arranzmtent vjith F. "Zlezfeld, Jr.
GEORGE KLEINE Presents
Supported by HENRY KOLKER
A Motion Picture Novel by Mr. & Mrs.
RUPERT HUGHES
See beautiftil Billie Burke in "Caught by the
Seminoles." See this charming star portray the role of
Gloria Stafford in this wonderful society romance "Gloria's Romance."
See her in the Florida Everglades. See her in the camps of the Sem
inoles real Seminole Indians as they live today in Florida. You'll
enjoy the interesting theme of this new Hughes' story the beautiful,
natural, Florida scenery the perfect interpretation of the role by the
supreme star, Miss Billie Burke.
Entire Week Beginning TODAY at
BROADWAY AT STARK
petition, by Robert H. Murray. Begin
ning with a quotation" "Was Henry
Lane Wilson Concerned in the Plot to
Assassinate Madero?" the petition sets
out practically the entire article.
In the petition Mr. Wilson reviews
his 16 years in the diplomatic service
of the United States and especially
the history of the Mexican situation
during the period covered by the Har
pers' stories, and asserts that his serv
ices were performed faithfully and
that he 'had never been suspected of
being unskilful. Incompetent or defi
cient. In ppite of this, the plaintiff
asserts, the stories complained of inti
mate his connection with the revolu
tion of Huerta which led to the assas
sination of Madero and have greatly
damaged him.
BEASTS WILD, ON FRONT
Denizens of Jungle Prowl Between
Armies In East Africa.
CAPE TOWN. May 18. The country
through whirh the British forces, un
der command of General J. C. Smuts,
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"Gloria .pushed on and on, growing more and
more doubtful of the ivay and dismally footsore.
eminoies
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are operating in their conquest of
German East Africa Is probably the
finest big gamefield in the world.
"Every description of buck and other
game." writes a trooper cf the South
African horse in a letter home, "can
be seen dally ranging the flats, and al
though the bulk of them have moved
away some little distance hardly a
morning passes that at dawn we do
not see droves of them careering be
tween the various squadrons. They
comprise chiefly wlldebeeste. eland,
hartebeext, gemsbok. roolbok. gyrebok
and springbok.- In addition there
abound all sorts of wild creatures
lions, leopards, wolves, hyenas, wild
pig, giraffes, also ostriches.
"The noises of the night are most
uncanny. Mingled with the howling of
jackals, we hear the laugh of hyenas
and the deep grunting of pigs. A
horse died the other night, and, al
though, a sentry was not 20 yards
away, only a part of the carcass was
left at daybreak.
"The worst enemies our horses and
ourselves have to contend ,wlth are
bush lice. These tenacious vermin are
a great source of trouble. They fas
ten on the legs and muscles of the
horses as the latter graze. They are
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reckoned to be a prolific source of dis
ease, not only among the animals, but
among human beings."
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Puck.
Inquisitive Blind Man How do you
manage to call your dog in the dark
when he can't see your fingers moving?
Ingenious Mute I drum on a dog
bf.rnit with a brine.
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