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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND. NOVEMBER 5, 191G. cooing in their cotes, all literally hold he audience spellbound. There will be more than 100 perrons In all used in the presentation of thij pectaele and It will be exactly its seen t the Century Theater, New York, for ne solid year. HOBSON'S CHOICE" IS COMING .ic5?A j MAW : V. Mr ; 1 x ;w - ; x J s : y -;.-,- nxA ;- V ' - itjuAD Jlv , .,1;,..a.,.- - - - - n :- -I' J- 'j NOT unlike the wight who said "Nothihg can harm me, I have dined.. today." Portland theater goers mty isay. Winter can havci no appreciable fury, the theatrical season is well under way. . The Orpheum last week brought a most spectacular stage offering In "The Forest Fire" and the Baker The ater reopened as the home of a stock company, this time with the Alcazar Players. In every block along Broad way electric signs blaze and beckon the night wanderer and treat him well. Broadway has taken on a life not. to be denied. The Heilig, except for thia week-end. Is reasonably well booked 'up Tvith road attractions to crowd in' at the end of each week after the Orpheum bill. It particularly of fers three worthy attractions for this month In Schumann Hetak in concert recital Saturday night, November 11. "Hobson's Choice," which comes Friday- and Saturday nights, November 16 and 17, with a matinee Friday, . and in the immense production, "The Garden of Allah." the dramatized version of JKobert ' llichens' novel, which- is the engagement Thursday, Friday and Saturday. November 23. 24 and 25, with a matinee on Saturday. Of course Eva Tanguay, with her inter national vaudeville, which was to have stopped here for a day or so, has passed up the entire Northwest and scootted back to New York apparent - ly to bo away from the scathing criticc whom she encountered at San Fran cisco. But these are things of the near fu ture. For today equally promising events are at hand. The Baker Theater, after opocing auspiciously with "On Trial," iv mechanically attractive and dramatically convincing production, will present this week "the Eternal Magdalene," one of the best sellers last Winter in book form and undoubtedly a powrerful preachment. It is the play which drew Julia Arthur back to the Mase.. If the dramatised version ad heres closely to the book story written by Robert Mclxmghlin there should be presented a. magnificent night mob scene, when a man's church goes back on him and he defies them, to stand by the woman the eternal Magdalene f his life.. McLoughlin chose with much wisdom when he hit upon his title. .. It remains for the Alcazar Players to imbibe the spirit of the play and bring It home. It will make some people squirm! From the work of the Alcazar Players in "Or Trial" It is ex pected they will give a good account ing of themselves in "The Kternal Magdalene." Miss ' Gates, the leading woman, seems to toe the mark of re quirements; to penetrate the person ality of a character. Al McOovern has bearing and dnamatic quality and there are several members of the com pany who appear to have resources hid den from view in the presentation of-J On Trial. we refer particularly to Mr. V ebster, who is known among many for his excellent work years ago in the Northwest and throughout the country. Next deek the Alcazar Play era will forsake the heavier drama for a week and engage their audiences in "Nearly Married." This will give an opportunity for them to display their abilities in light comedy. The Orpheum this afternoon brings back to Portland, that wealthy and wise vaudeville entertainer. Sophie Tucker. But it is a-new Sophie, we understand a Sophie -reincarnated in the mould of public demand and public opinion. Me has forsaken her "rough house stuff." Her act this week is "Bive Kings of Syncopation." and in it she . will have some jiew songs songs not "lifted" and spoiled in advance by the cabaret singers and second-rate troup ers. . But the Orpheum bill is not all Sophie Tucker, notwithstanding she is the headline act. There is a triumvi- rate of leaders on the bill. The other two are "Cranberries.", a playlet, and . Bert Fitzgibbon. billed as "a clown of glorious lunacy." Sounds good! Of Fitz gibbon it. Is .said, of all the -"nuts" in vaudeville he is the nuttiest. Thereare many wno win nope so. lor nutty act ors are much in vogue on the stage. Pantages will have to offer on the week's programme commencing with tomorrow's matinee a bill filled with the sort of vaudeville everybody likes "A. Nut Sundae," embellished with lots of pretty girls, skilled comedians and catchy tunes, heads the list. Jules "W'a 1 ter is responsible for the music and Virgil P. Bennett wrote the book. The three Mori brothers, introducing Jap anese pastimes, arwl valentine Vox. an entertainer of some note, are -othe . features. More than usual interest is taken m the big motion picture se rial. The Ias of the Cumberland. which marks' the return of beautiful Helen Holmes, the athletic heroine o to many feature tllms. Malvefn'.-i Comiques. six clever per formers, offer a novelty pantomime at the Hippodrome on the new bill start ing this afternoon, to rim lintil Thurs -. day. The Homestead Singers offer ' sonics that never grow old. There are four talented people in this act. Four other vaudeville acts and a motion pic ture programme complete the Dill. To morrow, Tuesday and Wednesday Kip ling's "The Light That Failed" wili be shown in animated form, Pathe having produced a beautiful five-reel Gold Rooster feature with this novel as a basis. The Strand offers a Peter B. Kyne story set to film, in "The Three God fathers," and a vaudeville topliner. "La Petite Cabaret," a maniken musical comedy. Buffoonery reigns again at the Lyric, where "Abie, the Secretary," .holds forth. To revert for a minute, "Hobson's Choice" at the Heilig November 16 and 17, is a sort of a leap-year heroine play, sans crime, sans problem sex stuff and sans tricks. It is all play. There is an abundance of smart lines and epigrammatic chatter that not only ought to appeal, but which has ap pealed to ever so many on the tour Westward. One critic called it a -play of judgment. We. shall see. "The Garden of Allah" should mean much to theater goers, for it was long the talk of New York and for some time considered too big a production to tour the country. It is a gigantic production. The nine scenes in it are nine wonderful settings, an artistic panorama. The stage director has been made to draw upon -the desert for his ffects because Robert Hichens writes faithfully of things he observes and places he invades. The story is of a young Trappist monk's flight from a monastery in which he has spent 19 years. He meets a pretty Knglish woman with whom he falls passionately in love. She returns his intense affection, and,, against the warnings of friends, she marries the mysterious youth and they depart to spend their honeymoon in the desert. Constantly haunted by his broken vows, the young monk is led one night to confess his true character to a friend of his bride, who, in turn, bids the monk confess to her. The young wife, being a devoutly religious woman. bids him return to his monastery, but does not tell him she is soon to be come a mother as she says farewell forever to him. Miss Sarah Truax will be seen in the part of the wife. Domini Enfiiden: Will- am Jeffrey as Boris Androvsky the Trappist monk: Howard Gould as Count Anteonl. and Albert Andruss as the kindly Father Roubierv Others in the.large company will In clude Miss Pearl Gray as Suzanne. James Mason as Captain De Trevignac, -A, US? fx- Maud Grimm, W"3io Is In Mimical Act at Strand Theater. r. 4-i 6 f - V.v and Leo de Valery as Batouch. together with 100 people who are required for the presentation of this . spectacular production, and it will be exactly as presented at the Century Theater, New York, for a ruh of one year. SOPHIE TUCKER AT ORPHEUM Song Hits Are Offered and Gorgreous Gowns Are Displayed Sophie Tucker, "The Mary Garden of Ragtime," Is the star, of the Orpheum show to prevail at the Heilig Theater from this afternoon until next Wednesday night. Miss Tucker is as sisted. by her "five kings of syncopa tion," who have been praised gener ally as adding greatly to the effect of her original songs. Not only is Miss Tucker the best known woman ragtime singer, but she has the reputation of beinor the best- dressed woman comedienne. In her present Orpheum act she displays sev eral gorgeous gowns, each of which 13 representative of the latest Broadway style. Sophie Tucker Is the original woman "coon shouter." After attaining great success In that form of enter tainment he took up the milder rag time and made a sensational hit. Miss Tucker's Orpheum act here. Is exactly the same as that presented by her in the larger theaters of the Cast. In her Orpheum tour she is making one of the greatest hits ever scored by a woman "single" and in several places the show over which she shines as star has broken records. "Cranberries," a little aide dish for the epicures of vaudeville, is the extra attraction of the new orpheum show. This is a brand-new comedy playlet from the pen of Everett S. Ruskay. author of "The Meanest Man in the World." "Cranberries" is a tale of rus tle life centered about an automobile mishap on a lonely New Jersey road. It is presented by Frederic Karr. for merly of the support of Mrs. Fiske and Otis Skinner; Neil Pratt, a Salt Lake City boy, and Miss Marion Day, daugh ter of a prominent theatrical family. ' The other big feature act is Bert Fitzgibbon. the original daffydill. Fitz- gibbon is the king of ad lib artists In the two-a-day field. He simply goes out on the stage and acts as the spirit moves him. his act Including songs, dances, mimicry and various tomfool ery. Reviewers extol Fitzgibbon as a riot in laughmaking." Remaining acts are Johnny Cantwell and Keta Walker, favorites in Port land. In "Get the Fly Stuff; Ruth Budd. the girl with the smile; Beeman and Anderson, speed boys; Estelle Riche and Vera Burt in novel and original songs and dances; the Or pheum Travel Weekly, showing mov Ing picture views of "Old Isle de France" and the Kangaroo at home and the Orpheum concert orchestra, under direction of George E. Jeffery. Election returns will be read be tween Orpheum acts next Tuesday night, arrangements having been made xor a special service. STRONG PLAY IS TO BE GIVEN "The .Eternal Magdalene" to Be Pre sented by Alcazar Players. No play that has been seen in this city in recent years has aroused the Interest that has already been shown In the announcement that "The Eternal Magdalene," by Robert McLaughlin, will be presented at the Baker for the week starting this afternoon by the Alcazar Players. No play In recent years has proved more successful in New York, and wherever the play has been seen it has served as a magnet to draw hundreds of people to the theater who cannot in any sense be classed as regular theater-goers. The universal appeal of "The Inter nal Magdalene" is one excellent reason for the extraordinary interest it b aroused. Another may be found In the fact that It is built up around a problem as old as history and that at one time or another has confronted the people of every civilized .community in the world. "The Eternal Magdalene" tells the story of a campaign carried on by the well-meaning citizens of a fair-sized American city to wipe out the so- called vice district which has flourished In its midst for years. The fact that they have delegated to themselves the right to sit in solemn judgment on their fellow creatures, no matter what their own fitness might be. does not make itself known to them until startling and unusual series of events finally awakens the leader of the movement to a realization of his own unfitness. The action is rapid and the soul-stlrrlng events which follow one after the other with startling rapidity hold the interest as few plays In re cent years have succeeded in holding the attention of their auditors. As old as as is the theme of "The Eternal Magdalene," its treatment is so modern and new that It gains infinite ly in strength by the very fact that its auditors Instinctively feel they are witnessing events In which they them selves might easily have been promi nent actors. The -wonderful success of the new Alcazar Players In their first offerin the pest week augurs well for what they will do with "The Eternal Magda- lent, with Ruth Gates in the star role, created by no less an artist than Julia Arthur, and Albert McOovern In the romantic leading man's role. Matinees today, Wednesday- and Saturday, as well as the popular bargain night to morrow. PANTAGES OFFERS BIG ACT "A Nat Sundae" Is Feature of This Week's Bill. Described as vaudeville's sparkling musical refreshment, "A Nut Sundae' comes with pretty girls and clever comedians as the featured attraction a Pantages for the week commencing with the matinee tomorrow. Jules Walter concocted the offering Virgil P. Bennett served it. The pub lie accepted it as a pleasing asset to the amusement menu. Among th stars in the cast are Ada Murray, vau devllle's Geraldine Farrar; Otto Wight, Phyllis Daye. E. U. Pitsor. Harry Bransky and Mary Lamm. This cast I supported by a chorus of Broadway beauties who can sing and dance wit rare gusto. The musical numbers -Include "Back to Caroline," "You're a Dangerou Girl " "Love Comes Stealing." "Th Grecian Frolic," "Too Big for a Small Town. "Those Were Happy Days;" an others. Including tlje famous Pierrot aance, wnicn Is a distinct feature ot tn act. Handsome gowns and striking scenery go to make the act the best one-act musical comedy in vaudeville. The three Mori brothers are remark able Japanese athletes who entertain in their performance of Japanese pas times. They introduce remarkable balancing. Juggling, risley work and lmllar athletic features, which easily make thern special attractions on the programme. valentine Fox. a member of the black nd white, as he is known, is heard in is original entertainment. Mr. Fox is ne of vaudeville's brightest stars. Sherman. Van and Hyman are ex- etemly clever entertainers. They offer rathskeller act tilled with catchy unes and lively dances. Enough fun s In the act to keep the audience laughing. Elsie White Introduces her peculiar characterisations which have made her uch a favorite in the world of enter tainment. Clifford and Mack have an extremely classy routine of songs and dances and they are certain to be numbered among the best acts on the programme. The public's attention is called to the latest and best motion picture serial. The Lass of the Lumberlands, In which beautiful Helen Holmes makes her return as a heroine. It is not too late to start, for the second episode will be shown commencing tomorrow. Patrons of Pantages will be given extra entertainment Tuesday evening. when the election returns are an nounced between acts. Herbert Lloyd and his company, in Peaches in Pawn," will be seen for the final performances at the contin uous bill from 2:15 to 11 o'clock today. HIPPODROME ROAD SHOW BIG Fine Acts and Moving Pictures Are Offered on New Hill. Another of the big road shows, that are making the Hippodrome the most popular place for vaudeville and motion- picture fans In town, comes to that theater starting with today's matinee. There is an abundance of good variety numbers and a motion-picture pro gramme of excellent quality. Malvern s Comiques present a panto mime novelty that is said to be an unusually attractive number. There are six performers in this act and everywhere they have appeared they have received a warm welcome. The offering is out of the ordinary. One of the most popular numbers is The Homestead Pinirers." appearing In 'Just a Song ,nt Twilight." Classical songs never grow old ana tnese de lightful singers bring baric memffrtes of younger days to all who hear them. Mitch and Mitchell, southern oanjo boys, make a decided hit with their work on the banjoes. They are per formers of remarkable cleverness and their work Is a rare treat. They are masters of their Instruments. Ilartz and Evans make the most out of their singing, talking and dancing act. There is plenty or comedy snd good music in this number, as well as some clever and attractive steps. McClura and Dolly have an equtlions- tic Juggling novelty that also goes big. Novelties In this line of work are shown and a better act of the kind is seldom seen anywhere. A real ventriloquist on the new mil is Rodgers. known as the worlds fore most colored ventriloquist. There is no imitation about this remarkable man. He Is the real thing and his work is amazingly good. There are excellent motion pictures on today's bill and starting on Mon day for three days only will be seen p.ih'. Gold Rooster five-reel feature production of Kipling's "The Light That Failed. This Is a spiennm rinuic its presentation at the "Hip Is a de cidedly noteworthy event In local rthntnnlav unnals. It Is a wonderful plcturization or a treat gmry. 'NEARLY MARRIED'' NEAT BILU Alcazar Players to Produce Comedy Next Week. Following the two powerful dramas of the opening weeks the Alcasar Players at the Baker win oner ior is third week starting next Sunday mati nee Edgar Selwyn's clever, up-to-date comedy. "Nearly Married." (It will doubtless prove a delightful change from the heavy to the light and frothy side of life, and also give Baker pa trons an opportunity to see the popu lar members of the organization in comedy. In "Nearly Married" the au thor has Introduced a clever theme. A young couple have separated and lived apart awaiting a decree of divorce. They happen to meet, however, and really being much In love decide to agree and also decide to run away on another honeymoon. Just as they get away the girl's brother lawyer, who is the cause of all the trouble, arrives on the scene with the decree. Then-a party Is organized to overtake the runaways. A terrific rain storm, shat tered automobile tires and a number of other original Incidents add to the ex citement and the complications ar most originally and humorously con ceived and worked out. The new Alcazar Players have proven themselves In the heavier acting roles and In "Nearly Married" we will see them at their best In comedy roles. Three Godfathers." has the Strand had such a popular picture as "Glortana.1 As In the Kyne story, the plot revolves about a child or rather, in Glonana, the child makes the plot revolve about her. The title paat is played by little Zoe Rae she doesn't look to be more than 6 years old and she makes good big," In her first chance at a star role. It is the mission of Gloriana to set in order the tangled lifelines of certain grownups, and she accotn pllshes her happy task with charming finesse. Little Miss Rae Is supported by some of the best Bluebird talent, with the added assistance of 25 children, includ- ng Master Gordon Grilffth, with whom she was seen in "Naked Hearts," in which the two tots carried the first ac through almost unassisted. Billed as a "21st century novelty.' La Petite Cabaret is a manikin muslca comedy act, said to be the acme of me chanical cleverness. Like the feature film, it Is counted as being certain tc please tbe grown folks because pleases the children. Bell's Four Comiques have a farce comedy number that comes well rec ommended and Laverne and Grimm. "musicologists supreme," play a diver slty of instruments and play them wel according to advance notices. The vaudeville section will be com pleted by the Kolinsky Duo, man and woman, in novel acrobatics. "GARDEN OF ALLAH" COMING Dramatization of Hit-hens' Novel -Wonderful Spectacle. '"That beautiful and wonderful produc tlon of "The Garden of Allah." which comes to the Heilig Theater. Thursday, Friday and Saturday. . November 23. 24 and 25 with a special matinee Saturday. Is an almost unbelievable series o stage pictures of Northern Africa and the Desert of Mogar. It is a dramatization of the famou IWhert Hichens novel, by himself, a sisted by Mary Anderson de Navarro. Real people brought from that far away continent, speaking their native tongues, dressed In their native cos tunics, real camels. horses. donkey and goats, march across tbe dser against a background of sand and early morning sky above the eastern horizon of which gleams a solitary star. The star fades ns the morning su creeps up and shoots Its red shafts of light over the scene. A solitary camel, a little behind the otlie'rs. bearing with its load a native Arab, travels slowly on the scene and sinks slowly to rest on the sand wliil the rider dismounts and makes his morning prayer to Allah. Then slowly the curtain falls, leaving the audience wondering and enthralled. Pictures of travel and history coldly depict such sluhtji but this stage pic ture Is as near the real journey as any thing could be. What Is true of the first scene Is no less positive about the rest of the per formance. The "Garden of Allah" Is a vast, beautiful dramatic entertainment. There are nine scenes, each of which forms interesting atmospheric back grounds for the acting of the impres sive story of the play. The realism of the sand storm of real sand. the star lit sky. the coloring of the dnsert, the beautiful garden of the Count. the charm of the early morning scene out side the monastery with real dove Whirlwind Success In East Will B Produced at Ileitis. The Heilig Thoster offers for a lim ited engagement Thursday and Friday ights. November 16 and 1. with a spe-. lal matinee Friday, the important ramatic novelty of the year, "Hobson s Choice." direct from a whirlwind cf success In New York, Boston and Chi cago. Opening In New York last sea son without the usual herald'ng of th greatest comedy the stage has ever ad." It was acclaimed by the critics nd public as one of the btst comic hits In years. "Hobson s Choice. Is the work, or Tarold Brlghouse. a young North-of- Knglnnd playwright. It was staged bv B. Iden Payne, at the time an entire stranger In the ranks of New York producing directors. For both reasons departs widely from the ordinarv- conventions of comedy. The seen of the story is laid in Jancashive In the early '00s. Maggie Hotigon. a clerk in her fath er's shoe shop, has two sisters snd a very domineering father. Tired of beln ordered about" under the parental roof, she starts a domestic rebellion. Being a typical leap-year heroine shA makes one of her father's shoe bands arry her. having discovered that h Is a cobbling genius, and leaves her father to his own incompetence. Tb stratagems of Maggie in winning out and finally making everybody happy are said to provide a continual succes sion of amusing surprises. The Messrs. shubert obtained for thi lively and original role the services of Miss Viola Roach. As an actress Miss Viola Roach has won warm praise In this country and abroad.- Theater goers. It is said, may look forward to an evening of apt and telling charac terisation. The balance of the cast In cludes Galway Herbert. Peg Green wood. Lionel B"vans. J. E. McGregor. Venie Atherton. W. F. Hill. James K. Malaidy, Noel Tearle and Thomas Donelly. The players were carefully selected and directed by B. Iden Payne whose active association with tho Manchester drama" caused the Messrs. Phubert to entrust him with the stag ing. COUPLE WEDDED 50 YEARS Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Bates Celcbrato Near White Sainton. WHITE SALMON. Wash.. Nov. i. (Special.) Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Bates celebrated their golden wedding Oc tober 25 at Kabekona ranch. The couple were recipients of many pleas ing remembrances, and a most enjoy able evening was spent by thosa present. Among the guests were: Mr. and Mrs. Matt Clark. Mrs. Sarah Stimson. Mrs. J. P. Mann, of Portland; William 1 Bates. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hall. Mr. and Vrs. E. E. Mills. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Dewey. Wilmer S. Bates of Ta coina. Miss Nancy Bates and Mr. and Mrs. R. I. Bates. Apple Crop Ready for Market. RICKREALL, Or.. Nov. 4. (Special.) The heavy apple crop harvested in Polk County this Fall is about ready for the market, although the picking was delayed on account of the short age of pickers. School pupils were en gaged at the work for awhile after tho schools started, but the change to older help for a time threatened embarrass ment to the growers. SCHUMANN- HEINK November 11 8:15 HEI LIG THEATER Seat Sale Wednesday 9 A. M. PRICES Floor 5 50, $2.00 Balcony ..$2.50, $2.00, 51.50, ?1.00 Gallery, reserved, $1; Gallery ad mission 75c Lower Boxes . j. $3.00 Upper Boxes ?2.50 r HAPPINESS FILM SCHEDULED Four Vaudeville Numbers Also on Strand Programme. Four widely varied vaudeville num bers, supplemented by an extended showing of the Bluebird feature film. Gloriana, a Drama of Happiness," which has been running since Wednes day, compose today's new programme at the Strand. Not since the Bluebird picturization of Peter B. Kjne's famous story, "The HEILIG, 3 S&XS THUR.,Nov.23 Si?: The MfhW Co. Stupendous Spectacle 100 PEOPLE 100 ;X ' ! I I 3 v CAMKI.S. HORSES, v-n n aco " j" .-.r jwct BIGGERTHAN BEN HUB CITY AT CIHATRl M A 1 1, OltUUKS NOW PRICES: H 1 cony, 1, Gallery. Keervel. 75c. nrday Matinee Floor, .ftOt RalroBT, 1, ","ic, AOc rry. It c e r v c u, WH;. CITY cotl'.'n. MAIL ORDERS RECEIVED NOW HEILIG Thur.-Fri. ! NOV.16-17 BRILLIANT COMEDY SUCCESS. HOBSON'S CHOICE 1 ! t m .................. ...........4 : rluc11" MAT, FRL, ALL-ENGLISH CAST : Eve's $1.50, $1, 75c, 50c; Fri. Mat. $1, 75c, 50c : I aaaaaaaaae 1