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2- TITE- SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, SEPTE3IBER 9, 1917, TICKET OFFICE SALE OPENS TOMPRROW HEILIG OLIVER. MOROSCO PRESENTS THE BROAD WAT EDITIOX or THE FASTEST AND FUNNIEST MUSICAL FARCE IN THE WORLD ATTRACTION 1917.11S - Br Oliver Morosco Elmer Harris mod Earl Carroll KBIT THURS., FRL, SAT., LONG . LETT Y SEPT. 13 14 15 SPECIAL PRICK MAT. SAT. WITH SO! szt$. . Ir vv i&W it'. h- ,v . A. 4'.Y AUf - -.' ' (r. J ' ... v ? t I V v it. - ? Mis BY LEONE CASS EAER. NOW is upon us the hour when the dramatic editor gathers together his typewriters and his -wits and a flock of correspondence from Eastern producers, managers and actors, and proceeds to open another season. It g-ets to be a habit if one stays on the Job long enough. Every Spring; you somehow look back over the year and make a casual resume of all that's been troing on in your own little bailiwick, and, sending the actors on their well earned vacations, go on your own. In the Fall, which hour is upon us now. the proposition is reversed. We bring the actors all gaily trooping- back from their country homes, their par ents' estates in Virginia and the Adir ondacks. whi-h, nine times out of ten, means a farm out from Dubuque, la., or a boarding house "somewhere in New York." or a nearby bungalow, with a grape arbor and outdoor plumbing on Main street, in Omaha. Neb. Back to Broadway they troop and connect with their work for the new season. Rehearsals are speeded up road companies organized to take out rome of last season's best productions: New York stars open, for the season's run usually in their own theater now, and the season is begun. The month of September Is when we, out here on the Coast, begin our sea son of theatrical entertainment, al though August, and even July, sees new productions in the East. Usually the dramatic writer opens the local Reason with a paragraph or a column about it. There's opportunity for sev eral . columns of comment and flights Into the realm of prophecy and general prognostications in the subject of open ing a season, but so often it doesn't tally with the "looking backward" In the Spring round-up. So I'm going to take no chances on discussing what the forthcoming sea eon will bring forth. It is here and an array of splendid . productions is promised. Big stars and big plays are coming to the Heilig. We are to have a season of grand opera, and we're to have musical comedies, a plentiful sup ply. The Orpheum is sending us a wealth of attractions and Pantages, too, has big names and acts listed. The Alcazar Players are to be seen in mod ern plays, successes of last season. some of them new to us on the Coast never having been presented, even by traveling companies. For instance. they open in "Hit the Trail, Holiday which was on tour put this way last season, but did not play Portland be cause the only time it could be here was when the Heilig was housing the Orpheum, during the first of the week. Now it has been released for stock and the Alcazar Players will open in it September 30. The Heilig opening Is earlier. In fact, it is this week. Next Thursday Tiicht "too Long, Letty, Oliver Moros co's sensational musical eomedy suc cess, will open a week-end engagement, playing Thursday, Friday and Satur day, with a matinee on Saturday. "So Long, Letty." like "Madame Sher ry." "The' Chocolate Soldier." "Very Oood. Eddie." "Three Twins" and "Bright Eyes." Is a delightful demon atration of the art of adding music to a comedy or a drama and turning it into an excellent musical production. "So Long, Letty" was originally a farce, written by Elmer. Harris, entitled "Your Neighbor's Wife." Mr. Morosco remodeled it, and. with the aid of Earl Carroll, added the musical numbers and presented it in its present form, "Madame Sherry" is well known to all the stock followers as the late Charles jfrohman's comedy, "Jane"; "The Choc olate Soldier" was G. Bernard Shaw's "The Arms and the Man ; Very Good, Eddie" created many laughs as "Over Night"; "The Three Twns" wll ba recognized as the former farce, "Tn- Mg.," and "Bright Eyes" was "Mistakes W ill Happen." the. last two written by Charles Dickson. By every right we should have had "So Long, Letty" long before now, be cause it was born on the Fourth of July, in 1915, in our sister city of Los Angeles, where Oliver Morosco pro duced it. After a big success in Los Angeles, it ran for 12 weeks in San Francisco, and then the Shuberts ad vised Mr. Morosco to take "Letty" East. He did, and In Chicago she triumphed for 26 consecutive weeks. Following this. Mr. Morosco decided on a New York invasion, where it met the ap proval of the theater-going public and was accorded 17 weeks, followed by a long run in Philadelphia and Boston. At this time Mr. Morosco decided to send : it back to Los Angeles for its second anniversary, and it was accord ed even a greater reception .than at Us original presentation. Now it is to pay us a visit. Portland is the 10th city in which It has been presented and It is now head ed back to take up a route which will Include all of the principal cities in the United States. Charlotte Greenwood Is featured in So Long, Letty," with May Boley, Sid ney Grant and Cyril King also in. the company, and a dozen other talented folk, beside a beauty chorus. There s a dozen musical numbers and special ties galore, besides a real plot, concern s' the excitement attendant on two husbands, who try an exchange of wives as an experiment. Of the music al numbers, many have long since been popularized for us by the cafes and vaudeville. Probably the best remem bered are "So Long, Letty," "Here Come the Married Men." "When You Hear Jackson Mran on His Saxaphone," Beautiful Beach, Pass Around the Apples Once Again." and "Maryland." Following the "So Long'. Letty" en gagement come Kolb and Dill in a mu sical farce entitled "The High Cost of Loving," wblch, in turn, will be .fol lowed by another Morosco musical comedy, "What Next?" featuring Blanche Ring, and with a cast that is more nearly all-star than many of the so advertised companies in the East. . An Orpheum show, on the way here. and presumably the one that will open the Orpheum vaudeville season at the Heilig Theater here Sunday. September 30. looms particularly on account of the predominance of new acts and not a few new names. This show was at Winnipeg September 3. Here is the aggregation: George Mack's Jungle Players in a wordless melodrama, "Th Wild Guardians"; Charlie Howard and company in a new act entitled "Cured," with Margaret Taylor and Frank Will iams; Miss Frankie Heath in a quartet of song stories; Norwood and Hall, sense and nonsense: Colonel Diamond and his grand-daughter In "Youth and Old Age"; "The Night Boat," a comedy In one act, by John B. Hymer, and Mang and Snyder, the 20th century wonders. Marck's Jungle Players are the headliners. Charles Howard and company and Frankie Heath are the extra attractons. and "The Night Boat" also is a big feature. Scrutiny of this assemblage of vau deville talent brings to mind the an nouncement that Martin Beck said he was going to have new acts and new faces for the Orpheum this season and one is inclined to accept this first show as an indication that Mr. Beck Is keeping his word. .The acts and the names are not only new, but they stick out on the poster with "I'm-going-to-entertain-you" prominence. Reckoning back on the calendar, it seems most likely that this big show will be the Orpheum's opener here as the bill has to visit Calgary, Vancouver, B. C, and Seattle before reaching Port land. When it plays Seattle, it's a cer tainty that Carl Belter, the former Orpheum manager here, will send a wireless about its A-l quality. Things are humming at the Heilig In preparation for the opening of the Orpheum season. The Orpheum's big cross-street sign is getting a new dress of paint or a dress of new paint the candpy, too. is in the hands of painters, and the Orpheum boxoffice is being re modeled to have but one window, in stead of two, as was the case last sea son. The Orpheum management pre dicts a lively season, all the old-season patrons having renewed their reserva tions, and new orders for season seats crowding the Orpheum's postoffice box every day. The boxoffice will open September 23 for the general seat sale one week In advance of the opening. Early Fall is starting a host of big New York vaudeville attractions on their Western way by way of the Pan tages route. Owen McGiveney, the famous English actor and protean artist, who comes to Pantages tor the week commencing with the matinee tomorrow, ' is the advance of a list of big names to come this season. Mr. McGiveney has created a big hit in his pluying the various characters in Dickens' novel of the London slums, "Oliver Twist." and he will offer this striking production here. As special attractions on the bill, the first epi sode of the new Pathe serial, "The Fa tal Ring," null Pc-arl White and the Six Venetian Gypsies, will tickle the theatrical palate of the public "SO IOSG, IETTY" HERE SOON Sensational Musical Flay Opens at . Heilig Thursday. "So Long, Letty," ' Oliver Morosco's sensational musical success, will be the offering at the Heilig Theater, Broad way at Taylor, for three nights, begin ning next Thursday, September 13. with a special matinee Saturday. Mr. Morosco will send the original New York production and . excellent cast which gladdened Broadway for 20, weeks the early part of this season. The costumes are all bright and new and the scenery is gorgeous. The mu sical numbers, of which there are 18, contain a number of the popular whistling variety, many of which are well known to the local playgoers, probably the best remembered being "So Long Letty," "Here Come the Married Men," and "Pass Around the Apples Once Again." - -Unlike the former production, which was laid in a cottage, the new "Letty" will be seen first outside two streetcars in the street colony of San Francisco Bay, the second being the interior of one of the cars.. The orchestra will be augmentedby a number of novelty in struments. &o Long, Letty, comes here after a most successful tour of the principal cities of the East, and her visit wili show her in a new garb, both scenic and costuming, the former being one of the most novel settings ever seen upon any stage, representing, as it does. In the first act the exterior of two street car homes on the beach, the second act being the interior of one of the cars. This locale offers ample opportunity for the many humorous situations with which the play abounds. Interspersed among the two acts of comedy are 1 musical numbers from the pen of Earl Carroll. The competent cast is headed by Charlotte Greenwood and includes Sydney Grant, May Boley, Hal Skelly, Tyler Brooke, Henrietta Lee, Eunice Sauvain, Hallie Manning and a dancing team of merit, Cunningham and Clem ents, besides a chorus of charming girls. LTRIC TO PRESEjVT "FROLICS' Second IVeek of. Musical Season Of. fers Artistic Attraction. "Frolics of the Day" is the title of the attraction for the second week of the musical season at the Lyric, be ginning today. The name is totally descriptive of the nature of the show, for it is really a frolic of tuneful airs and artistic features of topical inter est.- . The play will be produced under the direction or Ben Dillon, who, in add! tion to his duties as director, has com Dined with Al Franks, and together they form one of the best comedy teams that has ever appeared in Port land. "Frolics of the Day" was not written for these two comedians, nor about them, Dut. even if it had been written for their benefit, it could not provide more abundant opportunity for an extravagant display of their fun making talent. Miss Daisy Dean and Miss Olive Fin ney, two of the feminine stars in the cast, are also given splendid oppor tunities in the production. Miss Dean, the ingenue; and Miss Finney have both won big followlngs during their brief appearance in Portland. They are two of the pronounced hits of the show. The Bosebud Chorus and the Rialto Quartet have also been enthusiastic ally received by Lyric audiences. The quartet is composed of excellent voices and the chorus includes not only t. number of charming voices, but an un usual amount of pulchritude as well. "Money to' Burn," which closed at the Lyric last night, drew packed houses throughout the week. OWEN M'GIVEKEY AT PANTAGES Dramatic Star and Frank Morrell, Minstrel, Featured. Notve other than the famous English actor and protean artist, Owen Mc Giveney, is featured at Pantages for the week commencing with tomorrow's matinee. Few more dramatic scenes have ever been staged than that from Dickens' powerful novel, "Oliver Twist," in which Mr. McGiveney appears in the many different character parts. As Fagin, as Nancy, as -Oliver, as Bill Sykes, as the other characters in this strangely fascinating drama, Mr. McGiveney has reached tho zenith of his extraordinary ability. Each role he plays with the skill of the master and his changes are so rapid and so complete that it is hard to believe that only one person appears in the cast. Motion-picture patrons will welcome the extraordinary announcement that. beginning tomorrow, the latest Pathe serial sensation, "The Fatal Ring." will be exclusively shown at Pantages on Its first run here. The ever-popular Pearl White, late star in "Pearl- of the Navy," has reached her greatest role. . As a special attraction, the Six Vene tian Gypsies come in their "Carnival of Venice," bringing the street scenes of the dreamy city of the sea. .The lilting Italian music will be sung and played , as only true Venetians can of fer it. The scenic effects are excep tionally elaborate. Frank Morrell, the last survivor of the famous minstrel organization of a decade ago, "That Quartet," which was the sensation of Broadway, comes in songs and -stories. Mr. Morrell, to gether with Sylvester. ' Prlngle and Jones, comprised the quartet, but he is the only one of the four to remain be fore the public. , Claire and Atwood arfc comedy acro bats whose antics are hilarious as well as thrilling, while Reeder and Ander son are clever young men whose piano playing is a distinct hit. O'Connor and Dixon have songs and patter of the latest conception with which to please. Ruth Roland, the famous film star, who recently appeared on the screen at Pantages in the Pathe serial, "The Neglected Wife," is coming in person to Pantages, according to an announce ment yesterday by . Alexander Pan tages. Miss Roland will be featured at the head of her own company for one week only, commencing Monday matinee, September 17. Today the continuous . performance will be offered from 2 to 11 o'clock, the famous Curzon Sisters being fea tured on the programme which ends this evening. HIPPODROME HAS WIZARD Tlio Great Jansen Said to Be - Star in 3Iystifyins Audience.' The Great Jansen. a wizard, will be at the Hippodrome Theater today. He promises that not a dull moment shall be spent by the audience. The act will consist of all sorts of original stunts. The feature will be Edna L. Herr in. the .Great Triple Mystery, Jansen's latest original illusion. It is said that the easy facility in which he produces flags, ribbons and flowers is only as confusing as the manner'in which he produces farm stock from lighted pans and the folds of flags, and transfers colored handkerchiefs to the ribs of an umbrella. His sleight-of-hand is re ported to be even more wonderful. The five emigrants will be seen in a muHlcal act entitled "From the Old World to the New." Jack Lee and Lou ; Lawrence, two favorites, will offer a sketch, a high class dramatic offering entitled "My Lady Raffles." " The Arleys are a team of live-wire athletes who will offer a number of sensational hand balancing stunts. LaDean sisters, two pretty girls with the knack of wearing beautiful clothes, will sing, dance and make merry. Eddie Vine, formerly of the Gus Ed wards school act. will offer his original conception of a "Study in Songs." Marguerite Clayton will be featured in "Stardust," ' a timely picture and highly interesting. ARABS HEAD NEW BILIj AT 'HIP - Sensational Act Is Promised; Com edy Featured, Too. Arabs head the new Hippodrome bill which will open this afternoon with one of the most sensational offerings of the season. These men give what seems to be superhuman demonstra tions of pyramid building. "The Button Busters" is a title that promises many a hearty laugh. Irving and Ward are the principals in the riotous 15 minutes. They have a clever line of comedy songs. Dave Vanfield and Ray Rena. who bill themselves as the Juggling Fiends are appropriately named, according to advance reports. Margaret Ryan, although a dimin utive girl of but 4 feet, 9 inches, is a wonder for Joy and action. The Venetian Four, two women and two men, will present a singing and instrumental musical act de luxe. "Nutology" is a master comedy in which Morton and Wells will show their prowess as comedians. The photoplay. "Little Specks In Garnered Fruit," another- of the O. Henry picture serials, will be shown along with these six splendid vaudeville acts, making in all a bill which promises to be one of the best of the season. ' SPY PHOTODRAMA AT STRAND Conant Sisters, Exceptional Dancers, Headliners on New Bill. Citizens of Photoville will find something right in harmony with the times in the Butterfly photoplay that is to balance the vaudeville bill open ing at the Strand Theater this after noon. Everyone is interested in spies and international spying and how It is done just now. In the film, "Who Was the Other Man," the folks of Photor vllle will have a chance to see some spy work demonstrated by a man who has made that sort of business his specialty for some time and has become internationally famous at the game. Francis Ford it Is a name that is a synonym for intricate plots and coun ter plots In the photoplay is featured as the International spy in. "Who Was the Other Man." It is a story that is full of the elements that are bound to furnish an audience with thrills. The Conant Sisters, In o. oovolty dancing act, specially staged and strlk ingly attractive, are a feature extra ordinary in the new hill and continue the chain of unusual dancing that has characterized the Strand bills for some time past. Charles Lewitt and Company will be another hit in an. uproarious comedy drama, "Bold Mr. Timid," which comes with a great reputation as a "sure fire" laugh creator. - Melrose and Melvin mingle harmony and comedy and humorous patter in their skit. "The Girl and the. Rube," and are said to have a way of . getting right into the hearts of their audiences and putting them In great good humor from the very beginning of their act. - Sam Browder features in the. bill in a blackface stunt, creating and re creating the conventional means of mirth into an act that has a great fund of originality and novelty and wins audiences "hands down." CAMAS LABOR CELEBRATES Paper-Makers See Film Pictures of Themselves at Work. CAMAS, Wash.. Sept. 8. Special.) For the first time in the history of Camas, Labor Day was celebrated by organized labor. A parade in which several hundred members of the newly-organized Papermakera Union marched, was followed by a barbecue, games and races In the ball park. In the evening moving pictures, which were obtained through the cour tesy of The Oregonlan, featuring the process of paper-making from the for est to the printing presses, were shown and the audience experienced the nov elty of watching themselves at their various occupations in the different departments of the paper mills. The pictures, also showed what was done with the paper after it reached a metropolitan daily, from the time the rolls of paper were received at the newspaper offices until it came out a printed and folded newspaper. DIKED LANDS ARE FERTILE Oats Rnns 100 Bushels to Acre, and 2 4 -Acre Tract Feeds 38 Cows. . KELSO. Wash.. Sept. S. (Special.) The great fertiltty of the diked lands in the vicinity of Kelso is being amply shown this year by some . tremendous yields of early potatoes already har vested. Al Gray, on the west side, re cently threshed hia wheat from a 40 acre tract and it yielded 2 bushels to the acre. John Mlchelson, of diking district No. 1, has just completed his threvhing and his wheat ran 70 bushels to the acre and bis oats more than 100 bushels. Nearly all the oat fields are turning out almost as well. Al Lelchhardt, who conducts a dairy in diking district No. S. has kept a herd of 38 cows on a 24-acre field of red clover all Spring and Summer, which in addition yielded a ton of hay to the acre on the -first cuttlnc. and the cows were not removed for a sin gle day. The clover is ready for a second cutting now. STOCK WINS MANY PRIZES Olequa Rancher Exhibits Short horns at County Fairs. KELSO. AVash.. Sept. 8. (Special.) George Bertrand, Olequa stockman, who has one of the best herds of Short horn cattle in the Northwest, carried off all honors at the Southwestern Washington Fair at Centralla-Chehalis. Mr. Bertrand took all the first prizes in the Durham division and most of the seconds. He also exhibited a pen of Berkshire hogs which won all honors In that classification. He has taken his stock to Elma. where he Is exhibiting at tho Grays Harbor County Fair and will also ex hibit at other Northwest fairs this fall. IPPODROME SUNDAY. TCESDAV MONDAY, WED'SDAT VAUDEVILLE "Always Good I Most Times Great" TEUTAN ARABS Arabian, Acrobats' h IRVING & WARD h Button Rasters" S MORTON & WELLS 5 "Comedy, Sinking and Talking" H a VENETIAN FOUR "A Sight in Venice" B VAN FIELD & RENA "Pastimes at the Club" MARGARET RYAN "Distinct Comedienne" O'HENRY DRAMA "Little Specks ta Garnered Fruit" M eek Day Blatlnees 10c, Eve's 15c CHARLOTTE GREENWOOD NEW YORK CAST GLORIOFSLY GOBf.BOrj CHOKtS NOVELTY AUGMENTED ORCHESTRA. EVENINGS Lower Floor, 11 rows $2. seven rows fl.EO; Balcony, five rows $1, four rows 75c, last 13 rows 50c; Gallery, reserved and admission. 60c. SPECIAL PRICE SAT. MAT. Entire Lower Floor $1.50; Balcony 1, 75c. 50c; Gallery 60c. . CITY AND OUT-OK-TOWN MAIL ORDERS RECEIVED. Address Letters Make Checks, Money Orders to W. T. Pangle. ANT AGE lTn equaled Vaudeville B r a d vr a y at Aide. MatlBM Dally, SiSO. Twiee Nightly, T smd . Ftvalir Prices Boxes and Locm Reserved. WEEK COMMENCING TOMORROWS MATINEE SPECIAL ATTRACTION EXTRAORDINARY wee lie we The Celebrated English Actor, In ma Wonderful Interpretation of Dickens' Great Novel, "Oliver TnUt," Flayins; Each Role Himself. Reeder & Armstrong 6 Venetian Gypsies 6 The Masters of the Piano. In Street Scenes From Venice. O'Connor & Dixon Frank Morrell Heirs of Hilarity. Late of "That Quartet." Claire & Atwood . "The Fatal Ring" Acrobatic First Episode of the Latest Pathe Entertainers. Serial Success, With Pearl White. NOTICE Today the Cnrtnln Will Rise for the Continuous Performance , Promptly at 2 o'Clorki Doors Open at 1. Last Appear- ' ance of the Curzon Sisters and an All-Star BUI. LYRIC THEATER MATINEE DAILY 2:30 EVENINGS 7:15 AND 9 , WEEK COMMENCING SUNDAY, SEPT. 9 KEATING & FLOOD PRESENT DILLON AND -FRANKS IN THE BIG MUSICAL SUCCESS FROLICS OF .. THE. DAY 30 PEOPLE IN CAST INCLUDING THE ROSEBUD CHORUS , - . AND RIALTO QUARTET. COUNTRY STORE EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT CHORUS GIRLS' CONTEST FRIDAY NIGHT. Announcement Extraordinary BY Montrose M. Ringler I have just returned from New York, where I have been attend ing the National Dancing: Masters' Convention, and am prepared to teach the very latest modern steps; also ballet technique and fancy dancing. Today at Riverside Park BOTH AFTERNOON AND EVENING I will demonstrate the season's latest dances, including The Jazz, The Rambler The Todelle, The Society Step, 1918 One-Step and Fox Trot. Take Oregon City or Milwaukie Car; 5c Fare. Ringler's Dancing School, at Cotillion Hall, will open for the sea son, week of Sept. 24. Classes for all ages in Social Dancing. Special dept. of ballet technique, toe, nature and interpretative dancing for women and girls. Enroll now. Private Lessons Given Daily. Beginners' Classes Now Starting. MALN 3380. MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM Monday, Sep. 17, at 8:30 P. M. JOINT RECITAL Tom Dobson and Lester Donahue Baritone Pianist Auspices Oregon Army and Navy Auxiliary. CThlrd Oresron Ambulance and Emercener Find.) RESERVED SEATS $1.00 On sale at Sherman, Clay & Co., Wiley B. Allen, Eilers, Hotel Benson, Multnomah, Portland, Imperial. Tickets exchangeable for reserved seats at Sherman, Clay & Co. on and after September 12. imUllWlHf?lim"w"IIH"mlllm'IWIIlmm'1IIIU'mml" IHttlHHIIIMlWHIMIIMIUMIIIilimiiiilii.fmiMi.1 eey