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BT LEONE CASS BAER.
A CONTINUATION of the adventures
of that pleasant pair. Able and
Mawruss, a-down the highways
and byways of society is to be seen at
the Heille on Thursday, Friday and
Saturday nights, with a matinee on
Saturday.
Abe and Mawruss we met first In the
pastes of the Saturday Evening Post,
and made their further acquaintance
on the stage when their author and
manufacturer, Montague Glass, drama
tized them.
Last season Mr. Glass and Rol Coop
er Megrue put Abie and Mawruss in
society by way of the theater and the
comedy was one of the successes of
the year. Roi Cooper Megrue is the
author of "Under Cover" and "It Pays
to Advertise" and is a dramatist of
note. In this last extension of the
lives of the two gents in the whole
sale cloak and suit trade, Abie is in
duced to separate from Wawruss when
the old firm is incorporated into a
$1,000,000 concern by Wall street pro
moters. Jt proyes to be a calamitous
happening for the two merchants, for
Perlmutter is victimized and only the
loyalty and ready capital of Potash
suffice to keep the victim from utter
financial ruin. The final scene shows
the partners in business again at their
old stand on East Broadway, poorer,
but happier.
From the standpoint of clever crafts
manship, and as a means for the ex
ploitation of the humors of business as
conducted by the two impetuous and
bargaining cloak and suit merchants,
and with its bits of tenderness inter
spersed, the new comedy is said to be
more than ordinarily satisfactory to
theatergoers, which is fully attested by
its IonR- and successful runs in New
York, lhi ladelphia and Boston. Upon
the capable shoulders of Jules Jordan,
whose work is known and admired
here, and Charles Lipson, a clever
character actor, fall the roles of Aba
and Mawruss. Another in the cast is
Jennie Moskowitz, who will be remem
bered for her delightfully faithful
playing with ravid Warfield in "The
Auctioneer." She will present her orig
inal creation of Hosie Potash. Pearl
Sindelar, a Pathe film beauty, will be
seen as Ruth, with a big cast, some
of them the characters ot the original
play, and others who have come into
Abe and Mawruss' life since they en
tered society.
This week the Baker Theater will
nou.e "Romance." the beautiful play
In which Loris Krane starred for so
long in America before she took it to
London, where, until a few months ago,
she had broken all records with it in
a continual run. It is a pretentious
play, with a novel treatment. There
Is a prologue, and an epilogue with
the actual incidents occurring in the
acts between. An old man starts to
tell a young romantic lad a story.
The lights grow dim and yet dimmer,,
and the curtain rises on the scene he
is describing 50 years ago. For three
lieautiful, incident-filled acts, in which
Kleanor Montell will have ample op
portunity to show her versatile art.
the play goes on, and then we find
ourselves back once more with the old
man. finishing for his grandson the
Ftory we have just seen enacted.
Kdward Morton will appear in the role
"William Courtney played, that of '.lie
old bishop in the prologue, transform
ing suddenly to the youth of 20 in the
play proper. Scenically and histrion
ically "Romance" is going to prove a
delight and a surprise and a treat
for Kaker patrons.
So big is the Orpheum show to open
at the Heilig this afternoon that one
almost is bewildered over the big type.
There are five stars in the show. First
come "Submarine F-7" and Nina Payne,
famous danseuse. the headliners, and
the other emhlazoned acts are Fleta
.Brown and Herbert Ppencer, singing
song composers; "Skeet" Gallagher and
Irene Martin, "the up-to-the-Minute
?alr." and Harriet and Florence Leach,
'ortland girls, who have won big type
on the "big time"' from a modest be
ginning made right here in their home
town.
In this international crisis the most
vital issue, of the day is the submarine-
As according to the Bard of
Avon the stage holds the mirror up
to nature, the submergible craft must
necessarily find its way into the
drama.
Scenic artists can paint oceans, for
ests, mountains and valleys, but it re
quires marine engineers and mechan
ics to produce the submarine at all
effectively. This Is exactly what has
been done, and scenically "Submarine
l-'-T" is complete.
The scene depicts the- middle com
partment of a United States sub-sea
lighting- machine, and it la complete
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n it
In every detail, from the staff atop the
conning tower to the floor of main deck
below. Every bit of machinery, every
valve, tank, throttle, indicator, regis
ter and dynamo is shown, as is an en
tire working periscope from its eye
above the sea to Its Indicator 'tween
decks. It is the device of Henri de
Vries, the well-known protean artist,
who recently presented "A Case of Ar
son" in vaudeville.
The action of the piece requires the
submarine to fro into action, -with the
hiss of team, the whirl of wheels, the
clank of chains, the gush of com
pressed air, with officers and crew at
their proper stations, engaged In such
tasks as they would be called upon to
accomplish in actual warfare, while the
periscope registers the accomplish
ments of the submarine and its enemy.
Incredible as it may seem, a rad
ically new thought has arrived In the
art of terpsichore through the person
of Nina Payne. Out of the Infinite
variety of classical and modern dances
she has evolved a happy medium which
promises to gain wide popularity, and
in a series of dances, aided by elabo
rate stage settings and dazzling cos
tumes, ranging from the beautiful to
the grotesque, she presents an orig
inal offering. On her last Orpheum
tour Miss Payne was accompanied by
Joseph Niemeyer in a song-and-cliCe
act, and a few years ago she had al
ready won distinct recognition as a
dancer when she appeared in "La Som
nambule." Miss Payne seems to have absorbed
something of the futuristic ideas of
presentation in her new offering. Her
opening dance is "The Pencil Picture
Prance." As the title might indicate,
the costume of Miss Payne gives the
impression to the audience that they
are seeing a pencil drawing step di
rectly from the page of an. up-to-date
magazine.
"The Cleopatra Cakewalk" Is her
second number. Again, the title Is il
lustrative of the number. In "The
Dancer's Dream" Miss Payne shows Bhe
is familiar with the classic branch of
the terpsichorean art. Her final num
ber is described as "The Futuristic
Freak" and her dance steps in this
number seem to run In as much riot
as the nature and colors of her cos
tume. The Lyric, with Dillon and Lonsdale
and the clever principals and chorus,
will appear in a new musical travesty
entitled "Sherman Was Right," dealing
with our recent little unpleasantness
in the land of the hot tamale. The
Lyric shows are Just a bundle of clean
nonsense, enhanced, by attractive sing
ing and chorus numbers. The popular
downtown home of musical stock has
a really clever- singing chorus this
season, and special attention la given
to that feature of the bill. There is
a matinee every day.
"Bon Voyage." a bright and tuneful
musical comedy, comes to top the list
of things on the new bill opening to
morrow. A score of pretty girls, new
songs and steps and a keen comedian.
Jimmy Gildea, are featured in the act.
Besides these, a note of local interest
is added in the sketch "Saint and
Sinner," which is the work of Brenda
Fowler and Ethel Clifton, two former
Baker leading women.
POTASH AND PERLMUTTER DXTE
Famous Characters to Be Seen at
Helllg This Week.
"Potash and Perlmutter In Society,"
a new comedy continuing the story of
the famous cloak and suit tradesmen,
Abe and Mawruss, opens an engage
ment of three night at the Heilig The
ater, Broadway at Taylor street, be
ginning next Thursday. October 25,
with special matinee on Saturday. .
The ingredients of the new piece that
has won instant International popular
ity, so far as plot and situations are
concerned, has been constructed on en
tirely original lines, even though con
taining many of the characters incor
porated In its predecessor. Rol Cooper
Megrue. the eminent playwright, who
Is responsible for "Under Cover" and
"It Pays to Advertise," has fashioned
a stage version from Montague Glass'
Saturday Evening Post tales that has
accentuated the popularity of Abe and
Mawruss, the quarrelsome but loving
partners.
Since Mawruss was last seen on a
local stage he has .married Ruth, the
cloak designer and model, and the play
opens in his Harlem home, where the
first wedding anniversary is being cele
brated. After an amusing pinochle
game it Is revealed that Mawruss wants
to branch out into high finance and that
Abe is content to do business In the old
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way. Without being definitely settled,
the argument is carried over for fur
ther discussion to the home of Potash,
which is the scene of the second act.
In the third act the old firm has dis
solved partnership. Potash selling his
interest to Mawruss for $75,000, since
he is unable to view his partner's am
bitious schemes of expansion with ap
proval, and the latter becomes allied
with B. Gans. a shrewd Wall street
promoter, in the Cloak and Suit Com
pany of North America, $1,000,000 cor
poration. But Mawruss soon flounders
in a sea of watered stock. The com
pany goes to the wall, the sharper de
camps with the firm's capital and prison
stares Mawruss in the face. Here It
is that the loyalty of the old partner
avails itself. Abe turns over his pri
vate fortune. The money is refunded
to the stockholders and the old firm is
re-established in its original quarters
on East Broadway.
"KOMAXCE"' IS AT THE BAKER
Play Which Produces Love Thrills
and Romance Starts Today.
"Romance," one of the most important
stock offerings of the year, will be su
perbly produced by the Alcazar Play
ers for the week opening this afternoon
at the Baker. It is an Ideal, stock pro
duction and revels in that atmosphere
of love, thrills and romance so greatly
appreciated by followers of the drama.
A play within- a play, it might well be
termed, for the prologue takes place
today, as does the closing scene, while
the three acts between carry us back
50 years.
The ending 50 years ago was almost
tragic, but today and after all it is
the people of today in whom we are
most interested we find our lovers In
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each others'- arms as the final curtain
descends, with a kindly old ' grand
father, whose story has held everyone
spellbound as it is enacted before our
eyes, looking on and blessing them.
The grand old bishop's romance con
cerns himself when a mere youth just
beginning his ministry, and a then
world-famous Italian opera singer.
Some strange turn of fate brings them
together, and a wild love springs up
in the heart of each. But he is a min
ister and she an opera singer with a
past, and when, in one tremendously
emotional scene, she is forced to tell
the truth and lay bare her life, it is
obvious to everyone that here the ro
mance as a thing of life must end and
ever after be but a cherished memory.
Nothing like "Romance" has ever been
offered in stock here before, and with
Eleanor Montell and Edward Horton
in the two leading roles the perform
anpe will doubtless rise to strong
dramatic heights. Matinees today,
Wednesday and Saturday. .
5 BIG-TXPE ACTS AT ORPHEUM
Headline Feature Is Portrayal of
Submarine In Action.
An Orpheum show heralded as ex
traordinary will open at the Helllg
Theater this afternoon for an engage
ment of three nights and four matinees,
ending with the matinee Wednesday.
The show Is especially notable because
it possesses five big-type acts and,
aside from its luminous headliners and
great extra attractions, it is of espe
cial Interest in Portland because the
Leach sisters, Harriet and Florence,
Portland girls, are among the features.
The headliners are "Submarine F-7"
an exact reproduction of a submarine
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in action, with a thrilling drama as the
background, and Nina Payne, famous
danceuse.
"Submarine F-7" gives a realistic
representation of a real submarine in
action. The interior of an undersea
craft is disclosed to the audience in
every detail. Dialogue reveals that the
American Nation is at war and that
chis submerged boat is coursing the
waters in search of hostile battleships.
Soon one is sighted, and. through the
periscope of the submarine, it becomes
plain to the view of the audience. The
gunners prepare the torpedo, a shot is
fired and a hit scored. The enemy
warcraft is seen sinking, and the sub
marine crew exults. Their joy Is but
momentary, however, as the subma
rlne strikes a reef. The outer surface
of the vessel is crushed, the air supply
gives out, and they go rapidly to the
bottom. The deadly effects of escaping
chlorine gas begin to tell, and the
captain decides by a vote of his men
to speed the inevitable death by letting
the water In. The finale shows the
men rescued with dramatic suddenness.
Nina Payne, Joint headliner, was one
of the first exponents of descriptive
dancing in America. Wherf Monsieur
Moiasso introduced the Apache and
French dance pantomime in this coun
try. Miss Payne was his premiere. Her
work was so creditable that she quickly
became a vaudeville feature in her own
right. Her dancing ability, coupled
with her originality, has advanced her
quickly to the very first rank in her
profession. Her present programme
contains a group of character studies
in dancing. In the most part these
are travesties, but each dance tells a
story quite as distinctly as though it
were printed in a book.
The other big-type acts are Fleta
Brown and Herbert Spencer, singers
and song composers; "Skeet" Gallagher
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and Irene Martin, "The Up-to-the-Min
ute Pair," and the Leach girls.
Mr. Spencer's high vocal ability may
be judged from the fact that he gave
lessons to John McCormack and Mrs.
McCormack during the World's Fair in
St. Louis. Miss Brown has specialized
in what she calls "bird songs." She
can sing three solid octaves, from low
G to high G in alt. Mr. Spencer de
Clares that she can- correctly mimic
any singing bird, reaching its highest
notes with the greatest clarity. Mr.
Spencer is the author of "There's Egypt
in Your Dreamy Eyes" and numerous
other song hits.
"Skeet" Gallagher and Irene Martin
have been called the "up-to-the-minute
pair .because of their bright repartee
clever nonsense and timely jingling
musical melange. Mr. Gallagher is a
light comedian, remembered in the sup
port of Miss Alice Lloyd in "Little Miss
Fix-It" and in "The Rose Maid," while
Miss Martin became popular as an im
portant feature of Gus Edwards' Song
Revue last season.
The . Misses Harriet and Florence
Leach, soprano and contralto, received
their musical education in Portland,
studying under Leo Charles Sparks and
Madame Jomelli here. They obtained
a contract to tour the Orpheum circuit
after traversing the K.eith houses in
the East last season. They won an
ovation at every show in Seattle last
week.
Remaining acts are Georgia Earle
and Company in "Getting Acquainted,1
a rural comedy sketch by Miss Earle
and Nelson with his funny hats and
mysterious pitcher. The Orpheum
Travel Weekly and the Orpheum or-
cnestra in a 20-minute concert preced
ing every performance complete the
snow.
BIG ACTS BOOKED AT PAXTAGES
"lion Voyage" and "The Saint and
Sinner" Leading Attractions.
With pretty girls galore, numerous
song bits, clever principals and artis
tic staging, "Bon Voyage," the New
York musical comedy panorama suc
cess, will be presented by Marty Brooks
as the principal attraction on the pro
gramme at Pantages for the week be
ginning with the matinee tomorrow.
Jimmy Gildea, the noted New York
comedian, is at the bead of the cast of
clever people. The book is by James
Horan and the music by Harry Sey
mour. Mr. Brooks is responsible for
the elaborate staging and the hand
some costumes.
There are numerous song hits and the
beauty chorus is one that is distinctly
entertaining. The plot concerns a
young adventurer who believes that he
is being pursued by a vampire and his
efforts to escape from her wiles form a
most hilarious plot.
Deserving of second position on the
programme is "The Saint and the Sin
ner," the latest sketch from the talent
ed pen of Ethel Clifton, author of "The
Hyphen" and other successful plays.
The plot of this play is one that has a
peculiar appeal to the women patrons
and the striking situations stamp it as
one' of the season's best offerings. An
all-star cast appears in the various
roles.
Joe Brady and Will Mahoney, in the
merry nautical affair. "The Cruise of
the Doughnut," provide many a laugh
in the progress of the act. Both are
entertaining comedians, while the plot
.is funny and the action swift.
The Cromwells are possibly the most
sensational jugglers in vaudeville. They
have an original routine which is filled
with surprises and the act will please
everyone. ...
Jessie and Dollie Miller are pretty
girls who have a diversity of entertain
ment to recommend them. They are
accomplished musicians, playing the
piano, cornet, accordion and other In
struments, and they are capable solo
ists. ' .
James Dugan Is- an Irish bard of no
little ability and his method of pre
senting the songs of Erin will be en
joyed by all.
The seventh episode of the Pathe
serial sensation, "The Fatal Ring." is
dramatic in the extreme. Pearl White,
late star in the "Pearl of the Navy"
series, is featured in the production.
"The Winter Garden Revue," with
Hal Van Rensselaer. Gladys Lanphere
and Anna May Bell and the big Chicago
Winter Garden chorus, concludes its en
gagement with the continuous perform- "
ance today from 2 to 11. supported by a.
programme of all-star vaudeville.
HIPPODROME HAS MORE MTTSIO
Frankie Kelsey, Petite Miss With
Personality, Is Headliner.
A big girl show is to head the new
programme at the Hippodrome. "The
Fountain of Love" Is the title. -
Musical comedy will occupy, again
the greater part of the bill for the first
part of the week. A girl revue headed
by Frankie Kelsey. a petite, coquettish
maid, with a personality, will be the
headliner. Beautiful scenery, costumes
ani a lot of good music and clever
dancing are the chief characteristics.
She has a great many friends on the
legitimate stage and is rapidly gaining
a host of them in the "short act" world.
A melange of music and dancing is
offered by Cooper, Simon and White,
"The Ragtime Melody Trio." They are
all artists who are well known.
Vivian Earle, a singing violinist, with
a charming personality, promises an
entertaining number. She is said to
have an excellent voice.
Lamey and Pearson will offer a hi
lariously funny act, called "Just for
Fun." The vehicle has snappy lines
and some howling situations.
Two remarkable acrobatic acts are
included- in the "Aerial Butlers" and
"The Tossing Austins."
HEILIG TO HAVE COMEDY XOV. 1
Farce Entitled "Here Comes the
Bride" to Be Seen.
The night of November 1 at the Heilig '
will mark the first appearance in Port
land of the Klaw & Erlanger company
in "Here Comes the Bride," an up-to-date,
riproaring. delightful farce by
the American authors, Roy Atwell and
Max Marcin. This is the first play of
this distinguished company of players,
who are now firmly established in the
hearts of Western playgoers. This or
ganization is striking a new keynote
in the dramatic independence of the
West, and placing it more firmly on a
producing level with New York. "Here
Comes the Bride" is truly humorous,
full ot lively dialogue and laughable
complications, the lines fairly scintil- .
late with wit. A smooth, finished In- .
terpretation is assured, as the players .
have been wisely chosen by the man
agement. Beatrice Nichols is a most
attractive leading woman, and she will
be given full scope for her artistic en
deavors. Sweet, winning Grace Trav
ers will also have another fine part,
and Susanne Morgan will be seen to
advantage.
"THE WITCHIXG HOUR" COMIXG
Production of Famous John Mason
Success by Alcazars Is Coming.
"The Witching Hour," a play of mya-
tery and uncanny mind reading sug
gestion, in which John Mason starred
some years ago with such great suc
cess, will be the offering of the Alcazar
Players "for the week following "Ro
mance," and starting next Sunday mat
inee. It was also seen here once be
fore in stock when Willard Mack, tho
well-known actor then at the head of.
the Baker Players, appeared in it. This
is the role of the gambler, mind reader.
hypnotist and withal a man of big heart
and many good deeds: a strong, fasci-
nating personality such . as , only an
actor of unusual ability dare attempt.
bdwara Everett Horton, popular lead
ing man of the Alcazar players, will -
appear in it. and there is no question -but
his performance will bo excellent,
for everything Mr. Horton has done
since he opened his season at the Baker
has stamped him aa one' of the beet
leading men Portland has ever known.
"The Witching Hour" is in many re
pects a truly wonderful play and finds
its culmination of interest when the
gambler, by mere mind force or -thought
force, influences a Jury that
s out on a murder case involving the
youthful on of the woman he loves. 1
There are a number of striking char
acters and many Intense situations and
climaxes.
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lation is of pure white blood.
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