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TIIE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, JULY 21. 1918.
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BY LEONE CASS BAER.
B the war progresses the American
public is turning more and more to
the theater and Is spending less
money on travel. That this is not idle con
jecture or theory is evidenced Irom a
comparison of the May receipts of taxes
collected by the National Revenue
Bureau with the receipts of previous
months.. -
The report of the Internal Revenue
Bureau, just made public, shows that
taxes collected during May by the 10
per cent charge on admission to the
aters, concerts and similar places of
amusement totaled M, 524,996. This
showed the American people spent in
the neighborhood of $45,000,000 on such
amusements during the month. In Feb
ruary taxes from the same sources
amounted to $3,708,000, Indicating an
expenditure of about-$37,000,000 for the
month.
In the matter of travel the 8 per cent
tax on passenger fares during May
yielded $3,723,920, indicating that ap
proximately $46,549,000 was spent In
traveling during the month. During
February the same tax raised $4.46s,200
for the Treasury Department, repre
senting an outlay of $55,820,000 for rail
way fares. r
Thus the popularity . of the theater
has increased more than one-fifth its
preceding vogue, while the desire for
travel has slumped by a trifle .more
than that figure.
Stock companies are being launched
In cities where heretofore only travel
ing productions have figured In the
amusement activities. Due to the un
certainty of traveling accommodations,
many bookings will be cancelled and
show fans who have never been par
ticularly interested in stock will now
become acquainted with plays and play
ers in their home town companies and
realize that it doesn't always require
the "original New York company" and
"original cast" to give an evening's en
tertainment. Trademarks are going into the dis
card, along with crowns and titles and
autocracy and a few other errors.
Portland is to have all the traveling
productions that any other Pacific
Coast city gets, and announcements
will be made late in the Summer re
garding the next season's plans. We
are to have two stock organizations,
one at the Baker Theater, managed by
Milton Seaman, and the other at the
Alcazar Theater, on Eleventh and Mor
rison, managed by C. V. Everett.
Announcements have been made of
the extensive plans to be carried out In
the line of remodeling, decorating and
refurnishing the Alcazar Theater to
make it an ideal place for stock. The
Baker, too, is to be gone over and its
cozlness accented. "
That Portland will support two stock
companies seems certain. The person
nel-of neither company has been an
nounced in entirety, but names promi
nent in the Eastern and Southern the
atrical world are in both companies,
and the array of plays selected augurs
well tor an exceptional season.
Great, the mammal with the man mind,
will appear. This is one of the best
educated simians to be presented in
vaudeville, and he gives promise of be
ing as original as the famous "Consul."
who died a few years ago. Richard
rides a cycle, smokes, eats, introduces
acrobatics, balances and offers other
feats which are seemingly impossible.
His mind is remarkably developed and
he Is an interesting study to those In
terested In Darwinism.
Next Saturday afternoon Richard will
be the host at a reception given in be
half of the youngsters of Portland. He
will meet all who care to . be intro
duced. Green, McHenry and Dean in "From
Farm to Cabaret" have one of the
brightest acts in vaudeville. They pre
sent instrumental solos, patter and
songs that all make an instantaneous
hit.
Jimmy Lyons is the Hebrew states
man whose comedy, has brought so
much brightness into vaudeville. His
parodies and his jokes are all original.
Dot and Alma Wilson have an amaz
ing production in "Making Them Over,"
one of the vaudeville -novelties of the
season. They are charming young
women.
Dura and Feeley will offer comedy
tumbling and acrobatic feats that will
be certain to be well received, by the
audience. The Pantages Weekly will
present something, new in travelogue
and comedy. .
'An Arabian Night, the big musical
comedy, closes its engagement with the
continuous performance today from
1:80 -to 11 o'clock, supported by excel
lent vaudeville.
playlet. "The
HAPPY CAST IX IiYRIC SHOW
Of
'HOOSIKR GIRL
FEATURED
fantages Offers Musical Comedy
and Other Bright Features.
Mirth will rule the boards at Pan
tages for the,' week commencing with
the matinee tomorrow, when the latest
musical comedy success, "Hoosier Girl."
will be offered by B. D. Berg, widely
Known as the Ziegfeld of vaudeville.
Leading the cast is Billy Tate.
comedian of original methods and in
ternational reputation as a funmaker.
He will be supported by Evelyn Ben
nett, prima donna of many a musical
comedy; Bing Cushman, late" of the
"Katinka" company, and a group of
other players. Including a real Broad
way beauty chorus.
The music is by Joseph Burrowes and
the melodies are lilting- and eatehv.
The book is filled with bright lines and
there is a distinct plot Just enough to
hold attention. One of the song hits is
ine rajama tilrl," which had tremen
nous popularity throughout the East,
wnere noosier lilrl ' was a big draw
lng card before its first tour of the
west.
As a special attraction. Richard the
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Dillon and Franks Have Best
Chance to Bring Laughs.
With Al Franks as "The Odassa." the
greatest of Egyptian spiritualists, and
with Ben Dllllon introducing him to
high society, the prospects- seem ex
ceedingly bright for a funny show at
the Lyric Theater this afternoon.
Let the imagination picture Franks,
the eccentric Hebrew delineator, posing
as the great spiritualist. Then get a
mental picture of Irish Ben Dillon
palming him off on devotees of the
cult, and a laugh begins to work up
from Inside the anatomy.
Franks' Odassa gives some messages
from the spirit world that are convuls
ing. But they are put over without
offense. The comedians give a session
of pure fun.
Miss Dorothy Raymond Is more hap
pily cast than usual in the Lyric Musi
cal Stock, while Miss Billy Bingham has
plenty of chances to get over her clever
personality.
In staging the musical comedy of the
week, Messrs. Keating and Flood have
made splendid use of the famous Port
land Rosebud Chorus and will offer the
girls in summery costumes and pleas
ing-ensembles. A number of new solo
and chorus numbers are to be presented
today.
Monday night at the Lyric will be
bargain night, Tuesday night the coun
try store, Thursday night a souvenir
is presented each lady, and on Friday
and dramatic
Teacher," which depicts the
music student In New York. The star
in this sketch is Homer Lind. actor
singer, late of the Metropolitan Opera
House, New York, who for years has
been identified with grand opera com
panies and has headlined in vaudeville.
A cleverly written skit with plenty of
laughs Is the promise oT Harrison and
Petrie in "The Mail Carrier." Mr. Har
rison wHl be seen as & Hebrew mall
carrier taking a civil service examina
tion to escape the troubles he has had
delivering mail in an- Irish neighborr
hood.
' Pretty girls and stunning gowns will
be exhibited in the dancing act of the
Four La, Farras. Their repertoire con
sists of almost every known style of
iBanclng, ranging from the artistic pre
mier to the hula hula.
La Emma, the dainty aerialist, offers
trapeze specialty which is said to be
revelation in feats of daring and
erve. aoe is a product of the big
circus, having appeared for several sea
sons with the Rlngling Bros.
Wells and Crest are a team of come
dians offering a most pleasing little
kit, entitled "The Yankee and the
Wop."
'Fashion's Melody Maids" is the bill
ing of two young women. DelDhine and
Rae, in their versatile singing number.
Kitty Gordon, as a divorced wife
with a" grown daughter, who is about
o settle down to married life without
having seen any of the world, with its
different types of men and Its tempta
tions. Is the theme of the photoplay
ottering, "Tinsel.'
Singing merous dramatic situations, with Baree,
lite of a , the dog. almost done to death half
a dozen times before he finally avenges
tno wrongs he and the girl suffered.
The new Transcontinental VaudeviJl
Road Show offers excellent entertain
rr.ent, including Lucas and Logan, in
a singing and dancing skit entitled,
"Eullding Polite Comedy"; Aldine and
Wright, versatile young people with
their song and gymna.nlc specialty,
"Novelty Wonders"; Moore and Moore,
clever funsters, and the Kirkillos, spec
tacular acrobats.
-Late scenes from the French trenches
with the Yanks In action will be shown
in Current Events.
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rpvwi )rk ?$r;l vacation ,
night a double bill is furnished by
reason of the contest between chorus
girls for cash prizes to be awarded by
the audience.
Keating and Flood pay the war tax
for Lyric patrons.
PRETTY GIRLS AT HIPPODROME
Comedy, Singing and Violin Selec
tions Feature Headline Act.
The Hippodrome standard of variety
and excellence Is maintained through
out the vaudeville programme and pho
toplay ottering In the bill commencing
today. .... ;
Comedy, singing and violin selections
are combined in the one-act musical
DANCING
taught
DeHoney's
Washington,
by professional
beautiful academy.
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FAR NORTH PICTURES THRILL
'Baree, San of Kazan," Feature of
Bill at Strand Theater.
Baree, Son of Kazan," that re
markable James Oliver Curwood story
the conflict between men and beasts
of the Far North, the land of big
nows, woods, rivers and trappers, has
been secured as a special Summer at
traction for the Strand Theater. This
unusual photoplay opens an engage
ment today and will be shown for three
days only.
Nell Shipman and Alfred Whitman
are the dominant figures in the big
photoville" headliner, although this
stirring, swift-moving drama centers
on Baree, half-wolf and dog, protege,
protector, and finally avenger of Ne-
pcese. the beautiful half-breed heroine
of the story.
A quintet of malamute dogs, rang
ing in age from puppy to full-grown
husky, is used in the picture to imper
sonate Baree. The remarkable . snow
scenes were filmed in the dead of
Wirter in the snow-bound passes near
Truckee, Cal., and the results are said
to equal the white magnificence of
The Guilt of Silence," one of the best
enow pictures ever made. ,
The struggle by the hait-roreea
girl to evade a vicious and brutal Hud
son Bay Compniy factor affords nu-
DICKENS' LONDON IS GONE
Great Novelist Would Hardly Know
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..... .His Beloved City Today.
LONDON, July 8. (Correspondence
of the Associated Press.) An interest
ing contrast of wartime London today
with the London as Dickens knew it Is
drawn by the well-known writer,
George R. Slmms, in one of the daily
papers. He had been wandering around
the old familiar spots immortalized by
the great novelist and he thought "of
the happy days and nights of long ago
when Dickens found the Joy of life in
every street and byway of the big city,
and the feast and the wassail bowl
were typical of the Merrle England In
which he lived." He compares them
with "the days that are, when Britain
is fighting for her very existence as a
nation, when the food of the people
is strictly rationed, when the houses
of cheer are closed during many hours
of the day, and when, long before mid
night. Curfew rings out and hushes
the great city to silence."
Entering the city from Lond
he -steps into High street. There "a
bulldog peers out from a narrow alley
leading to an old world slum. There is
a wistful "What about those blscuitsT
look In the aTnlmal's eyes, and I think
of Bill SykeS and his dog. and I won
der if Nancy would have managed
something for the beast with one of
her coupons. But the Nancy who passes
me today wears Bill's regimental badge.
ne is doing a Dit ol good work for a
change, and doing it on the western
front.
Near the top of the street he sees an
air-raid warning, and "I think of Fagin
on a raid night. He would probably
have been down the nearest tube, and
the Artful Dodger and Charley Bates.
being 'physically unfit.' would have
wax :UyrrV?
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KITTY GORDON
in "TINSEL"
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instructors
23d and
New classes lor beginners
start rue ad a y and
Thursday evenings thi
week. All dances taught
in eiini lessons ladles,
. gents 5. The onl
ecnooi teacning tne en
tire evening, 8 to 11
tvery step ana figure o
ail aances tnoroughl
taught. Separate ate
room and extra teachers
for backward pupils.
r-ienty or practice. N
e m b a r r a ssment. To
will meet refined people
ana are sure to learn
c o r r ectly. One lesson
from us is worth six in
-the average school. Nor
mal instruction for dan
c h e r s. . Private lessnnn all
hours. A full printed description of all
modern dances given to all pupils free.
War Stamps taken as money. Be sure
to start this week. . Our prices will
advance in a few days. Call afternoons
or evenings. Circulars mailed.
Notice -Hotels, theaters, cafes, enter
tainments of ail kinds employ us to
give exhibitions in the most beautiful
classic Spanish and Chinese dances. We
will double your business. Our dan
cing is of the highest professional class
ana 'cannot De duplicated by any other
dancers in the West, (Demonstration
free.) The above cut Is 'of myself and
dancing partner, and I hereby challenge
a certain so-called dancing teacher, who
insists on using my cuts in his ads, to
enter a contest in ballroom and stage
aancing wjm me lor any sum ot money,
winner's purse donated to Red Crn
This man calls himself professor, claims
to be a normal instructor, etc. Now,
let's see if he can make good. I say he
cannot, and will not show the kind of
ability he possesses. Phone Main 7656
Everyone Should
Go to
THE HEILIG
This Week i
To see :
Pershing's
Crusaders
A Movie of .
"Owr Boys"
taken under Government
Supervision.
Thrilling and Instructive
Admission 25c and 50c
.Includes War Tax
been with him. . And what an Ideal
hunting ground the tube on air-raid
nights would be for them!
As he strolls along the street he no
tices that conscription and war condi
tions have played havoc with the Dick
ens types that until recently were to be
found there.
"By the entrance to the yard of the
Old George." he continues, - wnere mo
picturesque wooden galleries still re
main to remind us of the old Pickwick
ian days, a couple of 'Waacs" (mem
bers of the Woman's Auxiliary Army
Corps) are chatting with a Red Cross
nurse. On the spot where Mr. Pickwick
first met Sam Weller. two Australian
soldiers are making an inquiry of a
pretty postwoman. I wonder wnai air.
Pickwick would have thought of Aus
tralian soldiers at the door of his inn,
and what would Sam have to Bay to the
pretty postwoman?
"I turn down a narrow passage at
the back of the old Marshalsea. Here
are still some portions of the prtson.
At the door of one of the little houses
that are faced by the walls of the old
house of captivity where Mr. Dorrit
lay a prisoner for debt, a youth In the
uniform of the royal air force is talk
ing to a gray-haired old lady, probably
his grandmother. I wonder what the
old lady thinks of airplanes and air
men, and as I glance up at the little
windows let Into the high prison wall
I wonder how the poor debtors would
have felt on a Zeppelin night.
"In Little - Dorrlt's playground chil
dren are still at play, but one of the
little girls Is being called home by her
mother. The mother wears a uniform
with trousers to it. How Little Dorr-,
would have stared to find a mother 1
trousers in her playground! And whs
would Maggie have said?"
'Eleven million women and girls al
v work In our Industrie.
Space Coatrlbuted by
HUDSON BAY FIR COMPAJfT.
LEADIK6
FX.Il MAM'FACTrRERS,
147 Broadway.
TfYiANTAGE
' J y I'neqaaled Vaudeville Broadway at Alder.
VaS Matinee Dally. 2i30. Twice Nightly. 7 d 9.
P p a 1 a r Prises Boxes and Leges Reserved.
WEEK COMMENCING TOMORROW'S MATINEE
B. D. Berg, Inc., Presents
.Horsier Girl
LYRIC
Musical Stock
Keating & Flood
Managers
Continuous Performance Sunday, Starting at 2:30.
Matinee Daily at 2:30. Monday, Bargain Night, 20d
All Weekday Mats. Now 10d Only (We Pay War Tax)
(Who's Year tilrlf)
A FLIRTATION IN TWO APPOITEVT, WITH BILI.Y TATK.
EVELYN ES.ETT AfiU A BROADWAY BEAITY CHORUS.
Green, McHenry & Dean Richard the Great
In The Mammal With the
"From Farm to Cabaret." Man Mind.
Dot & Alma Wilson Dura & Feeley
In "Making Them Over." Comedy Tumblers and Acrobats.
Jimmy Lyons Pantages Weekly
The Hebrew Statesman. Travelogue and Comedy.
Nelsen's
Orchestra
I
in concert from a until 10
P. M. today. Monte Austin
sings the latest New York
popular successes.
HOP A C. C. CAR.
s s
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Council Crest Park
ADMISSION FREE.
COMTISIOVS PERFORMANCE TODAY. 1 iSO TO II O'CLOCK "AN
ARABIAN SIGHT." .
HEILIGTheater7 2tzL Tomorrow Night JiHL
FOLLOWING THE FLAG TO FRANCE!
Auspices of the XT. 8. Geverameat
Pershing's Crusaders
Released by tYie Committee 01 Pafclle InfrmatUB.
Oeorgre Creel. Chair mam
Taken by V. S. Mnal Corp and Xa-v-jr I'hataarraahera.
Auarmented Orebeatra
Prices: Mats., Eyes., 25c, 50c. No War Tax
MEATS NOW SELLING
WEEK STARTING SUNDAY MATINEE, JULY 21, 1918
The Eccentric Comedians, DILLON &
"The
FRANKS, in
Massa
A Funny Impersonation of a Great Medium From
Egypt Land.
Rosebud Chorus in New Music and Marches.
3 SPECIAL FEATURE NIGHTS THIS WEEK 3
Tuesday, Country Store; Thursday, a Handsome Souvenir
Spoon FREE to Every Lady ; Friday, Chorus Girls Contest
THE ISLE OF JOY
Huge musical comedy success in Chicago and New York
Presented by
ARMSTRONG FOLLY COMPANY
at
OAE
AMUSEMENT PARK
FOR WEEK COMMENCING SUNDAY, JULY 21
Two Performances Daily Afternoon and Evening
Full Chorus Strikingly Costumed Numerous Song
Hits and Captivating" Dances
George E. Jeffery and His Excellent Orchestra
Cars at First and Alder Streets Every Few Minutes.
Six cents carfare from any part of city.