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, '-v. ' ' JT or great drama, or touched with satire The annual visit or that most popular I B M H
V -IP . or barbed with wit. It Is just a plain, I of rlir!lI -medl,s. "The Old Home- COMET1Y FAVORITE AT HEILIG H H ST .
BY LEOXE CASS BAER.
IIKN I hear Americans silfhinff
for a better staee. for more en
joyment in the theater, I want
nothing so much as to show them the
Australians, for the Australians un
doubtedly enjoy the theater as do bo
other people."" So remarks Guy Bates
i'o&t. actor and playwright, who has
ut returned from Australia. "The 17
weeka I played The Masquerader' In
Melbourne and Sydney were the hap
Iiest weeks in my S5 years of acting.'
Sir. l'ost said recently to a Chicago dra
mane critic. Happiest because I was
Playing to a new typa of theatergoers.
a strange type, virile, alive, yet sweetly
Itraciou ana warm. Australians are
like no other audicaces in the world.
They show actors what the theater
might be m America.
"They throw confetti st the play's
end. TUey applaud very littlo and ask
for no curtain calls until the last cur
tain. Then they sit for 10 minutes, IS
minutes. :o m.'nutes, their palms beat
Ing !n a storm. No one thinks of leav
ing the house until the players have
been thai.ked.
"Australians have none of the facial
Heaviness. t:;e aloofness of manneriem
that Is so surely developing In Ameri
cans. They are more optimistic, live
lier of countenance yet calmer of ac
tion than Americans, being without our
rervousn-.s and seif-consciotwness. We
ate a gruff, graceless people as honest
and as able as they, but we take Hie
as a wh!e far more heavily, ponder
ously. They cive more and get more
of art In the theater, and their greater
respect for the theater springs from
their greater respect for themselves.
I ruKgest somthiny of tlir mental at
titude to the American not in diloy
lty to him. for I am one with him.
I am of Ms blood and bono, but In wish
In? for hlra the fullest joy of theater
going." .
air. Tost' opinion of American au-
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diences is shared by many other actors.
It is not, perhaps, that American au
diences are really unappreclatlve, but
rather that they are less demonstrative,
as a rule, than the audiences in other
lands, where there Is less repression of
the emotions, more naturalness. At
least we hope the trouble lies no deeper
than this. But even so, is there not a
danger that this repression of the emo
tions, which has become a fixed char
acteristic of Americans, may so blunt
the sensibilities as to make impossible
a true appreciation of the art of the
theater? Faculties unused atrophy and
die, and the social conventionalities of
tho day tend toward making us an ex
pressionless race.
Oa our immediate calendar we have
plenty of entertainment. "Turn to the
Kishf returns to the Heilig next
Thursday nitrht for a three-night en-
Easement. "Turn to the Ktgnt is not
a pretentious play: it isn't high comedy
grace of genial humor, illumined by a
or great drama, or touched with satire
or barbed with wit. It is just a plain.
everyday story told with the saving
kindly philosophy, and reaching to the
heart of humanity because of its sim
ple kindness, its fidelity to the ele
mental truths of life and its unfailing
sympathetic note. That the public has
'not lost its taste for a play in which
virtue '.8 triumphant bas been readily
conceded by the record-breaking busi
ness wnich this play of sunshine and
sentiment has received since coming
out of New York in November for a
coast-to-coast tour. The cast is said to
be unusually good. Later in the next
week we aro to see a return of ?ol'
anna" at the Heilig.
Much stress is laid on the statement
that "Madame X." which the Alcazar
players will give this week, deals with
mohter love, and while that is true, the
piay lias other qualities as well. It
is a fact that enough tears have been
shed over the troubles of Jaqueline to
float any of the wooden ships built
In Willamette river yards, but It is also
a fact that "Madame X" is far from
being entirely weepy.
There are "as many good, hearty
laughs fh this play as there are In some
so-called comedies. And speaking of
comedlej, the Alcazar players have in
preparation "Never Say Die," In which
Willie Collier made a small fortune
when he was starring in it.
Fresh from the service, with an honor
able discharge In his pocket, comes
Kodney Hildebrand to Join the Alcazar
players. Prior to entering the service
this good-looking young six-footer was
playing leads in a number of .stock
organizations throughout the country.
He will make his first bow to a Port
land audience in "Madame X."
Mr. Hildebrand has strong personal
ity, is a marvel at make-up and is
above the average in acting ability. He
has been with the Morosco company in
Los Angeles; the Bishop Players in
Oakland; the Poll company in Lowell,
Mass., and with stock companies in
Spokane, Kansas City and Des Moines.
The annual visit of that most popular
of all rural comedies, "The Old Home
stead,"' is booked for the Baker for the
week starting today. No matter how
often it comes it should prove doubly
welcome this time from the fact that
Louis Leon Hall ia to play the Dennian
Thompson part of Uncle Josh, and he
fills the role to a nicety. His "Grumpy"
of last week placed him in the front
rank of character leads. All tho well
known features are promised, includ
ing "Tho Quartet," the farm scnes and
the beautiful Grace church at night.
Wally Gilbert will play "Seth" and
George Webster, "Si."
Theodore Kosloff, celebrated Russian
dancing master, with his own ballet
and musiciaus in an act that is said by
the press agent and critics to be the
mcst elaborate act of the kind ever
seen in vaudeville, is the stellar O -
pheum attraction. Kosloff was a pupil
All around the world in a brief half
hour is the offering the "World Wide
Revue" provides the patrons of Pan
tages for the week commencing with
tomorrow's matinee. Among the mu
sical comedy favorites who appear in
the cast are H. Ollon Downing, Renee
Rayne and Dorothy Bard. As the spe
cial attraction, Master Paul and his
golden bird, the canary, will be heard.
The supporting programme is said to
be one that is seldom encountered in
popular priced vaudeville.
COMEDY FAVORITE AT
'Turn to tlie Right" Tells Story
Old-Fashioned Morality.
"Turn to the Right." Winchell
Smith and John L. Golden's comedy-
drama of tears and laughter, amiable
crooks, sweet women and regeneration
will begin an engagement at the Heilig
theater Thursday, Friday and Saturday
night, March 20-21-22, with a special
matinee Saturday.
The greatest of the comedy-drama
successes since "The Old Homestead
the play can boast of no greater merit
than this company. It will be seen here
exactly as it ran forll months at the
Gaiety theater. New York, and nine
months at Onor&e AT Pnhnn's Grand
or one ot tne imperial Dallet scnoois in j Opera house, Chicago. The complete
New York cast and production is com
ing here.
To say. that "Turn to the Right" is
the most sensational comedy success
of history Is to condense into one sen
tence the combined praise, box-office
records and widespread fame of this
epochal play from the pens of Winchell
Smith and John B. Hazzard. Even at
the final performance of its long run
in New York and Chicago hundreds
were turned away and in the few cities
that have been played on tour the at
tendance has been limited only by the
capacity of the theaters, tn the light
of these' facts, the local theater man
agement urges patrons to obtain seats
well in advance.
Its basic themes of mother-love and
old-fashioned morality have given
"Turn to the Right" a more widespread
appeal than any play since "The Old
Homestead," while its brilliant comedy
entitles it to classification with Win-
Ichell Smith's other notable successes.
"The Boomerang. "The Fortune
Hunter." "Polly of the Circus," "Brew
I ster s Millions," and others.
Theodore Kosloff and Miniature .
Theodore Kosloff, greatest of all
Russian dancing masters in the Lnited
States, is the headliner of the Orpheum
show opening at the Heilig theater this
afternoon for an engagement of seven
performances. Tho Kosloff act is the
biggest of the kind ever booked in
vaudeville, plans for its transportation
and installation ha'ing been made In
advance.
Mr. Kosloff is supported not only by
several premiere danseuses, but is ac
companied by a miniature ballet, and
the renowned dancing master carries
his own orchestra, musicians having
been engaged in New York to accom
pany tho Kosloff troupe m its Orpheum
tour.
Gorgeous scenery, bizarre costumes
and really wonderful dancing are the
features of the Kosloff production, the
act being extolled as impressive In
sheer beauty of motion. For each
dance there is an elaborate stage set
ting and the costumes are not only
typical of the period, but of the dance
portrayed. The dances include solos,
duets and the like and ensembles. All
the dances are authoritative in every
detail and their beauty, grace and
artistry are said to be distinctive and
of such high standard that the Kosloff
production is listed as one of the big
spectacles in the history of two-a-day
vaudeville. Expressive pantomime also
has place in the act.
Ed Flanagan and Neely Edwards, who
are among the greatest favorites in
Orpheum vaudeville, are the extra at
traction of the Kosloff show. These
comedians offer "Off and On," tholr
laughter classic, which has placed them
In the fore rank of vaudeville stardom.
This act has numerous comedy Hues
ami situations and gives Flanagan and
Edwards opportunity to entertain with
songs and dances, in which they are
expert.
Other acts of the big show are George
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Russia and is regarded as the great
est master of Russian dancing in Amer
lea.
"The war has decided," said Kosloff
in Seattle, "that Russia, where the bal
let was perfected, now needs all its
energies for generations along construe'
tion lines. France, where it originated,
has its cwn regeneration to effect; Italy.
once the home of the ballet, will be too
busy making over its life after the war
and England, which adopted the bal'
let, must give all its activity to other
lines.
"America, where now all the wealth of
the world is flowing, where art and the
finer things bf life are developing faster
than ever before, will be the new home
of the ballet .ind it will be adODted as
its own. The ballet In America will be
brought to a state of perfection hitherto
only dreamed."
Ed Flanagan and Neely Edwards, fa
vorite comedians, will be the extra Or
pheum attraction In their fun-making
classic, "Off and On
At the Lyric the attraction this week
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Heilig Theater, March 19
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