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BY LEONE CASS BAER.
THE opening of the Alcazar musical
stock at that theater tomorrow
night, and the coming of the Mor
gan dancers to the Orpheum today for
the new bill, are two Items that are oc
cupying attention of theatrical folk In
Portland this week.
The Baker etock will continue In
definitely, rumor says, until mid-July,
and the vaudeville houses Pantages,
the Strand and the Hippodrome will
run on during the summer. The Lyric
is planning on Its vacation late In
August.
The Alcazar engagement of musical
tock Is an important event and real
Interest is being manifested In the
opening bill, which is "Mile. Modiste,"
the production with which Fritzi Scheff
was so long Identified and which con
tains the famous "Kiss Waltz" song
associated with tho little Viennese
prima donna. Mabel Wilber will play
this role, with Oscar Figman and a
big cast of principals supporting her.
Krcd L. Bishop, director, has been busy
with chorus, principals, scenery and
music since his arrival a fortnight ago
from New York and he is jubilant over
the personnel of the organization and
the artistry they display.
The combination of popular prices,
notable principals, good singing voices,
artistic scenery and worth-while light
operas and musical comedies should
prove a lure to folk seeking entertain
ment in the next ten weeks.
The Helllg continues dark, nut July
end August are bringing several good
shows.
Verna Felton Is scoring & fclg per
sonal triumph over at the Baker the
ater and Geraldine Dare is establish
ing herself as a young actress of much
versatility. John Fee is playing leads.
This week they are puttng on William
Anthony McGuire's drama, "The Di
vorce Question." with Miss Felton ap
pearing in the role of a street-waif
product of divorced parents. John Fee
plays the big role of Father Jerome.
For Rose Festival week Miss Felton's
former. success "Sis Hopkins," is to be
revived.
The coming of the Marlon Morgan
dancers to the Orpheum today is an
event of Importance-, for it is consid
ered a perfect dancing organization.
All that should be said of the diversi
fied talents of Marion Morgan's dan
cing demoiselles has been said time
&nd again. Suffice it to say that these
trim and high-spirited Californians
will go abroad immediately following
their Orpheum tour, and they will make
their sensation and have their day in
European capitals, even morr given
Than ours to things which closely
classify as the arts of the theater.
Miss Morgan has developed out of
material that was wholly amateur (but
to which nature was kind) a ballet
whose perfection of line, whose rrace
of movement and all-around pictorial
loveliness gives it classic distinction.
wnetner ene studies movement, pose
or color. Miss Morgan exercises a fi
recreating sense. She is now able.
with her supremely well-trained pu
plls. to emphasize the value of solo
dancing. There are in her ballet 20
young women possessing skill match-
! inr the best professional standards.
The plot of this season's offering
of the Morgan dancers is of the time
of Attila and the Huns, presented in
I a most artistic manner. The environ
ment offers beautiful scenic effects.
.The costuming is attractive, the lights
and color effects are weirdly intoxi-
eating, the music is soft, dreamy and
(interpretative and nothing has been
.overlooked which could lend added
srace and beauty to the offering.
Critics who seldom enthuse In their
appreciation have credited thlf act.
not only with being the. greatest mod
ern exposition of classical and Greek
dances, but with being the terpsl
chorean masterpiece of the day. They
havfe taken most kindly to the offering
and have attested that the act con
tains all those qualities which vaude
ville devotees are most eager to find.
Stars of all sorts are promised at
Fantasies for the week commencing
with the matinee tomorrow. Featured
are the Stampede Riaers, who offer a
real wild west show on the stase.
Among other favorites are Jimmy
Kritt, whose fistic arguments with
Battling Nelson and others are remem
bered. Blackface Eddie Ross and his
African harp were recent hits of the
New York Winter Garden. "Tiie Denl
shawn dancers," presented under the
management of Ruth St. Denis and
Ted Shawn, precede Miss St. Denis as
Fantages attraction by only a week.
Miss St- Denis herself arriving the
following week. opening Monday,
June 9.
W. T. Eallar, publicity purveyor for
Ruth St. Denis, arrived Friday and
established his headquarters at Fan
tages, where the illustrious dancing
star is to appear next week. Miss St.
Denis has been conducting the Deni-
shawn school of dancing near Los
Angeles since her last appearance here
and this is her first vaudeville appear
ance in Portland as a Pantages star.
She will receive, as invariably, a warm
welcome. Mr. Farrar will .be the guest
of local newspaper men while in Port
land. He is a former San Francisco
and Los Angeles newspaper man.
"Mile CKlssme," a dashing musical
comedy burlesque, will be the offering
of the comedians, Dillon and Franks,
with the Lyric company this week. It
concerns the domestic difficulties of
Mike and Ike as lawyers. They become
entangled with a flirtatious actress
with a French-Irish name and disposi
tion. Their jealous better halves ar
rive Just in time to start Jhe usual trou
ble ana complications, iuusicai spe
cialties and choruses will be introduced
during the action of the farce.
Rouble Sims, cartoonist, comedian
and raconteur, is the vaudeville head
liner on the new Strand theater
'photoville" bill opening today. "The
Fire Flingers," a special fllmatlon of
the W. J. Neidig Saturday Evening
Post story, with Rupert Julian in a
dual role, is the photoplay offering.
2 0 XOO'G WOMEN DAXCEKS
Marion Morgan Company Headline
Act on Orpheum Bill This "Week.
The Marion Morgan Dancers, who are
lauded by renowned critics as repre
senting the perfect dancing act of the
age, are in Headline place in tne ur-
pheum show which will prevail at the
Helllg theater for seven performances,
commencing with the matinee today.
Presented under the direction of Martin
Beck, managing director of the Or
pheum circuit, the Morgan dancers this
season have the most elaborate act of
their career and the act is accepted as
the greatest act of the Orpheum season.
The Marion Morgan Dancers are an
assemblage of 10 young women who,
without garishness in costumes or
background command an Interest cen
tered in their graceful posturing and
lithe and supple movements and their
intelligent interpretative dancing gives
emphasis to every phase of the ballet.
Through a series of beautiful scenes a
pantomime etory is told of the time of
Attila and the Huns. The dance, drama
allows'these expressive dancers to run
the gamut of joy, passion and torture
exquisitely portrayed by gestures and
leaps and with perfect rhythm to tune
ful music and harmonizing orchestral
accompaniment.
Although the Morgan Dancers are a
show in themselves, the Orpheum blli
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of which they are the headllners also
has two other features. In second
place on the poster are Bailey and
Cowan, the sons of syncopation. They
registered great success with Blossom
Seeley.last year, scoring so heavily in
fact that they have been given a route
by themselves with Estelle Davis.
The third feature is dainty Daisy
iseins, American pianist of distinction,
who not only possesses great talent but
Ed Armatronar. with the Armstrong: Felly conpiBj at the Oaks amswemeat aark,
and the dainty Wlnfc yCsirdea Roavray s;Lrl playiagr la Paflueta" at the
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has youth, enthusiasm and a striking
personality. Miss Nellls' Orpheum rep
ertoire will Include the "Concert Etude"
by MacDowell and "Rhapsody No. 12"
by Liszt.
Other acts are Thomas F. Swift and
Mary H. Kelly in a vaudeville vagary
called "Offer $9000": Edwin George in
"A. Comedy of Errors"; the agile pair,
Emile and John Nathane, In feats of
daring artistically executed: "Birds of
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a Feather," with Bert Ford and Pauline
Price; the Orpheum Travel Weekly and
Kinograms. the news reel de luxe.
This show will close with the matinee
next Wednesday.
"DIVORCE QTJESTIOX" IDIELT
Verna Eelton Begins Third Special
AVeck at the Baker Today.
For Verna Felton's third special
week at the Baker, Anthony McGuire's
The 'Divorce Question" will be the
offering starting this afternoon, with
John Fee in the role of Father Jerome
and Miss Felton as the outcast girl
Mamie.
At present the press is filled with
arguments against the prevailing loose
divorce laws and people are awakening
to the fact that the increasing number
of wrecked homes is an appalling fact
everywhere and that something must
be done to check the condition. It is
not only the parents who suffer from
hasty marriages and consequent di
vorce, but the children of such mis
mated unions often are left neglected
or without home ties with the result
that their lives are often absolutely
ruined. In the story of "The Divorce
Question" occurs a case of this kind and
years after all the parties concerned
are brought face to face in the little
church of Father Jerome down in the
slums of a large city.
The author's intention Is to give the
public a powerfully drawn portrayal
of what has no doubt happened in
thousands of cases with the fashionable
parents, the children of their second
marriages and those of the first mar
riage and how hard It is for the latter
after the home is broken, parents are
drawn to other Interests and they are
left to shift for themselves in a great
city.
There Is plenty of bright and happy
comedy to relieve the heavier dramatic
scenes and in the cast will be Lee Mil
lar. Anna McNaughton. William Lee,
George Webster,- Geraldine Dare and
other Baker favorites. Matinees to
day, Wednesday and Saturday.
LIGHT OPERA. OPEXS ALCAZAR
"31'llo Modiste," Featuring Slabel
Miller, Landed by Critics.
Far the initial attraction of the Al
cazar Musical Comrty company, open
ing its searon tomorrow night at the
Alcazar theater. "M'lle. Modiste" has
been selected. It may be added that it
Is a very thoughtful selection, as it is.
according to eminent critics, the best
American light opera of the time.
Victor Herbert Is responsible for the
score, while Henry Blossom (of "Check
era" fame) wrote the libretto and in
this they have written an opera that
is unusual and one that ia distinct from
musical comedy.
Miss Mabel Wilber. the Alcazar prima
donna, is to portray the role of Flfi,
which was originally played by Fritzi
Scheff, and Miss Wilber" magnetic per
sonality is very befitting the role and,
like her predecessor, there Is a charm
In her Flfl that makes it a distinct
creation. Flfl Is a little milliner's as
sistant who longs for better things.
She loves and is loved by a hussar, but
the family of the officer are very much
opposed to the match.
At this juncture a rich American
aids the little milliner, putting the
means of a musical education in her
haaja. She. disappears, only to return
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later a famous singer. Oscar Figman,
as the American millionaire, has in his
hands the comedy of the opera, while
Henry Coote. George Natanson. Detmar
Poppln, Eddie Sedan, Lee Daly, May
Wallace and Eva Ollvortl will come In
for their chare of the success of the
opera.
A very noteworthy Interest has been
manifested by many of the local music
lovers and from every indication a suc
cessful summer season of light opera
and musical comedy is assured.
SIS 1IOPKXXS TO COME BACK
Famous Comedy to Bo Repeated
Burins Rose Festival Week.
So many requests have been made
upon Manager Seaman of the Baker
theater to have Verna Felton play Sis
Hopkins again that it has been de
cided to repeat the famous comedy for
Rose Festival week, making of it a
special attraction.
When Miss Felton rave ber remark
able Impersonation of the great char
acter last November at the Baker the
demand to see her was so great that
Show Clear With Wednes
day Matinee.
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In a Dance Drama In the Time o
Attila and the Hues Created am
Directed by Marion Morgan.
THOMAS F. SWIFT and
MARY H. KELLY
Offer 93000.00
EDWIN GEORGE
In a Comedy of Errors
DAISY NELLIS
American Pianist of Distinction
Tho Agile Pair
EMILE and JOHN NATHANE
Feats of Daring Artistically Executed
BIRDS OF A FEATHER
With Bert Ford and Pauline Price
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hundreds were turned away at every
itrformance, and she should repeat her
'-Humph airaln, for not only has the
.-'.ever little star grown In Portland's
.affections since then, but so many have
talked about her "Sis" to others that
twice as many will be anxious to see it.
John Fee will also be seen in hia
splendid comedy role of the under
taker and the same cast practically
will be seen that were in the play be
fore with a few minor exceptions.
"Sis Hopkins" will open at the Baker
Sunday matinee next.
MUSICAIi COMEDY AT ALCAZAR
'Madame Sherry" Chock Full of
Sons and Laughs.
As the second attraction of the
Alcazar Musical Comedy company, com
mencing Monday, June 9, "Madam
Sherry" will be the offering. Musically,
Madame Sherry" Is unusually good
and for real comedy, it is a riot. In;
this musical play, Oscar Fipman will
play his original role of Theophilus
Sherry.
On the two occasions "Madame
Sherry" visited Portland Mr. Figman
played the part. There are many splen
did song hits in "Madame Sherry," such
as "Every Little Movement," "The '
Birth of the Butterfly." "Sing. Sing
Me That Song, Again." "I'm Alright"
and "The Birth of Passion."
PAXTAGES OFFERS MAXY STARS
Stampede Riders In Wild West
Stunts Head Bill.
Sparkling with attractions that hava
startled the eastern amusement seek
era, the programme at Pantages offers
all sorts of stars for the week com
mencing with the matinee tomorrow.
Featured on the programme are the
Stampede Riders, bringing with then
the spirit of the great plains, a won
derful setting for vaudeville and soma
of the best-known riders and horses
who have appeared in the wild west
shows throughout the country. Flora
La Due, champion woman roper of the
world, heads the cast and others of na
tional fame are Guy Weadlck and Dan
Dlx. They bring agile cow ponies audi
bucking bronchos in an attraction that
has never -been excelled in vaudeville.
As a special attraction, the Deni
shawn dancers will be offered under
the management of Ruth St. Denis and
Ted fihawn. They precede by one week,
Miss St. Denis. There are six of the
graceful young worrten who appear in
an exceptional attraction, staged by
Miss St. Denis. AH came from the
famous Denishawn school near Los An
geles. Jimmy Britt, once famous as tha
lightweight champion boxer of th
world, appears In "Tho Kid's Laet
Flght a clever arrangement of stories
of the ring told in a droll manner.
Blackface Eddie Ross and his Afri
can harp kept the patrons of the New
York Winter Garden In an uproar In
the past season and Mr. Ross makes
his return as one of the etara of tha
circuit. His selections are excellent
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