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BY LEONE CASS BAER.
OROTH1 SHOEMAKER is lead
ing woman with the Alhambra
Stock company in Brooklyn.
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The voting contest conducted for
ten days for the queen and king of
the movies from among the film stars
wound up with a considerable sum
added to the fund of the Association
for Improving the Condition of the
Poor.
Billie Birke led the women for the
crown of queen of the movies, re
ceiving over 470,00ft votes at 10 cents
each. Flo Ziegfeld, her husband, did !
most of the auction buying of votes
at the bali, though Mrs. William K.
Vanderbilt at the last moment pur
chased 100.000 votes for Miss Burke.
This added to Ziegfeld's later pur
chase of 50,000 votes for his wife sent
Miss Burke into the lead, over Mary
Carr's 431,000. Miss Carr Is a Pox
film star. The Fox organization pro
moted her candidacy to the amount of
around $43,000 for the second place.
The other contestants did not ac
tively compete at the auction buying.
Marion Davies, Constance Binney and
Madge Kennedy had their supporters
for a while. It looked at one time as
though either of the three might go
out for the prize, but all appeared to
decide simultaneously it was a matter
of vote buying rather than anything
else excepting a matter of momen
tary publicity. Miss Binney stopped
at 68,000, Miss Kennedy at 58,000 and
Miss Davies at 50,000. Among the
stars entered who did not appear in
terested were the Talmadge girls,
Gish girls, Mary Pickford, Viola Dana,
Hope Hampton, Shirley Mason, Gloria
Swanson, Clara K. Young, Betty
Compson, Elsie Ferguson, Dorothy
Dalton, Alice Brady, Bebe Daniels
and many others, most all of these
closing the contest with less than
6000 votes to their credit.
Just how musical stars are brought
before the public or at least some of
them was disclosed in the New York
supreme court when a jury listened to
a description of it by Mrs. Zare De
lare Josephson in her suit against
Mrs. Lillian Krause Allen for $5000
for services in coaching and chaper
oning her for a year.
The defendant is the widow of
George Allen, a Philadelphia dry
goods merchant, who died on the Im
perator in January, 1921, while sailing
with his wife for Europe. She says
she is taking care of her late hus
band's daughter, Catherine Inace Al
len, at the family country home at
Overbrook, Pa.
On the witness stand the plaintiff
"coach" said she was engaged by the
then Miss Krairse in 1918 to prepare
her for the operatic stage by teaching
her French, Italian, Spanish and Ger
man and introducing her to the musi
cal world. The plaintiff alleges she
did introduce the defendant to Caruso
and a number of other stars, and that
she carried out her part of the agree
ment until the defendant became the
wife of Mr. Allen.
The agreement, according to the
plaintiff, was that she was to be
cared for during the three years she
was to devote to the preparation of
her young charge for the operatio
and musical stage, and then was to
receive 10 per cent of her net income
for the ensuing five years. The ad
vent of Mr. Allen into the life of the
wouiu-ue musical artist upset tne
plans, and after a year her ambition
seemed to wane, and the marriage
t her studies.
she had attended a, reception at a Mrs.
- Bernstein's, replied, "Oh, yes; that
was a Dart or tne Eame.
1 Frederick Warde, the distinguished
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his 72d year, yet manages to give
nart of Juninero Serra, in The Mission
Play, every week in addition to lec
twes on Shakespeare and kindred
subjects to high schools, clubs and
kindred organizations, recently was
asked tne secret or nis neaitn ana
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li, Hoilio- rn "WArtnesdav nirht .a
heralded as another of those charac-
teristically expensive and lavish en-
tertaiiliiiciii-e) wmuii a.ic luauc di. me
Eugene Howard, popular comedians,
&g$g wiU; ' i ;j(M pJtl
are the stars. There are two acts
and 26 scenes, in which are promised
abundant comedy, singing and danc
ing, together with a large chorus of
belles and numerous eye-smiting sets.
It is the claim of the management
that the new "Passing Show," in ad
dition to having the most notable
cast ever assembled, is the largest
company at present on tour in Amer
ica. The scenic investiture alone re
quires six baggage cars to transport
and the company of 200 travels in a
special train. The "Passing Show"
this year offers a unique novelty in
the matter of its chorus. There are
no chorus men in the aggregation.
Instead the Messrs. Shubert have se
lected beautiful gins who wear male j
attire. Among the principals are the'
teams of Cortez and Peggy, Masters
and Brown and Schrode and Aronson;
the feminine portion being May Boley,
Ina Hayward, Emily Miles, Norma
'Hamilton, Peggy Brown, Flo Somer
ville, Dolores Suarez, Tiny Collins,
Dot Mantell, Margaret Wood, Edyth
Lawrence and Mary Rice, W. H. Prin
gle, Frank Masters, Robert Gilbert,
Anthony Jochim, Victor Bozart, Jack
Hall and Joe Qualters. "The Passing
Show" has had many expert hands in
its making. Harold Atteridge wrote
the book. The music was written by
Jean Schwartz, with incidental music
by Al Goodman and Lew Pollock. The
scenery was designed by William
Weaver of the Gaiety theater, London.
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The final week of the 1921 season
for the Baker Stocrc company opens
with the matinee tTi:s afternoon and
is marked by the presentation of
"The Bubble," a comedy drama in
three acts by Edward Locke. "The
Bubble" was for nearly two seasons
the starring vehicle for Louis Mann.
Its Baker portrayers are Selma Jack
son in Mann's role as Gustave Mueller,
Leona Powers as the heroine, Leo
Lindhard, Lora Rogers and Rankin
Mansfield. The plot concerns the so
cial and financial aspirations of the
kindly owner of a little delicatessen
store. He proves to be the center of
interest when the "bubble" bursts.
This is the last week of the current
Orpheum season and after Wednesday
afternoon Portland will be without
big-time vaudeville until next Sep
tember. The headline act of the fare
well show is Harry Carroll and com
pany which includes Tom Dingle and
Patsy Delaney, the Love sisters and
six pretty girls, who are programmed
as "Six Slick Chicks." This act
scored great success on Broadway
and it was booked especially to fill
stellar place on the bill which closes
the northwest Orpheum houses. Other
features of the show are Jimmy Savo
and company in a standard comedy
act and Don Alfonso Zelaya, son of
the ex-president of Nicaragua, in wit,
music and philosophy.
Manager Johnson promises one of
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the best vaudeville programmes of
the season beginning tomorrow mati
nee, when Walter Brower, comedian
and monologist, heads the list of star
acts, to be seen at his theater. An
other important attraction is Mrs.
Romeyn Jansen, a distinguished
mezzo soprano, who is the added fea
ture. In addition to these two head
liners we will have K. T. Kuma and
his company as oriental magicians,
Charles Roger and, company in a
laughing skit of the season called
"The Ice Man." Th:s marks the first
booking by Edward J. Fisher, who Is
Pantages new representative In New
York.
Dorothy Sherman's "Cameo Revue'
at the Hippodrome this week is to be
followed by a headliner next week
that is novel. The coming attraction
will be the Royal Pekin Troupe, a
group of seven oriental mystics in
cluding one little boy and a little
Chinese girl.
The act i3 said to be handsomely
costumed. -
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For the week opening with the
matinee today the Lyric Musical Com
edy company presents "The Two
Sports," featuring Ben Dillon, Al
Franks, Eddie Wright and the Rose
bud, girls.
A special musical programme has
been arranged for the new Lyric
show.
"PASSING SHOW" DUE HERE
Revue Declared Whirlwind of
Drama and Vaudeville.
The newest of 'Tasslng Shows"
will take the stage of the Heilig
theater four nights, beginning next
Wednesday, May 24, with a special
matinee Wednesday.
In two acts and 26 scenes, this lat
est revue is said to be a whirlwind
of vaudeville, musical comedy, drama,
burleaque, opera, ballets and beauti
ful girls. The coming of this bril
liant and famous attraction is to .be
the real theatrical treat of the season.
Willie and Eugene Howard are the
stars, and they are two of the best
entertainers today before the public
This will be the seventh show from
the New York Winter Garden in
which they have appeared, t!he other
six being "The Whirl of Society,"
"The Passing Show of 1912." "The
Whirl of the World," "The Show of
Wonders," "The Passing Show of
1915" and "The Passtog Show of
1918," which was their last appear
ance in this city.
It has always been the plan to
travesty stage successes in "The
SUNDAY OKEGOXIAX.
"Passing Show," and. this production
pays close attention to that end of
the business. Among the shows
which receive attention are "Light
ndn'," with a wonderful imitation of
Frank Bacon by Willie Howard; "The,
Bat," "Welcome Stranger," "Little
Old New York," "Mecca," "Spanish
Love" and "The Charm School."
In addition to a vehicle of unusual
character and quality, the Howards
enjoy the advantage of a cast of ex
cellence. It includes the well-known
teams of Cortez and Peggy, Masters
and Brown and Sehrode and Aronson;
the feminine portion being May Boley,
Ina Hayward, Emily Miles, Norma
Hamilton, Peggy Brown, Flo Somer-
ville, Dolores Suarez, Tiny Collins,
Dot Mantell, Mary Booth, Margaret
Wood and Edyth Lawrence, while
some of the men are Will Philbrlck,
John Quinlan, Jack Rice, W. H. Prin-
gle, Frank Masters, Robert Gilbert,
Anthony Jochim, Victor Bozart, Jaok
Hail and Joe Qualters, not forgetting
the famous Winter Garden chorus 75
beauties of distinctive personalities,
who will be presented in a manner
unequaled In the history of the Amer
ican stage.
ORPHEUM TO CLOSE SEASON
Premier Vaudeville Will Feature
"Farewell" Week at Heilig.
The Orpheum show to open at the
Heilig this afternoon is the closimg
show of the season and after next
Wednesday afternoon premier vaude
CLEVER CHILDREN WILL PRESENT DANCE EEVUE SATURDAY
NIGHT.
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Miss Dorothy Lyon will present her pupils in a dance revue at the
Lincoln high school Saturday, May 27, at 8:15 P. M. There will be 17
numbers, each one originated by Miss Lyon. Of special interest will be a
toe ballet, composed of 12 pupils.
The programme will open wiith a demonstration of the technique
of dancing. Then will follow special numbers in character, interpretative
and toe dancing. The costumes will be elaborate.
PORTULND, MAT 21.
ville will be absent from Portland
until early in September, when the
Orpheum season will reopen at the
Heilig. The closing attraction is a
girl show especially assembled for
"farewell" week, and it has won a
great reception in every city on the
tour.
Harry Carroll, sons composer, and
his company, which includes six girls,
fill headline place in the show. This
act is the revue de luxe of the Or
pheum season, and it is making its
first far western, tour after scoring
a tremendous aucdess in Broadway,
where Mr. Carroll is on of the great
est favorite. The act is entitled
"Varieties of 1922" and Mr. Carroll
ie supported by Tom Bingle and
Patsy Delaney, the Love sisters and
six -girls' programmed as "Six Slick
Chickens." The act is staged mag
nificently and it is crowded with en
joyable song and dance specialties.
Other features of the farewell ehow
are Jimmy Savo and company, a
standard comedy act that wins "a
salvo of streams," and the distin
guished, artist, Don Alfonso Zelaya,
son of the ex-president of Nicaragua,
ill wit, music and philosophy.
Other acts, are Ray Fern and Marie
in a vaudeville diversion; Mason and
Shaw, in "All for a Girlie," an act
written, by Neville Fleeson and Al
von Tizer; the Luster brothers, in an
act extolled as being unique and ex
traordinary; Bert and Florence Mayo,
aerialists supreme; Topics of the Day,
Aesop's Fables and Pathe News, ac
companied by exclusive viewe in
color, and the concert orchestra,
which will play a specially arranged
1923
programme In honor of the closing
week.
This show has created more enthu
siasm than any other girl show of the
season, and It has had great appeal
because of its variety, novelty and
artistry.
"THE BUBBLE" IS AT BAKER
Play to Be Last for Present Season
of Stock Company.
The last play of the present season
of the Baker stock company and a
production that promises to be one of
the best of the season is "The Bub
ble," which will be presented through
out the week, commencing with the
matinee today. "The Bubble" will
present for the lajst time this season
Leona Powers and Selmar Jackson at
the head of an interesting cast which
includes Leo Lindhard, Lora Rogers
and Rankin Mansfield.
"The Bubble" takes its auditor inti
mately into the homes of people
whose interesting acquaintance is not
easily made. Gustave Muller, who is
the central figure in the story, has a
viewpoint of his own which is well
worth knowing, and his unfailing
honesty, his good humor and his in
tense earnestness make him well
worthy of a place in the playgoer's
remembrance.
The play from the outset foretells
a pleasant outcome for each of the
embarrassments which befall the
shrewd, temperamental merchant
whose career is followed with such
sympathetic interest. The audience
is taken fully into the confidence of
the dramatist, Edward Locke, who
has conceived elements of dramatic
suspense and surprises into which
Muller comes as a keen, analytical
character study.
"The Bubble" introduces much that
would be sheerly conventional if not
animated by strong individuality in
acting. The financial swindler, after
gaining Muiler's friendship by the
approved methods of the confidence
man, beguiles him into buying worth
less mining stock with the savings of
a lifetime: tries to leave when the
bubble bursts and is prevented from
doing so by his daughter and her
swetheart, who, by quick work wixn
the telephone and a somewhat doubt
ful power of attorney, compel the
villain to disgorge enough to yield
a neat profit on the transaction and
leave everybody comfortably pro
vided for.
HIPPODROME BILL PLEASES
Artistry, Comedy and the Unusual
Mingled; Cameo Revue Headliner.
Mingling artistry, comedy and the
unusual, the bill which opened yes
terday at the Hippodrome with the
Cameo revue as tne Headline is a
generally satisfying one, with much
to praise and little to criticise.
Dorothy Sherman's Cameo revue is
a music and dance divertisement,
charming and delicate and resembling
the cameo in the delicacy of its pres
entation, but kaleidoscopic in the col
oring of its array of pretty costumes.
Two lithe and graceful dancers, a
young man and a young woman, carry
away the principal honors of the act
in their fancy toe and gypsy dances,
all of which are interpretative of
youthful moods. There are also four
girls in one scene charmingly demure
as colonial maids, in another as viva
cious gypsy maidens who play violin,
cello and piano and one of whom is a
pleasing singer. The entire act is a
miniature production that is effec
tive. Two comedians of the eccentric
type, Lester and Moore, have an ac
ceptable line of chatter. Their eccen
tric dancing is decidedly laughable.
"The Joy Riders," composed of
Frank Cornell and: his young woman
associate, keep laughter going con
tinually among the members of the
audience, nearly all of whom have at
various times suffered from the ob
stinacy of the flivver. They are as
sisted in their act by a real live tin
Henry that is as disreputable as the
proverbial stage hobo.
Bart Doyle, international humorist,
billed as "The Boy From Dublin," has
a monologue filled with new and re
freshing stories gleaned the world
around and also some new songs with
which he discloses that he is pos
sessed of a pleasing voice. His ren
dition of "The Latchkey" and his ef
fective recital of one of Service's
poems are effective.
Bender and Heer have a clean-cut
hand-to-hand and flying rings act 'n
which the stunts are new and diffi
cult. PANTAGES FEATURES CLEVER
Walter Brower, Comedian and Fine
Monologist, Heads Programme.
' Headlining the new bill which
opens at the Pantages theater, tomor
row matinee, will be Walter Brower,
comedian and monologist, who is pro
grammed as "The Lone Comedian."
Brower has an appealing personality
and a gift of telling stories. His chat
ter makes him one of the big hits of
the bill. '
A special added feature will be
Romeyn Jansen, one of the Pacific
coast's most distinguished mezzo so
pranos. Among the arstis's numbers
will be "Habanera" from "Carmen,"
C'adman's "At Dawning," "Long, Long
Ago" and "Out of the Shadows," by
Blaufuss. Miss Jansen will be as
sisted by Clydfc Lehman at the piano.
Seattle critics have said - the best
co-mediy playlet, measured by laughs,
that Pantages audiences have seen
this season is "The Iceman," present
ed by Charles Rogers and his com
pany. The skit concerns an iceman
and his assistant, who attempt to
pass themselves off as federal offi
cers In order to explore the cellar of
a customer for liquor.
The Kuma four, a Japaniese magi-
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HeiiiglillrMay
NOTE: Owing to the enormous size of
production and length of performance,
curtain rises nights at 8 o'clock. Matinee,
Saturday, at 2. Patrons are respect
fully requested to be in their seats
by that time, as POSITIVELY no
one will be seated during
first scene.
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SPECIAL NOTICE To defeat ft peculator wto follow "THE PASSING
SHOW" from one city to another, buying up the best Beats to be Bold
to the public at outrageous prices, the management announces that
POSITIVELY NOT MORE THAN TWELVE TICKETS WILL BE SOLB
TO ANY ONE PERSON, unless proper credentials arc shown to
identify the purchaser.
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clan, two Japanese maids and an as
sistant, appear in oriental mysteries
that are new. One girl has a pleas
ing soprano voice. As an illusilom'st,
K. T. Kuma is one of the most re
markable performers of the tage.
Mel Craig and Ed Holtsworth present-
a programme of popular and
jazz numbers on the saxophone and
the violin. Pert dialogue intersperses
musical efforts.
Bert Ford and Pauline Price are
responsible for thrills on. the bill with
their daring exhibition, "Dancing on
the Silver Thread."
Larry Semon will be seen o.n the
Pantagesco-pe in "The Sawmill," one
of hi3 best comedy screen successes.
LYRIC HAS SUMMER FANTASY
'Two Old Sports" Will Amuse
Theater Patrons This Week.
A summer-time fantasy in which
the humorous element will constantly
be kept uppermost, still permitting a
plot to unwind itself as the fun pro
ceeds through a number of pretty
scenes, is "Two Old Sports," with
which the Lyric Musical Comedy com
pany will entertain its patrons
throughout the "week opening with
the matinee today. The production
will give to individuals in the com
pany strictly individual opportunities
and to this end a number of interest
ing specialty numbers have been pro
vided. Musical features of the new show .
are novel, in keeping with Director
Dillon's recent effort to provide
something out of the ordinary in the
way of songs and dancing. A sextet
of members of the company will pre
sent the songs made famous by the
sextet from Floradora, one of the
most noted singing groups in Amer
ican comic opera. Solos will have
a wide and interesting range and
dance numbers will be distinctly new
throughout.
The story has to do with the ro
mantic adventures of Miss Sessions,
who is Dot Raymond, posing as a
millionaire's daughter at a fashion
able watering place. She wants to
catch a title and Lord Barton, played
by Jewel LaVelle, seems a likely can
didate for the honor of her hand. But
she has to have a millionaire father.
At the right time, of course, Mike
Dooley and Ikie Leschinski arrive
and when Mike can't pay for his keep
he is pressed into service as a waiter.
Miss Sessions' problem seems solved
and Mike becomes her father for the
time being. Later he robs the lord
and relieves him of his evening
clothes, in which he finds, money
enough to pay his way. But he also
discovers that the lord is a depart
ment store floorwalker with orders to
return to work or lose his job.
In the meantime Ikie and Iny Blotz
fall in love with the girl and there
is a great to-do about it all, with the
Rosebud girls entering with their
songs and. dances at every opportu
nity. '
Opens Tomorrow
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