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'6 " . - , - . THE SUNDAY OREGOXTAy, PORTLAyP, DECEMBER 31, 1933 ' ! ; fs N v S 1 f : -!V JilH s''XX with a dtetinct. New Tear's flavor i- v fV,, I - v7,t rarZ A 1 I Js,rf JWI J show- It will begin at 11:45. The ' t F , JO SSs I -rCC ' ' 9 -Jvl I I I I'firl f Xrf III Country Store with J50. worth- of S s 'f -llid " &Cejre-7att' . i 1 III 11 J J ' merchandise free to patrons is the 2& J J&eSZX7ar- ' xS$X J r. t A- .VlT-I . added attraetl0n for Tuesday night. V " T 11 ! U 1 . - S J& -:Zrk ' 'V-i " Orpheum to Continue Snow Well I ' - i '! I'll W ifJW. (;, .-1 ' ! Into Xew Year. ? 'ui 1 'Ai21 K "Is 1 I ' s -sos " " "'s ATT1' --"" . girl with an appealing- voice and ; I -U v 1 1 I ' vf "S xK'-" J -t flit , dainty grace, flits in a ray of youth I f j. I w jS". B J -V WsJn B. and beauty. . She is a delectable elf I... i ' I vi . 1 1 if , X NSrJT VB JW ' who radiates the holiday spirit. j i-51 Iff Al - 1 , . li i $cw&-l A sparkling comedy and the usual : ' "f I f?lw HAV v,?K.iI i' J-V " 1l pathe weekly will feature the ftsi7!!" f V3 ' l ' i: t !. l' screen section of the programme. As L f" T 4jv I J ' li -t N 4 ' " i 11 usual tht performances will te con- .-p9" ' 1,,.',.. Timilm:M.ij.jC ii5 J Jl i ' " 'jp i v tinuous Xew Year's day. ." V1"1" I Ulli'n'l) HWIII !! I ! iyiay 4 , . Jt- 1 S SsS DARDOX REVUE HEADS BILL BY LEON CASS BAER. HAL PARKER, a Portland boy, and his wife, Ann Butler, who have frequently visited us over the Orpheum circuit, are play ing this week at the F. F. Proctor's Fifth Avenue theater ln New York. X large picture of Miss Butler ap pears in this week's New' York Morning Telegraph. She is a clever comedienne of the Fannie Brice type and Mr. Parker is a singer and 4aftcer of ability. A sliding subway door in New !Xork caught Miss Margaret Fenton, concert singer, and snipped off one f iher octaves, worth $100,000, ac cording to the claim set forth by her ttorney in a sijit to recover that -amount from the Brooklyn Rapid iransit company. ; The petition, recites that (Miss TVnton had a range extending an ctave , higher than her present IWange, but lost eight notes when a subway door broke her nose dur ing a rush-hour jam. She was thrown to the floor of the car and Beverely jostled. Miss Fenton will Wfer to eing in court. 4 ' Ed .Gallagher and Al Shean have (been named defendants in a suit for -$:5,000 brought against them by -Bryan Fitzgerald, also known as Bryan Foy," as the complaint puts ii. who is a eon of Eddie Foy, come dian. F9y alleges he was to receive lone-third of the receipts from publi cation and mechanical reproduction "f his SOng. "Mr. Gallae-ei- anrl Mr Khean,' under an agreement with ;jthe defendants, and that the latter , received $75,000 in royalties, but falled to pay him his due." ; At first, Bays Mr. Fitzgerald, it iwas arranged that the defendants should use the song on the etage only, as an unpublished one. Then the question of publication and re duction to "canned music," for use In phonographs and mechanical 1 pianos, came up. The agreement to Day him one-third of the proceeds '. upon his agreement to permit such use of the song by the defendants, ' o the plaintiff avers, followed. Haidee" Wright, the English act- : ress who has been seen here with Sir Johnston Forbes Robertson and other stars from her native land, : has arrived in New York. '.: She is under contract to Win- inrop Ames to play the role of Queen Elizabeth in his production or will bhakespeare," in which ehe was seen In the English presen ; tation last year. Rehearsals of this Play by Clemence Dane are under way with Otto Kruger in the title ; part. imera in the company will be . Kaiherlne Cornell, who appeared a ' year ago in Miss Dane's first plav. "A Bill of Divorcement": Winifrofl . Lenihan, John L. Shine and Augusta " Haviland. ; Under the title of "Genevieve," Jack Lait has done his old drama, ; "Help Wanted," into a musical play ind it opened on Christmas day in -New London. The principal roles - are played by Esther Howard, Sadie Burt, William Halligan and Vinton Freedley. '. , H. H. Frazee is preparing to pre ; ent a musical version of a formerly ' ruccessful play. It is "My Lady Priends," in which the late Clifton Crawford, jya seen, and, Frances Demarest has been engaged to sing V A jryf-! " ' W the leading role. - Y' i JrtfW " Frank Mandel is at work on the 'S x w Vi . A book and lyrics. - ' " ZaP nh??5t - - Margaret Lawrence made her H li "9 s v 'v4 x li t 1 first appearance in "Secrets" under V" VJ- -! - ? the management of Sam H. Harris 'O fyK. 'x ' x - i last week in Washington. It is the - f 1 K 1 A , f work of Rodolph Besier and May , - jf f v s I Edington and has already achieved 2 jC ' s-iss!-'V f considerable success in London. &'-$tltr $?5fy f"i' i' .Mr. Harris and Sam Forrest, who r MW&$T "t " x " . staged the production, were on hand ISv" 'lilwri 1 ifi s" r"" V'H for the nnpnlnsr. TN-SWfejiSv WL I ! jjMriT c ,i Major Lewis E. Lawes, warden of Sing Sing, announced recently that there will be no more moving pic tures, formerly shown occasionally on a miniature screen in the old death house, for the murderers in the new death house. . Formerly a picture was shown before an exe cution to take the slayers' minds off the impending ordeal. Warden Lawes found that, be cause the cells in the new institu tion are so spread out. only three caged prisoners could see the scien in any one place. This would mean that any picture would have to be reeled off nine times if all 27 slay ers now there were to be permitted to witness it. Now the phonograph will be their only diversion. Today at the municipal audito rium the American Light Opera company, with an excellent cast, a fine chorus and a notably good or chestra, opens a week's engage ment. The opening opera, sung this afternoon, is "Robin Hood," which will be repeated on Thursday night ana for the closing bill on next Sun day night, January 7. Tonight the diverting light opera, The Mascotte," will be sung, and this opera will be heard again on Wednesday afternoon. Tomorrow at a matinee the lovely "Pinafore" is the offering, and this will be 're peated next Saturday night, Janu ary 6. . . , . . ; . . Tomorrow night is "The Mikado," which will be repeated on Friday night, January 5. Tuesday night "Bohemian Girl" will be given, and this will be re peated at next Saturday's matinee. "The Chimes of Normandy" is the opera for Wednesday night and for next Sunday's matinee. The prices are popular and the company en joyed a fine patronage when it was here a few weeks ago. The oppor tunity to revive memories of the old opera and to hear them sung under delierhtful r-irrnmstnnooo and by singers with real voices is worth I.: sometning. ; Much fun is promiseu patrons of the Orpheum theater this week, for. comedy is the keynote of the firAt bill of the new year, opening 'With the matinee, today and continuing through until Tuesday night A big feature for the week at the Orphe um will be the elaborate New Year's eve midnight matinee, to open at 11 o'clock tonight. The new programme is headed by Roscoe Ails, famous as a singing, dancing comedian, who has the as sistance of Kate Pullman, an orches tra of syncopation and Charles Cal vert In putting over the best act in his career. Added attractions.5 which will prove especially popular at the mid night show, are Wilfred White,- as sisted by Grace Menken and com pany, in "What Now?" and Bert Fitzgibbon. the original Daffy Dill, who is this season introducing his brother Lew. White and Fitzgibbon both are comedians, but built on entirely different lines, for White specializes in farce-comedy and Fitzgibbon Is one of the originators ot nut comedy. Novel features are planned for "Just a Minute," the new Lyric at traction, which opens for a week's engagement at the Baker theater with this Sunday's matinee. Whole som fun ia keeping .with the holl - 1 till it I V l Iff-;- ;L4')t:a . . , SMml fff jf ' 4 v -4 I H- " "-" being an expert at balancing, stand- cert grand piano. U !l rf s""s " 1 i ine in various positions on the top I " day season bubbles through the of fering. Song and dance ensembles, featuring the talented Lyric princi pals, will vie with the work of the comedians as' capital entertainment. Special stress is being laid on the costuming and the Lyric Rosebuds and leading women will appear in attractive gowns. Of outstanding interest is the extra midnight matinee, which will be offered tonight at 11:30 o'clock. Cheering the old year out and wel coming the new. year is a time-honored Lyric custom, and patrons look forward from season to season to this feature. The programme pre pared includes a wide variety of mirth-provoking stunts, informali ties and topical specialties in har mony with the hour and occasion. "Bring all "the noise you want" is the slogan of the executives in charge. "We'll furnish the fun." Announcement that Irene Brooks will appear with the Lyric players at the Baker theater in a leading role will be hailed with much inter est by patrons of Keating & Flood's Eleventh and Morrison-street play house. Miss Brooks is known to Port- landers as a versatile and delightful musical comedienne. Her work is marked by a refreshing wlnsome ness and charm. She possesses a pleasing soprano voice of a lyrical range. Among the notable successes with which Miss Brooks has appeared was an extended engagement in the Broadway production of the Shu bert's "Doing Our Bit." She also played in Richard Carle's burlesque show, "The Sunshine GirlB," which played for many; months in New York and Chicago. Miss Brooks also. enjoyed a remarkable engagement of 82 consecutive weeks at the Bur bank theater in Los Angeles in mu sical stock. Her coming to the Baker with the Lyric company bids fair to prove delightful for patrons of .the high-class shows offered there this season. Alexander Pantages has provided a splendid New Year's bill of yaude ville to start with the Monday mat inee. Richard Havemann will head line the show with his kings of the forest and desert. Five. large Nu bian lions, four beautiful specimens of the leopard family and a Royal Bengal tiger (a most magnificent animal) are put through a routine of tricks that shows man's mastery over these monarchs of the -wilds. The performance throughout js thrilling and entertaining. An excellent quartet, composed of i Bob Temple, . Dan de Sll.va, Paul ! Fohr and Herbert Sherman, offer a novelty musical offering styled "Miss Nobody," with Mias Ethel McElroy, a winsome miss, as the bright star. This is one of the nicest acts that Pantages has booked and according to reports is going good. One man and three nrettv sirls have a pretentious musical comedv in the' Dardon Revue, which tons the new bill at the Hippodrome theater. The revue is made un of Joveta Dardon, the Reed sisters and Graham. Several changes of ward robe, together with an excellent line of tunes and dancing, are features in tne act. JAZZ BILL IS AT ORPHEUM Roscoe Ails and Kate Pullman to Be In Headline Act. The arrival of the new year promises to be attended, so far as the patrons of Orpheum vaudeville are concerned, with the presenta tion of one of the most interesting programmes the season affords, starting at the Heilig theater with the matinee today and closing with the- Tuesday night performance. An outstanding feature is the big New Year's eve matinee to occupy the stage tonight, starting at 11 o'clock. Headlining the first show of the new year is Roscoe Ails, who, with Kate Pullman, appears in "A Con glomeration of Melody and Jazz." The act introduced Ails' orchestra of syncopation and Charles Calvert. All of New York has been "Roscoe ailing" since Mr. Ails and his com pany played an entire season in New York vaudeville theaters. The public demand for syncopation brought to the fore every kind of syncopated entertainment, yet left Ails and his act standing out: like a beacon. Promptly and securely Ails- became an amusement factor to the music-loving public. His present act is an elaborate. thor oughly interesting arrangement of meioay and syncopation. This New Year's bill, whose per formers will be called upon to ex tend themselves for the delight of Orpheum fans at the big midnight matinee, offers, aside from the headline number, two especially in teresting added attractions, which win enhance interest in the show. These are the acts of Wilfred Clarke, assisted by Grace Menken and company in "Now What?" and Bert Fitzgibbon, the original Daffy Dill, . and brother Lew. Wilfred Clarke, a nephew of Edwin Booth ana grandson of . Junius Brutus Booth, is rated as one of the best farce-comedy stars of, the day. His work, is entirely free trom buttoonery or burlesque. Fitzgibbon possesses a unique blend of various comedy in gredients. Above all, he is funny, and this is the magic wand that has made him a great success in vaudeville. . ' The New Year's show is rounded out by some splendid big-time vau deville features, including ; Edward Miller, offering a select group of semi-classical songs; El Rey Sis ters in "a novel dance revue"; Jack Hanley, the eccentric comedy pan tomime juggler, and the Keliors, novelty entertainers. George Jeffery ana his urpneum orchestra will play at all perform ances, including the midnight mat inee. The screen will hold Pathe News, Aesop's Fables and Topics of the Day, together with the oroscope. showing natural color views of Ore gon scenery PANTAGES HAS BEAST ACT "Kings of Forest end Desert" Is Xew Year's Week Thrill. Richard Havemann's "Kings . of the Forest and Desert" will give the JJew Y ear's week bill at tlje Pantages an authentic thrill. They come as Jieadliners ot the new show which opens New Year's afternoon, and which is thoroughly a holiday programme. In a huge cage that virtually fills the big stage Have mann puts a number of lions, tigers and leopards through a routine of daring tricks. The beasts are beau tiful and well-trained specimens. Leaving the circus and returning to vaudeville proper, Ethel MacEl roy, an attractive girl who dances gracefully and' who ia assisted by men quartet, presents the additional feature of the bill. It Is a comedy skit called "Miss Nobody," and tells of a talented girl's search for fame along Greenwich Village. The scene is a studio where dwell the cynic, a sculptor, a painter and a musician. Appealing dances are introduced by Miss MacElroy and a number of songs by the Gotham City Four, who support her... - Harry Tighe, with -songs and stories, has been scoring a whale of a hit, both through the clever ness of his material and his appeal ing personality. , Jewell and Rita are programmed as' "Jovial Juveniles," impersonating a young girl and her boy sweet heart. Their comedy is refreshing and clever and their singing has Deen winning encores. A.rnold and FlorenCA have a varf efy of novelties which they put over for a hit. Margaret Strang, & pretty young Xew Features at Hippodrome Arc Novelties In Vaudeville. One man and three pretty , girls have a pretentious musical comedy in the Dardon revue, which head lines the new bill at the Hippo drome. The cast includes Joveta Dardon. the Reed sisters and Gra ham. Several changes of wardrobe. together with an excellent line of melody, are the chief factor in the act. James Wright and Ethel Gayman are expeit whistlers, besides being singers and steppers. They are- known to vaudeville admirers "The Canary Birds." Later in the act they give saxophone, trombone and finger whistling selections. Their canary bird flirtation incident is a notable feature in the act. Cooper and Valli's skit, "Ain t She Rough?" is a long laugh, is a slapstick comedy. A couple of song numbers are injected. E.uth and Delevan are well known to vaudeville. "The Girl on the Lofty Perch" is their billing, Ruth being an expert at balancing, stand ing in various positions on the top of a 30-foot pole. Joe Allen, .with "A Little Bit of Everything," cqmblnes laughs and thrills to good advantage in his new act. He balances on his hands, then on his head, and for a closing thrill skates about the stage on his hands. Harry Carey will appear in one of his latest pictures, "The Kick Back." As an added attraction on the New Year's bill Julius Caesar and his educated horse will appear. MIDNIGHT MATIXEE PLANNED Musical Comedy to Be Feature of Lyrle Programme. - ' As gay a musical comedy as has been offered in many moons is to be offered at the Baker theater this week. Under the engaging title of Just a Minute" it will open in care of the Lyric company today with continuous shows which will cul minate in an extra midnight mat inee at 11:30 this evening. Th art of entertaining is finely developed in the Lyric productions this season and Director Davis is sparing no effort that this new offering may radiate a laugh every tick of the -clock. Lovely girls, talented principals, side-splitting comedy and all the other necessi ties of successful extravaganza will be served up with spice appropriate to the New Year season. Entering heartily into the follies of the offering will be Marie Rich, George Banta, Billy Dodge, . Mira McKlnney and the Pacific four. Harry ' Harrigan, the comedian de luxe, has a barrel of fun on tap as a special New Years' treat and with his taking Hebrew didoes bids fair to keep everybody in stitches. The Rosebuds will round out the pleas antry in song and dance ensembles appropriate to the occasion. - Included in the song specialties will be "True Blue Sam" by Marie Rich,' "Stand Up and Sing for Your Father" by Ge6rge Banta and "You Tell Her, I Stutter," with Billy Dodge - at the helm. The Pacific four will be -featured in novelty numbers, which Invariably win them the house. "Roll the Bones," "Wonderful Mother" and "New York Boys" are on their programme for "Just a Minute." Adding much to the offering will be the first appearance .of Irene Brooks as a member of the Lyric cast. Miss Brooks made a host of friends in her former appearances here and her coming to the Lyric will be notable. . She will sing "Peachie" as her specialty. Year by year, the Lyric's custom of staging a midnight matinee on New Year's eve is looked forward to as highly diverting entertain ment. . A special programme , of novelty stunts, casers and features A gala midnight carnival, usher ing in the new year with an accom paniment of . comedy, interspersed with .music, is promised patrons of Orpheum vaudeville who attend the special New Year's eve midnight matinee at the Heilig' theater to night The midnight show, starting at 11:30 o'clock and continuing well into 1923, is the first the Orpheum has offered for several years, due to the fact that the holiday did not fall on an Orpheum day. There is an apparent intention on the part of Orpheum artists and the house staff this year to make up for lost time and, in addition to the regular pro gramme of vaudeville, there will undoubtedly be much, impromptu fun invented ' for the occasion by various players. Roscoe Ails, headline star on the New Year's week bill, is a re nowned comedian, and in his com pany, presenting "A Conglomera tion of Melody and Jazz," are sev eral other notable funmakers. The bill boasts a number of extraordi nary comedy elements, which will lend themselves delightfully to the promotion of the carnival spirit. PANTAGES BILL MIRTHFUL New Tear's Midnight Matinee to Offer Unusual Features. Not to be outdone by other vaudeville circuits the performers on the Pantages bill have promised manager Johnson a show for the 1 New Year's midnight matinee that will be "stuffed with mirth. Howard Chase, who is playing at the "Pan" this week with his wife, Jane Chase, will be director of ceremonies. He will stage ' the afterpiece and will arrange the burlesquing of the balancing of the show. The Spectacular Septette, seven pretty classical dancers, who have been one of the' outstanding feat ures of the week's bill, will work through the entire bill. " Alexander Chernyoff, concert pianist, will have an innovation introduced into his turn when Miss Beatrice Byrne will dance to his classical tunes on top of the con cert grand piano. HIPPODROME PLANS REVEL Special Bill Will Usher in New Year Tonight at Playhouse. New Year's eve will be ushered in tonight at the Hippodrome theater by a big show made up of novelty acts entirely, the regular bill play Ing at the theater being eliminated. AUDITORIUM JANUARY 23 The Incomparable Direction Steers&Coman PRICES Floor, t"; Rear Balcony, 2, 91.50! Side- Balcony, 2, 1.30, fl, 50c. War Tax 10 Extra. MAIL ORDERS NOW Send checks and self - ad dressed stamped , envelopes to Steers & Coman, Columbia Building, Portland, Oregon. A L F R ED MIR0VITCH Eminent Russian Pianist AUDITORIUM Monday, January 8 Third Attraction Elwym Artist Series Prices t 92-20, $1.65, 91.10, 55c . .MAIL ORDERS NOW Send check with itamped. aelf addresaed envelope to the Uwyn C'nncert Burean, 1017 Broadway Bids. ' Phone -Main 5901. ' - : Wk The show will open with a tug-of-war between teams representing the Portland police and fire bureaus. A society girls' bathing costume con test, in which many beautiful girls as well as costumes will he entered, also will be a feature. The- audi ence will be the sole judge -of this event. A rube jazz orchestra, direct from the farm, will give what is prom ised to be something new in the way of syncopation. Hula-hula dancers- and a four-round boxing bout will be other features on the bill, which has been prepared by W. W. Ely, manager of the play house. The close will be a greased pole climb, in which boys representing the different newspapers of the city will participate. A 12-pound turkey will be given as a prize. Smoking will be allowed during the show. Mother of Russian Czar May Stay in England. Maria Feodorovna, Born Dnnlnh Princess. Vtsita SU(cr. IMA, Peru, Dec. 30. The tidal waves which recently "devastated parts of the coast of Chile cast upon the beach at the same time a strange denizen of the deep whose like has not been seen in these waters in many years. It. would appear to be a cross between a whale and u turtle. Fishermen at Lurin, 25 miles from Lima, reported a huge cetacean floundering in the shallow waters ot the bay. Then they sent out word It was an unknown monster of the sea, and that they had killed It. The director of the National His tory museum of the University of San Marcos and the official taxi dermist made a trip to Lurin for the purpose of studying and classifying the strange visitor. They found an animal with the body of a whale, but with a head and extremities re sembling those of a turtle. After examination they came to the con clusion that it belonged to the fam ily of Balaenidae cetaceans, inhabit ing the south Pacific waters. It is i supposed that it was carried along by the Humboldt current and thrown up on the beach by the tremendous surfs following the tidal waves of the Chilean earthquake. The specimen will be brought back to Lima for mounting and will be preserved in the university museum. THIS AFTERNOON - 3l30 I TONIGHT ...... 8:15 TOMORROW Ss A FT. - 2:30 EVE, - 8ll5 Continues ALL THIS WEEK! PUBLIC .uditoriu: 3d and Clay Phone Main 1000 TODAY DEO. 31 1 TO JAN. 7 8 Nights 8 5 Matinee 3 Owing to Larue capacity Public Auditorium Popular Prices Will Prevail! AMERICAN Light Opera Co. 50 PEOPLE 50 Excellent Cast Superb Chorus Splendid Orchestra THIS AFTERNOON, 2i30 "Robin Hood" THIS EVENING, 8tl5 "The Mascotte" TOMORROW ?e7r- MAT. 2:30 "Pinafore" TOMORROW SIGHT "The Mikado" Tuesdav Evening, Jan. 1 , "BOHEMIAN GIRL" Wednesday. Matinee, Jan. 3 THE MASCOTTE" Wednesday Evening. Jan. 3 "CHIMES OF KORMAXDY" Thursday Evening. Jan. 4 ROBI" HOOD" Friday Evening. Jan. 5 "THE MIKADO" Saturday Matinee, Jan. 6 "BOHEMIAN GIRL" Saturday Evenina:. Jan. "PINAFORE" Sunday Matinee, Jan. 7 "CHIMES OF NORMANDY" Sunday Evening, Jan. 7 "ROBIN HOOD" I ALL SEATS RESERVED POPULAR PRICES (Including; I War Tax) Every Night and ETery Matinee (Except .Bargain wed. Matinee) Entire Lower Floor 91.10 First Balcony, center 1.10 First Balcony, sides . ." Second Balcony, center.... JS Second Balcony, aides .53 Bargain Wednesday Matinee AN 1 SCAT 55c Secure Tickets Early Tickets on Sale TODAY AND TOMORROW AT Al'DITORllM PHONE MAW 4160. FOR ANY IN FORMA TlO Tuesday at Sherman-Clay's