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.. i J 7 : TIIE OBEGON DATLT JOTTKN'AI POETULXD. SATURDAY' EVENIXO, JANtf AliY 23. 1904. . 15 MARQUAM GRAND THEATRE ,vr. t. rAsroLB, Kesldsnt Manager. TA Event of th Season 5 TOSIOET'l PEBFO&ataJrCEBY Marquam Grand theatre Dark. Baker's theatre-r-The, Moth ,and the Flame." .r" - ( - ' .. Cordray'a theatre-r-'TFor " Mother' Sake." Park theatre Vaudeville. ' " Arcade theatre Vaudeville. -V " ;;':,:.iv iV,L: ... . .'rJ-'iXiT. ;;i OOMXNCr ATTXACTX0V8. v I Marquam Grand theatre Monday and Tuesday nights, v "Happr ' Hooligan;" Wednesday and Thursday nights, "Ghosts." . 1 Baker's theatre "A Celebrated Case." Cordray's theatre-i'Xost River." i Park theatre Vaudeville. Arcade theatre Vaudeville; : bill Changed Monday , New York has taken the lead In pro viding for fl re-proof theatres' since the -Chicago holocaust. An 'ordinance has been passed there that makes it com pulsory to have' every 1 bit ' of scenery . used on the stage made of non-corabus tlble material.. This object can be ac complished by the use of chemicals. In the meantime the investigation of the (Ire commissions continues, not only at New York, but in other cities.- : . ' Florence Roberts is said to have de termined upon dropping "Zaza" from her ' repertoire and the Portland performance of that much-talked-of production will probably -be her last appearance in ' the -Frenchy creation. The majority of theatre-goers will certainly utter a fer vent "peace to its ashes," for to de velop the general Interest the first act, at least, must display a coarseness that is revolting. Having relegated "Zaza" to the junkshop of antiquated theatrical relics, "Sapho-' will probably follow. We sincerely hope so. . "Happy Hooligan" is announced at the Marquam Grand for Monday and Tuesday nights. As its name indicates, the play is a farce built up around the characters made famous in colored sup plement pictures. The management promises handsome costuming and a clever, snappy performance. ' "Are You a Mason?" was. on the whole a rather pleasing comedy, but the sup porting company had not evidently been picked very carefully for dramatic ability. The play was dragged and punctured to an extent that spoiled much of the funny business. The sec ond act turned out to be the best part of the show and Frank Perry's masquerade ' i .. ! ' y - i . 4 IlllilllliPlliii 4V. i. ' 5 t i N i ' f i. lllMilllliiillll " L 'u' ' : r 'i.St . , GERTRUDE RIVERS. The Baker Theatre Company. 5- :f-'-,S!,:-!?':"'5fv' . t::i-':.5v''fc:i?f.si;-!f.-.- -jtV'-S : :W0Sm x4 liiMlrtiiil v ?f 'U: . ; , v.! V.MVi ' - - - .. J : . . . J Alberta gallatin. In "Ghosts" at the Marquam Grand Theatre. as a woman was excruciatingly' laugh able. ' - w. Marie Walnwrlght and her. company gave a presentably aAistio performance of the "Twelfth Night" at the Marquam Orand on Wednesday evening, but some of the star's . support was lamentably weak. Miss Walnwright is herself a clever actress, although the idea of her playing an Ingenue role appeals about as strongly as Henry James in the part of the young "Alexander the Great" It seems to be a way these stage celebrities of much ability and many years, have that of playing youthful characters. it ir "Lost River" will be found at Cor dray's next week, and in Joseph Arthur's creation we have a thriller that seems to prove so popular with the audiences at the Washington street playhouse. The play title was originated from the famous river that, springs, . full-sired, from the base of an. Indiana mountain and disappears about six miles away In a cavern. Whither it runneth man has been unable to discover. . Of course there is plenty of opportunity for real ism, and It is safe to say that the in gredient is used with a lavish hand. V. w "A Chinese Honeymoon" Is a very en tertaining creation; flowery, delicious and as refreshing as draught from the Fountain of Joy. It is brimming over with pleasant sayings,-dainty' stage set tings, clever dialogue, tuneful music, and, last, but not least, an array. of fem ininity that is simply, stunning, it has been quite a while since the last "girlie" show was here and that makes its ap pearance all the more acceptable. The settings and costumes are China-like to a T, and there 1b a distinct aroma of the land of poppy and incense. - v In a recent review of play, J.iw. Sayre, dramatic : crltle of the Seattle Times, touches a thread of genuine In terest anent .the habit, of audiences to spoil an effective climax by injudicious laughtet1. He says: "Tho majority of the strong points were, intelligently taken'up yesterday, but a portion of, the audience was working hard against, the actors all . of . the time. This minority applauded, not wisely but too well. Tha most pathetic bits of the play looked like' good comedy .and when 'Mr. Mc Quarrle . accidentally upset , a decanter, there, was-.wlld delight. . "Players have to face things like this, however, in every showshop in the land. If some auditors could not realize' how many good actors they have discour aged, how many fine climaxes they have ruined and hoW many' good scenes they have broken up by making known to the players their utter lack of .appreciav tlon . of the .work on the - stage, they would at least have the courtesy to sit in silence when . they unfortunately find themselves at a play which Is utterly beyond them. The city administration prohibits , dogfights. It is a mistake That nobje pastime should be allowed to run all through the theatrical season. for. apparently nothing else 'would sat isfy some of the people who were in the theatre yesterday." "The Moth and the Flame" is terribly Fitchesque, and as a play has very lit tle which would recommend it. The ac tion is at times above the average, but often it jogs along at any old pace, probably according to the author's pe riods of literary indigestion. The play Is not trashy, but outside of the church scene there is little dramatie strength exhibited. A few splashes of brilliant dialogue are encountered, but it Is not a play that you will remember more than a day at the most I'm only a boy, but I will help you, mother," was -the pretty sentiment : that flavored "For Mother's Sake" at Cord ray's this week. The love of mother and home pervaded every line of the dialogue, and the show, while not mak ing pretensions to stellar qualities, is one of the best in its line we have seen for several seasons. Marie Heath's Jo Pemberton, the widow's son, who is blamed for practical jokes that he has no claim to, is one of the most delight ful stage .. creations - the- theatre-goers are privileged to see at the popular priced houses. . w w ' White Whittlesey is booked . for a Portland engagement in "The. Second in Command,", which is ranked with 8othr em's "If I Were King," and is labeled one of the best six plays : of the last decade by Louis C. Strang, a well known Boston critic, w "Maloney't - Wedding," an excellent farce comedy, comes -to Cordray's next Thursday, January 2S, for four nights and Saturday matinee. It . contains no problem nor exploits anything unclean, it teaches no moral, -nor serves any pur pose save that of -amusing for an even ing and leaving behind it a memory. of jolly , comedians, -pretty girls and tune ful music. Its chief character is . Dan yyk ntm- I II '''' m1 XA Cordrayt Theatrs j Wcdrfcsday "and Thursclay Nights, Jan. 27-28 "'Ya .' -v 4 ' v ii if" Alberta Qallatin In Ibsen's Widely Discussed Play dsts The Greatest Work of the Greatest Living Dramatist" New .York Sun. :;: J Slrsction of Oaorg K, Bmuiaa PRICES Parquette, $1.60; parquette circle, $1.00; balcony, first S -rows, tl-00; second s rows, 75c; last 6 rows, 60c; gallery,'. 60o; . boxes and ; loges, $18.00... j J, . " .., Maloney,' a Hibernian patriot, who .went to the Philippines with his good friend Dr. Dennis. Mulcahy. O'Brien during the Spanish-American hostilities. Dr. O'Brien was fatally wounded and he exacted a promise from Maloney to call upon his fiancee, the, widow Clancy, and break the sad tidings of his death. Upon his return to. America, Maloney sets out to visit? the widow. At the moment of his arrival a young naval cadet, in love with Margery, the widow's niece. was seized with a flj upon learning of a compulsory separation-from, his fair di vinity. . During the excitement Maloney enters . and presents the doctor's card and is .mistaken for a physician and they beseech him to administer to. the afflicted young man. He does so to the best of his ability, much to the dis gust and discomfort of the victim. The widow Clancy not having seen Dr. O'Brien for many years believes Ma loney to be the doctor and without . al lowing him V explain cast her fairy like 300-pound figure into his arms. Our Don Quixotic hero falls madly in love with her. and decides to carry out the deception of his mistaken Identity. He weds her and the same time the younger couple overcome the obstacles and they, too, are married. After that their trou bles' begin. , Maloney overhears a con versation which he believes to be a plot to poison- him, and the younger man finds his wife -flirting apparently with a stranger. After a succession of ludi crous incidents and climaxes the play ends happily. The most unique of Florence Roberts' many Christmas gifts was a tiny bell of pure crystal not larger than a thimble, the clapper being a small dia mond the size of a pea suspended by a strand of twisted gold. This quaint and delicate piece of workmanship is to be worn as a bangle ornament and came to her all the way from Persia. " Our genial friend Dan Maloney, con tractor, patriot and politician, has de cided to go up against the game of mat rimony and on next Thursday night at Cordray's theatre he will lead the coy and blushing widow Clancy to the hymneal altar. You are Invited to at tend the ceremony. Everybody of con sequence will be there. That the occa sion may not lack convivialty 20 stun ning girls in modish costumes will ap pear to advantage in catchy songs and dances. A band and orchestra will as sist in drowning your troubles in a deluge of real music. Maud Sutton, Jessie Stevens, Lew Nelson, Frank Mitchell, Ollie Willard.. Kathleen Sey mour, the Welllngston sisters, Harry Fantelle, Claud RadcilRe, the megaphone quartet and a score of specialty artists will attend, and it's a safe bet that there will be great doings when Dan Maloney commits matrimony. . The Park theatre, the new continuous house on Washington and Sixth streets, closes - its flrst-week - with an-excellent patronage and assurances that its pop ularity will continue. Neither did the presence of a rival seem to-disconcert the old stand-by. the Arcade, only a block away, and it looks as if there is room for . two houses of that class In Portland, probably more, for Fred Mer rill is arranging a third home for vaude ville In one half of his old eyclery store on Sixth street. There Is to be seat ing accommodations for 776 people and continuous performances from 1 to 10 p. m., the price Of admission being scaled from 10 cents up. The. vaudeville bills were all excep tionally pleasing this week and the managers promise a number of treats in the new programs. w Portland may get a chance to see Richard Mansfield's production of "Old Heldleberg." for in the early spring the attraction Is engaged for a San Fran cisco run and the chances are that it will be brought north. w , The management of Cordray's theatre in this city and the Third avenue theatre in Seattle have engaged the Stockwell theatre company fox a limited engage ment followtng the lose of their Oak land, Cel., date. " ' The local Elks are awaiting with much interest .their forthcoming minstrel show at the Marquam Grand theatre. The date has been set for Friday even ing. January 29, and it is needless to say that the theatre will be sold out. -w . The first New, York appearance of "The Pit," a dramatization "of the well known story by Frank Norrls, has been set for February S. The production has scored a tremendous success In Chicago, where a four-week s engagement has been extended to a stay of nine weeks. The receipts average $1,300 a per formance.' .'.' WW Within three months. Manager -Baker will send his Baker theatre company on a road engagement that will include all the important points on Puget Sound and in California. He la at present en gaged. in selecting some strong plays for the company and when It commences the tour its personnel and repertoire wljl compare favorably With the best' road organizations sent out from the East It is said that Cosmos ' Lennox, an English playwright of considerable repute; has a version of "Vanity Fair" which he. Is desirous i that Florence Roberts should produce in the West next season. It would be a welcome ad dition to that popular woman's reper toire, and would undoubtedly be far more satisfactory to the publlo than her, "Zasa", or ''Sapho." , . , ' . w- w - " Jlr, sjid-Mra, H. 8. - PuflUeJd, j Fran MacVicars, Joseph Dalley ' and Mr. and Mrs. Corbett are enjoying a! few weeks; rest at the Relief Hot Springs, San Jacinto, Cal. They are leading lights with the NelU-Morosco Stock company and made -many-friends here during a protracted engagement recently. , W W - In the death of Mrs. Russell, mother of Annie Russell, the stage loses one of its historic characters. . Miss Russell was playing a road engagement when notified of her parent's demise and re' turned to New York In time, for the funeral services. Mrs. Russell, h,er daughter and a son Thomas were . once members of Ada Gray's "East' Lynne ' company. . i , . w ' w' Richard and Pringle's minstrels are en route to the coast and are booked for an engagement at the Marquam Grand theatre next month. w w Rose Melville, the clever little actress whose famous character creation of "Sis Hopkins" is so pleasantly remembered by local playgoers, has a heart as great as her talent. She recently cheered the foundei of the Bell Consumptive Home for Actors by sending him a check for $368 and announced that she would also send the proceeds of a benefit perform ance to aid the cause. W W The job of theatrical angel has proven to be anything but a sinecure for H. E. Bay, manager of "Uncle Josh Spruce' by" which recently played at the Mar quam Grand in this city. The show went into bankruptcy at Oakland last week and Mr. Bay, who was once a well- known national league baseball player with Cincinnati, will probably go back to the diamond for a living. w w "The Fatal Wedding" will be seen at the Marquam Grand .theatre in the near future. w w One of the early attractions at the Marquam Grand theatre will be "The Devil's Auction." PRESS AGENTS' MONOLOGUES OKOSTS." "Ghosts" is the story of a. woman who Jias faithfully acted as a model wife and mother, sacrificing herself at every point with selfless thoroughness. Her husband is a man with a huge ca pacity and appetite for sensuous enjoy ment. Society, prescribing Ideal duties and not enjoyment for him, drives him to enjoy himself In underhand and illicit ways. When he marries his model wife, her devotion to duty only makes life harder for him; and he at last takes refuge in the caresses of an undutiful but pleasure-loving housemaid, - and leaves his wife to satisfy her conscience by managing his business affairs whilst he satisfies his cravings as best he can by reading novels, drinking, and flirting, as aforesaid, with the servants. Mrs. Alvlng feels that her marriage has not been a love match; she has, in pursuance of her duty as a daughter, contracted it for the sake of her family, although her heart inclined to a highly respectable clergyman. In the .humiliation of her first discovery of her husband's infidel ity, she leaves the house and takes refuge with Manders; but he at once leads her back to the path of duty, from which she does not again swerve. With the utmost devotion she now car ries out a tremendous scheme of lying and Imposture. She so manages her husband's affairs and so shields his good name that everybody believes him to be a publlo spirited citizen of the strictest conformity to current ideals of respecta bility and family life. - She provides for the servant he has seduced, and brings up his illegitimate daughter as a maid in her own household. And as a crown ing sacrifice, she sends her son away to Paris o "be" educated there. Her own martyrdom is brought to an end at last by the death of her husband In the odor of a most - sanctified reputation, leaving her free to recall her son from Paris and enjoy his society. Oswald, the son, has inherited his father's love for enjoyment; and when, in dull rainy weather, he returns from Paris to the solemn house where virtue and duty have had their temple for so many years, his mother sees him first show the unmistakable signs of boredom with whioh she is so miserably familiar from of old; then sit after dinner killing time over the bottle; and finally the climax of anguish begin to flirt with the maid who, as his mother alone knows, Is his own father's daughter. She did not love the father; she loves the son with the Intensity of a heart-starved woman who has nothing else left to love. She sees at once that he has a right to be happy in his own way, and that she has no right to force him to be dutiful and wretched in hers. She sees, too, her in justice to the unfortunate father, and the iniquity of the monstrous fabric of Ilea and false appearances which she has wasted her Ufa in manufacturing. She resolves that the son's life, at least, shall not be sacrificed to joyless and un natural ideals. In driving the father to steal his pleasures in secrecy-and squalor, they had brought upon him the diseases bred by such conditions. Her son now tells her that .those diseases have left their mark on him, and that. he carries poison in his pocket against the time, foretold to him by a. Parisian surgeon, when he shall be struck down with softening of the brain. When the mother and son are left alone in their dreary home, all At the Marquam Grand Theatre Friday Eveising, January 2 9th The finest Dramatic, Musical and Vaudeville Performance . Ever Presented In Portland - Destiny" (New York Herald $1,000 Prise 1-Act Play). "At the Stage Door" Composed and participated In by those Four Funny Fellows Rea Irvln, A. L. Hart, Bob McCracken and George Eastman. "-;:' .! -Vv'V'- "On His Devoted Head" 1 -act comedietta, wherein the woman does all . the talking. (The first time in Portland.) Minuet (From Don Giovanl) Danced by eight beautifully costumed children. Bass and Baritone Solo (From Opera 1 Puritan! ..............Bellini Blgnor Farrarl and Mr. 8. N. Dpughty. (First time in Portland.) "Her First Lesson" The funniest 1-act farce. (First time in Portland.) Soprano Solo Selected Mrs. Millie G. Perkins. , Monologue Selected . ................................Mr. Leo Cooper Soprano Solo "Ala Stella Confldenta" .................... ,V. '. Robandl . Madam G. Farrarl. Petticoat Perfidy 1-act high comedy. v , . (First tlma in Portland.) Accompanist, Miss Elizabeth Hoben. The entire performance under the personal direction of Mr, Leo Cooper. . Tickets with reserved seats, $1.00. Box office open Wednes-' day morning. ' " . - CORDRAY'S TH EATRE SffSSP- MATINEE PRICES Adults 25o; Children 10o. EVENING PRICES 16c, 26c,. 36o, 40o and 60o. CouUoued. pa Page, Nlaeten.J ' i Last Time Tonight, Sat, Jan. 23 "FOR MOTHER'S SAKE COMMENCING TOMORROW, SUNDAY MATINEE, JAN. 24 And Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Nights LAST SEASON'S BIG SUCCESS JULES MURRY'S BIO SCENIC PRODUCTION OF JOSEPH ARTHUR'S A PASTORAL LOVE STORY DIRECT FROM ITS PHENOMENAL RUN IN NEW YORK. IT IT IS MX&OSXAXATXO XT7SXOAX, EHBATIOWAZi wKOumoin Large and Splendid COMPANY MAGNIFICENT SCENERY I Thoreoghbred Bones carried by Lost IWer Company. Bicycle Bate, Old Toll Gate, Etc CORDRAY S THEATRE -"SiS&S MATINEE PRICES-Adults 25c; Children 10c. EVENING . PRICES 16c, 25c, 85c ,40o and 50c. ' Three Nights. Starting Thursday. January 28 Only Matinee Saturday, January 30 .THE MIRTHFUL, MUSICAL COMEDY., Mai nevs y Wedding: TWXHTY C0MX9XAH8 TUBilTUit XT7SXO. SEE The Bit Parade at Noon The Saxophone Quartette A GREAT CAST 30-PEOPLE-30 THE BAKER THEATRE OEO. L. BAKER, Sol Lessee and Manager Phone Mala 1907 PORTLAND'S FASHIONABLE POPULAR PRICED PLAY HOUSE GEORGE L. BAKER PRESENTS The Baker Theatre Company WEEK BEGINNING SUNDAY MATINEE, JANUARY 24 -IN- A Celebrated Case A POWERFUL DRAMA IN PROLOGUE AND FOUR ACTS By WILLIAM D'ENNERY and CORMON , MATINEE SATURDAY Next yVeepk A rw";uaJANE" m a I-