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TIIE OREGON PAILT JOTJByAIi, PORTTAITD. SATURDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 27. 1904. 15 ivnv.irOVrEvsV0vivnvnvnr , . toxioxt's vrxroucAHOxs, . - Marquam Murray and Mack. , Cordrays "Down by the Sea."- - Baker "The ; C!aae of - Rebellious - Su n. -Arcade Vaudeville. . ; - , ; "" KBXT WXEX'S ATTBACTIOXS.' Marquam "Rdsemary." "The Chief Justice" and "Uncle Tom's Cabin." " Cordray's "Slaves of the Mine'; an Olympla Opera Company. Baiter "The Two Orphans." Arcade Vaudeville. - - With the Bostonlans and Murray and Mack at the Marquam, "The Case of Rebellious Susan" at. the Baker, vDown by the Sea at Cordray's and vaudeville at the Arcade, the Portland theatre goer has had as good a choice this wee If as ' he has had In any week this season. ' The Bostonlans . gave some 'of the pleasant est performances of the season. - Their history Is1 pretty plain exposition of the fact that It. is hard to get any thing new and : good In Vat"- way -of comlo' opera. ' The .company's habit"! of recruiting its ranks with new yotoes Is mora than usually -successful' this Sea son. " Both Miss Brown and Mies, Zlm mer. fill evemthe expectations raised' by the press agent, . and youth and good looks go a long way toward making. a comic opera a success. -. The Olympla Opera company, which will come . to Cordray's theatre - next week, lays claim ': to the title Of ' the lagest stock opera company in the coun try. The singers-' carry j costumes for 28 operas. : ... . , , . -.-,.'' ' Tha' agitation for fire-proof theatres has resulted . In the closing of. three houses at Seattle, the Comtque, ' Arcade and Peoples. It is said that the Peoples may never reopen. Until the building Inspector notifies the - police that th changes have been made the places wilt be kept closed. To offset, this however, the new Alcasar theatre has been opened at First and Madison streets. The first two weeks will be devoted to vaudeville and . this will be followed by , perfor mances from a first-class stock . com pany. : v ' " ... V";- w , w ... The coming visit of Denman Thomp son with "The Old Homestead," will be the last opportunity to see the old actor In the part of the typical Yankee farmer. Wagenhals and Kemper ,hav pur chased from Heinrlch Conreid the Amer ican rights to Stqbllzer's comedy "Llso lette." now running at the Irving Place theatre. A prominent dramatist will adapt the comedy to the American stage and the first production will be made In Chicago next December. 'The members of the "Old Jed Prouty" company, which played here early in tho season, are reported to be stranded In Kansas City, Mo. : Nell Quinland writes the Dramatic Mlrrorthat 'the company played Topeka on Wednesday, February t, and the manager left town at 4 o'clock the next morning. Manager Phil Hunt of the "Down by the Sea" company, which is playing at Cordray's this Week, had ah exciting ex perience In Bisbee, Arls.. the other day, together with several of the girls ' In the cast ' The party descended to the Interior -workings of the mine and the rope that held the basket slipped from . LOUIS LTTTON. With "Slaves 'of te Mine Company," Cordray's Theatre. ' - . ETHELYN - 'I Formerly with Kate Claxton. Specially' Engaged to Play ! Henrietta ' In f ' "The Two Orphans" at the OJaker Theatre. ; i. ri:,?j :. A Is.'. I u - howard ktlb.; -; v : ; tnfa& ' . ; , In "Rosemary", at the Marquam. -'' W,W -:r . the pulley above. Fortunately, they had already reached the bottom-' but ' it was several hours before they-could -be -conveyed, to. the, surf axe again.; ' it -.-- -i- Stephen Phillips . has been commis sioned by Viola Allen .to' write a play for her use next season with Joan of Arc as the - central figure. ' Scott , Craven,' Miss Allen's . former; leading man. Is now in - Europe - t-make - the arrange ments with Mr. Phillips. ' , , ..... Frank Gil more and Max' Figman- have Joined Mrs. Fisk's' company . in Kansas City to appear with her during the com ing Pacific coast tour. .Mrs. Flsk's -repertoire -will include a number of new plays in which she has not been seen by the people' out here. In addition to "Mary of Magdala" and "Hedda Gabler."- One of the marvels of ' Mrs. Fisk's . great production of "Mary of Magdala.' soon to be seen in this city, is the cos tuming of the Play, It Illustrates the Oriental dress of ancient Jerusalem, a cosmopolitan , city, In all Its diversity of colors and variety of forms. The cos tumes that Mrs. Flsk wears in the chief part are perhaps the richest ever seen on the stage, and besides, they, have a symbolism lhat relates to the evolution of the character of Mary. ' David Warfleld, -whose- work In "The Auctioneer" will be remembered. Is re ported to be studying the role of . Shy lock. Day Id Belasco Is said so be con templating starring htm In the part next season. ' Millie James, the "Little Princess," .was married last week and has retired from professional life. The man who induced her to give up her public ca reer is Edgar Stachelbarg of New York, a dealer In cigars. Mrs. Sarah Cowell Lembyne, whoTias been absent from the stage for several months, will reappear this spring in an elaborate production of Browning's "Pip pa Passes." She will give a series of Browning readings before commencing her tour. . , J. K. Murray and Clara Lane, who will be remembered . by patrons of the va rious light opera companies In which PALMER.' ' . - - ; :: ', &MW';h r lj.. ' ' If I 11 4 '-c MISS LOTTIE KENDALL. Comedienne Olympia Comlo Opera. Com - pany at Cordray's .Theatre. they have ' assumed ' prominent places, are appearing in New York at present In "Arrah na Pogue," the play in which Andrew Mack starred there last season. That the "Divine Sarah" likes to set herself "a - task to do," , histrionically, has long been known, but Paris, is still talking of one f ' her latest achieve ments. - She recently produced at a mat inee a "one-acter" written by the mar quis of Castellans and called the "Fes tival of Death." It is an episode of the revolution. Roland de Monjourdaln, an aristocrat, has been . sentenced to the guillotine by the terror. Three of .his frlendB Andre Chenier, the poet; M. de Montrand, a courtly skeptic, and the youthful and pretty Mme. de Coigny are to share the same fate. It is the evening before their execution and they decide to spend the time - together at supper. Mme. de Monjourdaln has been permitted to', join her husband' and friends. The guests arrive in the con demned man's cell, . but Mme. de Mon jourdaln cannot keep back her sobs when she hears the "Ca-lra" and the "Car magnole", hoarsely shouted beneath the prison windows. M. de Montrand, how ever, will permit nothing to ruffle his courtly elegance and Mme. de Coigny spends part of the time practicing how sho Is going to walk to the scaffold. The supper ends. The wife and husband are left alone. They can only look Into each, other's eyes and try to stifle their sobs. Suddenly' 'the door opens softly. Is it the jailer come -to -take the, con demned man? Is the march to the scaf fold about to begin? No, It is a man In his nightshirt, a candle in his hand and a night cap on his head. He mumbles something about having made a mistake and withdraws. The antl-cllmax is so grotesque that both husband and wife burst into uncbntrollable laughter. The jailer' comes for Roland, but neither the man nor the -. woman can cease from laughing. Titters mingle with their, sobs as they part and the husband Is led off to the guillotine. Left' alone the wife gasps. sobs, and weeps; and then, th4 memory of. the ludicrous scene coming back . to her, she laughs , hysterically amid .her agonised crying. Tho . effect Mme. Bernhardt achieves , In this grue some scene can be Imagined. What,' in the hands, of. a less skillful 'actress, would become the merest ranting and pathos is said i to be made by her fair ly terrifying . in its - sincerity : and re- ' t ' , ' ' The Chicago Tribune says: ir Henry Irving' s fortnight'' at trio . Illinois was not so prpfltable as .the -eminent Eng lish : actor's. engagements here in the nast have uaiinllv been. ' The unsettled conditions' ore'. theatrical "world and; ... i 4'' t'. : MARQUAM GRAND One Night Only, Monday, February 29, 1904 at 8:15 o'Qock ENGAGEMENT OF HO WARD KYLE - - . In a Revival of Louis N. Parker's Romantic Comedy - it Hps it it i. n. it it i t it it it it it it it It "IISEMiir (That's for. Remembrance) JOHN DREW AND MAUDE ADAMS' CHEAT SUCCESS Direction GEORGE H. BRENNAN PRICES- Parquet, - $1.50; first 6 rows, 75q last 6 rows, and Loges, $10. : Seats are the fact that he was prevented, owing to nre errects in '-uanie,- irom m vr sentlng of that, one . novelty here were undoubtedly responsible for the dimin ished business, y . ' ' Th manairar of a touch variety thea- n In T jinflnn was' ar.OOUntlnE to Wil li An Norris for the slim Attendance on an opening night. "Straynge.'V ald he, "but hit's always this w'y 'ere when Covent Garden opens; 'they draw eur audiences terrible,- you know." That's strange," put in noms. i thought a different sort frequented the Garden." - "Oh, yes," soowled the manager; "but our people 'ave gone there ter pick their pockets." TWO OBFHAJTS. t Beginning with the ,matinee tomor row afternoon the Baker Theatre com pany' will give a week's production of the beautiful drama, in which . Kate Claxton has appeared for so many-years, "The Two Orphans." Miss Ethelyn Palmer, Who for a long time was with Miss Claxton, playing the part of Hen rietta, brie of the sisters, ha been spe cially engaged by Manager George JU Baker.-" ': ' " '"r The play was written by Adolph D'Ennery. and depicts events just prior to the French revolution, . The scene is laid In Paris. The stage settings are striking In their gruesomeness. The two orphans, Henrlette and Louise, the blind girl, are inveigled from their pro vincial home by a rogue of the aristoc racy. Entering Paris they are told that a guardian will meet them. Instead, however, they are taken to the docks of the cicy and Henrietta is stolen and car ried to the marquise's chateau. She escapes through the vigil of the Cheva lier De Vaudrey. who afterwards mar ries her. Louis falls Into 'the hands of the Frou-chards,- and is made to beg in rags fur nished her by the villainous old Mother Ftouchard. who is a typical female criminal of the lowest parts of Paris. Jacques, the villainous son of the old hag, is on of the strongest characters in the play. After some time Louise and her sister are re-unlted. The blind girl proves to be the daughter of a French nobleman, whose baby was stolen when a tiny thing and left on the door steps of a church, there tg be found by the father of Louise and taken to his pleblan home and reared to a beau tiful girl. There are a hundred pretty features of "The Two Orphans," and it can be said the play will become a classic, like "A Country Girl," written 300 years ago and beautiful yet today. mrczjB tom's oasis. The Stetson revival of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" comes to the Marquam Grand theatre next Saturday afternoon and night, March 6. The play has been seen in every section of this country and In almost every village of the north, east and west. It has had and has retained a popularity never before equaled and now comes In the best and most com plete setting ever mad for It and is played by a company of more than 100 persons, of whom 70 are southern darkles, whose harmonious voices blend in the old plantation melodies and the old Southern slave songs. The company is said to be fully worthy the elaborate scenic settings of the play. Its members have been se lected for their experience in the parts assigned- them. The scenery has been painted specially for this 135,000 re- (Continued on Page Eighteen.) PRESS AGENTS' MONOLOGUES i - t CORDRAY'S THEATRE tZSgES-X?- Tonight Last Time Sunday Matinee, February 28 (Tomorrow) and Four Nights Only THE COMEDY DRAMA ' Slaves of the Mine A HEART STORY OF. THE WYOMING! VALLEY XT O. r. OAX.LAMAB SUPERB SCENIC PRODUCTION Ixclnslve Special Scenery. The Tlvid Snrsing Calm. The Shaft of the Coal Mine. Beal Blevator, Coal Can and Miners at Work. The Awful Explosion and Cave-In. . . The ThrUllnar Strike Some. " A FIAT. WZTX BATTTBAIi CHABAOTZBS, VTITTT SXAX.OOTJX, XBTT JTSH CZJMAZXS, FVsTBT SITUATIOBS,, SELSCT COMFAXT. FBXCTCS Matinees, Adults EBc; Children 10d. Evening prices,, 15c, 28or J5c, 40c and 60c '. W. T. PANOtB, i Xesldsn Manager, J . fk it w ti u it it Parquet Circle, $1.00; Bajcony, . 50q Gallery, 25c and 35c; Boxes now selling. Phone Main 868. $ Marquam Grand ' W. TPangle, Rresldent Manager, ; The Prlnoipal Opera tio . Event of the Season. Monday, Tuesday, Wed nesday, March 7-8-9 By Special Kequest, Matinee Wednesday, - March 9. , MM. OEOBOH urn Has the honor of representing and pre senting Portland's recognised leading singers in a magnificent production of TO STTPPE'S QBAZTD MXLXTAST - OPEBA, Special Scenery from Baker Theatre Scenio Studio. Costumes Made Especially for This Pro duction by Goldstein ft Co., San Francisco. Augment gpeclal Orohestra. W. H. BOTER, Musical Director. FREDERICK ESMELTON, Stage Manager. rxBsoxnrcx. pabticxpawts. MILLARD I0SE BLOCK BAUER Wllllim Belcher, B to art MeQalre Robert BouDtre Louli P. Brae Bn Irrtn Milton Frohmas Mtrion Peters 0. L0WMDALE MRS. WALTER SEED Rula Bennett KUIe Garrett Margaret Itinre Iot Bernard Ktbel Lrtla Koae Wood Boulab Cadwall Grace Campbell Wot the exoeUent voices In the large. weu-tralned ohorns. Ml Lola McCoy MIm Cells Bollmaa Uiu Marlon A. Wlntler Mra. W. O. MacRa Miaa Mary B. Concrs Mrs. J. Hampton Miaa Bertha Steers MIh Eleanor Stattar Mlei PetronelU Connelly Miaa Vlda Beed Mist Besale Tompkins Miai Marlon' Peters Miss Esther Leonard Miss Delia Harding Mlsa flora Kemp Mrs. J. W. UlUett MlasLIUyn Olendennlng Miss Delay Crooks Miss LUllaa Croaanua Miss Orao Gilbert Miss EUiabetb tianra Miss Kstberiqe Corscb A. A. Greens Edwin Hobsoa A. L. Gionelll A. McHollsnd E. F. HollowsU Gay Insley N. R. Urounse James B. Johnsoa, Jr Charles Cutter 3. B. Wlnstsnley James Vernon 1). M. Le Smltb A. L. Csln Charles Church U. Denllnger ,-' A. T. Samoels H. Tanner W. L, Murray CUire Godfrey Charles Gloss PBICXSl Entire Lower Floor 11.00 Balcony, first 8 rows 91.00 Balcony, next S rows 7 So Balcony, last I rows ......... SOo Gallery, 1 rows reserved 35o Gallery, remainder 85o Sale of Seats Begins Yrlday, March 4, at 10 o'oioox a, m. Down By th Sea.' ABD SAB. X SABT. THEATRE Eatinitza m,, WaV MARQUAM GRAND Phone, Mala tea. Two Nights Beginning Wednesday. March 2 THE NATURAL ACTOR - Mr. DANIEL SULLY Presenting a New PIsy THEGHIEF' JUSTICE A Heart Story of Today S A DBAMA OF MABTBXOVS STBBHOTX BXASOBATBXT STAOBO. V conly, first 6 rows, '75c; last 6 ana juoges, ir.su. xne aavance morning. 1 ; MARQUAM GRAND THEATRE SATURDAY MATINEE AND NIGHT, MARCH 5, 1904. - Children's Bargain Price Matinee, Saturday at 8:15 O'clock. T STETSON'S I OBZOIVAZ. BIO BOTJBUB SraOTAOVXJUS 1 UNCLE TOM S CABIN COMPANY. THE BARNUM OP THEM ALL VBDZB TSB MABAOXKEBT Or UOS W. WASHBUBB. More Oraad Boveltlss Than Bver, Oorgeona Soenery, frof. Derr't Military Band. ms Creole tadles' Brass Band, ..Blood Mounds, Beantlful Chariots and Tableaux, Wagons Draws Ty Bandnome : Shetland fonlss, - WATOX TOB TXB XZflr FA BAB B IT BBAT8 A CZBOVS. BTBXZXCr PBIOBS Entire Lower Floor, 76c; Entire Balcony, EOe; Oal A lery, 26o and 86c. BABOAXB MATXXBB PBICXS Adults, 50c: Children, t6o. The advance sale ot seats will open next Thursday morning. THE BAKER THEATRE QEO. L. BAKER, Sole Lessee and Manager r . Phono Main 1907 m PORTUND'S FASHIONABLE POPULAR-PRICED PLAY HOUSE , 1 : 1 ' : ' ' m Qeorfe L. Baker PresentJ ' Th Baker Th eatre Co m pany WEEK BEOINNINQ Sunday Matinee, February 28th The Two Orph BY SPECIAL REQUEST MATINEE SATURDAY NFXT WEEK A Powerful 66 WINCHESTER' CORDRAY'S THEATRE 'aSS-ff1 SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT Opening Thursday, March 3 THE FAMOUS OLYMPIA COMIC OPERA CO. In a Splendid Production of BZCXABO STAXXTI OBZAT MVSZCAXi COMZBT, . . "SAID PASHA" CM TO COX T1X U X XXCXTTBXXa SATUBBAT MATTBTBS. . 1 Change of Opera Sunday Matinee. March 6 "THE ISLE OF CHAMPAGNE" W. T. TAXQtX, tit Xealdent Manager. rows, 60c Gailery, 26o and SSc. Boxes aaie or seats will open next -Monaay ' ,. . - ;r , Oenulna Oak Walkers, Buok and Wing Sneers, Male and remale Quartettes, JnhUee Singers, '' Chrand Tlslon and Transformation ' Scenes, Br and Xer Oolden Chariot. - 1 ans Military Drams In Five Acts 99 ! TOB XEMAXBDXB 07 WXZX. THEATRE V. V-