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r 13 't:2-:r f, rrr " 1 r-Tf rrfCT7T - ) fP2.- VVX"':::H: ;1 If A. MlfSV"J-'IvV - ' fsi VC m3rzr Rl.t l ysTAfiiv ' ' I IT DV Ml ' i $ : TUESMEnNI6ffl0CT3il-flOV. 1 ' , m WXIX At TO TOiTEJCa, Martraam Orrnnd UmIv, ; tome . Iibm; TMMw4 Wntanhf. "Tb " Mni Hula"; Tberadar. rrloaj ' aamrdar. "HffrsT From Paris." . ' BaJaacAWalM WhlttlT aa4 Be- -. taw Stock eonpaar la "I Maux 'l, all week- - Hi ' Waahln-to society Gtrla," . karlee.- all wek. . v Koiulrfri-VDm Tkers,", all-week." Larlr-LTrte Stock company Is "The , Banker's Daua-ater." au wees. " Liberty Va uaerlUe. ' Uraad VawlrTUI. , . - -,. .-' t , .. 8tar VaaaerUm. - : - "" i WO Ada play,'' The Sultan ' of X-Sulu? and 'Peggy from Paris," will be. presented (t Uu Mar- I quam thfs weak. Hail Calne's f T1t. UaivMBnH will . W - - - the Belasco and aVfamatlsatlon'of tb ' ' naval, Dora, Thorne," will ba given at ' , tha Empire. , A saw vaudeville open ' t tag. that -of the Llbty. theatre,, ta (scheduled for tomorrow... .'The Saltan of Sulu." ' . ' "The Sultan of Sulu." which will ba . Been at tha Marquam Grand theatre nest Tueaday.-a.iid- Wednesday nights, ' Octo- bar tl and November 1. la fro mi tha -pea ( of George Ada,., of ;."Fnblea In. Slang1 fame, 'and the ranslo haa been provided . fey Alfred G. R. WatnalL Tha theme la ' suggested by the American occupation i ef 8ula and -the ."benevolent, assimllar ' tlon" of Ita polygamous ruler,' who early learns that, "U constitution and tha cockfafl' follow" the flag." The laland potentate, with, many wives, aeoapta tha sovereignty of tha United - Btatea and take the title of governor, tinder tha : tutelage of ' a volunteer "colonel from' -Arkansas.- A strong-minded woman who arrives' with - the American Invaders ta appointedrjudge advocate. 6ba tnalata upon, divorcing tha aultaa from all hii wtvea but one. "the charter member ot hla harem." The Judge advocate alee exacts alimony at the rata of half the governor's salary for each of -the' seven ; . divorced -wrvea, and upon hM failure to '-rompiy - with tbls impossible - decision the unhappy ruler is plunged Into jalL f The United Statee soldiers fall ' In lave with tha fair dlvareeea and their ' passion. la reciprocated. A quartet of ' New England school teaobere are in . traduced to enlighten the benighted na ' uvea. These the merry , monarch pro 'poses to add to his harem, but tha Judo . advocate upsets, the calculations ef tha ... ' eotnis potentate.' Beats are now selling. '.' . : if. ''" '".: '.. V' ""The Manxman" at the Belaaco., " Tor the fourth week of Whits Whlt--' t1eaeya remarkable engagement at the " Belasco theatre the management wisely ' t i has - selected a play altogether new te Portland play-goera, namely, Hall . Caln's dramatisation of his own great book, Tha Manxman." , .j ; .,: Like many others of Caine's works, " the nlav la located In the lata of Man, - and, aa readers of .Jhe story' will ramem f ber. It is of , intense . Inter at and, one '- of the most pathetic piecaa of literal V;turs in the English language. The stage J version of The unfortunate lore of Peter . Qui Dam and Kittle Cregaen has been da f scribed by critics as masterpiece; and ' -tt ia a play that ahould suit tha Belaaoo a took eompany from start to nnrani ma Whlttleeey will ba seen In tha sympa I thetls role of Peter, tha Manxman, and Mlaa' tawrancs will plar Kittle. ' while i to Mn Sainpolts falls thatrola of PhUip, the man Who la as sorelyJ tempted aid . whs 'fana."st-w. -r-, - . "Tha Manxman" gives tha soenlo art ' 1st a splendid opportunity and a most beautiful production of tha .drama la : '. promlaad.' . ' ' With the. uaual matinee today and the ' evening performance tne weea a preaen- - tatlon af "Piinc Otto" oomaa to a closa 'f it has proved a tremendous success. y ' iv r ''4 v' 1t 1t - J 'i . .'y , . :. Teggy From Paria" at tha Marquam. ' , Patrons of the Marquam Grand theatre V will be pleased to learn that' George ': ' Ade'a famoua -mualcal comedy, 'Teggy v From Paris," la to be preaented at that ' theatre next-Thursday, Friday and Bat ' ' nrday ntghtt, November t, and a, with 'a a' special prloe matinee Saturday. It to said bf rPeggT From Paria" that '': . H poeseases qualltlea dlstlnot from tha H average musical play. First there la'a aonslstent and logical story. Again, the - narrative la eklllfuliy witty, and the - action la carried out by droll and annus "' Ing characters. The character portray- ala In "Peggy From Paris", are eepe elally notable. . They are humoroua carl. eaturea of amuaing types, and they are , moved through hidlcroua complications All the while they give voice to the ; brilliant wit and satire for "wblch Mr. ' Ad la celebrated. '. ." William loralne 'wrote tha muste. He , ;. la tha composer of "Zamona" and' "8a- - lorn,' and ware ha te reat hla claim -'. ta Ami pn theae two composition! alone he would ba 'entitled to no email dlatlne - tlon. But other work haa won him ree sgnltlon among muelctane and music Ibvera; and greatest of hla achievement are tha melodies In "Peggy From Parlsv V Among the mualcal hlta are "Emma- lean." "College Days," "Ths Olrl Whe Comes In From the Weet" "Oey Fleur " . atte" and "Lll I VAm Tou.f The chor . vaes are snng ta tha accompaniment of . graceful and fanciful dancing, so that v ' life nd grace end animation are blended ' -' with the melodlea The eompany which '' -will appear tn "Peggy From Paris' la V one of the best evsr organised for must ' oal comedy. The advance sals of seats ' wli open next Tuoedsy morning at If . . a'cleck. . ' . ." ' . f. ' ' ' " Eurleaqn the Baker, ; One- of the) beat burlesque srganlsa tlona on ths road oomea to tha Baker ' . thearra today for an .engagement of ala ' rights. Tha matinee today will begin it I II. Ita title ia tha "Washington rtacletr Olrts" and the aro amder tha THE .-Jt 1 11 . . . - - 11 1 1 vt 1 vjr - J I mil r: i.-: .r-v v"v in I I i f i h mwf.f VAT inc uur-vja7vjLvx. W- y r-J v ',i- UiX'1 - - Ml p WMrK-' '' """HII .:-.- rrr.V;-.. i I k .-, . ' a ! Iv-- ' HI ' ;&7'W-' H '.'; ' X o, - "vt 'il : tutelage 'of Bughey Kernan and W. B. Watson. , two .of tha best producers In. ths country. ' ' --v.-. . Thoroughly saulpped with new scan ery and brilliant, axpensivs oostumes, there is a big hunch of show girls that itA would bo- difficult to outclass in the ordinary traveling eompany. They have been selected not only as to grouping and dancing effects, but also for their physical attrlbutss and ability to act. Ths opening play -Is called "Oh What Joy." and ita title Is truly indicative of opportunity preaented for uproarloua hilarity.. -Than cornea tha Vaudevlire. Ah I4ag Foo, tha Chlheee conjurer,- la In tha lead with some of tha moat mar velous tricks ever - presented; ' Grace Mantell, one of the handsomest women on the stage, le also a sweet singer; Dave Marlon ia aaen In hla original aklt, "Moving Day"? Aggie Behlsr. the American Chaneonette, has a budget ot new songs; Lynotts sisters are singing comediennes; Eldora showa aome sensa tional Juggling feats;' West and Wil liams ars clever comedians and parody. alngers and Lew Adams one of the fun niest Dutch comediane , on tha stage. "Krausmyers Alley" concludea the en tertainment and It embracea everything known in burleaqua for hilarity. .Wednesday matineea are a great suc cess at this house ana wui do a nxtur in the future. ' ; .);. ,-; ' ;:-:;'.;v. v Dora Thorne."r - To thoaa who have never read Bertha M. Clays famoua novel the following synopsis will prove interesting, espe cially as "Dora Thorne" will appear In a dramatised form at ths Empire theatre commencing with the usual matinee to day and all this week. This play and book deal with a beautiful love story in a rural English home. An Innocent young gin, aaugn tor of a lodgekeeper of an Englishman of hlch birth, la loved by tha son of the latter. The match meets with disfavor of tha young man's 'father, but despite the fact that nis ratner inrorms aim either to give up the girl or his home and luxury, he chooses Dora Thorns and marries . her. ' . ' - The young girl, a- pare and honest creature, loves.-the young man quite aa wall as ha lovea her, but through tn efforts of a young sailor who has loved the alrl from early .childhood and who also desires to make her his wife, tha young people are separated and made to believe later that each has bean un faithful to tha other. This state comes about as a result of tha efforts of Lady Chartarls and tha father of tha aart - ' - ' ' .: ' f.' , .. At the Baker., "To laugh or not to laugh" will not ba tha question at tha Baker theatre next week, starting Sunday matinee, Novem ber, where "The Tiger LUlea" will ba the attraction. - With such comedy ex perts on the bUJ as tAiex Carr. the funniest of Hebrew comedians; Rlchy W. Craig, the musical wit Will J. Cooke, the operatic comedian, and Carrie Ester, the travesty artlat,. laughter will not be a matter of choice, but of necessity. - i "A Human Slare." '-The Empire has a long Uat ef moaCln tereetlng plays to' offer its patrons throughout ths coming season. Per haps ons of tha best of all tha melo dramas a booked . will follow ' "Dora Thorne." Thia la no other than "A Human Slave," which aa Its name signifies is a melodrama of a sensa tional and heart-thrllllng nature. "A Human Slave" -will open Sunday after noon, November J. ., . , , . , ,, . " r. .- v w w : : , Cominf to the Marquam." , Tha coming lattract1ona fet tha Mar quam Grand theatre during the week of November f are November. and 7, Varlaona"j November aod , "Marrtaga 'ORECCII CU: " AY 1 JOURNAL, ' PORTLAND. SUNDAY of kitty"; November 10 and 11, "When Knighthood Was In. Flower." Z', VAUDEVILLE AND STOCK. ' Portland'a New Theatre. ' The tiandaomeat and largest vaude ville theatre On tha coast will be Port land'a honeat boast after tomorrow night, when the Liberty, Keating At Flood's magnificent new playhouae,-will be opened to the public. It la tha moat centrally located place of amuaement .in the. city, at the corner of 8tark and Fourth atreets, and -will eater to- the beat claaa of. theatre patrons. It will ba devoted to high-class vaudevUlo and the most expenslvs and meritorious acts in tha country will ba preaented." - The opening bill conalata of tha Weber family, a troupe of seven acrobats, lata a feature with Rlngllng'a circus: Howe and - Edwards, famoua aketch artists, presenting their new aklt, "The Arrival ; of Mr. Dooley"; Leo White, baritone, j never before heard In Portland; Brio' and Cooper, the funniest -of all Dutch- comediane; Cordell and Zeranda, who will Introduce their startling electrical novelty; Josh Wise, tha popular Rube coined t&a and Impersonator; tha bto braph, with the lateat Ufa motion pic tures, and the Liberty theatre'a match lesa orchestra in a special concert pro gram. 1 i : The beautiful Liberty is complete in every respect and ia tha aafeat and moat comfortable theatre in the city. See tha sign. ' All New at the Star. FrederlcVa and hla family of girls, Leonard and Bernard, the jugglers, and the remainder of tha first-class people on the Star's program of tha past week, make their final bow tonight. - Today there will ba continuous performaneea at tha Star, starting at 1:10 and running until 10:. At 'the. Star tomorrow tha manage ment will preaent a bill of newness from top to bottom. By special ar rangement tha gtar la In a position to offer aa its headliner the great Hewett. the king of magical illusionists. The feats of Hewett appear almost super natural. ., J.. O. Wise Is a cartoonist. who draws funny faces on a sheet of paper with either, hand. Beverly and Danvers coma from tha land of tha kan gar oo ; theee Australian performers have a neat and entertaining aketch. Malcom la a juggler and all hla work la new and original' ; Jesse Peyser will ' sing ths Illustrated ballad. "When the Orioles Ars Nesting Once Again." Barbour and Campbell are playing what they - call "The Bcene Shifters uream." "A Traglo Elopement" Is the Staroacope'a moving picture. . Grand'g New Bill. Today anda the bill at tha Grand which has delighted so many people during the past week. It will be thi laet opportunity to see that runny mov ing picture, "An Adventuroua Auto Trip." which haa kept Portland laugh ing since last Monday. Ths perform aneea today will ba continuous from :I0 to lt:45. ' For tha new bin, which etarta with tha matinee tomorrow afternoon, the Gregg brothers, will ba tha topilnara. They are billed as "Tha.Devll'a Duo," and are aald to live up to the title. - They gained tha name from their marvelous act. "Cage .of Death." Seabury and TutlL with a aupportlng company, have a delicious sketch - to - present,, called "The Dancing Master." Tot Toung. tha banjo wlsard, will show what can be accomplished with this Instrument Fred Purlnton will sing that popular military ballad. "Mamma's Boy." Ths greet Weston is a man of many faoea. Ha Imperaonatea all tha prominent living people, local and national, aa well aa many of the famoua dead rulers, Hague and Herbert are a oouple of Irish com-. 1 1 JSCGYRtiD THE 7WDHEmEKiS OF 'THE FKHTXHE!aCHNZEKGU& edlans. Ths Grandlscops has a film with two pictures, "Remorse" and "Keep it Straight." ' . At the Lrrlc. . ' '; For tha forthcoming week, starting Monday, October 10. the Lyrlo Stock company will offer to ita patrons a com plete and finished production of tha great soolety drama entitled "The Bank er's Daughter." "Ths Banker's Daugh ter" requires the full strength of tha Lyrlo eompany, . as there are about 10 characters In the play. Special scenery has been pslnted and eoms beautiful stag settings may ba expected. - Tha play la a aoclety drama and deals with' a wealthy and reepected family, tha bead of which la a wealthy banker who, through unfortunate speculation and tha machinatlona of a scheming villain in love 'with the banker's daugh ter, loses his all. After having received the villain's promise of aaslstance pro viding he will give him hla daughter's hand In marriage, tha old man aaka hla daughter to marry tha man, whom aha desptsea. ( There la not a dull moment In tha play, which ia in four acta. Today will be the final opportunity to aea "Ca milla, " which hae created auch a favor able impression during the past week. . : Tha MM With tha Orlevaaca. ' From the London World. I euppoae that there waa never auch a flourishing time as the present for men with a grievance. The dally and weekly Journals eagerly welcome letters complaining of tha increase of corpu lence, the pitfalls of the split infinitive, tha prevalence of the red tie among tha lower-middle claaa, tha carelessneea of tha younger generation in dotting ita, I's, and other equally dreadful abuaea which do not matter one way or another. If one were not an Incorrigible opti mist one would be inclined to agree with the writers of theae letters, who, are for tha most part men of enforced leis ure and Idle hands, that England, il rapidly about to decline and fall. . . ' , ; -v-r-vv.- M0RNIK3, CCTCIZ C3. : Marlowe antl Sotnern in ;Tne Taming of The Shrew" By Jules Eckert Goodman. " ' , , v runt n; (From The Jonrnal'e Owa Oorrespendeat.) EW TORK, Oct.' io. -rrouaDiy of no man could It mora fit tingly ba ald than of Shakes peare that "ha bu tided better than he knew." If the Ellsabethaa poet had but known half what modern com mentatora and critics have read into his plays ha would never have .bean a dramatist at air or at least would have been -auch a didactic, "scholarly" one that ho Would have probably died In tha poorhouse. No aingla mortal manJ could have conceived a tithe of -the thlnge which have been attributed . to thia one dramatist. Tha whole queatlon becomes somewhat absurd when one tops to conalder oondltlons and real Isea that Shakeepeare was flratrilsst-and always a '"popular dramatist" and pop ular dramatists in ths days of Elisabeth had -to catch the popular . fancy Just as much aa they do today. Taata has of course in several ways ' changed but when ons reads the intimate history of tha afxteenth century, one is hardly in clined to envy our Ellabetha forbears, their erudition and education. It s remarkable, startling even when one atopa and-thlnks. how men of tha most eerloue mind, who would conaldef the preaent day theatre either a tedium or a profanation wilt take " op - their Shakespeare and read him with a sa cred seal aecond only to -that which they bring to their Btblea. Tat what ever may bo said for. Shakespeare, leav ing aalda the poet. in him for a-mln-tite, at bottom he was primarily the dramatist .writing plays, meant to be r 1 ( ' if . - 34 acted, a man who' would have abudderad at the idea 6 a "closet play." Shakeapeare'e Melodrama. . -' Moreover theae very dramas, again leaving . aaide poetry and characterisa tion, -are often characterised , by melo drama aa lurid aa any produced today on tha Bowery and in apota aa daring In their humor and far more Indecent. A11 thta la of couraa by tha pedants at tributed to tha Influence of the age In which ha lived, la caned a mere truck ling f to the groundlings The .real 8Jiakepe4re according to them waa tha poet, the greateat tha world has aaen. a genius with an outlook upon life and hurarfo- nature as profound and aubtle as It waa magnificent The rest waa but a cover within which hid the pre cious gam., . . - Such a willfully forced way of looking at Shakespeare's, Work has done him as much harm as good, has mads him ab struse and has detracted from the legit imate appeal which 4 hla plays made. Only tha other day I heard an.aetot of aome reputation any: "Shakespeare la of course very fine, a great poet and all thnt.ibut he waa -never meant to ba acted. Ignorance and absurdity can go no farther than thia Tha ataga waa tha only thing he was meant for. If ha had not-meent hla work so he would never In hla will have been able to leave hla "second best bed, with the furni ture" to hla Widow, he would never have beenble to afford a "aecond beat bed," and the furniture would rot have been worth talking about. All this la naturailx ot aald In aa A- i . a v7 A,;-- TJT7i AT THE -HJMPIRB' H?-e s-i)1 2TA&EL -DEANE v reOTTPAKhS JVTTHE mKcmn THEATm derogatory manner. t la la fact the greatest praise that can be given.. -For a man who of neceaalty and probably of inclination had to appeal to tha populaf and even the brutal, to 'have ' added thereto everything which we have sines found in- his work, stamps htm of course as among geniuses of the very highest rank. And mors than that, whether ho had ths align teat suspicion or thought of all that wa have labor iously and at times 'violently sxtraoted from him. tha praise belongs to him Just, ths same. A man is . not only all ho wrltea but all that humanity Is able to gst from what ho wrltea. Thia Is the point behind the words: "He builded batter than ha knew." ; ... ... , . ' "The Taming of the Shrew.", ,- One la reminded aomewhat of all this by the reproduction of 'The Taming of tha Shrew" which was preaented last, Monday night at tha Knickerbocker the- . atra with E. H. Sothern as Patruchlo; and Miss Julia Marlowe as Katharine. This play probably more than most of the other Sbakeeperean dramaa shows ita author most olearly as the. practical ' dramatist . How much mora than that he, waa, aa seen in this play, relies very largely on the interpretive aklll of the actor and act rasa. ' " - Dowden aaya that there may fee dis tinguished three parte of thia play. Flrat tha humoroua Induction,-- in which Sly Is ths chief person. Second, a 'cemedy of character.- the Shrew and her. tamer, Petruchio,-being heroine and hero.-And third, a comedy ef Intrigue, the story of Blanca and hor lovers. Ton have thus tha interlacing of plota ao common in Shakespeare, the finest example of which is probably the "Merchant of Ven ice.' - All this Is .true perhaps. . There may possibly be comedy of -character and comedy of intrigue, but at bottom "The Taming-of the Shrsw" ta a farce pure and simple,, with purely, farcical situations and often, with farcical touches of character. Soma may find It edifying; In reality It la merely amus ing. Katherlne'a shrewishness, 4 wasp lshnese combined with the fury of a mad woman at times, la aurely hardly a ttudy of character. Petruchio' s wedding and the scenes that follow it at his country home, together with - all that (Continued on Page Nineteen.) . , '. 251' - WASHINGTON ST PORTLAND ORCvPN. MAKES ' or, --Mens -;. - - '..-v j'. 1 ,-i ,
