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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MCIiING, -J APRIL 12, Ml'.:. .I FLORENCE ROBERTS' UEVJ r YORK DEBUT i 51, - 5 V.'ECmArR.29. .'ARVWWPX GIRL .5UN.& THUKS.NIGH'LS TnE3LLE OPKEWYOKiC JIQN.SKIP. NTGHTiS ; TUBS. NIGHT. . THE GBipnR? . WED..N1GHT SAT.WATIKEF. ' " . SAT-HIGHT . THH WZZX At TMt TMSATKM. . (Mils pollard's MUipaMsn vra (mpaajr Hnaday. night and Thursday algkt la "a Baaawajr tilrl"; afoeday ' and Friday nUhta, Tha Bll f Nw . Vork"; Tuaaday sight. "A Oalaty Girl": WadoMlay algbt, "Tha flaiaaa"; a tarda r aigbt, "Aa Amartcaa Mil Itonatra"; 8atnrday latlaae. "H. L S. Ptnatore." Empire "The Silver - Dagger, an ' wars. . ' Bakce vandarllla br reragae planra. Ljrrle t'Utr , ratbWa Crima," all ' Graod VandaTllla. 6 tar VeouevlUa. G EOnOQE L. BAKER blew Into town a few. days -ago. tanned and chery, promising great things. Me said that The Christian, with Miss Lillian Uiwrenoe as Olory and- Jobn sainpous as jonn Storm, had been pleasing people, and would be cresented at Portland for ' week, beainnlns at the Holltg May d. ..Both Mlaa LawTenCe and Mr. Satnpolls '. anada' friend a while they were playing leading; parts with the Belasco stock : rompany of unfortunate fate, and "Tha Christian" Id an anosuaHy strong; play. ' - There will be two stock eompanles in ' Portland this summer, both opening on May It. ona at tha Helllg and the other - at the Baker. . For tne one to piay at " the Baker, which will be called the Old . Favoritea company, Mr. Baker aaya -he ' nas secured enough people who formerly worked In Portland to justify the name, and he Includes In his list, besides Miss - Iawrenoe and Mr.. Bainpolia, Edgar : Baume. formerly leading man in he ) Columbia company. Frederick Esmelten. . 'William Dills and Howard Russell. The other company will be ireerulted princl- callv from Ban Francisco, wnere tnoa - trloal business Is, of course, paralysed " tor- months.- All la all. the outlook Is ; ot at all bad. Good stock beats , gnediocr road shows, and costs less to Blanche Walsh played the last half of the week at the Helllg In a nrst rate . Fltcb day. "The woman In the Case.1 t There was burlesque st tbs Bakerthe ; next to tbs last company and a tramp ' show at the Empire. This week the t Baker will change from ' burlesque to vaudeville, the program peing provided ': br refuges actors and actresses from ; an Francisco, v The Empire attraction la "The Silver Dagger." The Pollards . play all week at tha Helllg. SMALL TALK OF STAGE ; 1 PEOPLE, t . New Haven's chief of police Is to be Inspector of plays. One wonders Idly !; how Chief Oritsmacher would like ' Ghosts." . ' It is said that May Irwin is going 'to go into serious comedy, that . Is, eomedy with a serious turn. This need give no alarm. Miss Irwin is not built ' (or emotional parts. ". t '. Julia Marlowe is going to drink the Waters of ona of tha German Spas .this summer In the nope of reducing ber weight.' . , From Providence, . Rhode T aland, comes the wall that roller skating la hurting tha ehow business. Which hows that Rhode Island and Oregon are not alike. Portland skated vigor ously all winter, and fought for a chance to buy fa seats when Calve cam. - Paul M. 1 Potter and Thomas Dlzon Jr., author of The Leopard' Spots," are collaborating on a play they call Tha On Woman." Edgar Salwrnr who will be remem tered for excellent work as Tony in the vrlglnal "Arlsona" company not tha bad one that played Portland laat fall - has developed Into a playwright. He has a farce called "It's All Tour Fault" ' running In New Tork and has signed a five-year contract to write for George M. Cohan and Sara H. Harris eiclualve ly. II wl'l retire from tbs stage.' ' "Way Down East" has celebrated Its twenty-flv hundredth performance. ', Sousa's Hw operetta, "The Free I-nce," is asld to have mad in In , 'stent success. . " . Wilton Lackay. who played In "The Pit" for . many, many months, and brought the show to Portland, will make use1 of a blood-curdling one-act play, "At the Telephone," which Edwin Stevens first presented tn America. Marl Tempest has met with great success at the Duke of Tork'a theatre In London ia a new comedy carted "All . f--8udden Peggy," written- by Ernest Denny. , H. B. Irving will begin an engage ment of 2 weeka in America early In . October In New Tork. lie will appear In "Hamlet," Tha Lyons Mall, "Louis XI and "Mareette." Paul Rnebens, who wrote Three Lit tle Maida," of tuneful memory, la soon le have another mualcal comedy pro .duoad la London. It Is called Hiss look of Holland," t TOME JNHAMAKA " LILLITOPION OPERA .GO. ;THB R0KKW3W aiRLr. THEPOLLfiKDUlLIHJTION OPERA CO.. ' "Robert Edeson will close. Ms second season In "Strongheart" on May 1 and sail for Newfoundland on June I. His companion will be Stewart - Edward White. . Pauline Hall, who brought "Dosoas" to Portland, has closed her -tour, giv ing the last performance in Denver. She will play in vaudeville. ; . Margaret Anglin will produce next month the new play, "A Golden Butter fly," which she recently purchased from the author. Miss Edith Mac Vane. a Cambridge, Massachusetts, girl whose father la s professor at Harvard, and who Is herself a graduate of Radcllffe. Age doesn't seem to bother -William H. Crane. ' Two weeks ago he opened In New Tork In "Th American Lord." Forty-two years ago he sang Count Arnheim In The Bohemian Girl." In New Tork, Miss Ruth St. Denis, who admits having spent psrt of her youth In New Jersey, Is surprising peo ple with Hindoo dances, which the iaw Tork 8un says present the fine art of dancing In Its purest form. ' Anna Eva ray is' doing a mind-read Ing act in 'Mew York and. Is billed as the headline, attraction at Keith s. - Grace Van' Studdlford and Delia Fox are. singing in vaudeville in New Tork. MONOLOGUES. The Pollards Tonight at tha Heilig. - At the Heilig theatre tonight (Sun day) the pollard Lill'lputian Opera com pany will begin an engagement of .one week, playing at popular prices. The opening bill will bo the mualcal comedy aucceas, "A runaway Girl," which will also be the offering on Thursday night tomorrow and Frldav nlsht. "The Belle of New Tork"; TuetiUay night, "A Gaiety Olrr'j' Wednesday night, Th Geisha" Saturday night, "An American Million aire," and at th bargain price women's and children g matinee on Saturday, a. M. 8. Pinafore." - ' Fifty youngsters figure on th muster role of the Pollard Lilliputian Opera company. The Pollard youngsters range between and 14 years of sge and the remarkable feature of the history of the organisation la 'that these diminutive professionals, la spit of their travels In all climates and jat houra. are never 11 L Regularity 'and system are : the magio of Manager -Pollard's success. He controls, tb. cgowd of bright youngsters 'with tha aid ofstnre women and teacher, th latter being paid y the Austrtdian government to accompany the organlgatlon. The meal are regu lated and diet prescribed and everything la done on th tick or tn watcn. Mr. Pollard wag born to train and educate children. Th clever little people he hag aelected for their . talenta. whom by training bo haa developed Into artlats. sra fond of him and he thlnka aa much of every little artlat In hie organisation aa a parent would of his own child. Seats are now' selling for th entire en gagement at. the boxofflce f the Helllg theatre, . . Fourteenth , and ' Washington atreeta. , , . , .:-'..,.. 'The Christian" Company. '. Beginning next Sunday night at'lhe Helllg theatre, one of the biggest evanta of the Portland theatrical season as well as thsone most fraught with. local Inter est will take place. This will be the initial performance of George L. Baker's" "The Christian" company, with Lillian Law rence as -Glory Quayi ana - jonn Bainpolia as John Storm. The company la Just returning from a two months' tour throughout tha northwest, during which Its course has been eagerly fol lowed by thousands of friends and ad mirers and members of th company in and about Portland. At every city In which It has appeared, almost without a single exception, "Th Christian" has been th triumphsnt event of the sea son, and the company has been assured that If It ever cornea back again to these different cities Its welcome will b doublr strong. "Th Christian" com nany Is composed In all its "principal parts of th best actors and actresses that could be obtained from tn east, i tha production of Hall Calne a great play is one of the most complete end beautiful that wsa aver sent out on the road. "The Christian" la considered ona of th moat valuable properties In the theatrical business and Its entire western light Is controlled by Manager Baker. No diminution of interest . haa yet made Itself manifest, th demands for booking are aa eager and peraiatent a at flrat and banc tha management remalna sanguine . that to this drama belongs the longevity that can only at tach to a truly great play. w "The Silver Dagger" at Empire. -"The Sliver Dagger," written by Mark E. Swan, famous throughout the coun try as author of "Brown's In Town," "Whose Baby Are Tour and ether guocrsaes, will ' be produced at the V ' v - V OLIVE MOORE- WITH , THE POLLARDS IIIL liDJriIO V:: Empire all week starting with today's matinee. i. ' That the .pnblle still vdealre clean- cut melodrama la shown by tha tre mendous patronage that has character ised all engagements of "The Silver Dsgger." More than a carload of special scenery -and lighting apparatus is car ried by the company. -No detail has been overlooked, even a special and appropriate line of music, under a competent director being used. The scenea and action of Jhe play are laid In and around New Tork City and tha plot Is written around th efforts Of two unscrupulous people to obtain possession of th wealth of a beautiful eoclety girl. There will b a matinee Saturday. Seat are-tww selling, for the week. California Girl to Close Season. Th long and successful aeaaon of burlesque at the Baker will cloea with th California Girl a company, which will open next Sunday matinee. May t. Re port haa It that tha California girls present a really clever burlesque bill and that the girls are especially pretty. All these things will help a little toward making the farewell week at tha Baker a successful one. . ; "The Inside Track." Another' sensational melodrama will open at the Empire net Sunday matinee for tha regular week'a run. ' Thla la Oliver Dod- Byron's celebrated piece, Th Inaide Track." It hag not been to Portland for soma tim. . VAUDEVILLE AND STOCK. Last Week at Star. At tha matinee tomorrow, th Star beglna the last week of vaudeville it will have this season. ' f ollowing it win com a season of musical comedies, pre sented by a clever company of entertaln era. Th new bill this week will be found better than any other that tha Star haa bad in a number of weeka At the toV of tb list of msny attractions is th team of Wills and Collins, recog ntsed'taa tha foremost travesty stars In America. . Tha act the will give at tn rj gv j,s"ss ' - n 1 -t,. t"-K ' ' , 4J E '"" . ' , -' - : 7r; V-" J. -! ' h' V, ' f - TH t , r M Tffl II I I I I II I I I I I I I - " 1 - THEiSILVE JGE&rmllWfAir IM Star will be a travesty of "Pygmallan and GaUetia." ' Wallace and Beach are to give an acrobatic comedy sketch. These people are European eccentriquea. One of th beat aerial acts on the Cosst is that of the Three Kobers. who work on the jnat and trapese. Miss Mildred Eddy is a comedienne, bright and cap tivating. A German comedian who haa made his mark as a fun producer Is J. W. Clifford. He haa been apeclally en gaged. for thla laat week of vaudeville. "Way Down Tonder In the Cornfield" will be aung by the popular balladlat. James Burke, and the Staroemope will furnish "A Drama In th Air." Today th performancea will be con tinuous from S:tO to 1:4S p. tn. It Is tha closing dy for Fields and Hanson, the comedians; Barnes and Levina. the tramp and tha conjurer; - Miss Bonnls Crux, tha operatlo vocalist; Louis Bates, th imitator and Impersonator, and th rest of tha pleasing program, . - ; The Grand'e New BUL Those who hava not yet seen th wonderful coin palming feats of T. Nelaon Downs at th Grand, should avail themselves of this last , opportunity. The bill which has created auch a aen eation during the past week cloae to day. Th performance are from 1:10 to 10:48 p. m. Don't mlaa Crtmmtne and Gore, the headllners, or William H. Wlndom. th monologulst. With th matinee tomorrow, the Grand will give another of Ita big a tar bills, very artist on th program being wor thy of th prto of admission. Th prices, starting tomorrow, .will ba tha aummer season Vklnd. (Which means they are 10 and 10 cents, with boxes too. This Is th tim when th vaudeville houses of the counttry reduce th rates for ths warm weather period. The Rlileys are premier poetourers. There haa been nothing similar In .Portland since the vaudeville theaters started. Tb Good Ship Nancy Lee'' sounds funny, snd It Is. It Is offered by Ollmor. Haynaa and Montgomery. As a nautical bit of nonsense this will be a success. Ralph Cummlngs Company will produce "A Sealskin Sacque." - Mr. , Cummlngs will be remembered aa tha head of the Cummlnga atock company which played bar for a season several year ago. I LI .a i Vane and Declalrville have a novelty act Their turn la unique in many -respects. Mack and Tat are Jolly Jesters, with new aonga and stories. Ida Hoff has an illustrated song, pathetic and touch ing, 'Two Little Dirty Hands." "Every body Worka But Father" Is th funny GrandoBcope atory. Thla. program can ba unequivocally recommended. v . '- At the Lyric. - Beginning with the matinee this after noon, and with continuous performances, the Lyric stock company will, offer for th last time thst beautiful melodrama "A Broken Heart." Those, who hav at tended a production "of th story "A Broken Heart" -say that, tha action I awlft, carrying the Interest of the spec tators rrom en incident to another, with, at times, bewildering rapidity. Th customary change of bill will be made .. with tomorrow's,, matinee. 1 Th emotional drama, "Her Father's Crime," will be the offering for the coming week. This production affords- oppor tunity for a wide rang of character portrayal and will, no doubt, be enacted with efficiency characteristic of tha Lyric atock . company. Wa are also tiromland inmilthin .Y..nllnn. 1 1 Inl... -featlng in tha way of llluetrated aonga ana moving picturea. . oldamlth'a Showy Clothes. From th Standard Art Journal Goldsmith was ludicrously fond of showy clothes. When he sought to tske orders In Ireland he tried to daxsla hie bishop by a pair of scarlet breechea. While studying medicine in Edinburgh ha wor "rich aky-blue eat In," "fine aky bu ahalloon" and silver hat lac. Be fore Johnson, Reynold and Garrick he strutted about bragging of his bloom colored coat, and when Ms reputation had been made by his tWo principal poems he biased- forth tn his purple silk small clothes, avscarlet great coat and a physician's wig. He carried a gold-headed can, and a sword hung by his side a - weapon so dlsproportloned to his diminutive stat ure that a coxcomb who passed him In th Strand called out to hla companion to "look at that fly with a long pin atuck through It" . By Julee Eckert Goodman. . ' .' (iYom Tbs Joar ! a Owa Correspoaasal.) N ' EW1 TOBK. April - l..-Ther were Mnn or ign Dpwmi ' following: tha dearth of thai preaedlng week. ' Five of theae ware new to tha 'Metropolitan stag w. xi. uran in "The American Lora. Mlaa Florence Roberta In "The Strength of the .Weak," a fa roe at the Oat-rick, entitled "What the Butler Saw: a new musical comedy by John Philip Sous at - in New Amsterdam, and Franot Wilson in a aerlous one-act play at tn Criterion. - The revivale Include Arnold Daly In Bernard Shaw' a "Arm and tha Man," lira.- Flake in "Becky Sharp," and the return of Margaret Anglln In "Zlra.1 Probably the moat ; , interesting -of theaa la Mies Florence Roberts' debut before a New York audience.' Lavish reports of Mlaa Roberta and her. talent have of ten . enough reached tha 'east For tire laat aix weeks these reports and enoomluma have become almost in latent. . It Is doubly to Miss Roberts' oredit that In spite of all this she he proved more than merely successful,' for ucceas is never more difficult as undor aajcn conditions.. , Easy In Manner. :'4 :,'':.'yT' i Tha jnoat salient ' eharactarlatlp and the one which Is iiotloed first about Mlaa Roberta. -is a certain, quality of ease and aureneaa. Her bare technique Is splendid, rarely running; to staclness or cheap, theatricality and generally permeated by sanity and saturalneea. Her enunciation and elocution are in- usaally clear and are a oenstant daltrht. Her acting- Is characterised) tn tha main by a high sense of art and always by a nice intelligence. . There a an authorita tive tone to her . work which malMa it highly tmpreaaiva. . u It Is not poaaibla to apeak ln 'lavlah terms of the play which has .thus served to Introduce Miss Roberts toiew Tork. The Strength of the Weak" Is by Alice M. Smith and Charlotte Thompson. It begins In ' the' college room of a girl senior one June and within four months after traces the course , of tidsedr through a. 'Hunt Ball" on Long Island ana an apartment In New Tork. During this time Pauline Darcy.' the senior In question,- munages to have published under a pseudonym a vary popular novel on a none too pleasant subject and goes through an experience which run th gamut of despair and happi ness, eventuating in a bopeleas destruo- Far From Pleasant. ' In bare outlines tha story Is simple enough. Pauline Darcy who, when a young girl haa been wronged by her guardian, la aent by him t a woman' collage. Thar she Imbibes besides knowledge a certain phlloeophy of life. The horror of her paat come to her In full force, y The soul of th woman is born In her and ah determine that though the paat may b horrible, tb ruture may yet be glorious. "On tha stepping atones of her dead paat" aha win Tia to higher things." Th Strug- gl begins ' early. Her guardian cornea back and would renew their old rela tionship. Angrily aha sends him away, when he refuses to marry her, becauae he la already married; and than th only means of reparation in his power is cui on:. Tnnn n rails in iqv with a young man; Richard Adams. Shs con fesses to him all and he, . wltn mag nanimity a little more than human, for gives alL ' Th battle now seems won for Pau lina, but th guardian again turn up hod th denouement follow a quickly Whan ah dlacovers thst tha man whom ah-love Is the son of the man who has wronged her. In deapalr over tha hopelessness of tb situation th girl shoots herself. Th plsy is obviously not a "pleasant" one. Therefor it must seek its ax cuae In being either intensely dramatic or having behind it soma forceful truth making toward Idealism. Evan "Gboata," with all Ha gruesome character, . while it apeaka aloud tha aordldneas of tha soul, whlapera at the same time -the great hope of th purer' life, the life of freedom In Itg broader aenaea. Tha Strength "of th Weak" Is not a masterpiece of th typ of "Ghosts." On Is not so sure of th question which It raises and th solution that It of fers. In theme It recalls vaguely a number of novels and plays. One Is dlstsntly reminded at times of Margaret Purcell In Elisabeth Stuart Phelps' novel, "Hedged In,"theygn tam on come to put the rinr on tk simi larity It, la found to b ona f g anaraJ feeling rather, than SDeolal tnatanca. Tola la sot aald In any derogatory sense. but is suggested as being indicative of a certalh general prevalent! of themes mora prjleta vaguely like thla' For ex ample.v Professor Brander Matthews has pointed si glmllarlty between Miss Phelps naVel and .that-'qulntesseno of cleverness4 .and keen-edged observation. "Lei Idaga da Madame Aubray," by Du ll if. - Playot Quite the Thing. V. Th oaa 6f the woman who ha Stepped aald bat onoe has been often tried and no, very satisfactory verdict rendered. . The. equality ,'of th sexea. the right of th famlntn and th mae cullne la the -moral ood whloh goes to make tip aociety naturally alwaya forms large, part of th document in evi dence. Bat whether the denouement come flr 1th a pistol shot, as In this piece, or with' th brutal exclamation . of th Dumas play; "o'est ralde." it al ways leaves on with th feeling of the jury having disagreed. ' The authors of The Strength of the Weak" posses a certain facile klll. Th dialogue throughout la . sprightly, with her and there keen flaahea of in terprets characterisation. . Thar haa been an evident striving for. naturalness whloh haa ita demerit aa wall as Its merit.. Certela characters, charming enough In .. themselves are Introduced for little dramatic valu and, with pre- oloua Jlttle effect . upon , tha eeutral theme.- There are long colloquies, not unlntsreatlng In theroeelvea and in the mala clever, but with little) dramaturgle gain. ' ' Th play too haa a tendahoy toward preaohlneas. which alwaya antagonises th spectator. It I by far too "wordy." On tb other sld again there muet be acknowledged clavarneaa and a certain amount ef theatric aklll workingup into a tailing olimag at th and of th third aot where th confession take. place. But for th handling of a theme r this magnitude there muet be somsthlng more than aklll and cleverness; there must b a rugged strength and con-- vlnclngneas. . And - that la where this play falls to reach tb high summit: it doss not forcibly convince. Tea do not. feel that the girl had to kill herself. Teu do not feel that it wa inevitable that young Adam could not marry her. Why after all ahould not th son bar made up th father's transgres sion? It. would hav been horrible and all that, perhapa, but acarcely mora horrtbl than th present conclusion. The Strength of the 'Weak' la than an interesting play and one well Worth tha seeing. It abow ita author pob- eased of ability and Intelligence and a rainy gooa equipment 01 ine arnraausi. but It ha not.the quality of finality; It la -eanir in th promts than the actual, r fulfillment Above all. It ia interesting - for Introducing to this city an actress who la s far ahead of half tha popular -so-called "sura" whose personality Have given them a vogue upon the atage as make- comparison needless.. .Miss .. Roberts' denotement of Paulina was . don deftly, every line of characterisa tion was put In skillfully and surely, while over it all eh threw a natural Daa which went far to make th whole- play more convlnolng than It. wa whan on gtopped to oonalder It per aa. Tak ing It all In all. th experiment , was interesting both la th plsy snd actress. ;,Winiam ' H; Crane,' TT : '' , William H. Cran' returned ltd New Tork last Monday night In Th Amer ican Lord," a play by Charles T. Dasey and George Broadhurat I-ast tim Mr. Crane played In thla city h appeared In Mlrabeau's "Business is Business." -His masterly portrayal .of Lechat In that piece won for him even new regard and a place a an actor which was quit distinct from . that occupied before. Th American Lord" la not a play of th caliber or character of "Business . Is Business, and to mention It In the , same breath I to call up devils of com parison and criticism. It 1 supposedly a return to an earlier model,' that is, the typ embodying the brusque healthy American with aa acute financial bead on hlra and a kindly heart underneath hla coat . ' John Breuatar lived at Elkhorn. Da kota. He wa proud of being an Ameri can and h detested foreigners and es peoially English noblemen. Th first . thing that cam to jar him was tn knowledge that hi daughter had .fallen In love with an Englishman, a man whom he bad known and one whom he ' respected. He give his consent to their engagement until he learned that the young chsp was also a- nobleman. . and then'h put down hla foot; only . to lift It up again, however, Jbe next tnatant when he discovered that he him self who had boasted his Americanism was himself heir to an Engllah title and eata-t. - ' It was Juat at thla moment that be .- learned that hla nam had been accepted by tb legislature for aenator. Finally ha compromised with himself. He would go to England, take up hla estate - and - introduce Into England American cuatoma and Ideaa. So tha aecoud act found him on hi eatata in Sussex, round him too mixed up In an ancient feud wtlh hi neighbor. Lord Wycherly, found him In love with a charming Irish widow, found tha feud Involving hla children and Lord Wycherly, th whole eventuating two act later in happy marriage all around and with a sort of hands-aorosB-ssa reconciliation between - Lord Wycherly and Brustr. V Th play Is apparently one mad to lit th actor. Instead of being a satire on manner or a charming comedy such (Continued on Page Nineteen.! 331 WASHINGTON ST. PORTLAND ' OfttfiOrl, NCNS CIO THI$ ,;-' v ' - i. ; MAKER" :- ' ' or . I J ...J 1 .... '
