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' I "2? j dl. ''I'll ' II' ,2 : " - -v T - ."C'-y, :' II ' I I v, I V I .Al'-A'-' I I lr?'s '.. ' 3UH.M0K.K1GHTKEWNEARMOT j0? V) j ,- ffi V':' I A1 I ".' I " : ' T fTlm "v 5s. ' I- -MC 30.31 JAN ! llj : '' j 't ' I ! ' 5 ' HI I ' -TDESNisHTiNtwYiAR-a a j CT rj i V-. ' '' I 'i 1 1 . ' i28$S' ip' ffl ySK:f . f'-llr 'fii- F'A-'v.' " ?i-M::,v '' '-:-'.'I V v , ' l t" 'fg Sfth, lUkfil 'MrU of th Lowlanda," o well known. jf ?V. M , ! ' ' x V I 1". -; - . - ' 'A If J timrcXmGtffrtf.ix.. taHIGIVlRDlII'kTV 1HE1LIG THEATRE - THIS WEEK'S THE 8TRENOTH OF THE WEAK" With Florence Robert fading the, caat, at the Helllc. Sunday and Monday, December SO and SI, "MARIA ROSA" A Bpanlah drama, played by Florence Roberta, at ' the . Hetllc, Tueeday and Wednesday, January 1 and t. "RICHARD III." by John Griffith, at the Helll Thurnday, January t. TNIVERBITY OF OKEOON GLEE CLUB" At the H41lK. Friday, Jan uary 4. "THE MILK WHITE FLAQ'V At the Baker, by the Baker 8Uck company, all week, with matlneea today and Saturday. ' "THE OLD CLOTHES MAN" All week, with matlneea today and Satur day at the Kmplre. - v; "RCN TO EARTH" An Entlleh melodrama, all -week at -the-Lyric, with metlneen today and Saturday.'" ' . VAUDEVILLE At the Grand and at The Pantaaea all week, with dally . matlneea. COMING ATTRACTIONS. 7 BEILIO Week commencing January , "Kerry Oow" and ."Sultan of Sulu. HEILIO Madnm Sr.humann-Helnk, claarlcal concert, Monday, January 1. EM PI RE "Tilly - Oleaon," Bwedlah dialect comedy, week Of January r LYRIC "Harbor Llhta." all week. THE week )uat cloeed ha been a buay one In theatreland. In aplte of the after efferta of 1 Chrlatmaa. and Chrtatmaa tur key, there ha a bean but a alight falling fiff In attendance at any time, during tha week ami that waa only -temporary Tna- laat daya aaw all of the playhouaeaiwlth Ita oriental aettlnga and coatumen. Crowded and 1 ending room In demand. At the Heinif the patrona were glren ft weak of laughter, with ft. few aerloua eober thoughta to aeaaan. 'Ouy Batee loat. In the "Heir to the floorah" and Ma excellent compear - touched tha hrti ef the people eren while they lauahed. Then tame Roaa Melville, alwaya and everywhere welrnme with her outland lal eurla and alde-rarklng merriment In , rug Uopalna." .The Ilelllf did) Ita wbare V ; K .'iV-; 5 h" Production of Richard III. .nd A US . t it ' - lt I ff V '.rrfrv : f. ? - thi. will b. In turn fottod by th Uni- v r . j - ,t t I 1 . i ' 4, 1,1- , . r"s7 A'V bih b,,,, ,t th. H.ii.c for th. , r f f - ' " la: I ft WfPt tcntion at tho Baker during the wefc I f , . 11'"- ' I . I 'J. it ' I III Lfr The Empire will pre.ent the comedy. I 1 i t u $ '.. II ' ' - . ) MONOLOGUES. f j. ' V -V ," ..7 . ' ' I " I 50,,.vS '.::.:,-' f 1 . - - ' ' m 'V . t. I X I ATTRACTIONS. towarda driving away Portland' biuea. "Trllhy" held the boarda at the Baker and during tha week many were atlrred again by the wlerd, atrange atory of the artla. model girl, and her Bohemian life and frlenda. ( "The Belle of Japan" at the Empire, The Kultan'a Daughter" and "Little Lord. Fauntleroy" at the Stu:'. the vaudevlllea at the Grand and at Pan tagea, all aided SanU Claua In dlffua Ing a real Chrlatmaa aplflt of light heartedneaa oven the city. Florence Roberta wl.ll lead the pfeaent week at the Helltg, wifh the production tonight of "Tha Strength of the Weak." a human Intereat play which has done much to make . Mlee Roberta an well known from the Atlantio to the ratlfle. THE OREGON . SUNDAY- JOURNAL; PORTLAND. ; SUNDAY Florence Roberts at Heilig Tonight Opening .with tonlght'a performance for a four daya' atay at the Helllg, Florence Roberta will inaugurate per hapa the mont looked for engagement of the current aeaeon.' Her coming att the holiday time aalde from the follow ing, ahe poaeeeeea locally aaaurea big reaulta from a box office atand point, and coupled, too, with the fart that ahe cornea with the approval atamp of criti cal discriminating New Tork'a faehlon able aet will add an intereat. Her many admirers here have followed with pleaa ure the progreaa of Uie talented atar on her flret eaetern trip and with the knowledge la Bight that her triumph on the "Great White Way" laat apiing tarried with it more than ordinary alg- n IN canon, becauae New Tork and New Yorkera are not prone to accept a.ver dlrl of the weat when It appertain thinga theatrical. And, too. aa a aauce to tha potion the newa cornea that ahe la to be accom panied with but a minor exception the aame dletlnguiahed cast- that assisted her on' the occasion of her Introduction to the theatregoers of the metropolis. Her company will Include Mr. Thurlow Bergen, one of New Tork'a handsomest leading men, Mr. Charles Kent, late of Mrs. Flske'a company, Mr. C. Jay Williams.- a comedian of note in tha big productlona of the east. Miss Adelade Manola. daughter Merlon Msnola and lute -leading lady with "Popularity a Broadway Offering,". Miss Mary Bert rand. Miss Florence Robinson. Miss Ruth' Allen and ft number of . other of equal note. . ' Her appearance will ba tha occaalon for the presentation of two playa that have not been done by her here and the return io on of former successes for a mdtlnee bill. Tonight, tomorrow night and New Tear'a afternoon ahe la to pre Bent "The Strength of the Weak," de- scribed aa a. modern prablam play, bl Alice M. Smith and Charlotte Thompson, and which served as her vehicle for ft run of 160 nights at tha Liberty theatre, New York' most fashionable playhouse, last spring: It is aald to be an Intensely dramatic " tale, with lis locale . lsld mid the wslk of the ultra society set of the east, and affords Mlnr Roberta one of the best opportunities 'h hae had for tha display of the tileote thst have made her on of tha foremost women of the mimic world. New Year'a and Wednesday night she offer for the second time on any stage in Engnen, Maria Rosa," by tha .' distinguished Spanish dramatist,. Angel Gulmera, au thor of "Mart of the Lowlands." and. Ilk bl former success, tha play deals with the picturesque peasant folk of rural Spain, exrept that In this offering the characters are drawn from the wine growing, section of Catalan, Instead of the agricultural district. ' 'Maria Rosa," beautiful peasant girl, la married to handsome wine. Preiser of the district who seek work on. tho railroad which la being con structed through .the country, where, in compsny "with ft number of his country men, he la subjected to indignities heaped upon them by a brutal foreman, and following ft quarrel. In whicb h and a-, fellow-worker named Ramon are In nlved with the overaeer, the latter ts found murdered, and tha guilt Is fast ened upon Maria Rosa's husband, and he kja thrown loto prison in ft distant city, whore-he die protesting hi Innooence. For the two years following hi death Marlft Rosa moarna blftt and listen un- MORNING, DECSMDS3 willlngly .to tha love-making of Ramon, who, fa 11 tog to win the widow, lay ft plot to compromise her, fair name, and to avert a scandal ahe consents to be hl wife. On tha night of their wed ding at the feast tha groom, fired by wine, makes boasts that reveal to tha unhappy- gift that he la the real assas sin for whom her flrat husband wa sacrificed, and dismissing the guests she pile him with win until he admit that he committed the deed. In horror he flee from him, and maddened by the thought that he la to lose her he ftttempta to restrain her by force, and clutching bla ready knife ah deala him hi death blow. In ft recent Interview In Seattle Mia Robert expressed the belief that It would prove the beat play ol her career, and tha fact that she wll turn eastward from here on her way to New Tork, where aha will offer It at Daly'a theatre In a few weeks for a ran of aom four months, add an Intereat to the new play. Seats aelllngvat thea tre box off Icj for the engagement. -.; University of Oregon Ole Club. When thirty college boy get together to do something, something will surely happen. - And things do happen In the glee club concert. From the time the boy sing their -wall beloved songs to Oregon, until the last of the sketch there I enough snap and ginger to jolly up ftny. number of people. -Mingled with old 'college songs and new oollege stunta are selection by ' the ' Mandolin club and solos and monologues and a ketch, o that one hardly ha tint te ZO, 1SC1 breath. The sketch at tha end ef the program depict scenes In oollege life and Introduce song Kit and original stunta without number. It Instills Into the audience ft good, big taste of college spirit and sends them . ft way feeling younger than they aver did. Thoee wishing fin music are mora than aatl fled by Prof. Glen In hi excellently rendered "Prologue to Pagllaca." Those wanting a laugh are -given It by Roy Kelley, whose ability ft laugh-maker 1 established. Those who Ilk, late ong will get them In the sketch where are Introduced the catchiest of. the pop ular songs the kind that run In your head. Everybody will be pleased. Be sides all this there in running through the whole program that frollcaom fun nd college comedy which give one that "Jollled-up" feeling. So If you want an evening of pure, downright enjoyment, don't mlsa the big college show on Jan uary 4 at the Helllg by the University of Oregon-Ole and Mandolin i club. Sal and exchaag of seats at Ilelllf theatre beginning Wednesday morning, January a. ... y y, "Sultan of Sulu Coming to Heilig. George Ade'a Triumphant mtslcsf sa tire will occupy the stage of the Helllg theatre Thursday, Friday and Saturday plghta, January 1. It and 12. with a epeelal-prlce matinee Saturday, George Arte I distinctly American" In hi humor nd Tor this reason had' large follow ing, both In his literary and dramstle writings. '.Today he embodies the hu morous thought of the natlf American In all hi writing, and ao cleverly put I hi comedy expression that he has been hailed with great acclaim aa the beat writer of American humor and wit. The "Sultan, of Sulu" occupies a field peculiarly Ita own, for the pictorial feat ures that cover the weakness ofnany ao-called lyric entertainments are taste fully subordinated and the gist of the" play I offered In ft well-written, elearly conceived and " whimsical comedy, em- , belliahed with a tuneful and popular, core, dignified In treatment, yet so ml- odious it catchea t once the receptive ear of the mustc-lovlng public The company numbera to people and he said to ba the best ever engsged te interpret tne opera. , John Griffith n Richard IL This tragedy of the Immortal bard I promised a splendid representation at -the Heilig theatre next Thursday night, JrtYinary 3. by John Griffith and ft spa tially selected company. An Interest ing remtnlacenee of Shakespeare exist in an old churchyard at Petersburg, Virginia. Ther 1 still decipherable on a crumbling tombstone the epitaph of a ''Professor of Churgery," of ml, or thereahViits, st the .foot of which Is in- . scribed "One of the Pallbearera of Will iam Shakespeare, of Avon.'V.who, It la evident, emigrated to Virginia In thoae early daya and accounted It an honor to be recorded after death aa one of the great fiiithot. pallb-rer, whose work are tottay to seldom represented. At , (Continued n Pag Tvantjr-Dft. A t ' ' f. . I V
