12 .'.iff?"-., i, 'J(gV . K-r M . 'V-N V ' rX - t prom ra Heilig 1 - VI , ft Jffet : , r! -;-- g V -V 'IS V v I ilpvT l&frzL AT THE WEEK'S DRAMATIC CALENDAR. THE HEILIC1 Tonight, tomorrow and TundT nlg-hts. "Checkers": Wednesday and Thursday nighta and Thursday matinee, "The Three of Us"; Friday and Saturday nights and Saturday matinee. Olra Nethersole in repertoire of ''Carmen," Camlet, and "The Awak ening." MARQUAM GRAND San Francisco Opera company in 'The Highway man." BAKER Resident stock company in Diplomacy." KMPIRE Thorns and Orange Blossoms. STAR Resident stock company in "l ne (struggle ror uoia. "ITRIC Stock company m "The Oovernor of Kentucky." ; GRAND Vaudeville. , COMING ATTRACTIONS. THE HEILIO Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and WedneVday nights, with Wednesday matinee. "The Yankee Regent," musical comedy; Thurs day, Friday, Saturday nights and Saturday matinee, "S. Miller Kent in "Raffles": December 6, Calve In song recital. THE BAKER Hoyt s "A Texas steer. THE GRAND Vaudeville. EMPIRE "The Sweetest Girl In Dixie." PKOMISES'MADEBY THEPUESS AGENTS "Checkers" at Heilig Tonight . Tonight, tomorrow and Tuesday night the playgoers of this city are to have another chance to see "Checkers," the play which by Henry M. Blossom Jr., 1s a breezy dramatisation of the breezy book of the same name, and Is breezily : Acted. ' Since Its Initial appearance "Checkers" has been dividing ti time between New York, Chicago, Boston and, Philadelphia, and a few smaller towns, and not only did the New York critics speak as If in one voice (for the first time, lo! in many moons) and in emphatic praise of the play, company ' and production, but self-reliant and ?oung Chicago and conservative Bos on and ' Philadelphia indorsed their opinion. It played its fifteenth engage ment lnf New York last season, and will play another later this season. There Is Jn the play the old, old story, which all the world seems never to tire of hearing, and It is told in such a new and pretty way as to make even old bachelors admit that pasaibly they have 'overlooked a thing or two in shaping their lives. There Is a laugh in "Check ers'' every 80 seconds. Seats are selK ing at the theatre for the three per formances. : Qlga Nethersole at Heilig This Week. Olga Nethersole, the noted English actress, will play a return engagement at the Helllg theatre In this' city next Friday and Saturday, November 1 and 2, appearing at three performances. She win be supported in Portland by identically the same company of play ers that appeared with her during her engagement In Paris last June at the theatre Sarah Bernhardt. hl" lne oranlwitlon is headed by Frank -Mills, who was Miss Nethersole's leading support here last season. For - ?.?inr Pomaco Miss Nether ' S H Hamilton's ver-' ' Spanish romance armcn." IB an t0ltoas c( rg rtatio characterization - , perhaps, that VllL " rtord fvff non' and realism to Tual Mu-t?.?tnV "Carmen." A t,fiilli?.!?et.hole'r "Carman. will b th bill 6 y evening, Mlns JNethersole wiufl. sent Play from the ten of M -6..... Horvieu,, iha greatest of living French playwrignts, , ana ,..ia entitled "The Awakening." The atory of , "f he Awskanlna' conblsely stated. Is an fni. - lows -The play. Is modern in tone, and its scenes are laid in Paris and suburbs It Is written in three, acts, which, are supposed to transpire wit mn z hours. T'riiiR irprnlre de Svlvanie. of a Bal kan principality, together wtth his son prince Jean, are In exile in Paris. They r in rrlondlv association with an arls- i tocrutlc French famijy; of Jthe name of l)e Mciree. J ne reiaiioa peiween itaoui de MeKea and bis wife. Theresa, are strained, the former having selfishly t nglHtt her for ainamoer 01 years. The wife's Interests, however;' are cen tered in her daughter, Rosa. Now comes lYinoa Jean to disturb tha i domestlo ! :. of this ROvd woman. His brll J.iiiM .' nf persistency attract her, and for h time wavers- He ward the tfiit tiiou. lirr mother lova eomea to Kut re..-u and b r lova and sens of, '... V It if v ' ik . 'WU rv -r v j . ..... .. f ! ( r t x COMING ATTRACTIONS. 4 1 , ; ' . ' duty to her child gives her strength to enable her to overcome the pleadings of the prince. Seat sale opens next Wednesday at box office, the theatre. w "The Yankee Regent" Next Sunday. Ben M. Jerome's newest musical con celt, "The Yankee Regent," which Is announced locally for four nights, be ginning next Sunday, November S, at the Heilig theatre, la being heralded In the advance notices as an innovation in musical comedy. First, It features a comedian who is not compelled to dis tort the English language, for his fun making chances In the part of the play are said to be legitimately funny. The story in brief Is an unique one and relates to the ascension to the throne of an obscure German principal ity, by a poetically-inclined politician decidedly Yankee In himself ,and who holds his unique title by reason of his thirty-second kinship to the late de parted ruler. His occupancy of the throne is punctuated by a never-ending round of troubled situations. The cast will bear Inspect iont headed by as it is by Toby Lyons of "Goo Ooo Man" fame and 60 others, including a chorus of half a hundred. Seat sale opens next Friday, November 1, at box once tne Jtieiug. "The Three of Us" at the Heilig. With a record of 227 nights at the Madison Square theatre. New York, un limited praise from the newspapers and audiences who have seen it. Walter N. Lawrence's original production of "The x hi oo ui us,- a rour-act drama by Rachel Crothers. comes to the Heilig theatre next Wednesday and Thursday nights, October 30 and 31. No play recently since the "Music Master" has received the enthusiastic praise which has been accorded "The Three of Us." Its fidelity to life. Its perfect cast the minuteness with which very detail has been carried, the hu man interest, the nflthnu tha v(.r.i,; life story it tells makes it a th event which one can never forgot or grow weary of seeing. Rhy Macchesney. the heroine and hr two brothers are "The Three nf T7 " after whom their mine was named. They uh in a western mining camp, but there is none of the usual western exaggeration of red shirts, tap boots, guns and whiskev. Neither la there nv of the conventional mining camp ma- vi!urry "na crowas or rougn miners. All four acts are interiors, two of them vuKing piace m Kny's home. . KnJL 'a &lr of fleah and blood, wise, unselfish, loyal to her brothers and the mm,ory and wishes of her father who n fir . r 10 guHKB.. protect and bring h?,l1lt.two,.'ounK by who are her L -"' Dironir in the rnnnrtiana nf nr own limin, 1 """"" ."i th rm ? :hJlawJ of convention at S"" in Sir a2fE ?er.0JS .r Brother's Integrity T . ""u t box otace WthattJ52Trew (Mon,JaJr he'cS'-R-mes." will be seen m thi inun.' ,Ml"er KeBt drama, "Raffles," at lntre"!n November 1, t and k H,m theatre "The Hi8hwyman!, T The many friends ' tha San Francisco ooera inr luirn t),.l tu. 7. f &av- ..... v.., vapaoia attHM tlon Of artists la i-. "f"" been besieging the box otacPZlTl juarquam tne past week. "The IdAi. Eye," whlla not the best uut ii4?L! oompany's repertoire, served, tn strata the fact that tha company has THE OREGON SUNDAY JOUtRNAU' PORTLAND," SUNDAY MORNING, V OCTOBER , IH I v4r v 1 Z&irM w' f - - ill iiuw s &tmu - --:-.-:: M1 i P03S GOLP' been kept up to its standard of excel' For the week commencing tonight the San Francisco opera company wftl offer Harry is. Hmitn ana iteginaia u Koven's romantlo comic opera, "The Highwayman." Jerome Sykes earned hlx first rights to stardom as Foxy Qulller, the Bow street detective. In "The High wayman." the piece ran for consider able over a year - at tne uroaawuy theatre. New York, and with such great success that Messrs. Klaw & Erlanger engaged the authors to collaborate on a sequel. "Foxy Qulller," the opera of that name, was the result and Sykes remained with It until Klaw A Erlanger saw nt to take the piece on to maae room for "The Billionaire." The San Francisco opera company Is particularly well cast In "The Highway man." Arthur Cunningham has the role of Dick Fitzgerald, the young Irish sol dier of fortune, wno aisguiaes as cap tain Scarlet, the highwayman. Aida. Hemmi, ona of tha moat depen dable, prima donnas before the public has a most beautiful singing and acting part in Constance, Miss iiemmi con siders tha part ona of her very best and lanes as mucn enjoyment in mo inir nr th rniA as no ner auditors. Daphne Pollard as. DoU, barmaid of the Cat and Fiddle tavern, flits through the three acts of tha piece. Los Angeles theatre-goers too tna mue sprite 10 their hearts and declared her one of tlp best entertainers at present before tli public. William Blaisdell. the new comedian who suffered somewhat from a cold and unfamillarity with his part In "The Idol's Eye," having learned it at very short notice as Toby, ostler of the Cat and Fiddle tavern, has a splen did comedy part and will become a popu lar favorite by the end of tba week of "The Highwayman. - -' . Statuesque Maud Beatty as Lieuten ant Lovelace, ' Lillian Raymond as Pa mela, Oliver La Nolr as Sir Godfrey. Eugene Wiener as Rodney completes the cast The Beauty chorus will also be seen and heard at Its very best. The only matinees of "The Highwayman" are those given Wednesday and Satur- , " "Diplomacy" at the Baker. The Baker atock company will give an excellent revival of the famous Sar dou play, "Diplomacy," for the week starting' with todays matinee, "Diplo macy" is a masterpiece of stage craft, and calls for actors and actresses of the very highest mark, both as to tempera ment and technical ability and training. It Is a play, framed round a plot of ex treme Intensity and depth. There are at least four characters whose possibili ties have seldom, If ever, been equaled on the stage. These are Henri and Ju lian Beauclerc, .Baron Stein and the Countess Zlcka, central figures around which the events of the drama move. The wiles of Russian diplomats -are powerfully demonstrated by Sardou, the rfuf secret oollce systam claying an important part In the raveling sid unraveling l tne piot. According i the story, the banished Count Orloff of Russia wants to return to see his dying motherland no one but a young girl friend, Dora, knows of his Intention, From Dora the Countess Zlcfca, toot or the Russian Baron Stein, worms a sus- plcloii, and warning the police,'- Orloff is turned back. -Going to Paris, he bit- iriy laoousee Dora, of being a spy, and other . prominent personages being brought into.the-plot. It assumes wide w-vwuom, ,; ints countess Zlcka is ii. . iiwm inw teiier i Vm Dor to Baron Stein, so Dora's I AtPA. flEMML VI TH cSAJtf rTSAmSCOOPEBAj II Hi 1 , . 1 W at the mteauAr ganp. husband, who had charge of the plans. Is naturally the victim. The cast; 4 Count Orloff. William' Ber nard; Baron Stein, Robert Homans; M. H. Beauclerc Austin Webb: Captain Beauclerc. -Donald Bowles; Algle Fair fax, Howard Russell; Markham, Wil liam Gleason; Antolne, James Gleason; M. Sheperd, C. H. Lewis; Messenger, R. E. Bradbury; Marquis De Rio Zares, Mina Crollus Gleason; Countess Zlcka, Miss Marion Barney; Lady Henry Fair fax, Mrs. .Roy Bernard; Dora, Miss Louise Kent; Mlon, Miss Dorothy Ber nard. , , . Hoyfs ."A Hole in the Ground."' An Interesting event In. store for Ba ker patrons is the coming of Hoyt's screaming farce comedy, "A Hole In the Ground." to follow "DlDlomacy." All the events take place In a measly out of the world railroad station, and many original ana clever characters are intro duced, Hoyt's plays are great favorites with all classes of people, and this Is one of several which the Baker stock company will present during the season. It will open next Sunday matinee. No vember S. . Thorns and Orange 610380018." The Empire will have an Ideal attrac tion all the coming week, starting with todays matinee and the critics have said that there are more ' tears '''and laughter In tha four acts of Bertha M. Clay's powerful story. "Thorns and Orange Blossoms" than any play on the roaa mis season. And such Is the general verdict of those who witness the production. It has a soothing effect: the story. wMle working on to . the hla-hest emotional pitches Is restful because it Is natural; mere is noining rorcea, notning over drawn. The players like their different roles because they offer a wide scope for the display of his tr Ion lo talent and in eacn tneme is a sptenaia opportunity for individual work. The production Is as sumptuous, as elaborate, as scenlcally beautiful as money, time, labor and ex perience could devise and in offering ''Thorns and Orange Blossoms" In thia city the Rowland and Clifford Amuse ment company reel satisfied that a cor dial appreciation f their efforts will be extenaea. Matinees Wednesday and Saturday. "The Sweetest Girl in Dixie." The Sweetest Girl in Dixie" will be the following attraction at the Empire after. "Thorns and Orange Slossoms," and will open next Sunday matinee, No vember S. The play, of which the scene la laid in the south, is Interesting. It is called an' Idyll of the southland, and ts written by a southern woman, Miss Freda Slemons, a daughter of Congress man Slemons of Arkansas. . ?; ';,; . , i , At the Grand. ,To be successful In vaudeville a man ager must get good acts, for. the publto Is (discriminating. sThat Is why Sul livan aV Consldlne employ experienced agents In New York, Chicago and Lon- agents in xei don to aecun eoura m aaac acts avajiaoie. -CONTRALTO f(WtGttTANP vrcKm"vrHB HIGHWAYMAN i The coming week Is a fair example of the class of high grade acts which the representatives of the firm secure. Harry First and company will have the headline position.' He and his as sociate players will offer the novelty piayiat, "ine Marriage eei wnicn is unlike the ordinary style of vaudeville sketches. The special added attraction is one of reputation. Sidney Forrester is the feature -and he is known as the English costermonger. ' The Hassman trio are hand and head balancers, performing difficult feats of strength ana daring. Tom Ward is a merry minstrel who knows all the latest Jokes end stories and knows how to tell them with the best results. " European novelty dancers are ' the Mascaanls. Pdoe and Knight have I songs, dances and tharacter changes In their specialty. 'San Antonio, the new western song, will be rendered by Joe Tnompson ana importea moving pic tures will complete the bill. Today will be the last of the present bill, headed by the Jessie Mae Lloyd singers ana comeaians, eignt in numper, and otner great acts. At the Star. i Ever on the lookout for dramatic nov elties, Manager R. E. French has se lected "The Struggle for Gold" for the present week at the Star theatre. The French stock company will begin the week with the new bill this afternoon. It Is a four-act story of the west writ ten by a westerner and filled with west ern atmospnere. "The Struggle for Gold" is a melo drama of unusual interest The plot Is conventional in spot, out tne subject Is treated In a masterful manner. There Is no one In Portland who will not be deeply interested in the story, sloe it is unfolded in San Francisco and the min ing region of the Golden Gate country. revolves. This Is owned by a business roan ana his son. xney give a mort gage to a villain, who Is about to fore close wnen an acciaent at tne mine dls closes a rich bodv of ore. and thia en, ables the owners to pay off the mort acre at the critical nerlod 4n the nlot. Matinees Tuesday, Thursday and Sat urday. , w "Beacon Lights." The last performances of "Beacon Lights" at the Lyrio will ocour this afternoon and tonight, and those who have not taken advantage of the oppor tunlty to see this great melodrama dur ing the week may do so today. Every memoer ox tne company nas a great par, w , "The Governor of Kentucky." . The Lyrle management was lucky in securing the stock rights to Franklyn Fylea' great society drama, "The Gov ernor of Kentucky," which the Lyric ftock company will present for the first time at popular prices on Monday night The play was originally written as a starring vehicle for William H. Crane, and enjoyed a long run la New York city and on the road. It deals with Kentucky social Ufa and will afford the Udit of the com- 8V ISO.- l " rDIPL0mCY ME5T0CKCai pany an opportunity to wear aome ele gant gowns, v The pis ganl gowns, v The play opens On the eve election to the United states senate. The scenery and effects will be the best that money and artistic skill can Sroduce, and the production of "The overnbr of Kentucky will be one of the notable events in the history of tne Lyric, commencing Monaay nignt the old scale of prices. 10. 20 and . SO cents, will be restored, thus assuring the public or the greatest amusement bargain on tne pacific coast. Thriller at Pantages, No such act has ever been seen In Portland nor possibly ever will be seen again as that which Pantages will pre' eent as the topliner this coming week, beginning Monday afternoon. The act in question is that put on by Frank Hail, tne ramous , jungiisn non-tamer. He has with him the celebrated lion Wallace from the chutes at San Fran-. Cisco. Wallace is not only the biggest lion in- captivity but the meanest It takes an iron nerve to step into a cage with a lion that has killed the only two trainers that ever before dared attempt that feat Wallace has always been regarded vas untamable. He la still untamed and it is only by a su perb exhibition of courage that Mr. Hall cowes the big beast and drives him snarling and gnashing Into a corner. Then the tamer slips from the cage and in an Instant the big lion in- a rage tries to get at the man who has Just bullied him. To the audience, of course, there Is Week of October 28 j'..V ':r'VK- I " 1 , ' ' J llr . 5 5 - m r "iVvV' V ; PANTAGStS Best ramily Theatre. ADVANCED VAUDEVILLE THE OLIPHANTS European Grotesques, Another Featuret J. Murray Simon Hebrew Comedian.1; ;' - ' ' r Jean Wilson Illustrated Song. PAWTAOES EXTRAORDINARY FEATURE Mr.rranliHall English XiloB-Tamer ; , With Wallacd : The Untamable Ziloa ,' "Trom the Chutes .. A ThrlUlSur Aot, PMtagts Unexcelled Orchestra , Direction H.K.Evenson . ', At JEvery 'performance.' . y tom m best zv TiuoaTrmi Adaisslom rrloea Gallery and balcony 15 centsC Entire lower floor 16 eenta. Boxes SO cents. Any. seat if weekday matlneeg FIFTEEN CENTS. '63 92 not the slightest danger. Double steel bars make, up the ferocious lion's cage ana it is more man lmpoasinie tor lace to get out A second Dig reature is announced oy Manager Johnson In the three- Ollfants, celebrated European grotesques, who have been featured by the best houses of Europe. Their grotesque dancing nd wlerd Imitations are not only new but highly attractive. Still another big act Is that put on by the ElDld Four, European acrobats. Theo clever people Introduce many new turn a i iktunsflold and Mansfield, sharpshoot ers, have novel act which will appeal to "very one. With small target rifles these clever marksmen stand second to none and- give a remarkable exhibition of fancy shooting. J. Murray Simon, Hebrew comedian will add a lively dash of fun to the bill. Simon , has been with the best eastern olrculta Harry Clinton Sawyer, In his comedy singing Imitations, la another amusing hfunater, whose act is new and full of tne right kind or run. Jean Wilson will sing a new Illus trated song and the blograph will pro duce the latest comedy pictures. New School of Expression. Professor Rlngler announces the addi tion of a new department to his phys ical training and dancing academy, a department of dramatlo expression with Mrs. Walter W. Bruce, the tal ented reader and teacher, as instructor. Mrs. Bruce has been before the publlo for the past six years snd has mastered her art in such a manner as to receive flattering notice from the press tn many states. Her work Is practical, concise and modern. None of the old methods are used but the up-to-date system of individuality la given nromtnence. thus developing personality. Her srvidlo will be at the Rlngler school ' and pupils will have the advantage of stage and concert hall for scene rehearsals' and dramatic work.- Class and private in struction wllj be given dally. Grant) avenue and East Morrison street. Phone East 670. B-1008. THEATRICAL NOTES. J. Fred Helf. ,the author of '"Neath the Old Acorn Tree, Sweet Estelle," re lates the following joke on himself with a great deal of gusto: Helf was over at the Third Avenue theatre the other night, watching the work of an Illustrated song artist who was singing "'Neath 'the eDld Acorn Tree, Sweet Estelle." Seatel next to Fred was a big. husky east alder, who seemed to be enjoying himself immense ly. Every time the singer would finish the song ne would encore her with deaf ening anDlause. Finally, after he had called her out five times, Helf turned to him and said: "You like tne song, my iriennr "Song, h 1!" replied the fellow. "I ain't even heard lt!' "Then why do you applaud it?" "I'll tell you," the fellow said. look- . ing at his watch. "A friend of f mine wants to see the next act, and he can't f et nere untu iu o ciock, so i m tryin o keep this song gal on until he gets here." Kyrle Bellew was recently clceroning nartv of American actars of both sexes through the British museum. They finally came to the mummy sec tion, one of the occupants of which was ' labeled "B. C. 27." 'I suppose," said one of the party. with a woman's, usual thoughtless lo quacity, "that Is the date of this one's death.'1 'No," returned Bellew. dryly, "that Is the nomber of the automobile that killed him.", ' Mrs. Leslie Carter Is to make a tour In "Du Barry." Kaza" and "Camllle." John Luther Long is writing her a new Dlav. Hilda Spong. who starred in "John Hudson's Wife" for several weeks last season, and Is appearing in a playlet entitled "Kit" in vaudeville, will have that pc6 expanded into a four-act play, which she hopes to present on the legiti mate stage, xne nre committee or tne Doard of (Continued on Page Fifty-four.) Fourth and Stark Sts. J. A. JOaxsOW, Besldent Manager. . . .Stars of All Nations Mansfield & Mansfield - Sharpshooters. Harry Clinton Sawyer Comedy Singing . Imitations. The Biograph Latest Pictures; AlTirOTOCES fawtaoes in tbjs place. v." ' ft , - . . ' : ' . r J.