| Show DRAMATIC AND LYRIC Called Back the Home Clubs Holiday Bill THE STOWAWAYS BURGLAES Keene on RiB Way HereDr Beet is Not Coming Notes of Amusement Annals The Home Dramatic club have been inquest in-quest of the manuscript of the play of Called Back for some years but it was only recently that it came into their hands The play was first brought out at the Madison Mad-ison Square in New York with Mantell and AV J Ferguson in the cast and it made a pronounced success Mr Jos R Gris mer then touring in the west obtained the rights from the Madison Square and made all the arrangements to open a season in Portland But at the last moment the Madison Square notified him that they would probably send their own company west and withdrew their permission Grismer was not a little discomfited as he had had the play announced and several people engaged for it He had never read the novel at that time but be says he borrowed a copy the night he received word from the Madison Square read it through made up his mind he could make his own dramatization went to work at it and within three weeks he produced it and made probably the success of his career The Home club had an opportunity op-portunity to obtain the Madison Square version recently but having seen Mr Grismers and believing it to be the stronger of the two the manager accepted his courteous offer to the club took his version and put it in rehearsal Its first production will be on Wednesday evening and its last on Thursday Thanksgiving night A holiday matinee is also announced an-nounced On Tuesday evening the 25th and on Friday the Path two concerts will be given at the Presbyterian church Herr Aamold the Norwegian violinst Miss Grace Porter soprano Signor Campbello baritone and Master Louie Elbe the young boy pianist are announced to take part in the pro gramme of Tuesday and on Friday Miss Agatha Ccnkling and Mr Willard Squires will be heard in vocal numbers in addition to the above named quartette of artists W F Heath president ot the Music Teachers National association held at Philadelphia writes to the Press after hearing hear-ing the Norwegian violinist August Aamold as follows He is an artist of the highest grade He plays on a violin valued at 5000 To say that his playing is in keeping with the quality of his violin is only stating the truth His technique is clear his tone is of a rare and fine quality beyond description and his interpretation is of that dreamy and at other times brilliant quality not often heard from the same artist The programme appears in our advertising ad-vertising columns It includes some choice gems of the great masters The sale of tickets opens at D O Calders music store tomorrow morning 4 Of Edmund Keans acting it was said that It was Shakespeare read by flashes of lightning He was the greatest actor of his time and he was earnest and sincere His legitimate successor was Junius Brutus Booth who for daring to rival him was compelled to leave England and to come to this country so strongly was Kean entrenched en-trenched in the affections of the English public Booth too was earnest and sincere and So absorbed as Richard did he often drive his Richmonds from the stage at the point of his sword Thomas W Keene the young American tragedian is of the school of Kean and Booth the elder thOugh with his art toned down somewhat to modern requirements He has completed com-pleted a tour of the Puget Sound country and the far northwest that has had few parallels in its history Everywhere he went he was received with thronged houses and most enthusiastic applause His special hits were made as Richard III Louis XL Richelieu and Macbeth and in such roles many critics doubt whether he has a living superior His company is said to bo a remarkably strong one Mr Keene will appear in this city December 3 4 5 and 6 Disappointment reigns amid the choral society caused by the news just received that the great English organist Dr Best has been seized with an illness which prevents pre-vents his making the American tour this season Societies in San Francisco and Chicago which had been preparing for his reception are similarily dissappointed The choral society had a fine programme well under way for the event and the tabernacle taber-nacle had been secured so the enterprising Stenhens already has his wits at work to see whether there isnt some other big star in the near horizon who could be induced to fill the date e The Stowaway that noted dramatic Idyll which includes two reformed burglars burg-lars among the other ladies and gentlemen of its makeup fills the date at the theatre Friday and Saturday It was out this way last year and it was just after playing at the opera house that all the fine scenery went up in a blaze on the U P It cost the railroad 7000 to repair the damage and the Stowaway people at once fitted out anev ain The story of the play is as follows Tom Inglis the hero deserted by his father in childhood grows up among the rougher element of low London but retains within him the spark of manhood and true nobility of character He is unaware that his father still lives but a villainous cousin who discovers young Ingliss identity iden-tity endeavors to get him out of the way BO as to profit himself in case of the old pians death His efforts to do so and then the-n = t G J 1 w ultimate foiling of his plans make a powerful power-ful and exciting plot In working out the story the hero saves his unknown fathers house from robbery accidentally shoots himself the villain murders his wife that he may marry another woman the hero enticed on board the yacht of his deadly enemy and carried out to sea and the Stoaway finally rights matters in way satisfactory to all concerned except the villain The HanlonVolters wound up last evening even-ing a big engagement though the house did not hold up to previous evenings business and the matinee was fair The lengthened pantomime A Terrible Night was cut owing to Mr Martinettis indis position and the loss was not particularly mourned As before the swinging trapeze work of the Hanlons was the great feature of the show It is said by the way that the salary list of this company is only 240 a week less than that of the big Crystal Slipper company |
