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THE MORNING OREGOXIAN, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1012. j) f PARTICIPANTS IN "THE CAMPUS MOUSER," SOCIETY PLAY WHICH J 7 MAKES GREAT HIT .... r- Society Laughs Loud Heartily at Production at Heilig. and PARTICIPANTS ALL CLEVER - - - '-,w So-.-r-ns-rip-.Out Sale-Closmg-Out Sale-Closi-Out Sale-Closing-Out Sale- CAMPUS 1 SE f J. . 'III s. s vy.'-. . " . ' -k sV J i With 150 People In CaM. All or Whom Win Plaudit With Ap pearances. Portland Matron. Maid and Youth Score. ..Ert. "THE t AMPTH MOt CAST : Malrntm Dnusla. the collar Adonis G. Klrkham Vmllh Wfllinvtnn Reeding-, an old rrad. of '7 l..Frlta Behrend Profeor Catty, in ampu Mow- er Uln Muriel Wllllama rorithr Iarldaon. almost a aiar.... Mtrm Cornelia Cook Fule Smart, a freshman Sim Marjorle Hoffman Florodora Armour, the aorlety star Mrs. Harry LIU Cynthia Salft. the athtetle 1H Pollr Hewlu Captain farK-k. military star Vlst Doris Clark Marl Keearcn. the book-worm Miss Jean Browalsa Sitni'k Ln. :he uffraitte Mn Clementina l.ambert Ifunr? hrt. the freehman I.eter Hodeon Chester .rnf!lrtr. a rolleae ath lete Jrterph Fercueon K-nrilr.e t;mh. the fho'arlr sfu- ri'nt .Uiii Clementine Lambert Sennr itlr's .4cne Van Hrunr.MIss louift Bursa MsrsTierne Sleter M. Sltriim Hewitt Mafnn'U tarres Mies l,ore Cummlngs -n I nr l.o . J-k Fleil;na I;a:pb Shrorar l"- l:oif B'ake Rnbnlna lav CarrlnsTn. .. William Wheeler Brown, from tlarrard . Joseph Ferguson Jeff ItynVr. from Tale Mer Campbell Roland Freeman, from Cornell...... M. c. rotter Baldwin TMce Hohnn. eergeant Mlsa Charlie Fen ton t 4 BT I.K.NE CAi! BACR I'tire asaln 1'ortland's representative of all that in fairest and finest and fashionable leathered toirethrr In the name of rharlty at the Heilig to pay homage to another gathering- of the finest, fairest and fashionable who male merry on the either side of the row of Incandescent. Invariably comparison are never so odious as In the pleasant little pastime f discussing: the relative merlta of dead-and-rone Klrmesses with the liv ing, palpitating and Joyful present Timpw Mouser. beer la Clawa fcy Itself. It was so absolutely unlike any of the entertainments that have tone be fore it In the cause of charity, that It stands in a class by Its lonely. A class, too. It pleases all the people all the time, and the participants apparently had aa much of a frood time aa those "out front." lttght here, be It known, that for once In the history of similar Portland affairs the curtain rose promptly on scheduled time, and every last ruffle had been settled Into place, every scarf adjusted about lovely decollete should ers, every programme rustled its final rustle and eyea glued to the stage when th aforesaid curtain ascended. Just like the nicest sort of a musical comedy the players were "discovered" with an opening chorus. A group of tennis players tn natty white costume, the girls wearing splashes of scarlet at belt and tn their hair, aat on the steps of one of the buildings on the t ampus. A few lines of smart dialogue to wet the thing started and off with a flourish went the first specialty, a dashing tennis dance that held athletic abandon and grace. In thla number the dancers included Misses Helen Ladd. Mary Brown lie. Sirs McCully. Khoda Rum melin, Clea Ntckerson. Grace Peters. Ksther Tucker. Gladys Lang. Nancy .an. Wary Stuart Smith, and Wil liam Wheeler. Blake Robins. Gavin I'vott. Alexander Morrison. Cachot Therkrlsen. Archie Klngsley. Stanley Bacon. David Lorlng. Lester Brix and William Burgard. Cellea-e -Raw" Wlaa. following so quickly on the heels of the tnnl specialty came another with the gatllng-gun rapidity of a well trained bunch of "vode-vllliane." Thla as the college boys" rag. and truly it was. No befo' de wan darky ever stepped off more lastly and with care free a-race the ahufflin. scrapln'. bow In" steps that this seven contributed. The dancers composed the principal masculine members of the caat of tha play proper, and were. Messrs. Joseph Ferguson. Lester Brlx. Frank Shea, farhot Therkelsen. Gavin Dyott. Aaron Whitraer and Theodore Preble. With these preliminaries out of tha way. tha play settled down and re solved itself Into a reg'lar concoction with a really croes-your-heart-ln-earn-est plot, alias Grace Gerlsh. who is re sponsible for the training of the per formers, la responsible also for the lines, and In turn the linea are respon sible for many wholesome laugha and actual entertainment. After that tha responsibility business was left aafely In ,h. kaep.n, of the clever amateur p,' a i iui - Probably io Mare Klaws or Henry B. Savages were "out front" last night, looking for possible timber to use In forthcoming productions, but I'll ven ture that If they bad been that before morning at least a half dosen of the actors would have been signed up with a contract for either the "legit or "vodevilie." I'll go even further and wearer that a dosen years hence soma famous actor being Interviewed for a metropolitan paper will bark back and begin thusly: I gained my first knowledge of stagecraft In an amateur play, called The Campus Mouser.' put on In Port land. Oregon." etc. etc. jtssith la Clever "GlrL" G. Klrkham Smith aa tha college Adonis, who resorts to atrategy and female impersonation In order to de termine which one of a dosen atria he really prefers. out-Eltinsjea Kltlnge tn ibe art of masquerade. His nice large srms and hands were laid away in long white gloves, lavender hose brought ut his Venus dl Mllo ankles and a wonderful scarf was kept busy alter nately reposing sbout his marble-like shoulders or sliding about on tha floor. I " " n ::: - ABOtK Mlt 'IIRF.l.lt t'lMIK. MISS fltl.l.V HEW ITT BF.I.OW MISS JEA BHOW.M.KK AD I.CLAXD SMITH. MRS. HARRY LITT. He had apaprently not rehearsed the scarf. Any time Martin Beck hears of Mr. Smith's female Impersonation the protth family is going to lose another of its members and the Orpheum circuit gain a grand headllner. He had. toward the last, one cor-rect Im-i-ta-tlon of Harry LauUer bur-r-rs and. ah. that was a riot. . Tet he wasn't the whole show, by any means. Cornelia Cook Was There. Cornelia Cook was a fascinating in genue, who played opposite Mr. Smith. She was supposed to be a naughty lit tle maid who simply couldn't see the use of lessons, and because of it was going to be sent away from dear old school for-e-v-er. But she didn't care and sang a song about It called "What's tha Use. This was one of the specialty numbers, with the daintiest dancing maids to help in the chorus. In sunbon nets and gingham frocks, with beruf fled aprons, each little maid carried her own mllkpail and Just "terpsl- chored away" in the prettiest Imagin able way. The dancers were Miss Antoinette Mears. Miss Lavelle Young. Miss Alice Tucker. Miss Katherlne Twomey. Miss Klisabeth Peacock. Miss Ruth Fraley. Miss Barbara Macoy. Miss Louise Caswell. Miss Alice Smith and Miss Grsee Rosslter. lasaseaa" Tralaed to .Mlaste. Next came the "Amaaons." 14 girls ho were trained like the proverbial minute-men. and drilled like "solera. Garbed In white they made a mighty attractive number, marching through the martial mazes. The participants In this number in cluded. Misses Katherlne Sealy. Mar garet Ayer, Charlie Fenton. Ruth Cush- ng. Shirley Merrill. Louise Williams. Grace Bingham. Lola Ladd. Ruth Mi- ronl, Alice Mclntyre. Romalne K'llott. Stella King. Myrtle Gram and Marcta Parker. Doris Clark, in the role of Captain Peacock, led her Amaxoa band, and finally it developed that the purpose of the order waa to remove objection able presences whenever Captain Pea cock wanted to make ardent wooing toward the college adonis, Malcolm, or o give bis other nsme, Klrkham Smith, n the meantime, about a half dosen other "heart Interests" had developed in th story. Malcolm was besieged en all aides. Crow. Gewa Wild. Professor Catty, the Campus Mouser, Interpreted .feline eraser or Just plain cat. was one of the great big "knock- ofthe bllL Miss Muriel Williams. In the role, had evi dently left no ston or garret unturned In order to garb Miss Catty in a man ner befitting her true and proper sphere and calling. So tartllngly ludi crous dkl Miss Wllllama make the role that for several minutes the house for got ahe had her little apeech to make, and Just rocked collectively and Indi vidually in its sest. She was a Mis' Haay and Aunt Ophelia In one. and demonstrated that another shining light has been put under a bushel in stead of on the stage. Her solo, "I Want Someone to Call Me Dovey," brought down wild applause on her devoted head. Mlaa Catty makes love to Malcolm, so does Captain Peacock, and In turn so does Susie Smart, a freshman, which role was capably han dled by Miss Marjorle Hoffman, who played with natural ease a rather try ing role. She sings, too. one solo num ber. "Maybe It's a Ohoaile." and her semblance of fright waa delicious to witness. Cynthia 6wlft. an athletic girt, which Polly Hewitt played with bril liancy and dash, slso wos Malcolm, and with htm sings one song, "When Grandma Was a Girl." which is rich In comedy actinif. Not the lines of the song so much as Miss Hewitt's ef fectlve portrayal brought great en thusiasm. Then the last of the wooers of Mai colm enters. Lovely Mrs. Harry Litt in the character role of Florodora Ar mour. a society star, offers him social recognition In return for his hand, Mrs. Litt haa positive genlua In his trionics and her work had a tinge of the professional that made it stand out like a cameo. A most exquisite pic ture she made singing "Under Mr Para sol," in which she was aided and abet ted by a chorus of dancers. These in cluded Mrs. 1'avld Honeyman, Mrs, Alexander A. McDowell, Mrs. James Dougherty, Mrs. Frank G, Owen, Mrs. Antoine Lab be, Mrs. Victor A. Johnson, Miss Cully Anna Cook, Miss Malda Hart, Carl Wernicke, Antoine Lab be, Victor A. Johnson, Alexander A. Mc Dowell, Jordan 7-an. John Banks, George Shroyer, Philip Frye. "DaflrydlM" Score Heavily. Right along here somewhere came Leland Smith's original melody, "Daffy- dlls," which he sung with Miss Jean Brownlie end a bevy of graceful dancers. The gay llltlntr swing of Mr. Smith's music afforded him and Miss Brownlie ample opportunity for bits of clever stage "business" that made an Instant bid for favor. In the daffydil chorus were Miss Beulah Hayes, Miss Harrietts Harlowe. Misa Ivelou Shea, Miss Ruth Plummer, Miss Madeline Groh, Miss Hazel Russell, Miss Genevieve Chapln. Miss Marjorle Cameron. Frank Shea, Harlon Tucker, Bennett Williams, Eugene McClurg, Larry Mann. Ted Preble, Harold Riley and Prentiss Deerlng. The plot culminates and lets the audience In on the true state of af fairs and that Malcolm loves none of his wooers, but cares for Dorothy, the "What's-the-Use" g-irl. One song Mr. Smith sings as Malcolm, and be sings Is splendidly, too. It's "Every Girlie Loves Me But the Girl I Love" and he puts It over In real leading baritone style. Then right back at him Dorothy, who you remember is Cornelia Cook, slugs. "Why Don't You Ask Me Why," In a pretty flute-like soprano. Then everybody groups himself or herself on the various settees and piazzas and lis tens while a. wild wicked man. an old grad of '78. which Fritz Rehrends plays with vim and spontaneity, tells Malcolm that be simply can't wed the Ingenue, because of a will, the sort that always turns up Inconveniently In musical comedies and society plays. Then a quartet composed of William A. Walters, first tenor; Oliver B. Hughes, second tenorf Joseph P. Mulder, first baas, and Raymond N. Hockenberry, second bass, comes out and sings old Southern melodies, while the curtain falls on the first act. Meehaaleal Doll Realistic. As an entre act, Ralph Hurlburt came on the stage in the guise of a "pro fessor." and untying the ribbons of a liuge box disclosed a life-size doll. Gerald I ne Scot ford was the mechani cal dolly and gave a most realistic bit of acting. Preceding her act the folk In the audience had followed hospitable Inclinations and were exchanging greetings aa they promenaded about the lobby. An unbroken chain of pret ty flower girls extended down one aisle each carrying huge bouquets and flor al pieces which were handed over the footlights. Such a wealth of blossoms and such a magnificence In selection has never been seen in the Heilig. The stage wss literally a riot of color and the perfume of the flowers hung heavy on the air. A waltz number opened the next act, that of the senior "prom" at Atwater College. A society dance specialty was j j BOWMAN j Z "I can't buy clothing wholesale as cheap as I am f , ff j I selling it now. Most of these suits now on sale cost - : I thirteen dollars and fifty cents to manufacture." 5 V ' - " l sasr" - nmi --fi-iiunn f Q j IVe Lost My Lease ! 1 Everything Reduced S $r for Suits worth up t6 $15 This lot, embraces an assortment of J .all-wool Suits in a variety of pat terns. True, a few were carried over from last season, but they are erack-- a-jack values at that. 50 for tats worth up to $18 Bin variety of smart Spring Suits in a multitude of the very latest and most desirable patterns. These are rfiriilar fifteen and eiprhteen-dollar suits pood ones, too.. 3iOi09 8! Suits worth up to $20 $ This is not an exaggeration manv of these suits cost thir teen dollars and fifty cents to manufacture the cloth alone is worth $2 a yard wholesale. Tremendous variety. Suifs worth up to $25 $ 50 12 Strictly all hand -tailored from a splendid variety of all-wool fabrics. Linings and finishings fhe very highest grade. Spring styles and patterns. See them. All FURNISHINGS CUT MAIL ORDERS FILLED J. L. BOWMAN C POPULAR-PRICE CLOTHIERS FIFTH AND ALDER Oof1! I Closing-Out Sale-Closing-Out Sale- Closing-Out Sale- Closing-Oi-t Sale-SIosing-Out Sale-CIosing-Out Sale-ClosingSale this, and It proved one of the most colorful and effective numbers of the evening. Miss Mildred Josselyn and R. C. Brennan. the latter of whom jumped Into the role on two days' no tice, were the soloists for this dance. The others were Miss VOna Guthrie. Miss Maurene Campbell, Miss Louise Williams. Miss Gladys Betts. Miss Cas. sie Hiller. Miss Katherlne Graham, Miss Clarice Biles, Miss Crystal Hy land. Miss Thelma Garrett. Joseph Ferguson. John Worcester, George Shroyer. James Brady. Norman Mat schek, Percy Hiller, Edward Noyes, Glendower Kllicott. Guy Perham. College Widows Are "Taking." Next came tiie "College Widows," beautifully frowned maids In white satin with black chiffon overdresses. The dancers were, Mrs. Henry W. Sharp. Miss Cully Anna Cook, Miss Louise Burns, Miss Margaret Wood bridge Hewett, Miss Ethelwynne Glass and Miss Catherine Emmons. Quickly followed the "Fluffy Ruf- BARTLETT IN PORTLMD? KVKnETT CAPITALIST MISSIXG SINCE SATUIDAV, TRACED. Letters Written From Seattle and Depot Here Give Clew Suicide Theory Exploded. EVERETT, Wash., May 1. (Spe cial.) A letter received today by Mrs. J. J. Bartlett, wife of the Everett capi talist and logging man, shows that ho was in Portland, Or.. Sunday and des perate efforts are being made to locate him in that city. Bartlett disappeared Saturday even ing following an illness of a few days and self-destruction was feared. An- fles." two graceful dancers, Cornelia other letter, written earlier, came from Ripley and Evelina Magruder, dressed ! Seattle. There is nothing, friends say. in American beauty shades of chiffon. The Domino girls came next with Barbara Crocker, an elfin sprite, danc- In either letter that might show the missing man to be contemplating self destruction. One of the letters speaks lng like a bit of thistle-down, garbed j of his worry in establishing a logging in scarlet satin Pierrot costume. Her assistants in white duplicates of Miss Crocker's costume, were. Misses Mar garet Pendleton, Evelina Magruder, Cornelia Ripley, Gladys Harrison, Ethel Malpas and Mildred Josselyn. Plot Works Out. " In between while bits of the plot worked out. Malcolm had dressed as a feminine cousin and Lester Hodson, one of the mainsprings of the play, had consented to shed his first identity as Runty Short, a nice freshman lad, In order to do the Charley's Aunt stuff and be a chaperone for the dear girls. Needless to say Hodson struck 12 in his guise as Mrs. Heritage, in a trailing gray gown with hair to match. Having found out that after all it is Dorothy and only Dorothy who cares for him, Malcolm takes oft his mop of blonde curls and does the "come-to-my-arms" line. Then Marjorle Hauss man and James Alexander dance ef fectively "Come Along Ma Cherie" with duet accompaniment, or vice versa j anu everoouy uui-ea " j duos, trios and quartets, for the big ensemble song. "Good-bye" and the curtain went down, only to rise again for the distribution of the second relay of flowers. Verily It was some show. It is to be repeated this afternoon with the addi tional specialty of the "May Polo Dance." PUBUSHERSNAMES ASKED House Dill Would Compel Printing Who Are Owners and Editors. WASHINGTON. May 1. The Barn hart bill to compel all newspapers, msgaxlnes and periodicals to print the names of their managing editors, own ers and all stockholders was attached to the postofflce appropriation bill In the House today. It was amended to make this obliga tory on newspapers one day of each week. The amendment was agreed to by a vote of 72 to 32. Onnr Cnderwood Leading. JACKSONVILLE, Fla, May 1. Re turns from the state Presidential prl- marlea held today, with Woodrow Wil son and Oscar Underwood as the only participants, were meager at midnight. w precincts baa been reported com plete, but these and the vote or other precincts as far as counted. Indicated that I'nderwood was leading by a fair majority. The ballot Is mors than two feet long and it takes four to six minutes to count one vote. Anything like comr plete figures on the vote are not ex pected before Wednesday night camn near Tolt. with C. A. Mlley. It is known that Bartlett was labor ing under a great mental strain before he vanished from Everett. He had been ill. too, which added materially to his unhealthy mental condition. The receipts of the two letters have caused Mrs. Bartlett and friends to take heart, believing they will be able to find the missing man in the course of a few days. In the first letter, the one written from Seattle. Bartlett said he may have done his wife and busi ness partner an injustice by leaving Everett, but the work of removing the machinery from one place and install ing it in Tolt was too much for him and he needed a rest. In the second letter, written from Portland, Or., on a Portland train, for the envelope shows the communication to have been mailed in the Portland station, the Everett man says he is not feeling well, but would write his wife when he had recovered. Tracers have been sent out to Port land and there is reason to believe that results will be secured perhaps by tomorrow. HUBBARD AMUSES CROWD Sage of East Aurora Speaks Pointed Epigrams. in "I am an advertising man myself," said Elbert Hubbard at the Bungalow Theater last night, and all of the Ad men and their friends and their wives and their sweethearts, whom they had brought with them to hear the lecture on "Modern Business," which he was to give under the auspices of the Ad Club, smiled up at him with fellow RAILWAY STRIKE AVERTED Agreement Signed by Representa tives of Both Sides. NEW YORK, May 1. The threat ened strike of engineers of the 50 rail roads east o Chicago was averted to night by the signing of an agreement between the two committees represent ing the railroads and engineers. STRAIGHT GOODS Get the May Everybody's Magazine; read C. P. Connolly's "BIG BUSINESS AND TIIE BENCH." His cool and temperate statements and their stag gering significance will convince you that you are face to face with an overwhelming, indictment of the evil influences that have been steadily and with pur pose gaining an ascendency over our judicial system. Inform 3-ourself now. EVERYBODY'S MAGAZINE 15c Cents on all News-stands $1-50 a Year THE RIDGWAY COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK P. S. And in spite of it all we are not sure that we believe in the recall of the Judiciary. thA seats in the house were filled, prov ing again' that the members of the Portland Ad Club have the knack of success in securing big attendance at every entertainment they may produce. "I write advertisements and I write literature," continued the speaker, "and I make no distinction between adver tising and literature. The advertising man is a necessity to society; we must have some way of telling the world where we are with what we have to give it." Mr. Hubbard was the guest of A. G. Clark, president of the Ad Club, after his arrival in Portland yesterday morn ing. At noon he visited the Rotary Club at its luncheon at the Imperial Hotel, and after the close of his lec ture last night he left at once for Ssin Francisco, where he is to fill his next lecture engagement. Mr. Clark pre sided over the meeting last night and made the address of introduction. The greatest single article ever in Everybody's i
