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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1915)
THE MORSiyG OREGOXIAy, TUESDAY, APRIX IS, 1HI5. f ' iSJ - il i HEILIG PLAY QUITS " OFT-TRODDEN . PATH 'Seven Keys to Baldpate" Has Plot That Keeps Its Audi ence Guessing to Last. of 1178 Greeley street, whe maintain in a letter to The Oregonian that the first full-blown rose of the season ap peared at her home on Easter Sunday. This record, if true, beats that of the other claimant by several days. ENTIRE CAST EXCEPTIONAL Mors Passes In Review Bcrore Inter ested Spectators as Author, Writing on Wager, Works His i Characters Into Novel. "Seven Key to Baldpate." t William Hallowell Masee. .Cyril Scott 4 Elijah Quimby John D. O'Hara Mrs. Quimby Laura Bennett John Bland Ernest Geyer f Mary Norton Eloel IntropodJ I Mrs. Rhodes Rita "W. Harlan Peter Spencer Charter t Myra Thornhlll Jean Shelby t 1-oa Max Frank Allworth I Jim Carsati Frank Monroe The. Haydan J. Hooker Wright JIsls Kennedy Leo Sterrett A Tho Owner of Baldpate - J Bertram Millar i.. Br LEONE CASS BAER That gentle little pastime of guess ins how old is Ann or befuddling one's mind to discover why chickens cross public thoroughfares, is child's play be side the big puzzle at the Heilig this week. About the time you think you've solved tho riddle something breaks loose somewhere in the plot and you can only sit in perplexity while you struggle at another solution. A big crowd of amateur Sherlock Holmeses sat on the case of "Seven Keys to Bald pate" last night and every one of us trai-ked and sleuthed all through the plot with no results at all unless, of course, those of us who had read Earl Derr Rigger's story of the Seven Keys. Flay Differs From Most. This is one of the all too few plays that do not tell you the answer in the first act. It is absolutely different from any play we've ever seen. "Seven Keys to Baldpate" is keen ex hilarating fun, rare good enjoyment. It concerns one William Hallowell Jlacee, who makes a wager of 5000 with his friend, the owner of Baldpate Inn. a Summer resort on the top of the mountains in Vermont, that he will ehut himself in the empty hotel and in 24 hours write a story of 10.000 words. It is in the prologue that we see Magee, marvelously well acted by Cyril Scott, arriving at the inn. half frozen, in the midst of a raging blizzard. George M. Cohan has given a real Belascoish touch of realism to the bliz zard outside and it howls and beats away every time one of the seven keys opens the frost-covered big hall doors. A rustic caretaker and his rustier wTTe await Masee, and their interview with him is unique. The inn owner has sent a message to them to follow Magee's instructions, to make him comfortable and to return in exactly 24 hours to be custodian oi me manuscript. They tell him of the old inn's history. that his is the only Key, xney ie . I'eter, a hermit who roams the hillside because his wile ran away wim . . lacmon tell flf CThOStS. LiaVCUilfi BBiEai""i J anci 0f a reform movement that swept . nni;tinfana Intn its net some years previous. With all these ideas in his head Magee ascends to his Bed room and starts his story. Characters Seen as They Arrive. The next two acts tell of what h writes. Laura Jean Libbey. Jack Ion j i j innn Pnn TVtnlr Pnrter. J OOH, ijujfiai . " - v... - - - . Fennimore Cooper. Robert W. Chambers and Conan Doyle's best efforts boiled down into one mess and served by Paul Armstrong in play form couldn't hold more ingredients than does the story Six other keys to Baldpate turn the lock of the Dig aoor ana enter . be come integral parts of the story Magee is weaving. ii a mwij .r 1'innllr F.IDIWML . li i..lriij An Hvan 11 1 the An trpnws"5 . .. v.. n - - - key to the solution, so that makes eight Keys to Daiuiiic. j 1 1 - v ... turn, llagee hands over the story with 1.. n 1 W Ii!lA (tlliy iniuu i- from our seats feeling like children who have watched a wonderful magi cian and then witnessed an exposure of me incus. Mr. Scott is an excellent actor, a comedian to his finger tips, whose pleasing personality and eneagins spirited playing of Magee makes the Tole memorable. Jean Shelby is a fascinating little ad. renturess. Spencer Charters is excel lent in a character study of the old hermit whose hate is universal: Lee Sterrett as a far-seeing policeman; John D. O'Hara as a yokel-like care taker, are just a few picked at random from a cast of all-worth-whiles. "Seven Keys to Baldpate" will be at the Heillg ail week, with matinees Wednesday and Saturday. BRITISH SLAIN BY OWN FIRE Heavjr Loss at Xeuve Chapelle Dae to Error, Is Explanation. LONDON, March 30. (Correspond ence of the Associated Press.) The early rumors ascribing the heaviness of the British losses at Xeuve Chapelle to some extent to British artillery are now finding their way into print. It is said the artillery was directed to fire at certain points, but owing to a deranged field telephone service and a land fog. the angle of fire was not raised when the impetuous troops took the German lines. In the early accounts no mention was made of this mistake, bat the Times now editorially speaks of the "experi ence of Xeuve Chapelle. which has been so incompletely explained." Ill BE I 111 RAGE TO lOEOBI'W Rivalry of Widow and Spinster Still Amuses W. A. Waifeh as He Sits in Ceil. PRISONER ADMITS FRAUD Plot to Entrap Him Into Marriage "For His Money" Led to Borrow ing of Eagerly Proffered. Loans, Is Explanation. That he wrote the telegram an nouncing himself heir to $250,01)0 as a joke and accepted loans from women only after he had overheard a plot to Iran him into marriage for his money. was asserted Sunday night by Webster A. Waugh. alias N. W. Neely, who was arrested by Detectives Abbott and Goltz Saturday on complaint that Waugh had defrauded women of money lent him under promise of marriage. Waugh protests that he owes only two fair creditors and that his total lia bility is only $50. When I heard that plot." waugu said grinning, "it occurred to me that everybody was trying to swindle some H3ETS 10 TO 9 BONDS WIN Campaign for Road Issne Arouses Interest and Money Appears. The widespread interest in the $1.S5.00 road bond election Wednes day is reflected In the 'activity in local betting circles, and last night bets were being laid on the victory of the bonds. The prevailing odds are 10 to v that the bonds will carry, and some of the chance fans are laying bets on substan tial majorities. The campaign has become so preten tious that considerable sums of money have appeared, and in several places ...... ... im In nn th. knnl f GG11A 11 1' a llOOn sealed by a display of gold and re-1 one and it looked like a case of each corded bets. These bets range in sums from $10 to $100. several J20 wagers being placed Saturday. BRITISH DENOUNCE JAPAN Press in Orient Says Demands Transgress on Concessions. PEKIN, April 12 Article 5 of group 5 of the Japanese demands made on Chine. an article which, it is pointed out here, may be regarded by the Brit ish as transgressing on their railway concessions was reported in the dis cussion at the conference held yester day between the Japanese Minister to China, Mr. Hioki, and the Pckin gov ernment officials. The British press in the Orient is unsparing in its criticism of Japan. The North China Daily News, one of the most prominent British newspapers in the Far East, recently styled Japan's demands on China as a "dirty trick." BOY'S BODY IS RECOVERED Cramp Believed to Have Prevented Student From Saving Himself. That while wading along the shal lows Satur-day afternoon at the edge of the slough wnere his body was found Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, Bertrand Reld, 14 years old, stepped into a deep hole and, while trying to swim out, was seized with a cramp, is the theory advanced by City Grappler Brady and Assistant Prehn, after the finding of the body. The body was doubled, as though, before death, the boy had suffered from a cramp. The body will be taken frqm the Dunning & MerJntee undertaking es- GILMORE PLAN REJECTED Anti-Saloon League Xot to Ask for Absolute Prohibition in' Oregon. That the Anti-Saloon Lea-rue will not join hands with Tom Gilmore. National president of the Model License League, In support of a law absolutely prohibit ing the receipt or possession of intoxi cating liquors by anyone in Oregon, was affirmed by R. 1". . Hutton, state superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of Oregon, in an address de livered at the Vernon Presbyterian Church Sunday morning. Mr. Hut ton said that he had been challenged by Tom Gilmore through the columns of The Oregonian to join in the sup port of such a law. "The Anti-Saloon League will not aid such a proposition." said Mr. Hutton. "because it has been held that under the Federal Constitution such a law is unconstitutional." 'SQUARE DEAL' GIVEN EITEL Crrmau Ambassador Says as Much and Extends Thanks. WASHINGTON. April 12. Count von Bernstorff. German Ambassador here, has thanked the American Government for the "square deal," as he expressed it. shown to the converted cruiser Prinz ICiiel Friedrich. now interned at the Norfolk Navy-yard. Courtesy extended by American offi cial to Captain Thierichens and the crew of the vessel also is acknowledged. Early Hose Ilecord Contested. Claims of 11. Grist, of 775 East Twenty-eighth street, to having the earliest rose blooming out of doors in Portland are disputed by ilra. J. Horde, PAVL0WA TO DANCE HERE Famous Hussian Artiste Booked by Manager Pangle for Portland. After much negotiating and arrang ing of arrangements, Pavlowa, the in imitable Russian dancer, is to visit Portland. She will be here June 14 and 15, Monday and Tuesday nights. W. T. Pangle, manager of The Heilig, received Information yesterday that the artiste would be booked for Portland, although for a time there was serious doubt whether the Western trip this year would include the Pacific North west. All doubt was dispelled yester day on receipt of booking contracts. Pavlowa was "last in Portland with Mordkin less than two years ago. (man for himself." "I tried it first as a joke," Waugh asserted, as he eat on his jail bunk. Waugh's lean frame shook with amuse ment as he related the prank which led him to jail. The man's sense of humor has sustained him through the loss of two fortunes, and sparkles even in a prison cell. Telegram Brings Leans. T wrote a telegram saying my uncle was dead and that he had left me i-i&u, 000 on condition that I be married by June 20. "I showed the telegram to a friend The story epread. 1 had to keep back ing it up. and the plet grew rapidly, My friends feted me and offered to lend me money. Life seemed good strain. "Then one night I went down to the hotel office for an envelope. I over heard a conversation between two of my supposed friends. One was a man; the other a woman. I understood enough of the conversation to realize that the woman wanted to marry me for my money. They intended to trap me into the marriage. " "Every man for himself.' I thought. 'If you can beat me out of anything you are welcome.' "Then the fun began. There were four women In the race. One was widow of a prominent family. I got most of the money from her. 'She gave me $20 in cash and mailed me $10 more that was lost. " Spinster Rivals VIlv. "Then there was a spinster, about 35 years old. She was big. fat and good-looking. She was a big joke. The spinster wanted to beat the widow's time. "The others were two sisters the daughters of a local business man. Their father has seen the joke since my arrest and has befriended me. The sisters were more on-lookers than any thing else. I got $1.75 from the spin ster. She had to work for her money and I didn't want it, but she insisted." Waugh says he made a fortune dur ing the first Klondike gold rush; lost it and made another. With the latter fortune he traveled all over the United States and finally settled on a farm in Central Oregon. Here he tried raising potatoes, but a dry season wiped out the remainder of his cash. Without money, separated from his wife and weak from ' an operation, Waugh says he arrived In Portland last January. He says he tried to work, but fainted in the street. With his last $10 Waugti says he eked out an existence by dining in a B-cent res taurant and sleeping whereever he found a bed. 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Tne course was marked ITALIAN WAR PARTY RIOTS Prominent Men Are Among Many Persons Arrested in Rome. LONDON, April 12. Great demon strations In favor of Italian, interven tion in the war led to serious disorders yesterday (Sunday) at Rome, and col lisions with the police, according to a dispatch from the Italian capital. Many persons were arrested, includ ing Signor Marlnetti. the Futurist leader, and Professor Benito Mussolini, editor of the Milanese Popolo Italia. MURDERESS, 60, CONVICTED Robbery Is Motive; Woman Beaten to. Death With Lump, of Coal. . DKTROIT, April 12. Mrs. Caroline E. Becker, 60. was today found guilty of murder in the first degree for having caused the death of Miss Francis Bom holt last December. Evidence given at the trial showed that Miss BomJiolt was beaten to death with a large chunk of coal and that robbery was the motive for the crime. MILLS GRANDSON IS BORN Late American Financier's Daugh ter, Wife of Nobleman, Is Mother. LONDON, April 12. The Countess of Granard. who was Miss Beatrice Mills, daughter of Ogden Mills, of New Tork, has given birth to a son. He will be given the title of Viscount Forbes. The Larl and Countess of Granard have two other children, both girls. -The Pope's Brother Dies. LONDON. April 13, 3:42 A. M.- Marquis Jules della Chiesa, a brother of Pope Benedict, is dead, according to Reuters Genoa correspondent. CHINESE WILL RESIST PORTLAND ORIENTALS DECLARE JAPAN'S DEMANDS UNFAIR. Speakers ITrge Support of Fatherland and Call Mass Meeting of All Chinese for Arion Hall Tonight. Portland Chinese will support China in resisting the demands made on her by Japan, judging from strong senti ment which was exhibited at the meet ing of Chinese business men and mem bers of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association Sunday night at the association hall, 269 Davis street. Among the speakers of the evening were Lim Sam, president of the Chi nese Nationalist League of America; Wong Bock Yue, secretary of that or ganization and editor of the Young China, a daily paper published in San Francisco, and Professor Teller, of the Portland Chinese School. All Ciree speakers strongly urged that the Chinese support their father land in resisting Japan's demands, which they declared to be unjust. The sentiments thus expressed were round ly applauded by the several hundred present. A mass meeting of all the Chinese of the city will be held tonight at Arion Hall, a which the same ques tion will be again .discussed, and it is possible that some definite action will be taken. What form this action will take is difficult to say. Wong Bock Yue, when asked if a boycott of Jap anese merchants on the part of the Chinese here was probable, said last night it was their opinion that a boy cott would have little effect. "The Chinese here 'are strongly in favor of supporting China in resisting Japan," he said, "but what action will be taken or whether any action will be taken I cannot say. We are giving the people here a chance to think over the problem, and it is possible that some definite plan will be worked out at the meeting tomorrow night." 10 COMPLAIN 'OF FRAUD Austrians Say Countryman Used Star to Obtain Money From Them. Ten complainants, alleged victims of the operations of Burz Culjak. alias Walter Williams, visited the police headquarters Sunday to strengthen the police case against this man,, who is accused of swindling. With a Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff's star, Culjak is alleged to have posed as a detective among Ignorant countrymen. He is an Austrian. He is said to have obtained amounts rang ing from $20 to $80 from fellow Aus trians by threatening them with jaiL He had also blanks from the District Attorney's office, which he is said to have signed officially as "Deputy Dis trict Attorney Walter Williams." CROWDS ATTEND OPERA "TRAVIATA" AND "RICOLKTTO" TRACTIONS AT BAKER. AT- Andlence Knthoaiaatic at Night Per formance Doseas ef Persons Are Tarnea Away in Afternoon. tat Two big audiences attended the Baker Theater Sunday, and enjoyed to the full fine presentations by the Italian Opera Company of the two Verdi grand operas. "Traviata," in the afternoon, and "Rigojetto" at night. In "Traviata" the cast was the same as that of last Friday's performance Trivelli, Ingar, Silva, Mackie, Neri, Rovere and Morelli, as principals. They all sang with much success and were cordially received. The crowd was so large that dozens of people were turned away. At night the audience grew enthusi astic over the fine rendition of "Rigo letto," with a new cast consisting of Eugenio de Falco, as the Duke, Benyan, as Rigolette; Lombard, as Sparafucile; Rovere, as Monterone; Tina Schinetti, as Gilda and Edith Mackie, as Madda lena. Schinetti excels as Gilda, and sang and acted the part with girlish simplicity and fine sincerity. She is an emotional actress and so much feeling did she place into the duet with Ben yan in the third act that she wept in real earnest. Schinetti sang also with much success, and in the famous "Quar tette" scene, she sang, . the orchestra men said, up to C in alt. De Falco made a romantic looking Duke, and awoke a storm of applause by his fine singing of "La Donna e Mobile." Tonight the opera bill is Aiua witn Katherine Lnybrook and De Falco in the principal roles. DRUGS 1MIUWJ Double Stamps Today Many a Home Has Been Finished and Furnished With S. J H. Stamps. 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