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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
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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.
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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
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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
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key to the solution, so that makes eight
Keys to Daiuiiic. j 1 1 - v ...
turn, llagee hands over the story with
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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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MRS. LOUISE GILL BURIED
Salvation Army Honors Worker With
Military Funeral.
Mrs. Louise Gill, aged 21, soldier of
the Salvation Army, was buried with
lull military nonors aunaay aner
noon, the funeral cortege 'being pre
ceded through the streets of Portland
by an army band, in which three corps
united. The funeral services were said
by Lieutenant-Colonel Scott, of Seat
tle.
The procession left the Salvation
Armv hall, at Second and Ash streets,
and proceeded to the chapel of J. P.
Finley Ac Son. 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.
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Guard Officers to Speak.
"Militarv day" will be the feature of
the luncheon of the Rotary Club at the
Benson Hotel tomorrow at noon.
Brigadier-General George A. White,
Adjutant-General of the Oregon Na-
(ood roads in Multnomah County will
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of Preparedness." Captain D. E. Bow
man of the Third uregon nianirj,
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A.. Oregon National Guard," and Cap
tain V. P. Tebbetts, of Troop A, uregon
K-ntjn..i rinQfi will talk on Our
Citizen Soldiery." County Commissioner
Rufus C. Holman will talk on the pro
posed road bond issue.
Mexicans Tax Americans.
SAX ANTONIO. Tex.. April 12. Taxes
aggregating $1,000,000 have been im
posed on mlneowners In the State ot
Oaxaca, Mexico, according to private ad.
vices reaching here from the City or
Oaxaca, the state capital. Eighty-five
per cent of the inliieownrrs are for
eigners and SO per cent Americans.
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ish governments has been issued by the
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