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THE MORNING OREGONIAN. MONDAY, 24, 1917. KOLB AND DILL Hi ROLLICKING FARCE PORTLAND GIRLS, WHO HAVE "COME HOME" WITH KOLB & DILL, WHO ARE AT THE HEILIG THIS WEEK. YOUNG MEN! For You Today, a New Shipment of 14 "High Cost of Loving" Brings Gales of Laughter From Heilig Audience. CLEVER COMEDIANS SCORE Music, Girls, Jazz Band, Costumes, Stars and Near-Stars Combine to Slake Show One of Best Fnn Provokers Ever Seen Here. THE HIGH COST OF LOrd'C PRESENTED AT HEILIG. CAST. Lent Freda Hemple Cora. Virginia I)e Lilies Emma, .............. Julia. Blanc Rose May Cloy Edward Hauser ..... Henry Shumer Albert Bean Max M. Dill Lodwig Kllnke C William Kolb Anthony Tiedemeyer. . -Frank rarlan Norl Burnham Loreni Gillette Lawrence Tucker ...... Leo Hennlnf Mathilda Burnham. .Honor Hamilton Godfrey Burnham Bill Jacobs Manilla Manilla Le Mori Ruth Ruth Edell Lucille Luclle Chalfant Hazel .............. . Il&zel Randolph Eva Eva Clarlc Mary.. Mary Newton Dorothy ............Dorothy Spencer Zanette Zanette Whiting Rose. Rose Novak , .. i 1 - i 1 - 1; V - '. ' V Jv- .W.a , 1 I K, ji s. .,., ' . ; . 1 .1, - ;; BY LEONE BASS BAER. There are, and there always will be, a great band of brethren and si stern who have but one point of view. No matter how interesting: the adventure or how ingenious the plight of the hero or heroine, or, as in the instance of 'The High Cost of Loving,- the several heroes and the herclne, if it deals ever so little with the subject of "affinities" It Is vulgar. Ncne of us will gainra. he fact that the Puritans were a wonderful lot but they brought over and inoculated us with the virus of a too-severe virtue. Jt demands us to do away with so much that makes life less sever, and grind ing. In short, the Puritans had virtue a-plenty, but no sense of humor. Farce Droll and er Interesting. In "The High Cost of Loving," which opened at the Heilig last night, the authors might have taken a page out of Balzac or mayhap Boccaccio, so droll and er-well-er-interesting it proves to be. It attacks a more or less peculiar problem in a farcical way, never for an instant taking it seriously and never dealing with it in any way but high and good humor, and as free from moral application as a baby sheep. It's a rare skating of thin ice, 'tis true, but the several skaters get over the thin places with engaging frank ness and a fine discretion. The story pivots around the comical discomfit ure of four old hypocrites who, in their youth, were no better than they should have been and who, in their later years, are paying for their wild-oats-sowing. Humorous situations, frank and Joyous comedy and hearty good fun and the open-throated, deep-rooted happy laughter its lines evoke are the best test of its quality and excellence aa entertainment. Shrieks of unrestricted mirth that is wholly oblivious to every blessed idea' but the delightful humor of a situation gales of mirth that sweep the Heilig audiences, that is what greets the gay sallies and the nimble art of the fa mous Kolb and Dill pair. Kolb a ad Dill Delight. There Is always a difficulty in the way of securing a good vehicle for two stars in combination. Kolb and Dill have found it in "The High Cost of Loving." The elongated Kolb and the abbreviated Dill demonstrate how justly they deserve the title of come dians, and made a hit as big as if we had never seen them before do such amazingly funny things, or listened to their fearful and wonderful Dutch dialect. From the moment the curtain went tip the musical farce gave every evi dence of being just what we need this week. It has the tempo, the costumes, the dances, the girls; it has a jazz or chestra and it has Kolb and Dill. Max Dill and Clarence William Kolb are two of the hypocritical old purity leaguers, and Henry Shuraer as the third reprobate contributes an Abe and JtawruHs flavor, while Frank Darien offers a gem-like portrait of the dod dering old white-haired fourth hypo crite. Julia Blanc, as a. mere wife, has & positive gift for vital and familiar characterization. Her Emma fairly oozed a we-all-know-her atmosphere. Lorenz Gillette's amusing personality found great scope in a nice-boy role, and Leo Henning, as a youngish hero, adds great joy. The women are all beauties and talented individually and collectively. Mile. Lucille Chalfonte is certainly another musical find, a Tet razztni in the making, with & great big, glorious coloratura soprano, flute-like in its cadences and soaring up to the twinkly stars. . She was jiven a tre mendous ovation, and deserved it. May Cloy, dainty and Dresden dolly in type, presented a delightful solo-dance and played a cutie-girl part in the play. The chorus maids are not chorus maids. Each is a talented artist, and in the big ensemble number steps into the activities and contributes a spe cialty of finest quality. The jazz orches tra is another feature, with electric lighted banjos, cellos, saxaphones and trombones- It's a great show, and will be here all week, with matinees on "Wednesday and Saturday. ABOVE, LEFT MISS VIRGINIA DE LILLIKS AND MISS EVA CLARK. BE LOW MAY CLOY. Friends and relatives of the girls couldn't understand it. Here were three former Portland girls. May Cloy, Virgin ia De Lillies and Eva Clark, all with Kolb and Dill in "The High Cost of Loving," and their pictures hadn't been in the papers. The manager's life was made miserable, he said, and yesterday he had them photographed, together. Miss De Lillies studied music here several years ago at the Oregon Conservatory of Music She has had r host of cal lers since her arrival Friday. Miss Clark is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Harold Clark, and is remembered by many. Miss Cloy is well known locally as Mabel Larson, her name In private 1 ife. She has one of the leading roles., FIRST PAVER IS HERE W. J. Watson Tells of Laying Brick on Stark Street. TODAY At Meier & Frank 's The Formal Fall Opening and Presentation of the New Fashions for Fall & Winter 1917 Comprehensive Collection of the Authentic Autumn Modes in Women's and Misses' Suits, Coats, Dresses, Furs, Millinery, Etc. You Arc Cordially Invited The QiuuM-rrTSToRs or Portland --V:1 if-...!- OREGON IS IN LINE Every City and Town Organ ized for War Library Drive. NATIONAL GREETINGS SENT PESSIMISM IS OVERCOME Rain Compels Contractor to Impro vise Tent Covering and Police Have to Help Keep Back Cu rious Crowds on Sidewalk. "They stood there, wagging their whiskers, and chewing tobacco, and saying that it couldn't be done, on ac count oi the heavy Oregon mist,' but I did it." Thus does W. J. Watson, of San Francisco, who is paying: a business visit to Portland, tell of Portland's first pavement - laying, other than wooden block. Mr. Watson is president and general manager of the Watsonite Products Company, of San Francisco and Oakland, and is registered at the Multnomah. For five years, back in the 90's, he was a resident of Portland, where he erected the first coal ta: refinery on the Pacific Coast Later he laid the first vitrified brick pavement, on Stark, between First and Second streets, largely as a matter of experiment and in the face of wet Winter weather and pessimism. "When I pot back from the Civil War," recalled Mr. Watson, "I engaged in the refining of coal tar and the manufacture of coal tar products in the industrial district near Pittsburg, Pa. Later I went to Tennessee, where 1 developed large beds of natural asphalt anrl did considerable contract paving. Tales of Oncra Stir. "The boys, for they were boys then, used to come back from the Pacific Coast to the Grand Army encampments. What they told me about California and Oregon imbued me with a strong desire to sell out and locate in the West. In those days all Easterners scoffed at the stories of the big trees and luxuriant growth of the Pacific country. "Anyway, in 1892, I talked It over with my wife, and we sold out. When I came to Portland the city was series of frame shacks. The Dekum building was the modern office build tng. and the Chamber of Commerce and The Oregonian building were in the first stages of construction. The side walks were wooden, and the only pav ing was of wood blocks. 1 was enthu siastic about the possibilities of the town and the country. "Strange as it may seem, there was no coal tar refinery on the Pacific Coast. I looked around and finally ORPHEUM ORDERS SWAMP Telephone Line Left Open, Calls Are so Numerous. made a contract with the gas company to take its output of coal tar. and made similar contracts at Seattle and Ta- j coma, wherever I could get the mate rial. I built my refinery at Hood street, somewhere near the present location of Sixth street. 'Tried Brick" Used. "In the South I had laid successful pavement with brick treated by boil ing in coal tar "fried! brick," my negro kinen used to call the material, the interstices were filled with hot pitch, but ' here I looked around for vitrified brick. Frank Litherland had a yard then, in Fulton, I believe, and the samples he showed me were satis factory. "Property on the block between First and Second streets, along Stark street, was owned by four people, of whom George B. Markle was one. Ar-rf-emr s were made to pave the block with vitrified brick. When w hi uie concrete foundation, and got ready for the brick, the oldtlmers stood around and paid it couldn't be done,- because of the rain, but. - betweei. showers, I got the foundation down. "I sent to Nashville tor a gang of five negroes to lay the brick, all of them men who had worked for me. I had a portable frame made. 40 feet in length and the width of the street, and a sailmaker furnished me the canvas to cover it. We put up big red-letter signs, something about "the first vitri fied brick pavement ever laid in Port land,' and went to work. Crowd Is Too Eager. The ferry slip was at the foot of the street then. It was raining the next morning when we went to work under canvas, and you should have seen the crowd gather as they came up from the ferry. We had to get a policeman to keep 'em back. I had planks laid along the sidewalk to hold back the water. Well, we put that pavement in. and it wasn't torn up for a good many years." Since his departure from Portland, Mr. . Watson has been continuously located at Oakland and San Francisco, where he now owns and operates the plant of the Watsonite Products Com pany. At present he is engaged on a contract to lay the floors in the plant of the Far West Milk Prod icts Com pany in construction at Astoria. Mr. Watson is considering the advis ability of locating a branch plant in Portland to serve Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. Minerals es sential to his product, heretofore pro curable only in California, have been found in superior quantity and quality in this state. PULLMAN PORTERS IMBIBE Patrolman Sell u I plus Interrupts Private Drinkfest and Card Party. Patrolman Schulptus rudely inter rupted a combined drinking and poker party of two negro porters in the quietude of an S., P. & S. coach in the railroad yards at 3 A. M. yesterday. One man got away, but James Qulnton was so drunk, the officer declares, he didn't know whether he waa playing poker or pinochle. A deck of cards and J19.50 in silver were lying on the table. Qulnton will be given a chance to tell Judge Rossman this morning all about his Saturday night party. When the Orpheum boxofflce opened for the first general seat sale yester day the telephone calls for reserva tions were so numerous central left th Orpheum line open, the ticket seller ' kept the receiver to his ear contin- uously and the telephone .girl was. obliged to ask patrons to take their i turn in getting the Orpheum number. In the rush the management appealed to Fred Spoeri. manager of the tele phone company, and if practicable a head receiver, as used by telephone girls, will be installed tn the Orpheum boxofflce for use of the ticket sellers during the opening rush. The boxofflce opened at 9 o'clock, and ! from then until 10 o clock at night the Orpheum treasurer and his assistant were busy every minute. Millroy A. Anderson, treasurer, worked a full 24 hour shift, devoting all of Saturday night to racking of the season list and superintending the window sale all day yesterday. The long1 evenings are coming:. There will be many when only the need of entertainment could lure you from the friendly hearth. Perhaps music will fill that need and make your evenings at home a source of pleasure and intellectual enjoyment as well. Here's an ideal outfit and at a special price today1 Victr ola X Outfit $86 Consisting of the beautif ul Victrola X. as illustrated your choice of mahogany, golden 1 or fumed oak finishes. Six 10-inch double- i disc 75c records of your own choice 12 selec- L a : oA,A 1 V,.. -I frr j i sw Liuiii. octcu icluiu tuuuiiia. xuuu uccuies. Easy payments if desired. Terms as low as $3 DOWN AND $5 EACH MONTH until the sum of $86 is paid for in alL No interest. Sixth Floor Fifth Street quarters in the Title & Trust building Tuesday afternoon. PIANO VIRTUOSO DRAFTED s Suits $15420 And they're exactly the sort of clothes you want in quality, style and service features. Made of dependable tweeds, cassimeres, cheviots and unfinished worsteds. In patterns new and good to look upon. In colors that are to the young fellows' tastes. And tailored as Meier & Frank young men's clothes always are to hang and fit as if they were made for you and you only. They have a style by which young men have come to distinguish suits from this 6tore.' Double or single-breasted coats with slash, patch or sloping pock ets, xjoose belted effects button ing all around and pinch-backs. Early Reports From Solicitors In dicate That Response Will Be Generous in This State, so Quota Should Be Exceeded. Every city and town in Oregon will swing into line this morning on the be ginning of collecting Oregon's quota of the $1,000,000 war library fund. Not a single city or town remained unorgan ized last night. W. L. Brewster. Oregon state direc tor, received yesterday the following telegram from the members of the Na tional War Library Council, appointed by Secretary of War Baker: 'War Library Council greets states performing their duty in war library fund campaign. Monday marks begin ning this significant movement. One million dollars needed to make this fund. Pledge American loyalty to our soldiers and sailors from wealth of resources in your state. By intensified effort your citizens can establish rec ord for participation in this campaign. War Library Council knows quality of your citizenship and ie depending on your state for strong effort that goal be attained for glory of Americans at home and in the trenches." (Signed) Frank A. Vanderlip, Asa G. Candler. P. P. Claxton. J. Randolph Coolidge, Mrs. Josiah E. Cowles, John H. Finley, James A. Flaherty. E. T. Stotesbury, Theodore N. Vail, Harry A. Wheeler. In order to enlist the entire co-opera tion of camp and . cantonment com manders, Major-General Tasker M. Bliss, chief of staff of the United States Army, yesterday dispatched the follow ing telegram to Army heads all over this country: "Secretary Baker approves work of War Library Council to provide ade quate reading facilities for men in all training camps, both here and abroad. The Toung Men's Christian Association activities are already so numerous that it is doubted whether they can under take this specialized activity with much success. Secretary Baker himself ap pointed War Library Council." Members of the Oregon War Library Council expressed themselves as enthu siastic over Major-General Greene s un questioned indorsement of the fund. Judging by early reports from solic itors of the manner in which they are being received and early city reports, Oregon will raise its quota. Teams will make their first reports at the head- D. Campbell, Whitman Conservatory of Music, Is French Linguist. Letters received by friends of David Campbell, the talented piano virtuoso, who is the head of the piano depart ment of Whitman Conservatory of Music. Walla Walla, Wash., say that Mr. Campbell's draft number has been called in that city and that he is awaiting the summons to go with troops to American Lake for military training. Mr. Campbell received his first Army notice and passed the preliminary physical examination In Dallas. Or., August 21. On returning to Walla Walla he found he had been certified for military duty by the district board. Mr. Campbell is a splendid French lin guist, and it is possible he will go with the National Army to France as in terpreter. He was taught to play the piano by the Swiss virtuoso, Rudolph Ganz. David Campbell has many friends, especially in this city, and is a brother of President Campbell of the University of Oregon. Lv ' Tut Quality Store or Portland. They're just the suits that fas- A tidious young fellows like to be seen in. There's fine choosing in all sizes at $15 and $20. Men's Clothing Shop, Third Floor. ROTARY TO HEAR OF GAME "Out of Door Sports" to Be Feature of Tuesday's Noon Luncheon. An "out-door sports" session of the Rotary Club will be featured at the luncheon Tuesday noon in the crystal room of the Hotel Benson. The chair man of the day will be W. J. Roope, manager of the United States Rubber Company, of California. Carl D. Shoemaker, state game war den, will speak on the game laws of Oregon. Dr. K. C. McFarland, president of the Oregon Sportsman's League, will tell where the finest fishing water is situated, and spin a few yarns about the big ones that got away. The committee also has selected a huntsman of renown to discuss the chase of Oregon's big game, but has declined to make his name public, re serving his appearanee as a surprise. Ladies' Auxiliary Meets Tonight. The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Port land Ambulance Company, under Cap tain Sellwood, will hold its next meet ing at Manchester Hall. 85 Fifth street, between Oak and Stark streets, tonight at 8 o'clock. At the last meet ing officers were appointed as follows: Mrs. Mary Krall, president; Miss Myr tle Hummell. vice-president: Miss M. Russell, treasurer; Miss L. M. Hawley, secretary. Ail interested are cordially invited to attend the meetings. Kelso Teachers Entertained. KELSO, Wash., Sept. 23. (Special.) The teachers of Kelso and vicinity were entertained at a reception Friday night in their honor, given by the women of the Methodist Church. A number of short addresses and a musical pro gramme were given. Real Boys' BITS In Our Daylight BAKERY A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR TODAY Bread, homemade and entire wheat. Delicious and nutri tious. Keeps moist longer, makes better toast and tastes better. Fresh every morning. Large loaf 15c. 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