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7 TIIE MORNING OltEGOXIAN. MONDAY. 31 AY 1921 DRIVE FOB FESTIVAL T Royal Rosarians to Campaign for $25,000 Fund. . QUICK WORK EXPECTED Entire Orjanlzation Will -Vucmpt to Finish Solicitation by Thursday "oou. Under the direction of the Koyal P.osarians the drive for SS3.000 with which to conduct the 1921 Rose Fes tival, scheduled for June 8, 9 and iu, will start bright and early tomorrow morning. The entire Itosar.an or ganisation will be thrown into the drive and it is expected to nave the sum raised by Thursday noon. In taking upon their shoulders the burden of raising the money, the Royal Rosarians have added another important duty to their work in con nection with the festival this year. They will, of course, have the usual active part in the festival itself, of ficiating at the crowning of the queen, and participating in the grand ball for the queen and her attendants. Ronarlaiu' Help Aufced. It was at the urgent suggestion of O. W. Mielke. president of the Rose Festival association, that the Royal llosarians decided to raise the money. U a meeting o-' the privy council, ot the Rosarians last week, it was unanimously voted to take charge of the drive. An order for all members of the or ganization to meet at 9 o'clock to morrow morning at the green room of the Chamber of Commerce to start the campaign has been issued by Frank McCrillis. prime minister, and it is intended to carry on the cam paign intensively, so that by Thurs day noon the necessary sum will have been raised. The order of the prime minister to every Royal Rosarian was as follows: Duty la Outlined. '"A duty of extreme importance de volves upon our organization at this time. Article II of the edict states that the objects of the organization shall be to promote the best interests of the I'ortland Rose Festival. At the April meeting the Rosarians unanimously agreed to get behind the 1921 Rose Festival and to assist the directors in every way in our power. AVe have been asked to undertake the -oi-ir.cr nf tho funds necessary for an economical tut proper oratnira i the Rose Festival. At a privy counc - .u- niiDGl nf Pri-sidCT of nt mceiiug i ' i. i . t - - Mielke was agreed to and a drive for funds will be inaugurated Tuesday, May 3. , t 'Kvery loyal Rosarians is hereby commanded to assemble in the green room of the Chamber of Commerce at 9 o'clock Tuesday morning, prepared to put in the entire day soliciting funds for the coming festival. It is hoped that only the one full day will be necessary and that at tho May meeting next Thursday noon we can report the task completed. Fellow members, this is our task, for the good of Portland and for the honor of the Rosarian organization, we must make good. Make your plans accordingly, and be in the green room ' at 9 o'clock next Tuesday morning." " EronoBi7 Held Necessary. -We know that all Tortland agrees with us that we must have a festival this year," said Mr. McCriliis, in com menting on the campaign. "Other I'itics would grab at the chance of taking the Rose Festival from us. At the same time, it is acknowledged that economy is necessary. The budget calls for but J2S.000, the smallest sum with'which the city has ever attempted to carry on a festival, ltut with rigid economy it is believed that with this sum a festival can be provided in June that will be a credit to Portland and on a par with the splendid festivals which Portland has sponsored in the past." 2200 PAYP0LL TAXES 33,000 Arc on Assessment Rolls In Grays Harbor County. ABERDEEN', Wash., May 1. (Spe cial.) Out of a total of about 33.000 Grava Harbor county residents af fected, some 2200 have pai-d their share of the state poll tax. according to Mrs. Olive France Dunning, county treasurer. The assessment rolls were turned over to the treasurer last night by County Assessor Wiley after an enumeration campaign covering about a month. Though the tax is delinquent after May 1, hundreds of workers in Grays Harbor mills and camps will take advantage of the month's grace of fered before the tax is collectible by seizure and sale of property. Tax Exemptions Mount. EUGENE, Or.. May 1. (Special.) Many Lane county veterans of the civil war and Indian wars and their widows are taking advantage of the recently-enacted law which allows them jlOOO exemption on property taxes, the office of the county asses sor being crowded with applications lately, according to Assessor Herbert Walker. The assessor estimates that if all the old soldiers or their widows In this county take the exemption a reduction of J100.000 in the assessed property valuation will be the result Ranch Foreman Missing. YAKIMA, Wash., May 1. (Special.) Relatives of Peter Weinland. 40, asked police authorities here to as sist in locating him. Weinland came to this city from his brother's ranch, where he was foreman, on April 11 to pay the annual water rental. The payment was made and Weinland told friends here he expected to return to the ranch that night, but he has not been heard from since. Eugene Milk Trie Cut. EUGENE, Or., May 1. (Special.) The price of milk in Eugene today was reduced from 14 cents to 13 cents a quart and from 8 cents to 7 cents a pint, the milk dealers' association having agreed to the reduction. This is the second reduction since the first of the year, the previous cut having been from 15 to 14 cents a quart, but there was no reduction on pints. Pastors Exchange Pulpits. ALBANY, Or.. May 1. (Special.) liev. D. H. Leech, for several years pastor of the First Methodist church of Albany, occupied his old home pul pit here today. Dr. Leech is now pas tor of the First Methodist church of Kugene and he and Rev. J. C. Spencer, present pastor of the Methodist church here, exchanged pulpits for the day, Mr. Spencer preaching in Eugene. Phone your want ads to The Ore- prjniun. Main 7070, Automatic i:0-j. j STARTS OMURROW !l new bills at Orpheum. BY LEONE CASS BAER. AN impressive moment sandwiched in between song and jest is af forded in the new Orpheum bill in the sketch "A Man of the People," an episode in the life of Abraham Lin coln during his first term as presi dent, in August. 1864. The story is one with which we are ail familiar and tells of that waiting t our just before news reached Lin coln that Sherman had taken Atlanta, while Thaddeus Stevens, leader of congress, waited too for Lincoln's jesignation and refusal to accept a eecond term. A bit of romance and tn example of splendid patriotism is brought out In the enactment, and s very fine epilogue closes the drama. This epilogue is a most impressive and worth-while incident. From the standpoint of the pictorial it is a bis achievement for it faithfully repre sents Lincoln standing between two huge pillars on flag-draped steps, in one of the best known attitudes ar tists have sent down to us. with his head sunk upon his breast and a look of profound sadness and thought upon h;s brow. In this epiloguereckoned to be a bit from his second inaugural in 1863, he reads excerpts from the famous speech which has become bet ter known during the late war than at any time heretofore. Thomas Dixon made the little orama and has given it a Belasco esque treatment of lights and shad -KtH maL'oc rpnirv a second' ary thought and puts all the interest Into the figure or tne greai t" pator and the folk who appear witl u;M ThBca a pa f!nlnnil NicolCV. hi - un.ir I' -ifm unil nhairmnn ?eti ciai J. ,cnj j ot the republican national committee. Thaddeus Stevens, leaaer ot const o. an army captain, his sweetheart and a telegraph operator. The scenes are three, and Interest Keeps piling u until the audience is fairly electri fied by the splendor and beauty o the epilogue. v tt Hail niavn character o Lincoln. He seems peculiarly at- .UIICU IU Hie vuaiov..ianvu .. . have brought us of the great martyr. slowness or speecn, momenta ui uci tlmuirht Dreceding a speech, rare and fine flashes of humor, quick perce ... - . 1 Ti tion ana aererence to omeio. u.n file, ft,,, nlivcipn' rpnnirements Mr of the part, and is quite like Lincoln's pictures. His voice is Deautitui, ncu --.a rioiiehtf ill to hear. The supporting cast is very fine and tne characters picionauy correal. tka aytiatif anA ii pa t i nniil fea- tures of this act are numerous, and of course the patriotic appeaj is tremen dous. Mijares. who swings like a bird on a wind-rocked reed, is the next most interesting person on the new bill. Mijares is a slender chap who as sumes an alcoholic atmosphere and attempts to walk and dance along a wire as he has seen his partner "and company" do. The "and company" is a clever balancer by the way. but when Mijares gets firmly established on the swinging wire all others who come before him are forgotten. He rocks and sways dizzily and maintains a perfect equilibrium. His act is sen sational and much relished. "The Fall of Eve" is a little sketch in which a pretty maid becomes a victim of asphasia during the interim when she flirts amiably with a gay young bachelor, and when she appears a few moments later in his apartment under the delusion that she is his wife. The comedy is light and enter taining and the three players, Mabel Cameron as the woman, Alan Devltt as the bachelor and a rotund doctor, Carroll Clucas. are all nicely fitted for the parts they play. Joseph L. Browning is a serious looking ministerial chap who chatters and sings about us girls and reaps a hnrvest of laughter. Buddy Walton, who has a nice sing ing voice is using Nan Halperin's "cycle of songs" by special permis sionthe ones Miss Halpcrln brought a season ago. Miss Walton does them nicely. Her Jazz time bride interpre tation pleased most. Frank De Voe and Harry Hosford return with their excerpts from mu sical comedy. Hosford plays the piano and sings the "Mammy" song better than we've heard it so far, and Frank steps with alacrity, sings and cuts up. The Ducos brothers open the -bill with their Eurooean clown novelty. playing violins, aorobating around, and imitating a pair ot birds. This bill closes with the matinee Wednesday. EDITORS MEET IN JULY Washing-ton State Press Association Picks Tentative Dates. CHEHALIS. Wash.. May 1. (Spe cial.) President C. Ellington of (the Washington State Press association returned home yesterday from Seat tic, where he attended a meeting of the executive committee of the or ganization. July 15 to 17 were tenta tively agreed upon as the dates for the annual meeting, which is to be held in Rainier National park. President Ellington and Dan Cloud of Montesano have taken up with the Tacoma commercial club the mat ter of transportation to the park from Tacoma. Business and editorial ethics, co-operative buying of sup plies and other matters of interest will be considered at the meeting. ALLIES AID TURKS, REPORT Aberdeen Man Returns From Eu rope With Bride. ABERDEEN, Wash., May 1. (Spe cial.) Arms and ammunition are being supplied the Turks in their warfare against Greece by France and Italy, asserts Gus Garifell. Aber deen merchant, who returned last night from a nine months trip abroad, during which he visited his former home near Athens. Garifell returned to Aberdeen with a bride of five months. He declares he will take out his second citizen ship papers and roam no more. Hav ing visited relatives whom he had not seen for 22 years, he says that there is nothing else in Europe to enjoy but war and high prices. Covered Well Located. YAKIMA, Wash., May 1. (Special.) A covered Irrigation well, burled four feet underground when it was abandoned nine years ago, recently was located by Theodore Weisberger of this city by running a series of measured parallels on which readings of a compass were taken, showing the varying deflection of the needle due to the iron casing of the well. 2 8 to Get Diplomas. CHEHALIS. Wash., May 1. (Spe cial.) The 1921 graduating class from the Chehalis high school will include 28 members, according to the present outlook. Ida Price, with a grade of 94.35. leads the senior class. Irene Getsman being a close second with an average of 94.14. The schools will close in June. Cherries and Apples Unhurt. YAKIMA, Wash., May 1. (Special.) Cherries and apples in the lower Yakima valley have escaped any seri ous damage by frost. District Inspec tor W. L. ?lose reported yesterday. Apricots and prunes in the Grandview diuuicl suffered severely. the theaters" Hippodrome. A CANTOR & YATES production, entitled 'Let's Go," forms an en tertaining act as the headline on the new bill which opened at the Hippo drome yesterday. The skit is original and cleverly worked out, with little attempt at plot but plenty of new songs and steps to furnish amuse ment. Three pretty girls, who can act as well as sing, play the leads. Their difficulties in catching their trains and making the conductor and brake man understand their wants make up the first scene at the railroad station. The second scene in the dining car erives opportunity for the most strik ing of the three girls, in the role of a vamp, to collect all the loose stage monev and deDart with a full purse The girls are attired in beautiful gowns, with the vamp in the tradi tional dress of black, heavily beaded, The .settings are elaborate, one scene in black and white being particularly noteworthy.. The brakeman sings a rollicking solo and there are other features to supply the comedy. Gray and Graham are a man and a maid who know how to satisfy the de sire of the audience to laugh all the time. They have written their own skit, which they call "The New Musi cal Bellboy." There is plenty of mu sic in the act, but it is meant to amuse rather than please anyone's aesthetic sense. Craig and Catto are a gay pair who delight with their witty remarks and funny little songs, which are all the funnier because they haven t any no ticeable point. Brennan and Murley received ap plause for their turn of "original, hu morous bits." in which they presented singing, dancing and chatter. Weston and Marion opened the bill with a dancing number which had a new twist A screen version of Jack London's novel. "The Little Lady of the Big House," is the motion picture offering under the title, "The Little Fool." The plot follows the no'vel closely and rep resents . another conception of the eternal triangle. Ora Carew. as Paula Forrest, is the star. Mrs. Forrest falls in love with her husband's best friend and the dra matic situations are numerous. The scene is laid on a California ranch. Miss Carew gives a fine exhibition of horsewomanship as one of the fea ture scenes. Lyric. THE mythical isle of Bungaloo is X the scene of the pleasing combi nation of songs, stepping and stories which make up "Cupid's Round-Up." which holds the stage at the Lyric this week. Clarence Wurdig arrives on the island to take up his duties as ruler, but the reception committee makes a mistake and greets Al P'ranks, who is the monarch's bodyguard, as : the real lord of the territory. When Wurdig meets Billee Reams and finds that she "hates and despises lords" he decides to let Al keep the crown, and nobody blames him. After a se ries of amusing complications every thing is straightened out. Ted Howland. who directs the Lyric shows, appears in the cast as Red, the Killer, in a make-up which gives him an appearance . fierce enough to start horses running away. Will Rader, the eminent sleuth, plays a Dutchman this week and wins a rich reward in laughs with his com edy. Ned Doyle adds more friends as Mike Dooley. Dorothy Raymond and Florence Spurrier both contrib ute sterling performances'. The prettiest thing about the show is Billee Reams, who stepped into the soubrette role vacated by Dot Posty Saturday night. Miss Reams received the part yesterday morning- and with only a few hours to rehearse put it over in a clever style that was a big hit at the opening show yesterday. She wears' some very beautiful clothes and an attractive hat. Stanley Hicks, a good-looking chap with a pleasing tenor voice, made his bow as a member of the company yesterday, and received an enthusias tic welcome in his song number, "My I Castle of Dreams." The thow has plenty of tuneful music. Clarence Wurdig makes the proverbial busy bee look like a loafer, for the popular juvenile sings a solo, appears in a duet with Dorothy Ray mond and helps Don Smith and Stan Icy Hicks put over two trio spe cialties. Tommy Castle and his crew of ex perts contribute an elaborate stage setting which adds to the show. The Chinese, of al! peoples, attach the most importance of etiquette, their book of rites dating back to the first century before the Christian era. 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