THE SUNDAY OBEGOXIAN, BORTlAXD, DECEMBER 18, 190
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her home In Salohi. after spending the
week -with Mr. and Mrs. Mycr Jlirsch.
Mr and Mrs. Dan J. Malarkey have
returned front a trip to St. Louis.
Mr. and Mrs. P. T. Sullivan, of Seattle,
are guests at the Hobart-Curtis.
Mrs. H. F. Ball, of Corvallis. Or., Is
trending a. few weeks with her daughters.
M'ss Lillian Henderson and Mrs. V. J.
Mastcrson.
Mlas Bess Church Is expecting a vlsft
from, a charming Honolulu friend. Miss
Stella Lave, who will spond several
months here.
Miss Teal is down from her home In
Hood River to spend Christmas" with
her mlster-in-law, Mrs. J. N. Teal, at 179
St. Clair street
Among the students of the University
c? Oregon who are at home for the holi
avs are Miss Lela Goddard, Miss Ella
Dobie and Miss Alice Bretherton.
Mrs. May D. Bybee has returned from
San Francisco and is with her sister, Mrs.
Steele, at S4S East Taylor street, where
Fhe will be glad to see her friends.
Mr. and Mrs. H. B, Brintzenhoff have
returned from an extended visit to the
St, Louis Exposition and other points of
interest through the Middle "West
Rev. Father Daly, of St. Mary's Church,
ras been entertaining Rev. Father Moore,
raster of the church at Cedar -Mill, and
f-perlntendent of St. Mary's Orphanage
at Beaver ton.
Mrs. Frank Shelley is entertaining her
j-arents, Mr. and Mrs. "Weatherwax, of
Aberdeen, who are spending a few weeks
here while on the way to their new home
fit "Walla "Walla.
Mr, and Mrs. Thomas Moffctt, of Mof
rfc't Springs, visited the city last week
a-.d before returning home spent two days
1 Astoria, the guests of City Attorney
era Mrs. A. M. Smith.
Mss Hannah Conncll, who is attending
t: "Woman's College of Baltimore, was
J-.tiated iccently Into Zcta Chapter, Al
I' a Phi. and was a guest at an elaborate
Tra-quet at the Hotel Belvedere.
Miss Mamie Plllman will leave Thursday
Ira three months stay In Guatemala
w h lier plster. Mrs. Sumner F. Shaw.
M'sb Piliman goes by rail to San Fran
c --, and there takes steamer for Cen
tral America.
Mr and Mrs. Louis Tobler. of San
At"nIo, Tex., arrived last Tuesday morn
!c from the World's Faid and are the
p jsts of their parents. Rev. Dr. and
!- X. MosSfKhn, of this city. Mr. and
TV" ToWor intend making Portland their
Ttr rr.e.
At the Women's Union.
Mr?! Conger registered dn Friday.
Mrs J. TV. Brock, of Lentz, is hore for
a Trk's stay.
Mi-k Avfc B. Chapman, of Los Angeles,
is here for a sfoort time.
Mfs! Iyl Johnson, of Seattle, is mak
z her home here for the present.
Miss lre t'rquhart. of The Dalies,
has returned after a visit to her home.
Mr?. Cnri F. L. Clement, of Mount
if, Jnd.. was a transient on Monday.
Miss KMsabeth Campbell, of Denver.
( . registered on Monday for a stay
cf several weeks.
The Mfsees R. A. and J. E. Moring,
cr Sht Francisco, came on Thursday for
a say of several weeks.
Mrs V.. Iloge. of Forest Grove, was
r-re for several days this week on a visit
n her daughter. Miss Mabel Hogc.
Mrs Carrie North way, who left re
cently to reside with friends on the East
S If, was a visitor on Friday evening.
Portisnd Dancing Academy.
r'-ff!sisr Bingler and Miss Buckcn
mfcr, Ringler's Hail, 303 Alder, Main 1951.
Open night of the Ringler School
Thursday evening. Dec 22, Ringler Hall,
39 AWer st.. at S o'clock. Elocutionary re
ci'al by the dramatic art department.
FMfit-al culture exhibition. No admls
f"rs charged. Friends and public are
c rdialiy Invited.
Sam Rosenthal, who is a student at the
diversity of California will be home
TT Iday to spend the holidays with his
ra'-enti', Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Rosenthal.
"Webber's Mandolin Orchestra open for
crgagemontf!. ITS W. Park. Main 20S8.
ONE POE THE CAPITAL CITY.
A Costly Pianola Piano Purchased by
a Prominent Resident of Salem
Other Notable Events at Eilers.
Thp stir created by the recent exhibit
a Ellens Piano House of highest grade
"k instruments designed for holiday
fade has reached the art and muslc-lov-r-
all over the country.
Spokane, Seattle, fVoisor and other cit
I ' as well as Portland, have responded
rofcly to the effort of this progressive
h'tipf to supply the world's finest and
rnst artistic key instruments to the peo
T of the Northwest. And now Salem
c mcs in for her share of these Christmas
r'ums. Last week a very costly Weber
Pianola Piano was purchased by Mrs.
Fanny Bishop, wife of the manager of the
Salem "Woolen Mills, and is now in her
I velj home. In addition to this, no loss
tan eight Metrostyle Pianolas have been
s"M in the cultured little city.
I.a-t week also another superb. Chick
cing piano found a, home in Portland,
b- ing selected by Mrs. Kate Moore for her
fcmdsome residence on Williams avenue.
Another of the leading pianos carripd
t Eilers Piano House, a Kimball, was
j-'irchasod by Mr. C. L. Thomas, of East
Davis street, while the other of the Eilers
famous trio, the Wober, came in for glow-1-g
honors as the selection by Madam
Gadski for her coming appearance at the
Marqtmm.
Continual sales, such as the above, an
Fwcr the oft-repeated question, Where do
all the line .pianos brought to the Coast
bv Eilers Piano House go? They go to
hemes of cultured people all over the
W est. They are as badly wanted here as
they are anywhere in the country. There
are, In fact, more costly instruments sold
here. In proportion to the population, than
In any other portion of the country. Of
tMs trade, the Eilers Piano House monop
olizes by far the greater proportion. The
world's finest and most famous pianos,
the Weber, the Chlckering and the Kim
ball, are its leaders. Other instruments
which have no equal of their kind, carried
b this establishment are the Metrostyle
Pianola. Pianola-Piano and Aeolian 6r-chestrelle-
Quick selling "at prices everlastingly
the lowest" of goods of greatest merit and
quality Is the secret of the Eilers Piano
House success. Store 251 Washington
street, corner Park.
MISS ANGUS LEAVES HOSPITAL
Talented Actress Able to Be With
Family for Christmas.
The theater-going public of Portland
will be delighted toleara that Miss Edith
Angus, of the Columbia Stock Company,
who has been seriously HI for many weeks,
was yesterday able to leave the hospital.
She Is now with her mother and sister
at 2a Thirteenth street, and unless she
should have a relapse as a result of being
moved, will be able to receive a few
guests.
She is still very weak and far from re
covers, but is happy at being able to get
home before Christmas. Her reappear
ance at the Columbia Is eagerly antici
pated by her many admirers and friends,
whoso sympathy and Interest she has had
throughout her long illness.
STOP FOB COIXIXS HOT SPRINGS.
A covered platform has been erected
bv the O. R. &. N. Immediately opposite
Collins Hot Springs for the accommoda
tion of passengers who desire to visit this
resort. The Spokane Flyer, trains 3 and
4, stop at this point on flag to take on or
let off passengers. A commodious launch
meets and carries all passengers and bag
fage across the river to the hotel.
A "Probl&m Heroine Tells Why
Florence Roberts Says We Must Go to the "Fountain in
the Way to Shur" for the Origin of Emotional Drama
(HAVE been steeped. In crime this week,
If the problem play, as some. assert,
be crime. There are many who do not
believe so for a minute, and being one
of those, I had a great desire to talk -with"
Florence Roberts, a brilliant woman, a
true artist, and a
fellow dissenter from
the orthodox school
of disinfected drama.
Like the good and
gracious craftsman
that she Is, Miss
Roberts was not
averse, so I met her
in that little "star's
room on the Mar
quam stage after
the second' act last
Wednesday night.
It was unhappy,
beleaguered "Tess"
that she was por-
r ' ' hands were changing
the scenery, she, having changed the
bride's dress of the second for the ragged
sackcloth of the girl's debasement In the
third act, received the artist and me and
bade us welcome to her poor abode.
Florence Roberts should have no quar
rel with opera-glasses. She is of certain
age say a little the other side of 30. which
is youth In the emotional business. When
she needs wrinkles she must make them
with grease-paint, for her face is almost
as fair to see at handshaking distance
as from the logc circle. By the same
token it is almost as interesting to watch
the play of her features and hear her
talk in an Sxl2 room as from a big stage
when she has the center of It.
She sat on a "property" chair of the
Restoration period and took lemonade
through a straw, while she talked be
tween whiles. The
rest of us sat by
and caught her at
it. Lemonade may
sound frivolous,
but Miss Roberts
Isn't that. She's in
earnest.
"Why not an
emotional play
without a woman
whoso past caused
talk? Well, you
answer your own
question, or if you
won't I'll do it for
you. Shakespeare?
Woll, we'll have to
except him, that's a
fact, but If you
will recall the most dramatic incidents
in the world's history since the time
of the Old Dispensation, you'll recall
in connection with them some women
with a past. Go back to the incident
of Abraham ami the mother of Ish
mafel for the genesis of the unfor
tunate woman in dramatic literature.
In all generations there have been
Hagars and Mary Magdalenes. The
world is full of them now, only we
say 'Zaza or Tess or 'that poor
Smith girl.' It will always" be so, for
from the beginning therir have been
bad men and weak women.
"The dramatic possibilities of a
woman's ruined life or a ruined wom
an's life spring from the fact that
her fate is .awfuL I think that is the
worst thing in the world. The ruin of
a woman. It is worse than murder.
Now let's agree that this terrible thing
must enter into the scheme of a great
tragic drama, "because It Is the worst
crime in the decalogue, because it Is
lamentably familiar in life. Every
community has its instances. It Is
more common than murder, but in
finitely worse, it seems to me. So the
everlasting "problem must be a part
of the emotional drama's plot,
Florence Roberts speaks positively and
debates her premise well, but she's too
wise to start an endless chain argument
between two acts.
She dropped the sub
ject and commenced
talking Immaterial
things. For a long
time I have been
asking others why
the talented Califor
nlan has never been
given a metropolitan
chance. My inform
ants differed, so I
put the question to
the lady herself.
"That Is easily ex
plained," answered
she. "When I com
menced starring I
had an ambition to
identify myself with
the West as an originator. My plan was
to secure the territory west of the
Mississippi River, and as fast as new
plays were produced In New York to fol
low Immediately after with a Western
production. I wanted to give the West an
almost simultaneous chance with the East.
I soon discovered that I could not secure
the rights unless I placed my affairs in
the hands of Mr. Frohman. This was
Impossible, as I was under contract with
Mr. Frederick Belasco. Although my plan
failed, I have the distinction of having
produced a number of great plays for the
first time in the West. I was the first to
play 'Zaza and 'Sapho in the West, but,
of course, both were done long after the
original New York production.
"My sympathies are all Western. I love
the Titanic largeness of things between
the Missouri and the Pacific. In keeping
with the spirit of
sweeping plains and
towering mountains
I believe our view of
things to be broader
than that of the
Eastern people. Our
horizon is so much
larger. Our taste in
matters of art is
broader, beyond a
doubt. We of the
West want action,
and it Is hard for us
to understand re
pression in acting.
Mrs. Fiske, who Is
as distinctly of the
East as I am of the
West, has much less
trying work, I mean physical effort, to
please her home audiences than I do.
She acts largely by suggestion, whereas
I must work out the story myself for
the benefit of the audiences. There to
such a large intermixture of the Latin
races here. Perhaps that has much to
do with it.
"Next year I'm going into new ter
ritory, and the year following expect to
have a Broadway opening. I don't want
to do as Miss O'Neil did, undertake New
York In a lot of old plays. I must have
a new piece to open In. I should prefer
something by PInero. I've paid out enough
In royalties on my present repertoire to
get a new play from Sardou or Plnoro.
I'm very hopeful that the East will like
me and I Intend winning recognition down
there if hard work can be made to avail."
Just theVi Mls3 Roberts remembered
that It was most time for her cue, and
she craved permission to go on and fin
ish her magnificent
acting of "Tess."
She said good-bye,
smiling beautifully,
but before one could'
get out into the
body of the house
again she was on
the stage in the mis
erable hut of the
D'Urbervllles, with
drawn, pale face,
and staring, hope
less eyes. telling
again with terribly
convincing power the
old. old story which
Hagar told an angel
which found her
long ago "by a foun
tain of water in the wilderness by the
fountain in the way to Shur. A. A. G.
In the City's Trouble
Shop
Shank' nnd Investment An
Orlclnnl Way of Getting Rid of
a Wife.
nr johx doe.
IT IS vaguely rumored that the animal
went a mile at 2:20 flat at one time.
That must have bceni some days be
fore the spavin and microbes made its
acquaintance, for when E. Shank'hought
the horse he found it did well to cover a
mile in an afternoon.
Plainly It was a losing investment, but
there was no remedy. After several
tryouts the racer was found to be just a
bare trifle slow for the local traces and it
was no good to Ea?t SIders, for they could
get home nearly as quick on the can. On
top of that, tho Exposition management
declined to buy It as a statue, as statues
must remain c6n?tantly immovable, and it
was figured that someone might discover
this horse move If they watched it long
enough.
The climax came when the Humane So
ciety became aware of the animal's exist
ence on the streets one day, and Joe Res
ins Informed the driver that he would be
arrested for cruelty if he ever appeared In
public again with the superannuated steed.
In this way It became necessary for Shank
to pay heavy Interest on his Investment by
feeding It. while he made his voyages on
foot.
Then came L. Schnitzer, Shank's friend
and neighbor, who had some lumber and
trunks to haul, and was willing to pay a
dollar or so for the use of a horse. Shank
recalled the warning of the humane offi
cer, but the opportunity to play even on
part of his investment was not to be re
sisted. Besides, the humane officer had
told him not to drive the horse, but had
specified nothing about Schnitzer.
So Schnitzer got the horse, hitched it up
to a load and drove to his doom. The hu
mane officer caught sight of him before ho
had traveled a mile, and to the bastlle
went Schnitzer, and to comfortable quar
ters .in the city barn went the ancient
steed. The man's misfortune was the
horse's good fortune. He had oats that
evening, the first time, perhaps, since the
spavin came.
Shank was engaged In shaking hands
with himself that It was not he who had
driven the horse when the telephone rang
and he was summoned to the police sta
tion. The law had figured it out that he,
being the owner of the horse, and having
been warned not io use it, was quite as
guilty through having sanctioned Its use
as" if he had driven the equine himself.
The law Is a queer thing.
When the matter was presented in the
Trouble Shop yesterday morning. Judge
Hoguc held that the men were equally
guilty.' and gave them until Monday to
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FRED HAYS is a clever man. It may
' be also said of him that he possesses
unusual originality.
When Fred got tired of hh? wife, Adelia
Hays, he brought his two redeeming qual
ities of mind into action to assist him in
getting rid of her.
Fred soon hit upon a plan. He rushed
to the police station and complained that
she had been keeping late hours, rind that
he feared she needed the experience of an
appearance in the Trouble Shop, and one
of Judge Hogue's celebrated reprimands
for the reprehensible to bring her into
line.
The arrest was made according to Fred'a
request, and the luckless wife of the man
of original methods was locked in a. cell.
The hour of trial came yesterday morn
ing, and Mrs. Hays, veiled, dejected and
tearful, was led Into court.
"Mr. Hays, the complaining witness, will
take the stand against his "wife." an
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Same in Russian Sable, broadtail,
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Children's Fur Sets in an almost
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There was- a 'silence in the courtroom.
"Hays, take the stand!" thundered the
uniformed custodian of tho courtroom,
who is kept on a diet of raw meat for Just
such emergencies.
But the savag word of command had no
effect, except to make several onlookers
tremblingly thank fate that they were not
Hays.-
Inqulry developed the fact that he had
departed some hours before on a south
bound train. The law had been used as a
catspaw.
The law is mad about It, too. and woe
be unto the levanting husband should he
fall into the clutches thereof.
Why Water Was Discolored.
Residents of eeveral districts, principally
in the southern part of the city, have no
ticed a slight trace of sediment in the
water furnished by the city for several
days past, which Is so unusual a thing
that it has attracted attention. The Ore
gonian has been asked whether this Is
general or not, and If It is to be attribut
ed to a freshet In Bull Run or some other
reason. The trace of sediment mentioned
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In blended RivefMink $6.50 to $8.50
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Ladies' Astrachah Jackets, from
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though the late heavy rains have caused
several rapid rises in succession In that
stream and on Friday It stood ten feet
above low-water mark, it was still run
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several accidents to the water mains in
the southern part of the city of late, in
connection with the heavy fills being made
and bridges being constructed there, and
on Friday afternoon a break in the- main
on East Sixteenth street was caused by a
landslide In a cut. In order to repair
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new Joints have been put in and the course
of the main changed. The rush of water
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Until Christmas. Don't fail to call and
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need be no apprehension, of anything hap
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Tigers for. Models.
Bruce Porter In Sunset.
A beast, penned behind bars in the lim
ited area of the exhibition cage (shame
fully limited as it always Is) Is hardly
representative of Its free state at all. I
remember protesting to a Japanese palnt
ter in the presence of his drawing of a
tiger (merely a tigerish mouth, a pair of
fixed and ominous eyes; of the body there
was but the indication). "Why," I asked,
"did you not obtain a tiger as a model?"
"Ah," he replied, "I must send to India
for a tiger: he will be put in a box, a
small box: he will travel a month on the
sea; he will be very sick on the sea, and
then he will be brought to my house still
In that little box. still very sick. People
will look at him and say, 'A tiger!' but to
mo" ho is no longer a tiger, since he has
lost his tiger spirit. Here" (pointing to
his drawing) "here you have the tiger
spirit: is that not what Is the chief part
of the tiger?"
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