THE StJNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 12, 1905.
A REAL HARVARD MAN PLAYS
"BROWN OF HARVARD"
THERE are a doz?n reasons why Henry
Woodruff, star of "Brown of Har
vard," is he ideal hero for a college play,
and a dozen more why he Is peculiarly
qualified for such preferment In a Har
vard play. To mention a few of the most
striking: .
He is a college graduate.
He is an all-around athlete.
He Is particularly expert as an oarsman.
He Is young and handsome.
He looks the college man to the ground.
He fairly bubbles with the spirit of
youth.
He Is a Harvard man and he has the
traditions of his .fclma Mater closely at
heart.
Mr. Woodruff is one of the few men
who, at college, won equal distinction in
the class room and athletics. He took
his B. A. at Harvard at the head of his
class in 1W, and at the same time was
recognized as the fastest oarsman in a
single shell on the Charles river. At
sprinting and boxing, too, he was equally
clever, winning the 100-yard dash at the
track meet in '97 in ten seconds flat, and
being accounted the swiftest middleweight
in Harvard during his entire four, years
there. ' ' '
Along with his studies and his work
upon the river, the cinder path and In
the gymnasium, Mr. Woodruff found time
to fill the duties of stage director for the
Cambridge Dramatic Society and to take
the leading part In all Its productions.
This position fell to him naturally, for
he was a famous actor before he went
to college. Mr. Woodruff's stage career
began In the company of Adelaide Neil
on when he was nine years old, and his
course at Harvard was merely an Inter
ruption of his professional life.
Not only did he direct all Harvard's
dramatic performances while he was
there, but he wrote as well as staged
"Rosea Bella," the play given by the
Hasty Pudding Club during his graduating
year. The Hasty Pudding Is the most
exclusive social organization at Harvard,
and the honor of writing the book foi
its annual entertainment Is one of the
greatest in the university. Ability and
not popularity is the sine qua non for the
man who would achieve the distinction.
No man is prouder of his college than
Henry Woodruff Is of Hayard. About
this institution there clung more tradi
tions than are boasted by any other
American university. Its atmosphere is
distinctive. Therefore to be faithfully
represented on the stage. It must be. done
by players in whom the "Harvard Spirit"
Is strong. Mr. Woodruff is one of Har
vard's most loyal sons, and 'he selected
GREAT BASSO SHOWS ART
IN SELECTING PROGRAMMES
THERE is no musical center In the
Kast in which Herbert Withcrspoon
sings that will not assure him of a large
and cultured audience, who recognizes
the superiority of this great basso and his
splendid work.
There may be those singers with a more
beautiful and more extensive range of
voice, but for artistic perfection and
ability to sing a story, and depict a
drama. Wltherspoon stands almost by
himflf. since his splendid art Is the
blending of so many qualities.
Another feature of the Wltherspoon
concert Is his admirable taste in form
ing a programme, where are contained
music of the chief song writers as well
as of folk-lore and legend. The Wlther
spoon programmes show a novelty that
tenches the audience to understand that
Wltherspoon has forsaken the beaten
paths, and yet found only additional
good. These programmes usually have
for their basic principle the beautiful and
true in art. which gives you not an un
worthy moment that you may consider
thrown away.
So few singers deny themselves tin
pleasure of a cheap effect, but this Is
where Wltherspoon shines. He is euf-fii-iently
a believer in his own woric to
feel that his audience appreciates only
the best In musical art. His programmo
usually include selections from Handel,
in Italian; Schumann, In German: Taute
and other French composers In their own
language. Irish melodies In Gaelic, and
in English, ns well as groups of Scotch
and English ballads and songs from mod
ern American composers.
Everything in Wltherspoon's pro
grammea Is given with a sense of tonal
value and musicianship, which stamps
- him one of the great Ihrtists. It is a
pleasure to announce that he comes to
this city In January to give one of his
inimitable programmes, under fhc aus
pices of The Helllg Theater management.
THE AGTOR
By JOSEPH
Mr. Or'smer i Mr. William A. Brady's
co-prodtier of "The Man of the Hour."
"Way Uonn Kat." "As Ye Sow" and other
iWas. II translated and adopted "Mile.
I'lfl." The Turtle." "The Manicure" and
ether farers from the French; was co
author with Clay M. Greene of "The New
t-oKth," In which he formerly starred with
M'r Phoebe Davie., and has for many
yars been established In New York City
op a consulting stage director.
OF AU, the cant that is become part
of the special and particular ver
nacular of the stage that is, of the theat
rical business the most violently absurd
is that which has to do Willi the quantity
i ailed the "creative actor." There is such
a thing as a "creative actor." but his
manifestations have nothing whatever to
do with coherent and homogeneous dram
atic art. If we start with the premise
that the play is the chief unit in any
worthy exemplification of the art of the
theater, then "the creative" actor must
he an anomaly; for there is no logical
place for him in any scheme that takes
hoed of the Integrity of the playwright,
who Is. per se, the only really creative
factor in the sum of anything dramatic.
I possess, unfortunately, an apt exem
plar that, while essentially personal, may
x le employed for my Illustration; for he
died, a few weeks since, at the very be
ginning of what I regarded as the most
promising career of any genre player on
the American stage today. Nobody will
quarrel with what 1 have to say in praise
of him although I am free to confess
that, were he still among us. managerial
caution might prevent my saying anything
of the kind. It Is, all too often. Ill-considered
managerial praise that metamor
phoses a de facto' Interpretative player of
high quality into a de jure "creative"
player of no use whatever In the world
save as a bounteous contributor to the
common fund of hot air.
When Mr. Brady and I were prepare,
"The Man of the Hour" for the stae
there was sent us. among others, the late
Frank McVicar. We exclaimed together:
"There's a Horriganl" Of course we had
been Impressed merely by the man's ex
ternalsby his physique and by the pos
sibility of his adapting his full, masterful
personality to the special requirements of
Mr. Broadhurst's "boss." Our spirits fell
as soon as McVicar spoke: for his accent
was of Bow Bells and Picadllly. He had
been here before. It seemed, in the com
pany of Mrs. Bernard Beere. who made
- a spectacular failure when she' came over
Iroirt London In 19:1-3. He proceeded with
her to Australia, and had been there in
the theater until a brief year before we
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for hip company a half dozen other Har
vard men in whom this feeling is scarcely
less strong than in himself.
That Mr. Woodruff '"looks" the college
man, a glance at his photograph is suf
ficent to indicate. . Long considered one of
the handsomest of American actors, he
has the manly yet youthful face, and
the N active, alert manner characteristic
of undergraduates in any of our great uni
versities.. He is of the type which is in-,
domltable. but with that sporneity of
spirit which wins by magnetism and per
sonal charm rather than by brute force."
Mr. Woodruff has been endorsed as
the typical . American college man by
nearly every big college In the land. Dur
ing the 30 weeks "Brown of Harvard" was
played at the Princess Theater, New
York, every big school In the East had a
special night at the play. Theater par
ties of college men, from 300 to 500 strong,
attended the performance, the former
number coming from schools as far from
the metropolis as Yale, Princeton. Cor
nell, and the University of Pennsylvania,
and the unanimous verdict was that
Henry Woodruff truly typed the American
college man and that "Brown of Har
vard" as truly reflected American college
life.
Herbert
AVItheriinooii. Fltnnai
American Basso, Helllg: The- t
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January
on Wednesday evening, January 29. Mail
orders from this city will be received
beginning Monday. January 20. Regular
box office sale opens January 27. Mail
orders take, precedence over regular sale.
Address letters and make checks pay
able to W. T. Pangle, manager Heilig
Theater. Inclose self-addressed envelop
to Insure safe return.
WHO OBEYS
R. GRISMER
met him. That year had been spent in
conspicuously in "stock" on the Pacific
Coast. We explained to him our fear that
his English stamp was too strong for the
role of th3 Irish-American a type mdige
nous to our large cities, and not to be
"caught" by any actor who had not made
a study of It in the life.
"I am not a bad actor, gentlemen." re
plied McVicar. with neither excessive
modesty nor the other thing. "I .should
be if I could not make my accent suit
the character I undertake. Let me know
what the author wants and what you
want. 1 can play the role if it be within
my scope. I've acted 71 roles In Shake
speare, six in Ibsen and more than 200
in modern plays.. I wish a trial in the
East, and I know how to do as I'm told."
"He's either a real actor or a very
bad one!" muttered Mr. Brady. I agreed
with him. We handed McVicar the role.
He came to the second rehearsal letter
perfect, and asked not fewer than 50C
questions' of us and Mr. Broadhurst. We
sent him to a mass meeting in Tammany
Hall to study general types on the plat
form; this was in the height of the
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Hughes-Hearst campaign. He returned
to tell us he had seen a score of men,
any one of whom might be a' Horrigan.
So. with the spirit and the will to work
on. it was an easy matter perfecting
him. He accepted every suggestion made
him. submitted for our opinion every bit
of "business" and pantomime that sug
gested itself to him as possibly appropri
ate, and. as ts generally known, stirred
critics and public to enthusiasm on the
first night. As Is always so, there were
writers who spoke of the new actor's
"creation." Patently, the creation was
Mr. Broadhurst's. He knew what he
wanted as author, but needed a medium
to develop It. That medium was Mr.
Brady amj I as stage managers.
.
Now. In McVicar we had a good ex
emplar of the actor who obeys. Other ,
actors mere are in plenty wnu uu uie
same thing, of course; but not many of
the good ones do so willingly or gra
ciously, and nearly all of them, when
they get results like McVicar got. deny
having obeyed at all, but au contralre,
tell how they over-rode author and stage
director and insisted on putting forward
their own "creation." We got this sort
of piffle from a dozen well-known, high
salaried players we rehearsed in the part
after McVicar's untimely death. The
protest of one against our discipline' sym
bolizes the attitude of most of them.
"That may be Broadhurst's idea," he
said, "but I do not agree with him. I
prefer my conception of the character."
That Broadhurst could possibly have a
clear ' idea of his own about the role
never, seemingly, occurred to the actor,
who withdrew with the lofty observa
tion that, as a man who had always
been given free rein for his "creations,"
he could not chance a failure. '
The actor in plays In plays! who says
that he "creates" anything is either a
liar or a fool. The actor is specially
prepared vehicle' of a different case:
but to consider him is to get away
from our premise that the play Is the
first consideration.
PAY-AS-YOU-ENTER CARS
Mr. Hatch Has a Little List of Ob
jections to Them.
PORTUAND, Jan. 8. (To the Editor.) '
X note from The Oregon tan that our street
railway company contemplates experiment
ing wl-th the type of streetcars known as
the "Prepayment, or Pay-as- You-Enter"
kind, and It Is stated that such cars have
made a favorable Impression In Montreal,
where they have been tried.
Having visited Montreal last Summer and
having come In contact with the car in
question, I may be allowed to say that I
sincerely hope that such cars will never be
Introduced In Portland. As, to the "favor
able Impression" created In Montreal, I beg
to say that in my Opinion the only favor
able Impression made has been with the
streetcar company in perhaps being able
to collect a few extra fares which might
be lost by conductors lacking. in vigilance.
I think this Is the only advantage that can
be urged in their favor.
-From the standpoint of passengers, I' 'be
lieve that such cars -would ve voted an un
bearable nuisance. It would take weeks
and perhaps months for our people to be
come used to a separate entrance and exit,
and even then the strangers constantly vis
iting our city would be a source of daily
confusion and delay in entering and leav
ing the car. Try to imagine, if you can.
a crowd of people waiting to board a car
in a down-pouring rain and having the
whole crowd blockaded and the car delayed
by some person with bundles or a suitcase,
waiting to make change on the platform of
the car to pay the fare before being allowed
to enter!
Having been myself a stranger, encum
bered with a suitcase, in such a car In Mon
treal, I rent through such an experience,
and am sure that I caused a great many
people inconvenience and delay on account
of being unfamiliar with the requirements.
It not only subjected people to great dis
comfort, but lost valuable time, from the
fact that the car was delayed until every
ono had been able to make change, or had
previously provided themselves therewith
so as to admit those waiting to enter.
The exit platform and the entrance -and
exit doors are necessarily small and do not
provide for comfort or ease of handling
crowds. This feature cannot be applied to
Summer or open cars, and therefore why
equip a few? It will entirely remove the
pleasure enjoyed at present by riding In
me seats on me front and rear platforms
of many of our closed cars, and will de
stroy the symmetrical appearance of the
cars and much of the freedom and com
fort of the passengers.
I am also inclined to doubt the exemption
from accidents enjoyed by cars of this class
owing to the conductors always being on
the rear platform. The collection of fares
In the cars occupies but a short time and
enables the passenger to be seated. Instead
of changing money and paying fare while
being Jostled in the crowd.
B. R. HATCH.
Antelope Pining Away In Zoo.
NEW YORK. Jan. 11. Hoping to have
all three specimens of prong-horned ante
lope which President Roosevelt has given
the Ixmdon Zoological Society In good
condition when an attache of that insti
tution, now on his way, arrives here, at
tendants at the Bronx Zoological Park,
are working hard to save the life of one
of the females that has been 111 since
its arrival at the Zoo from Yellowstone
Park. They have not yet given up hope,
but are not over-expectant of restoring
Tuesday Evening, January 14,
at the Y. M. C. A.
Auditorium
W. J. CLARKE.
The Famous Electrical Engineer of New
York City. TVIU Lecture and Give
-Demonstrations on
MODERN SCIENTIFIC WONDERS,
Including
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.
Mr. Clarke is a personal friend of Mr.
Marconi, and was the first In this coun
try to take up Wlrelt? Telegraphy. He
has installed and equipped several wire
less telegraph stations and was en
gaged bv the New York Herald to re
port the first Lipton yacht races by
wireless. ADMISSION 1.00. Tickets
now on sale at Y. M. C. A. office.
EMPIRE
Playing the STAIR-HAVL1N
Week
STARTING SUNDAY
MATINEE, TODAY
The Thrilling Melodrama of Life and
Crime in the Great Lone Star State
A TEXAS
OUTLAW
Strong Company, including that Clever Tramp Comedian, $liver J.
Eckhardt Thrilling Scenes, Situations and Climaxes Comedy and
Pathos Love and Hatred Villainy and Virtue Clever Specialties.
Matinees Wednesday and Saturday.
Night Prices 15c, 25c, 35c, 50c. Matinees 10c, 20c.
Next Attraction
EILIG THEATER
Main 1, Al 122 J.L 14th and Washington
TONIGHT and WEEK at sas
1 MATINEES WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY 1
DRAMATIC EVENT OF THE CENTURY
FIRST TIME IN PORTLAND
AVm. A. Brady and Joseph Grismer's Production,
By George Broadhurst
as seen for one year at
ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY FRANCIS J. KKXET SAYSt-. "EVERY
MAN. WOMAN. BOY AND GIRL OUGHT TO SEE THIS PMT. IF -WE
HAD MORE PLAYS LIKE THIS. JOBS LIKE MINE WOULD BK FAR
EASIER.
EVENING PRICES. '
Lower floor, first 10 rows. . .12.00
Ixwt floor, last 6 rows.... 1.B0
Balcony, first 4 rows l.oo
Balcony, next 5 rows ,75
Balcony, last 5 rows .50
Entire gallery ; . . . Jlo
SEATS NOW SELLING AT THEATER. Carriages even. 10:45; mat. at B.
BAKER
PORTLAND'S FASHIONABLE POPULAR-PR ICE PLAYHOUSE'
HOMK OF THE IN CO. HI' ARABLE BAKER STOCK COMPANY .
First Time in Portland-All This Week
Commencing ToXee Sunday, Jan; 12
One of the Greatest of Modern Comedies
... : ' -
THE OTHERG
By Augustus Thomas, author of "Arizona," "Alabama," "In Miz
zouri" and many other forsmost American plays. A comedy of New
York life. Novel plot and characters. Elaborate scenery- Full
strength of the company. Stage direction of Mr. William Dills.
- - MATINEE
Evening Prices 25c, 35c,
vr vu r . the iwirrs nv
LICAl llCCSj xuu lumuuir
ne ailing animal to health. The ante
ope. two females and a male, were cap
tured in the park by Major-General 8. B.
M. Young. 'Superintendent of the Yellow
stone, and were sent to the local Zoo
for sa.fe keeping. -
What Do You Know About That
T. M. A. BENEFIT?
TO TAKE PLACE TUESDAY
AFTERNOON, JAN. 14, 1908,
2:15, MARQUAM GRAND
THEATER, ,
: GRAND:
ANNUAL
BENEFIT
Given by the Theatrical
Mechanical Association
The Best Talent, Selected Prom
All the Theaters in the City.
A Monster Programme
A Treat No One Can Afford to
Miss. See the Interesting
Process of Setting' the
Stage Between Acts.
LARGE ORCHESTRA, MUSIC,
VAUDEVILLE, DRAMATIC
SKETCHES, SONGS.
THE EVENT OF THE YEAR.
Tickets can be bought at all
theater box offices in the city.
Admission 50c
THEATER
PHONE MAIN 117
MILTON W. SEAMAN, Mgr
Eastern Road Attractions only
Jan. 12
'A DESPERATE CHANCE"
Presented here exactly .
Savoy Theater, New York
SPECIIl. MATINEE PRICES. -Lower
floor, first 10 rows... $1.50
IjOwer floor, last 6 row.... 1.0
Balcony, first 4 rows l.oo
Balcony, next 5 rows .75
Balcony, last 5 rows -"SO
Entire gallery. , .50
THEATER
PHONE MAIN ... 2
GEO. L. BAKER, GEN. MGR.
SATURDAY.
50c. Matinee 15c, 25c
the ftnns (By the author of
uy "The Ms
lan of the Hour")
VAUDEVILLE
D E LUXE
WEEK OF MONDAY,
JAN. 13, '08
The Greatest Bill of Novelties
Ever in the City, Headed by
AMEEN ABOU HAMAD
Champion Pyramid Understand
of the World, and his Ftnous
Troupe of Eight Arabian Tum
blers, direct from the Madison
Square Garden, New York City.
LIZZIE EVANS &
.v JEFFERSON LLOYD
In their Comedy Playlet,
"Turning the Tables."
Hammon & Forrester
In a Melange of Comedy and
Singing.
THE ROSAIRES
, Refined Novelty Artists.
- Joseph M. Wood Presents
"Ihe Surprise Parly"
6--irls and Boys 6
JOE THOMPSON
" Hello t All Right. Good-Bye."
Special Added Feature,
"FOR PEACE
OR WAR" .
Or, Fighting Bob Evans'' Fleet
Leaving the Atlantic.
-fhree Performances Daily at
2:30, 7:30 and' 9:15 P. M.
Evenings and Sunday and Holi
day Matinee, prices 15c and 25c.
Week-Day Matinees, 15c to all
seats. Sunday Matinee curtain
: rises at 3 P. M.
T!ir was a -time," say? the Catholic
Universe, "when young people were ad
vled -to marry. Now, we observe from
the report of a recent address to graduat
ing nurses. It ts necessary (o renovate this
simple counsel into marry and stav mar
ried "
THE GRAND
AFARQUAM GRAND
jL t JbL Portland's Famous Theater. Phones Main 6, A1020
A Carnival of
.cH3r Matinee Today, at 2:15
The Lewis Lake Musical Comedy Company, :
Presenting for the First Time in This City,
A MUSICAL TREAT;
A Splendid Cast, Large Company, Spe
cial Scenery, Magnificent Costumes
SPECIAL
DOOMSDAY
Positively the Greatest Sensation of the Age. Thou
sands Who Have Seen It Have Been Awed by Its Splendor
Evenings, 25c, 50c and 75c.
LYRIC THEATER
Both Phones: Main 46S5, Home A 102S Keating &. Murphy, Proprietors
WEEK COMMENCING M MONDAY
P. R: Allen Presents Verna Felton
and the Allen Stock Co. in
The Land of
the Midnight Sun
' A DRAMATIZATION OF HALL CAINE'S
"THE BONDMAN"
Matinees Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and
Sundays; 10c and 20c Every Evening at
8:15; Prices 10c, 20c and 30c
BOX OFFICE OPEN
PHONES:
THE
Opening Sunday Matinee, I-n 1 9f- '08
FOR THE ENTIRE WEEK OfXIU latilll. JO
The-R. E. French Stock Company
Presents the Stupendous Scenic Sensation
HE WHITE
GAPS '
BY MARTIN HARVEY
A play founded on the Goebel murder in Kentucky.
Matinees Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 2:30; Prices
10c and 20c. Every Evening at 8 :15p Prices 13c, 23c and 33c.
Reserved Seats may be secured by phone for all performances.
PANTAGES
WEEK. OF
JANUARY 13
BEST FAMILY THEATER. J.
ADVANCED VAUDEVILLE STARS OF
ALL, NATIONS
Two Big Special
Features ,
The
Mizkoff Troupe
In the Fascinating
RUSSIAN DANCE
'- . And
FRANK HALL
The English Tjiontamer,
With the Big Lion
WALLACE.
JOLLY ZEB
The Jolly Tramp.
CHAS. LEORA
Aerial
Trapeze Gymnast.
FRED BAUER
Pictured Ballad.
PANTAGES ORCHESTRA
Performances daily at 2:30, 7:30 and 9:00 P. M.
Prices: Upper Floors, 15c; Lowr Floor, 25c; Boxes 50c.
Any Seat Weekday Matinees, 15cr
:Th- Church Army - of England has re
ceived an Immense collection of lantern
slides from the estate of Alexander Umort
Henderson, a pioneer of- modern photog
raphy, who warn for years photographer to
Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort.
Fun and Music
0 BEAUTY
FEATURE
Matinees 25c and 50c
FROM TEN TO TEN
m OT.I. MAIN 5496
Skw.'a??
. . . .XVQ
FOURTH AND
STARK, STS.
A. JOHNSON, RESIDENT MANAGER
MARIE STUART DODD
. Violinist.
WILSON & RICH
"'Singers and
Dancers.
THE BIOGRAPH
Newest Motion
- Pictures.
Direction H. R. Evenson
Joseph Pulitzer is the latest American
of means to buy a fine steam yacht abroad.
His 1600-tcn cruiser was launched at Heith.
and will doubtless be seen In American
waters next Spring fly Ins the Americaa
yacht flag.
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