THE SUNDAY OREGOJiTAN, '' jPORTLANTV JULY 25, 1909.
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rjsHERE I) not much to say about
I the- past week in theatricals.
"Thre Weeks" ran through the
week at the Bungalow. The story of
how the Queen fell Into a certain qual
ity of love with the young- Englishman
and went to her doom was told by a
mediocre company, in which Beryl
Hope alone showed to advantage as
the leading; character. A Queen dis
guised as "The Lady" did her best to
make the play tolerable. Queen le was
certainly "there with her hair in. a
braid, but even so she was not suffi
cient to hold the Interest, and the com
pany played to Indifferent houses.
This week the Bungalow will be
dark, leaving everything in the amuse
ment line to the vaudeville houses and
the musical show at the Lyric. The
Orpheum, Grand and Pantages offer
1 exceptionally good Mils, so they say.
and the Lyric will have another of its
frothy but entertaining Summer musi
cal shows, beginning this ariernoon.
"IIURTY-GTTRTY" AT THE I,YRIC
Imperial Musical Comedy Company
to Present New York Success.
For the wek beginning with today's
matinee, the Imperial Musical Comedy
Company, by special arrangement, is able
to present at the Lyric the-latest New
York musical comedy success. "Hurty
Ourty." This bill recently created en
thusiasm in the Nation's metropolis. It
Is a clover mixture of mirth and melody.
There are catchy song hits that admit of
startling work by the chorus of beauty
broilers, which hsa been enlarged for
this production. There is an abundance
of clean. rapld:flre comedy without a line
or word. to offend. The plot Is original:
the stase settings will be gorgeous, and
the costuming and light effects up to
the high standard set by the management
of the Imperials.
All the favorites will be seen to ad
vantage. Including Ed Harrington,
Charles Connors. Orlo Knight. Emil
Krunschke. Edna Benson. Dorothy New
man. Naud'.a Melville. Burney Foster and
Orare Burgoyne. "Billy" is a hit. and
you'll be sorry if you don't hear It ren
dered by the beauty-broilers. The par
ticular thins you want to watch for Is
-The Girl With the Caterpillar Crawl.
The bill Is a scream from curtain to cur
tain. Watch what the critics say after
today's performance. There will be mat
inees today. Tuesday. Thursday and Sat
urday: two shows every evening at J and
9:15 o'clock.
FINE SHOW AT THE ORPHEUM
Tips on Tap." Racing Playlet,
Will Hare First Place.
Beginning Monday the Orpheum will of
fer a bill of strong feature acts. Miss
Elanor Gordon and company will present
a beautiful little comedy skit entitled
"Tips on Tap." Miss Gordon plays the
part of a loving wife, who secretly plays
the races and sells racing tips In order
to get sufficient extra money to keep her.
self attractively gowned. A series Of
amusing complications grow out of the
falsehoods she tells to conceal her turf
sctivllies. There Is one moment of thrill
when Mlse Gordon gives reign to her
' emotional powers in the defense of her
scheme to get money. The comedy Is
light, breezy and delicate and exchutiat
light. breezy and delicate and excrutiat
wiman 'at the Majestic Theater, San
Francisco: from there she appeared on
Broadway, scoring a decided triumph. She
has the reputation of being one of the best
dreved women on the American stage.
A decided novelty is "La Petite Revue,"
r.etrg a review of old and new footlight
successes. A fine special set Is required,
th. f.rst scene picturing a youth In rev
erie reviewing the stage celebrities of the
present clay. In his imagination there
appear before him miniature reproduc
tions of favorite vaudeville and musical
comedy artiste upon a 'miniature stage.
Xylophonlfts of wonderful excellence, the
Ave -yol.is.'will appear here after a suc
cession f both European and American
successes. All those who see and hear
t;icm perform will readily accord them
the rank which 'they claim. Abbott and
Minthom VTorthley are presenting a
breezy skit, entitled "On the Beach." An
sccentric comedy -pair. Martini and Max
imilian, have hit upon the very clever
li'.ea of presenting mystifying illusions
and tricks of magic, and then disillusion
izing the audience by burlesque and ex
pvsure. Lena Pantzr Is presenting a
most delightful novelty act In which she
dies some extraordinary dancing num
bers. 3he Is also a skillful slack wire
artist. "Going to Dahomey" Is a skit full
of laughter and activity, and serves to
introduce two dusky comedians. Boh and
M.iy Kemp.
BIG AXIMAI. ACT AT PAXTAGES
Leaping Greyhounds and Wrestling
Ponies Features of New Bill.
One cf the greatest features seen at any
of the vaudevilte theaters In the West
within the past season Is promised by the
management of the Panages this week,
when lon Morris A Co., appear as the
head-line feature of the new. bill. The
Leon Morris company Includes La Betle
Helens and her troupe of aclendld leaping
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greyhounds: John Hodge and the famous
wrestling ponies. Banner and Madison:
Dollle the diving monkey, and six trained
ponies. The act has been splendidly pre
pared down to the very finest detail, and
Its smoothness is said to be one of its
commendable qualities along with the
marvelous work done by the wrestling
ponies. John Hodge, who Is a natural
born comedian, wrestles with ths ponies
at the close of the act and the finale is
said to le a "scream."
Another pleasing feature of the new bill
will be the Continental .Four, . consisting
of two men and two women who are ex
cellent singers. They costume the act at
tractively and their selecti6ns range from
grand opera to popular airs.
Pongo and Leo, comedy acrobats, will
furnish fun with a ludicrous act of knock
about work, finishing with a revolving bar
stunt. The act is said to be snappy and
full of difficult work.
Mr. and Mrs. Nell Litchfield will pre
sent their original comedy sketch, "Down
at the Brook Farm." - This Is a clever lit
tle sketch in which Mr. Litchfield proves
himself a character . comedian. Mra.
Litchfield is dainty and attractive and as
sists in the excellent acting of the sketch.
John P. Reed, a monologlst. will come
with a store of funny stories and his In
imitable song, "Tales That the Minstrel
Man Told."
The-Wyatt Sisters are an added feature
on the bill. These young women are said
to be unusually attractive and the posses
sors of musical voices. They also do some
clever danelnp stunts.
Leo White will sing a new Illustrated
song, and the Pantagescope will present
the very lntest In moving pictures.
GRAND OFFERS FEATURE ACTS
Big Bill for New Week, Opening
'Matinee Tomorrow After-noon.
From the rise of the curtain until the
motion pictures, every act on the new
vaudeville programme at the Grand this
week will be a hummer. The opening of
the bill will be at the usual matinee to
morrow. There win be two acts which
will fie for headline distinction and the
other acts will rank close up to the
leaders for prominence and each one
will be of merit and sure to hold the at
tention and to Interest.
Eddie Girard and Jessie Gardner, two
of the besf-known funmakers In the
vaudeville world, will present "Dooley
and the Diamond." a sketch which is
said to be one long laugh. The past week
this sketch and team have kept the fair
visitors at Seattle In merriment and the
act Is reported as being a scream. The
playlet Is not only well constructed but
it well acted.
The Damman Troupe Is considered one
of the world's greatest acrohatic acts
appearing In vaudeville and were a de
cided hit at the Hippodrome 4n New-York
City, where they first appeared In this
country after a long run it tfjs Berlin.
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Primary Law Makes Politics Boil
San Francisco Has Plethora of Candidates Auditorium May Be Built for
Educators Beauty Doctor oft Chain Gang New Cliff
House Is Society's Mecca.
BT HARRY B. SMITH.
SAN
AN FRANCISCO, July ia. (Special.)
The political pot In San Francisco
boiling as it never boiled before,
and to add.' to the Intensity of the situa
tion the new direct primary law has per
mitted so many candidates to become eli
glbles before the coming primaries that
the tangle seems almost Impossible of
solution. There are ten candidates for
Mayor, besides Innumerable aspirants for
other offices. The problem presents such
difficulties that tnere Is serious talk of
bringing the matter before the next Leg
islature with a View Of simplifying the
present law so that It will follow the text
of the Texas law, which Is understood to
work in a very satisfactory manner, hold
ing down the number of candidates rea
sonably and at the same time relieving
the people from boss rule, which has
heretofore . been the bane of San Fran
cisco politics.
The fight between two factions of San
Francisco millionaire cliques to control
the city government never waged hotter
than It does In the present campaign.
Each has several candidates up for
Mayor, hoping that, if one fails, another
may secure the rich plum. W. H.
Crocker, the banker and capitalist, seems
to head one faction, while James Phelan
and his formidable array of municipal
reformers are trying by hood or crook to
pilot their side to victory. Each side Is
doing Its utmost to curry favor with
union labor, which has Its own candidate
in the president of the Labor Council, P,
H. McCarthy, who was a defeated can
didate at the last election. It can be said
for a fact that the situation brought
about by the direct primary In California
is as yet one of bewildering confusion. In
which the political boss, instead of being
eliminated, has only increased and multi
plied ad infinitum.
Auditorium for Conventions.
San Francieco has captured the Na
tional Educational Association's Conven
tion for J!10. This Is the first attempt
of any large association to make San
Francisco Its meeting place since the
calamity of 190S and will bring tens of
thousands of people to the Coast from all
over the Tntted states. Before entertain
ing this large body of educators, the city
joust dsriss some plan to .secure a large
finished and daring exhibitions appear
ing there for several seasons.
"The Advance Man" will be another
big feature on this all-star programme.
Everyone likes a story- of theatrical Ufo,
as it is a country where all are more or
less Interested. A corking good blackface
sketch is "Sams Substitute," which -will
do given by Gruet and Gr-uet. These peo
ple give a condensed minstrel snow, witn
the regulation first part, olio and songs
and dances.
Tom- MoGuire is an American Scotch
man who does a monologue and dancea
and sings.
By way of making the net bill even
better and stronger comes Matt Keefo,
as the special added feature. Mr. Keefe
Is a singer and yodler and has been a
stellar attraction with Dockstader"
Minstrels and the Cohan & Harris Min
strels last season. Mr. Keefe is positively
the last word in yodling- and he is . a
master of this difficult art of singing.
Today will be the last of the current
bill, headed by ''A Christmas at the Corn
stock." in which Monda . Glendower and
Raymond Manlon appear.
NEW PICTURES AT THE STAR
Only Late Films Shown, and1 Great
Features Included In Programme.
The Star management offers Its patrons
thts week, commencing with today's mat
inee, as Its feature film, a beautiful and
romantio drama entitled "The - King's
Sword." Thousands of dollars' have been
spent by the Vltagraph Company (manu
facturers, of this film) In employing the
best actors and actresses and in purchas
ing fitting costumes for the staging of
such .a play. There Is no question but
that this is one of the beat productions
of this company, and win create a big
sensation.
Besides this picture there la a splendid
film called "The Man in the Moon," which
Is a cemedy everyone Is sure to : enjoy.
"True to His Master" is a picture show
ing the Intelligence of aog; "Poor Kid'
is a pathetic story of the slums. As
usual, our singer will be heard in one of
the latest songs with illustrations. The
management has also Instigated a novel
system of matinees, as follows: Tues
davs. pictures which the patrons have
requested: Thursdays, musicians who are
ambitious Will be heard; Mondays, sacred
subjects, and Saturdays will be especially
devoted to the little folks. These special
matinees are only from 2 to 5.
The Star calls the attention of the pub
lie to its splendid pictures, which are
new and up-to-date, being shown there
first after reaching the city fresh from
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auditorium. It is proposed to raise toOO,
000 from the public by selling stock In
the enterprise and then erect an audi
torium that will eeat 14.000 people and
that can be adapted also to great music
festivals and expositions. With such
building there Is no reason why the Coast
should not accommodate the largest
gatherings and gain valuable advertising
from those who are bound to tour the
whole of the Pacific States, either going
or coming by the different railroad routes.
Already there are ample hotel facilities
to handle any crowd that could visit the
city.
The Chamber of Gbmmerce, Merchants
Exchange and Merchants Association
have arranged for the Joint entertainment
of the House naval committee and mem
bers of the ways and means committee
who will arrive at the Hotel St. Francis
about August 22 on the way to Honolulu.
The Congressmen and their wives, form
ing a party of about 60, will be enter
tained on a lavish ecale during their two
aavs' stay, and will then proceed to
Hawaii, where they will be guests of the
Honolulu commercial organisations.
Burbank's New Fruit.
Luther Burbank. the Santa Rosa plant
wizard. Is out with a new fruit that he
calls the -"wonderberry." It is of the
huckleberry family, only much larger and
more satisfying than the' mountain berry
that all are familiar with. Cuttings of
the plant which were sent East did not
eeem to grow well or produce, a berry
that fulfilled expectations. Mr. Burbank
sayS thafthere must have been too much
haste in picking the fruit and that there
Is no reason why It should not reach per
fection In any temperate climate.
Professor Myer E. Jaffa, head of the
pure food laboratory at the University of
California, has begun a series of experi
ments to determine the possibility of urg.
Ing a substitution of common bran for
coffee for popular use. Professor George
Colby, of the agricultural department of
the university is assisting Professor
Jaffa in his experiments. The professor
says that, bran contains much the same
elements as coffee and lacks the harm
ful basis of the narcotic bean. The re
sults of the experiments will be pub
lished from the University Press as soon
as completed.
Fit Candidate for Pillory.
Oakland 'has done herself proud by
making a fearful example of W. C.
Sheppart, a beauty specialist, who was
given the limit of the law last week for
Insulting defenseless women and girls in
his office. He was placed in fhe chain
gang to become the target of the Jeers
of the youngsters and the curiosity and
contempt of many of his women victims.
His companions were the outcasts of so
ciety, -tramps and drunkards. Sheppart
-abused his - power as an employer of
young girls to force his attentions upon
them, until several of them managed to
get up enough moral courage to have
the man arrested.
' Jennie Ryan, the child-wife of Frank
Ryan, a contractor of San Franolsco,
-was divorced this week because' she
refuses to leave her Portland home.
In a letter which was presented In evi
dence he writes:
"I was too young when.I married you,
Frank. I won't marry you when I am
Of age. I am never going to marry. I
would die before I would."
The child was married to Ryan In
Portland in 1907, and she still is not
of age.
Society Fills New Cliff House.
Society has taken up with ths re
cently completed Cliff House In a man
ner that assures the success of the
business men who undertook to re
place the structure which was known
to travelers the world over and which
was lost by fire two years ago. The
hew building Is a solid cement struc
ture with beautifully decorated parlors
.and entertainment rooms. Around the
structure are large promenades reach
ing to the very edge of the cliffs. Many
of San Francisco's society matrons have
Two-Story Bungalow Built in Six Years by
Septuagenarian and the Persistent Workman
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Its construction engaging six years
of a septuagenarian war. veteran's life,
and pension money at J12 a month pro'
viding every cent of Its cost, the home
of George A- Carsley In Ivanhoe, is a
remarkable example of What aged
hands may do when urged by Port
land vim and placed in touch with
Portland . opportunities. Begun in the
early part 4f 1903, the Carsley home
was at first . a cabin containing two
rooms. Now it is a ten-room two-story
cottage of bungalow type, not a line
suggesting that it was built spasmodi
cally by a. man more than 70 years of
age, and that throughout the half-dozen
years- taken for its construction his
only help was a plumber, hired for two
days and a half.
The aged builder first came to Port
land in 1891, when he superintended
the interior finishing woodwork being
installed in the Marquam building. To
take this position he quit work on the
old Paciflo Hotel in San Francisco,
where his brother was in charge of
remodeling the Interior of that hoBtelry.
Attacked by rheumatism, Carsley was
forced to retire as an interior con
tractor and after paying rent for sev
eral years, he decided to build his own
home on two lots in the Waverly
Woodstock addition, bought fof $335.
Six years ago he erected a two-room
cabin, which was nothing more than
four square walls with a triangular
roof. Then he surrounded his property
with a picket fence, laid out a vegetable.
garden and bided nis time to enlarge
his home as his store of pension msney
and his health would permit. The orig
inal home was started on a fund Of $60.
First extending the floor space of the
original cabin, the veteran builder then
lately .given bridge whist parties and
afternoon teas at the Cliff. One of the
most notable of the recent events there
was a swell dinner in the old rose
room, at which Mrs. W. P. Fuller was
the charming hostess.
The annual crop of Summer outing
engagements, the result of balmy skies,
moonlit nights and mountain zephyrs,
is about to be harvested. Everywhere
one goes there are engagements and
rumors of engagements, -
"Yes," one pretty . little debutante
said, "Just exactly one-half of the de
butante band is engaged, so there will
be announcement teas and luncheons
right along until Fall."
One of the first of these events will
come in the form of a big tea at the
Fairmont, and Colonel , Kirkpatrlck's
attractive little daughter Suzanne will
be hostess. The engagement is also
announced of Miss ivatherine Metcalfe,
second daughter of Captain John Met
calfe, to Dr. John Brooke Kaufman. U.
S. N., a member of a well known Vir
ginia family. Another engagement' of
the week that arouses great social in
terest is that of Miss Elsa Draper, eld
est daughter-of ' Colonel and Mrs. T.
Wain-Morgan Draper, to Midshipman
James Laurence Kauffman of the U. S.
S. Tennessee. Miss Draper was one of
the cleverest Tarantella dancers at the
Klrmess last Winter. The wedding will
be a beautiful country affair at the
home of the Drapers.
Crush to See "Merry Widow."
At the theaters the "Merry Widow'
has taken Frisco by storm. Never ha
there been such a crush at box office
windows in the history of the city and
people were never able to get seats
within a week of the time of purchase.
It can truthfully be said that this pro
ductlon has met with a greater suc
cess than any that has ever Tisited San
Francisco.
The present week will see the end of
the Summer season of grand opera. It
cannot be said that many out-of-town
lovers of grand opera have taken ad
vantage of hearing the excellent pro
ductlon that San Francisco offered this
Summer for the first time since Caruso
and . his company were burned out at
the old Grand .Opera House, but San
Francisco enthusiasts are hoping that
before another, season, comes to hand
a suitable home-for staging opera that
will appeal to the whole Coast will be
erected.
Miss Case Chats cf Musical
Career and Ambitions
MISS CASE, who will give her first
concert Jn America tomorrow night
at the Bungalow, is one of the Oregon
young women of whom a career is ex
pected. Miss Case, who has been study
ing In Paris for three years, or there
abouts, . has demonstrated already
enough determination to carry her to
successful end of what has been, be
gun under, auspicious conditions.
It Is, however, but fair to the young
woman to state that she herself Is re
sponsible for most of the shaping of
her affairs in so far as she has worked
with fidelity and energy such as few
have within them.
To Mrs. Ellen Kinsman Mann, form
erly. of Portland, Miss Case is Indebted
for her first insight into t-j serious
ness of music study and after leaving
this Influence, not only as a teacher
but also as a woman, she struggled
with conditions in New York until fate
willed thn.t RhA should stnriv in Paris.
where fortunately she fell into the
right hands.
She proved herself there able to work
hard, and to lrhblde from every source
from which she could derive benefit.
She was soon engaged as soloist in the
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raised the roof and provided for a sec
ond story to contain three rooms. This
completed, he built a bathroom and a
kitchen on the ground floor, working
outside when the weather permitted
and Inside when rain or his rheumatic
pains prevented him from venturing
the task In the open air.
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set herself to give the best withv,
in her power. To quote Miss Case?
she said: -
"I. made up my mind that every
thing which came my way should be
done in such a manner that I would
not need to - fear the presence of my
teacher. I have always feared doing
anything in a slipshod manner, and
for every opportunity to be heard I felt
that I -should acquit myself as though
it were the very greatest occasion and
I were able to meet it. All students,
abroad have hardships, and I had mine,
but it Is not of these that I will speak
or think, for I feel that I have not
yet begun them as I know as well as
anyone what a rocky path lies before
me. I think, however, the greatest
hardship which any student has to meet
when hampered by lack of finances Is
that one can not be systematic In study.
For ' instance, one - may have enough
money to study a few weeks or a few
months and then the wait until another
chance ' comes along is awful. If I
ever' should be placed where I shall
be able to help some one gain a musical
education I shall know, what steady
regular study means and shall try to
see that It Can be done. I think there
was hardly a break into my study with .
Frank King Clark and that was one
reason why his splendid work was of
double value to me."
Miss Case has the right Idea about
a good many things, among them on
the subject of working out her own
destiny.- She said:
"Of course. I expect to go on' the oper
atic stage. I would not be natural If
I did not feel that way, but I do not
want to go until I am absolutely ready,
and I think that I can make my own
way on the concert stage until suoh
time as I can go on with credit to
myself and to my teaoher as well. I
know how to study better than I did,
and I know what Is expected of an
operatic artist." -
Miss Case has had distinct suoeeaa
In a tour with Harold Bauer In Eng
land, and she is engaged to make a
tour with Fritx Kreisler In Europe this
Fall. She expects to sing in the East
ern cities when the season opens and
It is not unlikely that she win be heard
in New York under flattering aus
pices. EMILIE FRANCES BAUER. . ,
CARNIVAL COMES TO END
Fair Nets Catholic Young Men's
, Club Good-Sized Fund. .
The mid-Summer Carnival held by
the Cathollo Young Men's Club at their
Athletic Park, Stanton street and Wl
Haras avenue, was brought to a suc
cessful conclusion last night. The
crowning event, the big Mardl Gras and
confetti .battle, drew a big crowd. At
10:30 o'clock the greater part of the
crowd adjourned to the club gymnasium
for dancing.
The big undertaking was a success
In every respect. Several hundreds of
dollars were added to the fund to liqui
date the Indebtedness against the Cathollo-Young
Men's Club. To the man
ager, Joe Meyer, can be credited a large
measure of the success. Mr. Meyer, with
the. able assistance of hustling young
committee members, have been devot-
ng their entire time to the successful
termination of this . enterprise. .Andy
Weinberger, manager of the County
Store, Frank Callahan, Johnnie Calla
han, Jerry Quinlan and several other
members added to the big fund rolled
Up by their individual efforts.
E. J. Arnolds attractions were the
feature card of the Fair.
The club members express their
thanks to the public, press and the
various exhibitors for the support ex
tended to the Fair. The manufacturers'
exhibits were. of a more substantial
nature .than is usually observed at an
exhibition of this kind.
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it now stands is that it seems to havs
been built as the spirit moved the aged
builder. On one side of the upper story
a French window peeps, and opposite,
two tiny windows, ornamental work
above and below, are constructed. The
French window opens out on a porch,
ample enough for two persons to be
seated.
Another feature of the veteran's home
is that from top to bottom it does not
contain an inch of plaster, the ceilings
as well as the walls being wainscoted;
The stairway is a clever piece of handi
work, the first turn being ornamented
with a niche that reminds one of a
Gothic chapel.
Then the two brick chimneys In the
house, also built by the veteran, are
two-piece affairs, a hiatus from the
upper door to a point Just below the
celling permitting the insertion of
stove pipe to proviae warmth for the
upper story in Winter.
An opeh fireplace, the bricks laid In
cement, is one of the home's conven
iences, and the kitchen boiler is so ar
ranged that Its heat Is detracted from
the kitchen to provide warmth for
the bathroom. Throughout, tho sides
of the house are shingled and com
modious porches in front and rear pro
vide comfortable resting-places, no
matter what be the position of the sun. ?
The unique home, representing a six "
years' task and the labor of one aged '
man, Is located on Stanley avenue,
equally distant from the Ivanhoe sta
tion and the Mllwaukie road. Not a-cent
of debt overhangs the cottage and the.
property Is regarded as having sex
tupled In value since the aged work- :
man began bis tasfe