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'3 LATEST PICTURES OF THE HEIR TO THE THRONE OF RUSSIA TOURISTS NOTE TAKE HER A BOX OF DELICIOUS THE SLTNDAY OREGONTAX. PORTLAND. AUGUST 1, 1909. y .-rer-a. ; : ... -.;- - v '"S- '- fcT- --f-afa iiSif t vi-r;' iff -v-: 't 1 . V? j ;;J -nn..",.., ! -w-. . :" . ' ' - ill; tt,i7 H A 'r -v f - ' ' Jt J" : v: i . - - Ir . 1 ; : j s - If T . I ; f. . v. Cze; 2ZAj&vk4 .jam jzeoq. NEW YORK. July Jl. (Special.) These are the very latest pictures of the little heir to the throne of Rus sia. He has been more photographed than any other heir apparent because the people of Russia as well as of the world at lare demand constantly knowledge of this little Grand Duke. The Interest In him Is due In (treat part to his personality because even baby can have a distinct personalty and little Alexis has from his baby hood appealed to the people of the world by the frankness of his expres slon and the pure boyishness of his temperament. Wholly without self consciousness (as the camera shows him), he plays with his little sisters, wears his military uniform like any other little boy "playina; soldier" and looks In his yachting cap more like the son of a sailor than heir to one of the world's great thrones. It was In 1894 that Nicholas It mar ried Princess Alexandra Altx. ,the daughter of the Grand Duke of Hesse. This waa one month after he had as cended the throne after the death of bis father. It was in 1904. ten years later, that the Grand Duke Alexis was bora. Meantime four daughters bad come to the Imperial house of Russia and the Empress had lost gradually the lfrve of the people because she brought no heir to the' throne. She was sick with melancholia due In a great meas ure to this loss of her people's love when the little Grand Duke was given tr her. She has had no children since. The Grand Duke will celebrate on the 12th of August his 6th birthday. This Is July 30 on the Russian calendar. Probably he will celebrate his birthday I on his father's yacht On the little cap which he wears is the name of his fath er's yacht "Standard" Little Alexis probably enjoys life on the big yacht better than on shore because the shad ow of Impending calamity does not rest so heavily on his father when he ia on the" seas far from the reach of the con spirators who are constantly seeking his lire. THIS IS THE SEASON WHEN STAGE FOLK WALK THE "RIALTO" IN SEARCH OF JOBS Over 9000 Actors and Actresses In New York Seeking Engagements-r-Plans of Some of the Managers, and New Flays to Se Presented at Opening of Season. THIS la the time of year which among theatrical folks Is charac terized as "dreadful." It Is the betwixt and the between, and It would seem as If the fate of everyone were hanging on a thread. It la estimated that there are over 9000 stage people In New York now looking for work. One of the best-known theatrical agents of Broadway says that only one in ten has a chance for engagement. Needless to ask. whence do they come. Every state In the Union contributes to the collec tion now tramping up and down Broad way In the district known as the "Rl alto." The managers are only now returning, consequently not until now were those left In New Tork In charge, able to make engagements. William Seymour. ho makes the engagements for the Frohman companies, is still in Europe but will doubtless be on deck within a few days aa Charles Frohman's re turn with next season's attractions is the signal for work. William A. Brady, also landed last week, and Harrison Grey Fiske. George Tyler and others, are represented In town. The new Shubert plays will not be cast yet for several weeks, thus the engaging sea son will run very late. It must not be believed that the aspiring "mum mers'" troubles will be at an end, be cause scores of plays will be prepared and withdrawn after the first couple of weeks of the season. One of the prominent managers said that the season was held back as far as he was concerned, because all of the established actors and actresses, in fact, all down the line, are asking about three times as much this month aa they will ask In September. On the other hand, some of the important roan , asers expect to have their companies running full blast early In August. This move is made in order to obviate a recurrence of the conditions of last sea son, when .they opened late in Septem ber and by the middle of October at least half the plays proved failures. If their property Is to be valueless, they want to know it In time to have an other chance before the- new season Is in full swing. Nor must the unwary be lieve that these plays will be shelved. Far from it. They will be rewritten, and renamed and have another trial, when they may make good. No one who has not been upon the field can conceive the play that is en acted with real live chorus girls, and all classes and sorts of players. As before stated, every state In the Union con-trtbutes-to the motley crowd and every run of life as well. Among the prln- glrla and chorus boys who recently signed with "The Candy Shop," a list of their calling before they signed In cluded circus bill posters, telegraph op erators, professional swimmers, office boys , practicing attorneys, public school teachers, choir singers, artist's models, stenographers, milliners, laun drymen, church ' organists, telephone girls, country school teachers, and all sorts of salesmen and saleswomen, a few society girls, school girls, designers to say nothing of the stage hands which Include an electrical crew, four of whom were originally medical stu dents, others were electrical contrac tors, mining engineers, telegraph oper ators and mechanics. An Interesting feature about the principals Is the fact that the cast includes Annie Teamans. who was originally a circus equestri enne. Louis Harrison, originally a the ater callboy. and Maud Fulton, a tele graph operator. Consequently it would not seem that former vocations need be considered. It would take more than one small Sunday edition to recount all the plans afoot, according to Mr. Frohman, Mr. Belasco and the rest of the managerial community. Mr. Savage significantly says: "What does It profit a manager to spend all hla good money, time and energy abroad looking for the real thing to come home and find that imi tations are being prepared?" There is a good deal of such troubles in the lives of the managerial brotherhood. but Mr. Savage has won out a good many times and the latest belief is that he has another "winner." It did not take little Miss Bussert long to get into, a new harness. It seems hardly yes terday since she was playing Natalie in Portland with the "Merry Widow" company, and she Is now winning new laurels as Baroness Rlsa In "The Gay Hussars," which Mr. Savage, is Just try ing out In Atlantic City, and which from reports should be another sensa tional winner. It is Insinuated that Mr. Savage is lucky with the widows, as the new op eretta by Emrich Kalman. Karl von Bakonyl and Robert Bodanxky has an other type of the same article as the winning card In the Lehar operetta. But It must not be Imagined that the Sav age "widow" success began with the frisky Sonla far from It. indeed. Mr. Savage established the stage widow some years ago as all will concede who remember the dashing lady in "Prince of Pllsen." the dainty 300-pound widow In the "Yankee Consul," the tremend ously popular "College Widow." which established George Ade among the fore- dpais, aliow girls, chorus girls, dancing I most comedy writers of this country. and the Jolly little Newark widow of 'The Yankee Tourist. "The Gay Hussars" will probably be the first new musical show of the season on Broadway, where It will come when the rough edges are worn off. Henry Sav age's next musical production will be Edmund Eisler's "The Love Cure," the Viennese operetta adapted by Oliver Her. ford. This will open August 16 In Roch ester and will be heard In Syracuse and Schenectady before coming to the New Amsterdam Theater August 30. "The Florist's Shop," another of Mr. Savage's attractions, will open at At lantic City August 2, and will play there until August 9, when It will open at the Liberty. Charles Frohman announced his plans, not only for this country, but also for London, Paris, Vienna and Berlin. He will return to Europe in November, after the American season is fairly launched. The Frohman season will be In full swing by the middle of September, as nearly all of his companies are already In rehearsal. "Arsene Lupin." a detective thief play Im ported from Paris, will open simultane ously at the Lyceum Theater and in Lon don. August 26. This will be followed in New York by "Penelope" with Marie Tempest, which In turn will be followed by Billle Burke In a new play. Miss Burke arrived in America last week and began rehearsing at once. After her New York engagement that charming lit tle actress will go to Paris to play In a French company under Mr. Frohman's management. "The Flag Lieutenant" will open at the Criterion Theater August 80. Hattie Williams will start the season in "De tective Sparkea" at the Garrick. August 23, to be followed by Francis Wlleon In his own play. "The Bachelor's Baby," then William Collier In a play of his own, which has not yet been named. John Drew will open the Empire Theater September 8 -with "Jack Straw." which he will run for three weeks, after which he will appear In a new play until Maud Adams is ready to open her season. She will give special performances of "Twelfth Night," and she will continue her last season's success, "What Every Woman Knows." Miss Adams is new in her cottage near Dublin, and she may appear in London In September as well as in Paris and in Berlin In open air rep resentations of "Joan of Arc," like that given at Harvard University. She will return to America In November. Other engagements at the Empire in c'ude appearances of Sir Charles Wynd ham and Mary Moore, of London, and Ethel Barry more in Plnero's new play, "Mid Channel." j Kvrle Bllew will appear October 4 In Sutro'a new play, "The Builder of J WE PACK ALL GOODS AND DELIVER TO THE DEPOT FREE Before Starting On Your Summer Vaca tion Trip Let Us Supply Your Needs LEATHER NEEDS Handbags, Suitcases, Cross English Gloves, Likly Trunks, Bam boo Bags and Suitcases., EVERYBODY'S NEEDS, THESE Bathing Caps 15 to $2.00 Bathing Shoes 50 to 75 English Bath Towels 75 to S2.50 Bleached Towels 2o to 51. 50 Lister's Sanitary Towels, dozen 30 Swimming Collars 50 Water Wings - .2o and 35? 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The effect is instan taneous. 25c pints now 15 50o quarts now 25J SATISFACTORY FRAMERS OF PICTURES Bridges," ana Otis SKInner win aiso navo new play caUed "iour jaumnie serv ant." Marie Doro will have a new com edv bv the authors of "Love Watches." but she' will not open her season until December. Her season, however, is not vet closed, as she. is scheduled to play The Morals of Marcus in ivew ior ior a few weeKS in August. rnmn Dnvle's new London success, The Fires of Fate." will be proaucea inrtnir the season at the Hudson ine tr TTenrl Bernstein's "Israel" is nrheduled for the Gaiety, with a cast in eluding Constance Collier. Holbrook Bllnn nnrt Edwin Arden. Margaret Anglin will open her season at the Savoy Theater in a new play by Pierre Wolfe. In addi tion tn these attractions, perhaps one of the most notable productions win De tnat nt TVimnnil Rostand "The Chanticleer. which will be produced in New York in February with Henri Hertz, manager of the Porte St. Martin Theater of Paris, on Jean Coauelin. It will De remem hri that this play was destined for Coquelln the elder, in other words the Cnnnelin. who died within a few woAira. nf the nroduction of this work. It was then planned to have the Cadet Coonelin. but he died before tne proau& tion. This is the third. Coquelln to whom this oart has been assigned. Mr. Froh- mnn lso announces a season OI Dernmu Shaw plays and he expects Mr. Shaw to visit New Tork for the event. Among the musical works wm be ine Dollar Princess," hlch made a great sensation all over Europe last season and the season before. Other musical plays include "The Arcadians" and "Our Miss Gibbs," now playing successfully in Lon Ann. This Is hardly hail ot tne an nounoements made by one who is regard ed s the leading lmpressario ot . .. world, as this does not Include the com oanles which he is sending to ,urope nor for those or tne roaa. jir. nuumau have more theaters in London and more F.nelish stars and actors under nis man agement this season than any of the Eng lish managers can coast. William A. Brady also returned irom Europe last week full of energy and plans for those associated with him. wmie in London. Mr. Brady captured Sir Herbert Beerbolun Tree for an engagement which will include but ten weeks, to be divided between New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and Washington. His repertory Includes "The Merry Wives of Windsor," "The Merchant of Venice." "The Tem- nest." "Twelfth Night," "Tne scnooi ior Scandal," "Oliver Twist, 'The New- combes," "Faust," "Trilby, "The Keo Lamp" and "The Man who Was." Mr. Brady has planned an interesting season for his wife, the charming actress. Grace George, who will go to Australia next May to appear in a repertory of her suc cesses. After her engagement Is ended there, she will appear in India, South Africa, and she will open in London late In October, next year. Mr. Brady en raged Aubrey C Smith as leading sup port during Miss George's next American tour and he wui prooaoiy go wnn ner to Australia and to London. He is also negotiating with J. C. Williamson, of Australia, for a tour lor rioDert aianten. Miss George, who is a great admirer of Margaret Mayo, will probably open in her latest play and Mr. Brady has en tered into an . agreement with Frank Curzon at Wyndhaxn's Theater, London, for the production of Margaret Mayo's American play, "Polly or the circus, to be acted by an English company. Frederick Thompson, under whom TPolly of the Circus," was produced in America is making up several companies to produce this delightful play in Amer ica. It is so Identified with Mlsa Mabel Taliaferro that one can hardly realize anyone else In the title role. Mr. Thomp son has completed elaborate arrange ments for the coming season, and an nounces one of the principal productions as "Springtime by Bootn aarkington and Harry Leon Wilson, which will be produced in the middle of October with Miss Taliaferro in the leading role. Eugene Walter, author of "The Easiest T" Way," Is writing a new play, to be called "The Assassin," for one of Mr. Thomp son's male stars, and J. Hartley Manners, author of "The House Next Door," has completed a play called "The Fool's Com edy." "Via Wireless" will continue to be Mr. Thompson's leading attraction on the road. EMILIE FRANCES BAUER. Arid Summer in Willamette Valley Irrigation Needed From Copious Winter-Fed Rivers to Make Uo for Lack of Rain in the Best Growing Period. 1RRI on a RRIGATION In the Willamette Valley, once regarded a Joke, is proving itself stern necessity and a profitable success. In Ave years the Idea of artificial water supply for crops during the arid Summer a period as arid- as In the "desert" regions of the Middle West has been gaining converts, until now it has proved itself the only way of bringing out the full fertility of the solL infusing new methods of diversified small farm tillage, turning wheat-exhausted soil to other uses, banishing what Is derisively called "mossbackism" and starting the fertile valley on a new era of productivity and progress. This subject will be considered today in Eugene, at the head of the WUlamette Valley, at an irrigation convention. Farm ers and business men of that district are awaking to the need of Summer irriga tion, if farm lands are to be put to the diversified uses for which promotion as sociations and progressive citizens gen erally have been striving in the last de cade. It Is all very well to urge the farmer to quit wheat and raise clover, vetch and other things that grow In Sum mer, provided we show the farmer the way. Summer growing crops need more mois ture than comes out of the sky. The old pioneer who raised wheat, wheat and then wheat, was not so much a fool after all. He did the best he could; angels could do no more: he produced a crop that grew during the moLst Spring and matured in the early Summer; it was admirably adapted to the climate, although not to the soil; It offered the best market So let us be fair with the old settler and account him wise In his generation. Un like in the fertile districts of the Mis sissippi Basin, where most of his tribe came from, it scarcely ever rains in tne Willamette Valley in dry weather. Water In plenty flows to waste down the many tributaries of the Willamette. This water is that which fell last Win ter in copious rains and mountain snows. The rain was soaked up Dy tne earth, though large part of it flowed off in flood and freshet. Same way with melted snow. These streams will supply life fluid tor hundreds of thou sands ot acres 01 fertile iana. 1 ne Willamette Valley is not arid; it can not be so. possessing such volumes of water. Only Its Summer climate Is arid. The rivers will make up for the lack of Summer rain. In some places they are already doing it. True, the tests as vet are only experimental. But very heavy crop Increases result. Potato crops have been trebled, clover crops doubled, onion crops doubled, hop crops doubled. Probably no fertile re gion In America Is so well favored with rivers for irrigation. In Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington and other dry regions of the West, where there Is as little Sum mer rain, as In the Willamette Valley, rrigatlon Is supplying the denclency of nature. Such Is the case m the Yakima country. In Umatilla. Grand Ronde, Deschutes and Klamath. The same is true lh Idaho. Colorado, Wyo ming and New Mexico, where there is even more Summer rain than in the Willamette Valley. It is startling to call the Willamette Summer arid. Many persons have not thought of it that way, because they supposed the surfeit Winter rain some- ow lasts through summer, nut mis is not so; in fact, the Winter wet is a indrance In its abundance; most of It elides away and is wasted; and while admirably suited to vegetation growth. the Summer drouth, with its averag-e recipltation of barely more than two I fTGOA j CAT0 G OA "t so- niri ll 111 111 li ll il 111 llL : Precipitation In the Willamette Valley During; Jane, July and Aua-uat aa Compared With Other Districts. inches only 5 per cent of the total annual rainfall is the despair of the farmer, who finds his land, once heav ily productive with climate-favored wheat, now useless for that crop. 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