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THE SUNDAY OREOOXIAX, PORTLAXD, JANUARY 2. 1910.
GIRL FROM KENTUCKY IS WINNER OF
ROSE FESTIVAL'S PRIZE FOR POSTER
Miss Emma L. Mulkley's Design, Featuring Airship Flying Over City With Girl Strewing Roses Adjudged test.
Bnilding of Floats Intended to Excel Those of Last Tear Is Already Begun.
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VT of 104 designs, submitted by aa
many clever arttets, amateur and
professional, from all parts of the
: country, the prize-winning Rose Festival
: poster has finally been selected by
4 'he official board of judges, and
f the honors. along with the sub-
Kiumiai cash prize orfered. go to a
young Kentucky girl who has only re'
cently come to Portland-. The designer of
the successful poster if Miss Emma 1.
Mufkey. who is an attractive little woman
fat striking personalitj-, full of Kentucky
fnr and spirit, but already enthusiastic.
rfor tile West, which she baa adopted as
Mer home. aui especially' for Portland, the
".ity of Roses, which, she declares, shall
Jienceforth be her home city.
i Under the terms of the competition all
(deeigns submitted must first have a cen
tral flsure. the spirit of the rose was to
fSbe the dominant feature, and the carnival
Mpirit of frolic must be represented, by
some appropriate symbol or figures.
Deplftn Which Wins Pri.
Many of the competitor who submitted
rdasigns cauitht the carnival spirit, nit
lmorialied the rose and paid tribute to
fJCing Carnival, but neither in technique
Tior execution nor In the general effect of
their design did any approach Miss Mul
Ikey's conception. In this prize poster
fcthe clever young Kentucky ' woman em
jproys, as the central figure a beautiful
fglrl riding in an aerial peacock chariot,
jover a birdseye Portland, ' scattering
(dainty roses over the city. Around this
falsure which symbolises the coming of
jvlsttors from all over the country to
Portland's Rose Festival, airships are ply
hng merrily, partaking ot the carnival
Kpirtt and standing for the progresslve
nesn of 1910. The brilliant aerial chariot,
pwhich. is done in peacock, colors, is laden
hwith blossoms, and a spreading wall
(which canopies the graceful figure of the
iKirl is held by ropes of roses. Through
(the birxlseye view of Portland, spreading
bbeneath the atrbhips and the car, windfi
line Willamette, and off to the east is
lseen Hit. Hood's crest. Portland's Impos
ling skyscrapers' are shown, and sweeping
over the gentle elopes and spacious" levels
"of the Kast Side are shown the home of
Rose City residents, the natural colors
of mountains, river and city being blend
ed prouily with the dainty tones of the
rose and its foliage. A panel, finishing
the bottom of the poster, gives five sym
bolical figures typifying the gaiety, bur
lesque and merry-making of King Carni
val and his subjects, the clown with his
rap and bells, and all the other folic of
carnival time being in evidence, follow
ing In the wake of the royal funmaker
and his garland-weaving maidens.
Whole World Will Sec It.
The official. Rose Festival poster of this
design will be published in half-sheet
silt. :i by 2S inches. In six colors. The
first issue numbering 10,000 copies. These
will be used in lots of 1000 by the dif
lerent railroad systems having offices
in Portland, the Hill and Harriman lines
having already arranged to have them
posted in every ticket office and agency
1n this country and. through their for
eign agents, these posters will find their
way into all of the leading Kuropean
cities wnere tne.se railroads are
rented.
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In addition to the posters, an order for
r"-'60.000 post cards will be placed with a
tlocal publishing house as soon as the
leslgn is available. Another order for
iJ.00,000 inserts to be distributed among
!i lie local business houses for use in their
I mail-order and correspondence business
rwill soon follow.
Floats to Surpass Last Year.
ricneral Jlanager George I- Hutchin
Announced yesterday that, with this im
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portant feature of the general festival
publicity campaign taken care of, he
would devote all his energies to prepar
ing a comprehensive prospectus for the
gorgeous electrical and vehicle float pa
rades that will be given by da-and night
next June. Last year's triumph in this
respect. Mr. Hutchin says, is to be far
surpassed, both In magnitude and elabor
ate treatment. His trip last Fall, dur
ing which he witnessed the Priests of
Pallas at Kansas City and the Veiled
Prophet at St. Iuis, has given him
many ideas that will -serve to increase
the brilliancy and effectiveness of the
Rose Festival pageantry.
In a few weeks the float-builders will
be here from the East and will commence
their work on the designs and structural
work for these impressive processions
under Mr. Hutchin's direction. The cam
paign for securing funds for the Festival
is to be prosecuted vigorously, for the
reason that the management must know
how much money will toe available by the
time the float-builders get here. The
Festival haa decided firmly and flatly
that it wiil under no consideration over
reach the pledged subscriptions and the
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magnitude ofi the celebration will de
pend upon the generosity of the public.
MAN MUST WAIT TO KNOW
Occult Not so Hopelessly Mysterloni
as Mas Been Said, Says Writer.
CORVAtiLIS, Or.. Dec. 26. (To the Edi
tor.) In The Oregoman. of Thursday last,
my attention was drawn to a very
thoughtfully written leader upon "Pro
gress of the Psychic." Throughout the
entire article one could detect a right
spirited, earnest desire that the- occult
should be denuded of its mystery. Thus
I feel constrained, in answer, to pen these
few lines of assurance that the case is
not so absolutely hopeless as the writer
of the article conceives it to be. Granted,
neither spiritualist nor psychical ' re
searches have made any practical head
way in the elucidation of this stupendous
mystery, the reasons are not difficult to
furnish. Nevertheless. I would state that
for nearly 17 years -this investigation has
been silently and unostentatiously prose
cuted, for the most part, ia this country
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under very exalted authority. The whole
secret has been unfolded and is now about
ready to be given to the world.
There is an omniscient reason for the
presence of matter and of man in the
universe, and that reason had its origin
previous to the creation of material
worlds. It is an all-wise and an all-just
solution of a problem seriously affecting
the souls throughout the entire past eter
nity. Man at prese-nt can furnish no
legitimate and reasonable explanation, ac
ceptable to 20th century intelligence, for
the presence of the life of his soul in a
human body. The religion iie professes,
the most part, is the Pauline teaching
with Christ as the centrai figure an In
terpretation in accordance with the then
demands of reason. But progress to be
wholesome must' necessarily be of an
all-round nature, ofiherwise the results of
progress will ultimately become antago
nistic to continued stasis In ajiy one par
ticular direction.
From this the world is now suffering,
inasmuch as man has progressed in all
respects save in his religion. Steadily
is he now outgrowing that belief which
was altogether acceptable to the less
privileged Is century Christian. In in
creasingly stentorian notes is the cry
being raised. "Why ' is my soui upon
earth?" The apostolic teaching is thus
quite naturally a.nd inevitably becoming a
profession of the past. What then was
the precise nature of Christ's mission on
earth? And strange as it may at pres
ent appear to you, sir. mankind could not
qualify to receive thi information in its
true meaning until he had reached a
certain level of progress, and at this
present .'age he has but just reached that
level.
Hence in justice he must be furnished
with a religion so readjusted as to be
agreeable to his now advanced capacity
of reception. The solution of this hitherto
incomprehensible problem calls for pre
liminary investigations of an amazing and
NEWS AND GOSSIP OF
PLAYS AND THE PLAYERS
EDITED BY LEOKE CASS BIER.
CATHRINE COUNTISS. remembered
fov her .work in stock with the
Baker company, is appearing ' in the
Bhuberts' production of Cora Maynard's
psychic play, "The Watcher." which was
produced for the first time on any
stage in Baltimore, on Christmas night.
The nlay is a four-act drama, and
In many respects is said to be not un
like "Paid in Full." The mother of a
family, though no longer living in this
world, guards the -destiny of her chil
dren and prevents the utter disruption
of the family after her departure. The
play Is being well received. Miss May
nard's foundation work of mysticism
In her play seeming to have struck a
responsive chord in the hearts of the
Baltimoreans.
The cast, which is small, has been .
selected with care, and includes be
sides our friend Miss Countiss. John
Emerson, Percy Has well, Marion Ballou
and Thurlow Bergen. Mr. Emerson
staged the production. "The Watcher"
"Mil ore"n this week in New York at the
Comedy Theater, where it succeeds
"The Melting Pot."
Sarah Bernhardt has failed as an au
thor. Her piay, "Un Coeur d' Hommes"
("The .Heart of a Man") in four acts,
was produced on December 23, at' the
Theatre des Arts, Parts. Of the produc
tion, the Petit Journal has to say:
"Mme. Bernhardt resembles Moliere. She
is an artiste, a manageress and au-'
thoress. . As an artiste she is sublime;
r.s a manageress she often presents
splendid spectacles; as an authoress
she was less happy. The piece was re
ceived with smiling deference.
m Mrs. William H. Taft, wife .of the
President, is seriously considering the
suggestion made by Charles . PIrohman
to Mrs. Roosevelt, to have, well-known
players appear at the White House from
time to time, very much on the order
that European artists., appear before
crowned heads. The performances
would take the form of one-act plays,
and would be presented probably in
the East Room, where an ingenious ;
arrangement of curtains and lights
would effect a suitable theater.
'
Isadore Duncan has gone to Africa
to study the native dances. It is an
ticipated that she will find it easy to
adapt herself to the costume. .
'
-Mary Manncring, so gossip says, is
seriously contemplating the sponsor
ship of a modern morality play, which
she intends naming "Everywoman."
The basis of the play wtlLbe Miss Man
nering's personal belief that no man
can distinguish between love and prob
able love. Says Miss Mannering: "The
character of 'Everywoman' is intro
duced by the character. Nobody. No
body has told her about the dangers as
well aa the Happiness of being a wom
an. Bverywoman's companions are
Beauty, - Modesty and Touth. In the
second act Modesty is dismissed and in
the last Beauty dies, but Everywoman
clings to Youth. Why? She has set
out to find King Love. When she thinks
she has found him he turns out to be
only Passion in the guise of love. It is
a wonderful play.""
.Helen Ware Is to be starred by Henry
B". Harris in "The Turning Point." by
Byron Ongley. one of the authors of
"Brewster's Millions."
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It has long been an "undisputed fact
that the average actor is incapable of
making a auccess in any way that does
not begin with an application of grease
paint and end with a curtain call.
Occasionally, however, we hear of
actors who have left the profession and
made good in the commercial world,
and more rarely still, we hear of men
and women prominent on the stage to
day who are at the same time engaged
in other occupations. For instance.
Jess Dandy, with Louise Gunning in
"Marcelle." who has made a reputa
tion second to none as a German com
edian, who depends not on his German
dialect or the singing of topical songs
for his existence. He is, in private life.
Jess Danzig, the senior partner of the
firm of Danzig Brothers, manufactur
ers of women's wearing apparel.
William Gillette Is the manufacturer
and owner of a famous headache cure
that is proffered as "just as good" at
911 first-class drug stores. (Name and
price are omitted on pain of displeasure
of advertising department.)
Then there is Burr Mcintosh, a prom
inent member of the original "Trilby"
company, who is one of the leading
protographers of New York, and the
founder of a monthly magazine devoted
to artistic photography. Elsie - De
Wolf, who Is one of the best-known
society actresses, makes money hand
.over fist by selecting furnishings for
the homes of persons who are long on
money and short on the esthetic, and
Incidentally have common sense enough
to know wherein they lack. Yearly
Miss De Wolf goes abroad, looking
for a new play and also keeping her
weather eye peeled for old bric-a-brac,
tapestries and furniture.
Phoebe Davles, who Is the original
Anna Moore in "Way Down East,"
spends her Summers in the fragrant
orange groves of her California ranch,
where she is said to -rove a shrewd
business woman.
Maude Adams sends huge baskets of
cultivated violets from her Long Island
country place to the New York market,
but at no time takes advantage of the
opportunity to increase their value by
advertising their origin. Then, there is
Helen Lowell, who created the role of
Miss Hazy, in "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cab
almost incredible nature. And not the
least important is a thorough research
into and knowledge of the spiritual con
dition. In. the confines of a short letter
the most that I can do is to assure you
that it is an integral part of the plan of
salvation, absolutely essential to the com
pletion of the omniscient design of love
and justice to ail souls whether good or
evil. The spiritual existence is the corol
lary to the life on earth. Life cannot
exist unsupported by "a knowledge" to
guide and "a power" to perform. Wher
ever found, whether in its perfect form
In God, or In its imperfect form In the
soule. iu man, or in spirits, the life must
be accompanied by "a knowledge'" and
"a power."
At death the life is released from the
body. Being eternal In Its nature. It
escapes into eternal space and is im
mediately invested In a spiritual knowl
edge and a spiritual power exactly in
keeping with its desires, deserts and with
the nature of its environments. It is in
the fpirit world or world of space in
order to complete that which was begun
upon earth, in conformity with the de
mands of the perfect attributes of a per
fect God.
Presently Hie colossal scheme will be
revealed in all itsrgrandeur and beauty,
but for the moment 1 must conclude with
the assurance that every man on earth
possesses the brain center through which
to commune directly with i-pirks. This
center requires to be developed, but until
knowledge of the presence and proper
ties of the spiritual existence is estab
lished upon a. firm and reliable basis, it
is impossible even to make a start in this
development, intimately, not long hence,
all men the world over will commune
with spirits, either good or evil, just as
they themselves are good or evil, and
those worlds are distinctly in the lead in
winich ' free communication between
spirits and men' is in cotwtar.d operation.
. W. T. WILSOX.
bage Patch," who is the possessor of a
farm on Long Island, where she raises
chickens and pigs for the market.
Maude Durbin Skinner, the wife of Otis
Skinner, and for many yfars his lead
ing woman, is known as a magazine
writer, more particularly for her
studies of Canadian peasant life. Frank
Sheridan, an old Portland favorite and
the original Captain Williams of "Paid
in Full," is a well-known composer,
and owns a music-publishing company.
Guy Standinsr is an artist. whose ma
rine studies find quick recognition.
Several years ago, Louis Mann, who
was then appearing in "All on Account
of Eliza." spent his spare time be
tween performances In Introducing a
new brand of tooth powder, the label
on which had been made from a cut for
which his wife, Clara Llppman, had
posed.
Eugene Walters' new play "Just a
Wife," will have its first presentation in
Cleveland on January 17. with Mr.
Walter's wife, Charlotte Walker, as the
star. Early nxt month the play goes to
the Belascd" Theater in New York.
George Alison, a former leading man
with the Baker Company, is playing stock
in Brooklyn, X. Y. Charles King, also
one of the old guard, has a stock com
pany of his own In San-Diego, Cal.
Maxine Elliott v ill "open her season in
her new production, "Dehorahof Tods,"
at Daly's Theater, New York, on Janu
ary 3.
Since Leopold. King of the Belgians,
has turned his toes up to the daisies, the
little affair of the old crowned satyr with
Cleo de Merode, one-time ballerina of the
Paris Opera, has been taken up again for
pubiio delectation. The most recent por
trait of this famous beauty is ehown on
this page, posed as a laltiere or milkmaid.
The coiffure a la Cleo, though no longer
copied, is still worn by Its originator,
whose Madonna-likeIoveliness was only
enhanced by the flat-plastered bands of
hair covering her ears and defining the
contour of her hood.
;
At last Nance O'Neil hsus come into her
own. and every one who ever knew her.
out i this direction is saying "I told
you so." She r.as been without recogni
tion in New York, although always a
favor'te on the Pacific Coast. Today she
is heralded as one of the foremost emo
tional actresses of the age. Following
hvi great success in "The Lily," which
opei ed the nih- before Christmas at the
tuyvesant under I nc direction of David
J'.t'.'a&'CO. her posit;.).: established. After
t ie third act of t'r..- play: the curtain had
tj Le run up 27 times tc answer to the
ii.s.olent applius.. the audience giving
Mtes O'Neil th cii of demonstration
that is the dream of aspirants to dramatic
succes. . '
McKee Rankin is not of the cast of
"Cameo Kirby". these days. There s a
reason. . .
When originally produced, the role of
Larkin Bunce fell to James Ijiokare, who
has a brother also in the theatrical pro
fession. There is a scene in the piece
where Bunce and his fellow-gambler,
Kirby. say farewell to each other.
Iackaye acted the scene with tenderness.
This season Rankin has been appearing
in the part. A week ago Booth Tarking
ton. one of the authors of the play, went
to Buffalo to witness a performance. He
complained that Rankin inclined too much
to comedy in that particular scene. After
this report Rankin was requested to con
form to the actor's . wishes. The actor
was clearly annoyed at the request. His
chest heaved violently for a moment, and
thpn he said he'd be well, he just
'wouldn't.
Consequently. Emmett Corrigan is the
new Larkin Bunce.
The prejudice against the amateur
actor is one of the oldest and respected
superstitions of tile American stage.
Managers were wont to declare not' manv
years ago. that experience in private
. theatricals was not only useless, .but an
actual detriment to would-be profes
sionals. The assertion sounds pretty much like
saying that only those who have never
had a bath can learn to swim.
As a matter of fact, a large multitude
of eminent and capable actors have come
up from the ranks of amateur theatricals
into careers both materially and artfstir
cally successful.
James K. Hackett while an undergrad
uate of the College of the City of New
York gave marked evidence of the abil
ity he has since developed. He played
a keen and energetic part in all the dra
matic activities of the' college. eve:n
after he graduated and began to study
laiw. The result, as everybody knows,
was that he abandoned Blackstone for
the buskin. The same is true of John
Mason, when he was at Columbia, Theo
dore Roberts when he was at the Uni
versity of California. John E. Dodson.
Guy Bates Post and Charles J. RIchman.
There are many dramatic clubs that
are known for the celebrities they have
turned out. The most renowned of these
In New York, of course, is the Comedy
Club, which has attained to an enviable
and uniform standard of excellence in
Its performances. Elita Proctor Otis,
Elsie De .Wolfe and Mrs. Brown Potter
are three of its former members who
have achieved success.
When Wilton Lackaye was studying
law in Washington, D. C, he was pres
ident of the Lawrence Barrett Dramatic
Association. It was during the presenta-.
tion. of a play by this organization that
he met Lawrence Barrett himself. The
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encouragement given the young amateur
.by the tragedian led to his adopting the
profession.
Robert Hilliard was president of the
Gilbert Dramatic Society in Brooklyn and
made his debut with Edith Kingdon. one
of the particular glimmers in the society,
and who is now Mrs. George J. Gould.
William Courtleigh was studying law
at Washington University in his youth,
but most of his interests and energies
were concentrated on the McCullough
Club. A traveling manager happened to
see one of the performances, and made
Courtleigh an offer, giving him at the
same time the scenario of a melodrama to
write. The young man did so well that
he forsook the temple of learning for the
house of entertainment. Edmund Payne
made his debut as a snowball at a Christ
mas pantomime. It is related that he was
quite wrapped up in his part. One of the
supers rolled lfim so vigorously that he
toppled over into the footlights, which
were of candle variety, and they had an
awful times quenching the burning snow.
During the early part of his stage career
Dewolf Hopper could well have posed as
a horrible example of what amateur the
atricals will do for a young man. In
stead of learning his parts for dramatic
performances he refused to concentrate
on the law study. When he was SI he
came into a legacy of 5S0.0CO. No begin
ning at the bottom rung for him. He
started by being an angel, taking out a
road company. "Our Boys." of which he
played the role of Talbot Champneys.
Need it be recorded that he wound up,
as most angels do, by being the goat.
However, the $50,000 wasn't quite all gone,
so he took out another company in a play
vilh the chaste title of "One Hundred
Wives." Sad to relate, the remains of
the ?50,000.were not enough for the near-
havcm and young Hopper returned to
New York and started in to be a real
actor. " -
Di-vid Bispham'a dbut on the stage
wm ass an amateur, in an operitta writ
ten by Lady Downshire, music by Lady
Arthur Hill. Rowland Buckstone made
his first appearance at the advanced age
of 9 years a3 Anna Maria, a maid serv
ant, ill a farce called "Ici on Parte Fran
raise," given by a dramatic club in one
of London's suburbs.-
ODD THEORY SEEMS PROVED
Absorption of Stellar Light by Kther
Indicated in Experiments.
LONDON. Jan. 1. (Special.) It has
been a questicfn with astronomers wheth
er light is absorbed in its passage
through space. Of late years some fig
ures have been adduced tending to the
belief that the loss of light was rather
considerable. 'Nature."' this week, quotes
on this subject a recent communication
from Professor Kapteyn, of Croningen.
the famous astronomer, who has made
some important contributions of late
years to stellar astronomy.
Professor Kapteyn thinks that "such
absorption probably does exist." The
criterion he adopts is that absorption by
the interstellar medium the universal
ether would tend to render more red
the light of very distant stars that reach
us, and there is evidence that the light
of remoter stars is redder than that of
orbs nearer to us. Taking as a measure
a distance of 32.6 light years that is to
say, of a star whose light takes nearly
33 years to reach us he finds a certain
measurable loss, one very much less than
some of the estimates.
HISTORIC PROPERTY SOLD
Site of Religions Massacre During
Commune Has Changed Hands.
PAP.IS. Jan. 1. fSpecial.) The liquida
tion of the religious- orders is not yet
over. A few days since the Jesuits'
property in the Rue Haxo was sold by
auction. It waa In 15 divisions, includ
ing chapels, pavilions, and a large gar
den, but as no purchaser could be found
for each separate division, the whole
property was finally disposed of for the
eum of 528.000. Special interest attaches
to this property as it is at the wall
separating it from the Rue Haxo that 50
hostages, as they were termed, were shot
by the Communists on May 26, 1S71-
Kifty-two were being led to their death,
but, two were allowed to ecaape on the
way. . One was the Abbe Becheletto, who
is now an archbishop. His appearance
was so boyish that two of the Commun
ists took pity on him, and told him that
they would let him go, but he refused
unless his friend, the Abbe Barquebot,
who was walking at his side, was also
permitted to flee, and after some consul
tation they consented.
Church Missions in Japan.
Indianapolis News. -In
the Frotesf.ant Episcopal mission in
Tokio. Japan, are two boarding echools
for girls, which have some 350 students.
The principals and teachers are Japanese,
with the exception of two foreign mis
sionary teachers. In 9t. Paul's collego
for boys and young men are 600 stu
dents, and there would be many more if
they could he accommodated.
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