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NEWS AND GOSSIP OF
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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, ' POKTLAXD, FEBRUARY 6, 1910.
EDITED BT LEOSG CASS BATCH.
BLANCHE WALSM. who appeared at
tho Bungalow last week. In "The
Test." never studies her roles from
manuscript. She speaks the linea Into a
phonograph, turns the machine loose,
listens over and over again, and In this
manner memorizes her roles. It is
said that she never has missed a line
during: any performance In her career.
Miss Walsh Is her own stage manager,
and directs all her own companies. In
private life she is Mrs. William M.
Travers. Her husband was seen as
Kreddie McVean In ' The Test."
It took 20 years of stern measures to
abate the nuisance of big; hats indoors.
Much ridicule, not a few scathing edi
torials, jokes and censure from press,
pulpit and the masculine public in
dulged in with much heaviness of heart
and anguish of mind, have accom
plished an era of hatless feminine
heads in theaters, at least. But with
the present style of coiffure, the old
w&rries have returned a hundred fold.
Huge hats were bad enough. In fact
their presence In cars and elevators is
yet a cause of justifiable; profanity, but
the prevailing mode of women's hair
(or rather lack of hair) arrangement
paves the road to Gehenna for the
mere man or sensible woman who is
forced to sit behind said hair at the
theater. Gladys Myrtle, who adorns
the ladies' hosiery department, achieves
this fearfully and wonderfully con
trived coiffure quite as readily and
painlessly as her more lucky sister who
rides in her own electric brougham.
The offending piece de resistance la
seemingly an approach to the early
Georgian epoch In head adornment
(spare the mark!) A waste-paper bas
ket or family size tub Is pTaced on the
bare head, and over this Is drawn the
18 hairs of the owner and about 13 dol
lars' worth of a dead Chinaman's, who
presumably has no other use for it
Some women have more than 18 hairs
fastened to their skull, some have as
many of 20, and I have heard of a case
In point where the woman's hair was
all her own, but this was a foolish lit
tle woman who raised babies and knew
how to do housework, played the piano
for her own husband, and hadn't even
read "Three Weeks." So you can see
how little tho really big and moment
ous question of hair would interest
lier. To resume our mutton. After the
basket or tub is carefully covered and
padded so that It matches In not less
than eight places, wind several yards
of thick massive Iutch braids around
the head. Just above the ears. Aggra
vate the whole with much-jeweled
pins and combs, and place It In front
of some poor devil who would really
like to see the stage. Keep It always
In his line of vision. If he cranes his
neck, crane yours also. If he suddenly
sn.'ts desperate and leans forward and
requests you to remove your hair, turn
on him and give him a good piece of
your mind. Tell him he's no gentle
man, or he wouldn't Interfere with
folks that paid good money to see the
show.
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Owing to the severe results of a bad
cold, contracted while playing a tour of
Texas cities, Mrs. Ftske has been com
pelled to cancel her immediate engage
ments and return to New York City,
where she will remain a month for med
ical treatment. Mrs. Fiske was to appear
In Baltimore this week.
The "Tama-Tama Man." -which has
been hammered on every installment
piano In the land and rendered in various
ways since its advent In "The Three
Twins." owes its origin to a series of ac
cidents. When the musical comedy. "The
Three Twins." was rehearsing in Chicago,
prior to its opening there. Karl Hoschna,
the composer was asked to furnish a
"pajama man" song. He handed them
one called "The Pajama Man," only to
learn that It would not be used In the
production, because the next play booked
in the Whitney Opera-House had as its
main feature a pajama song. The next
day Gas Bohlke. the stage director, hap
pened to pass a toy store and saw in the
window a triangular manikin a doll built
In triangular. Realizing that this Idea
had as yet never been used in stage work,
he decided to have a "triangular man"
chorus In place of the pajama number.
Jater as he and Collins Davis, who wrote
the lyric, sat together wondering what
to call their effusion, Bohlke kept repeat
ing "Pajama-yama-yama" in true Napo
leon Newlywed manner. All at once he
cried. "Did you ever hear of a Tama
Tama' man?" Neither had. So the lyrto
waa written around the title, the musio
composed for the lyric, Bessie McCoy re
hearsed It. and later it sprang into In
stant popularity. Portlanders remember
It beat as given by the nimble-toed dam
sel, Bessie Clifford, at the Bungalow sev
eral months ago vith Victor Morley.
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The city dads of Dee Motnes. Iowa, evi
dently have the'r own Ideas about the
tlrammer as It should be and Isn't. One
of those large enquiring moral waves such
hs we occasionally witness rolled over
the City Council of the capital city of the
Hawkeye state recently, and after the
flood had subs'led there whs discovered
amidst the wreckage an ordinance mak
ing it a rnlsdep-eanor to present any play
in which there :akes place the killing of
a person or th commission of any crime.
When one of the members of the Council
was naked if h" realized that the passing
of this ordinaire meant a ban upon
Shakespearean t rased y, he promptly an
swored that he did, and also added that
this was one of his reasons for indorsing
it. At first the theatrical managers of
Ies Moines regarded the measure as a
joke, but they son learned that It has
the approval of al the professional moral
ists of the city. "Mid moreover is "good
law" and Is beins unforced.
A misogynist, one woman, one man
servant and ono hinaman. well mixed
nnd placed on a yacht in mid-ocean with
a few trimniinBS o" officers and able ea.
nten. have been nroulded into a farce by
Frank Stayton. fi English writer. He
lms oalUxl the e-o-coction "The Inferior
Sex." and Max'.ne Elliott is presenting It.
at Daly's in New York, after a run in
the suburbs with "Deborah of Tods." Tho
subject at any rte is not a new one,
since the inferior'ty of sex has been a
mooted' question s'nee Eve handed Adam
that bit of Hood Klver fruit. The suf
fragettes have no hesitancy in placing
their bete and mrt of us have a secretly
registered opinior as to which Is the In
ferior sex. But -ow that the query has
been embalmed In a play and with Miss
Klliott as Its har-maiden Interest awak
ens. "Going Soms," the Paul Armstrong
Rex Beach Comedy which the Shuberta
produced last Spring, is to be novelized.
Harper Brothers have undertaken the
commission. Two roads companies are
now presenting the play.
Charles Klein Is writing a social climber
play for Blanche Walsh and promises to
localize Palm Beach on Broadway in the
scene.
Christie McDonald, now appearing In
Tha Prince of Bohemia, expect to go
abroad at the end of the season for mu
sical study, under Jean de Reszke. She
will develop especial proficiency in opera
bouffe. and expects to ba a pioneer in
introducing this form of musical play
In America.
The dramatization of John Fox's
novel. "The Trial of the Lonesome Pine"
has been completed by Robert M. Baker
of Boston, who also dramatized "Bever
ly," an earlier story. "The Trail of the
Lonesome Pine" will be produced this
Spring by William Norris and A. G.
Delamater.
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Olga Nethersole has announced
through her over-worked press agent,
that . she is going back to Paris next
Summer for a fight to the finish with
Madame Sara Bernhardt, the great
French tragedienne. These two ladies
used to be the best of friends chums
in fact if queens of tragedy can
chum. But friendships between women
are as short and uncertain in the Neth-
ersole-Bernhardt class as in the Mrs.
Brown-Mrs. Jones class of society and
like all the daughters of Eve befr-i
'em, they quarrelled. Again, in true
feminine manner, they kissed and made
up at the end of two years. This time
the friendliness lasted several days ,
Olga was over to Sara's house and Sara
went to Olga's and to prove her a fee-
tion leased her nice new theater to
Miss Nethersole ofr a 10 days' perform
ance. The fair Olga made a tremendous ;
hit in the French capital, and request-. i
d an extension of the lease. Sara re-
fused the use of her theater for even
one more little performance. The en
gagement was brought to an abrupt
end. Sara made It very plain, in a lady
like way of course that she didn't
relish the idea of foreign artists en
croaching upon what she considered her
territory. Therefore Nethersole has
leased another theater in Paris, and It
is her avowed Intention to fight it out.
If It takes all Summer.
...
. President Taft has donated a gold
medal to the Actors' Fund Fair. The
medal will have on one side a figure
of charity, flanked by comedy and
tragedy. The reverse will have In low
relief the comic and tragic masks with
the words "Actors' Fund, New York,
1910."
The first modern theater in Bermuda
was opened last week by Ann Workman
In a producetlon of "Romeo and Juliet."
M. Gosselln-Lenatre, a noted historical
writer, of Paris, has advanced the theory
that the mysterious "man with the Iron
Mask" was Moliere, the dramatist and
comedian, whose jawbone Is piously pre
served at the Comedle Franca Is. The
theory is said to be based upon minute
examinations of historical documents In
the use of which he has exceptional facil
ities. The statements of Monsieur Gosselln-Lenatre
command the highest respect
and the proposed book on the subject is
awaited with great Interest.
' A new musical comedy that is taking
New York by storm la "Old Dutch" la
which Lew Fields Is starring in the
titular role. As a part of his support
ing company he has an unusually rack-a-bone
horse, named Lightning Charlie.
The animal has been a living skeleton
since colthood, while the lavish use of
grease paint helps to bring out its rafter
like ribs. During the course of the play
Mr. Fields hangs his hat on Lightning
Charlie's hipbone and plays a xylophone
solo on his ribs the horse's not Mr.
Field's, a piece of comedy that Is said to
be unusually laughable.
"Plays that foster vice and Immorality
are gnawing at the very vitals of the
state, and those who are called to preside
over city, county or state should not give
such performances any quarter," writes
Archbishop Moeller. of Cincinnati. "I am
fully convinced that plays, as well as
press and pulpit, can be made means of
doing good, of lifting up the people from
the lower to a higher level of probity, of
Instilling on the one hand a love of vir
tue and on tho other Inspiring a hatred
for all that is bad and wicked."
Charles Frohman has obtained a new
farce and a new stage director for his
star, Hattie Williams, who Is now ap
pearing In "Detective Sparks." Next
month she is to begin rehearsals in a
straight-a-way farce "The Girl He Could
Not Leave Behind Him," adapted from
the German by Sydney Rosenfeld. Wil
liam Collier recently signed a special con
tract with Frohman to pass upon the
scene models, rehearse and create new
business for the production.
.
Murray and Mack, who have together
weathered the theatrical galea for many
seasons, have decided to separate, and
their time on the Orpheura circuit has
been cancelled. Mr. Murray will here
after appear in a vaudeville act with his
wife.
Will R. Walling, who was a member
of the Belasco Stock Company four years
ago at the old Hellig Theater, Is at the
Alcazar In San Francisco. This week. In
, their offering of "The Man of the Hour,"
Mr. Walling portrays the role of Harrl
gan, the Councilman.
Nance CNell, David Belasco's star In
"The Lily," Is authority for the state
ment that no human being Is ever satis
fled. After having leaped Into fame, suc
cess, wealth and exalted position In- the
theatrical world she Is now dreaming of
the day when she shall enact Shakespear
ean roles in Paris. "Isn't it odd that one
can never be satisfied?" Miss O'Nell Is
quoted as asking In a recent .interview.
She continued: "When I was" a school
girl in San Francisco I dreamed of the
day when I could be wealthy and inde
pendent and famous. I went upon the
stage and worked very hard and my
schoolgirl dreams have come true, but
now I feel that I shall never be satisfied
tmtil I have acted In the same houses as
Mme. Sarah Bernhardt in Paris, enacting
tragic roles from Shakespeare. But I
shall cheer up. My, old dreams came
true, why not my new ones.'
.
Lillian Kemble, a former leading wo
man with the Baker Stock Company, Is
playing leads with the Harry B. Davis
company of Pittsburg. Miss Kemble was
a great favorite with Portlanders who re
member her as a striking beauty of ex
ceptional talent as an actres?. "
May, Leslie Stuart, daughter of Leslie
Stuart, composer of "Floradora" and
"Havana," has taken to the stage.
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The Ben Greet players are successfully
reviving "The Little Town of Bethle
hem." by Katrlna Trask. The play
deals with the Nativity and presents sev
eral Important subsequent episodes of the
New Testament story, bringing out the
racial peculiarities and jealousies of
Greek. Roman and Jew. It deals par
ticularly with the life of a Greek poet.
Cariston. and Faustina, a proud maiden
of (he Roman aristocracy, whose scorn
of the Virgin Is punished by her being
stricken with leprosy. Critics unite In
saying that the play of Itself would
hardly arouse the enthusiasm it has were
It not for the exquisite acting and skill
ful interpretation given it by the Ben
Greet players. Mr. Greet is the poet, and
Miss JCeith Wakeman is Faustina In the
play, and they are ably supported, par
ticularly by Grace Marchant as an Inn
keeper's wife, Redmond Flood as Carls
ton' friend. Glaucas, and J. Sayar Craw-
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Schumann
Heink Armory
Feb. 23
Beat Sale February 19, Sherman,
Clay Co.'. ..
1.00, l-50, $2.00. $2.50.
Mail Orders Received.
ley as Fompillusv all of whom have been
seen with this company of English play
ers on their various visits to Portland.
The. skill of Ben Greet In teaching his
players is evident always, and one seldom
sees such perfectly trained actors. .
CMjme. Xazlmova has a new play "The
Passion Flower,'" a story of New York
life, by Brandon Tynan, in which she is
appearing this week In Washington. D.
C This new play Is said to be of the
realistia school that calls for surprises,
giving the gifted little Jewess many op
portunities for excellent work. The story
Is that of a social butterfly, who, in her
desire to gain social pre-eminence, brings
about unconsciously the financial ruin of
her husband. The first act sets forth the
situation outlined above and the next two
acts are devoted to a graphic picture of
the results of committing a wrong, ex
cept that in this case the play ends hap
pily. The role Is said to give Mme. Kazl
mova the most varied emotional possi
bilities of any piece. In which she has ap
peared. Nanette Comstock, leading woman with
Robert Hilllard In "A Fool There Was,"
is still seriously ill in Providence, as a
result of burns sustained while cleaning
her k4d gloves in gasoline near a lighted
lamp. In this Instance the title of Miss
Comstock's play is peculiarly apropos.
In the Portland
Theaters
Continued From Pago Two.
there Is a field and future for a club
of this kind, and who Identify them
selves as patrons of musio by their
connection with the club.
M'ISTTRE AVD HEATH COJIIXG
Will Appear at Jiungalow Early N'ext
Week, "In Haytl."
The annual appearance in Portland of
the oldest firm of laugh-makers in the
theatrical world -Is to begin Sunday
night, February 13, when-Klaw & Ehr
langer's laughing trust, Mclntyre and
Heath In Haytl. will come to the Bun
galow Theater, 12th and Morrison
streets, for three nights with a mat
inee Tuesday.
The former production built around
the comic abilities of these two well
remembered comedians . have had re
markable praise for their greatness of
scenlo display and the vivacious
break-neck pace and tuneful singing
of their dainty chorus of girls; but
this season Klaw & Ehrlanger are said
to have elaborated upon past successes
BAKER
'utTK SDNDAY, FEB. 610
The Fred Block Co. Continue the Tour of Klaw & ErUuiffer's Stupendous Production
-ci k t- a t? m
B 1 1 Fi '1 R
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NEXT WEEK
OREGON GLEE CLUB
-IN-
ANNUAL CONCERT
Prices, 60c, 75c and $1.00.
Programme is' Combination of Snappy Songs, Comical Skits and Humor-
o'tgj. Grand Opera Burlesques.
THIRTY JOLLY COLLEGE BOYS. 16 OF THEM PORTLAND LADS
Bungalow, Saturday, Feb, 12
Four Nights, Beginning Tonight
Special
Tonljrht aud Tuesday ?flg;bt
February 6 and S,
"Henry VIII"
. LOTTIS JA-MES AS CARDINAL WOLSET AfiD SHYLOCK,
Aphle James as Queen Katnerlne and Portia.
PRICES Brains, $1.50 to SOe. Matinee, fl.OO t. S5c
Seats now sellins; at theater for cngiftneat
SEAT SALE OPE5S
KUW A ERLASGER'S
, SEW LACGHIXG TRUST
TftrrjtGATLOW
THEATER
FEB. 13-14-15
MATIJiEE TUESDAY
&
ETln(a 92.00, 1 1JJO, 91.O0, 75c
FIRST APPEARANCE ITS THM
' CITY IV A MODERN PLAY
lft I CHARLES B. HANFORD
fKK IfJ" I? T" Geora-e II. Broadbnnt's Splendid
1 THE AMERICAN LORD
to give those famous stars the best
support they ever had.
"In Hayti" Is a musical comedy by
John J. McNally, with music and lyrics
by Jerome and Schwartz, and has fif
teen musical numbers, each brimming
over with dash and paprika, both book
and musio being typically modern and
of a nature to be quickly repeated and
hold their rythmic beat in the memory
of the hearer. The story tells of one
of the common and short-lived rev
olutions in Haytl .In which two Amer
ican financiers, a stranded theatrical
company and two rollicking "cullud
folks" become so mixed up that the
affair Is taken quite beyond the cob
ti jl of . the Haytien populace and
turned Into a dual love story. In which,
however, fun is always the predomi
nating feature.
STUDENTS' SHOW FEBRUARY 12
Oregon Glee and Mandolin Clubs
Coming to the Bungalow.
The grand finale of the twelfth an
nual tour of the University of Oregon
Glee and Mandolin Clubs Is billed at the
Bungalow for the evening of Lincoln's
birthday, February 12. The clubs have
nad a very successful season thus far.
During Yuletide vacation they made a
concert tour of the four principal
towns or aoutnern Oregon jnearora.
Ashland, Roseburg and Grant's Pass.
The people of the proposed Siskiyou
State received the college boys well,
every concert being well attended. In
fact. Jf an apportlonate number attend
ed In Portland, the lads would be
forced to discontinue their studies for
a week and give daily matinees to
satisfy all
There are 30 boys on the clubs 16 o'
them. Portland lads. Two former Un
coin High School students, Raphael
GeiBler and Francis Curtis are on the
Falsetto Trio," which gained such a
reputation while in Southern Oregon.
Francis Curtis with his hlgb alto,
charming ways and borrowed finery
makes an ideal prima donna In the
"Italian Salad."
Other Portland boys taking promi
nent parts are Sam Davidson, leader of
the Mandolin Club, Melvln Ogden.
pianist. Bums Powell, trombone soloist.
THEATER
PHONES MAO' t A 636
GEO. l BAKER. MANAGER
The Dramatic Sensation
of Last Season
The Play Everyone Is
Talking About
With
An Excellent Company
A Great Story
A Better Play
Evening Prices, 25c, 50c, 75c,
$1. Bargain Matinee "Wednes
day, 25c, all seats. Sunday and
Saturday Matinees, 25c, 50c
WILDFIRE
Price Matinee Wednesday
LOUIS JAMES
ASSISTED BT
APHIE JAMES
and a, Splendid Company of Players, In Two of
Shakespeare's Dramas.
Monday and Wednesday Xla;tats
Special Price Matlne-a Wednesday
"The Merchant of Yenice"
NEXT FRIDAY
lf In tne -Tin tea I Play
Mclntyre jN HAYti
99
Heath
A Fantastic Frolic,
of Flntterlns;
Femlnlnlty
Matinees, 91.50, fl-OO, 75c, SOc
Kenneth Frazer, soloist, and Joe
Rothchlld, first mandolin.
Wildfire" Coming to the Baker.
One of the greatest characters given
the stage In recent years Is that of
Bud, the stable boy, as portrayed by
Will Archie In the successful racing
comedy, "Wildfire." which will appear
at the Baker for the entire week, op
ening next Sunday matinee. February
IS. With all the wonderful slang with
which George V. Hobart. who collabo
rated with George Broadhurst in writ
ing the play, has Imbued the role, Bud
fills a sentimental spot In the story
which endears him to the theater-going
world. Of course, the principal figure
In the play Is that of the stunning
widow, Mrs. Barrlngton, portrayed by
the famous American beauty, Pauline
Hall, who. like her sister queen of
beauty. Lillian Russell, has success
fully invaded the field of drama after
years of success in opera.
Hanford in "The American Lord."
"The American Lord" will be the play
offered by Charles B. Hanford as the
star, with a brilliant supporting com
pany headed by Miss Marie Drofnah. at
the Bungalow Theater, February 18-19.
GRAND
VAUDEVILLE
WEEK OF FEBRUARY 7
WORLD'S GREATEST ACRO
BATS Montrose Troupe
7 --People --7
Late Feature Ringling Brps.'
Circus.
Mathews & Bannon
In "The Battle of Too Soon."
Mer & Mack
A Pair of Classy Steppers.
Herbert
The Frog Man. A Scenic Spec
tacular Novelty.
Winnifred Stewart
The Delightful Baritone Soloist.
Jim Rutherford and
Company
In "Half Back Hank."
Fred Bauer
Illustrated Song.
Grandascope
ADVANCED VAUDEVILLE
BeaSaia. M on day Matinee, Feb. Tth
TWO GREAT
mm T- 1 T 1
Mr. Frei Lindsay
The Gentleman Adventurer. Afri
can Big Game Hunter and Famous
Australian Bushman, in Marvelous
"VVlilp Manipulations.
CHAS. W. BOWSER, EDITH HINKLE
and their company In "Superstition.' a modern playlet, by Oliver WTalta
"Songs of the Day." by
JULIA FRARY
lAt Prima Donna with Frank.
Xanlels Company.
a J. W. CL ARKS
Simian Comedians Fun for AIL
Evening Prices 15c, 25c, SOc and TSc
DAILY MATINEE 15c, 25c 50c (HOLIDAY MATEES NIGHT PRICES)
Seat Sale Opens Tuesday
RECITAL
IRTLE ELYYN
m
AMERICA'S EMINENT
PIANISTE
Friday Evening, Feb. 11
BUNGALOW
PRICES
KIMBALL
A modern drama under the Hanford
auspices Is a distinct novelty. The
play Is far from bing an untried quantity-
Its record of successes entitles
it to Interest, outside the fact that It
gives Mr. Hanford the opportunity he
PORTLAND
WeekStarting MatineeToday(?5$Siiiiilay, Feb. 6
Russell & Drew Offer Their
"Portland Theater Stock Company"
For a limited season under the direction of R.
E. French presenting for the first I ime on the
Pacific Coast Owen Davis' Big Eastern Success
Deadwood
Dick's Last Shot
A bristling play of Frontier Life replete with original Comedy
Strongly marked with an interesting and inspiring Love Story
acted by the best Melodramatic Company of Players in the West
REMEMBER
Matinees, adults, all parts of tho
theater .2Jc
Children, special seats 10c
Evening prices, Orchestra and Par
queue 50c
Next Week, Same Company in "Sal the Circus GaP
P(HXGEDE Ol. TPI A SHOWS
suxday axd ,lf If I itPtfllPlf coJmrts
VVEDNKSDAV LLLU A llvUlVi 1TOUP.M,
Best Original Pictures Always
A Bio graph Feature
"The Girl From Mellon's"
A Riot of Delightful Comedy
i
A Great Drama An Instructive Picture
A Late Song, Sung by A Travelogue
Mr. Cy Confer J Rarely Interesting
A Complete Change of Attractions Next Wednesday
10c ANY SEAT 10c
FEATURE ACTS
I International Favorite,
w r v,.
II aiici Vr. 1VCI1J
"The Virginia Judge.'
NEAL DAVE
ABEL, and IRWIN
Mirth and Melody in Black.
THE REED BROS.
Unione Gymnasts a combination
of strength, skill and comedy.
$2.00, $1.50, $1.00, 75c
PIANO USED
has long desired of portraying: a typ
of pure, stalwart Americanism. The play
alao affords fine opportunities for Miss
Marie Drofnah the role of Mrs. West
brooke beingr eminently adapted to her
personality and artistic gifts.
THEATER
Phone Main 443, A loss
Russell & Drew, Mra.
THE PRICES
Evening, par.
Balcony
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40o
30a
20a