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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. PORTLAND, JULY 28, 1912. IB Great Hip . Midsummer Sale DANIEL FROHMAN TO FEATURE BERNHARDT If - AND OTHER STARS IN MOTION PICTURE SHOWS Dramatic Genius, Who Once Frowned on Film Business, Embarks on Large Scale Famous Shows in Fall to Be Shown on Canvas Pretty Actress, Who Dyed Black Hair to Eed, for Kinemacolor Use, Finds Self in Woe Gossip of the Stage. fa. T ' AVSL K x . Vf k Hi f- r jSfiTV ''' Jf-r """" -L fill I i ' v-v. A V8. - - - i ll$" - i - & iliT1 . 4 - J . I if5ssi lllLr.....---r'r:'' . t ?rv ilsly li . ! " J I . f " 1 M Ate r v ' I? y - -s.J a I: x f - " Ai4 T il (I - ' 1 pr BY LLOYD P. LOXERGAX. NEW YORK. July ST. (Special.) One of the most interesting items of m'd-Sumraer theatrical news is th&t Daniel Frohman has embarked in the moTlng picture business on a large scale. Mr. Frohman, who has been active in local amusement fields since the days of the o!d Lyceum Theater on Fourth avenue, has been chosen as managing director of the Famous Players' Film Company, which promises to present the world's greatest artists in feature films. The first production of the new company ii "Queen Elizabeth," with Sara Bernhardt in tha role in which she has scored a triumph in Paris. At the present time the officers of I the company decline to make public the , names of the players already under contract, but simply announce that ar ' rangements have-been made with sev . eral of the best-known players In flu rope' and America to appear before the camera. It is also stated in one of the advance announcements that the pro jectors intend to select companies in America and Europe to carry out the general scheme of operation. Drama Fails, Film Wins. Mr. Frohman's attention was driven to moving pictures. It is said, by sad personal experience. During the sea son just closed, his theater, the Ly ceum, had a series of failures, with the result that he - decided to close ex tremely early. A week or so later, Mr. Frohman received an offer to exhibit the Ralr.ey hunt moving pictures, and to his astonishment the venture was extremely profitable all around. In fact, the Lyceum la now one of the few big metropolitan theaters that is still open. In his new venture, it Js said, Mr. Frohman will have full charge of stag ing the pictures, with a number of di rectors under him. As he has had much success in this line of work, through his many years as a producing man ager, the theatrical world Is convinced that his work will be satisfactory and profitable- Speaking of moving pictures, there is a pretty little actress going around these days with bright red hair and a fiirk blue "grouch." Here is how she explains it: "I was offered a big salary to pose foe the Kinemacolor, the company that takes moving pictures in colors, and gladly accepted. Then I found that my black hair would look perfectly horrid on the screen, and that the most strik ing colors the camera could take were red and green. Anxious to make a hit, and not caring much for green, I had my locks dyed red. We worked earn estly for months and then I was let out. To add to my sorrow, the stage director told me that all the pictures in which I had appeared were so bad Has Been a Phenomenal Success "WTien we announced that we would sell all of Lambert's Celebrated Arts and Crafts Furniture we had no idea that the public would flock to the store in such great numbers as they have during the past week. Hundreds came, and, after seeing the goods and the sensationally attractive prices, nearly every visitor purchased. Come in this week, while the selection is still varied enough to satisfy the most exacting. 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We Can Save You Money on Every Purchase. Liberal Credit When Dasired. Henry Jeoniog & Sons CORNER SECOND AND MORRISON STREETS The Home of Good Furniture One Year Ahead of Competitor that they could not be used. The re sult is that I have red hair now, do not want it and have no use for it, out what can a poor, girl dor' Bessie Abbot To Reappear. Bessie Abbot will reappear in New York when "Robin Hood" resumes Its interrupted run at the Knickerbocker Theater on August 12. It is stated that er se.la.rv as orlma donna will.be the highest ever paid to a singer lor up nearins- in lieht ODera. New York has long Deen promn chance to hear Miss ADDot. it was nlv the break between the uemers and Mascagni over the latter's opera Ysobel" which kept her Irom return ing two years ago. During Its run at the New Amsterdam Theater, KODin Hood" did a record business, due in large part to the excellence of the caste. The first of tne productions Bciicu uled by Cohan and Harris for the com ing season had its initial tryout the other evening at the Apollo Theater, Atlantic City. It is "Room 44," a farce in four acts, by - Frances Nordstrom. Henry E. Dixey and Edna Baker played the leading roles and others In the Mrs Stuart Robson, Emily Wakeman, Hattie Russell, Ada Gilman. William Boyd, Ernest Truax, Lincoln Plummer, Horace James, Andrew Buck ley and Louisa Leby. The ShUDerxs nave maue vuuui; st of attractions that will open their theaters for the coming season, aun ty Pulls tha String,"- at the Comedy, which has been the bill there for many months and all through the hot weath er, will remain until further notice. The new Winter Garden show has Just been put on and will also stick until well into the Fall. "Hnnky Panky" Is jrew Show. The Casino will be the first of the other houses to reopen, for "The Merry Countess" will be presented early in August at that home of musical com edy. At the Broadway Theater, "Han-ky-Pankv" will be given its first New York production on August 5. About the middle of the month, James Mont gomery's farce. "Ready Money." pro duced In Chicago last season under the direction of Harry Frazee. will be given In Maxine Elliott's Theater: The Thir-ty-nlnth-Street Theater will reopen on s,,.f with "The Master of the House," a comedy in four acta, by Ed gar James and staged by Julius Steger. The Lyric Theater will begin its sea son with Charles Klein's dramatization of Rex. Beach's novel, "The Ne'er, Do Well " under the direction of the Au thors' Producing Company, of which John Cort is president. Lewis Waller will return to America next month, and begin his second New York season at Daly's.- His first offer ing will be a modern drama, to be fol lowed later in the season by an elabo-rtnr-tinn of "Henry V," which it is promised will be a sensation. Miss Madge Titneraoge win do au. .....0. -leading woman. Y ankee Money Bnilda Abroad. A announced . last week, the new Princess Theater will be opened in No-v-mhr tav Miss Annie Russell In a re pertoire of old English comedies. The initial attractions at xne uw v"" house In course 01 coniuutnu uu Forty-fourth street, and tne new x-ai- ace Theater have not yet Deen an nounced. At the Hippodrome a new spectacle will be offered on or about September 1. . a new theater is to be opened In London by American capitalists to be used for the presentation of American plays. In this scheme, it is said. Charles Frohman and vtaw et m t Interested. The decision is tne outcome of the nroductions of "The Pink Lady." and "Ben Hur," which Introduced a new element of American competition into the London theatrical world, in con nection with the same proposal a schome is outlined for the erection In Paris of a new theater where Ameri can productions can be housed. rJugene .waiters new imj, rmc Feathers." will open the season at tne Cort Theater. Chicago, on August 10. The production will be Harry H. Fra zee's second venture as an individual manager.- In the cast win be wnton Lackaye, Robert Edeson, Max Figman, Rose Coghlan and other well-known players. Winter Garden Opens. The new Fall production at the Win ter Garden, which opens this week, is In two parts, "The Passing Show of 1912" and "The Ballet of 1830." Trlxle Friganza has. the lead in the former, some of the other principals being Anna Wheaton, Charles J. Ross, Shir ley Kellogg, La Petite Adelaide, Eugene and Willie Howard, Moon and Morris, and Evelyn Beerbohm. The second part is a spectacle imported intact from the Alhambra, London. From the way It started off the new presentation, looked like a sure winner. George Arliss, who appeared all last season at Wallack's Theater in "Dis raeli," will reopen that house with the same attraction on Labor Day. It is announced by the Lleblers that the same three leading women who sup-, ported him last season will be with him again this year. This trio of actresses are Margaret Dale, Marguerite St. John and Elsie Leslie. In fact, there will be very few changes In the supporting cast, 'whose excellent work Is so well and pleasant-: ly remembered by New York theater NEW YORK HAS PROMISE OF GOOD NEW DRAMAS Emmy Destinn Refuses to Sing in Latest Work of Richard Strauss Bes sie Abott Engaged by De Koven to Replace Bella Alten. 33T EMILIE FRANCES BAUER. EW YORK has the promise of a number of excellent new dramas next season, among which may be mentioned "The Attack," the latest work of Henri Bernstein: "Primrose," by Mm. De Flers and Calllavalet, authors of "Love Watches," in which Billie Burke made a charming success a few seasons ago; "La Flambee," which will be heard in this country as "The Spy," by Henry Klstemaeckers, a Belgian playwright, who has had marked success in his own country and who, in "La Flambee," has been acclaimed a second Bernstein; "The Heart Decides," by Francis Ie Crois set, all to be produced under the man agement of Charles Frohman, and "The Little Cafe," which has been secured by Klaw & Erlanger. There is no reason why each of the foregoing should not meet with the utmost success, as all are dramas of a superior order. Henri Bernstein, perhaps one of the most notable figures in the theatrical life of France, seems to have regained his own people whom he seemed to have lost completely after the failure of "Apres Moi" (After Me), and the lavish praise which "The Attack" has aroused from press and public should establish clearly in the minds of ttern stein and his adherents that it was really on account of a lack of his usual merit in "After Me" and not on ac count of personal prejudices that it was received with hisses and loud denv onstratlons of disapproval. Bernstein has reached the height of the playwright's skill in keeping the technical details out of the way and holding only the dramatic and human Interest before the public. "The Spy" is another absorbing play -hlch won for its author an enviable position in Paris, where it created a stir in literary circles, not so much for its trenchant subject as for the admirable psycholdgical treatment and for the novelty of certain phases of the story. Klstemaeckers, now aged 4 has written a number of plays, and he is a novelist of no insignificant standing. "The Spy" ran for five months at the Porte Martin Theater, where It is still attracting large au diences. , "Primrose," for America the name will be spelled "Primrose," is about as fresh and dainty as its name with an interest that centers almost exclusive ly In the young girl, the admission of her love for a man much her senior who just as he is about to accept this great gift is advised that he has lost his entire fortune in America. He then gently tries to tel her that he would not do her the injury of tak ing to his care her youth and that he was never intended for marriage. Against the desire of her uncle, the Cardinal, she takes the first steps andi becomes a novitiate. The man wno has saved half of the fortune returns but she is thoroughly imbued with the idea of the church and will not hear to renouncing It, although she has not yet taken the final vows, and the strongest Influence brought to bear upon her is that of the Cardinal, who wants her to find her happiness in the home, not in the church. Owing to the political event which wiped out a number of the convents, the one in which Primrose found herself was sec ularized and after much persuasion she chose the road advised by her uncle and by her heart. Emmy Destinn, who was Richard Strauss' choice to create the title rol in his new work entitled "Ariadne at Praxos," has refused to sing it, be-, cause she was required to appear three nights successively, as she, with many other singers, claim that it is impos sible to sing Strauss' music without" real injury to the voice, and Mme. Des- tinn's voice is one of the most beauti ful in the world. Bpcole Abott has been engaged by Reginald De Koven to replace Bella Alten as Maid Marian when the oper atic artist will return to the Metro politan. . Probably the most elaborate produc tion to be made Is the Pierre Lotl and Judith Gautier "Daughter of Heaven.'' for which every corner of the globe is being turned over. This will be given at the Century Theater. The Lotl play should be of consuming interest at the present time, when the world Is so deeply concerned in China. The story is fascinating and beautiful, deal ing with the period of invasion by the Tartars or Manchus of the Chinese or Ming dynasty, some 250 years ago Chinese life is well portrayed. It is rumored in theatrical circles that Maxine Elliott has been offered the title role. Nikisch, the great conductor who has just been heard In America, star tled the musical world by appearing in London with his orchestra accom panying a piano concerto played by a self-player, and Elena Gerhardt sang to the accompaniment of this Instru ment. Nikisch has a habit of dolnf: startling things, one of which is thai, he usually plays the accompaniments ' for Miss Gerhardt. Until the death occurred last week of Barrett Browning, the Italian artist, at the age of 63. few people knew that this was the only son of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Brown-i lr.g. ' He died at Asolo, where Robert Browning had planned to build Plppa's. Tower for hfs dwelling and where the son founded an industrial school in memory of his mother. Barrett Browning married Fannie Coddlngton, of New York, a wealthy society young woman. For a Doubting World. Judge. Perhaps the druggist keeps postage stamps Just to prove to a doubting world that he has something In stock for which there is no substitute.