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K Wiii VT7XJAV nttJOTOXTAS. POETT.JLAT). OCTOBER 20. 1912. NEWS AND GOSSIP OF PLAYS AND PLAYERS 4 NIGHTS BEGINNING TONIGHT HEILIG Phones Main 6 and A 1020 Coming SPECIAL PRICE MATINEE WEDNESDAY ALH.rooDCiboT Cin TVT I TC T A I f C IVt FTJY EDITED BT LEOXK CASS Bill. PRESENTS W k- M- -r-rtwM. n XX xx yC V FROM Philadelphia, where he Is managing Robert HUHard's new Play, "The Argyle Case," cornea a breezy message written In E. D. Price's characteristic news-conveying manner and naturally most of It is about his charming wife, Cathrine Countiss. Says Mr. Price, In part: "I know how keenly you and the readers of The Oregonian are interested in the movements of Portland's stage favorite!!, so here Is the latest about Cathrine Countiss. When we left Port land early last month at the close of that splendid Summer season at the iieillg we proceeded to New York by easy stages. Miss Countiss did not ex pect to resume stage activities until after election, so she settled down In cosy homelike apartments and began to read new plays with a view to deter mining their futura value. During the past fortnight X suppose she has read nearly 30, some by unknown authors and others by dramatists who have tell established successes to their credit. Two of these plays made a very strong appeal to her as well suit ed to her own requirements and pos sessing a general dramatic value. Inci dentally Mlas Countiss had Interviews with numerous prominent producing managers. Among those Interested was John Cort. Late In the afternoon day before yesterday Mr. Cort telephoned her In a great hurry to come to his office. He explained the circumstances under which Williard Mack and Mar jorle Rambeau had been retired from the company at his Colonial Theater in Salt Lake City and requested Miss Countiss to go out at once and fill a special engagement of she weeks. j While she had not planned for an immediate resumption of stage work she consented, being largely Influenced by Mr. Cort s offer to try out at least two new plays for her during the en gagement, with a view to Eastern pro duction later should either or both prove satisfactory. The quick change in plans involved some lively hustling. I was summoned by long distance tele phone and hjrriea over to New ork from Philadelphia to assist in break lng up the old homestead, which had begun to look mighty restful and In vlting to us. But M(ss Countiss, as you know, is a very prompt and resource ful young woman who is always to be depended upon in sudden emergency. Mr. Cert, with his accustomed liberal ity, had made every provision for her personal comfort en route, oven to se curing a through stateroom lor her on the fastest train. "Within a very few hours, starting yesterday (Sunday), she was on her way, equipped with manuscript and parts of "The Gamblers," which Is to be her opening bill next Monday, Octo ber 21. She will study on the train and be perfect by the time she meets the other members of the company, on Thursday morning. "Mr. Cort Is sending out his own gen eral stage director, who recently staged "The Ne'er Do Well" at the Re public Theater, New York. so that his co-operation may be had when the new plays are put on. Miss Countiss Is de lighted to become associated with Mr. Cort, whose sagacity and liberality as a producer have made him one of the most prominent and successful In America. The lady is becoming a great transcontinental traveler and at this rate will soon be able to recognize each telegraph pole between the At lantic -and the Pacific. This will be her first engagement in Salt Lake, al though her popularity is thoroughly es tablished in every other big city from coast to coast. Miss Countiss wishes to convey affectionate greetings to her great army of friends in Portland the largest and most loyal that has ever flocked to her support anywhere." lack that quality which for want of a' better name we must call force. Force, that mysterious quality enabling Its possessor to make his personality felt, arresting him among perhaps a hun dred others - all dressed alike, and speaking the same words. In the same tone of voice: psychic force that gift which, like imagination, is the heritage solely of the human, thus sharply dif ferentiating him from other of the higher animals. "Force, then, I should Bay, is abso lutely essential to a young girl s career on the stage. It la essential in a num ber of ways. Not only has she got to have force in order to get herself 'across,' as the saying is, after she Is once on the stage, but she has got to have It in order to get on the stage at all. Not a graceful sentence that. but It expresses Just what I mean." Mrs. Langtry (Lady De ' Bathe) Is playing this week in Boston at B. F. Keith's Theater. Her sketch is called "Helping the Cause," a discussion of the suffragist situation in England. . Willis Sweatman Is again the porter In the travel farce Excuse Me, which has just started on its tour for the second season. Up in Olean. N. T., they have made a discovery, according to the Dramatic Mirror, which quotes from the Olean Times that John W. Latham, a local boy who sings tenor in the quartet, has been engaged as an understudy for E. H. Sothern - - "Every Woman" Is to visit Portland soon after the holidays. . The first of the various companies to be sent out begins Its season in Montreal at the Princess Theater tomorrow. Adele Blood has the title role. She Is know here for her work in vaudeville, hav ing appeared here on several occasion with her husband, Edwards Davies, who before he joined the profession of actors was an evangelist in the North west. Maurice Maeterlinck has furnished sequel to bis play "The Blue Bird.' The sequel will be the story of Tytyl and Mytyl when they have grown older, and it will appeal not to children but :o grown-ups. Margaret Anglin's last production "Egypt," has proved a failure and been withdrawn in Chicago. Wherefore much time and energy and money expended on this latest play of Edward Shel dou has gone to waste. Miss Anglin has not announced her plans for the rest of the season. "Oh. I've got the finest job now, and It doesn't interfere with my profes sional work at all!" exclaims the first chorus girl. "What is It? In a noon lunchroom?" asks the second. "No, It isn't, smarty. I've been en gaged to write a regular article every day for one of the papers, and it is to be called "The Secrets of Beauty by Florabel Montmorency." "Secrets of beauty, huh? Well, you oughta be able to tell 'em, for Heaven knows you ain't never done nothin' but keep your beauty a secret. Two stage hands and the curtain man managed to separate them Chi cago Post. At the Theaters Continued frim Page 1. prettiest and cleverest choruses ever appearing in this city, will be seen in new and novel numbers and on Friday night will hold a contest after each performance. There are two perform ances every night, a matinee daily and on Sunday evening the performances are continuous, commencing at 6:45. 'OFFICER 666' IS SURPRISE This is what Gaby Deslys says: "I would not give my art for all the men in the world. Love passes. . It comes and goes. One finds one's ideal, loses it and sets about looking for another. But an art, a talent, one pos sesses always. "I would not marry a rich man un less I were as rich as he. I would not give up my independence. A woman is very foolish who does. Men, gen erally, are very egotistical. As a rule, they give to woman merely their sur plus, what they do not want them selves. If a woman Is rich, indepen dent, she does not feel this.- The man respects her more. That Is why so many men admire the women of t stage. A man knows an actress has her art, her value for the public as well as for him. Other women may seem to him as beautiful, but he has not the votes of the public back of his opinion, and he is not sure of it. "I cannot tell you what my ideal man must be like, except that he must be of my own rank, with a mind and un education equal t mine. Princesses may marry gypsies and station agents, but I cannot understand that sort of love. Believe me, I reason out every thing and I act always as my reason tells me. I think, of course. It Is bet ter to marry a rich man, but if a poor man pleased, had just the right quail ties, the right defects, I might marry htm. But I do not expect to marry. I am very ambitious. I think always of going higher and higher and higher! Like the price of pearls!" Frances Starr, who did not reach her present success by anj. of the routine she proposes for others to follow, has done the usual and Is giving advice in yard lengths on how to succeed on the stage. - The only bit of intelligence she dis plays in the column about "heartaches," and "prolonged agonies" and "interven ing years of disappointment," none' of which Frances-had but of which she writes glibly, is found In her assertion that "force" Is the one qualification other than 'temperament" which Is reeded to bring an actress to the goal. Frances opines that "most actresses Refreshing Comedy, Bij Success In Enst, Opens Here Thursday. One of the important events in early theatrical offerings will be the com ing engagement of Cohan & Harris' latest success. "Officer 666," Augustin MacHugh's famous melodramatic farce. Fresh from its triumphant engagement of eight months In New York and six months In Chicago, the MacHugh com edy will be the offering at the Heilig Theater.. Seventh and Taylor streets, three nights and special Saturday mati nee, beginning Thursday, October 24. This Is the same company which has been appearing at the George M. Cohan Grand Opera-House, Chicago, and comes direct from that city, where it has been the surprise and wonder of over 1.000.- 000 people the last season, who declared it to be the most refreshing comedy on the American stage. The play concerns a young million- airs globe trotter returning home to find his bachelor quarters occupied by a burglar who. not satisfied with hav ing appropriated the millionaire's name and getting himself engaged to a pretty society girl on the strength of it. Is rapKJly disposing of a fine collection of paintings gathered by the aforesaid millionaire from the art centers of the world. This Is the situation when the curtain goes up on tha first act of "Of ficer 66." How the real millionaire regains pos session of his house and name and how he eventually wins the heart and hand of the sweet young thing who has plighted her troth to a member of the light-fingered gentry under the Im pression that he was the simon-pure scion of wealth and social position, Is left to the telling of the players who people the cast of the new farce, which has proven a big and popular laughing success. In working out the story of the pltty. the rich young man Induces a police man on his block to lend him his uni form and while he is masquerading as a copper to catch the burglar, the real officer becomes the millionaire's cook. The burglar, in the meantime, is al lowed to continue in possession of the bachelor's quarters, but is eventually trapped and compelled to return his plunder. AH these events are .worked out with' speed and precision during the three acts in which Mr. MacHugh takes to tell the story of "Officer 666.'- that Is chuck full of surprising situations. smart chatter and snappy epigrams. Oct. 30 Heilig Theater MME. GADSKI I t VA H PRICES $3.00 $2.50, $2.00 $1.50 Box Seats, $4.00 Gal. Res. $1.50; Gal. Adm. $1.00 SEAT SALE OPENS MONDAY, . OCT. 28 Star and Play We Have Waited 3 Years to See. The Greatest "Artist of All Time." THE FAMOUS JULIAN The One Actor of the A ice Who Has Dignified the In persona tlon of Women by Artis tic Methods. IX THE SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT MUSICAL COMEDY TRIUMPH Tte FASCINATING WIDOW SPLENDID CAST SUPERB PRODUCTION AUGMENTED ORCHESTRA nninro Evenings Lower Floor, $2.00, 1.E0. Balcony, $1.60, $1.00, 7Rc, 60c rriluLO Gallory, 60e. Special Wednesday Matinee Lower Floor, first 11 rows, $1.50; last 7 rows, $1.00. Balcony, $1.00, 76c, 60c. Gallery, 50c. SEATS NOW SELLING FOR ENTIRE ENGAGEMENT HEILIG 3 Kmc THURSDAY, OCT. 24 SPECIAL. PRICE MATINEE SATURDAY ft MURPHY SOR HE WILL TAKE YOU TO THE LAUCHIKG Helen Jeffries, Miss, Louise ' Hoeger, Miss Alma Stetzler, Miss Ruth West. Miss Merth Carmen and others, in ad dition to Joseph F. Sheehan himself, and a chorus of 60 trained voices. For a special 12 weeks' tour Mr. Sheehan. has secured, the services of Mrs. Emily Grey, famous harpist, Ccv ent Garden, London, England; Miss Sibley Remus, violinist virtuoso, Paris Opera Comique, and a special grand opera orchestra, under the baton of William Glover, one of England's fore most conductors. The Sheehan Company will be at the Heilig Theater for a three days en gagement, commencing Sunday, Octo ber 27. On Sunday II Trovatore, Monday "The Chimes of Normandy" and on Tuesday evening "MartUa;" The seat sale opens Friday, October 25, for the entire .engagement. 1 llJCfR ISA BIG J A A LHJI SCREAM i W "Bs DDIOCC Evenings, $1.50, $1.00, 75c, 60c. 35c. 25c. SEAT SALE rniOLO Saturday Matinee. $1.00. 76c. 60c, 36c, 26c. TUESDAY I EXTRA SBlE NEXT FRIDAY I - ' ' America's Famous. Singing Organisation I 'CHOCOLATE SOLDIER" BILLED 'lit TROVATORE" IS SCHEDULED Sheehan Opera Company to Open at Heilig October ? 7. . The Sheehan English Opera Com pany will be at the . Heilig Theater three days, commencing Sunday, Octo ber 27. Heading the' cast Is Joseph F. Sheehan, America's foremost tenor and famous opera star, who has done more to make English opera supreme , than any man of his generation. Mr. Sheehan was for nine years lead ing tenor and star of the Henry W. Savage Grand Opera Company, New York City, creating the leading role and starring In "Madame Butterfly" three consecutive seasons., and in "Parsifal" and other well-known operas. . This season Mr. Sheenan has secured brilliant array of American and European stars. Included in the Shee han roster are: Francis J. Boylef John L. Dickinson, William Young, Kenneth Dudley, Miss Gladys Caldwell, Miss Conquering Hero In Musical Comedy and Hon Bergere to Return. "The Chocolate Soldier," still the conquering hero In the vast army of light operas that assail the American and European theaters, will be the at traction at the Heilig theater for three nights commencing October 31, with a special Saturday matinee. It is no idle boast to predict that the throng of ad mirers who come to greet him will be fully as great as In other cities, for the charming warrior never wears out his welcome. The superb operatic mixture of Vlen ?iese melodies and Celtic wit and satire, with Bulgarian .scenes, manners and customs forming a splendid, back ground of romance, is the work of Oscar Straus, the composer of Vienna, and Bernard Shaw, the Irish wit and playwright, from whose romantic sa tire, "Arms and the Man" the libretto of "The Chocolate Soldier" is derived. Such melodies as "My Hero," the waits refrain which lsthe dominant theme of the entrancing score, "The Letter Song," "That Would Be Lovely" and The Chocolate -Soldier are still mon opolising the memories of thoua'nds. 'The opera will be presented In the same excellent manner as that which characterized the production ' and cast In the larger cities. The supporting company which Includes Rena Vivienne, Charles Purcell, Hon Bergere, J. Russell Powell. Lucille Saunders, Hazel Fra lier. Sylvian Langlols, J. F. McDonough and Pony Moore, maintains the same high Btandard of excellence ' as char Europe. POLITICAL DRAMA PROMISED Baker Flayers to'Stage "The Gentle man From Mississippi." ' The story of Senator William H. Langdon. known as "The Gentleman From Mississippi." is vividly told In the play of that name, which . will be presented by the Baker players for the week following "The Spendthrift, opening next' Sunday matinee, Octobei 27. It deals principally with Washing ton politics and takes this sterling old gentleman of tne old school back to the present capital, and puts him through a course of political sprouts that would be the complete undoing of a man of more frail construction in BAKE Theater. Main 2 A 5380 Morrliton and 11th St. Geo. L. Baker. Maucu ii ' Seventh Week of Unprecedented Success ue POPULAR BAKER PLAYERS 'As Played by Ednund Breese In New York All Week Beginning Today (Sunday) Matinee October 2Q, 1912 An Intense domestio drama, by Porte Emerson Browne The story of a frivolous, society-seeking wife The pace that kiHs The golden road to bankruptcy A play of supreme interest, clever comedy and big cli maxes First time in stock. Stage direction William Bernard. Baker - Prices Evenings, Lower Floor, 50c; Front Balcony, 35c Upper Balcony, S5e. Hatlneea, Sunday, Wednesday, Saturday, 25c only.' Bargain Night Monday all seats 25e. NEXT WEEK THE GENTLEMAN FROM MISSISSIPPI HEILIG THEATER 3 NIGHTS BEGINNING 0CT27 I NO MATINEE ENGLISH OPERA CO. SUNDAY Grano-Oper. IL I ROYATORE MONDAY TUESDAY Planquette'a Light Opera Flotow's Light Opera CHIMES OF NORMANDY MARTHA nninro Lower Floor, first 11 rows, $2.00; last 7 rows. rnluCO $1.60. Balcony, i rows. $1.00; 6 rows, 75c; in rear, 50c Gallery. 50c H. ILIG THEATER OCT. 31 and NOV-1-2 XTRA XTRA XTRA XTRA TRIUMPHANT RETURN OF "MY HERO" The CHOCOLATE SOlDIER Presented by THE WHITNEY OPERA CO. COMPANY OF 75 - Full Opera Orchest a character. But Langdon has done the I glers and upholds the honor and llg- hnr-m Tie-irInir the services nity of nis Delovel state, of a bright young newspaper man as There is a bright love story or two, his secretary, and this chap, being fa- an exposition of many of the devious m rith .11 the tricks, of the old ways of Isational politics, and a rare , -,i h.iM is nf valuable fund of rich humor. ..,.. . ooiinled with his "The Gentleman . From Mississippi' hieU moral character and absolute has never been played in stock here be- honesty, the genial old gentleman wins out over his would-be political jug- fore. It will open at the Baker next Sunday matinee tor the week. PEOPLES THE WOMAN IN WHITE," Wllkie Collins' Novel, Two Reels. "TAMING A BACHELOR," Farce. "PROGRESS OF THE PANAMA CANAL," Of Great Interest. Special, "VENETIAN DUO," " Singing Operatic Selections. Coming Wednesday,- -A. COUNTRY SCANDAL," Two Keels. ARCADE ' "FOR THE MIKADO," Japanese Drama. "BEETHOVEN," "THE ORGAN GRINDERS' WARD," . East Side New York Drama. "CAPTAIN BEN'S YARN," Comedy. x JOE WALLACE. Tenor. Coming Wednesday, "THE VENGEANCE OP FATE," Two-Reel Bison. SUNNYSIDE . TODAY ONLY, SARAH BERNHARDT IN "LA TOSCA," Two Massive Reels. GAUMONT WEEKLY. "THE BUG AND THE COUNT." "ALL ON ACCOUNT OF A HAND KERCHIEF," ARTHUR ELWELL, Baritone. Wednesday Feature, "THE WOMAN IN WHITE." STAR "THE LEGEND OF CAGLIOSTRO," Historical Two-Reel Subject. "THE BORDER DETECTIVE," American Farce. . "NAVAL REVIEW IN NEW YORK HARBOR," . Interesting. . "HARRY BING," ' Chinese Baritone. First Appearance in Portland. Wednesday. , A FEATURE PROGRAMME. . PORTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA s . Season 1912-13 OPENING CONCERT Next Sunday Oct. 27 at 3 o'CIock Heilig Theater 55 Musicians 55 ' ME. HAROLD BAYLEY Director Popular Prices $1, 75c, 50c, 25c Season Tickets, 6 concerts, $5. mav be obtained from Mrs. B. Tait, 288 Tenth street. Phone Main 7056 bet. 6 and 8 P. M. Seat Sale Opens Saturday, Octo ber 26. 10 A. M. 'VfL - ADVANCED l Beginning Monday Matinee, Oct. 2 1 st VAUDEVILLE Joseph Hart's "Mein Liebchen' (My Loved One) - "With Gus C. Weinburg . HOWARD I BEATRIZ MICHELENA Scotch Sub-Vocalist ' Prima Donna BBnBBSBaBSBSSBBSBBBBBBBSBBSBBBBBBBBt -' BaBlHiiMSBBaBlRBnMiHSMnnBHnnnnBBSSanaM BSHHSSMSSM Daily - CLAUDIUS and SCARLET Matinee Matinee "Call of the 60s" Daily V CHARLIE OLCOTT . THE TWO ALFREDS - Comic Opera . - Musical Acrobats Orchestra LES MARCO BELLI Comedy Conjurers Pictures Matinee Prices, 15c, 25c, 50c Night Prices, 15c, 25c, 50c, 75c UNEQUALEO VAUDEVILLE SEVENTH AND ALDER ST3 Week Commencing Monday Matinee, Oct-2 1st EXTRA! EXTRA! EXTRA! Alexander Pantages Presents for the First Time in. Portland Miss Hazel Bess Laugenour , The First Woman to Swim the Golden Gate Miss Laugrenour will Introduce swtmmlnir against the tide, the water being; forced through the tank at a rate of 15 miles an hour. 'Millard Bros. -All Star Trio Burlesque Cycle Phlends High-Class Soloists Eleanor Otis & Co. - De Lea and Orme In "De Vere of the Chorus" "Six Feet of Comedy" . Esmeralda. Pantagescope World's Greatest Woman Cornetlst New Animated Events Popular prices. Matinee daily. Boxes and first row balcony reserved. Box office open from 10 A. M. to 10 P. M. Phones A 2236, Main 4636. Curtain 2:30. -7:15 and 9. . 1 Jll 2:30 MATINEE EVERY DAY-2:30 Week Oct. 2 1 Sullivan A Consldlne Present LEW FIELDS FUN a DELICATESSEN SHOP WITH FRANK BERNARD AND A COMPANY OF TEN S3 Seat IThe First of the Series of New York Musical Comedy SULLIVAN & CONSIDINE SPECIAL SUMMER PRICES Matinees , JIVL Successes. The Sensational Dramatic Triumph, "HIS FATHER' j SON' Presented by WALTER H. BROWN And Associate Flayers hwwiiihiiijiiihiiiiii)ii iiiuiij i lUtuumlulJUllliiKaniHirii.iiii miiMiiimitfi Motion Pictures Nights 10c 20c Orchestra BARNEY GILM0RE Presents "A Jolly Ramble Thru Ireland" ' ALF HOLT Mlmlo and Comedian WESTON AND LEON Two Winsome and Magnetic Maldr. j LONG. AND LING "Fan In a Gymnasium" fan'ia-niiiin rtaftdisi'iMI mstuiUmkiMiiMiihitiiM Joint Recital Pauline Mi'ier Chapman Mczlo Contralto, Ed tb Haines Kce:ter Com poser-Plan 1st. Grand Ballroom Multnomah Hotel FRIDAY EVENING OCTOBER 25th 8i30 O'CLOCK." -Tickets on dollar On sale at Wiley B. Allen Co., Sherman Clay Co., Kohler & Chase Music Depart ment. Fonrth and Mark Sf. TH EAT E R Fonrtb and rk St Home of Refined Musical Comedy Week Commencing Tomorrow Matinee THE KEATING & FLOOD MUSICAL COMEDY CO. Presents THE BIG SCREAMY SCREAM -"HE CAME FROM SALEM" With a Cast of Ed S. Allen, Alicia George, Lew Dunbar, Trances White, Beece Gardner, Eva Heazlit, Jack Wise and the now Fa mous ROSEBUD Chorus Three Performances Daily 2:30, 7:30 and 9:15. Sunday and Holiday Evenings Continuous Performances, Commencing at 6:45. Friday Night CHORUS GIRLS' CONTEST. ADMISSION 15c and 2Sc Amor. In China, sends about three million narclwus bulbs to the United States every year. The declared -value of these bulbs In 1910 was 110,614. and In 1811. 7043. This la also the part of China from which a great amount of the iam sticks In this country are Imported. Although the United States Is a salt-Importing country. It disposes of considerable quantities of special refined salt In foreign countries and the trade is Increasing an nunU;y. A monograph entitled "Foreign Salt Market and Industry" has lust been lesued by the bureau of manufactures. 1 07.2