PRIMA DONNA FULFILLS
GREAT COMPOSER'S WISH
Rena Vivienne, Who Sings Bole of Nadina in "The Chocolate Soldier,"
Was Inspired by Strauss Before His Opera Bonffe Was Written.
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MISS REJTA VIVIEXNE, PRIMA DOVHA IS "THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIER."
iyS3 RENA VIVIENNE. the prima
1 I donna of "The Chocolate Soldier"
company which will be interpreted by
the Whitney Opera Company at the
Hellis Theater for three nights and a
Saturday matinee beginning Thursday,
October II, whose Nadina becomes a
coquette of Carmen-like charm, when
Infused with the piquant vivacity and
the subtle witchery of her personality,
regards her ultimate success as a
singer of the chief soprano role in
Straus' masterpiece, as a fulfillment of
a childish hope in which she expressed
in Vienna several years ago to Straus
himself.
When a child Miss' Vivienne spent
many seasons abroad, studying- at the
leading schools of music in Europe,
particularly in Paris and Vienna. Her
passion for music marked her among
children. Oscar Straus was then al
ready popular as a conductor of power
and originality.
Miss Rena Vivienne wac present in
Vienna at every musical event of the
Austrian capital, but nothing gave so
much delight as one of Straus' con
certs. One afternoon at the close of a
brilliant programme, she Insisted upon
being Introduced to the famous com
Doser. .
"You must know, Herr Straus, that I
am studying music here in Vienna and
perhaps I shall be a great soprano,
when I grow up."
"I am sure of it. Frauleln," smiled
the great conductor, "but you must
promise me that when you do, you win
sing in one of my operas, and then I
shall be certain of Its success in
America."
To bring her illustrious friend's pre
diction to pass was the dominating
ambition of her life and when she was
finally chosen by Mr. Whitney to sing
the role of Nadina, she at once wrote
to Oscar Straus reminding him of their
encounter at Vienna and the wish she
expressed. Straus cabled her his con
gratulations and followed It with an
enthusiastic letter renewing their old
friendship. MJss Vlvienne's last ap
pearance In this city was made at the
old Heilig Theater on Fourteenth and
Washington streets four years ago
when she sang the title role in "Mad
ame Butterfly," which Henry W. Sav
age presented at that time.
CHURCHES DEVOTE WEEK
TO W, C. T. U. MEETING
Delegates Praise Local Pastors for Liberality Missionaries Talk on Work
Among Indians and Coreans.
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SECTARIAN and undenominational
as tt is. the convention of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
has overshadowed all else in cnurcn
work during the past week. The
White Temple and the Grace Methodist
Episcopal churches have been used at
nearly all times of the day. and there
have been crowded audiences at every
session of the conference. Not only has
it been a conference for the elder folk,
but also for the young people, who have
been rejoiced to' possess a real live con
ference of their own every day of the
week. As is only right, the cause of
temperance is one that is espoused not
only by the W. C. T. V.. but also by all
ministers and clerics. The support
given to the union by the clergy and
the loan of the churches was one of
the things to which especial attention
was directed by the president and which
was made the subject of more than one
complimentary address from the chair.
In addition Mrs. Jennie Kemp, who had
charge of the assignment of members
to the various churches, said that Port
land clergymen had outshone all others
in the generosity they had displayed in
offering the use of their pulpits to the
delegates.
Many Hear Missionaries.
Owing to the convention, however,
and to the fact that so many church
workers were desirous of being present
whenever they could, other work has
not been quite so active as usual.
Other noteworthy features of the past
week were the recital of the conver
eional and educational work among the
Indians by the Callfornian Indian As
sociation, at the First Congregational
Church: the address given by Dr. J.
Hunter Wells, at the First Presbyterian
Church on the occasion of a reception
to him" and Mrs. Wells, last Thursday,
and the formation of a club for the
benefit of working girls which, though
unsectarian and absolutely open to all,
has been started through the energy
of a number of Roman Catholics.
Taking the work among the Indians
first, it is pleasant to be able to record
how much has been done by the Cali
fornia association to secure for the In
dians education in proper schools, col
leges and seats of training.
Indian children to the number of 8800
have recently secured school privileges,
and everyone of these and all others,
formerly had grown up In total Ignor
ance. Though the Government has
ceased to provide or to establish
schools for Indians, every state and
county must work out its own prob
lem In this connection. In spite of a
fight lasting three months, the asso
ciation at last succeeded in getting a
school erected In Colusa County. Fur
ther schools, in which the curriculum
will Include Christian education, are
under way. and the main point upon
which the association bases its request
of further schools and Christian teach
ing for the Indians is the great claim
of priority.
Dr. Wells Talks on Korea.
People who attended the reception at
the First Presbyterian Church In honor
of Dr. and Mrs. Wells last Thursday
went hoping to hear something of the
great work that these two energetic
missionaries have accomplished in Ko
rea, the most recent annexation of Ja
pan and a POt where Just lately much
activity had been shown both by and
against the Christians. They were not
disappointed. .
One of the most pleasing; features of
his speech was the pride that Dr. Wells
showed in Portland and the fact that,
after a visit to many of the greatest
cities and countries in the world, he
still considered that In breadth of
views, in advancement of ideas and in
civil and political standing generally,
this city had but two superiors.
The phase, however, which appealed
to him the most was the splendid show
ing of the Presbyterian churches of the
Pacific Northwest, the new church
house, the increase in the young among
the congregation and the general ac
tivity locally, when added to that prog
ress which he was pleased to be able to
say truthfully of their mission in Ko
rea, made the showing of the Presby
terian Church one of the best on the
Coast.
Mini Campbell la Praised.
A pleasing tribute to the work of an
associate. Miss Lucile Campbell, who
was sent out by the Seliwood Church,
and by the Missionary Society, was
paid. "Since her arrival," said Dr. Wells,
"this trained nurse has given most of
her spare time to studying the lan
guage and to emergency work. For a
few months before 1 left and for the
present she Is giving her full time to it,
and she is very efficiently filling the
urgent need there."
The missionary then proceded to tell
of the work, in general in Korea and in
Pyeng Yang in particular, that being
the town, of 100,000 inhabitants, where
the Caroline A. Ladd Hospital is in
operation. "That work is the most suc
cessful in self-support and in self-prop,
agation of the board and the church,"
declared Dr. Wells, who showed how
there were on his arrival but 100 ad
herents and how there were today twice
as many stations. 60 missionaries in
stead of three, with one church to each
missionary in the North, and 2118
places, mostly churches, where services
and prayer meetings are held regu
larly, t
Thousands Attend Chnrchea.
Close on 60,000 persons attend church
every Wednesday night, several
churches having a membership and an
attendance of over 1000. In Pyeng
Vang alone last year 2417 were bap
tised, a number which will be largely
Increased this year if all appearances
hold true, said Dr. Wells. With regard
to the activity displayed by the Japa
nese government against certain Ko
rean native Christians for complicity
In a plot to kill the Governor-General
and the Intrusion of the names of mis
sionaries into the matter, among them
the name of the speaker himself. Dr.
Wells had little to say beyond what he
had said previously and the fact that
no one, for one moment, believed them
guilty of anything more at the outside
than a dislike by one or two to Japa
nese rule. The more serious charge
was so absurd, from the point of view
of the missionaries, as to be worthy
of no notice.
Tomorrow night at 8:80 o'clock, at
the First African Methodist Episcopal
Zlon Church, Thirteenth and Main
streets, of which Rev. W. W. Mat
thews is the pastor, a reception and
mass meeting will be held in honor of
Bishop J. S. Caldwell, of Philadelphia.
The general public is invited to at
tend. Prominent among those who
have been Invited to sit on the plat
form and deliver addresses are: Sen
ator Chamberlain, Senator Bourne,
Representative Lafferty, Ben W. Olcott,
Secretary of State; Ben Selling. A. E.
Clark. Mrs. Sarah Bard Ehrgott, Mrs.
H. M. Gray, B. Lee Paget. Gus C Moser,
H. M. Esterly, McCants Stewart. Walter
H. Evans. Rev.' C. C. Raric. Rev. E. C.
Cline. Judge Morrow, J. W. McDougal,
Rev. W. T. Kerr, Bishop J. S. Caldwell.
Music will be furnished by the Jubilee
Quartet and the local church choir.
"The Religious Teaching in the
Plays of Shakespeare" Is the theme to
be presented Sunday night at the Unl
v.rsftiist Church of the Good Tidings,
Broadway and East Twenty-fourth
streets, when Judge Guy C. H. Corliss,
the eminent Shakespearean scholar.
will be the speaker.
Judge Corliss spoke to an audience
at Chautauqua last Summer, and has
been heard with admiration wherever
he has spoken. The Bible Is quoted
more freely in the plays of the great
dramatist than mostpeopie imagine.
A new organization is belrig formed
under the name of the Business Wo
man's Association of Portland.
The purposes of this association are
several, among them the betterment of
conditions for women workers, the so
cial intercourse and mutual assistance
of Its members, and the establishment
of a loaning fund for worthy girls.
Membership will be open to all self
supporting women and girls of Port
land, and the dues will be so nominal
as to be within reach-of every one.
Members and officers need be . of no
particular denomination.
The officers will be a president, vice
president, secretary and treasurer,
with a board of directors.
Meetings will be held on the second
and fourth Monday evenings of each
month at the clubrooms of teCath
olic Women's League, in the Safe De
posit building, 125 Fourth street, near
the corner of Washington street.
A Halloween party will be given at
the clubrooms on Monday night, Octo
ber 28, to which all the self-supporting
women and girls of Portland are in
vited, for the double purpose of an
evening's entertainment and securing
members for this organization.
Miss Caroline Gleason, the director
of the minimum wage survey carried
on by the Consumers' League, a grad
uate of Minnesota University and of
the- Chicago School of Physics and
Philosophy, has been secured as gen
eral director. Her special knowledge
of industrial conditions will be of the
greatest benefit. Miss Elizabeth O'Kean
Is the president.
Tomorrow afternoon at 2:S0 o'clock
the Baptist Ministers' Association
meets at the White Temple for its
regular meeting, when the political
situation will be discussed.
On Friday evening the annual meet
ing of the Ladles' Missionary Aid So
ciety, in all four sections, will take
place at the White Temple, when the
topic will be China, and the evening
will be in charge of women in Chinese
costume, exact in every detail.
Work in connection with his office
as superintendent of the Methodist
Episcopal Churches has kept Rev. J.
W. McDougall at Seaside and Astoria
during the past week.
Among, other ministers who have
been out of town recently ,are Rev. W.
F. Reagor, of the First Christian
Church, and Rev. John F. Ghormley,
both of whom have been attending the
convention of Christian churches In
Kentucky. The former has Just re
turned, but the latter Is stopping to
give a series of lectures and will not
be back for three weeks or so.
Rev. C. C. Poling, who was in attend
ance upon the missionary board in the
East, returned to fill his pulpit today.
A special service for veterans is to
be given today by Rev. Herbert F.
Jones, the pastor of Kern Park Chris
tian Church.
Halloween parties will be a feature
of the week among the young people's
classes. There Is to be one given by
the Loyal Berean Class, of the Kern
Park Christian Bible school - at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Hall, 4507
Seventy-third street southeast, that
promises to be one of the best ever
given by this class. Entertainment
suitable to all ages is being planned by
the young people, and an enjoyable
evening is anticipated. Ghostly greet
ings will be followed by games and
In turn, refreshments served in a mys
terious manner.
Another, for which all arrangements
have been made already is that to take
place at the White Temple at 7:30
o'clock.
Under the auspices of the young
people's department of the First Pres
byterian Church everybody is request
ed to be present at the opening to
morrow evening at 8:15 o'clock In the
new church house of a Monday even
ing Bible class.
The class meets every Monday .from
8:15 to 9 P. M., in room "A," on the
third floor of the church house, 454
Alder street. This movement for sys
tematic study of the Bible is in answer
to a desire expressed by several young
people whose other duties at the reg
ular Sunday school hour preclude their
receiving such Instruction at that time.
Cordial Invitations are offered to all
young men and women who are inter
ested, together with all the Sunday
school teachers and officers, though it
will be In no sense a "teachers' meet
ing," but a definite study of the Old
Testament, with outlines to assist In
the mastery of the historical move
ments of events.
- ni.tinn ovenlnsr the First Pres
byterian Church will keep "open house"
to the congregation ana tneir inenas.
i Icq m,i wir will be run into tne
church house and direct returns from
th. election will be received and reaa.
Between the returns there will be
music and recitation, and the evening
will be made one of sociability.
The conference for Young People's
Society workers of all denominations,
i kAin' inntiitt0i1 nnHr the
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leadership of the pastor's assistants of
the r irst resDyterian nuiu-ii id mru
new church house every Monday even
ing at 7:30, la being largely attended,
&DOUI 1UU WUI o '""'"fi ' o-
these conferences, which are open to
all tnose iniereswn m "
Beginning this evening. Dr. John H.
Boyd, pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church, will preach a series of "Ser
mons From Uninspired Parables." His
theme tonight is "William Wilson." by
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A study of life's spiritual conflict
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and or tne ternoie iiu?siuuu i u-
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message for young men and women on
the field or temptation. ouhu
he will take "The Reappearing: A Vi
sion of Christ in Paris," by Charles
Morice. The modern world viewed in
the light of Christ. A pre-election ser
mon. An interpretation of God's de
mands upon humanity socially and
man's failure to meet It. On the two
following Sundays one of his topics
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metheus," by Mary W. Shelley, which
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brains, with power, with enterprise.
but little conscience b-iiu hu
Henry Van Dyke, .wherein the pastor
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restlessness and a search for the secret
of strong, nappy ana iriuuiiiimm "8'
t-v, vmin c women of the Sacred
Heart Roman Catholic Church, Milwau
kie street, last Wednesday elected the
following officers: President, Mrs. Tillle
Schomus; vice-president. Miss May
nnn- ser.retarv. Miss Loretta Manlon:
treasurer. Miss Mary Mayers.
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day night, there appeared on the pro
gramme: Jasper Dean MacFall, Mrs. W.
A. Flshburn, Miss Mazle Foster, A. T.
Samuels. J. Macdonald. W. Smith, Miss
Beatrice Klrkup, and these students
under the direction of Mrs. Grace Wil
ton Peterson: Pearl Vore,- Beatrice
Bockman, Harland Lance, Eva May
Vore, May Smith, Martha and Lydla
Flmmel, Marlon and Beatrice Bockman,
Margaret Hyatt, Louise Sherman, Mar
tha Bocum, Helen and Thelma Miller
and La Feme Gooley.
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The Ensemble Club of 35 violinists,
Frank G. Elchenlaub, director, met for
its first meeting last Thursday night,
when plans were outlined for the com
ing season.
Mrs. Lola Edwards Branln, concert
soprano, sang at the luncheon In honor
of the League of Northwest Municipal
ities at Walla Walla, Wash., last Fri
day, and was highly successful. Mrs.
Branln, who is filling a musical en
gagement at Walla Walla, Wash., Is
known professionally as Miss Lola
Ridgeway.
A musical and literary programme
was rendered at the tea given by the
Portland Grade Teachers' Association
yesterday. The soloist. Miss Emma
Kienow, sang in pleasing style "The
Swallows". XCowen).
Miss Maysie Foster, contralto, who
has been soloist in the choir of Haw.
thorne Presbyterian Church for the past
three years, has a very good voice,
which she uses with fine skill. She ac
quitted herself with credit at the re
cent Clan Macleay concert.
.
That musical instruments have hu
man characteristics is the contention of
John Philip Sousa, the great band lead
er. The queen or tne musical iamny
is the violin, sensitive under all con
ditions, capable of the most minute
gradations of sound and pitch; now sen
timental, now JDrllllant, now coquettish,
now1 breathing notes of passionate
love," writes Mr. Sousa in a current
magazine. "Look about you and you
will find the violin's double among
tome you know; high strung, diffident,
capable of all the emotions, beautiful
in the crystallized harmonies of affec
tion and sympathy.
"There, again, we have the man in
life like the instrument in the orches
tra, destined never to arise above sec
ond position. A third alto horn man may
envy a solo alto man, but he remains
a third alto man forever. A second
trombone may cast Jealous eyes at his
brother in the first chair, Dut it avall
eth him not. Fourth cornets and sec
ond fiddles, eighth clarinets and sixth
trumpets, may. deride the captains of
industry of the instrumental group, but
they ever remain in obscurity. If in
struments were born equal all would
be sovereigns, and if men were born
equal all would be soloists.
"Dispositions in Instruments and peo
ple go hand in hand. The shrieking flfe
and hysterical woman are twins and
both can become nuisances: the golden
thread of the oboe's tone and the beau
tiful voice of shy 16 walk arm in arm.
The pomp and circumstance of the Em
peror are exemplified in the nobleness of
trombone; the languourous lisp of the
Summer girl .z echoed in the rythm
of Andalusian guitar. Tue love pro
posal is pictured in the Impassioned
melody enunciated in the tenor-clef
cello, while the flirty giggllni of the
shallow coquette finds its mate in the
fickle flights of piccolo. - The man who
never deviates, a sort ait animated law
of the Medes and Persians, meets his
rival in the positive 'umph' of the bass
horn, while the undectded never-can-make-up-his-mind
Individual is pic
tured by' the hestitating pah" of the
second alto."
At an afternoon tea given at Mrs.
Hugh Ham's residence. East Thirty
ninth and Division streets, and for the
benefit of Mlzpah Presbyterian Church
Missionary and Aid Society, Mrs. Mc
Caw, contralto soloist of that church
choir, sang two solos very acceptably.
Miss Nona Lawler was soloist at
the Madeleine parish church at home
held at the residence of Mr. and Mrs.
John M. Casey. Her solos were "Where
Blossoms Grow" (Sans Souci) and
"That Is All" (Clark). Her encores
were the popular "Count of Luxem
bourg" waltzes. Miss Ruby Crichton
was piano accompanist, and also played
selections from "La Boheme" (Puc
cini) and a number of others from the
popular operas throughout the" even
ing. Another charming feature of the
evening's entertainment was a piano
duet by Masters Dundore. The boys
played with notable expression and
character the overture from "William
Tell" (Rossini).
A dozen novelties are announced for
the new season at the Paris Opera
Comlque. Two that are far advanced
In rehearsal are "La Danseuse de Pom
peii," by Jean Nouges, the prolific "Quo
Vadls?" composer, and Camille Erlan
Ker's "La Sorclere." Besides these, there
are eight new works oy French com
posers and four foreign works, as yet
unknown in Paris, on tiie list. The oth
er French novelties are "Le Carillon
neur," by Xavler Leroux; "Les Quartre
Journees," by Alfred Bruneau; "Celeste
Prudhomat," by Trepaud: "La Tlsseuse
d'Orties," by Gustave Doret; "Le Pays,",
by Guy Ropartz; "Marous," by Rabaud;
"II Etalt une Bergere," in one act, by
Marcel Lattes, and "Messaouda," by
Itatez. Three Italian works and one
are listed to be Introduced.
On account'of the illness of his moth
er, Mr. Leo Charles Sparks has canceled
his concert engagements and will re
main In Portland during the Winter,
resuming teaching at 370 Vista avenue
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