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3 "MY LITTLE FRIEND" IS NEW STRAUSS COMIC OPERA CERTAIN TO APPEAL TO POPULAR FANCY Iroduction Has Captivating Melodies and Attractive Story Designed to Win Hot-Weather Audiences in New York Fritzi Scheff Appears in "Mile. Modiste" Bernhardt "Lifts Up" Vaudeville Stage After All "The Master Mind" Will Not Close. Since Pnblic Refuses to Let It. Tl n -This Week- Extraordinary Reductions on All Bedroom and Dining-Room Furniture THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, JUNE 1, 1913. si Spo 1L i)V LLOYD F. LONERGAN. NEW YORK. May 51. (Special.) "My Little Friend'" js another comic opera by Oscar Straus which is certain to take the popular fancy, for it haB an attractive little story and captivating: melodies. It is a form of entertainment 'well adapted to the hot weather, and its stay at the New Amsterdam Theater should be a Ions one. A French nobleman. Count Artois. seeks to marry, his son Fernand to Claire, the daughter of M. Barbazon. a millionaire. Barbazon Is willing and fce and Artois arrange for the betrothal without consulting- the young folks. Fernand. who is in Paris, sendd a tele gram refusing: to marry a girl whom he does not know, which pleases Claire, as she 1 in love with a young; scientist. In the next act, Fernand's apartment in Paris, the young: man tells his friends that he has wed Phlline. a flor ist. Artois and Barbazon arrive on the scene, believe that Fernand is fasci nated by Louison. a girl friend of Phil ine's. and to cure him of his infatua tion they persuade him to go away with Philine and advance the money for the trip. When Fernand and Philine re turn Artois and Barbazon learn that the pair are married, while at the same time news-is received of Claire's mar riage to the scientist, while Louison weds a poet. Fred Walton, as Count Artois, plays the old nobleman with ease and humor. William Pruette. as Barbazon. gave good comedy performance, and his ex cellent voice was heard to Kood advan tage. Leila Hughes, as Philine. the lit tle florist, sang delightfully and gave a capital performance. Reba Dale, as Claire, took full advantage of the op portunities or her role. Frits! Scbeff u "Mile. Modiste. Frttzi Scheff, who first came to Amer ica as a ienncse prima donna with the Metropolitan Grand Opera Company, but who is now - thoroughly identified 1th the American comic opera, stage, is now at the Globe Theater In "Mile. Modiste." It was shortly after Charles Dillingham persuaded Miss Scheff to abandon the grand opera stage for the lighter work that lie supplied her with this play. It was first produced at the Knick erbocker Theater and ran the entire season. The piece created, a sensa tion. It was looked on as significant of the fact that American composers and authors miq;ht be expected to du plicate the work of such brilliant li brettists as Gilbert and Sullivan. Mille. Modiste" won lasting fame for the composer. Victor Herbert: the au thor, Henry Blossom: the prima donna. 3iiss cscnerr, and especially for- the producer. Charles Dillingham, who had up to that point been almost alone in his championship of American librettists. Claude Gilhngwater, who mad e a personal hit as Hiram Bent, In the orig inal production, again plavs the part. Bertha Holly, as Mrs. Bent, another original members of the cast, is -also m the cast. The claim used to be made that It lowered a well-known actor to appear on the vaudeville stage, and even now this opinion is held by some few. but the appearance of Mme. Bernhardt in vaudeville is eloquent testimony to the contrary, for vaudeville has not lowered the standing of Mme. Bern hardt, while she has raised it in dig nity wherever she has appeared. During her stay at the Palace The ater, Mme. Bernhardt presented the tnird act or Victor Hugo's drama. "Lu crece Borgia." & part which gives full scope for her marvelous powers. 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As soon as the announcement was made in the papers it seemed as though every one in New York who hadn't seen the play, and a number who had. rushed to the box office and demanded - seats. The demand for tickets was so great that it was decided to continue the run in definitely, and Mr. Breese and his com pany are making no more plans for Summer vacations. . Actors frequently have to enact parts with which they are not in sympathy, and John Drew's role in "The Per plexed Husband" is that of a man op posed to suffrage. As a matter of fact, "Votes for Women" is a cry he thor oughly approves of. - could not very well be In favor of anything else," he said. "Any man must be, the women of whose family have been for at least a hundred years vase earners and property holders." Blanche Bates, while very fond of dogs, does not believe they should be carried about the country and endure the hardships of road life. So many actresses carry their pet canines with them while on "the road" that Miss Bates' views on the subject are Inter esting. "It is cruel to make a dog travel about the country on trains and endure the tortures of hotel life. I think that the Society for the Prevention of Cruel ty to Animals should stop traveling people from taking dogs, about with them. "The way I got interested in setters was rather unusual. One day in New York I was driving through the lower section of the city with a friend, an actress, and we came into the midst of a crowd around a burning tenement. Crowd Cheers Flrfman. "The firemen were helping people out and taking them down the lad ders. After they seemed to have res cued every one, a dog appeared at the window of a. room on the fourth or fifth floor. He was an Irish setter and I shall never forget the human expres. sion of the poor beast as he looked down at the crowd with mute appeal to rescue him. "Perhaps the firemen would volun tarily have saved the dog. but I did not wait or them to take action. I called to one of them and promised him $20 if he would bring that animal down the ladder out of the burning house. Well, he did it in short order. I wish you could have heard the roar of applause that went up from the crowd as he ac complished the feat. He brought the dog to me and I gave him his reward. "Nobody seemed to own the setter and as we made fast friends at once, I took him home and have kept him ever since. This episode started me as a dog fancier. "Everybody on the stage should, I think, have a hobby of some sort aside from their stage work and entirely apart from It. It gives some zest to life. Well, my hobby happens to be dogs and I thank God for the pleasure and interest I get from them." In these days where the advantages of careers or marriage for women are debated so frequently, both sides of the controversy have ardent supporters. Mme. Nazimova expresses her views briefly. "The woman who attains both suc cess in a professional career and hap piness in marriage has found the ideal of human existence," she said, and then added that she is the woman. When asked which she would choose, love or a career, she replied, "Well, I have both, so It is not necessary to make a choice, but if I had to choose between the two, I would take love and marriage, for that is the real hap piness of life." To Be Exact. Lippincott's. "Will you please cash a check for me. Mr. Bankus?" "Is it a very large one?" "No, indeed. It's only about Inches wide and. five inches long. two IN "TANGO TEA" DREGS IS VULGAR DANCE DOOM New York Schoolchildren, Borrowing Peasant , Dances From Europe, Likely to Break Frenzied Craze Now Gripping Metropolis. BY STELLA WALKER DURHAM. EW YORK, May 31. (Special.) It's a far cry from the "tango tea to the simple cLances of the European peasants on the village green. Yet if we do not substitute for the crude vulgarity of the one the whole some beauty of the other, surely mod ern dancing is doomed to the oblivion its present status deserves. A beautiful exhibition of folk danc ing was given the othc day in New York, in the nature of a huge May day festival. It was the big annual event of the Girls' Band of the Public Schools Athletic League of New York City, un der the personal direction of Miss Eliza beth Burchenal. Seven thousand little girls danced on 15 acres of greensward in Central Park. The girls were from 250 public schools In Manhattan and the Bronx. It was a wonderful sight 7000 little girls all in white with sashes and hair bows of colored ribbons; the music was furnished by a 60-piece band, composed of boys from one of the public schools. Pennant Dances "Borrowed." The dances were the simple ones borrowed from the old peasant dances of many nations. Among the specta tors were many of the girls mothers whose hearts and feet beat time to the tunes they remembered in many a far away village green. The most picturesque of the dances was, of course, the May. pole dance. There were 250 poles. Some of them had. red and white streamers; some blue and white; others yellow and white and so on. In each case riae little girls wore sashes and hair ribbon to match the streamers of the May pole. The chil dren threaded in and out, in and out in the dance until the poles were wound like giant sticks of candy. After the May pole dance the children shouldered the May poles and all ran toward the band stand, where they waved their handkerchiefs and sang the "Star Spangled Banner." The opposite extreme of the folk dancing of the children and many new ly arrived Europeans, is the sort of dancing to be seen at the so-called "tango teas" of the Broadway restau rants. The "tango tea" or "Dansant," as it is euphemistically called by the pro prietors, is a sort of cabaret in which the diner or tea drinker for it is held at the tea hour takes part between drinks! Everybody In New York dances. It is the one universal form of recreation. Regulating of the dance halls is one of the most difficult problems that social workers have to deal with. The need for regulation does not extend merely to the nickel-a-dance halls on the East Side, but also, in greater degree, to the "Dansant" of the high-priced Broadway restaurants. Dancing Desire Ascribed. The craze for dancing Is only a nat ural desire to give expression to pent up physical and emotional energies on the part of tens of thousands of people engaged in sedentary occupations. The factory girl goes home to her pigeon hole in a tenement-house after a long day at a machine, where she has used perhaps only one set of muscles. She eats a miserable meal, cooked, maybe over a gas plate, a meal-that only part ly satisfies her hunger and does not at all satisfy that social craving to break bread with one's fellows, that is in stinctive with us all. Then, in that "pursuit of happiness' that has become an American mockery, she hies her to a dance hall. There are thousands of girls like this in New York, and an equal number of young men employed in shops, factories and offices who find their only recreation in dance halls. It is not so easy to understand why women or leisure and business men who can afford to spend their leisure hours how and where they please, should choose to dance away beautiful Spring afternoons in hot, overcrowded restau rants, turkey-trotting between tea ta bles. But such is the craze of the hour. The dancing is sattl to be of a kind that would make the habitues of an East Side dance hall blush, and Mayor Gay nor is repeatedly reported to be "having a fit" but the "tango tea" goes merrily on in any number of fashionable Broad way restaurants. Dancing is provided for in the recre ation centers conducted in the school buildings in New York and the recrea tion piers are now open for dancing in the evenings. In both cases only con ventional dances waltzes, two-steps and the like are permitted and super vision is maintained by city authorities. Both are very well patronized, indeed, showing that the young people are glad to make use of wholesome surround ings when they are given the oppor tunity. Doubtless the present popularity of a deplorable kind of dancing is a revolt against the sameness and passivity of the waltz and two-step. It is also due, in large part, to the fascination of mu sic that has a peculiar charm of rhythm. Amateurs try to imitate professional dancers and do it very badly, but. like the old woman who said "she enjoyed the prayer meeting very much she took part." The dancers are at least taking one step toward normal play they are taking part instead of passive ly watching professionals dancing. A Excuse Ileal 1 y IxImIm. There is no excuse for the kind of dancing New York people are indulg ing In, except that their taste has beeu degraded by a low standard set by pro fessional dancers. The folk dance music has all the wonderful witchery of rhythm that forms the charm of the "tango" and the exercise to be gained from it is quite as vigorous. In addition to this the positions taken in folk dancing are at all times proper and dignified while precisely the opposite is true of the tango and the turkey-trot. It is in conceivable that young people who have once learned to appreciate the grace and charm of the old dances of all nations, can ever be beguiled into the unlovely antics to which modern social dancing has been degraded. 1 1 is to folk-dancing that we must look for a return to something of the grace and beauty that belonged to dancing In the days of our grandmothers. FRECKLE-FACE San and M ind Brln Out I fitly Spot, How to Remove Easily. Here's a chance. Miss Freckle-face, to try a remedy for freckles with the guarantee of a reliable dealer that it will not cost you a penny unless it re moves the freckles; while if it does give you a clear complexion the ex pense is trifling. Simply get an ounce of othine dou ble strength from Woodard, Clarke & Co.. and a few applications - should show you how easy it is to rid your self of the homely freckles and get a beautiful complexion. Rarely is more than one ounce noeded for the worst case. 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