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THE SUNDAY OREGONTAN, PORTLAND, JANUARY 4, 1914. 3 HENRY H. CRANE IS MUMMER AGAIN IN "THE NEW HENRIETTA," REVAMP OF HIS OLD FAMOUS PLAY Winchell Smith and Victor Mapes Reunite One-Time Production and Witty Lines of Lively Story Give Punch That Is Accorded Success. Billie Burke Still Holds Her New York Public, .ough in Serious play by Sommerset Maugham. II 'rr , - ' ' 1 v fji A , "11 " '' ij-b.. rzxjLz.& V ; , WYb JF-2yz. ZST" 1 K r - -v f. I .... Itt,. .0.. A o....5...v. ;?i 14 . Jt4,sj v? .4., (J BT LLOYD P. LONERGAN. NEW YORIC, Jan. 3. (Special.) We have had revivals before, but never a rewritten revival. From the success with which "The New Hen rietta" has been received, the chances are that they will be all the rage, especially if they are as well done as is the starring vehicle In which Wil liam H. Crane is now appearing at the Knickerbocker Theater. "The Henrietta." Bronson Howard's comedy of business life, was one of the first of its kind, and also one ol the best. Mr. Crane and his late part ner. Stuart Robson, played it all over the country 20 or more years ago. Then Crane retired and Robson occasionally appeared in it. I saw him in New York at the Grand Opera House a week be fore his death, and could not help re marking how behind the age the play waa. It was creaky and old-fashioned, but the story was there, and it held one's attention. Still there was al ways a rescret that some of "the old tuif could not be eliminated. The new version has been prepared xpertly by Winchell Smith and Vic tor Mapes. They have eliminated three roles In the original comedy, the older on of the Wall street magnate, who tries to ruin his father, the English Jordling. and the latter's wife, the role crlginally played by Mrs. Stuart Rob-, son Mr. Crane, of course, has his original part, while the part of Bertie, the lamb, in which Robson achieved fame, is now in the hands of Douglas Fairbanks. W. H. Crane, who Is not to be changed by a mere matter of a genera tion, still dominates the play as the successful owner of the mine, who finds that his son-in-law has allowed his ambitions to overmaster his sense of honesty. He still woos the widow, thinks with the same futility that his foolish son Bertie will never bo of any frood whatever, and then learns that the son. by putting up the money set tled on him as a marriage settlement, has saved his father's mine and in cured the continued prosperity of the family. In these principals the play !s not changed The text of the origi nal has been used when necessary, but m:iny new and amusing lines have been Introduced Fairbanks divided honors v.-ith Crane, and the others in the cast. Including Amelia Bingham and Pat ricia Collinge. were excellent. nillle Burke In Serloua Vein. Billie Burke is now at the Lyceum Theater in "The Land of Promise," a serious play written for her by Som merset Maugham. Prior to this she has appeared In numerous comedies, but this is the first time she has been compelled to be serious, and we really like her. It was strange to the audience to eee Billie Burke without chiffons and the accustomed elegancies of- the toilette. They were impossible, and the simple frocks she wore told the audlenc that Korah Marsh was poor after the death of her father: thai she bad to earn her living, and when her aril--- mi -' 3S1 2" ft ance . CUT PRICES IN $1.00 Grade Tapestry Brussels Carpet 70J $1.25 gTade Tapestry Brussels Carpet S3d $1.50 10-wire high-grade Brussels Carpet, 90d $1.35 Velvet Carpet -95f $1.60 Velvet Carpet. SI. 25 $1.75 Axminster Carpet. . . '. -S1.40 52.00 Bigelow Lowell Axminster Carpet SI. GO $2.25 Bigelow Axminster Carpet. SI. 75 Sewed, Laid and Lined. $7.50 Axminster Hall Runners, 2 ft. 3 ins. by 9 ft- S4.35 $12.00 Axminster Hall Runners, 2 ft. 3 in. by 15 ft S6.25 $14.00 Axmnstr. Hall Runners, 3x15 ft. 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Lillian Kingsbury made this sister as intolerable and jealous as the author had drawn her. So the life with those about her be came impossible. One of Its worst climaxes was a fury which led the English girl, dependent and far from home, to offer herself as wife to one of the men working on her brother's farm. He Is, by the way. starting to Winnipeg to look up a wife In the records of the employment agency there. All he wants Is somebody to cook and clean The girl from Eng land sees in this occupation less hu miliation than in life In the honp of her brother. The man accepts her of fer and they become husband and wife. Vnloved Husband Triumphs. There sounds, for at least the sec ond time this season, the Katherlne and Petruchlo motive. This unloved husband triumphs physcially over the new chattel he owns. He is the cave man that we have seen more than once this theater year. He will win his wife by force, and. of course, in the end he does. Miss Burke looked quite as charm ing in her simple frocks as she ever had. and she played with ber usual charms. Peculiaritjes of gait and man ner more than once recalled her gamin days, out there was much in her act ing to delight her admirers. Then she remained herself sufficiently to assure many nights of happiness to that large public which wants only Miss Burke. She has never captured a New York audience more thoroughly. Few of them have Indeed exhibited such a high degree of satisfaction over .her appearance la a new play. - Mr. Maugham's comedy is entertain ing throughout its four acts, with less plausibility in its serious scenes. Frances Star in "The Secret,' by Henry Bernstein, gives a remarkable interpretation of a most unsympathetic and ungrateful role. The heroine of "The Secret" is a peculiar woman. She was perfectly hale and hearty, had everything she wanted in the world, had been married 11 years and adored her husband, but she could not endure the happiness of others. She loved to stir up trouble, she adored bringing about misunderstandings, and herself suffered from her misconduct as much aa did those against wijom she sinned. In the end she confessed in a torrent of tears, and we all went home more or less sorry that we had been there. Perhaps in France, where natures are curious, the play can be comprebended, but here we had absolutely no sym pathy for the heroine, and were really glad to see her suffer. The best of the short cast was Robert Warwick, who gave an excellent performance of the lover cast aside by the machina tions of the strange woman. The oth er actors and actresses were good, as they are usually in a Belasco cast. Miss Eleanor Gates, author of .the Poor Little Rien Girl," has produced another play, "We Are Seven," which is now the reigning attraction at Max lne Elliott's Theater. A mere man could never have succeeded with this subject, whose principal issue was eugenics and its secondary Issue feigned deaf mute. Miss Gates brought the unusual gift of a feminine sense of humor to her subject and made us laugh not only at her quibs and pranks. but at the amusing business that ran all through "We Are- Seven" The heroine is interested In the Per fect Baby Committee Her best maiden aunt is shocked at her because she dis cussed the seven children she is go ing to have, even before she Is en gaged. The heroine has seven children in her mind's eye. She has them all named and even plans for their future. In fact she owns everything but their father He must, be of the right sort and 100 per cent healthy While her aunt consents to allow her to take phil anthropic trips on the East Side, she insists that the girl must have an es cort. Diantha (that Is the girl's name) decides that the escort must be deaf and dumb, because she would not like to be spied upon and reported. The escort, however. Is a young man ad dicted to practical jokes, and needing a Job, he pretends to be deaf and dumb and takes this one. His friends, an other series of practical jokers, fall Into his plans He is good-looking, a nice chap, and Diantha falls in love with him, but fears to marry him, be lieving that they were likely to have deaf and dumb children. The' mascu line playwright could never make a very pretty girl suggest all that and get away with it. Miss Gates did, however It was all as delicate and refined and as dainty as the keenest stickler of proprieties could wish. The end of the piece is easy to guess, but "We Are Seven" is entertaining In a legitimately unusual manner, and was good farce all the time. Miss Effle Ellsler. once a well-known star, but now almost a stranger to Broadway, played the part of aunties judiciously. The others In the cast were excellent. ONE YEAR AHEAD OF COMPETITORS NEW YEAR BRINGS NEW OPERAS, PLAYS AND ARTISTS TO NEW YORK Singers and Instrumentalists, Some Never Before on Broadway, Scheduled Farrar Once More Announced. ' "Louise" Stirs Curiosity "The Secret" Makes Good Vehicle for Frances Star Billie Burke in New Play. WOMEN T0ACJ AS POLICE Aid and Protection for Geneva Girls Intention of Societies. GENEVA. Jan. 1. (P- "wo women societies at Neuchtel. the Union Feminist and the Friends of the Young Girl, have leciSed to create a corps of "voluntary policewomen" whose duties will consist In looking after girls and women. The chief object of the policewomen is to fight against the white slave traf fic to assist female prisoners after their liberation, and In a general way to look after the morals of girls in the streets and shops. Similar institutions are to be created at Zurich and Lausanne. BY EMILIE FRANCES BAUER. NEW YORK, Jan. 3. (Special.) The new year is opening with a complete change in artists in the musical world and with new plays in the theaters. The artists who have given the concerts from the opening of the Fall season have wended their way through the country and others have come to lend renewed Interest to the overwhelming number of recitals and concerts given in New York. Among these may be mentioned Ysaye. Godowsky and Gerardy. who will be heard together and singly during the opening week of the new year. Mischa Elman. who arrived In time to spend Christmas here, is among the attrac tions of the new year, while Julia Culp and Alma Gluck are both sched uled for Carnegie Hall recitals during the first week of January. Mme. Car reno. just returning from her Pacific lour. wVll play a number of concerts and Beatrice Harrison, the celebrated young English "cellist, is announced for a number of recitals. Jacques Thibaud, the Paris violinist, will play his open ing concert January 5, after which he will be heard with the different or chestras. There will be new artists coming along at the Metropolitan and we will lose some of those who have contrib uted tremendously to the artistic stature of the productions of that house. Of first importance among these Is Jacques Urlus, who is com pelled to return to his German engage ments. Urlus has already signed his contracts for next season in Bayreuth and, of course, he will be back in America next season. He will leave at the end of January. Then Burrlan will return and another German tenor, in whom much interest is centered, is Rudolf Berger. . Berger. formerly a baritone but now singing first tenor roles, will come to the Metropolitan. Mme. Ober, whose success In "Der Rosenkavalier" was not less than sen sational, is also singing .the Italian cont lto roles with very marked suc cess and her success saves a critical situation at that house! Mme. Homer has sailed for a period of rest to Egypt and other Oriental points, and Mme. Matzenauer is likewise dropping out of the casts for a time. ' Farrar Again Announced. Geraldine Farrar will be a practical novelty by the time she really returns, as she has been announced three or four times, and the bill has been changed. She Is again announced for next week, and it is stated definitely that she will appear. The second new production to be made at the Metropolitan is announced for Friday evening of next week This ts "L'Amore de' tre Re" (Love of three Kings) a tragic poem by the eminent Italian poet-dramatist Sem Ben ell i. with musical setting by Italo Monte mezzi. The opera was presented for the tlrst time in Milan last season at La Scala. and this season it is being given in all the opera-houses of Italy and Spain. The principal roles are to be sung by Didur as Archibajdo. an aged blind Baron who for 40 years has usurped the Principality of Altura, Amato as Manfredo. his son and hus band of Fiora (Lucrezla Bori). Avito, the Italian heir to the Principality, de throned by the invaders and childhood sweetheart of Fiora This role will be sung by Ferrari-Fontana, who cre ated it in the original production. Ferrari-Fontana, who belongs to the Bos ton Opera Company, is the husband of Mme. Matzenauer. and this will be his New York debut. The production will be given under direction of Toscanini. "Louise" is announced for its flrst performance in English by the Century Opera Company Much interest Inheres in the Charpentler production, and there is no small amount of curiosity as to how tile commonplace conversa tion of this work will affect the audi ence when it will be able to understand every word. Those to appear in the first performance are: Beatrice La Palme, in the title role, Gustaf Berg man as Julien, Kathleen Howard, as the mother and Louis Kreidler as the father of Louise. In connection with this and the fact that the Metropolitan Opera Company is preparing "Julien," for which event Charpentler is coming to America, it Is interesting to note that the "Minu Pinsons of Paris, those little working girls from the big dressmaking estao Jlshments, whose lives are so wonder fully depicted in the Charpentier op era, are getting ready to present the academician sword to their idol, Gus tav Charpentier, as a tribute ol love for what he has brought to them in the way of musical education Char pentier has spent hia life in uplifting oy the means of music these classes, where he has a chorus and orchestra of several hundred young men and wom en from the laboring classes, few of whom are able to read music. Cllarpen tier devotes four evenings a week to these people and the Trocadero Is giv en to the composer by the state fr the purpose of giving an annual concert by them and for them. "The Secret"" Produced. It Is always a delight to write down a new success for an artist or a play wright who has endeared her or him self to a public. In the case of Henri Bernstein's "The Secret" both play wright and actress are involved, as Frances Starr is the star performer and Bernstein is the admirable play wright who has made a place for him self in the stage literature of all coun tries arter "The Thief" had its pro uuction. "The Secret" had Its first New York presentation Tuesday eve ning at the Belasco Theater, winch im plies all that can be brought from the master hand of David Belasco. He has supplied an' admirable cast, and the play is mounted with all that modern stagecraft can produce. Frances Starr nas another sympathetic role in Ga brielle. the violently jealous woman, Jealou3 without cause or explanation. She separates brother and sister, she arranges the marriage of her best friends and when they seem to toucn happiness she upsets everything. The psychology of the woman is the thing which Bernstein handles with his defl. artistic touch, which he has snown upon several occasions. And yet Gabrielle hardly seems re sponsible for the treacherous things she does. The "secret" involves her closest friend, who has had a love af fair with one Charlie Ponta Tulli Thia is only known to Gat"'""- and after the marriage of Henriette has occurred, she invites Tulli as a hniise guest, to gether with his ex-sweetheart, to the desolation of the woman who up to this time has had her protection, and be fore the end of 'e play Oabrielle is found to be twined around every hap piness and unhappiness, even to the separation of the former lovers Miss Starr in a listless soil of a way. but works up to a splendid cli max and she holds the lnerest with a strong grip. Henriette served to bring forward the sister of Martha tledman. Miss Marguerite Leslie Is an actress worthy of consideration and there are excellent ro!es provided for Robert Warwick as Tulli. Frank Reichei as the husband of Henriette. Basil Oili ad the husbanad of Gabrielle. Harriet Otis Bellenbaugh has a small but incisive , part. After the first performance Mi. Belasco was called before the curtain, when lie said. "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year," and expressed the wish that Bernstein might have been present. The return of Billie Burke to the Lyceum was a delightful way of cele brating Christmas night at that house. She came back in a play by W. Somer set Maugham called "The Land or Promise." Norah Marsh, enacted by Miss Burke, takes up practically all ol the first act and reveals a little lady who has been for ten years companion to an old lady and now left to seek a new moorinji she goes to her brother in Canada, who has married much be low him in caste a waitress. In the second act Norah drinks the cup of bitterness to the dregs. She '.a regarded as "stuck up," and before the marriage she wrote her brother rather freely on the subject of marriage with a waitress, all of which established an antagonism which, required more than one act to patch up. Then comes the "hired man,'' who makes up his mind to marry and Norah. who has treated the matter with scorn, decides that anything Is better than remaining with her sister-in-law. Marrlatre under these conditions is not likely to be the hap piest and so Norah drinks her cup to the dregs Frank is not only his own master, but hers as well and when he gets her thoroughly tamed she finds out that she is in love with him and forgets about caste. The cast also includes Shelley Hull as Frank Taylor. Lillian Kingsbury, Lumsden Hare and others. Maudo Adams at the Empire and Wll lie Collier at the Hudson are the next openings promised by Charles Frohman, who waited to see Miss Burke properly launched. Then the eminent manager will turn to the completion of his work involved In the production of "The Laughing Husband." which lie has fixed for January 19. There will be nearly 100 players In the cast. 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