The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, September 20, 1914, SECTION FOUR, Image 47

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Newspaper Page TextTITE SUNDAY- OREO ONTATT. PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 20, 1914. 3 Chat and Gossip of Plays and Players By Leone Caaa Baer. , Whenever a. leading- woman falls to register a hit. If you ask her opinion you'll find out that the play -wras rotten., P. S. This Is true also of stars, male or female, and leading men. . According to a New Tork exchange, theatrical folk out of engagements through managerial -war scare are courting Cupid. An enterprising young man is selling copies of the Matrimonial News at 5 cents per on Broadway. Every night, the young man declares, he sells more than 100 copies, the buy ers ranging all the way from slim and slender chorus girls and -blase youths to corpulent gentlemen of middle age and women who have reached the stage where any sort of a marriage would be acceptable. And not the least of the buyers are theatrical folk, the young Cupid broker says, both men and women of the stage readily giving up a nickel to look over a long list of those who would give anywhere from $5000 to $50,000 to have someone lead them to the altar. The war is believed to be largely ac countable for this, artists who find themselves out of engagements owing to the timidity of managers, figuring that their forced vacation would not be at all badly spent if they could firmly attach themselves to a nice fat bank roll, especially if it is as large as many of those advertised In the love news papers. Apparently a rich husband or wife. Is rather to be chosen than a brief sea eon In the two-a-day. Also there Is always the court after the war is over. divorce Also it might prove that those who live on the bright white way lnvarl ably see clearest. And before we close the subject, you never can tell when even the vainest person alive may not decide that dally meal ticket Is better than press agent adulation. Patiently and without repining I am awaiting to be shown the first person to return from the war zone without having seen at least one or two spies stood up and shot down. Florence Roberts, of the Baker Play ers, says that her idea of the greatest tragedy of the times is when a soprano prima donna begins to develop a bass voice. Mary Edgett Baker, pressed Into con versation, says her idea of Time's trag edy is when baby blonde hair begins to turn dark at the roots. "A buffet has been opened by the Societies of Actors and Actresses in Paris for needy stage people, of whom there are thousands in Paris. Not a theater is open. Two meals a day will be given to any actor, actress or thea ter employe at the buffet." Dramatic Mirror. Seventeen children from the Isadora Duncan school in Paris came in to New York September 14, aboard the Finland, of the Bed Star Lane, bound from Liv erpool. Miss Duncan has turned her school building over as a Red Cross hospital. Her brother, Augustus Duncan, and his wire came over with the pupils, who, with the exception of Jean Tor rini, a French boy 8 years old, are all girls of several nationalities whose ages range from 7 to 19. Miss Duncan Is ill. said her brother, and will come on the next steamer from Enjrland. The Immigration inspectors sent the children to Ellis Island to await the action of the board of special inauirv. Appeals will be made to Washington and the children probably will be re leased. Mr. Duncan said his sister will establish a school in New Tork, as sev eral of the children, daughters of de pendent parents, are bound to her until they are 21 years old. v Fannie Ward, the actress, now play ing in "Madam President" at the Tre mont Theater, in Boston, Is the recip ient of a letter from the British War Office In which the English authorities formally accepted her offer of her two English homes as sheltering places for wounded British soldiers and sailors. Miss Ward, who Is an American girl, lias lived in London for some - years, and, with the coming of war, she cabled the British authorities at once, offering them the use of her two homes in case they were needed for hospital work.. The news has come that they had been accepted, and are being used to splendid advantage. The Winter home of Miss Ward is located in the exclu sive Berkeley Square, in London, and is a magnificent mansion of 20 rooms. A retinue of servants left in charge of the place has also been tendered the government at Miss Ward's expense. Already the dainty chambers have been transformed into hospital wards where the maimed and suffering soldiery of England is oeing cared for. Cot beds have been placed in the halls and corridors and, where formerly bril llant social events were held, a work of mercy is now going on night and -day. Directly across the street from the Ward home Is the home of the Marquis or Lansdowne. Miss Ward's ex-husband, Sam Lewis, the "diamond king," bought her the houses. Speaking of the higher cost of chorus girls, Flo Ziegfeld, Jr., says: "Every year I must search longer ana farther to ilnd precisely the type of girl I want. In the present 'Follies' I have but four New York girls. The rest hall from as far as Portland, Me., ana as lar west as Portland. Or." What 1 want to know now, who Is ane? News at last comes of Belva Morrell. for some weeks last season with the caKer flayers as ingenue, and hand! capped by being married to James Hester. Belva is getting all sorts of nice attentions paid her In the East where she is appearing with the S. T. King Amusement Company in "Kxcuse HEILIG THEATER Stoift& 4 NIGHTS TOMIf lAT bargain price: Beginning JL VillVjn X . MATI.EE W E 1. mm f T"?r. STv .Ut': Mm. mm rfL ..laTO ??rrefo m&mnl Evenings Lower Floor, $1.60; Balcony, 1, 75c, 60c; Gallery, 35-25- Bar gain Mat) Wed, $1, 75c, 50c, S5s, 25c 3 ESSE NEXT THURS., SEPT. 24 SZrn MATINEE SATURDAY Splendid Cast and Production dripping - Story of Love, Mystery, Heroism. , POPULAR EVENING PRICES Lower Floor, Jl: Balcony, 75-50c Gallery. 35-25c. BARGAIN PRICE MATINEE SATURDAY Entire Lower Floor, 50c; Entire Balcony, 25c MAIL, ORDERS NOW BOX OFFICE SALE ON TUESDAY NIGHTS BEGINNING SUNDAY, SEPT. 27 Bargain Price Matinee Wednesday Matinee Saturday WILLIAM ELLIOTT PRESENTS THE COMEDY KITTY -MacK AY The Love Story With a Laugh In Every Line. Evening and Saturday Mat., J1.50, $1, 75c, BOc, 35c, .25c. Wednesday Mat.. (1 to 25c. Mail orders received now. Box Office sale Friday, September 25. Me," the Pullman farce of two seasons ago. Miss Morrell plays the leading feminine role, and the Fittahurgr Leader last week gave her a column interview and a three-column picture. Florence Fisher has been engaged as the leading feminine support of Otis Skinner In "The Candle of Faith." Miss Fisher made a name for herself while in the support of Walker Whiteside in "The Typhoon." necessity of ' administering the drug under the proper conditions. Its ef ficacy is increased more than 100 per cent when the room is darkened and all is quiet. Perfect quiet is so necessary that I do not think the best results could be obtained in an ordinary hos pital. 'TWILIGHT SLEEP' STUDIED Woman Physician Calls 'ew Drug Boon to Mothers. NEW YORK, Sept. 13. The first American woman physician to study the "Twilight Sleep," as the painless method of childbirth brought to perfec tion by German physicians at Freiberg, Germany, is Dr. Elizabeth A. Bruyn, of 102 Lafferts place, Brooklyn, who returned from Europe recently on the American liner St- Paul. Dr. Bruyn brought back with her a small quan tity of scopolamin and narcophen, the two drugs used in the treatment. Dr. Bruyn, who Is an assistant in the medical division at the Williamsburg Hospital and Is connected with the Sal vation Army Hospital in Manhattan, is enthusiastic when she discusses the ultimate relief from pain which it will afford womankind. As" an Immediate result of her study of the method, she said, she probably will use the "Twi light Sleep" in many of her own cases. "It is a fact," she said, "that mothers are awakening every day at Frauen- klinik, and their faces wreathed with smiles of delight and surprise, are re ceiving into their arms babies that they actually had not known had come into the world. It was inspiring. I saw mothers'take their first exercises, prescribed for them on the evening of the first day after the baby's arrival The majority of the patients -are al lowed to leave for home on the sixth day after they become mothers. "One of the strange things I noticed was that after the third injection of the pain killing drug the average pa tlent was able to answer questions, but that these" answers seemed to be in te.lligent only as to events preceding the third injection. All that happened subsequently, until the effect of the drug had been spent, was a blank. "T can't lay too much stress on the Attractions Today Until Wednesday: "The Final Verdict" Thrilling Frontier Drama in Two Acts by the Majestic Players, Featuring Eagle Eye, the Indian Chief and Francelia Billington. The Emperor's Spy" Attempt ' of Spy to Steal Flans of American Fortifications. Thanhouser Drama. Fred Scholl - At the Great Organ. "The Rounders" Charles Chaplin and "Fatty" Ar buckle. Keystone Comedians, go out for a time. Mutual Weekly Latest War Pictures. TEN CENTS ADMISSION TEN CENTS i ypEOFILE JLL THEATER Where Only Paramount Pictures Are Shown. TODAY AND ALL WEEK IBoswoirfclhi OFFERS ssIBuaiPninig Daylight? BY Jack London! Being the adventures of Burning Daylight . in Alaska, showing how he won and lost fortunes and eventually made Eleven Million Dollars. Mr Hobart Bosworth in the Title Role. It is one of Mr. London's finest stories. NEXT WEEK , MARY PICKFORD "SUCH A LITTLE QUEEN." 1 Continuous Perf ormance Today from IsSO P. M. to 11 i30 p. M. Unequaled Vaudeville-Broadway at Alder Street Week Commencing Monday Matinee, Sept. 21 M A T P I O N P E U E L A D R A - 1 5 L ? Yc 2 E : S 3 0 Fascinating: atria a-plenty, atunnlnsrly roa turned, and catchy alra that act one tingling;, PONY MOORE And company presenting; a musical tabloid, Tke Jolly Tara" - LOVE AND WILBUR A Plying Meteor and Aerial Venus GILBERT GIRARD who mimics animals and musical Instruments COOGAN AND COX Sources of volcanic merriment NOVELTY QTJARTET Comedians, singers and instrumentalists . SPECIAL ADDED ATTltACTIOX Winsch. and Poore -..! Comedy Sketch, SO TRESPASSING" UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD WAR SERVICE "Presenting New Every Day Authentic Pictures From the Front MUTUAL WEEKLY Tho World's War News in Motion Pictures c Boxes A lat Row Balcony Seats Reaerved by Phone, Main 463B. A 2238 MAN KILLS PET AND SELF Jobless Philadelphia Commits Sui cide ' by Dog's Grave. PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 13. Carl Katz," 65 years old. of Forty-second street and Westfield avenue, Pensau ken Township. Camden County, while standing over the grave of a pet dog, shot himself In the head. He died while being taken to Cooper Hospital. Katz, it was said, became despondent because of lack of employment. He had a room In the Forty-second street house, where he lived alone, except for his dog. which was his companion. According to neighbors, he left the house suppos edly to take a walk. When he re turned he told friends that he had killed the dog because he intended to (5 . Home of the Favorite Players THEATER 11 A..M. to IIP. M. 1 Sunday, Monday, Tuesday PRESENTS The Plum Tree The first of a series of complete mystery dramas to be released in conjunction with the short story published in The Ladles' World. Featuring Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne A Vitagraph Special Politics and the Press A strong" and powerful story of love, politics and graft. ' Featuring Norma Talmadge and Van Dyke Brooke - A Comedy of Interest "The Wrong Flat With Miss Naomi Childers and Darwin Karr. SPECIAL SPECIAL SPECIAL Portland Day at Vancouver Ronnd-Up, showing all important con tests, riding, roping, etc. FIRST TIME SHOWN lOc - Admission -1 Oc fSSSTTT fllt BROADWAY AT YAMHILL Week Beginning Monday Afternoon, Sept. 2 1 VAUDEVILLE'S YOUNGEST STAR Eva Prout " Miniature Vesta Tilley" IX SOXGS, NEW DANCES AXD IMPERSONATIONS . Dora Deane and HerFancyFantoms W o r I d ' Best-Known Collection of Colored Entertainers CONTINUOUS Afternoons 1:30 to 5:30 Nights . . 5:30 to 11:00 Sundays . 1:00 to 11:00 SENATOR FRANCIS MURPHY "The German Orator" "The Gloom Deatrayen" Irwin and Herzog In Sonars and Original Nonaenaet - Mr. and Mrs. David Elwyn sad Company In HnpTrwalna; ttie Prens, Whirlwind Comedy bltetelL. Just Bade From "World Tour Fmk Bob Laypo and Benjamin Tta Hebrew Acrobat and the Etonian FIVE REELS OF FIRST-RCN PHOio-ptArs taaBBaaBBBaaBBBBBBBaBBBBBBBaBaBBBBaBaBBBBBBBBBBaBaBBaaBBaBBBBBBBBaBBaBBaBBBBaaBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBaaaaai ' t , kill himself and could not bear tho thought of the animal falling into strange hands. Nothing was thought of the threat to kill himself at the time. He was seen to leave tho house early In the afternoon and go to the place where he burled the dog. According t witnesses he picked up some wild flowers and placed them on the grave of the animal. He then placed a. re volver to his head and shot himtielf. THEATER Phones i Mala 2, A B3tO Broadway and Morrison GEO. L BAKER, Mgr. Home of Portland's Famous Baker Theater Players Commencing Matinee TODAY, Sunday, Sept 20, 1914 . The Great New Tork Gaiety Theater Success top Tlhieff mi.m.ii.i 1 1 1 xk. i iw.i.m.i " i.i t . ..' .-r. ' - a Mary Edgett Baker. By Carlyle Moore A farce of the bright est magnitude one of the liveliest en tanglements of kleptomaniacs, crooks, cops and other people ever written Thrilling at times, swift in action, and funny every second Full strength of the popular Baker cast augmented Stage under direction of Thomas Coffin Cooke. Erenlnar Prleea, 2Se, 35c, BOs 7Se. Box 91 Sunday and Sat. Mat, 2Sc, KOc. Box 75c - Speelal Weekly Bargain Performances yiy. All Seats 25c .YJES Except Boxes . Kext Week THE FAMILY CTJPBOARO BASEBALL RECREATION PARK. Cor. Vaughn and Twenty-fourth Sta. VENICE vs. PORTLAND ' SEPTEMBER 15, 16. 17, 18, 19, SO. Games Begin Weekdays at 3 P. M. Sundays, 2t30 P. M. Ladles' Days Wednesday and Friday. OregonStateFair SALEM. SEPT. 28 to OCT. 3. 1914. Every day a feature. Reduced rates on all lines. For informa tion address Frank Meredith. Secretary. GLOBE THEATER Eleventh and "Washington Sts. . SPECIAL PROGRAMME SUN DAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY TWO PART MYSTERY In Sheep's Clothing By Louis Joseph Vance. An intensely interesting picture from start to finish. VITAGRAPH DRAMA The Reward of Thrift IN TWO PARTS A Story of Today. HEARST- SELIG Pictorial News The latest pictorials obtainable, showing the happenings of the World Eefore Your Eyes. 1 Oc -ALWAYS -lOc 10c TODAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY Offers an Extraordinary List of Attractions s talemate SEVENTH TWO-PART CHAPTER OF THE 10c 99 99 "Trey 0' Hearts The Great Modern Problem Photo Play Drama by Lou la Joseph Vance. Trie Animated Weekly Showing our Boy Mayor in Southern California, all the late. war news and other top ical events. "Dear Hunting" An extremely superior comedy The Man Who Was Misunderstood. A Two-Part Kins Bag-got Drama. COMING NEXT WEDNESDAY FOR 4 DAYS JESSE I L.ASKY OFFERS EDWARD ABLES IV "THE MAKING OF BOBBY BURNET" By Wlnchell Smith, Author of "Brewster's Millions." i-'oorth and Stark Sa THEATER Koorth and Stark Sta PflRTLAKVS OMV HOMK OF REAL MI'SICAL COMEOV CATKK1.U SPECIAL!. Y TO LADIES A J 1 CHILDREX Week Commencing With Matinee Today The Popular Lyric Musical Comedy Co. presents Kelley and Carter in I lie asey I wins A rip-roaring', side-splitting burlesque. One long, continuous laugh. Tuesday Night "Country Store" after first performance. Friday Night Chorus Girls' contest. Always a feature. "Isch-Ga-Bihhle" Night Coming soon. Extra Next Week -The Great Adams, horoscope reader. Matinee daily at 2:30: evenings, continuous from 7:30. Guns that automatically load themselves wltli acetylene- gam and discharge them Felvea to sound foe- signals have been In vented by a Scotchman, the mechanlum being set In operation by wtreleaa wave from a central station,. After 11 yean' experiment Inr a Ne braska electrician has Invented a. device to enable u. user of a party telephone line to know if any other aubscriber on the line la listening to his conversation und to identify, the offender, ,