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"ACTRESS WITH MANY
FACES" STARS AS SLAVEY
Jose Intropidi in "A Pair of Sixes" Runs Gamut of Expression From
Placidity to Wild Amusement, Surprise or Cringing Fear.
This Is the Record!
Oregon's greatest piano house sells
during October and out of the Broadway
and Alder St. establishment alone 198
pianos, player pianos, and other instru
ments, to the total amount of $86,590.50
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THE SUNDAY OREGON! A.N, PORTL-AND, ' NOVEMBER 8, 1914.
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NOT since the days of "A Knight
for a Day" when given the part
of the Slavey, Josie Intropidi
"walked away with the honors of the
play, has a role of that character at
tracted so much attention as "Coddles"
Is now doing In the hands of Miss In
tropidi In "A Pair of Sixes," which will
appear, at the Hellig Theater next Sun
day for four days.
Coddles is true to life literally, for
with all the painstaking care as to de
tails that a portrait painter gives to his
picture has Miss Intropidi studied her
model, an English cockney servant in
her own home right in New York
City, and has reproduced her exactly.
She even wears her shoes, the shoes .of
the slavey protype, patched, re-soled
and stuffed to fit the feet of the pres
ent incumbent, and she wears her
gown but the real triumph is in the
facile expression.
Never have the possibilities of
"changing one face", been more graph i.
cally demonstrated and Miss Intropidi
has been called "the woman with a
thousand faces."
"Without effort. Miss Intropidi runs
the gamut of expression from placidity
to wild amusement, then to surprise,
coupled with a sense of the ridiculous.
Laughter next, surprise again, then
tears and cringing fear.
The keynote of the characterization
is in the arrangement of the hail"
drawn smoothly back, it aids more than
anything else In producing that ex
pression of absolute simplicity Just a
trifle less than vacuity that proclaims
the type. After that. Miss . Intropidi
relies chiefly -upon her remarkably ver
satile set of features and without
grease paint contrives to create fur-
WAR STIRS TENOR
Evan Williams Says Twill Be
Calamity if Kaiser Wins.
QUEEN- ONCE HIS GUEST
Singer Born in Ohio of Welsh Par
ents Recites His Vps and Downs
iu Iilfe Dining Princess Mary
. .' of England. One Honor.
, BY JOSEPH M. QUENT1N.
"It seems to me that since my 10th
year I have done nearly everything in
life from digging In a ditch to refus
ing to dine with the Governor-General
of Canada. I also once had the honor
of escorting to lunch the lady who was
then Princess Mary, but who is now
Queen Mary of Great Britain."
The speaker was Evan Williams, the
celebrated tenor. "We had a pleasant
chat together yesterday in the Hotel
Benson. I knew Mr. Williams several
years ago (we'll let it go at that) when
I was an assistant usher at Massey
Hall, Toronto. Canada. . Williams isn't
much changed. He has the same cheery
voice and smile, his hair Is aa thick and
as dark as ever, and I should say that
the only change about him that I can
see Is -that - he has more acquaintance
with the acquired art of embonpoint.
He is as plump as a Jonathan apple.
"Mr. Williams," said I, "what's your
opinion about the war -to Europe? What
about the threatened Invasion of Great
Britain? I have read that you are a
Welshman "
"But. as a matter of fact. I am not
a Welshman. I was bora in Ohio, of
Welsh parents, and received nearly all
my education in the United States."
Ao German Flag tor Him.
"The Welsh people cut here have
adopted you then as one of their own,"
I interposed.
"God bless the Welsh. They are my
own people. But my personal inclina
tion was not consulted In the matter.
In nationality I am an American. Of
course. I have lived and have sung for
several years In England and Wales,
and I still keep up my correspondence
with my friends in the old country."
"Would you like to see the German
flag wave overWalesT"
"Never," said Williams, with explo
sive energy. "It would be a calamity
to the entire world If Germany won
this war. The world needs culture, and
culture coming from Germany Is smoth
ered in militarism. I admire the Ger
many of Schiller and Goethe, but not
the military Germany, where might is
right. The world cannot be won by
war and fighting and shedding of
blood. I prefer a world where civil
ization is. and that isn't where there
Is a nation in arms all the time.
Defensive Army Advocated.
"It is written In the stars that Ger
many can't win. Germany wants the
north coast of France, opposite Eng
land in other words, the Straits of
Dover I do not think that Germany,
even if she won Calais and so forth,
would invade England. But she could
then be a menace to England and -would
dominate trade in the EngllBh Chan
nel." "Do you, then, believe in a peace-at-any-price
policy?"
"No, sir."
"Do you believe, then. In any mili
tary education?"
"Of course," replied Williams. "For
National self-defense. Suppose, now,
that a foreign army started to Invade
America. I would at once enlist with
my three sons in any army Uncle Sam
would raise."
"I hear glowing reports of your ar
tistic singing at the present time," I
broke In, "but heard some years ago
that you had stopped singing in pub
lic." "I found that my voice needed rest."
explained Williams, "In those day I
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rows and crowsfeet at will. Her face
In repose is singularly free from even
a hint of lines, except the forehead.
The lines the audience sees there In the
slavey are natural. There is a bit of
make-up on each cheek, a smudge un
der the eyes to deepen the sockets and
the eyebrows are, "drabbed"; the rest
is due to the ability of a remarkably
clever character actress.
sang from the physical side, and suf
fered from throat trouble, so I went
into the woods In Ohio and figured the
matter out. I evolved a singing system
of my own, and came out. Not came
back but came out .all right.
"Do you believe in prohibition, Mr.
Williams? Oregon has voted that way."
"I do not believe In state prohibition,
because people In a state where pro
hibition reigns can't keep people in
wet' states from shipping liquor into
the aforesaid state. I believe In Na
tional prohibition."
"What made you refuse to dine with
the Governor-General of Canada?"
"The most matter-of-fact reason in
the world. I was singing in Ottawa,
Canada, when I received that invitation
to dine that night, and I had to
leave after the concert to "take a train
for a date at St. Louis. Mo. why, St.
Louis it was. I took the Princess Mary
to a buffet lunch at Dublin, Ireland.
Mr. Williams sings this afternoon at
the Heilig.
EVILS OF POTATO HABIT
Too Much Starchy Food Produces
Obesity and Auto-Intoxication.
Ida C. Bailey Allen In the Country
Gentleman.
"Tes, my boys always eat hearty, a
farmer's wife remarked, as I stepped
Into her kitchen one Summer noon.
"Fact is, I can't fill 'em up."
On the table was a bowl of steam-
lng cabbage, a dish of beets, another
of cucumbers, an enormous plate filled
with white bread, while the place of
honor was occupied with a great plat
ter of boiled potatoes; an apple pie
lurked in one corner. I looked surrep
titiously about. There was no meat
or any article that supplies protein in
sight only the table loaded with
starchy food. Frank ate seven potatoes
and ten slices of bread, while as for
Gus. I lost count.
"It certainly is queer," the mother
went on, "that in this air Frank has
headaches, but Gus is healthy enough;
just see how fat he is."
"And lazy, too," I inwardly remarked,
for he was overburdened with flesh.
Potatoes. three times a day, week in
and week out. fried and boiled and
fried again. Of course Frank suffered
with headache, for rebellious nature
was remonstrating against the potato
habit; of course Gus was fat and lazy,
for nature was kept bo busy disposing
of the excess starch that she finally
gave up In despair and let obesity and
auto-intoxication have their sway.
Potato eating has become a habit,
not because potatoes contain enough
nourishment to carry on life, but be
cause they are cheap, easy to prepare
and bulky enough to fill up the stom
ach. The potato consists almost en
tirely of starch, and though this has
a place in the diet, it is not capable
of building up strength and muscle.
Constant reference is made to the
hardihood of colonists and early set
tlers. They were not raised on a po
tato diet, for the potato was a luxury
as late as 1800, to be served with sugar,
nutmeg and mace. It Is a product of
more recent years, part and parcel of
the struggle to keep down the living
expense at the cost of the body.
This does not mean that potatoes
should be eliminated from the dietary,
for, like every other food, thev have a
definite mission to fulfill; but they
muBi do used witn discretion and in
proper combination. Excessive nse
brings an Inevitable trail of anemia,
obesity and auto-intoxication.
YEAR'S DIGGING OF COAL
Greater Than Total Excavation for
Panama Canal.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
It has been estimated that the
amount of coal hich will be dug out
of the ground in the United States dur
ing the present year will be greater by
far than the total excavation for the
Panama Canal.
Experts for the United States geolog
ical survey have estimated that origi
nally there -was enough coal in this
country to make a solid block 10 miles
long. 10 miles wide and 10 miles high.
A block of this size would weigh more
than 3,600,000,000,000 tons, and up to
the present time the coal that has been
removed amounts only to something
like 15,000,000,000 tons. The coal mined
v,.
Space does not permit us to furnish
names and addresses, but here Is the
list of Instruments and the value of
same actually sold by Eilers Music
House out of the big retail establish
ment at Broadway and Alder during the
month of October.
The list includes some of the most
costly and exclusive styles of pianos
ever shipped to Portland, namely: .
Five Autoplano Flayer Pianos,
valued at 4,550.00
Thirteen Bungalow Flayer
Pianos, -rained at 7,455.00
Eight Brewster Pianos, valued
at 3,473.00
Two Bash Jfc Oerts' Pianos,
valued at 960.00
Three Chickertng Baby Grands,
valued at 2,890.00
Seven Player Planoa de Lue,
valued at 7,175.00
Nine EUcif, professional
pianos, valued at 4,3G3.0O
Eight Ellen Orchestra Planoa,
valued at 3,155.00
F.nr miscellaneous, Clarendon,
Xlotmrt HI. Cable, Crown and
Jacob Doll 1,283.00
Ten miscellaneous, Estey, Far
rand Ceeellan, Foster, Ger
hard, Guilds and Gilbert
makes, valued at... 2,300.00
Eight Haddorff Virtuoso
Pianos, valaed at 3,050.00
Four Haselton hand - made
Pianos, valued at 1,8 0.00
Twenty-four Kimball Orient ' .
and Baby Grand Planes,
valued at ....... 9,700.00
Two Krell Autogrand Pianos,
valued at 1,385.00
Six miscellaneous, Knabc, Lud-
wis; and Lester, valued at . 2,450.00
Ten Marshall Jt Wendell, val
ued at 4,365.00
One Aeolian Orchestrelle, val
ued at . 630.00
Eight Pianola Pianos, valued
at B.760.0O
Nine Steger Pianos, valued at. 3,760.00
Twenty-one Smith & Barnes,
professional service up
rights, valued at 7,665.00
Two Story & Clark Pianos,
valued at 665.00
Seven miscellaneous, Voir, '
Weser Bros, Wellington
Weber, valued at 2,265.00
One Wurlltaer Band Organ,
valued at 490.00
Ten assorted Sunday School
and church Organs, valued
at 1,785.00
Sixteen miscellaneous used
Pianos, valued at
A total of 986,590 JM
All of these instruments were sold
to the thrifty, comfortably situated,
business-like men and women of this
city and vicinity.
Over $11,000 worth of the pianos in
this sale were bought outright for spot
cash, although each purchaser could
have taken advantage of the long time,
easy-payment plan offered by Eilers
Music House for the mere additional
simple Interest.
What does this indicate? When In
struments to the amount of nearly
during 1914 will amount to about 600,
000,000 tons, containing about 300,000,
000 cubic yards. The total excavation
for the Panama Canal from start to
finish Is computed at some 262,000,000
cublo yards. -
The comparison Indicates In a strik
ing way the extent of the coal mining
industry In the United States. The
output of coal Is enormous, bat it is
increasing year by year. The amount
of coal so far taken out is only a frac
tion of T cat remains, according to the
estlmat ,9 of the geologist. The people
of th ' country, however, are . nsing
more coal every year, and with the ex
haustion of some of tue European coal
fields already in sight, the foreign de
mand for American coal will increase
enormously.
The history of coal mining In the
United States covers only a period of
about a century. There was some min
ing of anthracite In Pennsylvania as
far back as 1790, but the records of
the anthracite coal trade usually begin
with the year 1820. Tie first actual
minlirg is believed to hav been In Vir
ginia, though the records of production
In that state date from 1822. The pres.
ence of coal In Ohio was discovered as
far back as 1756. but the record of out
put begins with 1837. The history of
coal mining . in Kentucky begins in
Manufacturers' Emergency and Surplus
sale combined with the slaughter of the
balance of the Soule Bros.' Failure, stock
all in hands of Ellsworth, Barnes & Davey,
the manufacturers' representatives, still in
progress. A list of makes that were sold
and a list of the many beautiful instru
ments still to be had
believeably low prices,
$100,000 are purchased in a single
month, and in the face of alleged busl
lness depression?
Doesn't This Indicate Prosperity
Does it not indicate most eloquently
that, after all, Portland is enjoying
abundant prosperity and that whenever
opportunity for advantageous invest
ment presents itself there is always
money aplenty in Portland and no real
bargain ever goes begging for a quick
buyer?
Of course, Eilers Music House, in the
present arrairgement with these seven
manufacturers who are conducting
this sale, created an opportunity
-never dreamed of heretofore, whereby
many houses - supplied themselves
with the great, modern essential, a
first-class piano or a modern player
piano... But so quick was the response
and seemlnglly never-ending that the
sale, which was to have continued for a
number of weeks longer, will no doubt
come to an end In very short order
now.
Shown Generouaness of Offer,' Too.
And last, but not - least, the great
sales record Indicates even more elo
quently than words can express the
well-founded faith which all citizens,
old-timers and newcomers alike, place
In the great old-established house'of
Eilers, as it also Indicates the genu
ineness of the advertisements and of
fers as they appear in the columns of
The Oregonian and Journal.
When the first announcement of the
Manufacturers' Emergency and Surplus
Sale was made Mr. Eilers over his sig
nature, stated:
"There have been many occasions
In the past whereby we were In posi
tion to offer the finest makes of
pianos at very substantial reductions.
But never heretofore has there been
such a combination of circumstances
that has made possible, or, let me
say, compelled, such low prices as
have now been arranged ' for retail
buyers in Portland by the factory
representatives, as stated la this an
nouncement. "Eilers Music House has been es
tablished and has grown great be
cause it solemnly assured positive
satisfaction to every purchaser, or
money back. The instruments in this
sale are our regular stock, nothing
reserved, and are offered upon this
same definite and binding agree
ment on our part. No - transaction
will be considered as complete un-.
less the purchaser is positively sat
isfied." Needless to say that every purchaser,
great or small, at Eilers Musio House
has found exactly what was advertised
Needless to say that every purchase
has meant satisfaction to the buyer,
and needless -to add that every pur
chaser hereafter, as in the many years
gone by, will find that Eilers Music
House carries out every offer and
agreement to the letter, even though,
as upon this present occasion, prices
have been reduced to so low a point
that actual profit-making is out of the
question.
Now is the time to supply the home
with a piano or a player piano, or a
baby grand, or a talking machine, and
the place is Eilers Music House, Eilers
building, Broadway at Alder.
1827, but in 1840 the production had
reached only 23,527 tons.
Kentucky's coai industry suffered
greatly during the Civil War. In 1860
the production had reached 285.760 tons,
but in 1864 it was under 2000 tons, and
in 1870 it was only 150,682 tons. Since
that time progress has been continuous
until last year a maximum output of
about 20,000,000 tons was reached.
Stamping Eggs.
(Fresno Herald.) '
While some dealers may have found
It beneficial to stamp eggs, for the
purpose of showing the prospective
customer the date on which they were
laid, it is doubtful that the practice
meets with the general approval of the
buyers.
First, the datemaker may or may not
stamp the exact date onSvhich the eggs
were laid. The stamp may be put on
a number of days after the laying,
when the eggs are received by the deal
er, or it may be put on even a number
of days after the dealer receives the
eggs, which means that the matter of
dating the eggs can be arranged to suit
the pleasure of the dealer.
Secondly, the average buyer who
wishes choice eggs and most buyers
do object to having the eggs defaced
at the almost un-
at
Broadway at Alder
as.
THE PRICE
THAT WAS.
The Soule Bros. .
and also the San
Franolsco and
other consign
ment branch
concern price.
Remember,
Nearly All Pianos
are new, not even shopworn, hut the
few that are used are In perfect and
guaranteed condition. All can be
had on Very easy payments. Take
20 or 30 or 40 months.
$650 Mission Wegman Piano now less than half. . .$316
$850 Lester Grand, latest style, almost half $437
$550 Kingsbury Inner Player Piano, latest 88-note
model $288
$575 Steinway, Ebony-Stained Case $237
And a Smaller-Sized Mahogany $185
$525 Hardman, Very Elaborate Case $188
$500 Largest-Sized Wtber Upright $196
$1150 Weber Pianola Piano, just like new, the best
and most expensive ever built by Webers $488
Many other slightly used Pianola Pianos, all with The
modist Metrostyle attachments, $380, $337, $285
$1050 Knabe Grand. , $472
$400 Emerson, think of it $188
$350 Vose and Sons, $108 Another . . .$124
$475 Estey, $165 Another $135
$275 Ludwig, $165 Another $146
$800 Melville Clark Player Piano $396
$600 Angelus Player Piano $225
$400 Hallet & Davis, fine for students "V$140
$500 Fischer, the genuine J & C Fischer, old New
York makers $122
$250 Cable Nelson make. : $ 72
$850 Player Piano, beautiful mahogany $310
$500 Weber Upright, genuine Weber made instrument.
Manufactured before the Steinway-Weber-Aeolian
Alliance. Now only $255
Another, shows usage $105
And many others, almost any make you can think of,
and all now to be had for less than Wholesale Prices.
Sale Now in Progress
Eilers Hisfliesfc
Open Evenings
Eilers Building, Broadway at Alder
WE ARE DOING IT! AT THE LAND SHOW!
by a stamp. Eggs thus marked do not
make the appeal to customers that they
are expected to make.
The fact that eggs for sale to private
buyers must appear as being fresh and
choice, stands clear, and the best way
In which to attain this appeal is for
the producer and the dealer to co-operate
in placing before the customers
eggs which fill these requirements. In
other words, the eggs should not be
offered unless they are such as are
likely to fill the bill.
In order that such eggs may be of
fered, the producer has his duty laid
out for his performance, as well as the
dealer. A great deal depends upon the
manner in which eggs are sorted, so
far as their making appeal is concerned.
This is a simple matter, however, which
the producer may attend to aa the eggs
come from the nests- About all there
is to It is for those of uniform color
and size to be put together. It Is the
producers' duty, also, to keep the roost
ers away from the laying hens; for it
Is a well-known fact that fertile eggs
will become unfit for use sooner than
unfertile ones will.
When the consumer has done his
duty, so far as he can, to place good,
wholesome eggs on the market, it Is
the dealers' duty to keep them as near
ly so as possible until sold; and If they
J 11 K PRICK
THAT IS.
The big bora,
piano house's
method
price. Now rosde
still lower dur
ing this sale.
Take Advantage of It
Open Evenings
are not sold before losing these quali
ties he has no right to sell them at all.
The producer must protect both the
consumer and the dealer by not holding
eggs long before placing them with the
dealer.
Price Changes of a Century.
' (Toledo Blade.)
A subscriber to the Weekly Blade,
living tn Pennsylvania, has sent us an
account of a daybook kept In 1814 by
one of his forebears, the keeper of a
general store In. Amity Township,
Berks County. From this daybook one
catches a glimpse not only of what 100
years ago It cost the Pennsylvania
citizen to live, but also a glimpse of
how he lived. For Instance, "with
nearly every bill of goods charged
would be attached one gallon f whis
ky, rum or brandy, price 25 cents."
Homes . were lighted with candles,
"costing anywhere from 37 cents to
87 '-4 cents a pound."
"Calico was 37 cents to 75 cents
per yard.
"Tea was $1 a pound.
"In one charge a man bought one
quarter of veal at 4 cents a pound.
"Eggs were never more than 10 cents
$285
3
Others, old style but good, $65, $45,
$25, two for $15.
l- SL " 7 -
. ?
$395 .sMpSj
The Greatest Piano Ever Sold in
the West The Manufacturers
Make the Low Prices Send for Il
lustrations and Catalogues.
per dozen, with 6 to 8 cents the com
moner price.
"Chickens, 12 to 18 cents apiece;
geese. 25 cents to 37 cents apiece. .
"Beef, 3 to 4 cents: wool, 10 cents
to 12 cents per pound; muslin, 50
cents per yard.
"The climax was reached in one
charge one bushel of salt, 116." '
We seem to have boxed the compass
in the matter of the costs of living.
One hundred years ago it was manu
factured goods and commodities
against which transportation costs
were charged which were high, food
that was cheap. Today factory prod
ucts are cheap, food dear. We wonder
If things ever will be so comfortably
arranged that food and manufactured
goods and commodities from far dis
tances will all be cheap.
Jnst One Thing After Another.
(New York World.)
Hub I've given up drinking, smok
ing and golf to please you. still you're
not satisfied. Now what else do you
want me to give up?
Wife Well, you might give up 350.
I need a new gown.
In the province of Shantung;. China Is
povuiauun 01 miriy minion on ax
of one-thlcd of the sue of California.