THE SUNDAY OREGONIA3T, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 8. 1914.
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MONTGOMERY AND STONE WITH MUSICAL FANTASY
AMONG MANY OFFERING NEW PLAYS IN NEW YORK
Warm "Welcome Is Given Comedians in "Chin Chin" Longacre Attraction, "Kick In," Is Story of Underworld Little Theater Abandons Highbrow
Productions for Farce, Princess Changes Programme and Harris Playhouse Passes to Managerial Control of Selwyn & Co.
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I'M New plays are coining; into Isew tho , whlch have heretofore ap-1 11 .
New York publisher handling- the num
ber la forcing; & retail charge of 30
centa a. copy for the aong, with a. prob
able sale of 1,000,000 copies in sight.
The English agent for the number,
one Feldman, who is well known in the
music trade, on this side, is said to
have thrown down his close American
business associates in placing "Tipper
ary" for America,
Whistling girls and crowing hens
may always come to some bad end. to
fulfill the old prophecy, but whistling
Belgians sometimes do not. - At least
there is one at Pantages who has land
ed right in the middle of a good Job
and a promise of more to follow. He
is Peter Vanaudenhaeye. and he's a
Belgian refugee. One day a few weeks
ago. Walker O'Loughlln, who haa noth
ing to do but work hard making car
toons and spend the rest of. the time
searching for inspiration, heard Peter
Vanaudenhaeye whistling gay little
melodies and "correct imitations" of
birds. Walker waxed curious, learned
that the man .was working in & lum
ber camp and could whistle anything
with a tune to It, and put in all the
fancy trills and vocal pyrotechnics
known to the world of whistlers. So
Walker Induced the Belgian with the
long name to try out a whistling act
at the Lyric on Amateur night. Al
ways on Tuesday night the Lyric has
an amateur night. The act took and
the crowd liked it well. So Walker
O'Loughlin chased up to see John
Johnson, the manager at Pantages. and
secure a hearing for his protegee.
The act went on to Pantages regular
bill last week and is given booking on
south. And Walker is so pleased. He
feels that he discovered a real act. And
he made a lot of pictures for the
whistler, fitted him out in native Bel
gian clothes, raade-ln-America and
from now on will be calling himself
a patron of the fine arts, although for
economical reasons alone Va.na.uden
haeye's name can never be put into an
electric sign. Walker says now he's
going to listen and discover a ventrllo
qulst or a juggling act. In which case
I shall recommend the death penalty.
' The report from London says that
stage folks have been declared Inelig
ible to application for participation in
the war relief funds being raised all
over the world. The ruling has been
the cause of bitter feeling, since the
players have een the biggest con
tributors to the fund through their
stage benefits.
While Charles Frohman is dicker
ing around trying- to get a new farce
for Richard Carle that actor is trying
out a vaudeville sketch. If he makes
good in it he says he'll stick with it
for the Winter.
After Mrs. Leslie Carter finishes be
ing filmed in California she says she
is going into vaudeville with a sketch
and announces herself as in the mar
ket for "one suited to her peculiar line
of talents." Someone might boil down
Zaza or take a few stitches in Sapho
for Airs. Carter.
Mabel Wilbur, ' of "Merry Widow"
memory, seems to have set &t. louis
by the ears. The prima donna made
her debut with the Park Opera Com
nanv in that city in "Mile. Modiste'
nd the critics liked her netter in me
role than Madam Scheff. and In com
paring the two in the papers give Miss
Wilbur the best of It.
The Salamander." dramatised from
Owen Johnson's novel by Selwyn &. Co.
has closed in New York, after one
feeble week.
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EW TORIC, Nov. 7. (Special.)
New plays are coming into New
York with a rush, and the va
rious producers express satisfaction
with the outlook, despite the fact that
Tip to date 117 more' or less well-known
road shows have "closed their seasons."
Probably the warmest welcome ex
tended to any of the new attractions
was accorded Montgomery and Stone,
wliu are back at their old home, the
Globe Theater, in a three-act musical
fantasy, entitled "Chin Chin." The plot!
of the piece is founded upon the story
of "Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp,"
which gives an opportunity for a Ions
succession of brilliant novelties. The
Ftars are the two slaves of the lamp.
They assume many disguises and
prove themselves to be as versatile
comedians as they ever were. Anne
Caldwell and R. H. Burnside collabo
rated on the book, while Ivan Caryll
Is responsible for most of the music.
The supporting company is more than
competent.
It is two years since Montgomery
anj Stone were last seen on Broad
way, and the "regulars" were glad to
welcome them back. Their last ap
pearance was with Elsie Janls in "The
Lady of the .Slipper."
Klcl In" la Behind Times.
The new attraction at the Longacre
Theater Is a year or so behind the
times. "Kick In" is a crook play, and
excellent of its kind. The underworld
lias, however, in its various manifesta
tions become comparatively familiar to
the public. Still Willard Mack must be
accorded credit for his skill in- pre-
seoting his fiction. Mr. Mack is not
only the' author of the play, but has
one of the leading roles.
"Kick In" is a melodrama in four
acts, with its scenes laid in the office
of a police commissioner, and in the
rooms of a pair of ex-convicts, who
are engaged in the customary and dif
ficult task of living straight. They
are faithful to two of their old friends,
who keep at their old trade. A dia
mond necklace disappears, the crooks
are suspected and their honest friends
are dragged to police headquarters and
put through the third degree in the
hope that they will reveal the hiding
place of the suspects. The commis
sioner threatens to tell the husband's
employer all about his criminal record
but this fails to have any effect, as
the employer knows it all the time.
So the first collision ends in the dis
comforture of the officers of the law.
Later, the stolen necklace is found
In the possession of the drug fiend
brother of the reformed crook's wife.
The police offer to drop the prosecution
If it is returned, and then break faith
by ordering the arrest of all con
cerned. It ends with the escape of the
aspiring young couple, who tell the
commissioner that the police acted In
bad faith by promising immunity and
then locking them up. So the commis
sioner relents, and their pathway is
ultimately smoothed.
In the main "Kick In" was well
acted. John Barrymore was most ef
ficient in the passages of comedy.
There he was himself, and it is as
himself that the public likes him most,
for his style in serious scenes lacks
variety. Jane Grey was a sympathetic
wife to the honest crook, and Jose
phine Victor scored in an emotional
scene of genuine passion.
Farce at Little Theater.
, The Little Theater, heretofore the
home of the highbrows, now shelters
a, diverting farce, "A Pair of Silk
Stockings," which had a long run in
London. It is not in the least like
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the plays which have heretofore ap
pealed to Director Ames, but there is,
after all, a certain quality to the piece
which is not common. It pictures fash
ionahie English life, the personages
speak the last word in Londonese, and
there is more or less distinguished
character about the entertainment.
Finally, It might be mentioned that
all of the players come from London.
The silk stockings that give the play
its title belong to a divorced wife, who
parts with them only to bind up a bur
glar, who turns out to be her husband,
who is trying to get an interview with
her so that he may urge her to return
to him. The wife, it appears, has come
to the country house at which he was
a guest with the same general idea in
view. To gain admission, she pretend
ed to be the victim of a motor accident.
but was not -cordially received. In the
first place she interrupted the rehear
sals for an amateur performance of
"Caste," which were in progress in a
humorous fashion when the curtain
first arose. Then she upset the family
in other ways. For example, she hap
pened to get the room of one of the
guests who had been called away, an
old lover of hers, now affianced to a
young girl, also at the house. The
husband decides to creep into her room
and hide until she appears. While he Is
concealed in a wardrobe the former
occupant of the- room returns. He has
missed his train, and to avoid disturb
ing the family, enters by the window.
Naturally he Is much surprised to find
his. former fiancee in bed. Then his
present betrothed arrives to apologize
to the lady for his rudeness. In the
meantime the husband - has been
dragged from the cupboard, and thrust
into the bathroom, bound with a pair of
his wife's silk stockings. This was all
amusing enoughs but it was the un-
ravelings of the threads In the last act
that kept the audiences in constant
laughter. The little play is full of
superficial brightness that suits well
the slice of modish life that it is in
tended to represent, its speeches are
witty, and the acting is exactly suited
to the play. Cyril Harcourt, the author,
has an important part, but M. Hamley
Clifford and Caroline Bayler took the
honors away from him. This is Miss
Bayler's first appearance in America,
but she made an instant hit.
Princess Changes Programme.
As the Little Theater was the home
of the highbrow play, so has the Prin
cess been the playhouse for "shockers.
Like the Little Theater, however, it has
changed its programme. In the new
bill there is nothing to shock the most
sensitive. Not only has sex been elim
inated from the scheme of the theater,
but with it has gone horror, which was
one of the emotions that this house,
like its predecessors in Paris, tried to
arouse.
The bill is composed' of five play
lets, of which "Phipps," by the late
Stanley Houghton, is the most intsr
esting. There is trouble between Sir
Gerald and his wife over money mat
ters, and it is arranged that he shall
strike her in the presence -of Phipps,
the butler,! so that she may get a di
vorce without trouble. The plan goes
wrong, however, for the butler gal
lantly goes to the aid or, as he sup
poses, beauty in distress, knocks his
employer down, and Sir Gerald is only
saved from further Injury. by the fren
zied entreaties of his wife. Phipps
suggests that there are better ways
of getting a divorce than by alleging
cruelty, tells Lady Fanny that he has
long and hopelessly loved her, and sug
gests that she fly with him. Then Sir
Gerald Intervenes, consents to give his
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ing it into play form the author has
adhered closely to the original story.
Miss Carroll McComas appeared in the
title role, and was supported by a well
selected company. Including Orme Cal
dera, Beverly Sitgreaves, Vivian Rush
more, Wilton Taylor and Suzanne
Morgan.
News Gossip of Plays and
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wife the pearls she wants if she will
make no further demands for six
months, she eagerly consents and the
butler is given his notice.
Holbrook Blinn still heads the Prin
cess company, and as in other years
he has surrounded himself with a com
petent staff of assistants.
Selwyn Co. Get Harris Theater.
The Harris Theater has passed to the
managerial control of Selwyn & Co.
This house in its comparatively short
career has had many changes of own
ershlp. It was opened as Lew Field's
Theater, after the long comedian Bep
arated from Joe Weber. Next it was
named the Hackett, and managed by
the actor of the same name. Next it
fell Into the hands of the Shuberts
and was taken over by Henry B. Harris.
The opening bill at the Harris is "The
Salamander," a dramatization of
Owen Johnson's popular novel of the
same name, which created widespread
discussion when originally published,
"The Salamander" is given in three
acts and an epilogue, and in convert-
' O read, the interviews with all the
abtors returning from foreign
parts you'd think they'd been engaged
for a thousand seasons ahead over
there. It's sad to read, in print about
all the grand Jobs they had. to let go.
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This from the Dramatic Mirror will
be of general theatrical interest:
Priscllla Knowles is soon to appear
in vaudeville In a sketch by Marlon
Short called "Easy Money," with Louts
Leon Hall as leading man. Miss
Knowles is an ex-Lyric stock actress
in Portland, and Mr. Hall was co-lead
ing man with Edward Woodruff at the
Baker last season. Dorothy Shoemaker
is Mrs. Louis Leon Hall.
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The only advantage I can see in these
shows advertising a cast of 100 persons
is that in event of a bad house half of
the cast can come in at the front door
as the audience. -
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Amy Gouraud, once Amy Crocker, of
San Francisco, and since then Amy
several other names, - and latest of all
The Princess Meskinoff, is a great "pal"
of Valeska Suratt'B, and is known in
New York as one of the regular first
nighters at theatrical productions and
a close friend to a lot of Broadway's
gayest thespians. She has lust re
turned from abroad and has resumed
her nocturnal wanderings in and about
Broadway. According to Town Topics,
the Princess, or Amy Gouraud, as she
once more prefers to call herself, is
wearing the happiest smile that has
graced her countenance in ages. Says
the story further, "Amy's most recent
matrimonial alliance, while now merely
academic, so to speak, is still legally
in force, but the law is taking, or is
about to take, its course. Although no
longer a slender youth by any means.
a well-known musician, for many years
accompanist to a celebrated prima don
na, who died a few months ago In
far distant land, is said to have com
pletely won the impressionable Amy
heart, and she has whispered to at least
one of her intimates that she is no
wholly averse to bestowing her jeweled
hand upon her attentive cavalier when
this shall be legally possible."
"Variety" relates that the jury which
disagreed as to the guilt of Mrs. Car
man, who was tried for the murder of
Mrs. Bailey, came perilously near pro
viding a sensational headline act for
Hammers tein's vaudeville house in New
York. Just previous to the announce
ment of the verdict, arrangements had
been settled for Mrs. Carman's appear
ance in vaudeville. When the jury
disagreed, Mrs. Carman s family calle
the proposition' off. Occasionally luck
falls our way, even in vaudeville.
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