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TTTE SUNDAY OREGOMAX. PORTLAND. JAXTTARY 17, 1915. News Gossip fo Plays and and Players Edited by Leon Cms Baer. FRITZI SCHEPP, the always Incom parable, and always also the only real little devil of grand opera, is legally "broke" In St. Louis, following the filing of two more attachments yesterday against her by Henri BendeJ. jiew York, costumer. for Judgment of (710.63 on a 2800 costume bilL - All her clothes were attached, except the "nightie" she was wearing in bed, and any salary that may be due her was at tached at the Shubert Theater and any funds she might have in her hotel safe. A reporter who was "in" on her plight wrote of it as follows: "Nor is she technically free to wan der about unless of course in the lone nightie' allowed her for in the outer room of her three-room euite sits Dep uty Sheriff Martin A. Meyer, six feet two, and good natured. but. as he told the actress, firm.' "Fritzi declares she will stay in bed until they release her and she won t pay the bill. The costumes were not satisfactory, that's all," she said. Harry Frazier has" left the Baker Players In Spokane to go to San Fran cisco. Clyde Waddell has taken his place. ... Richard Vivian has Joined the stock company at the Grand Theater in Sac ramento. A group of co-actresses having tea with Florence Roberts in her apart ments were discussing a sisters actress. ... -. i i . viniftrfnl nawer.' DUB UD HIWO w. r ' observed Mary Edgett Baker, "she can make you feel warm or cold, happy or sad, she "y "Is that all," Miss Roberts inquired. "Well, then, she has nothing on our Janitor." . In the cast supporting Henry Miller In "Daddy Long Legs." now in Califor . nia, is Lucia Moore, once a Baker play er. This delightful comedy is moving Portlandward. - Jane Peyton is suing Guy Bates Post, star of "Omar," for a divorce. She is going to marry Mr. Post again some time, but she must divorce him first hecause It seems she forgot she was the wife of Arthur Weld when she became Mrs. Post. A lot of wives I know would give a great deal for a forgettery like Mrs. Post's or Is It Mrs. Weld's? . -. May Irwin has a new vaudeville skit called "She Just 'Wouldn't." Clara Blandick, who has been in Miss Irwin's company for a dozen years, wrote the sketch. At its tryout at the Majestic Theater in Chicago the piece went like wildfire and Miss Irwin will appear In It the rest of the Winter. Joe Weich, comedian. Is to be viewed In cinematographic art shortly. He is to portray the leading role In the f 11m ization of Hal Reid's famous book. "The Lock No. 176." . Peggy True. a Seattle girl, still In her 20s. has had her first sketch ac cepted and put on the Marcus Loew Empress circuit. The sketch Is dra matic, an exposition of Juvenile court methods and is called "The Man Beast." . In the World's Fair Stock Company at San Diego, headed by Virginia Brls xac, is Gene (now Jeanette) Tarbor ough, once of Seattle stock. . Mabel Perry, who won her fame as the model for Sculptor itupert scnmia s statue of the perfect California girl at the World's Fair, is going Into vau deville. Miss Perry posed for the statutesque young woman seated on a grizzly bear, driving Mr. Bruin by a garland of flowers held in his teeth. This statute is seen In the California building and forms a permanent feature of California exhibits. Miss Perry first attracted attention when In a musical comedy company. She has appeared in classic dances, in singles and in song numbers. Her teammate will be Irene Rose, in her double act, for which negotiations with '.nildvjlla ti ana irn ra a r tx nnvf In progress. Holbrook Blinn makes his debut In vaudeville today at the Palace The ater in New York. He will use a play let by George Ade called "Nettie." ... Margaret Illington is appearing in The Lie" by Henry Arthur Jones, and playing to capacity houses at the Har ris Theater in New York. NEWS OF THE THEATERS (Continued fr'rom Page-2.) terested in clothes, from one standpoint or .another. Miss Harley has in Kenlously woven the story of clothes from the time of Eve to the present into a unique entertainment, full of wit, wisdom and humor, which, with the building of French models, char coal sketches, a succession of fardin gales. hoop skirts, crinolines, bustles and her appearance in her own beauti ful and original costumes rounds out an evening of laughter and of instruc tion. Miss Harley holds firmly to the opinion that a woman isn't formed like a mermaid, but has two legs, so she has made her costumes of bifurcated construction instead of hobbling her self with the present-day skirt. Those who have seen these costumes declare them to be wonderfully beau tiful, along with the added advantage of affording freedom of movement and comfort. "BIG JIM GARRITY" IS COJItVG Story in Flaj Sue at Baker Deals With Gangster and Convict. Manager George L. Baker announces the first production in this city of "Big Jim Garrity," the modern melodrama, in which John Mason starred in New York. It will open at the Baker neit Sunday matinee. The scenes of "Big Jim Garrity" are laid in the town of Glenville. Cal., and revolve around the person of a man coins by the name of John Dexter, rich and respected, but who is really an es caped convict Jrora San Quentin, hav ing served but one of a 20-year sen tence for murder. He has been out many years and no one knows his identity, but the plot concerns the scheme for revenge on the part of an mid prison pal, now known as Dr. Malone. Malone is at the head of a gang of thieves and also has been acting as Mrs. Dexter's physician. He has made of her a victim to morphine, and one lay while he has her drugged, he suc ceeds in robbing the Dexter safe of a large sum of money and fixing the blame on Jack, Dextefs son. This Incident discloses who Dexter really is ami leads to his being put under arrest. He escapes again, however, and. go ing to Dr. Malone's office in the night, there ensues a thrilling scene which ends In Dexter's shooting Malone. who ronf-sses that he and not Garrity is guilty of the murder long ago. There is -a pretty love story running through the plar. all of which ends happily aftro the exciting incidents of the four acts. Artisan Lodges Install. Fram Assembly No. 121. United Artisans, installed their officers on Tuesdav. January 5. in their hall in the Seiling-Hirseh building with six other assemblies. Oregon No. 1. Port- A Great Event! A Combination Without Parallel ! AImaGluckIEfremZimbalist 'My True Successor." lime. Sembrich. A Great Violinist HEILIG THEATER ' . Thursday Night, February 11th " i Seat Sale Feb. 9 ' Prices-Floor, $2.50, $2; Balcony, $2, $1.50, $1; Gaflery, Roserced $1, admission 75c Mail Orders Received Now ORDERS will be filed and filled lnHhe order of their receipt, before the regular seat sale opens, if accompanied by check and self-addressed, stamped envelope, sent to Steers & Coman, Columbia Building. . land "No. 2. University Park No. 8. Multnomah No. 5. Alberta No. 48 ana Piedmont Ko., 458. It was one of the largest affairs of the kind that has ever been attempted in the history -of the . .4 - mvA than Ai ut hpiner nresent. Dr. Echolnran, supreme medical direc tor, was the Installing onicer. C- E. Jnnnson. master Artisan, wim the rest of the officers of Fram as sembly, presided. The drill work was nut on by the Sellwood drill team and much credit is due the instructor, Mr. Walstrom, in handling- the may in coming officers, there being as many as 70 on the ffoor at one time. The even ing was closed with ' dancing and re PORTLAND PARALYZED BY COLD IS RECALLED Albert R. Greene Remembers Winter 30 Years Ago When City Was . Isolated by Snow, Trains Stopped and Lights Out. A BY ALBERT R. GREENE. PROPOS of the recent cold snap which was reported in a late issue of The Oregonlan as the severest since the Winter of 1884-5, I am impelled to recall some of the In cidents of that memorable weather freak of SO years ago. I came down from The Dalles on the last boat ot the season and as the transfer was made from the boat to the portage road at the head of the Cascades, the passen gers felt in a stiff down-stream wind a precursor of the coming storm. The next morning the Willamette was frozen over, the streets of Port land blocked with snow, streetcars stalled, water mains broken, gas cut off, wires down and a gale that would have done credit to the reputation of North Dakota sweeping the city. -The whole community was relegated over night to primitive conditions, including the use of hand lamps and candles in public as well as private houses. At the docks there was nothing mov ing except that one agent was prepar ing to send out a boat provided it could first break through the ice and get in. River traffic in all directions, was paralyzed. There were no mails in or out and this condition continued for two weeks in the metropolis of a great state, which was as completely isolated and helpless as it the Arctic zone had been moved down and enveloped it. We may laugh it off now but It was a serious matter then. Money Lous Overdue. It was especially serious to me for this stress of weather found me 2000 miles from home and among total strangers with less than a week's board in my pocket! I was expecting a re mittance by the next overland train but it got no nearer than Viento and that train and several others ran into the drifts there and could neither go ahead nor back out. At the telegraph office they told me it would take a week in the gale that was blowing to ret a line open to the ast. ine rail road officials sent out hundreds of men to shovel snow, but as they said. it was throwing money away to sat isfy public clamor. It was the same way about clearing the Btreets, the authorities kept a force of men at NOTED SINGER TO APPEAR AT ORPUEIH THIS WEEK. I ; ' 4 - - 1 V ! - i jr . J x - 4 H V- ! 'vf 3 Sm I -ifcii -I- t ' V- f t : -0' I : v v ''''s. 4 r v ti ftC nr- 5 ' -v s K Madame Jeanne JomelLL Through special arrangements completed yesterday Madame Jeanne Jomelli will appear at the Urpheum for five days- of the week, beginning today. The pos sessor of a voice so superior to most public singers that Madame Jomelli ranks among the few really great singers of the world, musical Portland began to realize during the closing, days of the . past week that they were missing one of the great treats of a life time. Today, tomorrow, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday Madame Jomelli will render re pertoires of popular numbers, in cluding "The Last Rose of Sum mer," "Home Sweet Home" -and "Annie Laurie." work but the snow was unusually dry and the wind drifted it back as fast as it was thrown out. But the attempt was necessary to meet the demands of the citizens; and every effort was Jus tified in the interests of business. Meantime all sorts of shifts and de vices were invoked to keep the wants of the people supplied. The use . of horses for any purpose was impracti cable. Persons who were compelled to go, walked or . rather floundered through the snow. Deliveries of goods were made on hand sleds or upon the backs of men hired for the purpose at enormous wages. The police were kept busy hunting lost children ana tne sta tion was besieged by frantic parents In auest of their little ones. It was not an uncommon thing for several .mem bers of a family to be out hunting for each other as one after another would fail to return, until finally the police would round them all up at headquar ters. At night the city was as dark as the primeval forest in which It once stood. An occasional lantern gave a ray of flickering light through the snow-laden air and hall lamps shed varl-colored and uncertain light down the steps of stormbound homes, bat all else was thick darkness. Gradually, as the wind abated, the snow was beaten down and in the denser parts of the city there were signs of returning life. Then the spirits of the people revived and they began to take conditions philosophically. At the hotel where I had succeeded In es tablishing credit, a theatrical company were stopping and I dare say if any members bf that company are living today they recall the vicissitudes of that fortnight among the most strenu ous experiences of their lives. I do not remember the name of the company nor of the plays they presented, but 1 do remember the fun we all had. At the suggestion of the landlord the dining-room was used for rehearsals and through the courtesy of the man ager . the guests were invited to be present every afternoon. As soon as luncheon was over the room was cleared and the disturbance began. The tables were ranged along the walls and surmounted with chairs for "boxes," for-the chief clerk and a ticket scalper, who "sported" the biggest diamonds on the Job, while the part of the open floor not needed by the players was divided up into "parquet," "dress cir cle," r'gallery," and so forth. The doors, windows and other places where the landlord and "help" could obtain sur reptitious glances of what was going on, was called the "loft," but they were all on a level, except that it did seem to me the spot cash guests were some times given a preference of places over those of us whose financial assets were still over the range. To those of us who had been accustomed to see play ers in their "glad rags," and with the accessories of gay scenery, music and paint, the effect of a lot of ordinary- HEILIG THEATER Broadway at Tayler Phones: Main 1 and A 1122. SPECIAL PRICE) MATINEE WEDNESDAY. 4 S TOMORROW (Monday) CURTAIN RISES AT 8:05 PROMPTLY MONDAY NIGHT. Forbes-Robertsons Farewell MONDAY NIGHT XT JiTT TT WEDNESDAY MATINEE JTX JtSl. 1VX 1 JLL J. Ir The Light That Failed SESDArThe Passing At Third Floor Back- Evenings: Lower Floor. 2; last 3 rows. 11.50. Balcony. 5 rows, 1.50; ; 4 rows, ti: 6 rows. 75c; 8 rows, 50c. Gallery, reserved 7dc; admission 50c. Special Price Wednesday Matinee: Entire Lower Floor. fl.aO. Balconj, 9 rows, l; 5 rows, 75c; 8 rows, 60c Entire Gallery, aOc - j MAIL ORDERS NOW BOX OFFICE SALE NOW OPEN. Address letters, make checks and money orders to W. T. Pangle. Inclose self-addressed stamped envelope: help insure safe return. REMEMBER EARLY CIRTAIJi , moni.avn.oht pjijE HARLEY cFaaXI IN HEB XOVEl4 EJTTERTAIXMENT "The Irony or fashion" 25 PRICES 1.00 to 25c SEAT SALE FRL, JAN 33 TUESDAY WEDNESDAY 1 to 6 P. M. 15 Jan. 26, 27 POPULAR PRICES CONTINUOUS 1 TO 11 P. M. 6 to 11 P. M. 25 In Motion , in fllOllO Oregon and Uregonians Royal Rosarians' tour Portland to San Diego; scenes along Columbia tllgnway; Local current nveuw. AAA V 171 EVER EXHIBITED 6000 feet rilltl in Portland MOST INTERESTING SKSJSS Mult and Jeff in Mexico t 1-: - .anni. in nrtlinarv dress, caper ing up and down that dining-room in the pranks of the time of King Arthur's court and spouting the dialogue in a vernacular more toploftical than Intel ligible, was, to say tne leasi, uivomus Kerosene Llehta Used. At night we all tramped through the snow to the opera-house to see the same thing over again, only more spec tacularly presented, for the togs and things .were all on them. As the gas was out of commission kerosene lamps were substituted, which rather im paired the illusion of the scenes. But it was always a good-natured audience that came, and hit or miss, there was no lack of appreciation. I remember a long-drawn-out death scene that was meant to be fetching, being turned into a Jubilee of fun by the confusion of the supe wno nanaieu .w-.'- He skipped along and turned the lamps uo Instead of down, when "In the dark f th. midnlKht hour" Death stalked in, draped in a bedsheet and a glassy stare and beckoned the victim who like the audience, was convulsed with laughter. In this way the days and nights wore along. Business was gradually resum ing its normal stage. One railroad had opened its line for 20 miles and tho other had run down a school chim and two section men and thrown an engine in the aitcn. xne nure, i cuperated by his long rest, had been hitched to the car and traffic was re sumed on that line. The mails had been sent out somehow to the rear and detoured by Denver and San Francisco and were coming up the waterway on the old Oregon, who finally reached port by breaking through the Ice in the "Willamette while the boys skated alongside as a convoy. Thus the old year went out and the new year came and then one night when the city went to bed with a Wintry prospect all around and piles of snow up to the windows in many places, a welcome Chinook came and in the morning the snow was gone and foruana was nor. self again. TIME IS GIVEN ENTIRE WORLD BY WIRELESS Correct Information Is Flashed Twice Daily From United States Station at Washington and Also From Paris. BT J. B. JONES. EVERT day at noon the correct time is sent out over all the telegraph wires In the country from the Na tional Observatory at Washington, and the telegraph instruments click and the great time balls fall upon the instant of noonday. The recent development of wireless has been utilized, and at 10 o'clock each night the meqhanism at the National Observatory tells the time . . . ; c nH tn whins at sea. It was little more than a year ago that the receiving apparatus at the great Government wireless station at Arling ton across the Potomac at Washington, heard a regular click, click. It was as regular as clock work, and they com nred it with the beats of the Wash ington clock. In fact, the clicking of the instrument was me its.o the move of the pendulum of a clock, , ii, aiat miles away and a great sea heaved between. The men at Arlington we '-"'"e. -tick of a clock at Paris. On that November night was marked the project of practical instantaneous transmission of standard time. The . a h.iDMn the National lesi iwuuubicu " -- - Observatory and the Paris Observatory has demonstratea mat iBi'" . . . i 1 lntn.B at a cnMI Of transmitted uy wncic. . - approximately 175,000 miles a second. or siigntiy biu" 1 -- . , .T.i ifij-ina. of the Instrument llgni- A 3 - on that November night a year ago was tangible eviaence ot me "hooking up" of a part of a project, i J i . tn Its i-nnr-Pnlinit for Send- wonu-iw w. -, ing the time to navigators, exployers. surveyors ana jcweiers whcic.o. may happen to be upon the. surface of the globe. ' If ever another Stanley is lost In Africa, or another Scott stranded on me AlUmvilb . - " --- eluded a wireless In his luggage, he can gpet into coramumwvwu " outside world. No one dares say that this is an impossibility. Delegates of the International Con ference of the Hour, including the L'HILCU Owl" -" ' " assembled at Paris and signed an agree ment to oe presemeu loimiiiuH . the countries represented for the es tablishment of a standard time for the world and the naming of Paris as a point from which Greenwich time was to be distributed. Some months ago the official clocks of Paris, by prearrange ment, were stopped and reset at Green wich time. The signals were to be sent out by means of the radio apparatus on the Eiffel Tower every day at 10 A.' M. and at midnight Other stations Were to assist in the distribution, other hours, which will not interfere, having been selected for, signals from tnese. For instance, the Naval Observatory at Washington, the first, by the way, to send out time signals, does so at noon and at 10 P. M-. and hours which will not conflict have been named for the observatories at Manila, Mogadas cio, Somali Coast, Africa; San Fer nando, Brazil; Tlmbuctoo, Africa; Nord deich, Germany; Massonah, Africa, and San Francisco. In this way marines on all of the seven seas will be fur nished with the correct time of day in the part of the world in which their bark may be cleaving the waves. To the mariner the exactness or in exactness of his knowledge may be all the difference between life and death, the loss of his ship and safe entrance to the "harbor of his destina tion. In sailing his ship the master relies on his chronometer to tell him how far east or west of the longitude of Greenwich, England, may be. Set at Greenwich time when he sails away from port, each day, when he takes the sun when it crosses the meridian, through comparison he is enabled to tell his longitude with exactness. Should his chronometer run slow or fast, he would err in his calculations, and, without knowledge of the fact, be so far out of his course as to be in danger should he be in the neighbor hood of the coast. It Is said that an error of one second in a calculation made at sea would place a ship a thou sand feet out of its true position. That is one of the great and significant re sults of the accomplishment of the feat of sending a clock tick across the ocean to the American shore. Wherever on the lonesome sea the mariner may be, if his ship Is equipped with wireless apparatus he can secure Greenwich time to the fraction of a second, and note the variation, if any, in his chronometer. This correction he can - make every -day. Thus he Is as sured of his exact position when he makes his daily observation. Movins-pleture men have followed StAn ley's footsteps through Africa. (ft Phones h&o atSt5Skay V 1305MatineeSeatsal25c Week Commencing Matinee Today, Jan. 17 JJJJ 1 MR. A0,MR. H ARMSTRONG'S B DOUGLAS J 'Woman Proposes I CRANE I with : I . H Fcran Pertlaadera RUTH ALLEN . . n AK.KhtP,oc... g In Thw JJancc MILT COLLINS RAE ELEANOR BALL Monologlst VIollnLt BRENNER & WHEELER NEWH0USE,SNYDER&CO C"fJr Comedy ST0lii EL9HES MOVING PICTURES . Tonight, Last Appearance of Madame Jomelli j yniP ,T H EATER Lt I 4th and Stark St. Portland's Popular Price Family Playhouse. EXTRA DOUBLE ADDED ATTRACTION Week Commencing Monday Matinee, Jan. 18 SIMPSON'S COMEDY MULE lvomikal Katcua in "Please Tip the Walter" and ISELI'S GOAT CIRCUS An act that commences Where otners leave off In conjunction with the Popular Lyric Musical Comedy Co. IZZY the PRINCE Regular Lyric Schedule of Shows NO RAISE IS( PRICES Because of the . Tremendous Enthusiasm With Which Portlanders Have Received This Great Singer Madame Jeanne Jomelli Has Been Secured as a Special Added Attraction for TODAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY Of This Week at the Oirpheoon Singing the Classics and Songs of the Hearthstone. Have You Heard Jomelli Sing "The Last Rose of Summer?" Matinee Prices as Usual, 15, 23 and 50 Cents. Night Prices as Usual, 15, 23, 50 and 73 Cents. THEATER Phonest Main A 5.160 Broadway and Morrison GEO. L BAKER, Mgr. Home of Portland's Famous Baker Players Commencing Sunday Matinee, TODAY, Jan. 17, 1915 3 i - j ! Owen Wister's Wonderful Western Play THE VIRGINIAN As played with great success by Dustin Far num. Drainatized from the widely read novel. A vivid and thrilling story, of Wyoming's cat- itAi K-C4a tie land of 30 years ago. Immense cast and production. Beautiful scenic effects. Staged Robert CleeUer Plays v The Virginian." under direction of Walter B. Gilbert. - Evening Prices 25c, 50c, 75c Box Seats, $1.00 Sunday and Saturday Matinees 25c 50c Box, 75c ' Two Special Bargain Performance V -jKSiy Any Seat (ESS?) 25 Cents W7H SEIT"WEKK BIG JIM GARRITY (First time In tne Wnt) '31 . jai'iiiiirihV W'l'iin'- ' - ,r -Hi I 1 ffghS00!18. Is'iic BROADWAY AT YAMHILL Week Commencing Monday Matinee, Jan. IS KO. W. CALLAHAN FRESKSH LOVE ma Sanitarium Pretty Girls Clever Comedians Catchy Melodies I purcella Gorgeous Gowns JOHN LA VIER Talkntlve Acrlulltt JOE KELSEY Orlftlnal Songs BROWN & JACKSON '.'Clubman and Suffragette" HOT .MRS AND HOLLISTON IN "LOOKING FOR BETSEY BROS. Jimmy V:iln(tn Twins ... i i 99 Unequaled Vaudeville Broadway at Alder Week Commencing Monday Matinee, Jan. 18th First Transcontinental Tour Royal -cP tina- :-'""- . ' . Y n a m m a i AIM 1 A- Pp.anrlMir Jlu-JIUu. the tloM-l Sport o Jffpaa. DANNY SIMMONS MARTELL HATCH X.O WRIGHT&LANE JULES MARCEAU&C0 TED AND UNO BRADLEY Boxes and First-Eow Balcony Seats Reserved by phone, Main 46S6, A 2238 . .-tthin reent yearn hBV Tn BrIH.h rnrn! tb-r. Urn I' t'.'iU'SLtl ? thaa all S. real r tB 1"o ...n, .., . p,Hlblu orr. ui i.M u in.ii tatninc mow fnel than aiJ in. world combtned. cveu pwun3 L 17H T- rrn 109.0