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.
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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
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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-
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MONDAY NIGHT XT JiTT TT
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Evenings: Lower Floor. 2; last 3 rows. 11.50. Balcony. 5 rows, 1.50; ; 4
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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"
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TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
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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
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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.
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Week Commencing Matinee Today, Jan. 17
JJJJ 1 MR. A0,MR. H
ARMSTRONG'S B DOUGLAS J
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with : I
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RUTH ALLEN . . n
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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
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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)
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Week Commencing Monday Matinee, Jan. IS
KO. W. CALLAHAN FRESKSH
LOVE
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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
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Unequaled Vaudeville Broadway at Alder
Week Commencing Monday Matinee, Jan. 18th
First Transcontinental Tour
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MARTELL
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WRIGHT&LANE
JULES MARCEAU&C0
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