The Sunday Oregonian., March 14, 1915, SECTION FOUR, Page 5, Image 51

HIE SUNDAY OEEGOXIAN, PORTLAND, MARCH 14, 1915.
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LENT FAILS TO KEEP PLAYGOERS FROM GOING TO
THEATER, NEW YORK MANAGERS ARE PROVING
Granville Barker Producing Shakespeare in Opposition to Mantel! War Drama Is Put On Plot Favors Allies Motion Picture to Be Tried Out in
Gotham at Regular Broadway Prices of $2 a Seat More Than 18,000 Persons Employed in Preparing Spectacle.
BY LIXYD F. LONEJiOAN.
I EW YORK. March 13. (Special.
That Lent has absolutely no effect
-upon business In the theatrical
Una is a fact that New York managers
are in a position to prove. Plays that
do well in what might be termed "th
Irreligious season" continue with good
box receipts, while the attractions not
In favor with the public do just as bad.
y as they have always done.
It would seem that New Torkers have
outgrown Lent, and all that It means.,
but the fact is that fully 70 per cent at
the patrons of our high-class theaters
are from out of town, so it would toe
fair to claim that the falling- off sa
piety is among the strangers wlthie
our gates, and the blame cannot fairly
be laid on the shoulders of the all-the-year-around
New Yorkers.
Perhaps because it is the penitential
Mason we have had a number of old
timers offered us at the local play
houses. Granville Barker and his all
English company at Wallacks are run
ning Shakespeare in opposition to Rob
ert Mantell at the Forty-fourth-Street
Theater, and both seem to be doing
well from a box-office standpoint.
"A Mldramnarr Micbd Dream."
Mr. Barker and his company made a
hit with Bernard Shaw's fable play.
Androcles and the Lion." and the gen
eral public could possibly have been
Induced to patronize it for many weeks
to come. But Mr. Barker decided that
lie bad to change the bill, and he has
offered "A Midsummer Night's Dream,"
which he had already presented in Lon
don. No recent revival of this play has
been so imaginative and picturesque
this of Mr. Barker. Norman Wil
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rests with the ingenue, who loves the
pngllsh spy, but not knowing his mis
sion, is forced to believe mm a cowara
because he refuses to enlist. An inter
esting scene is when the English spy,
pretending to be a silly English fop.
turns the fireplace inside out and re
veals a practical wireless outfit in this
home of an Anglicized German family,
thus Intercepting a code message from
German headquarters. There is also
excitement when the Englishman is
interrupted in his trick of bringing
down, with the aid of an airgun, a car
rier pigeon about to fly home to Ber
lin with the news that England's ex
peditionary force Is sailing the next
day for France.
Aside from these incidents the ordi
nary alert playgoer, unless He oe
strongly pro-British in eentiment, will
find "The White Feather" a plainly hur
ried and careless example of playwrit
lng. ' Messrs. Worrell and Terry, of
London, are the authors.
Beginning next week, the Liberty
Theater will be turned over to motion
pictures, and for the first time in the
history of the "movies" regular Broad
way prices, from $2 down,, will be
charged. The offering is D. W. Grif
fith's "The Birth of a Nation," recon
structed from the novel, "The Clans
man," by Rev. Thomas Dixon. It is
stated that over 18,000 people were em
ployed in this spectacle. What Inter
ests managers, however, is whether
playgoers will pay a $2 rate to see pic
tures. If they do, other pretentious
spectacles may be looked for.
Plea Made to Save Horse
From German Bullets.
Pendleton Man, However, Says His
Sympathies Are With Trooper
Who Tries to Ride Noted Outlaw
Into Battle.
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THEATER
Today and All This Week
PRESENTS
The Story That Made the Whole World Gasp
PENDLETON, Or., March 13. (Spe
cial.) His sympathies aroused by
a newspaper note telling of ' the sale
of "Cyrus Noble," famous Round-Up
outlaw, to a French cavalry horse
buyer, Jim Bradley, of Leavenworth,
Kan., has written to Postmaster
Tweedy, asking him to do something
to save the animal from death. by Ger
man bullets. The Kansan says: "If
the inclosed newspaper clipping is
true, a bunch of us who once used
to know that country want to ask
what kind of tinhorns are you raising
there now that you want to send this
little horse to his death? Help to stop
it if you are a man."
Having seen the "little horse" in
action, the postmaster declares his
sympathies are all with the French
cavalryman who attempts to ride Cyrus
into battle. Though the animal was
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declared to have become "too tame" cavalrymen vnuugli in the French army
by the Round-Up directors after he I to get him near cnouli to the bnttle
failed to unseat his riders last Fall, i front to -be in any serious dancer from
Mr. Tweedy does not believe there are German bultets.
INFORMATION GIVEN ON
INCUBATION PROCESS
Development of Embryo From Germ to Chick Described and Reasons As
cribed for Each Process, Together With Warning as to Common Errors.
tic background of painted eloth, a nil
lock In the forest, a highly fanciful
view of Athens, and the pergola of a
Greek palace. In his search for novelty
Mr. Barker has presented all the fairies
gilded, not only as to their dresses, but
as to their faces. It cannot be denied
that it is pretty tough on the fairies.
and that their faces must hurt after
each and every performance. A gilded
countenance is painful to say the least
Imaginative as the costumes and sur
roundings made this representation of
"A Midsummer Night's Dream," it was
in the briskness of the action, the hu
manity and vitality of the proceedings,
that the audience finds its chief pleas
ure. The two performances of the
comedy most notable during recent
years suggested none of the fine free
dom and spirit which Mr. Barker has
put into the play. It is satisfvinsr to
kinson designed the scenery, a fantas-bave "A Midsummer Xigth's jDreanf
treated in this novel fashion if one Is
to hear it at all.
Robert Mantell has revived Casimer
Delavlgne's old play, "Louis XI." He
has acted the role here before, although
it is not closely associated with his
fame, probably because the qualities
most characteristic of his acting are
not revealed in it. The predominating
physical force of Mr. Mantell, the so
norous voice and the masculine vigor,
are not needed to denote the traits of
the senile monarch. Just the same, Mr.
Mantell's study of the palsied dotard
is a remarkably fine specimen of sub
limated melodrama. He has garnished
his impersonation with eloquent by
play and expressive detail of expres
sion which makes this Louis XI as ab
sorbing as any actor could make him.
If it is difficult to accept the charac
ter today it is due to tue qualities with
which the author has endowed him.
Any man, at once so old and so wicked,
so vain and so pretentious as this mon
arch, almost stilled In the approach of
death, -must seem grotesque now. Yet
it is this character alone which has
kept the play alive 'In the years that
have intervened since Delavigne, in
1825. began the composition of the
work. '
The little' Comedy Theater is hous
ing a war melodrama, "The white
m
Feather," which should please thOBe of
W. LUDWIG.
GGS Intended for incubation must
be gathered frequently in Winter
1 to prevent chilling and in warm
weather to keep the hens from sit
ting on them too long if a satisfactory
hatch is desired. Eggs should be kept
at a temperature from 60 to 60 de
grees after gathering and then placed
In a room free from drafts and show
ing about 60 per cent humidity. An
atmosphere too dry or too free cir
culation of air will dry down the eggs
too much if kept for considerable time
before hatching.
The incubator trays should be filled
with eggs of normal size and shape
and of the same age as nearly as pos
sible, the fresher the ' better. Use
eggs from the same breed or variety
of fowls and the best results will be
obtained. For example, the eggs from
Leghorns and Plymouth Rocks will
not dry "down uniformly, since th
shells differ in thickness and texture.
The amount of ventilation for the one
eerg will not be suitable for the other,
as the Leghorn egg will hatch nearly
18 hours earlier than Rock eggs under
the same treatment. As there are siml
lar differences existing among the
other classes of fowls it Is not diffi
cult to realize the advantages of hav-
intr all of the eggs from the same
breed.
Overcrowding Is Opposed.
The eggs should not be brought from
cool room of 50 to 60 degrees to
one with-a temperature of 80 to 100
degrees. Allow the eggs to warm up
for a short time in the incubator-room
before placing them in the incubator.
When the eggs are placed in the tray
they should cover it and under no cir
cumstances should they be piled one
upon another. The temperature of
the machine varies approximately one
degree for every inch of height, and it
would be impossible to subject all the
eggs to a uniform temperature. The
turning of the eggs would be almost
Impossible and perhaps would result
in the cracking or many or inem.
After the eggs have been in the in
cubator for two days begin on the
third day and turn the eggs every VI
hours and continue doing so every aay,
morninar and night until the night of
the 18th or 19th day. The turning of the
eggs during artificial Incubation takes
the place of the motion wnicn me nen
gives to the eggs in natural naicnmg.
Turning the eggs changes the posi
tion of the germ, for, owing to the
high temperature, the albumen has a
tendency to break up, the yolk rising
hichet- and hiirher. allowing the germ
to come in contact with the shell. The
host method is hand turning and con
sists In placing the palm of the hand
on the eesrs and moving mem sdoui
the tray gently, so as to put them in
a different position.
Turning Is Necessary,
This turning is necessary to sup
ply oxygen to the growing embryo,
for the germ absorbs oxygen from the
alumen and the albumen in turn gets
oxygen from the air cells or through
the shell of the egg. If Ihe trays
are filled with eggs remove the two
rows of eggs in the front of the tray,
ban roll all the eggs forward and
place the eggs removed in the rear of
thn trav. This, in combination with
turning the tray end for end each time
thev are removed, tends to equalize
any difference in temperature there
may be between ainerent siaes or cor
nor of the esrg chambers.
Neved turn tne eggs wnn ouy nanas,
our fellow citizens and visitors who arel g the oI1 nas a tendency to close the
uii me diuo ui mw aiiieo, iui mw uus- ., Df t he shells ana cnecK evapor-
lish cause certainly gets all the best of
it. This play is now being acted in
London at the Royalty Theater, and.
according to reports, is doing a smash-
ation. The eggs snouia De mrneu unui
the evening of the istn or istn aay,
or until the eggs show signs of pip
ping and from that time on during the
ing business. On the other side of the r'"5v. u efcmilri not be removed.
Atlantic the title used is "The Man " ' . nt turned. esDeciallv
Who Stayed Home.'
If the egg is not turnea. especially
tha lottpr staeres. the embryo
Those who see "The' White Feather" kn nn h of the right shape or in
cannot help but think that it would be tho right position in the egg and
..Bc mut.uu therffure is unaDie 10 nai.cn.
the Comedy Theater the entire action I
takes nlace In the rommnn slttlna-- Coollns Process Required
room of a. hnarrtinir-hoiise Them are I The KM should not be placed In
two groups of spies, German and Eng- the incubator Immediately after turn-
llsh, and each group is obliged to shout ing. They should be allowed to cool
its secrets and its discoveries so all until they feel cool to the lips or the
the household as well as the audience I eveball. as the hand cannot be trusted
can hear. Of course the English spy to gauge the temperature, especially
confides his plans to his confederate I in cold weather. Recently one pper
without taking the trouble to look be-!ator nlaced about 650 eggs in a ma-
hind the portieres, and then obligingly chine and at the time of starting the
leaves the room so that the Germans Incubator the thermometer could not
may come In and bellow the orders of be found and the thermostat was
the Kaiser's war board to one another, broken. During the entire hatch the
Hence It becomes, rather hard to take machine was operated and the temper-
the play seriously. In a picture play ature maintained by the operator judg
the spies could have had different I ihg the exact hatching condition of
the eggs by placing tnem to nis eye.
rooms, and the illusion be better carried
out. ...
The love Interest In "The White Fea-
and he succeeded in obtaining an
per cent hatch.
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ther" an4 also -thj jsaaon,Jtor 4l-mm&J Cooling; the eggs, we again imitate
nature. Allowing the eggs to cool off
permits them to secure a greater
amount of oxygen than they could ob
tain in the machine itself. The length
of time allowed the eggs to cool de
pends entirely upon the temperature of
the room and the season of the year
and also upon the ventilation of the
machine. It is safe to begin cooling
on about the fifth day from four to
five minutes in a room heated to about
60 degrees. In a room much cooler
than this the eggs should not be cooled
longer than the time required to turn
them. As the period of incubation
progresses the period of cooling can
be increased and during the latter part
of the hatch the eggs may be cooled
from 20 to 40 minutes. Tho exact de
gree and process of cooling are more
or less disputed points, experiments
proving that environment varies so
much that no positive rule can be
laid down.
Cooilnit Softens Shells.
When cooling the eggs, the door of
the incubator should, be closed to con
serve the moisture and temperature.
When removing the trays from the in
cubator place them properly upon i
table or stand provided for that pur
poso and never permit a portion of
the tray to extend over tho edge or
the table or stand upon which the tray
i placed, as tho eggs in that portion
of the tray extending beyond the edge
will be chilled by the time those im
mediately over the table are properly
cooled. Cooling helps to soften the
shells. The constant expansion and
contraction of tho shell weakens it
and gives the chick a better opportu
nity to break through more easily.
It is customary to test the cess at
the end of the first week to deter
mine their fertility, remove those that
are not developing and examine the size
and location of the air cell.
The size of the air cell, as previous
ly remarked, will vary with the period
of incubation and the amount of ven
tilation. If the air cell is too large
the moisture in the air must be in
creased ' to lessen evaporation, and if
too small evaporation must be pro
moted by Increasing ventilation. Some
times the air cell Is not properly lo
cated, due to the fact that the eggs
were kept too long in one position
before being placed in the machine.
or to improper turning before the sev
enth day.
Testinir Important Featurr,
There are two classes of eggs tested
out "infertiles" and "dead germs."
Technically the term infertile means an
egg that has never been fertilized, al
though it includes those that have
started to devolop. but have died be
fore developing sufficiently to be dis
tinguished before the tester. The dead
gerhi refers to one that is fertile in
which the germ has died, after devel-
cping far enough to be seen before
the tester and shows a bright red line
fixed to the shell In the form f a
semi-circle with the germ in the cen
ter. A dark red spot against the shell
s undoubtedly a germ which died from
want of turning. A small faint germ
and a hazy air cell Indicates lack of
vitality and weakness and the chances
are that the egg will not be hatched.
The live germ is spider-like in ap
pearance and will be noted about one
third of the way from the large end.
the body of the embryo representing
the body of the spider and the numer
ous dark lines crossing and recrossing
are the veins of the embryo and repre
sent the legs of the spider. The live germ
floats about freely, and If not readily
detected can be brought to the surface
by rotating the egg before the tester.
Infertile Eggs I'srd for Feed.
The so-called infertile eggs appear
to be absolutely clear or translucent
save for a floating shadow, which Is
recognized as the yolk. All these eggs
should be so marked and put aside and
later on can be profitably used for
feeding the chicks by boiling them hard
and feeding either separately or mixed
with the mash.
The second test is merely a routine
of the first test, and if it has been
accurately done there will be only the
dead germs to test out, and to deter
mine the size of the air cell and its
requirement for moisture. It will now
be seen that the live embryo appears
nearly to fill the egg. By rotating the
egg the outline of the embryo chick
can be seen.
The machine should not be disturbed
from the time the first egg Is seen to
pip so that the right degree of tem
perature, approximately 103.5 to 104 de
grees, can be maintained. At this tinie
the sand tray or any other device sup
plying moisture should be removed and
the nursery tray placed In position. The
coverings in the front of tho egg tray
should be removed and placed in the
front of lithe machine to enable the ,
chicks to drop down Into the nursery.
Providing the hatch has been prop
erly conducted, It should start About
the nineteenth or twentieth day after
the egss were placed in the machine,
and the chicks which are to hatch
should he out by the beginning of the
twenty-first or the twenty-serond day.
This, however, will vary somewhat
with tho temperature at which the ma
chine has he,-n operated nnd with the
character or type of eirvs net. The tem
perature at tills time should he watched
carefully because the bent generated
by the struggling chirks is often suf
ficient to raise the temperature beyond
the limit of tho regulator's ability to
act. It should not he allowed to run
above 1U5 degrees. The liiKher tho tem
perature the earlier tlie hatch win
start, and if It runs low the hatch will
be delayed.
Tho hatch If run properly should he
well over by tho end of the twentieth
day in the caso of the Mediterranean
breeds, and tho twenty-first day in the
American breeds, while with the Asi
atics it frequently takes eight to twelve
hours lunger. Tho largo brown nhelled
eggs from the heavy breads require
from half a day to a day loncer than
the thinner shell! cgits from th
lighter breeds. The one Important
thing at this time Is that the hatch
should be uniform nnc! complete soon
after the first pipping. A prolonged
hatch is rarely a successful one.
,rrat Cure Primary Aeril.
Poor hatches nviy be due to various
causes, such as poor eggs, faulty con
dition of the breeding stork. Even
with good eggs disappointment is most
often tho result of Inexperience and
poor management of the nmrhlne. due
to imperfect regulation of tho ventila
tion and humidity and irregularity of
attendance. To operate ;iu Incubator
succes.':f ully one must make up his
mind to put ronsldi-rable thoiiKht and
effort into the work. Snmi-tlmi-a a
faulty hatch Is due to a poor ther
mometer, flefore beginning a hatch the
thermometer should he tested by com
paring It with a clinical t herniometer
iti warm water. A thermometer one or
two d'-rees out of rcciMrr will ruin
a hatch, even if all other conditions sre
favorable.
The chirks should be l.ft in th ml-
chine from to hours after all are
hatched and after they arc dried off, the
temperature on a level with the chicks
should bo reduced to !3 or ll.'i degrees.
Removing tho ecg trays and admitting
lfttlo fresh air without rooling the
machine down suddenly reduces the
temperature and hardens the chirks.
Place a cloth over the front door which
will darken the nursery und prevent
the chicks from picking at their drop
pings or developing the Tire of toe
picking. Delaying the removing "of the
chicks permits yolk absorption. The
yolk that remains unused just, prior to
hatching is taken Into tho chick's bodv
through the navel, and arts as a food
supply for a number of hours. When
the chicks are given a supply of food
before tho food nature has created Is
exhausted seems 1o lead to digestive
complications.
Dunk It erom turn drd for llemoval.
After 30 or more hours, when the
chicks give evidence of hunger, thev
may be removed to the brooder, which
should be done at dusk, as then they
will not have a tendency to wander
from the warm brooder and become
chilled. Care should be given the
chicks in removing them from the incu
bator to tho brooder, as a cold air strik
ing them at this time is likely to prove
disastrous. A basket can be used for
this purpose if lined with flannel and
covered with a hood to fully protect
them from the cold.
Turkey eggs may be hatched success
fully in incubators and the poults
raised In brooders In a similar manner
to chicks. It is the usual custom, how
ever, to allow the Ben3 to. raise their
own poults. Turkey eggs hatcf in from
26 to 30 days, tho average being about
28.
Duck eggs, when placed in the Incu
bators, are given care similar to that
given hens eggs. The period of Incu
bation necessary to hatch a duckling l
28 days. Special duck Incubators are
manufactured which .have a larger egg
chamber than those used primarily for
hens' eggs. More moisture also Is re
quired in the hatching of ducklings
than of chicks. Duck eggs should be
tested for fertility on the third or
fourth day. when the developing em
bryo may readily be seen.
Poultrymen are experiencing great
Inconvenience shipping breeding stock
into Canada, owing to a restriction be
ing made that no livestock of any kind
can be shipped In on account of the
foot-and-mouth disease.
The Northwest White Wyandotte Club
was organized recently with the follow
ing officers: J. A. Griffin, of Eugene,
president: H. V. Marx, of Portland, sec
retary and treasurer. Lfforts are be
ing made to enroll every breeder of this
variety in the Northwest.
Of European Invention Is a device
which enables a reel of magnesium rib
bon to be burned any length of time
its intense light may bn desired by a
photographer to make a expos
ure. ...