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HAVING had a modern classic, "Pyfmalipii," the lleilis thla week uncovers the musty pages of an . ancient classic. "The Trojan Women," the "greatest of all tragedies as trag- cdies are figured on the basic prin ciples of the drama. "PyKmalion," written by George Ber nard Shaw; was. presented by Mrs. Pat rick Campbell, mat notable English actress, and It was welcomed by good sized audiences at each performance. Mrs. Camphell recalled the past by giv ing one performance of "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray," the brilliant emo tional play of Arthur W. Pinero. In truth it must be admitted that Paula Tapqueray Mrs. Campbell has greater opportunity and is really seen at better advantage than as Eliza Poo little in "Pygmalion." There is a tre mendous power in - the role of Paula Tanqueray as Mrs. Campbell plays it; a something more understandable in the character than the investment giv en it by other notable actresses. Mrs. Campbell seems to display Infinite wis dom in the role, and a mortal charac terization results. But Mrs. Campbell is ambitious in her role o Kliza Iko little because, it represents a greater . advance. In- her art. She seeks the In tellectual -progression in it, and while the question was often asked during and after the play, was "Pygmalion" a rol for Mrs. Campbell, or the, . play mor an opportunity for a masculine star, this seems certain, the play did offer greater dramatic possibilities for the leading man; but for artistic pur poses It waa Mrs. Campbell's play, ' Tomorrow night and Tuesday night the Chicago Little Theater company will present "The-Trojan "Women." a play written 2500 years ago and revived now in, the interest of the peace move ment. The play has been - produced with remarkable success at Festival Hall, at the San Francisco Exposition. The presentation will be a Gilbert Mur ray translation, which Insures a faith fulness to detail and atmosphere. The scenic effects are heralded as note worthy. Especially is this true In the lighting effects. There is a continu ous succession of surprises for the, au ,e dlence. it is announced, and a certai noveltv attaches to the play for th reason that the names of none of the actors are made public, although there are several well-known players In the cast. The players solicit no applause. There are. no intervals between the action, the speaking chorus substitut ing for the waits. The aptitude of the play at this time is impressive be cause of the war In Europe, and the grief of the women of Troy might well be compared to the grief of the women in any beleaguered city In Europe to- After ''The Trojan Women" the Hel- lig will be dark probably until August 8. when Al Joslon. that romcKing iun- miker, comes as the star In "Dancing Around." a musical play ef magnitude, with diversions unnumbered. There . will be two matinees, one. Wednesday and one Saturday. Tn the vaudeville realm the Pantagcs thin week, beginning tomorrow, offers Miss Ethel Davis, a Portland favorite and her 12 musical girls, who are billed as extraordinarily pretty. They will disoort In "The Candy Ship. The Empress offers a former " Orpbeum star In Hal Davis, who will appear in a revival of Pals," a sketch which brought him- considerable notice It was heralded a few seasons ago. then s big sensation HAIi DAVIS IS AT EMiPIUSSS Former Orphoumj Star Is IIeadlinep ;' on BlU Open ins This "Week. . Hal Davis, former Orpheum star. will be the h.eadiiner of the show at the Empress Theater this week in a . revival of "Pals.", which made a tri umphant louri several years ago as vaudeville's biggest sensation. The production staged under Mr. Davis' personal direction Is brand new and tlie entire. tp.e setting ,a the company. - Realism explains ins great sua ' r n-js. wmvn , .vui. .... ........ rnuibment and a cast of five persons. For the greater part of the playlet, the spectators are kept in an almost continuous. Kale of laughter through the amusing situations. Suddenly the action turns from gay to serious and the story comes to a hair-raising cli max in. a figllt between the nero anJ the "heavy." Thia encounter Is extolled a being the moat effective fight ever staged. Mirrors, windows, chandeliers, chairs and staircases are smashed amid an uproar that gripsN the audience and holds everyone Client tor several sec onds after the curtain descends upon the picture of desolation. Included in Mr. Davis" support are' Belle Pres ton. O. V. Jones. C. Niek-vStark and Alan Byron. "Pals" was written by Edmund Day. author of "The Round up and otner miocBaiui ii?b. Next in importance in the new Em nrs show are'Hendricka and Padula. ragtime pianists extraordinary, who have a reraarKaDie musical act. i nu act haa made such a . hit along the circuit it has been given the closing nnsitlon in the show, an. honor seldom on by a musical act presented vy omy two persons. Trie music-onerea Hendricks and Padula, a man and .-rtma.n is extremely lively. v - "Hendricks, and Padula took the audience off its feet with their rollick ing piano-playing," said & Seattle newspaper critic More music but of a different order fs provided in the act of Martini and Troise, whoso entertainment is sprinkled with laughable patter. Mar tini and Troise also eing several of the latest song hits. A.novelty is offered by Teresa Miller, one of tlie few successful women mon ologists in vaudeville. Miss Miller's talk is of her own creation and she has mannerisms' that win laughs for her from the tim ahe makes her first Ins; piano-playins." eald a Seattle ; I I V11? v" sJ,' I CJW ntofaaif,.rter J : - frf . . fs provided In the act of Hartinl and 14 "1VV C. . - Troise. whoso entertainment s II' '1 W VN Vt -sJW i r "V eprinkled with laughable patter. Mar- j Aw.VS X J77pr& iTS. tini and Troise also Bins several of 1 V Xvi' "vl w ' -w the latent song hits. ' -. ' . ' V OCvv X. A. novelty is offered by Teresa Miller, lit 1 V Vi iV OV one of tlie few successful women mon- 'XlWil i VXY'v aiV " w f ologists in vaudeville. Miss Millers YVrll V X talk is of her own creation and she i ft 1 V i V vo - '7 - - has mannerisms that win laughs for mV 1 A VCt "x --m "' her from the tima he make her first aWVMIIWV Vv ' I bow. So far on the circuit this artist has been one of the big laughter-hits of the show. The- Florenis complete the bill with a comedy novelty. The antics of this couple bring screams of laughter and they put . the audience In good spirits, for the remainder of the varied show. Portland entertainers who aspire to enter vaudeville will appear at the Emm-ess next Thursday night after the wcond show In try-outs. Try-out night is a regular feature at the Em press every Thursday, and many who have appeared to test the merit of their stage offerings have obtained en gagements along Northwestern vaude ville circuits. ' CHEEK TRAGEDY "The Trojan Women" Will lie Pre sented by Xotable Company. Greek tragedy will be the feature of the week at the Hellig Theater, "The Trojan Women'' of Euripides being billed there for Monday and Tuesday nights. It Is to bo given by the Little Theater Company, of Chicago,- who nave lett their own attractive play house and are touring the West for the first time in their-history. The Little Theater is an outgrowth ef the mod ern dramatic art impulse which has made itself felt particularly in Eu rope within the past decade, and dur in; the three years of its existence it has become notable internationally for the high standard of its plays and of their- presentations. - v. . .VL ierT- 5gmne' .. l.wt v. Uiwi-CPC w V'l CRVJI!. in A II address before the University CUb. of fh prama. said of the Little Theater that it was "a lab- oratory for experiments and that its success had demonstrated that the pure type or dramatic art had grown stead ily." He urged that the heartiest sup port be given the movement, and praised in highest terms those who were working so faithfully and wisely to iuriner it. Professor William Dallam Armes. of the University of California, has se cured the Little Theater Company for a season of Greek plays next year ip the Greek Theater at that university. and says regarding it: "When one purchases a. ticket for the performance of 'The Trojan Women one buys not merely entertainment for a couple of hours, but memories for a lifetime." News and Gossip of Plays and Players. . Edited by Leone Case Birr. ILH.GS, Mont,, July 17.Mude Adams closed her tour and highly successful one it has been. tooir this city last Saturday night. The comPany went directly from here to New joric. ana a mighty nappy organiza tion It waa In anticipation of vacation days. Miss. Adams la going with her mother to- Northern lake resorts, and riext season is. to open in New Tork in a repertoire of her past successful plays, among them a revival of "The little Minister,- and omitting "Chantei cier. . Ethel von . Waldron .Portland elrl and once B ikeronian is" Summering at ixeorges Mills In the Sunapee Lake regions. - Most of the property in that part of the world is owned by Billy B. Van. The Equity Motion Picture Company, in which Van Is interested, has started work on the studio at Van Harbor. A company of ?0 players has been engxged for the' Reason. Billy van visits Portland often times by way or vaudeville. Ruthe Chatterton and her mother have taken a cottage at Lakeside. N. H.. for the season, standing next to the John Hay cottage, It is one of the most pretentious places on the border of Lake Sunapee. Miss Chatterton has two saddle horses, a motor boat and an automobile. Billings' caper announced that I was Summering here. That is it meant t ay .,ummer.inf- But a careles or. truthfulprinter got It "simmer- ing. which is correct. New Tork is going to have one more new theater, a repertoire theater, and it is planned to be opened thia next season. Margaret Anglin will direct it. I The theater will be built by capital I which has been put at her disposal. i im win db an actuality witnin a lew months. While It is not definitely known, it is understood that Mies An- I gun s DacKers are from Chicago. i Mrgrci Anglin nas acnievea some Dy i degree or success as a producer, al a though her tour in a revival of Shake ispearean piays waa a. financial failure. ! She has a judgment in the selection TTTE SUNDAY OItEGOXTA POTITXATOJ. JtXT 18, 1915. AT HE1LIG J lY j ' .Si actors which always enables ber to -. ... V.-- .mr,nnl.. in M wa V that f TO duce. satisfactory results. lt u i4 that Ml Apglin aw!ceedx ,n stealing a march on CiranvUle liar ded ker. lie was anxious to produce his Greek tragedies at the Greek Theater in Berkeley, CaU Miss Anglin.- who is to give a season there, had made an agreement with the university that no other Greek plays should be acted there this, year, In resnanss- to m dojrten Inquiries made at various tiroes lately by Ore gon would-be playwrights. It may be said that the royalties paid by tha pro ducer of a play to the author arc usual. ly -regulated by what Is known as a sliding scale. Say 5 per cent on the gross receipts for the week up to $7500. payable weekly; according to box office ocnlflcates. 7 or 1 per cent on all over that up to f 10.000 and 10 per cent on all gross receipts above S10.000. - However. the scale varies according to toe popularity of the au thor and In the majority of cases the producer pays the author an advance of from SSOO to 11000. to be deducted from the royalties as they accrue. Te royalties on a play made from a novel are usually divided equally between the author of the novel and the ora mail st. Joyous is the news to theatrical managers that the railroad companies have restored the old arrangement about hauling baggage cars free. At meeting of the passenger agents or the truna lines and central passenger lines U has been agreeed that In the future a baggage car will ' be baa led free for theatrical companies upon the purchase of a party ticket. - About two months ago tneso same officials met and imposed an over. whelming burden upon theatrical com panics by passing a rule requiring the purchase or 40 tlcKets Instead ci 21 as previously, before a baggage car would be given the organization, immediate ly the managers voiced a vigorous pro test, many of them declaring, and with considerable conviction, that the new rule would mean the passing of many theatrical organ izatlops, since the in creased cost of stage help, musicians and players already had made tha the atrical business too hazardous. Also theatrical managers bagan so far as possible to arrange their routes over lines which had not willingly en tered into the new arrangement. The protest became so loud and so general and the prospect of a decreas ing theatrical revenue became ao omi nous that the railroad officials obeyed their own warning to "Stop, look, lis ten." The result is a restoration of the old arrangement and every theatrical manager lp the country will rejoice, see Laurette Taylor is coming to Amer ica from London this Fall to appear in a series of plays written by her husband. J. Hartley Manners. Her first presentation will ba "Happiness." A fortnight ago Miss Taylor appeared and scored a big personal triumph at the royal matinee given at the Palace Theater in London for the benefit of the London Hospital fund. Miss Taylor appeared in a one-act play entitled "The Monk and the King's Daughter." wrlttten especially for her by the Marchioness Townend. Among those present wera the Queen. Prin cess Mary. Princess Maud, the Duchess of of Marlborough, the Counters ot An caster, the Ceuntess of Lytton.-Lady KindolDh Churchill. Mrs. Lewis Har- court and Ava Willing Aster, the first wife ofJohn Jaeob Astor. Among the other American players who took part n tha benent were jutnai ty. wno waa George M. Cohan's (irst wife; El la Jania "d Coyne. e Fraak 'Carter, who la the interesting juvenile with Al Jelon In "Danuina Around," which eomea in August ( tn Heillg. Is a San Franciscan. His step father. C. H. Helping, who died a few months ago, was the head of tha traffic department of too ireai w estern atau road. The famous matrimonial tanrla In which Martha Richards, a noted church soloist. Tom Richards, her actor hus band, and Lulu O laser, tha comic opera star, have been enmeshed slnea 11 has been satisfactorily cleared up la court In Pittsburg. v- with a settle ment of the toO.OOO alienation am nled against Miss Ulaser by Mrs. Rich ards. The money balm which wra. wen ards agreed to acceept as a sureea.e for her wounded trust and affection la not mentioned in the announcement of settlement, but it Is understood to have been 'Trfeetly satisfactory o Richards' wife. Richards waa formerly a leading tna for Miss Glaser in "The Girl and th Kaiser." andralao appeared with her 1 vaudeville. : It was Whita thay ware playing together that the wife allaged the fair Lulu, by wiles and cajoleries. succeeded 1q winning the love and al feet Ion of Richards from his wife. The suit was filed In December. 191! and several time called for trial, by was always continued. Several days ago counsel for both sldea appeared In court and had tha ea marked oft tha docket as settled. Borne ttme after tha alienation suit was (lied. Richards, hied a sutt for di vorce Iq Denver, Colo., against his wife. He waa refused a decree by the courts of that state. Both Miss Glaser and Mr. Richards have appeared together In Portland on one occasion at the HelUg In a musi cal comedy and later In vaudeville as an Orpheum headliner. Prison Warden Is fcus-xndcd, TQPKKA, Kan.. July 10 J. P. Rot. kin. warden at the State Penitentiary HEEOG (BCUIMS Nights, July 19-20 THE CHICAGO LITTLE THEATER COMPANY PRESENTS WORLD'S GREATEST PEACE PLAY -THE TROJAN Famous Greek Drama, First Produced in 415 B. C. Excellent Cast Idealistic Production PRICES Lower Floor First 11 Rows, 51.50; Last 7 Rows. $1.00. Balcony First 5 Rows, 73c; in Rear 50c Gallery, 50c at Leavenworth. wa suspended by Governor Capper recently.- pending an nveAtigatlon of charges or inelllclency. recently tiled aga'.nst the warden by R. Jones, a discharged employe. Charles To! man. deputy warden. will act as warden pending tna investigation. Governor Capper. Lleutenant-Qov rnor W. Y. Morgan and Robert Stone. Sneaker of the lower house of tha Leg lslature. met here recently to appoint an Investigating committee, which will contt of three Representative and twf be na tors. LAST BACHELOR TO WED Club Wrecked by Pnillea of Malda Mho Charm Away Resolate. PHILADELPHIA. July 10. Lin wood L. Hannum. the one remaining mmber of the Media Bachelor Club, recently cut the club button from his coat laaai. atuck the constitution decreeing ever lasting lnglnes into tne stove, ana thn announced to hi friend that ha wa engaged, to be married. Mia UN Han Lewi, one or ieaia a oeue. naa consented to become Mr. Hannum. thereby causing the elub to di a palu ra death. Mr. Hannum I ope of IS young men who launched their ahip of life in 111. by organizing a bachelor' club and solemnly pledging themelve to ateer clear ef all women. Sis month later tha prima organiser ran Into the 'mat rimonial rock. Then -the 11 merry bachelor tendered him a banquet and conferred upon him the -graveyard' de gree. - Subsequently the banquet and degree became ao numerous and the members became, o few that the faaat and degreea were eliminated. Media didn't have aa old maid" club, but It did have a young malda" organi zation, which decided for their mutual happiness ta merge with the bachelor' club. Like the aatlora of th Lorelei. th bachelor forgot their vow when tha ladle smiled. Among the former member of the club are J. Bertram Ruth. Jmes Tongue, R. Thompson-Wll-on. William Wilson and Kbert Will iamson, all well known la thla city. DIVORCE SEEMS SUDDEN Society Surprised by Suit Klled Long Ago hat "t Kavealed. PHILADELPHIA. July l.The Coxe divorce caroe as a complet surprise to fashionable society, since no breach wa known to exist. Not long ao, when Mr. Coxe broke his leg. Mr. Coxa wa most solicitous concerning hi health, and anwered telephone querlea In a manner that showed her deep feeling. The divorce wa aranted by the Court of Common Tlcaa No. 6. the suit having been filed two year ago by Mr. Cox with the charge of desertion. Th te tlmony was Impounded and the decree THEATER Broadway at Taylor Phone Main 1 or A 1122 TOMORROW) WOMEN master. club man. and Mrs. Coxe was Mis Florence Sellers, dauchter of the late Mr. and Mrs. David W. teller. Mr. Sellers was a lawyer of repute. Mrs. Coxe mad her home at the Rlttenhouse with Mrs. Sel ler until her death In May. at which tima she returned to tier home. ;j;i Locust street. The Coxes' son. Francis Travis Coxe, Is secretary at the American Legation t Tegucigalpa, Honduras. His mar riage to Mis Mercedes Mederos took place In Havana. Cuba, last August. Mrs. Coxe haa always been socially ambitious, and was a recognized factor in the Summer colony at York Harbor, where she went year after year, fol lowing a short trip abroad In the early Summer. She took a great Interest in tha debut of her niece. Miss Ellen Ja queue Sellers, and chaperoned bar throughout her first season out. at the end of which the engagement of the young girl to Richard C. McCall. tun of Mr. and Mrs. George McCall. of Hot prura street, waa announced. Their wedding wa one of the notable Spring affairs. Mr". Coxe haa gone to New Erie.lnd KY I'layinc Exclusively granted on the report of the Mr. Coxe Is widely known as 3 -tKiiO-It Week Beginning Monday Matinee, July 19 The Triumphal Return of Portland's Favorite MISS ETHEL DAVIS I And Her Metropolitan Company f 15. Including Her Famous Baby Dolle, in the Sparkling Musical Melange "THE CANDY SHIP" CAIN & ODOM j JESSIE HAYWARD & CO. The Entertaining Entertainer J In "The Quitter" It- BIGELOW CAMPBELL & ; FRED ROGERS ISA l l)S i The Rathskeller Trio A Smilin Son of the South NEUSS & ELDRID j MARVEL MOVIES The Yaphank Guardsmen j NOTE Today Only, First Baiaa, rrt Raw Palrvar ra(a A ta spend th fumnnr. and Mr. Coxe la asld to be traveling through the WesU JOHN D. IS ON HIS GUARD Standard Oil Magnate Walls for Morgan Affair 10 lllov 0cr." fl.EVi:LAM, O.. July 10. John 1. Rockefeller will not conie to C'eveland for his usu.il May at his Summer home, r'oreal Hill, "until this Morgan affair blows over." II ha written this to hi relatives here. When he does rome be will not an nounce his Intentions, but will travel in an ordinary Pullman anil will tele phone for his aulumuliile when he ar rives bare. Verkmen at Fare! Hill are strength ening the fences and yales (trouad the ettate. The estate id protected on three sides by a hlsh wire fence topped by double strands of barbed wire. A high stone wall and a ten-foot thorn hedce protects the remaining ride. Workmen are stretching barbed lre along- the helre raf HJE"1 1 ''"" Unequal ed Vaudeville-Broadway at Alder Big-Time Acts at Topular Prices Sunday Evening Performance, 6:30 RtirnH tey Ikaac -Mala aa-ta. A