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TIIE ' SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, FEBRUARY 20, 1916. 3 MOLLIE BEST, MAGAZINE WRITER, TO TELL STORIES rortland Visitor Admits She Is Opposed to War and Rattlesnakes, but Believes in Guarding Against Both. pi " V V J s - "' Vv,v V y 1 77sri v U CT7oSse) Vv Fv . BT EDITH KNIGHT HOLMES. MOLLIE BEST, magazine writer and story-teller, social worker and an all-round interesting character, doesn't let the grass grow under her feet. she says. And a few moments" conversation with the de lightful Mollie will convince anyone of the truth of her statement. Miss Best was christened Mary Ag nes, but people never would call her by so grand and dignified a name, so she has always been "Mollie." At pres ent she is visiting in Portland and next, week, beinnins February 2S. will tell Home of her fascinating stories in the White Temple in connection with the Social Service exposition and Palestine Pageant that will be given there. The exhibit is from the I'anama-Pacific exposition; the pageant la directed by I)r. Allen Moore, who comes indorsed by the Bishop of New York and ever so many notables; but Mollie Best, al though she is in reality indorsed by Miss Anne Morgan, Ida Tarbell. Miss pence's School, of New York, S. S. Mi Clure. and others, is, indeed, her own best indorsement. , Among other questions this waa put to her: "Do you believe in war?" "Certainly not; neither do I believe In being bitten by rattlesnakes and getting typhoid. But there are snakes and there are germs and we should guard against them, not invite them into our family circles. "While I realize that I am opposed to war, I know there are others who are not, and I think this country should be adequately protected. The Colum bia River should have a big, strong navy-yard. "I repeat, I do not like war. I know its horrors. I was in England when war broke out and did a lot of relief work. If other peoples thought as I do there would be no need for battle ships, but unfortunately they do not think that way. There are nations who do believe in war." From preparedness Miss Best turned to anecdotes of the Ghetto. She lived right among the residents of that dis trict to get the stories fbe tells of them. Her Irish stories she got in Ireland. The personality of places has always interested Miss Best. She likes Port land. It reminds her of the Eastern cities. The style of buildings appeal to her. the climate (she didn't see it two weeks ago) she thinks is lovely. Miss Best was one of the guests at yesterday's luncheon and meeting of the Presidents' Club in the Hotel Imperial. News and Gossip of Plays and Players. By Leoae Caaa Baer. r ART EDGETT BAKER and 1 Ivl were reading a New York dra- matio paper and we ran across a picture ot an actress wearing a pair or weird checked, striped, polkda-dot ted. splotched hose. She had on other articles of apparel, but all we noticed was the hose. Under the picture reference was made to them as "th newest fad at Palm Beach," and they were called "conversation stockings." "I dare you to wear a pair," I sea to Mary Ldgett Baker. "H'm. I've been wearing 'em for years." sez SI. E. B. "The idea is not new." "I never heard of it before." I said, "Well " said Mary, "don't all women bank their money in their stockings?" "Yes," I replied, "those who have any do." "Well, doesn't money talk? There's your conversation stockings. "When Ruth St. Denis was in Port land with her company she had no thought of vaudeville. She had planned a tour that would take her to the East and then to return to her California home. She has a dancing studio called Denishawn within a few min utes' ride of Los Angeles. It derive Its name from her own Denis and that of her husband. Ted Shawn. t Now she has listened to vaudeville's call and is creating a veritable sensa tion at the Palace, in New York City. Her engagement has proi'en the sur prise of Palace Theater history. Her own exhibitions have never received pronounced popular support, and yet. now that her pioneer work has been done, and with her dances cut down to their very essence, the Palace The ater audiences have assembled in such numbers and with such enthusiasm that she has been retained a second week. In her bill programme she in troduces a travesty or two. One of them will be a burlesque of he widely discussed "L'Apres Midi d'un Faune' of the Russian ballet. Ted Shawn. Miss St. Denis" dancing assistant, will ap pear in this under the title of "The Middyblouse of a J-awn. Tom Dodson. Portlander. whose sing ing has become familiar to New York ers through his frequent appearances in its musical world, will give another recital on Monday afternoon. February IS. at the Punch and Judy Theater. His programme will contain a number of noveltiew in adddition to several re quest numbers. The natives of Lexington. Ky., have named a theater for Ada Meade. That young actress is a native of Lexington and its people are proud of her at tainments. She was here in "High Jinks." Just now she ha the leading role in "Katrinka" and is making a hit. Olga Petrova is going to have rec ords made of her songs with Imitations of catcalls and parrots. This used to constitute Mme. Petrova's vaudeville act. Now she's in the movies, but will return to the stage in a new play this Fall. Florence Moore was married a week ago to Jesse L. Schwob. a Jewelry salesman from New York, at Atlantic City. The knot was tied regardless of a suit for divorce filed here last Fall in which she asked legal separation Irom Billy Montgomery. Miss Moore contends that her mar riage to Montgomery was not legal because be had a wife in New York at the time they werewed. The records show that Montgomery was divorced from his first wife seven years after he liad married .11 Lis. Moore. Mrs. Mont gomery No. 1 remarried before the de cree waa granted. Florence Moore and Billy Montgom ery have been separated for more than a year. Florence Moore is with "Maid in America," the show seen last Sum mer at the Palace Music Hall, in which Will Stanton plays the drunk. Btily Montgomery is doing a single. Mont gomery andv Johhny Ford went into the Ford automobile starter business in Chicago some time since, but the venture was a failure. Montgomery and Moore visited Portland in "Hanky Panky" and were riots with their fun ning. The theatrical profession is to issue a cookbook! Yep. get out the stomach pump, for such celebrities of the elec tric lights as Donald Brian. Robert Hilliard. Julia Dean. Mary Ryan. Trixie Friganza. Beverly Sitgreaves, Conway Tearle and yes, and James J. Cor bett are going to tell the good old gen eral public how to concoct their favor ite dishes. But it's in a good cause, for the receipts but not the recipes will go to the Red Cross Society fund. Mrs. Robert Emmett Mason Goolrick. a young Army matron, is compiling the book, which will be on the market by April. Mile. Manhattan opines that "this has certainly been a year for Geraldine Farrar. hasn't it? I think she's aw fully sensible getting married now if she's eevr going to get married at all. It won't make any difference in her drawing power at the Metropolitan, either; they'll be so glad to see her back again that she could drag in 110 husbands and they'd stand for .it." Anna Held and her daughter. Liane Carrera. have apparently made up their differences, for they appear oh the same screen together in "Madame La Presidente." Now that E. H. Sothern and his wife, Julia Marlowe, really are going to re tire and make their home in England, they have had a sale of all the cos tumes and properties used in their long career on the stage. The original cost of the collection was more than $35. 000 and the first day of the sale barely reached the $1500 mark. The bidders were for the most part non-professionals. The bulk of the costumes were purchased by a costume house and the highest price paid for a single property was $30. which was bid for a black jeweled-handled sword used by Sothern in the character of Hamlet. , A light blue crepe gown, with silver and pearl trimminjr, worn by Miss Mar lowe in the role of Ophelia, brought $27.50. while a light blue and gray striped cloak, worn in the same char acter, was bid in at $20. Another lav ishly trimmed costume of Miss Mar lowe's was sold for $15, while a solid silver rope girdlet was knocked down for $17.50. The costumes worn by Miss Marlowe in "When Knighthood was in Flower" proved a distinct disappointment in the bidding, as they had been expected to bring the highest prices of the lot. perhaps. One lavender gown, gor geously trimmed with silver and pearls. was bought for $13. while another ol equal magnificence went for $1 less. Stuart Barnes says there will be no more weddings in Indiana. "I see they have passed a law for bidding weak-minded persons to marry. None of the others ever think ol doing uch a thing." Pointing out that insofar as royajtles are concerned he is in much the same position as "The Little Gray Mother Who Waits All Alone," a ballad for which he wrote the words. Bernard Grossman has begun in the Supreme Court a suit for an accounting against Harrv De Costa and M. Witmark &: Sons, music publishers. Just about a year ago, declares Gross- man, when times were nara ana me publishers were not particularly re spondent to authors' efforts, he and De Costa brought forth "The Little Grav Mother Vho Waits All Alone, After trying to dispose of it at sev eral places. De Costa Anally took it to the Witmarks. who agreed to publisn it. but. the complaint states, he told his co-author they would only pur chase the song outright and for the meaKer sum of $2d. On these representations, Grossman savs. he was induced to assign all his right in the ballad to De Costa for $12.50. He now declares that De Costa had made no such arrangement with the Witmarks, but instead had sold them the piece on a royalty basis and has since been drawing goodly sums from its sale. Accordingly the plaintiff demands that the assignment be canceled, that hei be adjudged a joint owner with De Costa in the ballad and that he have an accounting for whatever sums may be found due. Affidavits of serice filed with the papers show they were served on De Costa and on Nathan Burkan. as attor ney for the Witmarks. As far as the latter are concerned there is no charge of bad faith, but they are simply named as party defendants, because iney were the publishers. Air. JiurKan explained yesterday. Grossman says he is perfectly will ing to give back the $12.50 De Costa paid him in return for a half interest in the royalties their ballad has al ready earned. Now the next move is fon someone to get out an injunction to prevent its being sung in vaudeville. Weekly, showing interesting moving pioture views of foreign lands. The Orpheum concert orchestra rai. der the direction - of Henry Bettman gives . a half-hour- concert preceding every matinee and every night show. PAXTAGES PROMISES LAUGHS 'The Cannibal Maids' in Iar?e Cast Will Be Featured This Week. Vaudeville at its best will be on the programme at Pantages for the week commencing with the matinee tomor row, when the lively musical comedy, "The Cannibal Maids," with Gus El more and a large cast will be featured. Mr. Elmore plays the role of the chief of the South Sea Islanders with great gusto and he is supported by a bevy of the prettiest of girls. The plot has to do 'with the adventures of a man marooned on the cannibal isle and there is plenty of action and fun in the progress- of the production. The song hits that have scored the "THE CUPID'S EXPRESS" OFFERING- AT LYRIC. IS t ;: ; hl NEWS OF THE THEATERS afternoon, and in this display a hostess appears as entertaining for a bride. Miss Hamilton adds realism to this scene by singing a song as if taking part in the society function while the bride and the smartly-dressed guests surround the hostess. Dancing frocks, opera dresses, din ner gowns, reception dresses and opera cloaks are displayed in the next part of the act, which is devoted to the ex hibit of what milady wears in the evenings. In the finale of the Fashion Show Mabel Hamilton portrays "Milady Re tiring," and each of the 16 models ap pears in a boudoir gown as the lights grow dim and milady says "Good night." Remaining acts of the new Orpheum show are: Arthur Sullivan and com pany in "Straight," a comedy-dramatic tale of a crook by the master sketch writer. Aaron Hoffman; "Chuck" Ries ner and Henrietta Gores in "It's Only a Show"; Lillian Fitzgerald, comedienne, and Henry I. Marshall, composer of nu merous popular songs; Master Frankie Murphy, the California boy tenor; the Herbert Germaine trio, thrilling com edy gymnasts, and the Orpheum Travel VIOLIN PIANO RECITAL WINS EUGENE AUDIENCE Miss Winifred Forbes, Violin Instructor, University of Oregon, and Mrs. Thacher, Pianist, Present Fine Programme. Frank Harrington. Dillon and King, the popular comedians at the Lyric Theater, will start this week in the mile-a-minute musical comedy, "The Cupid's Express." With the lat est stage-equipped train and a second scene of a Southern plan tation, an ample supply of mu sical numbers and pretty cos tumes, Ike and Mike have every opportunity of being able to put over their always enjoyable com edy and nonsense. Enjoying all the comforts of a first-class train, Ike and Mike are discovered at the rise of the curtain surrounded by their crew of Jolly entertainers. EMMY DESTINN "The Greatest of all the Great Sopranos" At present Star of Metropolitan -Opera Co. Heilig Theater February 26, 8:15 MAIL ORDERS NOW Steers & Coman, Columbia BIdg. SEAT SALE WEDNESDAY PRICES Floor, $2.50, $2.00; Bal, $2.00, $1.50, $1.00; Gal. Res., $1; Admis sion, 75c. t . ' jw y L r s . A bicest recently in New York are in troduced and the lines teem with laughs. ' The staging is elaborate, bringing all the tropical beauty into the spotlight. Frank Bush is famed around the world as a storyteller and he will make a welcome appearance here. Mr. Bush is an . unioue character on the- stage and off. He never talks a straightfor ward conversation. He tells a story to reach his point and he knows more stories than he can count. Sensational feats are accomplished by the Imperial Bicycle Troupe, live in number, who recently have appeared with great success in the East. One of the most exciting episodes of their programme is the basketball game on wheels. There is a whirl of action in the game, which is a real contest. Grace McCormick is best known as the girl with the violin. She is a charming musician and her programme will include such favorites as Annie Laurie," bits of grand opera and the latest syncopated successes. The Steiner Trio have a comedy bar act in which fun nd action run abreast. Their work is excellent and there are plenty of laughs to keep up the interest. "Fun in One" is the title of the truly novel playlet in which Jice and New ton appear. They not.only introduce songs and dances but ejiough acrobatic work is shown to demonstrate the prin cipals' versatility. Helen Holmes, the beautiful, again appears in Chapter b of the great mo tion picture serial, "The Girl and the Game." which is shown exclusively for the first run at Pantages. The all-star programme with "The Office Girls" featured will be seen for the last time today at the continuous performance which starts at 2 o'clock and ends at 1 1. MAG I CI AX IS AT EMPRESS Unusual Feats Are Performed by Prince or India. Karml, the much-talked-of illusion ist, and his royal troupe of Hindoos will be the headline attraction at the Empress Theater, beginning this after noon. Karmi is a genuine Prince of India and there are many strange things in Karmi's act. Paramount mong them is the mysterious disap pearance of a woman associate while confined in a box in midair. By no apparen means of exit, she simply goes away from there. The box containing her body rests on sev eral supports that are in turn placed on top of a table. From time to lime her hand appears, producing various articles that the conjurer has caused to disappear. Stage magic always is of intense interest. Besides the entertaining qualities of such an act it also affords food for much thought on part of those view ing it for the illusions are perfect and were this not the 20th century and everyone acquainted with the re-! suits of science, Karmi's performance might well be attributed to a sort of witchcraft. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Murphy, with their inimitable humor, will present a comedy skit entitled 'The Coal Strike." It is a delightful offering, with breezy comedy and good songs. ' Ned Argo and Raymond Dulitz will present one of the most entertaining musical acts in vaudeville. Argo is a harpist of exceptional talent and Du litz is a wizard on the violin. Their numbers range from popular to oper atic selections. M. G. Belle Isle nnd company will present a school day. skit entitled "Just Fun," with singing, danc ing and comedy. There are five people in the act. one of the best schoolroom offerings of its kind in vaudeville. McGoods and Tates. four mighty clever and original athletes, will offer refreshing act with a new line of agile girls and two athletic young men take, part in the offering. Bob Warren will present a clever mono logue and song offering, his act be ing entitled "High and Dry. Nature's Tonic." There will be continuous per formances at the Empress Theater to day, beginning at 2:30 and running through up until 11 P. M. "TIIE GOOSE GIKL" IS HERE Dramatization of Harold MacGrath's Xovcl Play at Baker. When do we outgrow our childish love for the fanciful stories of fairies, giants, princesses 'and all the other beautiful tales of the world of imag ination? Most of us nevef. "The Goose Girl," which will be presented by the Baker Players this week for the first time here, is not a fairy tale exactly, but a romance that has all the charm and appeal to the finer senses "con tained in the old nursery stories. Readers of the popular Harold Mac Grath book, from which it Is drama tized, are familiar with the poor little goose girl, who turns out to be a prin cess, and the supposed princess, who loves an American hero, but pines away because she is taught that roy alty can seldom marry where they love. The scenes are laid in an European principality, and are filled with pic turesque places and characters. The American Consul becomes mixed up in the affairs of state and makes himself the. protector of the little goose girl incurs the enmity of a worthless Count or two. falls in love with the princess, discovers a lot of valuable secrets and finally, through Yankee pluck and wit, straightens out the tangles that bid fair to embroil the two adjoining coun tries in war. He also brings about the exposure of the plot in which the real princess was abducted when a baby and in her place substituted another gill, this be ing the supposed princess, with whom he is hopelessly in love. The story is told m a charming and highly interesting manner and has been called by the critics the real successor to "Grau stark." which r few years ago was so popular with all theatergoers. "The Goose Girl" will open the week at the Baker this afternoon. Bargain matinees will be given Wednesday and Saturday. Je :f"-V Tnii BiST OF VAUDEVILLE iA Starting Sunday P Matinee, Feb KICK IX" IS TO SHOW HERE Baker Pluyers to Present Willnrd Mack's Success. At last Portland will see Willard Mack's greatest success, "Kick In," as the Baker Players will offer it for the week following "The Goose Girl," and opening next Sunday matinee. Of all the successful plays written by the popular author and actor, none have approached the long record of genuiiK success 'iKick in" has. it never would have been possible to ob tain it for stock so soon except for the great dearth of traveling companies the past season. As it is, the royalty is exceptionally large, and It Is in the same class as Seven Keys to Baldpate," which scored such a sensation at the Baker during January. A crook play pure and simple, nd one with as many turns and an gles as imagination could possibly cre ate, every moment grips, and by many it is considered to be a much more startling and Interesting play than "Within the Law." Originally a vaudeville sketch. Mack saw possibilities in it for expansion, and the four-act drama is crowded with people and incidents, covering a heart story that appeals to everyone'. Like most crook plays, it gives the crooks the best of it and makes the police ap pear largely responsible for them and their conditions. The cast will fit the Baker Players exceptionally well, and an excellent production may well be expected. $600 RESTS ON SEMICOLON Court Asked to IJecide Whether Sal ary Is IJI200 or $1800 a Year. WARREN, Pa., Feb. 15. Upon the In terpretation of a semicolon will depen.1 whether the Warren County Commis sioners will receive $1800 or J1200 a year for their services. The Commis sioners tiled stiif in the Court of Com- May Tully's New York Fashion Show with Mabel Hamilton and n STUNNING MODELS L ARTHUR SULLIVAN' & CO. RIESXER & GORES FITZGERALD & MARSHALL MASTER FRANK IE MURPHY HERBERT GERM A1XE TRIO ORPHEUM TRAVEL WEEKLY Matinees 10c, 25c 50c Nights 10c, 25c. 50c 75c V , wr mon Pleas asking that the act of 1!15. fixing salaries,' be interpreted. The act, after enumerating the sal aries of the Commissioners in counties up to 50.000 population and more, has a semicolon before these words, which are in italics: "But where the Commis sioners are directors of the poor, then $1800." The Commissioners here are directors of the-poor. Curtis Mook, president of the board, drew an order on Count.v Treasurer Stewart for his tlrst month's salary at the rate of $1800 a year. The order was refused and a writ of mandamus has been asked of the court. It is re turnable February 21. Dog Itescues Family of Eight. LAFAYETTE, Ind.. Feb. 10. A faith ful bulldog on guard in the kitchen saved the lives of eight members of the family of Joseph Reihle. A gas Jet had been left open in the kitchen and the house began to lill with the fumes. Members of the family were all asleep upstairs. The dog ran to the stair- HEILIG THEATER Feb. 24, 1916 omeo Juliet GRAND OPERA Portland Opera Association Mrs. Jane Burns Albert at Juliet All receipts to go to Baby Home Popular Prices 25c to $1.00. Seat Sale at Box Of fice, February 21. way and harked loudly until he aroused Mrs. Keihle. nnd she in turn HtaknnNl the other members of the family. They were already partly overcome with th" gus and it was with greiit difficulty that some of them w-r, revived. LYRIC THEATER 4th and Stark WEEK STARTING TODAY MATINEE 2:30 acrobatic stuntH. Two shapelv and ! Unequaled Vaudertllfr-Broadway at Alder UK OLDKST VAt'DEVILLK CIRCV1T WKST OK CHICAfiO. Week Beginning Monday Matinee, February 21 HKOAUWAV'S MOST 1'RETKXTIOI S MUSICAL CYCLONE, The Cannibal Maids WITH fil'S KI,WOKH ASI) ABEVV OK HOTTENTOT BEAITIKS, AT Eugene. Or., a musicale of much Interest -was participated in re cently by Miss Winifred Forbes, violinist, and Mrs. Jane Scotford Thacher. pianist. The numbers played by Miss Forbes Included the "Concerto" for violin by Ch. de Beriot, "Op. 105." 'Chanson luis XIII" and "1'avane" (Couperin-Kreisler) ; "La Precieuse" (Couperin-Krefsler), and the "Alle gretto (Baccaenni-Kreisler). They were all rendered with much success and skill. Mrs. Thacher's contribution an a soloist was the six numbers of the "Carnival Mipnon" ( Kduard Schutt). Her playing was a demonstration of unqualified mastery of the violin. Two ..ambers for violin and piano were "Bohemian Dances" (Alberto Kandeg ger) and "Sonata" (Schumann). The latter revealed perfect accord between the two instruments and illustrations of thoroughness Df study and practice. 'FIRTH COXCEUT Portland Symphony Orchestra Today 3 P.M. Sharp Heilig Theater HAROLD BAYLKV, CONDUCTOR. I'KICES 1, 75c, 50e, 35c. 25c. Grace McCormick The Girl With the Violin. The Steiner Trio Comedy Bar Act. Rice & Newton. "Fun in One." The Girl and the Game' Chap. 6. Helen Holmes, Heroine. Two Extra Special Attractions- The Imperial Troupe The Wizards of the Wheels. DON'T FORGET CO'TlMJOrS PERFOR I A . GE t TO 11 P. M. TODAY O.M.V. Frank Bush World's Greatest Story Teller. Boxes and Flrot Row llnli-oiiy Rriieri ed by Phones Main 4.l. A -ir.w. 'VMKV.V. SHOW'S MAILT lil.'IO, 7 AM) M5 l M. 120 TIME ACTS FOR I5c&25c PRESENT a Cupid EXPRESS" An Excursion Into Laughland Bargain Matinees Weekdays 10c Two Performances Nightly Tuesday Night Profit-Sharing With Our Patrons Friday Night Chorus Girls" Contest Today Continuous, 2:30 to 11 Phone Your Want Ads to THE OREGON IAN Main 7070 A 6093
