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TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. rOKTXAXD. NOVEMBER 5. 1916.
SAHARA ATMOSPHERE CARRIED
IN "THE GARDEN OF ALLAH"
Spectacular Effects, Including Sand Storm, Features of Robert Hichen's
Drama of Desert, Which Will Appear at Heilig November 23-24-25.
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WITH true Sahara atmosphere,
"The Garden of Allah," Robert
Hlchens' remarkable novel,
dramatized by himself, assisted by Mi
Anderson de Navarro, "will come to the
Heilig Theater Thursday, Friday and
Saturday, November 23, 24 and 25.
The opening curtain will disclose the
desert just before dawn. Then, a car
avan of 'Arabs. Kabyles and Monza
bites, withjcamels, horses donkeys, goats
and dogs, pass by. And as. the s -n
peeps over the eastern horizon, a shiek
dismounts from his camel and goes
through, the fantastic rites of the
Mohammedan. This scene is entitled,
"The Spirit of the Desert." and puts
the audience fn the proper frame of
mind for what is to come.
The play proper begins on the ve
randa of the Hotel de Dese.'. Hither
has come beautiful Domini Enfilden in
quest of peace. To the same place has
also come Boris Androvsky, a trappist
monk, in search of freedom and world
ly happiness. Away in the distance
stretches the desert illimitable, misty,
beckoning. And here Domini and
Boris find in each other what each
apparently has craved without know
ing it.
Bent-Mora Scene Shown.
From the desert, the ' audience Is
taken to a street in Bcni-Mora. Strange
people pass to and fro. There is music
of the tinkling Arabian variety and
much street fighting. Then comes the
interior of one of the houses on that
street, where a motley group of Arabs
are enjoying the wild, passionate dances
of the native girls. Domini and Boris
chance to wander into this house and
agam they are mutually attracted.
Next comes the garden of Count An
teoni, which, for sheer oriental beauty,
surpasses anything ever put on any
stage. Here the strange behavior of
Boris puzzles the count, who cannot re
call where or when they have met
before. It ' is here that Boris forgets
everything and tella Domini of his
t love for her.
Four months have elapsed when the
next curtain rises, disclosing the famous
eand storm (of real sand) raging. A
tent, picturesque in the extreme, toases
as the wind screeches and the sand
whirls. Gradually the ftorm dies.
Then Domini and Boris, now man and
wife, are 'found spending t.ieir honey
mon on the desert. But it is Boris"
fate that to this place should, rome
Count Anteoni and Father Roubier,
who have become lost in the storm.
And they wring from the unhappy
Boris a confession of who he is.
Desert at Xisch-: Sfapwn.
The desert at night is the next scene,
with twinkling stars which gradually
fade away as the dawn approaches,
and it is here that Boris acquaints
Domini with the true story of his ast.
Both then realize that they must re
nounce each other forever.
Next comes the Trappist monastery
at El Largani. at the gate of which
Domini and Boris part and she goes to
seek comfort and peace without him.
Kdyth Latimer will be seen in the
part of the wife, Domini Enfilden;
Lawson Butt as the Trappist monk,
Boris Androvsky; Howard Gould as
Count Anteoni, and Albert Andruss as
Father Roubier.
ger" minstrel troupe are the least of
the attractions we can get news of,
but all of it is a dark secret.
My own particular patients have
been rejoicing for the last few days
in the possession of a graphophone,
which blatantly howls out ragtime all
day Ions'. They simply adore it. but it
is absolutely the limit to do dressings
to ragtime. Each ward is to have it
in turn, and "C" is sorrowfully expect
ing to have to part with it to "Z" in a
few days. My sorrow will not really
be very deep. As one of our men has
a flute which he is learning to play,
we shall not be left in complete silence.
A comb and tissue paper band Is also
rather a popular form of entertainment
in our ward. I love to see the men
dancingtto its strains. A badly wound
ed leg or an abscess in the thigh
seems to be no handicap whatever. We
have a Scotchman who can do a love
ly hrnpipe.
Last night betfig Sunday, the men
had a "sing-song," and sang hymns
and sacred music most beautiful
ly. They certainly have good voices.
I was on duty two'stories up, but the
sound of the songs kindly came up the
granite stairs, and I her.rd them very
well.
I am sure I shall miss all these
merry, cheerful sailors when I leave
the hospital.
We still hear a lot about the vari
ous strange kinds of work women are
trying to do to release men to go to
the front. One of our men indignant
ly told me yesterday He had heard
that they were trying to use women
as stokers at gas furnaces. He was
awfully disgusted, because he said he
was a stoker himself, and it was much
too hard work for women.
The sister of one of our nurses Is
driving a motor ambulance at the front.
Certainly not within the firing line,
though.
One of my patients, a very charming
boy of 17, is leaving tomorrow. When
he was wounded by shrapnel on his
battleship in the last big sea fight, his
nocks were shot to pieces and his kit
got lost, so he is awfully glad to have
two pairs from Portland to take away
with him. He is quite anxious to re
join his ship. He will be a great loss
to the ward, as he is a most excellent
worker and always made the coffee
for the nurses' lunch. The table in the
ward kitchen looked snowy white, due
to the daily scrubbings he gave it. I
shall be sorry to say goodby to him.
I must end somewhat abruptly, as
it is 10:30 P. M., and "lights out."
SWEETHEARTS REUNITED
BY LONG-LOST LETTER
Woman Who Sacrifices Happiness on Altar of Duty to Family Is at Last
Rewarded by Faithfulness of Man She Loves.
BY MART INEZ MARTIN.
ONE hears a great,' deal in song and
story about "Love's Young
Dream," but the experiences and
results that follow the awakening from
love's dream that come under the ob
servation of the trained nurse tend to
make her cynical.
A nurse holds her profession with
the same sacred regard in which a phy
come under her notice, but the result
of her dissillusionment brings a skep
tical smile when she hears the ardent
avowel that "there is nothing half so
sweet in life."
The outside observer does not suspect
how many married lives there are,
passing for happy ones, that are keep
ing up the most pitiful shams the poor
little god of love bruised and weeping
or degraded to an unspeakable depth.
BUNlneHH, Home and School Handled. .
But, on the other hand, when one
finds love's young dream enduring
through misunderstandings and rebuffs,
the most cynical and skeptical is bound
to admit there is nothing so wonderful
and beautiful.
The most wonderful and beautiful
romance I have ever known has about
the most prosaic setting oie could im
agine, and that is why it is so beauti
ful. During old Judge Lytton's last ill
ness I was "on the case several months
and it is under these circumstances
you read the character of the house
hold down to bedrock. The family
consisted of the two old people and
Miss Mamie, their unmarried daughter.
Miss Mamie was a little old maid of
the old school not a bachelor woman
by any means. She wore her hair plain
back, spectacles, not eyeglasses, and
when it was cool she wore a little
shawl pinned around her shoulders,
not a sweater. She went about every
thing she did so quietly nobody real
ized she was doing anything at all, but
it did not take me long to see she had
her father's business what little was
left and the housework on her hands
as well as her teaching.
At the time of my arrival on the case
the family was eagerly looking for
ward to a visit from Isabel, the mar
ried daughter, who lived In the city.
Both the old people told me with de
light about this promised visit, making
no effort to conceal from Miss Mamie
their pride in the daughter who was
married so well and had such a pretty
home, a fine husband and two beautiful
children. Over and over they told me
what a fine thing she had done for
herself by marrying John Henry. Miss
Mamie was promptly pushed into the
background, in everything but the ex
tra work and responsibility, when the
married sister arrived, and was treated
In return by that tolerant, overbearing
manner the happily married woman is
likely to accord to her less fortunate
sister. And no one suspected what
the strong, calm soul of the little old
maid endured.
Being just a bundle of nerves, Isabel
went to pieces at once and could not
be of the least assistance, but she was
praised and admired by the fond old
parents because she brought an outside
atmosphere that was refreshing to
them. If she brought them a rose or
told them a story they sang her praises
to Mamie, who sat up with them
through the long night hours, while
Isabel slept undisturbed.
Wife Follows Judge In Death.
When the Judge died his wife fol
lowed in a few weeks. Then the home
was broken up. Miss Mamie was to
take a little apartment and live alone,
while ' Isabel hastened back to the
warmth and glow of her own hearth
stone. All the family possessions were
to be divided between the two sisters,
and .1 was retained to help them pack.
Boxes, trunks, chests, bookcases, linen
closets and everything else were emp
tied aftd overhauled.
In carrying an armful of books down
from the attic I dropped an old volume
of "Plutarch's Lives" and a letter fell
out of it, which I handed Isabel. "Why
how funny," she said, "here is a letter
directed to my husband, all sealed and
stamped. I wonder where it came
from."
When at last we were ready to give
up the house Isabel had gone to pieces
again from overwork," as she called
it. and her husband had to come for
NURSES MORE RESTRICTED
WHEN ONE WEDS PATIENT
Girls Must Appear AJways in Uniform and Are Not Allowed to Speak to
Soldiers Outside of Hospital Grounds.
By EDITH E. LAXYON.
AT A NAVAL HOSPITAL, Oct. 2.
My three months on-duty here
are nearly at an end. My time is
really up in less than a week, but I
have been asked to stay on . little
longer. My first week of overtime,
alas, is to be put in on night duty in
the unknown ward of "Y," on the
medical side. As "Y" patients are no
toriously lively, 1 shall probably have
a strenuous week of it. I hear they
are given to having sudden pains,
which need doses of brandy or pepper
mint, but never, never require a mus
tard leaf application! I will suggest
the mustard leaf first.
"C" wards are very indignant to
think I am taken away from them, and
the impression of "B" is that I should
have refused to stay longer unless re
moved to "B." It is really very amus
ing. They all get attached to their
own nurses.
Patient Marries Nurse.
It is a great blow to the authorities
that one of the patients quite recently
got so attached to his V. A. D. nurse
that they got married!
As they used to indulge in little sur
reptitious tea parties and meetings in
town, she dressed in mufti, and, conse
quently, unobserved, we poor down
trodden nurses are no longer allowed
to go out unless we wear uniform.-
Of course we can get special permis
sion from the sister in charge, but it
rather takes up one's time to go and
get permission. I am annoyed, as I
consider it is very restful to wear
one's own individual clothes after be
ins in uniform so long.
Neither are we allowed to speak to
our patients outside the hospital
grounds. It is rather amusing to see
their understanding grin - as we dis
creetly bow and pass by.
Comedy Concert Censored.
The events of the last week have
been two concerts. One, given by the
nurses for the nurses, was howlingly
funny, and the other the same one re
peated by request for the patients'
benefit, but so carefully censored that
it only succeeded in being just funny.
However, they enjoyed it, and never
knew what they missed, so that was all
light.
The staff also gave an entertainment
and birthday party, so we have been
very gay and festive and the all too
early rising bell at 6:15 A. M. has
seemed oiore all too early than ever.
Fortunately the clocks were altered
back to real Greenwich time yesterday
. and wc all gained an extra, .iour'6
sleep and made up for lost time. The
poor night nurses were very indignant,
as all they gained was an extra hour
on duty. It was my lucky star that
saved me from being a night nurse un
til next Saturday.
Some Stay Only a Month.
It is very interesting to notice all the
different nurses we get. Some
haughty, some naughty, some gay,
some sad, some lively, and some quiet,
but all busy doing their very best for
their country. We get a great variety
these days, as a good many have come
on duty for one month. They are the
ones who cannot get away for more
than a month at a time. A few that
help in the dining hall come on for two
weeks.
It is rather awkward having such
short timers in the wards, because, as
soon as they begin to grasp the routine
of the work and find out where things
are kept, they go and another novice
comes. A seaior nurse's life is not all
beer and skittles by any means. Sis
ters cannot be everlastingly interrupt
ed by endless chains of questions, so
juniors discreetly come and ask seniors
every blessed thing they want to
know.
Nurse Objeet to Shifting.
We all did just the same when we
were new at the work, so nobody really
cares a bit. The nurses always get
on very well together, and the ward
sister generally values her own nurses
and wails when they are taken away
ana planted in another ward, which
frequently happens. To me, for exam
ple! The utter disgust of surgical
nurses transferred to the medical side
is only equaled by the disgust of the
medical nurses transferred to the sur
gical side.
One's outraged feelings on being tori
from one's own patients are indescrib
able. The first few days one spends
in describing the beauties of the ones
left behind on "G" to the rather bored
nurses on "H." Then one begins to
know and appreciate the "H" patients.
In about a week one may be heard
holding forth that, "of course the pa
tients on 'G' are all right, I always did
like them, but I consider the patients
on 'H' are altogether the nicest men in
the hospital the best behaved and the
most anxious to help the nurses," and
so on, until one is suddenly trans
ferred to "K." Then "K" wears a halo
on its hea4.
Now "C" is the apple of my eye. "Y"
has been thrust upon me and J resent it.
The patients are getting up a con
cert for the entertainment of the
nurses this week, and we are expect
ling great things. A play and a "nig-
ACTOR PAYS HIGH TRIBUTE
TO CHARM OF MARY PICKFORD
J. Albert Hall Says She Is Most Beloved of All Stars Because of Her
Simple, Unaffected Manner, and All Movie Folk Admire Her.
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(frPE most beloved of all stars" is
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peared 'at the Orpheum last
week in "The Forest Fire," character
izes Mary Pickford.
And Hall should know, for he sup
ported Mtas Pickford in three pictures
and for three years has been active in
the realm of the celluloid, appearing
with various stars.
"Miss Pickford, although the biggest
figure in the films, and the highest
priced star of them all, is unpreten
tious, kind, pleasant, and a unassum
ing as a 15-a-day extra," declares Hall.
"Everyone loves her, from the awe
struck extra to the stars who might
well envy the popularity of ie girl
who earned more than $300,000 a year
with Famous Players," continued Hall.
The Portland visitor is a firm be
liever in the merit system as the ar
biter of stars of the future. Stage
names will mean less and less each
month, and real screen merit will count.
In connection with the recent sign
ing of a Famous Players contract by
Marguerite Clark, Hall asserts that fhe
refused $150,000 a year from a -riva".
film company a few months ago. He
places the salary of Douglas Falr-
banks at $2500 a week. William Far
num at $52,000 a year and Mary Miles
Minter at $1000 a week. Many stars
work by the picture, at from $5000 to
$20,000 a picture, Covering periods of
from five to 12 weeks of filming.
Hall tells an amusing etory in con
nection with his engagement with
"The Yellow Menace," a serial in which
he played the role of the police cap
tain, Kemp. William Stein and Direc
tor Aubrey Kennedy, of "The Yellow
Menace" company, were lunching in
the Claridge Hotel, New York, and con
tinued a discussion of types for the
serial as they left the hotel. As they
reached the street Hall went by in his
racing car. and Stein, after a glimpse
of the driver, remarked, "There's a
good type for the police captain."
"Why, that's an actor; he's Albert
Hall," said Kennedy.
So the two started in pursuit of the
actor.
Hall, believing the pursuers to be of
ficers intent on making an arrest for
speeding, made a runaway race of it
until he reached Van Cortlandt Park,
where a van halted his progress.
- So he was captured, indulged in a
good laugh at hid own expense and
then accepted the 21 weeks' engage
ment. . '
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Spark Plugs Tand Princes
J Eloise Dauvray loves the unlawfully deposed Prince of Dalvania. She
calls upon her trusted friend, Christopher Race, and his wonderful car,
I The Scarlet Runner, to help her lover regain his throne.
J Then follows, in motion picture drama, a remarkable tale of shady
' international intrigue, of stirring bravery in the face of disaster and of the
self-sacrifice of true love. In the final outcome the speed and stamina of
The Scarlet Runner figures prominently.
itj "The Hidden Prince" is the title of this speedy episode of snappy
(pictures, which features
EARLE WILLIAMS
and LILLIAN TUCKER
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J You will be thrilled by reading the stories of these remarkable motion
pictures which appear regularly in
The Sunday Oregonian
fl You will be doubly thrilled by seeing the corresponding dramatization
at the best motion picture theatres.
Produced by
THE GREATER VITAGRAPH
See The SCARLET RUNNER Today
At GLOBE THEATER
WASHINGTON AT ELEVENTH
her to take her home. During the
evening she handed him the letter we
had found and as he read it I saw It
gave him a shock, but "Where's Ma
mie?" was all he said.
Several hours later I saw Mamie and
her sister's husband sitting on a pile
of carpets in the deserted kitchen, and
there they sat until long after the rest
of us had retired for the night.
Old Uvc la Recalled, f
The next day Mamie, left alone, told
me all about it. Their discovery was
so new and so tremendous she just had
to talk it out with someone. The letter
was dated. 16 years before. Mamie,
young and pretty, was loved by John
Henry, but just at that time the old
judge lost his health and his office at
the same time. Isabel was still in
school and must have the chance to
finish her education. All this was ex
plained in the letter with not the
slightest touch of the martyr spirit.
Frankly and sincerely she assured him
of her love and constancy and begged
him to see the impossibility of her
leaving home while the family needed
her as they did now. She must work,
she told him, and help out their shrunk
en income.
Isabel, given this fateful letter to
mail on her way to school, had thought
lessly slipped It into a book and for
gotten all about It. John, waiting and
longing for his answer, had at last
taken' Mamie's silence for his refusal,
while Mamie, waiting In vain for John's
answer, took his failure to respond as
a withdrawal of his offer.
Meantime Mamie taught and worked
and put Isabel through school, fitting
her to teach also In order to share the
care of their parents. But Isabel,
while on a visit to the city, met John
again and. thinking only of herself,
married him.
It Is three years now since the pass
ing of the old parents and the resur
rection of that letter. Miss Mamie,
free at last from the need of teaching,
and living in modest comfort, is re
gaining the youth she sacrificed on the
altar of duty to an unappreciatlve fam
ily. A new creature has burst from
the chrysalis of a shoulder shawl.
Apectacles and plain hair warmed into
iife by the devotion of her gray-haired
sweetheart, whose heart has never
changed.
Love's Dream Cornea Trot.
And Isabel? She never knew. With
her weak heart and all her Imaginary
ailments, she succumbed to an attack
of pneumonia before she guessed that
when John, broken-hearted and hope
less, married her it was in the hope of
being able to help Mamie in her strug
gle. If she did not love him enough
to marry him and, let him share her
burden, he, in his blundering man's
way, thought by taking care of Isabel
he might lessen her load, and through
his wife help her as he could. But he
had not reckoned with Mamie's pride
or he would not have- hoped to help in
that way.
And now. as I said In the beginning,
the most beautiful and wonderful ro
mance I have ever known is being lived
by these two people who have waited
so long for love's young dream to come
true. The sacrifice of her youth, the
hardships of her life, the lack of ap
preciation on the part of her parents
and the overbearing tolerance of her
sister have left no trace of resentment
or bitterness. A strong soul and well
balanced nature is never warped by
outward conditions. What Mamie loved
in John she could not cease to. love.
though she felt he had willingly re
nounced her, and John's love for Mamie
grew as he watched her uncomplaining
sacrifice and couraife. Consequently,
under this supreme lest of sacrilice and
separation, these two souls have come
out. purified by the fires of suffering.
It is- not the tinseled glory of
"Love's Young Hream" after all that
calls forth our faith and reverence, i:
is the full-orbed love that has stood
the test of time and endured in spite
of misunderstandings.
SECRET CLINIC IS SOUGHT
Dirtli Control Information Spread
Secretly In New York.
NEW VOllIC. Nov. 1. While the po
lice combed the r.eighborhool In vain
In search of the place, a secret birth
control clinic, opened yesterday by
Mrs. Margaret Sanger In the Browns
ville section of Brooklyn, did a brisk
business. Scores of women, mostly
from the Polish and Italian districts
of the vicinity, who had been informed
of the secret address, flocked to the
place, registered, paid their 10-cent
fees and received verbal information.
Mrs. danger said she knew it would
only be a question of ttmewhen the
police would discover the location of
the clinic and close It up. perhaps ar
resting all connected with it. but she
said ihe wnnttvrf to iret In n much cnoil
work as she could before this cama
about. Miss Kthel Byrne, a trained
nurse, was in charitf.
A dinner will be given in the Bre
voort Hotel on Sunday, October 29, in
honor of Jessie Ashley and Ida Itauh.
who are under arrest for disseminating
Information regarding birth control at
a meeting in Union Square. Miss Ash
ley's trial will open on October 30 and
Miss Kauh's some time in November.
Mrs. Amos I'inchot is chairman of
the dinner committee, and others who
will attend are Mrs. Frank Cothren.
Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett, Mr. and Mrs.
F.rnevt Toole. Tr. Ira tf. Wile. Mrs.
Klsie Clews Parsons. Mrs. Miriam Sutro
Price. T'r. A. 1 Goldwater. Mrs. Kose
Pastor-Stokes and Mrs. Frederick C.
Howe.
Illgli Living Aids Surgeons.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 1. Clinics
held in many hospitals, attended by
hundreds of members of the Clinical
Congress of Surgeons of North Amer
ica, in session here, were arguments
for the simple life. It was the consen
sus of opinion among the surgeons that
high- living is responsible for more
operations than is the life led by poor
persons. The rich are more subject to
cancer of the stomach than others. It
was stated. Ir. M. K. Rehfuss, during
a clinic at one of the hospitals, demon
strated some of the theories held by
diagnosticians generally that cancer
may result from too much protein, the
chief elements in meats and some rich
foods.
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'The Woman Next Door,
The Victim of Many a Wagging Tongue
By Owen Davis
Featuring
IRENE FENWICK
Also
"The Scarlet Runner"
4th Episode "THE HIDDEN PRINCE"
Featuring -
EARL WILLIAMS
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GLOBE THEATER
WASHINGTON AT ELEVENTH
Sunday Monday Tuesday