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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, 3IARCII 9, 1919. 5 PbrthndYMCA. flan Overseas . BY W. A. EUOTT. letter No. 11. PARIS. At Neuilly - Bur - Seine this afternoon I made arrangements for a movie bird talk In hlspital No. 1. I am also planning- to take a email portable lantern and go Into the -wards where the boys are lying In btd and give talks on the "'Birds of Home," using my colored bird slides. I can throw the pictures on the white walla, making it simple that way. Dr. Ander son is doing the same with his talk. "Camp Fires Around the World," and is making good. Koyal Dixon also la riving his "Darky Monologue" in the wards, but witnout pictures. 2Ar. Evans has made me responsible for my own work for the rest of the time I am in Paris. I am to make a circuit of all the hospitals and huts in this district which 1 haven't as yet visited and make my own appoint ments as to time and place. Mr. Evans cays that this will relieve him. as well as give me a better chance to see the work at first hand. In about two weeks I am to report progress, and II through will receive new orders. Going out this afternon, I took a wrong car and went about a mile out of my way, but in so doing met a little French boy, Albert Beke, who epoke excellent English. He told me he was in Lille with the English army and learned the language thero. He gave me a postcard that had been snapped while he was watching the soldiers. He said: "I was standing right there all the time." It is a very good pic ture of him. Odd enough he is work ing in a etore right across the street from the Hotel Tronchet, and he says he 13 coming to see me sure. The little rascal was smoking a cigarette, and when I told him if he was in the United States he would be put in jail he grinned and said: "But I am in France." O. L. Ferris, head of the "Phez' loganberry Juice company of Salem and Portland, recently arrived in Paris and I had the good fortune to meet him next day. He will soon be placed in work her, for he had splendid train ing as assistant In athletics with A. M. Grilley at Camp Lewis and is just the man they need here. Recently I visited the historic city of Kt. Germain-en-Laye. 20 miles from Paris. It lies on a hill about 500 feet above the level of Paris. In the early ages a fortress commanding the Seine was on this site. A castle or chateau was built here in the 11th century and useo during succeeding centuries as the summer home of the French kings. Only the chapel of St. Louis remains thn original chateau, the rest hav ing been destroyed in the wars with England. It was restored by Charles V and rebuilt by Francis I. whose architect was Ducerceau. It was used as an officers' school under Napoleon I and later as a military prison. Dur ine the last 50 years it has been re stored, according to the original plans, and is now a museum of national an tiquities, containing a wonderful col lection, dating from pre-historic days to about 750 A. D. The forest of St. Germain is a great park covering about 11,000 acres. The view from the ter race overlooking the Seine is something like that from Council Crest. Paris shows up in the distance and the river looks very like the Willamette. I saw my first European jay at St. Germain, a bird about the size and with the actions of our Stellar jay. In colo the bodv is a light brown, the top o the head is whitish streaked with black the chin and rump are white, and the tail Is black with white outer feathers. 1 heard a small bird high up in a tree Einging a few little songs, but couldn't Identify It. The leaden sky and dark days make seeing difficult. A flock of Chaffinches were feeding among the dead leaves under the trees. These birds have the characteristics and con spicuous markings of the western even lng Grosbeaks though they are very much smaller and their main Doay color Is a pinkish brown. The Starling lightened the day with their pleasing blackbird-like rollicking song. These .birds of the blackbird family are very highly thought of here and in England In spite of a little damage which they do in the grain fields. I am sorry they have disappeared from Portland. Several pair were imported and re leased about 30 years ago and for a number of seasons they seemed to thrive and could be seen each spring In various parts of the city, especially flying around the top of the tower of the Perkin3 hotel. I saw a number In Bronx Park, New York City. Since . their importation on the Atlantic coast they have multiplied rapidly in. Con necticut and New Jersey. I am the "bird man"' here among the men and many express a desire to know more about the birds. I am only too glad to help all I can for this is some- . thing I think every one should know more about. With the birds, the trees, the flowers and the stars as one's friends, one seed never be lonely nor unhappy. I The Miniature Musical Comedy I "! I B I I 5 3 3 i The Four Husbands With JACK BOYLE AND KITTY BRYAN Music and Lyrics by Wm. B. Friedlander Book by Will M. hough SIDNEY TOWNES Snappy Stories, Songs Bert Fisk at the Piano GEORGE YEOMAN AND LIZZIE. In a Little 'Travesty PAT AND JULIA LEVOLO A Sensation SUE SMITH In Character Songs LOS RODRIQUEZ Perchistas ' TRAVEL WEEKLY KIJiOGRAMS Henry B. Toomer In the tJp-to-the-Mlnute Comedy Playlet "THE WIFE SAVER" This Show Closes With Matinee Wednesday g Albert I Me Govern ISTABUSHtN FatvtotjS Stock company The Cory PlaThonw of Perfect Acoustics TUB HOUSE OK HITS WEEK COMMENCING SUNDAY MAT, MARCH 9 EVERY FARCE THIS YEAR A RIOT OF LAUGHTER DON'T MISS THIS ONE THE BLUE ENVELOPE For husbands and wives especially. And those who expect to be. Prices: 25, 50. MATS, 23 (Tax) Next Week The Old Homestead PLAYS OF QUALITY m - zs: :. 'm OUv Templet ob 1 gTH Annual I ItocxSeaso rritzi DnMif U and am i Well remEmbered as'' Skinny ths 1 Wat nl- I - 'J mm eer $5000 WHISKY IS SEIZED AgenJ of Department ot Justice Board Steamship. BOSTON, Mass. Agents of the partment of justice boarded the steam- chip Kershaw, of the Merchants and Miners' Transportation company, here shortly before the vessel was due to sail for Norfolk, Vs., and seized whisky valued at $5000. The officers declare the liquor was to be taken into Vir ginia, a prohibition state, in violation of federal laws. - Virtually all of the liquor was In pint -bottles and had been packed in euitcases and bass and hidden in lock ers and beneath bunks in the crew's quarters. Officers of the Kershaw aided the federal agents in searching the ship. No arrests were made. Federal officers said the whisky was of rood quality and would have sold for $6 a pint in Norfolk. ' r CP- M Theater Beautiful THE HIT OP TUB SEASON. John Dewitt Gibert Acts as Army Censor Abroad. Former Student of University Writes of Experiences With American Expeditionary Force. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, March 8. (Special.) John Dewitt Gibert, ex-'18, a major in the Journal ism department, who is now with the American army in France at the office of Base Censor, A. P. O. 702, in a letter to Eric W. Allen, dean of the school of journalism, outlines some ot his experi ences in France and tells of old Oregon men he has seen and something of his plans for the future. Ee writes in part: We are waiting wholly unaware of what the future holds for us in the line of repatriation. Perhaps we go next week, perhaps it will be June. One would have to go beyond Paris and even into the Inner sanctum of Chau- mont to learn. "Peace, as you say, seems tame, but for us here there is one more great ad venture at any rate, home-coming. For those as young as myself, peace, too, brings a challenge for me to do my part in another work, if less fiery than war. at least even more personal, a victory for oneself in the front' of the world. I have been with my father but ten days since and four months have passed since our Mediterranean trip. We are turning our thoughts now to one that will lead us to the good father Tiber. "I have in the space of perhaps a month seen: Anse Cornell, Earn Cook, Lamar Tooze, Joe Bell, Percy Boatman, John Wilhelm, Bob Atkinson. Fred Kiddle, Henry Trowbridge. Erie Lane, Colin Dyment, Herbert S. Johnson, son of President Johnson, and others whose names sup me now. - Dean Fox. I be lieve, is in Paris now. I hops to see her tomorrow. "Wishing to get a closely as possible familiar with French history, art. literature, and, in short, French culture. am now supplementing considerable reading with a course in French litera ture of the 19th century by tutoring irom a proiessor or the Guilds Inter nationale, a connection of the great soroonne. ARTICLE ON QUAKES ASKED University Professor Seeks Informa tion on Phenomena in. Oregon. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene. March, 8. (Special.) Dr. Warren D. Smith, head ot the department of geol ogy, has been asked to write an article on the "Earthquakes of Oregon" bv president John C. Branner of the Uni versity of California. Dr. Smith finds that there have not been many earth quakes in Oregon but that a knowledge of conditions here is necessary in studying the situation in the territory both north and south of the state in which some serious earthquakes have occurred. Dr. Smith is making an appeal to people throughout the state to send him any information they may have con cerning earthquakes in Oregon. He wishes Information as to exact date, Intensity of shocks and other interest lng phenomena such as appearance of springs and drying up of streams from anyone who has felt an earthquake in this state. TODAY TODAY Vaudeville's Supreme Sensation HARRY SLATKO'S REVUE featuring World's Fastest Whirlwind Dancers with, their own orchestra FLYING WEAVERS Butterfly & Archer. TOM BRANTFORD. The Human Band. R SUPER-ATTRACTIONS 8 , -xUiliLL LEWIS in "LIFE'S GREATEST PROBLEM" MORRISON AT IfTH PLAYS THAT PLEASE 1 rYl W A. JeSassK SaVtS m M , 1 mal IS - 'SHaV- .BW- dill doniams a lot of Surprises tb r.'i3 ..mNd Mill US UptJHG ToolaYat L 7 . '.vIL. 1' : -::,r' m skK .-r tWV.( - TKI1 LOOK IritD It' " VAUDEVILLE CURRENT EVEN IP wttw. SUNDAY CONCERT 12:30 P. M. DR. STUART McGUIRE Soloist. IT GOULD HAVE BEEN YOUR SISTER , Think This Line Over THEN SEE f .V today 2V VV -.VV -jt A -V V .'V W V', ,X tfV V XV . V . x V X 'VX V V T X sl.rr www ay of yesterday, and tomorrow. NIGHTS 25c. 50e. fSSc ALL MATINEES 25c ALL START. if in WEEK SUN. MAT. llliiK. NEXT WEEK "MADAME X IT vxZTT) TTT MUSICAL JL- Jl iiTJiy STOCK KEATING & FLOOD, MANAGERS WEEK STARTING SUN. MAT- MARCH 9 DILLON AND FRANKS in- Novel Musical Extravaganza in Two Bis Scenes l 'J E'TJ-TT If Rf Mike OF Port! See the Chinese Opium Den at Midnight. Gorgeous Effects. Fetching Choruses. rreiij uiris. jj MATINEE EVERY DAY, 10 ONLY TWO EXTRA FEATURE NIGIITS TUESDAY, COUNTRY STORE. FRIDAY, CIIORUS GIRLS CONTEST. TTANTAGE II y r-Beejaalled V a a 4 1 1 1 e Br4w: Wtv Matlitt nail;, SiSO. Twice MKktl T at Alder. T. 7 mm . fafiUr irlcea Boies aa L(c Itaaer-reo. WEEK COMMENCING TOMORROW MATINEE THE MARYEL JF THE ORIENT The Imperial Pekinese Troupe OFFERING THIS RARE MYSTICISM OF THE FAR EAST. 8 CONTINU THE DANCING TYRELLS Terpsichore's Favorites SPENCER AND WILSON In "PutUna- It Over." JOE ROBERTS The Banjolat de Luxe. WEIR AND TEMPLE In "Odds and Ends." 'THE LITTLE BURGLAR" A Brilliant Musical Mtxup. 'THE LIGHTNING RAIDER" With Pearl White. CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE TODAY, I P. M. TO II P. M.