THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 9, 1919.
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UTIMELY MIRTH IS BANE
OF ACTING, SAYS MR. POST
JBut Fact That Audience Psys Its Own Penalty Is Consolation to
Dramatic Artists, Declares Star Who Is Coming to Heilig.
f T "WAS H. B. Irvlngf who said that
the actor's greatest trial was the
I- audience that laughed in the
rong place.
Of that trial Guy Bates Post, who
ill return to the Heilig Thursday.
ls had ample and varied experience
his numerous past plays, but there
a situation in his present drama.
The Masquerader" that more fre-
lently calls forth untimely laughter
ran nas anything in an nis ions
reer.
Mr. Post writes:
"On a recent evening a passage In
ie 'garden scene' that is full of
etry that must appeal to all r.lght
lnded and sensitive persons was
lunctuated with a guffaw from the
tilery and half the audience broke
to laughter, and the laughter was
rolonged.
Th dramatist s craftsmanship here
telling. It cannot fall to Impress
audience that will give decent
itention to it. The power of the sit-
ition has been recognized by leading
itics of the drama in our principal
ties, and certainly we actors have
It its spell and done our best to
ioject it. But on many a nipht dur-
g my tour this season Its effect has
oen utterly destroyed by the dis-
usting ribaldry of a few Noafers
ated aloft, and by the insane re-
onse of the audience.
"In my irritation at seelnjr a fine
foment in a noble drama thus wan-
nly ruined I have sometimes found
insolation in the thought that the
udience pays its i)wn penalty. Per-
naiiy I have tried to cultivate a
eling of resignation, and more and
ore I have tried to play for myself
nd my colleagues, but I always end
y feeling sorry for those judicious
uditors who have paid to hear the
lay and see the best that we of the
ompany can give them. What they
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Guy n. Pout, who takes excep
tion to untimely laughter at
his plays.
paid for they do not get, because
someone chooses to play the fool.
"I do not presume to say that the
actor has the faintest right to dictate
what an audience shall think of him
or of the dramatist, or what it shall
feel. I like audiences that are human,
that laugh and weep and applaud and
feel. They are an inspiration. But
there is a time for all things, and it
does not seem to me that it requires
an extraordinary cultivated taste to
know the time only a little sense and
right feeling."
HUN OPERA FAILS WHEN FINGER
OF SHAME POINTS AT ACTORS
Americans Drive Out Performances Used by Kaiser to Enlist Sympathy
for Germany During War.
EW YORK, Nov. S. (Special.) well known to those who have learned
how to trace down German propa
ganda among our own people. How
ever, from the purely artistic stand
point, the only one perhaps which
should be handled in these columns, it
may be said that the performance at
the Lexington theater were quite as
much of an offense against art as the
giving of them is against decency.
Perhaps, after all, -the American
government knocked out the strong
est prop upon which they had counted
when Dr. Carl Muck was sent back to
his country, notwithstanding the
writhing and struggling which he
affected in his attempt to remain
here. Had the dailies printed the rea
son of his internment and had there
been publicity about just what did
happen among the singers who have
chosen to remain in this country for
the purpose of "keeping alive" the
works of the German masters there
would not iw be danger for pedes
trians around the neighborhood of
Lexington avenue and . Fifty-first
street. Incidentally it may be told
now that Otto Goritz has admitted to
having sung an ode celebrating the
sinking of the Lusitania at a party
given at the home of Hans Tauscher,
and there ls no reason to believe that
he has undergone any great change
or heart.
might have been expected,
German opera at the Lexington
heater turned out to be a fiasco of
rime order, not. Indeed, because of
my political action, which is quite
eslde the question, but because of
xeeedingly bad performances, turbu
ent surroundings and the finger of
name turned against every individual
ending him or herself to the scheme.
Germany broke loose here just as
t did on its own soil all the years
luring which American artists were
lattered and cajoled for reasons
which have since made themselves
understood. No matter what German
.rtist was compelled to go without
ngagement, there was always room
or an American in the "royal" opera
biouses of the kingdom of tho kaiser.
whose personal interest was indeed
Jeven greater than it may have seemed
Jto be. Music of such gigantic masters
were developed in Germany was
Khe most powerful manner of holding
the sympathy of the outer world be
cause of that ever-present hypocrisy.
we are not fighting German music.
Not satisfied with allowing " the
works of Beethoven, Brahms, Schu
bert, Schumann, even Wagner, to take
their places naturally on the pro
grammes of every description, the
Germans now in this country, aided
and abetted by the few Americans
who hold German music as a fetich,
flaunted Itself in the face of a coun
try well nigh torn to shreds from the
effects of the diabolical war "made in
Germaity."
However the public may feel about
the situation over on Lexington ave
nue, a few things should be under
stood and people should be set aright
about the matter. There is no espe
cial objection to works of the German
masters in our own houses and lan
guage, but to raise a temple in glori
fication of Germany seems too much
to endure by those who have lost
their dearest, while our hospitals are
filled with cripples, while every few
days there are deaths from the deadly
gases and from the hardships through
which our men have passed, while the
nerves of thousands of returned men
are in such a condition as to render
them almost helpless-
Nor must it be believed, as these
German sympathizers would like to
have us think, that the demonstration
against opera in German by Germans
and German sympathizers comes from
the soldiers and sailors. It comes
from the heart and soul of every true,
loyal and honest American in this
country. It is the natural resentment
against an affront the like of which
has not been perpetrated since the
sinking of the Lusitania, as it has
the same effrontery, the same lack of
understanding of the decencies of life.
L the same taunt of "Deutschland uber
alies, tue same determination to pro
claim Germany from the housetops of
our country and to enmesh our own
people to sirch a degree as to make
them blind to their own - 'rocity in
affiliating with the enemy the treaty
is not yet signed.
The crying pity Is not even that
the Goritz, Braun, Obert army is
shouting aloud its triumph over the
spineless people who are weak enough
to permit this thing because they are
fed with the pap of "German music,
but it is a tragic shame that young
American singers should be inveigled
into the idea "why not get experi
ence here so long as it offers itself?"
Of course the German people oper
ating their propaganda at the Lexing
ton theater will entrap every Ameri
can young girl willing to fall into
the trap. Quite as naturally these
aspirants, all too long discouraged
because our own country has not yet
made a place for young singers who
need operatic experience, close their
eyes to "politics." prate about "hate"
being supplanted by love for your
enemy, and all the line of talk so
"When the doors of the Capitol thea
ter opened on Friday evening there
was a burst of astonishment from the
lips of everyone who entered what is
easily the largest theater In th
world. The magnificence of equip
ment, the splendor on all sides, the
originality aa well as the entertain
ment, proviaea certainly dazzled an
audience which practically filled the
house. When the announcement went
forth that instead of offering an or
chestra, patrons of the house would
be regaled by a full brass band, it
was but natural to question the wis
dom of such a blaze of sound, but
when Arthur Pryor and his concert
band of 70 pieces opened the pro
gramme it was immediately proved
mat ine size or tne nouse made this
not only agreeable but delightful.
In estimating the seating capacity
or tne uapitoi theater it is of espe
cial interest to indicate the number
of persons that can be seated In other
large auditoriums where music is
heard. The Hippodrome, for instance.
seais bzj, tne Metropolitan ODera
house 3306 and the Manhattan about
the same; Carnegie hall seats 2683
people, all exclusive of those possible
to place upon the stage. The Capitol
seats in its auditorium over 5300, and
the seats are arranged so that the
stage is visible clearly from almost
every point of the compass. The ac-
coustics, too, are unusually fine, ex
cept tnat, owing to the size, much
dialogue cannot be heard, although
singing carries clearly. The color
scneme is exceedingly beautiful, set
ting forth the empire style to its best
advantage, in fact overworked as is
the old phrase, "it must be seen to be
appreciated," it is the only manner in
which the splendor of the new house
can be described, and to describe U
would take an entire issue of any
paper. It ls not surpassing the limit
of truth to say that nothing can be
compared to the interior panels, the
works of art in mural decorations, the
marble stairways, the crystal chande
liers, the dark walnut massive walls
In any publie building of this coun
try, not excluding the Metropolitan
museum of art or the National library
at Washington.
people hope soon the exact pro
gramme may be repeated. It ls well
worth a second hearing.
The Carrie Jacobs-Bond Musical
club met yesterday at 255 Glenn ave
nue, the hostesses being Miriam
Tobey and Virginia Burdick. The '
following members presented a pro
gramme under the direction of Mrs.
Carrie R. Beaumont, a social hour and
refreshments closing the session:
Etelka and Imboden Parrlsh, Marian
Zollinger, Miriam Tobey, Virginia
Burdick, John H. Bagley, Margaret
and Elizabeth Reynolds, Lewis and
Frances Jordan. Dorothy Gruber, i
Irene Horn, Helen Smith, Eleanor and
Marjorie Scott, Charlotte and Dorothy
Griffith, Lucille Dixon, Gayle Birrell,
Helen McCraney, Lou Ann Strong,
Virginia Hale, Eleanor Boyles, Ester
Bliss and Margaret Hume.
.Campbell's American band of this
city, Percy A. Campbell owner and
director, has been engaged for a
series of concerts at the show of the
Pacific International Livestock asso
ciation, to be held in North Portland
November 17-22. November 16 the
band will entertain, with music, vis
itors at the stock show and also dur
ing the remainder of the day will
serenade hotels and the business sec
tion of the city. Excellent pro
grammes have been prepared by Mr.
Campbell.
crowded with, a kindly disposed,
friendly audience. Both girls had
practiced faithfully for this recital
and had mastered all their solos and
duos. The result was that they both
made creditable appearances in ren
dering difficult yet pleasant-to-hear
music, and made the recital notable
in the memory of the audience as one
of more than ordinary performance.
Both Misses Helme and Wolf give
every Indication, even now, of win
ning brilliant reward at piano endeav
or. The selections were from Cho
pin, Moszkowski, Dvorak, Chamrnade,
Mendelssohn, McDowell and Kevin.
Invitations have been issued for the
debut of Miss Helen Douglas O'Don-
nelf, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. J.
O'Donnell, at a muslcale and recep
tion in the crystal room of the Hotel
Benson Monday night, November 17.
Miss ODonnell. who has been pre
pared for her concert work by John
Claire Monteith, will sing a pro
gramme of songs, with Miss Ida May
Cook as accompanist. As .this ls Miss
O'Donnell's first formal appearance in
recital, considerable Interest is be
ing expressed in the event by the
large number of friends who plan to
attend.
The Monday Musical club met last
Monday and enjoyed a fine musical
programme by Walter J. Stevenson,
basso, accompanied on the piano by
Mrs. Hening Carlson, and also by
Miss Gertrude Hoeber, violinist: "A
Shipmate of Mine" (Sanderson), "Give
a Man a Horse He Can Ride"
(O'Hare), "In Circe's Garden" (Hig
gins). "My Lovely Celia" and "Tom
my Lad. Miss Gertrude Hoeber
played several violin solos: "Pizzi
cato" (Thome), "The Bee" (Schubert).
Her second group included: "Just to
Be Near You" (Fox), "By the Waters"
(Lieurance). Miss Hoeber's accom
panist was Miss Kathleen Harrison.
This music programme was played
at a "pop" concert of the San Fran
cisco Symphony orchestra, Alfred
Hertz, conductor, last Sunday after
noon: Overture. "A Midsummer Night's
Dream (Mendelssohn), andante can
tabile from symphony No. 5 (Tchai
kowsky.) "Carmen" suite (Bizet),
rhapsody No. 2 (Liszt); (a) "Minuet"
(Beethoven), (b) ."Humoreske" (Dvo
rak); "Ride of the Valkyries" (Wag
ner). The untimely death of Mrs. Joseph
Dieme-r, nee Caroline Lowengart,
daughter of the late Mr. Samuel Low
engart, was not only a sad blow to
family and friends, but a loss to the
music lovers of Portland.
Miss Lowengart was a good singer.
She had devoted practically all her
life to music, studying in Paris and
New York, and previously in Port
land under the tutelage of Mr. Hutch
inson. Her death came Just as ehe
had achieved success In her work.
Christian Olsen Skans, soprano,
will sins; "Day Is Dawning in the
East" at the 40th anniversary and
district conference of the Emanuel
.Lutheran church at the morning ser
vice. Mrs. Skans, who returns to her
musical activities with new-found
beauties of, voice, is busy at ad
vanced coaching with John Claire
Monteith.
Roy Marlon Wheeler played a pro
gramme of nine compositions by
Beethoven, before the Schumann so
ciety. He is a mature pianist of
marked talent.
Mrs. Jane Burns Albert, soprano,
will give a concert at the Men's Re
sort Saturday, November 15, at 8 P. M.
The Vatican choirs from Rome.
Italy, are billed to sing in concert in
Atlanta, Ga., November 19.
SAVE
YOUIR HAIR
FREE
Tvlicroscopic
Examination
WOMEN, DRY CLEAN
AT
E
Save five or ten dollars quickly by
dry cleaning everything in the home
that would be ruined by soap and
water suits, coats, waists, silks,
laces, gloves, shoes, furs, draperies,
rugs everything'.
Place gallon or more of gasoline
In a uishpan or wash boiler, put in
the things to be dry cleaned, then
wash them with Solvite soap. Short
ly, everything comes out looking like
new. ,
Nothing fades, shrinks or wrinkles.
No pressing needed. Do not attempt
to dry clean without Solvite soap
This gasoline soap is the secret of all
dry cleaning.
A package of Solvite soap contain
ing directions for home dry cleaning
costs little at any drug, grocery or
department store. Dry clean outdoors
or away from, flame. Adv.
ESTACADA REALTY SOLD
Two Important Deals Reported
Closed Recently.
ESTACADA, .Or., Nov. 8. (Special.)
Two important business deals have
just been closed here. The two store
buildings on the east side of Broad
way adjoining the pharmacy have
been acquired by J. W. Reed, who
lately sold his automobile agency and
garage. As he owns the pharmacy
building, this new purchase eiv3
him 90 feet front. He Intends to re
move the old buildings and erect a
handsome fireproof block.
The Estacada Feed company has
sold its property to IX. S. Morgan &
Bros. The former owners, Lee Bron
son. Milton Evans and Harry Reid.
have not decided on their future
plans. The new owners have lived in
this vicinity for some time and are
well known.
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Don't wait for baldness to overtake you. Act
while there is hair to save stop your hair and scalp
troubles while you can.
Prof. John U. Austin
Bacteriologist Hair -and Scalp
Specialist of Chicago
is now in Portland in The Owl Drug Store at
Broadway and Washington. He has a private office
on the balcony, where he can be seen any day
from 10 to 12 or 2 to 4 P. M.
He has devoted forty years to a study of the conditions
of the hair and scalp, and has discovered that there are
something like sixty different conditions to contend
Prof. Austin Says:
"I do not use an ordinary mi
croscope. I use one of the
most powerful optical ma
chines known to science. There
is no microbe so small that its
presence cannot be detected.
Once the cause is known the
relief is a matter of course.
But you must be
fair with me, with
Nature and with
yourself. You must
not wait until you
are entirely bald.
That means that
the parasites have
done their work.
There is nothing
left for me or for
Nature to work on.
The hair roots are
dead. It is when
the hair begins to
fall that you should
seek help.. ;The use
of mange cures,
hair tonics, vaseline
and elixirs is like
taking medicine
without' knowing what you are trying to cure.
"Let me find, classify and destroy the bacteria before they
destroy the hair roots. Nature will fight long and well, and
if given help at the right time will replace the lost hair with
new, stronger, thicker and more beautiful hair. I have been
successful in many cases of patchy baldness where the papilla,
or hair root, was still alive. I can help you."
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Dandruff Itching. Scalp Oiiy Hair
Split Hair Brittle Hair
Dry Hair Faded Hair Falling Hair
Too need immediate attention based on a proper examination and a thorough and
scientific understanding of the conditions you need the advice of Professor Austin,
which he will gladly give. His judgment in your case will be based on what he has
learned in hia forty years of active research.
Free Microscopic Examination
Both men and women ar invited to take advantage of the Free Microscopic Ex
amination of the hair and scalp -by Professor Austin this week. He has a private
office on the balcony, where he can be consulted any day from 10 to 12 A. M. or
2 to A P, M.
During the past two years Professor Austin has taught thousands of The Owl Drug Company's patrons how to stop falling hair, relieve
itching scalp, remove dandruff and put their scalps in a healthy condition.
Both men and women are invited to take advantage of the free microscopic examination of the hair and scalp. Women need not take down their
hair. Prof. Austin at The Owl Drug Store, Broadway and Washington
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power to the Eastern Railway & Lum
ber Co.
Plans are being rushed so that con
struction of necessary buildings may
be started as soon as possible and
the installation of machinery begun.
The contract with the city of Cen
tralla calls for the plant to be oper
ating three months before the con
tract Is effective, which will be three
months before October 1, 1920.
Cottage Grove Schools Gain.
COTTAGE GROVE, Or., Nov. 8.
Special.) The attendance at the pub
lic schools, which ls now 566, is the
largest In the history of the schools
for this time of the year, being exactly
100 greater than a year ago. The first
grade shows the greatest Increase,
with a gain of S3. The seventh and
eighth grades combined, with an at
tendance of 94, show an Increase of
23, and the high school shows an in
crease of 33. Additional teachers will
be added for the first grade and for
the combined seventh and eighth
grades.
Cottage Grove Eaters Contest.
COTTAOE OROVE, Or.. Nov. 8.
(SpeciaD-r-Cottage Grove pullets are
entered in the all-northwest egg-laying
contest at Pullman, Wash. Will
iam Hands & Son have shipped a pen
of six this week from their record
breaking White Leghorns. The con
test remains open for a year and birds
may be entered from anywhere In the
world.
Seward Does Xot'Own Waterfront.
SEWARD. Alaska. Oct. 1. (By
mail.) When the town promoters of
Seward laid out the town, they forgot
to take poppepsion of the waterfront
at the same time. As a result the
town has been compelled to ask per
mission of the Alaska Engineering
commission to build a float for the
use of small boats, the government
railway having shut the town off
from tidewater.
Miss Spencer to Teach at Albany.
HALSET, Or., Nov. 8. (Special.)
Miss Nettie Spencer, who has spent
the summer here with her sister,
Mrs. M. J. Quick, has taken a po
sition in the Toncalla hih school as
teacher of history, physics and Eng
lish. Miss Spencer has had experience
in schools in India and also in Berlin.
Farms Xcar Halscy Traded.
HALSET, Or., Nov. 8. (Special.)"
A deal has been closed whereby W.
A- Cummingrs has traded his 50-acre
farm five miles northwest of llalsey
to W. H. Biegrel for an SO-acre farm
four miles west of Halsey. Mr. Cum
mings pays a difference of $1000.
Both will reside on their new places.
MUSIC
(Continued From Page 10.)
As a preparation for the next con
cert of the Portland Symphony or
chestra Miss Jocelyn Foulkes gave a
lecture-recital before students at St
I Helen's hall last Thursday night and
own nome yesterday afternoon.
The subject was "The Development of
the Symphony," with special refer
ences to the dance and sonata form,
to the string quartet and concerts.
Miss Irene Reynolds and Miss Foulkes
gave illustrations at the piano.
Much has been heard in advance of
the western tour of the American
Syncopated orchestra and singers.
colored, and the popular appeal of
their concert programme, in which
symphonic poems, bits of Brahnu?. and
other high-class gems, are placed
side by side with "Jazz." . They have
made sensational concert appearances
in the east and are billed to play in
San Kranciscc tomorrow night.
The piano recital by Dent Mowrey,
the Portland-Paris pianist, which took
place in the auditorium of the Mult
nomah hotel November 1, was re
viewed in The Oregonian of last Sun
day. Suffice it to say the recital was
one of the important events of the
Portland music season and by his
splendid pianism Mr. Mowrey showed
he has won the title of a young and
highly talented American pianist of
high achievement. The recital was
so excellent in rendition that many
FOREST CLERKS TO MEET
Employes of District Xo. 6 Will
Confer In Eugene.
EUGENE, Or., Nov. 8. (Special.)
Some time after January 1 forest
clerks from the Fremont, Crater, Sis
kiyou, Umpqua, Siuslaw, Santiam,
Oregon, Cascade and Columbia na
tional forests will meet in Eugene for
one of the forest clerks' gatherings.
These meetings are planned in order
that the men may discuss different
phases of their work.
Similar meetings will be held at
Baker and Seattle. Clerks are ex
pected to be present from all forests
in district No. 6, embracing Oregon,
Washington and Alaska, at one of
these three places, except those from
Alaska.
SITE PLANT IS SURVEYED
Ground Is Prepared for Power
House at Centralis.
CENTRALIA, Wash., Nov. 8. (Spe
cial.) Preparatory to the erection
of a steam plant for the Sherman
County Light & Power Co., adjoining
the Eastern Railway & Lumber Co.'s
plant in this city, surveyor's are at
work laying out the ground. The
new plant will furnish electricity
and power to Centralia and also has
been awarded a franchise to operate
in Chehalia. It wiU furnish light and
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ave their children well dressed,
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