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TIIF. SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 23. 1920 FEAST OF GRAND OPERA WILL OPEN AT PORTLAND AUDITORIUM TOMORROW NIGHT Brilliant Performance of 'Rigoletto" by Verdi Promised for Opening of Week's Engagement Here Sale of Seats Already. Is Reported to Be Large. -Advance THE big feast of grand opera Of fered at this time by the San Carlo grand opera company. Fortune Gallo, impresario for one week in the public auditorium opens there tomorrow night, with a brilliant performance of the Verdi opera "Rigoletto." The entire opera series in this city is under the management of the city of Portland, that stands good for all profits or. losses. But it is not prob able that there will be any losses, as the advance sale of seats already has been large. The cast for tomorrow night's per formance, at 8:20 o'clock, of "Rigo letto" is: Duke of Mantua. . . . Gilda , ftigoletto .lladdalena Hparafuciie Montenerone btgnor Gaetano Merola will conduct. Baritone To Be Introduced. In "Rigoletto," the management will introduce the new Spanish bari tone. Senor Vincente Ballester, said to be a most finished singing actor from the land of Columbus. Certainly he must needs be a finished artist, for shrewd Mr. .Ga.Ho to book him for the inaugural of the week, and in the cast with the veteran Agostini, Ada Paggi, the new mezzo, and Miss Mario. Pietro DeBiasi, ' the many-fathomed basso, heard here before, will com- plete the cast. The opera bill for the remainder of the week is: Tuesday nisht, January 27, "Aida;" with the great tenor, Salazar, Rademes. Wednesday afternoon matinee, "Tales of Hoffman." Wednesday night, "Madame Butter fly," with Rosina Zotti, as Cho Cho San. Thursday night, a double bill "Cavalleria Rustiana," and "Pagli acci," with Salazar as- Canio. Friday night. "Lucia de Ummer moor." Saturday afternoon matinee, "Car men," with Boscacci as Don Jose. Saturday night the farewell per formance "II Trovatore." The general musical director is Signor Gaetano Merola. Although it has up to now been the policy of the San Carlo grand opera company management to place im portance first, on general artistic ex cellance and beautiful ensemble ef fect, the present engagement of the company appears marked with in dividual brilliance, judging from the list of notables announced to appear. Program mrM Praiaed Kverywhere. mx N SSTr-: "-,1 ' L 3 ' 1 " . " ; V 1 - v it .t w f ' i " -1 ! 1 , nnn . ..Natale Cervi I 1&J W 1 ? nijf f "' i III 7fAc, - III and can usually force any number of men off the job through discontent and under the circumstances they have a kick coming. The greatest offenders In this re spect last year were the contractors who are working out Oregon's high way programme. The people of Oregon voted the bonds for the highways with laoor in mind. That there would be this work to fall back on was one of the biggest arguments for voting tke bonds. The public wanted labor to have the money, but labor probably does not particularly care that its own effort or the money that buys the ef fort should be spent in any way but that which will buy the greatest mile age without harming the men on the work. Road contractors in 1919 were the greatest "shoppers" for labor. At the beginning of the summer theirs were the lowest offers for common labor. being around $4 - and a little less, where other industries for the most part were close up to $4.50. Higher Offers Recorded, At the close of the season offers of 15 and even higher were recorded. This in itself would not necessarily have caused any disturbance if all the contractors were offering the same, but they were not. Jobs varied ac cording to conditions and pay through at least a 25 per cent margin. There were only so many jobs to be tilled in the road work, but instead of draw ing from the market only enough to fill those jobs and enough more to take care of the ordinary "turnover," the road builders really had twice the men tied up that they really needed, or probably three times enough. One man told me that he used 1800 men to do a job which should not have taken more than 700. This does not mean that there were 1800 men at work at once where there should have been but 700. but that a certain job, em ploying about 190 men, had about 700 different men working on it at dif ferent times, but all within less than 100 days. There were njen coming and going, and in town ready to come out. all at the same time. . The value of the job is not merely the dollar after the sign, but considers also the price of board! Two road contractors may have the same price on a job say J5 but the board might vary enough to make a big difference in the value of that work to the man who goes out on it. Following the boards on Second street showed clear ly how the employers were keeping the men on the jump in the race for higher prices. Naturally these men who did the jumping got nothing for their sea son's work, for it took all they made to keep in the highest-paid jobs, while the men that stayed on the Jobs could not help but feel the injustice of the situation that kept paying the highest pay always to the men that came in from the outside. The state highway commission gave the work on contract to the road builders and had no control over this feature. Nevertheless (because of the high cost of the labor involved) it turned down several bids. Others It probably accepted at costs that In cluded this waste of the most expen sive item in road building the labor and therefore the public in the end paid for the loss. Correction of Evil Likely. Recent organization in several of the big industries will probably serve to correct this evil In their own fields. However, should they be able to es tablish a satisfactory procedure for themselves, they would be affected by this disturber, for the road pro gramme will again be tne mggest user of "common labor and all the other fields of wages will have to be ad justed to meet the trend in that call ing. .Another point that will make the work of the road builders more diffi cult this year is that the timber In dustry, the other great employer of common labor, has set for itself a very satisfactory machinery that eliminates the bidding of one operator against the other. It also has changed its conditions so that it will probably be able to hold- its men pretty well. In other ways It has made the busi ness very unattractive to the radicals. The road building programme of fers the latter the greatest induce ment, for it still maintains the condi tions on which the reds can best thrive. 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All of which con stitutes a definite vindication of the t San Carlo management's dictum that i opera at the nrices charged can be From the strongholds of . art, 1m-J given capably 'and brilliantly, prcsario Gallo has garnered several of I The management says that the time the best singers, so, from the view- has come when grand opera belongs to the people truly grand opera, with splendid orchestra. choruses and scenic effects, as well as brilliant soloists. No other organization has succeeded in bringing - it to the door of the music student with anything like equal success, for the San Carlo has spread the love of opera over a large, area heretofore neglected and its position in the af fections of American music-lovers is undeniably secure. There is a spirit of utter progressivene8s in Its forces which has ' caused it to thrive with unusual financial and artistic results, and it now quite entirely in the west monopolizes the touring field. Dorothy Phillips in "The Right to Happiness," has a S5000 hat. In sev eral of the exterior scenes in "Ambi tion" he wears a straw hat, but ap pears In the interiors, a few minutes later in tne piay, wearing a oeroy. it was necessary to reassemble the com pany and rephotograph all the scenes In which the offending "kelly" ap pears. Charles Spers, who recently came into prominence 'in juvenile roles, is playing the lead opposite Bessie Love in her latest picture. has completed BIG DEMAND FOR LABOR IN NORTHWEST PREDICTED John Michel Declares Every Indication at Present Is That Surplus Will Not Suffice to Meet Demands in Every Line of Industry. w BT JOHN MICHEL. 1 ILL the . north Pacific states feel the crimp of a labor shortage in 1920? The year 1920 is to be the year of thrift, a national reversion from the extravagance of 1919 to the slower but safer way of wiser expenditures andi less of them. The shortage of most everything, that we expected would be .so quickly made up, "after the war," is becoming greater. The demand in spite of the need of re . trenching grows greater. Thrift is more than merely saving it is the best use that we can make of whatever we have to use. The na tional lack of thrift of 1919 was in nothing greater than the wastful use of our processes of production. Strikes were of course the biggest single factor in the waste of labor of 1919 in a national way. In, the North Pa cific it was a wasteful use of the men' that were working, for the strikes that did occur had little or nothing to do with waste of men and ef fort in these northwestern states. The3e few remarks are brought to 'mind by a conversation with sev , eral employers who quite frankly be lieve that we - will have a distinct shortage of1 labor In the northwest and that because of that we will again experience the troubles wliich made possible the waste inat occurred last summer, when careful students of the situation claim that there was no actual shortage, but that the em ployers of the "unskilled" men caused an apparent shortage. This resulted to the state and individuals a loss, the magnitude of which can only be guessed. These men who predict the short age for this year compare the con dition in the industrial centers today with what they ordinarily are at this time of the year. There is some un employment, but much of the win- to the weather more than to any seasonal decline in activities. The men who came in because of the decline in some industries. at least one of the big shipyards will reopen. But without that, the demand for men of ail sorts looks brisk enough. Will then the same -conditions which caused the loss to workers and managements in 1919 be again opera tive this summer? A little reflection probably indi cates the following to anyone who had followed the labor market of 1919: After the armistice and through the beginning of the year there was i A reduc Madelaine Traverse "Lost Money." - Bessie Barrlscale In "Her Purchase Price" is a brunette once more for the first tim since she starred In "The storms have been taken on again and the list of the American Legion shows for the most part -skilled or semi skilled and office occupations, so that the majority of the 700 ex-service un employed do not form part of the problem. The spring will open up with prac tically none out of work and the re serve which theretofore has been ab sorbed by the opening up of new work in summer, does not exist. , Big Demand for Men Forecast. At the present time there is every indication that the demand for men in every line of northwest industry, will be strong. I have been in prac tically all of the Willamette valley points in the last few weeks and even while the snow was on the ground there were few men looking for work and the employers generally were ready to take on more. At Salem, for example, there is to day no surplus of men and in a few short months a paper mill will begin 'operation with an immediate demand for 125 men. The expansion of the packing industry and the content plated erection of probably two more canneries before the next packing season gives some idea of the pros pect there. At other points the story is much the same. Portland has always been a heavy seasonal worker and the amount of construction, judging only from predictions of architects and builders, will be greater than 1919. When prospective builders held out. waiting to watch the trend of prices. Now that they are convinced that there is no immediate prospect of a change for the better, building will probably pick up, though there prob ably will be no speculative boom of cheap construction. There is the rumor, at last reports ter" dlptriss was temporary and due having considerable substance, that tion in pay was noted in the cases of several thousand .men In the metal trades industries and of quite a few in the lumber industry. For a short time, or approximately until May, there was a surplus of workers in Portland, mostly from the shipyards. Before the middle of the summer that surplus had been ab sorbed, and wages began again to rise, following only a little behind the rapid raise of the "common labor" or basic rates of the largest employes. Shortage Marks "Wage Rise. The raising of those wages had barely started when the shortage, apparent shortage began. Many employment agents can from their records show that there was no actual shortage of men, but that con- aitions lor which some of the em ployers were responsible caused a still faster shifting of men so that by Au gust the turrlover in many northwest industries was the heaviest on record. There undoubtedly would have been plenty of men to man all Industries, out tnere wre too many "shopping" tor tne increases. The thousands trav eling were the .big waste of produc tion in the northwest. That this is an actual waste is no doubted. The I. W. W.. who are the greatest travelers, reaped the benefit of this condition last year. They were the only ones that were really pieasea wun it. ror while labor ren erally is not adverse to raises, it real izes as much as anyone that the In ureases unuer inose conaiuons do no benefit the greatest number of wcrk ers, lor me cream oi tne wages roe to those who merely follow the top price, as it varies from place to place, wniie tne man who sticks on the jo sees nis own pay loilow the new comer's pay at some distance to the rear. If the man brought in by the added wage is a "wobbly" he uses the condition to very good advantage Doug Fairbanks and Tom Mix have been challenged by Art Acord, a west ern cowboy star, to compete against him in daredevil feats at a frontier tournament in Los Angeles. They have accepted the challenge and some wild performances are predicted. Gale Henry's comedy organization has installed a scenario department with a staff of trained writers to fur nish material for future releases. Mary MacLaren -took the count" for 20 minutes and was not able to work for two days last week, when Lloyd Whitlock dashed her head against a table in a too realistic scene 1 in "Rouge and Riches." - j With her latest picture. "Her Game," on point of release, and hav ing completed her role in the filming of "The Eternal Mother." Florence Reed will await the opening of a studio which is being prepared for her use in New York before commencing the next in her series of photodramas Meanwhile the star is on a brief tour with, her last season's speaking stage vehicle, "Roads to Destiny." v A long sea wall, 150 feet high, stretches out its protecting arm around the isle of Malta, in the Medi terranean sea. As the big ships steam into the harbor of Valetta the eye of the world traveler is readily attract ed by the massive wall of light gray, upon which is painted in bold relief a gigantic full length figure of a smiling Charlie Chaplin. Underneath the emblem of laughter, in big block letters, a sage motto is written: "Charlie, and the World Charlies With You Weep and You Weep Alone." ' Olga Printzlau - and Sada Cowan, joint scenarists of Cecil B. DeMille's "Why Change Your Wife," are enjoy ing well-earned vacations for a few days. Both labored long and arduous ly on this picture and they took ad vantage of Mr. DeMille's absence and the resulting lull in the titling work to loaf luxuriously. "The Miracle Man" did so much busi ness at the Brooklyn Strand that Moe Mark, owner of the place, estimates 7000 patrons were turned away. , A dealer in curtos sold Pauline, the former hypnotist, wno is now being starred in a 15-episode serial, an 18-foot totem pole shipped d J. Robert In from Alaska, as a good luck em blem. Mr. Pauline, who is a great collector of luck emblems, set the totem pole up on the boundary line of his unfenced back lawn. The new servant, employed by a neighbor, took advantage of tho opportunity afford ed by the pole to drive a hook into it for the purpose of stringing a clothes line on. This was too much for J. Robert Pauline. He had the curto dealer take back the totem pole. " This week a new Prizma natural color picture entitled "The Last of the Seminoles," will be ready for distribu tion. This release has Just come from the Prizma laboratories and is one of the most interesting subjects so far pui oui D- this company. It was taken deep in the Everglades of Flor ida, where 500 Seminoles. the remnant of the last of a nation of 50,000 red men. live. It is an interesting por trayal of the customs of a people al most extinct. H. H. Van Loan is much in demand as a scenario writer and several of the big studios at the same time were producing film versions of his stories. Madeline Traverse stars in "Con science," written by him as a vehicle for her, Karle Williams Is producing In the Vitagraph studio "Far East." and Selznick has engaged Van Loan to write a scenario for Eugene O'- Brlen. whtle"The Virgin of Stamboul" to be released under the title. "The Beautiful Beggar" Is another of his stories filming with Priscilla Den starred. A special replica of the an cient city of Stamboul was erected as a setting for this play. Bessie Barriscale and her husband director, Howard Hickman, are ar ranging for a tour around the world following the completion of their present contract. "Pursued by a Passport." is the title that should be applied to the comedy element in the recent departure of Marie Walcamp for Japan with Mac Rae's company to film the serial, "The Petals of Lao-Tze." After seeing to it that her auto and other impedi menta were safely on the way, she laid her passport on her dressing tabic and went away without it. A mes senger made a frantic dash from Los Angeles to Seattle, and was barely in time to prevent her missing the boat on which she was to have sailed. Kathleen Clifford will be Doug. Fairbanks' leading woman in his next feature. Marklyn Arbuckle. who featured in one of the productions of the Stage Women's War Relief series, has left the stage for the screen and will have a studio near San Antonio, Texas. Viola Harty, who forsook the lure of society in the east to become a screen star, left her blooded horses at home and Is now riding a hideous, hammer-headed little "pinto pony" around the studio lots, because her part In "Lasca" a horse. calls for that sort of" Orville Wright admitted the first thrill in many years of airplane ex perience when he watched Lieutenant Omar Locklear put a plane through its paces at Hollywood recently. Just to show the inventor what could really be done with the thing he had invented. 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