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Newspaper Page Texty THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JULY 18, 1920 STAGING COMMUNITY PAGEANT AND DRAMA OFFERS GIRLS OPPORTUNITY IN NEW FIELD If You Are Artistically Inclined, Ingenious and Like Music, Don't Become Private Secretary Nor Even School Teacher, Is Advice of Y. W, C. A. in Explaining New Profession for Talented Young Women. m i!-;: a JS 1 a . - J A'iJii.- .1 4.".) . Ik,-.? .WaL- ' 1.. . . fi ..lJ 2 - ' N- - - XV'-'- v'"1 k'- tfPT -"sS Z?jrs7yr- &2jry&f,&tsyp y5r-s stKrjsrs 'j'jfccs'-' iS'ytfW r -fwe vtfe vc to s , ALLi the wor proving lit all of the w the world's a stage' is Iterally true, and world loves a stage these days whether it be the boards of Broadway or a roughly-fashioned platform In an open-air ampltKeater. The art of acting has lost none of its charm with the passing years, it seems, and the Mary-Louises and Helen-Mays of the present dream as many dreams of playing Juliet to an applauding audience as they did in the good old days. But there is springing up a firter form of drama for Mary's imitative powers than the cheap vaudeville act and the tinselly musical comedy which has held large possession of the field for some years. There is coming the Pageant or Community Drama not new in the l.east, nut new" as a revival of one of the earliest forms of group acting. As it Is being managed in this day of much loved co-operation and large scale organizations, It is bringing into play all the arts in a community from the dancing and singing of the music-loving girls to the artistic lighting of the leading electricians in town; from the Ingenious designing of the community's dressmakers to the systematic management of the most clubifled of club women. City Pageant Open to All. V one is left out of the Community Pageant. Artists and art students make posters, playwrights revise the score to suit local needs, music teach ers and orchestra players plan the ac companiment; the politician gets the use of the town hall; drama lovers and the new theater enthusiasts plan the staging and costuming, and news men and publicity experts draw the crowd. It is a community affair that actually does depend on all sorts and conditions of people for its success. Because ' girls are the chief lovers of the footlight art, the Y. W. C. A. has a drama department whose aim it is to encourage the best there is in dramatic possibilities and to turn this natural feminine fondness for acting into channels of beautiful ex pression rather than the cheap and tawdry sort. This drama department. which is directed by Miss Hazel Mac Kaye, sister of the prominent Amerl can dramatist, Percy MacKaye, has been responsible for putting on com munity pageants in all parts of the United States in the past two years. not only sending directors to the towns to spend several weeks In super vising the affairs, but writing most of the pageants and following them up with some permanent organization to crystallize the community co-oper ation that has come into being. lOO to 1-UO Participate. The pageants have from 100 to 1200 participants, sometimes chief ly factory girls, as in the re cent industrial pageant (Through the Ages) given in Detroit; sometimes foreign-born women and girls; some times small children and school girls sometimes a little bit of everyone They are symbolic representations of great movements, historical themes, whimsical ideas. They are always wonderfully artistic, colorful, rhyth mical and impressive. Miss Sue Ann Wilson is one of th members of the, dramatic staff of th f. Y. W. C. A. who is traveling through the states this year putting on pag eants ln-large and small towns. Th most interesting part of her schedule, however, is what she calls the fol low-up" work, the organizing -o drama councils and drama workshops The drama council is a new idea, an idea of 1919. The name sounds a bit formidable and dignified; the Idea itself is most attractive and interesting. It mean gathering together into a definite Or . ganization the people in a community who, during a pageant demonstration have proved most interested in dra matic affairs. . Y. "". C. A. Furnishes Talent. It means building up a group tha will be an influence for . a bette drama movement. The council draws its members largely from Y. W. C. clubs in the beginning, but aims to attract anyone whose talents li In this direction. Councils alread formed have such memberships a this: a college instructor in modern drama; an expert pianist and com poser: a costume designer; Interior decorator; elocution teacher; teacher of aesthetic dancing; officers of the community "playhouse;" women in terested in church and missionary pageants; girls who want to learn stagecraft and costuming. The council can have a workshop wheYe miniature stages, like the one t r H A nViAinoponh a a A a a a i r simplicity in line and design, effec- ! tive color schemes, arrangement of settings, artistic lighting. (Miss Wil son carries with her three model stages, made by staging experts in New York, to show what can be taught in the most practical way through the actual making of toy stages.) Workshop Teaehea Production. The workshop teaches the planning nd- making of costumes: the Daintinx of scenery. In fact, all the practical rts necessary to a dramatic prod'ue- lon. The council should have a 11- rary of the best plays and poetic ramas; a list of the successful play wrights chiefly of modern drama; bureau of information on all mat ers pertaining to the drama. It alms to be an educational force a community and a center of ar- istic effort. It is an actual working start in the national - community rama movement, and, disassociated ntirely from the commercial theater. It is Interested in drama as a form artistic expression and not as a morvey-raiser. . . . If the "play's the thing" and the pageant and community drama are coming Into the favor of the people. CARTOONIST "DING" DEPICTS PLATFORMS AND CANDIDATES IT MUST B GFATfYTlfG TO J&V JZVttV-ODYSOGLAD. i' i If .us- '.If here is a new field for adventurous and capable girls, looking for profes sions of congeniality and uniqueness. If you are artistically inclined, music loving, ingenious, don't become a pri vate secretary nor even a school teacher. Look Into the drama move ment and see if your niche is'nt there. Chronometer Is Great Aid to Navigator. Le in War Time Stimulated The! Manufacture. MONO the busiest people supply XI. ing the Urited States with war materials during the great conflic were the makers of chronometers, the most accurate portable timekeepers known to science. Hundreds of chronometers were sent to the bottom of the ocean dur lng the world war. This alone caused a great shortage in the ordinary supply, while the equipping of the new American merchant marine is creating an unprecedented demand for new instruments. Each of th 2100 ships to be added to the national cargo carrying fleet under, the ship ping board s construction programm will carry two, and many" of them three, chronometers. At present there are virtually no chronometers to be had in the open III rOf'l. - . i ' C V .. A 7C7' ! '" Jt 1 ' I U iillllk VJyV JJ ---II. .a I market. Before the war England supplied the world with most of its fine chronometers. Chronometers are also made In America, though the English type still is most esteemed by sailors, according; to the Merchant Mariner. In ordinary times a good chrpno meter costs about'$300. The present price is $500 or more. From six months to a year and a half is necessary to make and adjust a chronometer. The mechanism is of the finest metals, and specially adapted to resistance to extremes of temperature. A high, grade chrono meter will keep Just as good time if kept in cold storage six months as in ordinary temperature, while a voyage, in the tropics will not ser iously change its time-keeping quali ties., - - In appearance a chronometer Is a small, metal-faced clock. It is kept in a wooden case, usually of maiiof riy, and Is swung on gimbals, to keep It always on" i level. It is sensitive to rough handling, and care U taken not to place it where it will be jarred. No cloe of watch tas ever yet kept perfect time, so there is always a elight gain or loss to a chronometer. rte of dally gain or loss is deter mined by observation ashore, and a card showing the rate Is made out and delivered with the instrument. This rate of error is allowed In all notations of lime made from the nstrument for working up observa tions made at sea. A gain or loss of a second a day Is considered a "large rate for a good instrument. The chronometer completes, with the compass and sextant, the trio of Indispensable Instruments required in modern navigation. By its aid, longitude, or the1 east or west posi tions of a ship, is determined. Longitude baffled all navigators until the chronometer came into use in 1735. England was the first nation to ccpe with this great problem. In 1714 It appointed "commissioners for the discovery of longitude at sea," and authorised the payment of large prizes to stimulate research to the dfcpired end. This commission' ex isted until 1S28 and distributed more than $1,500,000 in prizes. The .chief prize offered by the commission, $100,000, was won by John Harrison, a Yorkshire watch maker, who spent his life in perfect ing the chronometer. Lewi s ton to Preserve Old Luna House Record. Document to Be Placed in Library Ilecnuse of Hlatorie Value. LEWISTON, Idaho. July 17. The purchase of the old hotel regis ter of the Luna house, Lewiston's his toric "early days" hostelry, will be made by the city from Mrs. Evange line Kyl present owner of the book, and the, document will be placed in the city library as one of the records of the pioneer days here, according to directions given by the city coun cil. Mrs. Kyle is the daughter of the late Charles F. Leland, pioneer resi dent of Lewlston. The register, which covers the pe riod from 1862 to 1884. contains the information appearing in the modern hotel register and in addition con tains records ' of many important events of. the town's early days, giv ing facts of robberies, murders and hangings in the settlement. FIREMEN WILL ORGANIZE Oregon City Men Discuss Plans for Paid Department. OREGON CITY, Or.. July 17. (Spe cial.) About 40 firemen, representing all the companies of Oregon City, met at the fire hall Wednesday night to discuss plans for the new organiza tion that will be made when the city installs a paid department. The firemen propose to keep the de partment Intact and to organize the companies into one body, with the ex ception of the Klyville company, which for geographical reasons would be maintained at its present location. Power Plant Is Enlarged. . FOREST GROVE. Or., July Ilk (Special.) A $15,000 unit Is being added to the Forest Grove power and light plant. The machinery arrived the past wsek and will be installed Just as fast as workmen can assem ble the equipment. FOr more than ten years Forest Grove has owned its power and light plant, but the demand for electric energy has In creased so rapidly that the equipment had to be enlarged in oder to keep pace with the development of the community. When the machinery is installed ths capacity of the plant will be more than doubled. UWCLE BIJ TAFT SEEMS TO THINK THAT SWING- WAS BUILT TO JIVING. IN. V SSi-i ilr: The Prime Minister, by Harold Spender. Illustrated. George H. Doran Co., New York city. It is not difficult for the student of International politics or current history to guess that the central fig ure of "The Prime Minister" Is David Lloyd George, prime minister of Great Britain and Ireland. The book now under review is one of paper covers and It consists of 358 closely printed pages, with ap pendix and index. It is a faithful, enthusiastic word-picture or record I of Lloyd George, the man and doer. xc is a nigniy appreciative presenta tion, and also one of. intimate revela tion, as becomes a friend who has. known Lloyd George intimately for many years. Lloyd George was born in Man chester, England, January 17, 1863, the son of a Welsh .schoolmaster, who originally had been a farmer. The father William George died when he was 44 years old. and at the age of one year and a halt Lloyd George was brought to ' the Welsh village .of Llannytumdy by his uncle, Richard Lloyd. The latter practi cally became the boy's foster-father, and cared for and educated him out of his slender means, -as his own. Richard Lloyd vat a master shoe maker. It Is not permissible In this re view to enter extensively into a con sideration of Lloyd George's -busy life space not now admitting. In this, book the reader meets Lloyd George largely as the man, the poli tician. the statesman who resolutely carved out his own fortunes. His political activities and family life are strikingly mirrored. It is shown , that Lloyd George's supreme political weapon was and is still his power of public speech. His skill in oratory In winning over to his own way of thinking refractory audiences Is Instanced. His power as a high-class persuader . or con ciliator is often noted. It Is pointed out that Lloyd George Is best in attack, and as he explains It, "With the world in st6rm. I re joice. I love all this smashing of windows and tumult of nations." Lloyd George's services In helping to win the big war are described in detail, and this quotatloa-ls signifi cant: "General Ludendorf (the Ger man chief of staff) finds the chief reason for the German defeat In the war spirit which had been aroused in England under the leadership of Lloyd George, and in France by tha inspiration of Clemenceau." (Pag 270). Lloyd George is described as being practically a .teetotaler. His one out-door game is golf. He is fond of singing Welsh hymns, and lik'ea Byron as" a poet, George Meredith at a prose writer, and .Handel as a composer of music. Mr. Spender writes that once he and Mr. Lloyd George attended a Roman Catholic church of worship, and that Lloyd George listened at tentively to and liked the chanting in Latin. The church of Llovd George's boyhood Is the Disciples of Christ, or Campbelites. To sum up. It would seem from Mr. Spencer's book that Lloyd George sprang up as a defender of Britain In war and victory, much in the same spirit as Abraham Lincoln emerged to save America in 1861-65. It has been hinted by one or two reviewers that this book really is an autobiography. written by Lloyd George himself. This is unkind. Modern Spiritiam, by A. T. Schofle-ld, M. D. V. Blaikaton'a Son Sc Co., Phila delphia. N Dr. Schofleld writes from London, England, after experiences connected with the recent big war. He gives a message of 260 pages and presents fairly and squarely a picture of mod ern spiritism in creed and practice. With regard to the residue, attrib uted by spiritists to the agency of spirits of the departed. Dr. Schofleld thinks that It is improbable and that It is far more due to some minor form of evil spirits (page 249). Good and evil In spiritism are pointed out. Woman, hy Magdeletne. Marx. Thomas Seltzer, New York city. From France come statements that this new novel is a genuine sensa tion, even in that old country where love Is classed as the highest emotion. It Is even stated that in France, "Woman" Is the subject of lectures and essays by college professors. "Woman" will be measured by the American reading public as a daring love-poem in phrase, in which the in- BttcIosefh MAOuecN. wni"My imn WJa g 'VklJ' wwtfcawywswgsg t conventional is ever present, where suggestlveness is surpriging. in woman, me auxnor is a, real ist who is more advanced than Thomas Hardy or Vola. The story really is a soul's confes sion, a woman's diary written in such intimate terms that the blase reader is startled out from his customary complacency. In "Woman," the French heroine has no name. In flaming-torch Btyle. she tells her hopes and fears about love, when she waa in girlhood; about how she ran away from home when her father struck her for accidentally breaking a vase. When she was about 20 years old; how she found employ ment in an office: her first lover, marriage, motherhood, another lover, a widow by the war, and her wor-I ship of her only child, a little boy. It would seem in summing up that the author has touched now and then on forbidden themes. Urn. Wilson's Cook Book, by Mrs. Mary A. Wtlsnn. J, B. Llppincott Co., Indianapo lis. Ind. Numerous new recipes, based upon buying, exacting economic conditions, form the kernel of this excellent, in structive and friendly cooking book. Our author is the inspiration of "Mrs. Wilson's Cooklng School, Phil adelphia;" was formerly Queen Vic toria's culsiniere: instructor in do mestic science in the University of Virginia summer school, Charlotte ville. Va.; and Instructor in cooking for the United States navy. Mrs. Wilson has departed from the heavy cook-book style, her lessons are sensibly presentea without the garnishment of French words, and what she writes is easily understood. Eaar Leasons in Klntein. by Edwin E. lossan. M. D.. Ph. D. Illustrated, lfar count. Bract St Howe. New York city. Dr. Slosson Is literary editor of the Independent and associate In the Columbia school of Journalism. Dr. Einstein of Berlin, Germany, says there are Just one dozen men In the world capable of understand ing his latest paper on his new "Theory of Relativity." The theory tn question, as to space and time. relates to profound mathematics, and Is said by experts to be a new view of gravitation. Dr. Slosson writes interestingly but profoundly in explaining this diffi cult subject. presenting Jnne Luther. Little. McBae, by Mark Lea Brow a A. Co.. Boston. Bright and lively. The heroine is Miss Jane McRae. motion-picture ac tress. She has three suitors, and the action of the novel is one of suspense. She marries a vaudeville singer in a moving-picture house, and their marriage is unhappy. Out of the gloom comes a real lover, who Is an American , of ficer with the army in Fiance. Then, things happen fast. The New Merrhane Marine, by Edward N. Hurley. The Century Co.,, New Tork city. . . This Is the second volume In the Century foreign trade, series, and is the work of the former chairman of the United States shipping" board. The book, which extends to 2!6 pages If '? . : j.. - "3 - 3 (David Lloyd Henrge. the central t figure in "The Prime MlnU- with index. Is thus dedicated: "To the American boV whose duty it is to maintain 'our flag upon the seas, now that it has been restored there." The greater part of the book deals with the future of the American merchant marine, with valuable sug gestions as to dangers to avoid and Opportunities to develop. ' For back ground purposes, the author also sketches the history of American shipping. It is a book both for the alert general reader, and for the man who Is especially Interested In the growth of American foreign trade. Mr. Hurley says In his foreword: "It has recently been my good for tune to serve my country in a ca pacity that brought me into close contact with the forces that are planning and developing the world trade and shipping conditions of the Immediate future. My observations ana my studies have made some pro- : found Impressions upon my mind. In consequence of these Impressions. I am devoting this book to an effort to Induce all who read it to shake off tfTe shackles of our introspective past, and to think of American com merce and American, prosperity in terms of American ships. There are only two kinds of civilian: that of (say) England or Switzerland on the one hand, and that of Afghanistan and Thibet on the other. The dif ference between them is chips." Mr. Hurley is a native of Illinois. His services during the recent war as chairman of the United States ship ping board and president of the emergency fleet corporation, which began the transformation of Amer ican dependence to American inde pendence in shipping matters, are well known. Mr. Hurley now has gone back into business, but his in terest in our new merchant marine seems to be unabated. The Port of New York, by Thomas E Rush. Illustrated. l'oubleday Page & Co.. Carrten City. X. Y. To make It easier for business men officials, teachers 'and students to understand New York harbor, and to riemnnd the utmost eomnetene n f ! New York as a port. Is the main pur- pose of this book. It is written from the experience and studies of a sur veyor of customs pf the port, respon sible for directing nearly 2000 federal employes in applying America's policy to the business which enters and leaves America's first port. So says our author, who writes from facts gained in his official posi tion as surveyor of the port, of New York. He ably discourses the free port proposition, a programme for port development, the .American mer chant marine, and other studies. The pages are 361. A valuable picture of maritime and industrial New York is presented. It is stated on page 17 that the original Holland Dutch exploiters secured title from the Indians to what now is Manhattan Island, for about $24, at present rates. The Light Out of .the East, hy s. R. Crock ett. Geo. H. Doran Co.. New York city. Here we have a great novel, one of commanding importance, the posthu mous work of one of the most famous story tellers that modern Britain has produced. The novel tells of a new earth, of the reign of peace, love and blessed ness. The hero is Christopher, a monk of the order of Sepulchrians. called the white pope. He is pictured as a great personality, like one of the old pro phets mentioned in holy writ. On page 253, the white pope Is pictured as having ascended into heaven. ,The story Is told by Lucas Cargill, a Scot, and afterward a London newspaper man. The opening scenes are in Italy. The book reads like a vision. Buffalo Rill's Cosmopolitan I.lfe Story. Illustrated. Book corporation. New York city. Written by Colonel W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) in the first , person singular, and illustrated by N. C. Wyeth, this book of 328 clearly print ed pages mirrors not only a remark able personality, but also a wild west that alas! that le no more in its pic turesque significance. It is a thrill ing American story one that the reader cannot read unmoved. Secrets of Dethroned Royalty, by Prfnc-ss Catherine Radilwlll. Illustrated. John Lane Co., New York City. Now that many of the royalty folk of Europe are down and out. due to war and revolutions, it appears to be safe for this author, who In private fife is Count Paul Vassili. to make ANY&ODY CAN GET A GOOD OMMENDATION the "sensational revelations contained" In these 249 pages.' -What are classed as "well-authenticated anecdotes" "connected with Russian. Austrian and German royal personages and court life." and "only known previously to a small and se lect circle," are furnished. Karly Persian Poetry, by Professor A. ': Williams- Jackson. Illustrated. The MacMliian Co., New York city. Frofessor Jackson, head of th de partment of Indo-Iranian language in Columbia university, N. Y., is an enthusiast in the direction or Persia, and especially early Persian poetry; The present book evidently Is- a labor of love, and to secure the neces sary materials. Professor Jackson, made four trips to Persia in 190. 1907, 1910 and 191S. He now presents , a critique and review of the earlier poetry of Persia down to about tha year 1000 A. D-. so as to include Firdausis' Shah-Namah or "Book of Kings." the great epic poem of Persia. The book is a learned one, and cannot be estimated fully off hand. It is rather a book to which the scholar and Persian enthusiast will turn to, again and again, with eatrer Interest. . Notable chapters among the- ten are:- Persian poetry of ancient days; theC new awakening of Persian song' after the Mohammaden conquest:-- earlier 8a man id . period: from the, litr. pamanid period to the era of Mah' mud of Ghaznah: the round table of the latter; Firdausi. and the great Persian epic: and the Shah-Namah. with some selections translated. Follow the I.lttle Pictures, by Allen Gra ham. Little. Brown A Co.. Boston. . ; Skillfully and entertainingly told.' j this novel portrays a tale of hidden, treasure, with scenes mostly set; in rurnl Scotland. The character of Douglas Tavish is an unpleasant One" and is boldly sketched, but he and; his bad temper make up an impossl- ble man. The characters of Dr. Rob ert Seaton. American: Miss Betty Forbes and Miss Marigold Tavish. Scotch, are charmingly fashioned. Love and money are featured, princi pally. The Pnr Bringera. by HurTbert Footn-r. James A. JlcCann Co.. New lork city. A rousing, well-told story" of th Canadian northwest. BEACH GIRLS TO BE 'SH0F I l ilm Comedy to Bo Made Today at e Columbia Beach. Bnthing girl scenes for a movie comedy that Is being - produced In Portland will be "shot" at Columbia beach today by the Columbia 'Film company. More than 20 girls will be. used in the various sets, the taking of whicn will require moat of the afternoon. The beach, the boardwalk and the. groves will be used aa tho background. Among the many other amusements at the park today will te the hydro plane rides, the "bydro-merrie, the miniature railway, the merry-go-round, ths racing derby, bathing, dan cing this afternoon and tonight and. the v&iious concessions. The use of the sanitary kitchens with free gas for cooking is Increas ing daily. For picnic parties there are also txbles tnd every other con venience. The Multnomah Guard, band of 68 pieces will give a concert next Wednesday night from 1:!0 lo-M o'clock at the beach. The concert will be followed ly a dance. TACOMAN FOUNDS SCHOOU . y , 3000 Students Are Enrolled at Groat Lakes for Trades Courses. TACOMA, Wash., July 17. (Spe-i clal.) Organization from a handfut of recruits to the biggest trade school in the world containing rooms, work-; sh'ops and more than 3000 'Students, is the successful achievement of Lieu-; tenant-Commander E. E. Wilson, sort of Eugene T. Wilson, vice-president of the National Bank of Taeoma and former Washington state bank ex aminer. Lieutenant-Commander Wilson or ganized the station at Great Lakes in Chicago a little over a year ago. " Btarting by writing the text book on aviation mechanics. Then ha aet about finding the S00J men needed for the naval air force, which he ex pects to accomplish in two years. Every three weeks the trade school graduates 100 students-. Since tha' school started it has graduated mora than 1000 mechanics, and expects to turn out another 1000 fcefore No ' vember. - ZETTER omEC-r' ' .