The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, September 26, 1920, SECTION FOUR, Image 57

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Newspaper Page TextTHE SUNDAY, OREGONTAN, PORTLAND, SEPTE3IBER 26, 1920 3 COAST FAVORITES APPEAR IN GOTHAM THEATER OPENINGS Margaret Anglin and George Arliss, Both Well Known Here, Figure in New York Plays That Are Making Good. BY ELIZABETH LOXERGAN. NEW . YORK, Sept. 25. (Special.) Among the openings of the past week were three that were of particular Interest to Portlanders. Margaret Anglin and George Arliss, both great favorites on the coast, made their appearances in new plays and Rida Johnson Young, whose plays have made much money all over the country, brought out a new pro duction. The west and east seem closely united in the theatrical game and there are few new openings that do not have ceveral familiar names among the players. "Poldekin," the new Tarkington play with George Arliss as star, has Julia Dean and Sidney Toler in important roles and all three make the most of their new parts. "Poldekin" differs from the ma jority of things that Booth Tarking ton has given to the stage. It is a satirical attack upon communism and other sorts of radicalism. It is' ami able and fair, giving ample opportu nity for clever lines. Mr. Arliss is a lovable sort of chap, considered a fool by those with whom he. comes in contact. But this characteristic cov ers a clever insight into things and he succeeds where many of the wiser ones fail. Sidney Toler has one of his pet detective parts and Julia Dean plays the part of an outcast. The jvlay is being seen at the Park theater, lately the home of opera in English. Margaret Anglin, after a long ab sence from Broadway, returned to the scene of her former triumphs and proved conclusively her worth as i leading actress. The play, "The Wo man of Bronze," adapted from the Trench by Paul Kester, gives her strong role that stands out above all others. It is the problem of the woman who has ceased to be attrac tive to her husband and who finds lierseir. abandoned lor a younger woman. The clash between the two is a wonderfully brilliant scene and Mary Fowler, as the other woman plays it well. The husband is a weakling and finds his way back to his wife, when she should have sent him away forever. This is the only weak episode of "The Woman of Bronze." John Halliday is excellent as the husband and Langdon Bruce well cast as the family friend. The produc tion opened the new Frazee theater and was one of Mr. Frazee's first of ferings of the season. If all come up to the standard set by Miss Anglin, he will wish he had a dozen more theaters to take care of the crowds. 'Little Old New York" came to town like a breath from the past Rida Johnson Young, whose "May- time had an old-fashioned setting, has scored another hit in her lates play. It is quaint and altogether de lightful from start to finish. John Jacob Astor is supposed to be the executor of the will upon which the story hinges. A little Irish girl comes to America to claim a fortune. I has been left to her brother and she comes in his poverty-stricken .clothes to claim the estate. The guardian, who has been chosen by law, doe not take to the "boy" at first bu later is won over and when the "boy' becomes a "girl" a romance is started. There are several unusual scenes in the play. A prize fight in the fire house is well handled, with plenty of comedy and surprises for the most hardened theater-goer. Genevieve Tobin makes the little heroine a de lightful person, though her boy's dis cruise fools no one except the actors In the play. Ernest Giendenning is well cast as the guardian and three good players in "Little Old New r f i i IflllK ttvi f y" r I Y . h W ' ' f -Jv I-1 111 i i pt y ' 1 Y A " J KtJ2', 5 ? A .v two-cent stamp Instead of the five cent postage required. This means that the recipients not only are obliged to pay the additional three cents but a fine imposed by the Argentine postoffice regulations equivalent to the deficiency, or a total of six cents. Many circulars and selling letters come with the two-cent stamp and "it may be readily understood how annoying it is to Argentine firms to have their correspondence treated in such a careless manner." The bulletin also comments upon "the lack of even rudimentary knowl edge of geography" shown by bo me' American concerns in addressing letters. It cites the instance of an important letter addressed by the chamber of commerce of one of the largest American cities to the stock exchange in -"Buenos Aires, Brazil." The ignorance displayed of the loca tion of a city of nearly 2.000,000 population is "to say the least not especially flattering to our Argen tine friends, who are very proud of Buenos Aires as being the metro polis of South America." Cruiser Yankee Which Sank 12 Years Ago Blown Up. First Use off Compressed Air for Marine Salvage Jtlade on HulL N1 EW BEDFORD, Mass., Sept 25. The cruiser Yankee, which was wrecked on Hen and Chickens reef in Buzzards bay 12 years ago and which sank and was refloated, only to go down again after drifting a few miles, has been finally lost to the navy. Wreckers who have been try ing for several years to remove the hulk of the sunken cruiser as a menace to navigation have blown It up and timbers of the old Yankee are now scattered on the floor of the bay. The Yankee, which was formerly the coastwise passenger steamer El Sud. was in transport service during the Spanish-American war and was continued on the naval rolls after ward as a cruiser. She went aground on Hen and Chickens during a thick fog on the night -of September 23. 1908, and slipped off into deep water. The navy's attempt to float her, made under the direction of Wash ington Capps, naval constructor, failed "and private bids were called for. As a result the first notable use of compressed air for marine. sal vage in this country was made by John Arbuckle of New York, a sugar refiner. He bought Peary's Arctic ship Roosevelt and made her the headquarters of his operations. After three months' work with the com pressed air meth,od the Yankee was raised and started in tow for this port. She ran into a ' storm during the night, heavy seas thumped her weak ened frame and one of the air ports broke. The Yankee went down again off Dumpling Light and. although the Arbuckle. wreckers renewed their ef forts and other salvage outfits did their best to bring her to the top. she stayed there for ten years before she was blown to pieces. ACTRESS REALIZES DESIRE TO PLAY PARTS OF' BOYS Miss Betty Baxter to Appear in "Robin Hood," Coming to Heilig Theater October 7, 8 and 9 Queer Little Woman Hates Skirts. if !s-s?j- sfJirs f j4rJ AN AC T.ESS who always wanted to 1 y boy parts is Miss Betty Treaty of Versailles Held Ethnologically Unsound. Ensrlinh Profensor I'rges Govern ments to Employ Anthropolo gics in an Advisory Capacity. York" are Donald Meek, Charles Ken nedy and Faul Porter. Next week, John Cort will open his season with a musical production called "Jim Jam Jems" by Harry Cort and George E. Stoddard, authqrs of Listen Lester." Ada May Weeks, the clever little dancer, will be featured in the production, which includes Elizabeth Murray, Gattison Jones, Zoe Barnett, Harry Langdon, Parish and Peru, the King sisters, Virginia Ulark, George Lawrence and lrma Marwiky. Nora Bayes is busy rehearsing "Her Family Tree" under Hazzard .Short's direction. Julius Tannen plays the leading mele role. The New York opening will come very soon. Richard Lambert, former general press representative for John Cort, who produced a couple of plays on his own account after leaving Mr. Cort. is interested in a new production that will move into the Punch and Judy next week. Alan Brooks is the author of the piece, which was pro duced about Easter time at Atlantic City under the title of "Easy Money." Its new name is "Merchants of Venus" and it will be produced September 27, strikes permitting. FIRMS OF U. S. CRITICISED Argentinans Complain of Failure to Use Sufficieirt Postage. BUENOS AIRES. Failure of the majority of North American manu facturing and exporting concerns to place sufficient postage on the letters they send to Argentina Is one of the details which is tending to cause an unfavorable opinion here of Ameri can business methods, says the bulle tin of the United States chamber of commerce In Argentina, The bulletin is convinced that at least 25 per cent of the letters sent here from the united states bear PARDIFF, Wales. Sept. 25. A sug J gestion that governments should employ anthropologists in an advis ory capacity was made by Professor Karl Pearson of London university at the annual conference of the British association, which is just being held here. The governments of Europe, the professor added, had all kinds of ex perts in their service, but jio ethno logical advisers. "One has only to study the peace of Versailles to see that it is ethnolog lcally unsound and cannot be perma nent, ne said. India, Egypt, Ireland, even our present relations with I America and Italy, show only too painfully how difficult we find it to appreciate the psychology at other nations." "If the spirit of violence he innate in man." the lecturer concluded, "if there be times when he not only sees red, but rejoices in it and that was the strong Impression I found when I crossed Germany on August 1. 1914. then outbreaks of violence will not cease till troglodyte mentality is bred out of man. That is why the question of troglodyte or hylobatic ancestry is sucn a Vfctai problem to the state. COMPANY TO BUILD HOMES Methods Used: in Helping Employes Buy Bonds to Be Used. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 25. Methods used in aiding employes to Duy liDerty Donas during the war are to be utilized to aid them in building homes. Ths is the leading phase of a housing scheme uruler consideration by the Los Angles railway, accord ing to announcement by G. J. Kuhrts recently. The plans contemplate-the setting aside of a fund of $150,000 to be loaned the employes at a low interest rate for home-building, the loans to be repaid by small deductions from the men's pay checks, Mr. Kuhrts said. Another phase of the plan is the building of "bungalow courts. where accommodations will be avail able for the company's employes at low rents. A Btart on this latte phase was made some time ago. Most of the new buildings, it Baxter, who has had her wish realized in "Robin Hood." coming to the Heilig October 7, 8 and 9. This ueer little woman who hated skirts and longed to wear trousers, even a child, is- the noted) Alan-a-daie the opera. I've always preferred boys' parts o those of the heroines in my plays," she says, "whether the latter were languishing Juliets or aggressive Theda Baras. I must make a most immodest confession I hate skirts always have always will. My earliest childhood recollection is of the heart- reaking discovery on the morning of my sixth birthday that I was no long- to be permitted to don each morn ing tho trouserette affairs that, up till that happy time, had served to garb my girlish figure. I cried all that first day. And on the second I went out into the barn and soaked said hated skirts In the water trough till the colors had all run together. This, I felt sure, would convince my parents and cause' a return to the eloved overalls with two separate and distinct legs. But no such luck. A ew dfess was instantly provided also a sound spanking. I had to be come reconciled to my entangling, but ladylike, habiliments. "As the years rolled on through the 1 expected, will be built within con venlent distance of the company shops or car barns. STAGE GIVEN TO MUSEUM Vehicle Carried 30,0 00 Over 85, 000 Miles to Yellowstone Park SALT LAKE CITY. Sept. 25. The 12-passenger stage coach Beehive, used to carry passengers in Yellow Btone national park before the Intro duction of automobiles, has been pre sented to the state, of Utah by th Union Pacific railroad. It is to b put in the museum at the state cap- itol building here. The vehicle, drawn by four horses, was used in the park Irom ifi9s until 1916 and it is estimated to have trav eled So, 000 miles and. carried upward of 30,000 passengers during those years. 25,000 COFFINS NEEDED Manufactory Installed! at Cher, bourg Under Army Management. CHERBOURG, Sept. 25. A cofti manufactory destined to turn out th coffins to receive the remains of American soldiers buried in France has been installed here under the management of Major Riley of th United States army. The major ex pects to have nearly 25,000 coffin constructed. Thirty carpenters are already at work. Remains of soldiers will be placed in a large warehouse near by and from time to time American trans ports will call and take them to America. . - ' ( 5 - - ntt- V' i : " ' 4 TODAY NEW BILL ' FEATrRK VAUDEVILLE FEATURE PHOTOPLAYS J. WARREN KERRIGAN In HI Powerful Dramatic Sneceaa. "NO. 99" TOM BROWN'S MUSICAL REVUE A DnJntr Musical Offering. Wltn Irene Drlory, Gun Kins and Many Deleet&bla Glrllea. Ward and Wilson Kins and Qneen of HoLnm. Myrtle Moore Trio In the Vannl Way." Verga and Marvin Thm Newnhoy Canmo and Hower Girl Tate and Tate. SenM-tlonal Series of Physical Ex ploits. Walter S. Ash Wiurd of the WurlltMr. COVnXOVS FERPOHMAXCE TODAY AI SATURDAY. o ripa ages of 6, 7 and 8, I suppose I more or less forgot about this child hood passion. I made some special inventions of my own with a clever use of safety pins I found I could ar range my knee-length dresses so that 1 could climb trees and play leap-frog nearly as well as the boys. Then I was taken to see a performance of 'Little Lord Fauntleroy.' It was my first visit to the theater, and the old longing returned. I decided to be come an actress. Not to uplift the drama or to be a great artist or star tle the world with a new romantic fervor. No such commonplace motives were mine. I had discovered by the second act that the title role was be ing played by a girl. And I'll tell you the dreadful immodest truth I -decided to be an actress so that I could wear pants. "Of course, I haven't always played boy's parts, but I've had a good many, especially in opera and musical com edy. I like Alan-a-Dale in 'Robin Hood' the best of any he's romance and youth and love and springtime all in one role a sort of operatic Peter Pan who never grows up. And then, besides," and Miss Baxter glanced down modestly at her stun ning costume of scarlet and Lincoln green, "don't you think the er cos tume I can wear in the part is a beauty ' SENSE OF HUMOR AND AID OF POLICE REQUIRED IN LONDON Strangers Can Find Way to Parks and Here the Landscape Architect and Amateur Gardener Will Find Fascinating Pictures. BT FLORENCE HOLMES. ONDON, Sept. 4. Special.) With a sense of humor and the help of a London policeman all things might be accomplished. That is the feeling of the stranger In Lon don. The London policeman knows the route of every bus, the where abouts of every famous and nearly famous building; he can advise on the weather, the town in general and al most anything in particular is his field of information. And the sense of humor? Well, it must be applied everywhere If one is traveling. You need it in London if you stand on a corner in your best clothes waiting for a bus on a rainy Saturday afternoon and after waiting for 15 minutes the bus arrives and the conductor shouts "Full up!" and the bus sails away. The rule of "al ways room for one more" is not ap plied to London busses; the capacity is definitely reached. My sense of humor was useful when I found myself on a bus part way up the tiny stairs to the top. clinging frantically to the railing. The bus gave a lurch and I lost ray equilibrium. Cut the conductor merely shouted. "Cherlo, hold tight." Although the prolonged rainy sea son has caused much uneasiness for farmers and) probably spoiled many a picnic party, it has made the country side, parks and gardens beautiful. The grass is as green as the hills of Oregon and the variety of bright perennials is unlimited. Little squares in the heart of the city look all the fresher for a shower, for London is remarkably sooty and dusty in all parts. For the landscape architect and the amateur gardener London and its suburbs are a series of fascinating pictures. My first sight of London parks was through the fashionable Hyde park. Of course, the "best peo pie" were out-of-town, I was told, but the gardens and lawns hadn t suf fered from the off season and served to attract hundreds. Hyde park's chief charm is Its winding drives be tween fine lawns . and under sturdy trees of many varieties. With a bag of peanuts in my pocket I visited Regent park. One is very popular with the army of squirrels if there are peanuts or cake crumbs to treat with. The park was full of or phan children on a much-anticipated visit to the soo, which Is In connec tion with the park. Bronze autumn colors were deepening in the trees and the first few leaves were falling. The informal arrangement of ever' green shrubs massed on the lawns, opening long, green vistas, made it hard to realize that the park is in congested part of London. Hampton Court took a day of my visit and it should have had a week The town itself puts the visitor in good humor, for it is clean and quaint and filled with dainty tea shops over looking the Thames. In this frame of mind the entrance to the place and its grounds could only be a success. i never hope to see such crnrrsnii perennials again. j'or the late -sea eon, tne colors were striking and finest of all were the pale nink hv- drangeas, the hydrangea panlculata. - iut, puintea oioom. This was massed in many places in the long uoruer ana was a center lor the vis ltors admiration. The olant will grow in Oregon and might beautify Portland homes, as it does the home or ivngnsh royal folk. Chrysanthe mums were just coming into bloom when I was at the court and asters were taking the place of phlox and cosmos were making their appear ance. The little blue micUaelmas daisy, similar to the wild one of the fields at home, was notable in its rich blue patches of color in the Doraer. Of course the yew trees were feature of the garden. Their dark green foliage made an interesting contrast with the lighter green of the lawns, btately avenues of trees in keeping with the dignity of the pal ace were peopled with visitors and down py the river bank picnic ham ase Ball Portland vs. Salt Lake TODAY Double Header Game Starts 1 P. M. pers were spread, out mis was out side the garden wall, for the neatness of the grounds will not permit scraps of paper and banana skins. And banana skins are ever in the waste baskets of the parks. I think going Into parks and eating bananas must be inseparable in London. Kew gardens, the great collection of plants from every part of the earth claimed another of my days. I was prepared for a catalogued effect of plants In the most, but the landscape gardeners of the Royal gardens have anaged to arrange dozens or airier ent species in a park-like effect Many of the walks are of grass and are lined with many kinds of tne same tree. And there is a lake bor dered with willows and decked with the red-hot poker and other flower lng plants and arrayed generally to invite one to sit down and wniie away the whole day. The lordly common oak of Britain seemed to me the finest tree in the park, although the chestnuts ran it a close second. Many of the Alpine plants which I saw on mountain tops in Switzerland I found In the Alpine gardens at Kew and the Oregon grape and many other old friends were there. Everyone in London owns a rain coat. Of course the statement comes only from observation, but everyone seems to possess such a garment. The raincoats vary from the veteran army coat to lovely rose and lavender fab rics, which are watetrproof. Possess ing one of these coats, the top of the busses is always possible and, inci dentally, it Is better than any per sonally conducted motor tour. Even In August and September I saw a big percentage of the Londoners in raincoats. I ULt mmsimi fir I " o) yl:lS"lrli llisgy STOCK COMPANY ii fcWawr.f-iiTBtavWi vii .-. w.tr ,wc iuoai, i Trail i f -iiiin( I - --Ji TinTf"'' H A 1 A H Town-Talk STARTING f Greatest Com- J J Excellent SUNDAY f j t'Smt. l y MATINEE TODAY ALL WEEK I I 0 From the Happy Play Factory of j Iiawai.B.$u; uias am u uics litavcri uvoamaia THE SENSATIONAL SUCCESS nBEFOREC ' I PLEASURE In trod lie In it a Mot1on-Tlrrtir Kplnode That Hm Become a Claaalc In ' I 1 j Comic Appeal. You Cannot A f ford to MIhb Thia Great I 1 Story of Love and Lau prater in the I 1 1 Potaaa-rerlnititter Family. ; I . 1 OB A " A 1 II f B ri Als NEXT fl Monday l I IS f wSX. rsfs" HI T ii - III -t I ii hum- X XJi' AVWJr tcywwi W II I jj a ..... . r Hinr.i.i, n..i ,.ui. m J I i IB -IM -1 LYRI C Musical Comedy 'TT)ANTAGE i TTBeejnaled Vaudeville Broadway at Alder. Matinee Daily 230. Twice iskUy 7 and Popular Price. WEEK COMMENCING TOMORROW'S MATINEE BROADWAY'S LATEST AD GAYEST FAD, THE REVUE DELUXE WTTH HARRY SIGMAN, PEGfiY MelVTOSH A D A BEVY OK FOOT LIGHT BEAUTIES. Keating A Flood, Owners Opens This Afternoon in 99 "IN HONOLULU ' Mike and Ike are very homesick but they get married, just the same. And they refuse to die during the honeymoon. Lyric Matinees Great Bargains 10 and 20 Cents Rosebud Chorus gives its contest Friday night, but on Tuesday evening the Country Store holds forth. Jazz, Pep 'n Everything THE ELM CITY FOUR Irte F rare New York Hippo. drome. THE FOUR HURSLEYS America's Foremost Aerial Stars. "THE LOST CITY" 7th Episode, With Jnanlta Hansen LARUE AND DUPRE In Parisian Sand Palntlnar. PAGE AND GRAY In Versatile Odds and Ends. PANTAGES ORCHESTRA H. K. Kvenaon, Director. 8PECIA.L. ADDED ATTRACTION, COLEMAN & RAY Introducing; Their Orlarlnal Walking; Dell and Featuring; Six Uttle DoUa for Six Little Ciirls at the Special Chil dren's Matinee, October 2. CONTIXTJOtJS PERFORMANCE TODAY COMMENCING AT ItSO MB i m J i ' A Great Musical Event LAURENCE A. LAMBERT Preaenta the MINNEAPOLIS : SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 5 75 MUSICIANS EMU, OBERHOFFER, Conductor FLORENCE JLCBETH, SOLOIST (Fiinu-Doua of Chicago Grand Opera Co.) At Municipal Auditorium Sunday, Oct. 3rd at 8:30 P. M. MAIXi ORDERS NOW RECEIVED Send checks, with self-addressed, stamped envelopes to L,. A. Lambert, 287 Washingrton Street. (.Add 10 Per Cent for War Tax.) BOX OFFICE OPENS AT SHERMAV-CLAY SEPTEMBER 30, 10 A. M. PRICES 92.00. f.1.50, Sl.OO AND 75 CENTS. MAIN FLOOR First 25 rows..2.00 Next 8 rowrs....Sl.50 FIRST BALCOXT SECOND BALCOJTT Center f2.0O Center tl.OO Sides l.SO Sides 75c ONE OF THE COUNTRY'S GREATEST ORCHESTRAS In a Magnificent Programme With Several Soloists.