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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, XOYEIJIBEIl 13, W21 7 IMPRESSIVE SPECTACLE HAS MADE BIG HIT IN NEW YORK "The Wandering Jew" Magnificently Staged and Presented by Superb Cast Other New Offerings Come In for Praise. ' ' y -j "V ' - ' i " V 'I IS I V ' .v " "1 V -x I" : If , ,r 1 X?r E BY ELIZABETH LONE1RGAN. ' NEW YORK. Nov. 12. (Special. David Belaseo and A. L. Erlanger brought "The Wan dering Jew" to town and it proved to be another impressive spectacle, magnificently staged and acted by a superb cast. The play centers about Mathathias, the Jew who, cursed by Christ, wandered through the world for centuries before he won forgiveness. There are four epiaod-ea Jerusalem at the time of the crucifixion, eight centuries later at Antloch. BOO years after that in Sicily, and then, at the time of the Spanish inquisition. . In each case, he is despised and reviled until at the last he is burned at the stake after delivering a scathing arraign ment of Christianity as practiced by the people of that day. Tyrone Power gives an impressive picture of the central figure of the story, his magnificent voice adding much to the beauty of the lines. Helen Ware has only one scene but plays with her usual fire. Howard I-ans, Belle Bennett, Albert Bruning, Thais Lawton, Sidney Herbert and Miriam Lewis all deserve special mention for their fine acting. The play is beau tifully staged, the lighting effects being of the usual Belaseo excellence. Lee Kugel introduced "The 6:60" to Broadway, with Lillian Albertson In the leading role. Faintly sug gestive of "The Little Journey." it runs from comedy to tragedy. "The STEALING KNIVES AND FORKS PRONOUNCED BAD BREEDING Society Folk Also Declared to Frown on Guests W ho Tell Them Their Repasts Are Unfit to Eat. BY JAMES MONTAGUE. OF course yuu may not want to be well bred. Some people don't. But you ought to know whether you are or not. Just the same. Then, if you are well bred, and don't want to be, you can cure yourself of the habit. If you are not well bred, yuu can be better bred, which isn't the punning bakery advertisement that it sounds like. We recently tried to find out if we were well bred by taking 22 tests which we found in a magazine. Wc failed. We passed about 50 per c?nt of the tests and flunked the rest of them. We thereupon decided we would get np some tests of our own tests that would really tell us something about ourselves. Here they are: 1. Are you clumsy? Do you al ways trip over the umbrella stand when, as a guest, you enter a house? Do you kpill the soup on the table clnhT Do you eat food with a knife 6:50" is the name of a certain train which carries a crowd through a tiny village every day and never stops until an unexpected wreck re verses things. Those on the "flier" are Introduced to the villagers, who are Just as tired of their monotonous existence as the rich people are tired of d-oing too much. The contact is good for all concerned and there are many readjustments before the wrecking car fixes things up. Miss Albertson gives a fine performance of the wife tired out by drudgery and the monotony of farm life, and Reginald Barlowe, who appeared in Mr. Kugel's first Independent pro duction, "Old Lady 31," is the old grandfather. Kate McLaurin, who has written several other plays, is the author, and other well-known members of the cast include Leonard Wiley, Lillian Ross, who was the kid sister In "Seventeen" two years ago and last season was in "Babs," Lolita Robertson. Hazel Turner and John Merkyl. There are no . Btars. but each one contributes a share to the play and the result is very satisfactory. Helen Hayes, star of "Babs" last season and this year appearing in "The Wren." will have a new play shortly when "Gilden Days" will be substituted for the Tarkington piece. The authors. Sidney Toler and Marion Short, are both known on the coast. Mr. Toler has often played in Port land, and a number of Miss Short's plays and stories are familiar to the northwest. She was one of the authors of "A Grand Army Man,' that is obviously Intended to be eaten with the fingers? 2. Are you rude? Do you say "rotten"' when your hostess asks you how you like the corn fritters? Do you sniff at the butter before you spread it on your bread? 3. Are you dishonest? Do you slip knives and forks in your pocket and take them home with you? Do you pick the pockets of other guests? 4. Are you quarrelsome? Do you get into heated arguments with your fellow guests and threaten to knock their blocks off if they don't agrte with you about the league of nations, or if they think Governor Cox will have a chance in 1924? 5. Are you gabby? Do you do all the talking and refuse to listen to anyone else? 6. Are you sullen? Do you sit !n a corner and refuse to say anything but "Aw. beat it outa here." when anybody addresses you? Economical Tralta Noted. 7. Are you a tight-wad?. Do you find an errand in the telephone booth when the waiter is due to bring the check? Do you ajraya wait to reach In which David Warfield appeared 10 or 12 years ago. and also dram atized "Shavings" from the Joseph Lincoln book. Of the 20 characters in the new play, only four are grown ups the rest range in years from 15 to 20. The play will be put on at the Gaiety, where "The Wren" is being' shown, so Miss Hayes will remain in the same houae in a dif ferent play. "The Right to Strike" tells ' an episode of a railroad' strike in a small Lancashire town, but the con ditions are typical of every country and particularly timely just now when strike troubles loomed so near. The theory of retaliation is the basis of this London production that Rich ard Walton Tully has introduced to America. In the excitement that comes with the shutting down of the railroads, because the demands of the men for more wages has not been met, a number of the younger men of the community try to defeat the ends of the strikers by running bussea. The strikers give violence and a young- doctor is killed. Then his friends decided uporf retaliation and that until the strike is ended they will visit the families of none of the men who have been responsible, directly or indirectly, for his death. One of the strikers tries to get a doctor to care for his sick wife and they all refuse. At last the dead boy's father goes, but cannot save her. At last a specialist steps in and saves her life. It emphasizes the rights of everyone to live and let live and shows that everyone has the right to strike If he will, but that the consequences axe far-reaching. Edmund Lowe, Harry Mestayer and Ronald Adair have the three leading parts the" doctor, the labor leader and the worker and there are a number of other good charac ters In this exceedingly interesting play. Sam Harris has "The Varying Shore" In rehearsal under tlie direc tion of Sam Forrest. The star is Elsie Ferguson, who makes her debut un der the Harris banner. Mr. Harris other New York shows Just now are Mary Ryan in "Only 38," "Six-Cylinder Love," with Ernest Truex; "Irv ing Berlin's Music Box Revue" and "The Hero." ' Ed Wynne in "The Perfect Fool" is due in New York shortly and "The Lonely Heart," staged by Basil Sid ney, will come in under the manage ment of the Shuberts. It Is a play by Edward Sheldon and has Margaret Mower and Beach Cooke in the cast, as well as Mr. Sidney in the double role of producer and actor. . Louise Groody, well known on the coast, is the featured player in a new Dillingham production which will follow "The Love Letter," in which John Charles Thomas kas been appearing at the Globe. With Miss Groody will be associated Oscar Shaw. Harland Dixon, formerly of Doyle and Dixon; William Kent. Ada Lewis, Maurice and Hughe. Peggy Kurton, J. P. Jones, Marie Callaghen and Ruth White. Anna Caldwell and Jerome Kern, wrote the piece and Ed ward Royce staged it. After spending some time away from the stage. Miss Billie Burke will come back in a new Booth Tarking ton comedy called "The Intimate Strangers," which will follow the Irish Players at the Henry Miller theater, under the direction of Er langer, Dillingham & Ziegfeld. Miss Burke Is, of course, one of the big gest favorites among the younger stars, and her return will be greatly appreciated by her many friends. It Is Messrs. Erlanger and Dillingham who will present Miss Maude Adams later in the season, her oirst appear ance in more years than one can re member under a management other than the Frohmans. No one knows the reason for the break, which came soon after the death of Charles Froh- man. "Anna Christie," which, its produc ers hope will prove a second "Irene." is due next week at the Vanderbilt i-hpr "Irene" had BUcn a jong ana prosperous run. The cast includes George Marion, Pauline Lord and Frank Shannon. Arthur Hopkins is the producer an Eugene O'Neill the author. w nen vy t , 1 1 n in vine,.? month in his new play. William Mor ris will nave a leaamg Gillette Is the author of his own play but the producing is in the hands of Charles Frohman. Inc.. which has presented his plays for more years than Mr. Gillette cares to count. Few managers will commit them selves about their western tours. It all depends on railroad conditions, theatrical conditions and a dozen other things. Reports from the road say that fewer plays have closed than usual. A critic commenting on this, remarks that one reason is that niat. ar nut this vear! Which may, and may not be the case. for the carfare till the other fellow has paid it? g. Are you disputatious? Do you always insist that every statement made by anybody else is based on ignorance or misinformation? Do you invariably pull out a 5 bill when, for example, a man says it will be a cold winter, and offer to bet him that it won't? 9. Are you slovenly? Do you like to sit around the house in your stock ing feet when there Is company? 10. Are you lazy? Do you keep right on sitting down when ladies come into the room and let them pass their own cake at afternoon teas? Boasting; Quia Prepared. 11. Are you boastful? Do you tell a room full of people in a loud tone of voice that you could buy and sell the ' whole gang and not think it worth while to record the transac tion? 12. Are you tactless? Do you ask ladies who have had family misfor tunes whether it was the penitentiary or the county jail tnat their brother-in-law was sent to in 1915, and how much time be got off for good be havior? 13. Are you intemperate? Do you come into a strange house asking the hostess to call you early because you are to be queen of the May? 14. Are you addicted to flattery? Do you tell a woman who is obvi ously $0 years old that she looks like a mere child, and ask her what board ing school she is attending? Do you insist that a very plainly furnished house Is far more sumptuous than the Vanderfeller mansion, where you dined last week? Test for Roughness Given. 15. Are you rough? Do you slap your host on the back or kick him In the shins as soon as you arrive? Do you pick up the rolls and throw them playfully about at the dinner table? 1. Are you hilarious? Do you laugh long and loudly at your own jokes, and do funny movie comedian stunts with the chairs and furniture? 17. Are you a knocker? Do you paste everybody who is mentioned, and complain at the way you are treated? Do you roast everybody in the room for their manners or their dress? 18. Are you selfish? Do you help yourself to the best parts of the chicken and take the last piece of pie? 19. Are you a gloom? Do you tell people all about your ailments and complain that you have indigestion i and headache and can't sleep or eat well, and would have an operation except that the condition of your heart would make it dancerous? Crookedness Is Defined. 20. Are you crooked? Do you cheat at card games and undercount your golf score and short change people when you pay your bets? 21. Are you peevish? Do you snarl at everybody, including your wife, in company, and make a. scene when ever there is a chance to do so? 22. Are you malicious? Do you tell ugly stories about everybody present, and recite all the embar rassing situations you have ever seen them in? If you are these things, gentle reader, you'd better stay at home. You really won't do in society. (Copyright, 1921, by the Bell Syndi- cate. Inc.) Astronomers to Meet to Fix Easter Date. , Vatican Announces Conference to Take Place la Rome Next April. ROME. Nov. S. The Vatican has announced 4.hat a conference of astronomers will take place in Rome next April under the presidency of Cardinal Mercier with the object of reforming the calendar and fixing Easter. The occurrence this year of Easter Sunday on March 27, within five days of Its earliest possible date, revived the proposal for a fixed Easter. No fewer than 16 Eastern will 'happen in March between 'now and the close of this century &n average of one every five years unless something is done to prevent the erratic wander ing of the festival between March 22 and April 25. Under the existing ecclesiastical rule Easter Sunday can fall on any of 35 dates. The present rule is that Easter must be a Sunday and that the ecclesiastical full moon (which is not the tame as the real moon) upon which it depends must occur on one of the seven days immediately preceding it. Thus, to have Easter Sunday tn its earliest date, March 22, the ecclesiastical moon must be full on March 21, which date must also be a Saturday; but so rarely are these conditions satisfied in the same year that it is over a century since Easter fell on March 22, and it will not again fall so early until the year 2285. Of late years the inconvenience of a movable Easter has induced calen dar reformers to propose reforms which will either make Easter a fixed festival or greatly restrict its wanderings. One suggestion is that Easter Sunday should be assigned to the third Sunday after the spring equinox, which would give it a range of eight days, between April 5 and April 13, according to the date and day of the week on which the equinox falls. Other proposals aim at an Easter absolutely fixed to one date. That, of course, would necessitate a radical reform of the whole calendar, under which the same week-day should always fall on the same date. Any such reform will probably have to be universal throughout Christendom,. for the moon-controlled Easter is common to all civilised countries; though, owing to the fact that the Greek church still uses the Julian calendar, there are always nearly two Easter days every year, one the Gregorian, observed by Roman Catholics and Protestants, and the other the Julian, kept by those countries which are in communion with the Greek church. If It Is Money You Need, Then Mend Your Way. Clever Little Woman Makes Tidy Incomej From Shop. A CLEVER little woman is making a tidy Income with a "mending shop" in one of the large cities. Fine undergarments are beautifully mended; silk stockings are put in perfect order, blouses are repaired and freshened; evening gowns are renovated, and hats are retrimmed The shop does a thriving business and has gradually grown and developed in scope. The proprietor started out two or three years ago by doing mending for friends to eke out a too scanty income. Her work was so dainty and so excellent that one friend recommended her to another and lone bachelors began to come In with piles of silk socks to be darned and with shirts too good to be thrown away, if only the cuffs could be turned or those provoking little holes that collar points cut could be dis guised by nice mending. The business grew to two rooms with several assistants, and now there is a whole shop where orders are taken, work turned off according to scheduled time and much more am phibious refurbishing done than the mere darning of stockings and patch ing of rents. Most women would rather wash their clothes than mend them, and men can do neither. Any body who will undertake to do mend ing; who will do it well, and deliver it on time, and really make wearables give longer service, is bound to make money at the job, and it is work that can be done by a woman In her own home. All the stock in trade she re quires is a pair of scissors and a needle and thread. Dumb-bells were first used. It is said, in the time of Queen Eliza beth, the earlier forms being sticks loaded with lead at the ends, these being bell-like In shape. Oil VEUA Vi5dra3 If i mi ajrt&TftSSW : THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME; SOME HUSBANDS GLAD OF IT Story of Disciple of Beauty and Hate Who Liked Plain Living and Comforts Related by George Ade. tItfaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaMaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa f ami nnnni - I p m m m a - r-" 1 1 T m m m m m m - . - " T "A DISCIPIB OV BEAUTY." I 4 BT GEORGE ADE. ONCE there was a Husband who was stuck on .Plain Living and Home Comforts. He would -walk around an Angel Cake any Time tq get action on Farm Sausage. He was not very strong for Romain Salad or any Speckled Cheese left over from Year before last, but he did a very neat vanishing Act" with a Sirloin Steak and he had the Coffee come right along in a Bowl. He re fused to dally with the Demi-Tasse. For this true American the Course Dinner was a weak Invention of the decadent Foreigner. When he ! squared up to his Food he cut oijt all tne .trimmings, j-riaoes ana rarumj. He simply Et. He was the kind of Married Person who peels his Coat in the Evening and gets himself all spread out In a Rocking Chair with a fat Cushion under him. The Variety that loves to wear old Velvet Slippers with Pink Roses worked on the Toes and the Heels run over. - Give him about two Cigars that pull freely and a Sunday Paper and he is all set for a long session. Along about 10:30, if he can con nect with a Triangle of Desiccated Apple Pie and a Goblet of Milk, he is ready to sink back on the Husks, feeling simply immense. Now this Husband had a Fireside that suited him nearly to Death until the Important half of the Sketch be gan to read these Magazines that tell how to fix up the Home. Her first Play was to take out all the Carpets and have the Floors massaged until they were as slick as Glass, so- that when the Bread-Win-ner stepped on one of the Okra or Bokhara Rugs he usually gave a imitation of a Player trying to reach Second. He told her that he did, not c4re to live In a Rink, but what he said cut very few Lemons with the' Side Kick She was looking at the half-tone Pic tures of up-to-date Homes and be ginning to realize that the Wall Paper, Steel Engravings and the En larged Photographs of Yap Relatives would have to go. One Day when the Provider struck the Premises he found the Workmen putting Red Burlap on the Walls of the Sitting Room. "Why the Gunny-Sack?" he asked "Can't we afford Wall Paper?" "Love of Art is the True Essence of the Higher Life," said the Aesthete, and she began to read a booklet bound in the same Paper that the Butcher uses when he wraps up a Soup Bone. "Come again," 'said the Wage Earner, who was slow at fielding these William Morris Twisters. "This Is Art Burlap and not the kind that they use for packing Pea nuts," explained the Disciple of Beauty. "Above the Burlap will be a Shelf of Weathered Oak and then above that a Frieze of Blue Jimpson Flowers. Then when we draw all of the Curtains and light one Candle in here it will make a Swell Effect." kl feel that we are going to be very happy." he said, and then he went out and sat behind the Barn, where he could smoke his Pipe and meditate on the Uncertainties of Life. Next Day he discovered that, she had condemned his Rocking Chair and the old-style Center Table on which he used to stack his Reading Matter and keep a Plate of Apples handy. When he entered the improved and modernized Living Room he found himself up against a Job Lot of Beauty and no Mistake. All the Furniture was straight up and down. It seemeed to have been chopped out with an Ax and was meant to hold up Members of the Rhinoceros Family. On the High Shelf was a Row of double-handled Shaving Mugs, crip pled Beer Steins, undersized Coal Scuttles and various Copper Kettles that had seen Better Days, "At last we have a Room that sat isfies every Craving of my Soul," said the Wife. "I am more than Satisfied." ob served the Treasurer. "I am groggy. My only Regret is that an All-Wise Providence did not mold me into a different Shape so that I might sit down in some of these Chairs. What are those Iron Dinkuses sticking out from the Wall." "Those are Florentine Lanterns," she replied, "and they are very Raz mataz even if they don't give any Light." " -Next she started in on the fining Room. 4 RuleNo. 1 for making Home more Cheerful is to put in a Shelf wherever there is room .for one. After which the Shelf is loaded down with Etrus can Growlers and Antique Jugs. The low-browed Husband could not t V ft. Heifet VIOLINIST HEILIG THEATER NOV. 16 First Subscription Concert Steers. & Coman Prices: $2.50, $2.00, $1.50 Gallery Admission $1.00 Plus 10- War Taxv SfiAT SALE TOMORROW HIPpoddqME SPECIAL BILL Begin nins TODAY SUNDAY ATTRACTION RITRAOIIDIVARV , TOM BROWN'S MUSICAL HIGHLANDERS (Originated and created by Tom Brown, producer of the Six Brown Brothers of phonograph fame.) GARETH HUGHES FAMOl'S ENGLISH STAR, In the Intensely Human Picture, "GARMENTS OF TRUTH" SANDY'S HIPPODROME NEWS HARTZ AND EVANS, Novelty Revue. MOBHUET AND VOL" NO Csn You Harry V JACK I.YI.E. Beau Brummel. BRACK AYRRS AND BBOTHKH rt'hlrllng Novelty T-ara THRKE Twa hnwa PERFORMANCES 8km One Price DAILY One Price j tell the difference between High Art and Junk. The female Futurist covered the Walls with about 400 Plates, each with a blue Curlv-Cue nn it. They ii looked very Cheap ro him until he re ceived the Bill, and then he learned they were certified Antiques and came to til apiece. ' In fact, after his Wife had been haunting the Second-Hand Places for a While, he learned that any Article which happened to be old and shop worn and cracked was the one that put a crimp in the Check Book. She never let up until she had made the whole House thoroughly Artistic. Her Women Acquaintances would come in and she would show them the Dark Oak Effects sjid the Sea-Green ,Frescoes and the Monastery Settee wtlh the Sole-Leather Bottom in it and the corroded Tea Pot that she had bought for .$95 and the Table Spread made from Overall Material with Just one Yellow Poppy in the Middle, and they would have 37 dif ferent kinds of Duck Fits and say that ft was Grand and that her Taste was simply Faultless. After that she wouldn't care what Husband laid. He was a fairly patient Man and 11 he complained of was that when he 'sat down he dislocated his Spine, while the Brass Knobs wore black-and-blue Spots on (him; and the dining-room Table should have had a couple of Holes for him to put his legB through; and he couldn't find a Place In which to stretch out; and he needed a Derrick to move one of the Chairs; and at Night when the Moon light came into his Room he saw all the silly old Bean Pots lined up on STOCK COMPANY Ji STARTING - Stfnday Matinee TODAY j i 'W 1 ;Xfl I $ ? - I -H V V i " r" '- f . . . r-y ' i-; ,J:'. VA&ifi 't V A ICONTINtAXtt PERFORMANCE "-J 1 y J i - f Va f I " rittiiWH'Nb mffiuai nmmt t ; I M A MOT IN DIXIE: GREATEST PICTUR1ZATI0N ttmmg IN FILM HISTORY AN AT1C . . Peaking at IKIE AND INY And the Rosebud Girls in "THE BLUE ELEPHANT" Directed bj Al Pranks , A -Real Joy Show FUN- n evening of fraiety for everyone in the notorious Blue Elephant cafe. Girls, girls, mors girls! FROLIC- COME Ai BOON" AS IOC CAX LYRIC AFTERWOOJfa AT S evkSin(;s at t akd 9 L the Wall and the Instruments of Tor ture atarlnr t him from every Cor ner of the Koom, he would crawl down under the v. o vera and dream of hia Childhood Home, wth the old fashioned Sofas and the deep Rock ing: Chalra and the bis; Bureaus that were meant to hold- Thing and not to look at. However, he has been unable to ar rest the reachingj-out after the Beau tiful, for only last Week she pur chased a broken-down Clock price $115. MORAL There is no Place lik Home, and some Husbands are glad of it. Cqpyrtirht by trie Pgll PynHcat. Inc.) CARRIE NATION OUTDONE Discharged Hotel Employe Vreckn Wine Cellar In ItevenRe. NOTTINGHAM. Eng., Nov. 12 Standing In a pool of whisky, cham pagne and port wine, Harry Ward, a hotel employe, was arrested by the police after witnesses had heard the smashing of bottles in the hotel cellar. He waa sentenced to two months' im prisonment for the damafre, estimated at 1234. He had smashed 88 bottles of champagne, 64 of port and 2 8 of whisky, as well as brandy and bene-, dictine bottles. The prisoner pleaded, through his counsel, that he did it in a fit of temper because the manager had given him a week's notice of dis missal. Malaninl fever contracted In Mesopotamia, it was said had af fected his mind. Q) i Next Week: David Brlaoo Ucllcloiu Comedy. "bADDIES" Another $3 enw at linker Price. Charlotte Greenwood's Wonderful LAVG1UNG SUCCESS LINGER LONGER LETTY . It'a another "Win llopklna, with drMlnir of brllllnnt lunirhtrr and provoking- dlaloKnr. If the world irrmi my and cold, aro thle piny Sure to aend you home laughing:. ITA CREATORS OF MYSTERY I Ml MM CenevieTe May & C. CBCNG RWA FOUR CHAS. GERARD DOROL BLAIR & CO. uabd or m rum -attstk motaxvr t III! 1 1 CATHERINE CALVERT ALL-STAR CAST V " f' '111 mm