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TIIE SUNDAY OKEGOXIAX. PORTLAND, OCTOBER 1. 1!)22 m 7 CLEVER NEW PLAYS FEATURE OF GOTHAM'S THEATER BILLS Howard Brothers, Known to Portland Audiences, Score Great Suc cess in Comedy at Winter Garden Production. k ' ; V,. f II iLjf&fr '7, (if I - . v .', 4 ' 5 SM. ? 3 If N 1 fv v' -v ' - v-jB It l1,; fc!, YT -la ' ' iX 'V I jj ii ilW s II - J ninpa LiiiaaL-iiigrgr:?: .... -iiF?r I!Y i;ZABETl! LOSERCAN. lone of 1 tinn. ' the year m T IV YORK, Sept. 30. cU!.) And still they come! one wonders whether tht ex anlr? set last year in 1 he number of new pinys will be repeated. The urw winter garden show opere?. "Or.tiifcCe Blossoms.' "Banco," '"It's a Boy," "The Exciters." "East of Surx" d "The Awfu! Truth" nlso r4ii t town, making it an ex trennly hisy wetk i'or Mr. and Mrs. First N:fchter,s. The Howard brothers, whose last appearance in Portland was w ith one of the Passing Shows, are the bright particular stars o The In test tdi tion. An interesting bit comes in the prologue, which r: isr-lowe a sad "Uncle Sam." He usually in shown as a joily sort of chap, but his" pessimism is explained as the natural outcome of very depressing conditions. This, by the way. is the only sad moment in the show. It is tilled with fun from start to finish, and the production is mounted lth the usual splendor of a winter tar- den show. "Tha Awful Truth" opened the Willie Howard has a lot of new season at the Henry Miller. Tna comedy stunts and Kugene srngsfCLa!re and Bruce McRae share the some beautiful numbers. One of i honors In the Arthur Richman play, the biggest song hits falls to Sam 1 which is about a wife with a past. Ash and Gertrude Lans- It is "I and the play takes its name from Came. X Saw, I - Fell" and will be J the attempts of people to Xnuik one of the wnisiung successes of Among- the dancers are the clever I-ocklears and Nat Na - jzarro and M'.ie. Alcorn. Sam Ash, i George Anderson. Janet Adair and Kthe! Shut (a a if a!so listed among 1 the piincipa 1 s. i ! Clare Kummers latest play. ""Banco," made a decidedly good im pression at i's premiere, thanks to the excellent pl:iy. the fine settings and the good cast, which last in trudes Ixila Fisher, Alice John, Al fred Lunt, Robert Strange and Charlotte Granville. The first of the musicalized plays is "Orange Blossoms. which has Edward Royce. Paul Poiret, Norman Bel Geddes and Victor Herbert re snonslble for the -successful whole. Edith Hay. the original "1 rene," is the star with Robert Mich a el is, Phulis Le Grand. Robert Fisher, Pagmar Oakland and Nancy Wel f )i d in chief roles. It is a tuneful piece, and the beautiful Poiret gowns ar worth a trip alone to the Fulton. about things of which they know nothing at all. "It's a Boy." by the author of "Six-Cylinder Love." which recently departed for Chicago after a run of more than a year, tells more about the troubles of young married couples. The former play laid all blame on the automobile. This time the duplex apartment typical of extravagance in living comes in for its share Of criticism. The Chester Blakes, happy in their little '.cottage in a small Pennsylvania town, come to ew xork wnen neu ter's salary is raised. And then the trouble begins. Their Aiany new friends are living beyond their means, and It is easy to drift into the same mode of life, so, sooner or later, the awakening comes, just as it did in the other delightful little comedy. Robert Ames and Dorothy Mackaye- are charming in the roles of the young married pair, with other parts well acted by John Daly Murphy, Hortense Allen. Joseph Kilgour, Jean Adair. Millicent Han ley and Charles Lawrence. . The opening of the Equity Play ers. Inc. looms near. Already the subscription blanks have been cir culated, many subscriptions have been paid and rehearsals' are going merrily on at the Forty-eighth-street theater. The result of the venture is awaited with great inter est by many persons, both in the theatrical profession and outside. Jane Cowl, who is to head the cast in the first production, "Malvaloca." absolutely refused to have her name featured in the play, saying that it was an association affair, not an individual one. This new play, by the way, has been a big success in Madrid, but never has been seen on this side of the Atlantic. Five plays will be presented during the season In New York, and plans may include a tour of the principal cities, in addition, there will be a series of lectures and special affairs to which subscribers only will be admitted. Every year since they parted com pany, there have been rumors that "Weber and Fields would be reunited. This year it came to pass and they head one of the big Shubert vaude ville units and are better and fun nier than ever. Oldtimers feel as if they were back in the nineties, when they saw the self-same cos tumes that were a part of the old music hall that was torn down yearsJ ago and is DUt a memory to present theatergoers. A number of the old stunts have been brought out, fixed up a little and lo! they are as good as new and the crowds enjoy them as of old. It shows that you can "come back" after all. The man agement has provided a fine bill with the two favorite stars, not de pending entirely upon their popu larity to put the show over. Madge Kennedy will return to the legitimate stage under the manage ment of John Golden, opening next week in a new Frank Craven com edy called "Spite Corner." Mr. Golden also will bring Marie Tempest back to town later on in a new show1. "The Serpent's Tooth" not having proved all that it was hoped it would. Louis Wrba, of the old firm of Werba and Luescher, is coming back as producer and will offer a new musical show, "Adrienne," a little later in the 1 season. . Albert von Tuozer wrote the music and A. Seymour Brown the book and lyrics. Mr. Werba. it wil be recalled, put on "The Rose Maid" and other suc cesses of a decade ago. His ex partner, Mark Luescher, was asso ciated with the Hippodrome until j recently and now is one of the very ; important, personages with the Keith-Albee vaudeville. Mr. Brady has withdrawn "Dreams for Sale," which was remarkable chiefly for the cver work of the unknown player, Helen Gahagen, who will suffer nothing from the failure of the play. Arnold Daly was announced as star of his second production "On the Stairs," which is from he pert of William Hurlburt, but Mr. Daly suddenly decided to disappear and a new star is being sought for the premiere. David "Wallace's new show, with Beryl Mercer, is in rehearsal and will open at the Punch and Judy within two weeks. But "Merton of the Movies" Is due about the same time with Glenn Hunter and Florence Nash in the leading parts. George Tyler and Hugh Ford will produce it while Kaufman and Connolly have made the stage version frm Harry Leon Wilson's novel. Grace George has been rehearsing her naw piay preparatory to the opening in Washington next week. It is called "To Love" and will have Norman Trevor and Robert War wick as chief players. The piece is the translation of Paul Geraldy's latest play "Baimer"' which is one of the reigning , successes 'of the Paris season. . Now that "So This is London" has been successfully launched, George M. Cohan is hard at work upon his new show, "The Story of ' the Dragon," which is adapted from a short story by John Taintor Foote. Further details later. 1 AwsMmi BtrM1 B Y ANNIE BLANCHE SHELBY. NOTWITHSTANDING the re peated instructions which have been given regarding the ad vantage of a good major suit bid over a no-trump bid, save only per haps when the hand contains a hun dred aces, there are still many who ignore the Instructions and invari ably bid the no trump rather than the suit. , In fact, there can be little doubt that one of the greatest weaknesses of the average player is his over weening fondness for a no-trump bid. We have constant examples of players passing up a tnoroughly sound major suit bid and taking chances on the no-trump simply be cause the hand contains three pro tected suits, when, by all the rules known to the game, the suit stands out pre-eminently as the bid best suited to the hand. Repeated fail ures at the no-trump bid do not daunt them, and perhaps at the very next deal they unhesitatingly make the same bid and repeat practically the same disastrous experience. Whether it is that the play of a no-trump hand offers greater fas cinations to the average player than the play of a suit bid, whether he sees, or thinks he sees, an advan tage in that declaration which a suit bid lacks, or whether it has become u habit with him to declare no trum.-s when his hand contains protection iii three suitsv albeit the protection in one or more of them may be markedly light, it is diffi cult to say, but the tact remains that players repeatedly take entirely unwarranted risks to make a no trump bid when the hand contains an entirely sound and legitimate Buit bid. In cases, to be sure, where the suit is a minor suit, the jio-trump bid is often preferable, save when the score is such that game seem- j ingly will be as readily attained at j the suit as at no trumps. When, however, one's suit is a; major suit, spades or hearts, the case is entirely different and the suit rather than no trumps should, be bid. The player who under such Conditions bids no trumps apparently forgets that a major suit bid calls for but one more trick to go game than the no-trump bid, and that, other things being equal or nearly so, the suit bid is as a rule the safer declaration. Experience has shown that in by far the greater number of cases one will as readily attain the additional trick necessary to go game at the suit as the number needed for game at the no-trump bid. The ability to ruff an adverse suit is an important asset at a suit bid which is lacking at a no-trump bid. At a no-trump bid one suit is as good as another so far as the taking of tricks is concerned. The declar ant by his bid of no trumps has deprived himself of the ability 10 ruff, and to this extent at least he enjoys no great advantage over hia opponents. If the adversaries get a suit established and recover the lead the cards of their suit are just as trick-winning as any cards held by the declarant. At a suit "bid this is not so; the trump suit has a value greater than any other suit, and the smallest card of the suit can win the highest card of any other suit. If the de clarant is short in the adverse suit, he can trump it; if this be the situ tion at no trumps, he is without redress. I could give any number of hands showing the superiority of a good major suit bid over a no-trump bid, but the folowing will probably suf ficiently cover the situation: v 7 8 3 2 J 10 8 4 3 Q 10 3 2 in which he lacked protection), went "three no trumps." This closed the bidding. ' At this table the hand went as follows: Tricks. A Y B Z 1 ... 10 v 7 -2v 3v 2 6 2 J 8 3 4 2 Kv AV 4. K 3 4 6 5 Q 3 9 5 6...' K 2' 2 . Q 7 4 84 K A 8 5 Q4 8 7 9 ? 10 5 A A 10 6 4 6 J 11 7 8 U 9 12 J 10 6 10 13 A J Q 9 Winner of trick. 10 5 4 Q J 7 6 4 A K 7 Ko Y A B Z K Q J 6 2 K 9 9 6 5 2 84 V A 9 8 3 A 10 5 Q A J 9 7 6 The hand was played in duplicate and at the tables where it was played at no trumps the score varied somewhat, according to the various tactics adopted by the adversaries. At all such tables, however, the contract failed. At one table the bidding went as follows: Z, no trumps: A and Y, a pass; B, "two hearts," more probably as a lead-indicating bid than with any thought he would make good at his bid; Z, a pass (the fact that he holds four cards to the ace of the adver sary's suit would doubtless induce some players to persist with the no trump bid); A, a pass; Y, "three dia monds" (open to severe criticism), and B, a pass. Z, encouraged by his partner's diamond showing th suit A fell down two tricks on his contract and the adversaries scored penalties to 70 100, lacking 30 honors. A led his best heart and Z passed up the trick. A then followed with another heart, B putting up the jack and Z again passing the trick. To the third round of hearts led by B Z, in the hope that this round would exhaust A of the suit, played the ace. Z then went to work on spades, the suit in .the two hands which offered the greatest promise. He would like to have gotten the lead to the dummy that spades might be led by him through the possible king in the hand of B, but as the .dummy was without re-entry this was impossible. He, therefore, led the small spade trusting that A rather than B held the king. Should it prove otherwise and this card ba held by B, B's hearts would inevita bly make. A, who held the king once guarded only, won' the trick, and, his one thought now being to put his part ner in the lead, led the queen of clubs on the theory that if B held the ace he could win the trick or not, as he thought best, while if he held the king (without'the ace) the queen .would win the trick or force the ace. In the latter event, dummy's king would become re entry. Declarant, who had nothing to gain by playing the ace, played small, and A. before taking another club round, led his king of diamonds to show the presence of the ace. As to this trick declarant dropped the queen and dummy showed long In the suit. A saw the imprac ticability of giving up the com mand of the suit, the more so as dummy's well-guarded queen of spades (trumps) would doubtless enable him at a later stage to se cure the lead and bring in the re maining diamonds. A, therefore, le-J a second club, B put up the king and Z won with ace, itbeing of the greatest importance that B be not left in the lead. Z then took his four remaining spades, taking care to have the lead in his own hand on the fourth round rather than dummy's, as he held the greater number. This done, he was at the end of his resources. He had given up his re-entry in hearts and clubs, and neither skill nor luck enabled him to win an other trick. At the tables where the hand w;ts played at pades Z had little diffi culty in going game. At one of these tables where Z was forced to "two spades" because of an inter vening bid of "two hearts," A led the king of his diamond suit to show the holding of the ace, and then the highest of his partner's suit, hearts. Z won the heart trick with the . ace. and gave dummy a ruff with a second heart. Dummy returned a diamond, which the de clarant ruffed, and led a third heart. The cross-ruff was continued until A had played his ace of dia monds and dummy's diamonds had thus become established. This hap pened at trick 6. The declarant then led a small trump, and A, who had king once guarded only, put It up and led a small - club. De clarant won with the ace and led the jack of trumps, which dummy won with queen and made his two remaining diamonds. The club lead at trick 12 went to the adversary, but declarant won the next trick, and made in all four by cards (game). Here is another duplicate hand on which at Bomr tables the dealer bid no trumps, notwithstanding that he had a perfectly good major suit bid. K A K 9 5 3 J 9 C 3 9 6 UNQUESTIONABLY A Great Concert Series' t - .V 1. ? Mme. Margaret Matzenaaer opens the season Tuesday, Oct. 10 MATZENAUER. the world's greatest contralto. MISCHA ELM AN, violinist. FLORENCE E ASTON, Prima Donna Soprano. EVELYN SCOTNEY, coloratura soprano. PAUL ALTHOUSE, foremost American tenor. MIROVITCH, distinguished Russian pianist. ALBERTO SALVI, the world's greatest harpist. MOZART'S' OPERA COMIQUE, "Cosi fan tutte." A' SEASON TICKET for the ELWYN ARTIST SERIES IS ONLY $5.00 and $7.00 (plus 10 war tax) Floor and Center Balcony. $2.50 and $5.00 (plus 10 war tax) Side Balcony. While oar season ticket sale has been unusually heavy (our records on September 27 showing a total of 1342 subscriptions), good seats are still available for season reservations. Elwyn Concert Bureau 1017 Broadway Bldg. Phone Main 5991 954 10 2 A K 8 7 4 7 3 2 T A B Z J73 J 7 Q 10 2 A Q 10 5 4 9 AQ 10 8 2 Q 8 4 KJ8 A th tables where tha po-trump bid was made and held (no other bid having been made) A led his fourth best diamond (the seven spot), dummy put up the nine, and B, knowing by the application of the eleven rule that Z held no card higher than the seven (the card led), played the 10 and held the trick. He returned the queen and then his mall diamond, which A won with king and made his two remaining diamonds. Thus, although the dummy held four diamonds . to the jack, not one of them made. On the fourth and fifth round of diamonds B echoed by playing first the five and then the four of spades, and at trick 6 A, accordingly, led a spade, which B won with the ace. This gave A-B six tricks, and, though declarant got in the lead at the next trick and made all the remaining tricks, he was held down to one trick, or a score of 10, honors easy. At the tables where Z bid a heart th'-j result varied, according to the pciicies adopted by the other play ers. At one table A went "two dia monds," Y passed (he should have bid 'two hearts"), and B went "two spades." Z, who inferred from his partner's not having come to his assistance that he could give him but little help and whose own hand did not warrant a re bid, passed, as did A also. Y, however, doubled the "two spades" bid, B passed, and Z, though not fully sensing the sig nificance of the partner's double, also passed, reasoning that if his partner had a sure trick in spades (the suit B had shown), but no assistance in his own suit (hearts) see how easy it is to get wrong Inferences? their better chance per haps lay in the double. The hand therefore was played at "two spades" doubled, and the contract was set by two tricks, giving Z-Y penalties to 100, less 18, or 82.' Z led his singleton diamond. which dummy won with king, and led the trump. Declarant playei the 10 and Z won with jack. Z thon led the ace and next a smufl heart, which Y took with king, and led another diamond, which ruffed. Z then led the best heart, the queen, which Y, who was desirous of get ting in the lead to make his .two commanding clubs, trumped. Y then made the ace and king of clubs, and at the next trick led a third diamond, which Z ruffed with the king (his last trump). Had Y come to his partner's as sistance at hearts and the hand been played at "two hearts." Z easily would have made' five by cards, or a total Bcore of 197 40 for tricks, J2 for honors and 123 for game. Y3 double, therefore, though by no means wrong had ttiere not been something better, cost the side 15 points. His better policy undoubt edly was the raise of his partner's bid. Shadow Show of Confucian Period Film Attempts. Movie Art Kirt Attempted Fnlly Yean Ago. H u ge Locomotives i n Scrv ire. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. Sept. 30. The Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad recently pur chased ten locomotives, which are said to be the largest ever con structed for passenger service. They are 95 feet long, weigh 644.600 pounds and cost approximately 360. 000 each. At present the new en gines are used in freight service, but after sufficient limbering up will be put on passenger runs. Officials of the road believe they will be able to haul passenger trains over grades where now two or three of the smaller type are re q u i r ed LONDON, Sept. 80. Th earliest idea of a moving picture was recorded in the time of Confucius, the Chinese philosopher, who lived 500 years before Christ. At least this is the deduction drawn from his studies into the question by Will Day, a well-known figure in the English film world, who has ex hibited in London a collection of relics and machines tracing the growth cf the moving picture from the first primitive idea to its pres ent form. The "shadow shows" of the time of Confucius are the first of all known endeavors to present ani mated pictures. From this early time, however, there was a long period of inactivity in development, for the next record of progressive achievement is found in 1646, when Athanasius Kircher published a book in Latin entitled "Ars Magnalycus et Umbrae" in which a description and illustration is given of a mov ing picture which the writer had evolved with mirrors and a tallow candle for illumlnant. Included in the collection is the original disc which Eadweard Muy bridge used to settle the controversy between two American millionaires on the Alo Palto race course as to whether the four feet of a trotting horse were off the ground at the same time.' The experiment which Muybridge carried out is said to have cost the University of Pennsylvania 40,000 pounds, but the fact was proved that a horse did actually lift all four feet simultaneously. NEWS OF THE THEATERS (Continued From Pag 6.) pany in an original character gem, "Hilda." Hall enacts the role of Hilda Carlson, a Swedish elevator pirl. while Miss Colborn is listed aa Minnie May Wright, a public ste nogrrapher. The scene is laid in the corridor ot a hotel. To top off the programme Mana e-er Johnson has choHen Literary Di grest Topics and a screen review for the Pantagescope. HIP OFFERS DAXCIXG BILLi Hamilton Douglas and Georgia Sisters Are Headliners. Hamilton Donglas and the Georgia sisters top tho new bill at the Hippodrome, opening; today. Their offering; includes an exhibition of the latest ballroom dances, also they feature something new' in the way of waltzing on a stairway and per forming other feats equally novel. Death-defying acrobats are the Australian Delsos, whose act is out of the ordinary and Interesting. Jessica Dixon and Frank Free man, known as the overseas girl and the minstrel man, present one of the most novel combination blackface end high-class singing acts on the vaudeville stage. "It's All In Fun," Is offered by Otis Mitchell, who is a clever artist on the banjo, also as a comedian he score? heavy. Hi stories iind Rfirc y AT HEILIQ THEATER 3 Matinees, 3 Nights, Commencing Sunday Matinee, October 1st 2:15 2:30 2:4 3:00 3:12 3:24 3:56 4:15 Orchestra, George E. Jeffery, Director -Topics of the Pay and Aesop's Fables HECTOR "A Wonderful Dog" VINCENT O'OONNELL Dainty. Captivating. Vivacioua Clever. Versatile, Juvenile C0RINHE DICK HIMBER Offer "Coquettish Fincies" BABCOCK & DOLLY HARRY WATSON, JR. as The Young Kid Bart 1 in Ducan" and in The Telephone Scene WEAVER BROTHERS Arkanssw Travelers The Original Handsaw Musicians First Appearance in Many Years ADELAIDE HERRMANN (Widow of the famous "Herrmann the Great") Offering a new series of mystery problems, introducing the most wonderful spectular illusions, "Joan of Arc" and "Noah's Ark." Special Scenery and Lighting Effects. Path News 3 Mats. - Sun. Mon. 15c - 25c - 50c Toes. 500 Chotce Seats 50c Sundays and Holidays 15c to 75c :10 KM 0:12 9:24 9:42 0:54 10:15 Canary Always 15c 3 Nights - Sun. - Mon. -Tuai 15c - 25c -50c-75c - SI 750 Choice Seats $1 Sundays and Holidays 15c to SL2S Jokes make him a bright spot on the bill. Soft shoe, waltz clog, toe and Hussian d&ncing are boasted of in the repertoire of Conroy and Noel Sisters, a pretentious little spe cialty carrying their own attractive scenery. A bright comedy starring Doris May, which Is entitled "Gay and Devilish," is the photoplay for this week. BUFFALO FILM COMING Movie Company Arranges to Get Picture of Hunt. SALT LAKE CITT. ftah. Sept. 30. The herd of 200 buffalo on Ante lope island in the Great Salt lake has been "rented" by a moving pic ture concern, which plans o film a regular old-time buffalo hunt for a new picture depicting early frontier life. The contract calls for the kill ing of three of the animals. Antelope island, th largest of the unique group which dots the waters of Utah's inland sea, Is famed for its buffalo herd, which is believed the largest now In existence. For 40 years the herd, originally brought from the mainland, has been un molested except for occasional kill ings by hunters who paid th hlgH price demanded by the livestock or. ganlzation, Ita owner, lor the prlvii. lege. WOMAN CLEARING LAND Mrs. Joliansen Cuts Timber on 4 Acres Near Bangor. NORTH BEND, Or., Sept. JO. . (Special.) "What a woman wills she does," Mrs. J. P. Johansen of Bangor, a suburb of this city, ex plained when found clearing land adjacent to her borne. Mra Johan en believed the family room for growing vegetables and other pro duce was too restricted and so set out to enlarge the productive area, with the result that he bas cleared four acres of ordinwrtly timbered land aince last April. Mra. Johansen works with cover alls, awlngs an ax with teillnr fore and uses a gasoline engine and ap paratus to rai the stumps from the ground. After Mrs. Johansen fin ished clearing the land aha per. mltted her husband, who Is other wise employed, to plow It and take some credit for bringing the land into bearing. r, lTuUYiwcoerneuou I To 1 1 pet. h-""1? W ft Jai I s us r THE VvBRLM MASTER PSYCHOLOGIST 11 1.1 fVS lJW ACi 1 ift3 APPEARANCE- jT f- -v. V . rNT-ilS J 1 -crural r-. Yr-Mrrv" f ,t .CARSON NO rS?Y KANE ROBISON TWO VAUOEVI LLIANS,, IN 'NO MORt8ALOON9 (SWEDE) HALL- VAUOE.VILL.tVS POPULAR, COMEDIAN WITH tJOLXY U-LNWY "T COLORN ANO CO. IN AN OWSINAL, t r TV. W. KW, ReyMent Manager "ontlmi"'iei Piow 1 to 71 V. M. HAMILTON DOUGLAS AND GEORGIA SISTERS In LATEST MODERN DANCES Otis Mitchell Dixon & Freeman Australian Delsos "It's All Paw" I "Tile Minstrel Msn" A Wlirrl, a Twirl CONROY AND NOEL SISTERS "Those Dance Maniacs" DORIS MAY 'inGayandDevilisy Children AQ Times 10c Adults Weekday Matinece 20, ETenings S9e