THE OrvECrOTT'SmiDXY JOURNAL. PORTLAND SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 28. 1007.
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GOTHAM'S THEATRES DURING THE WEEK
NEW TORK. April 27. There la
, dearth In theatrical novelties
this week, In New Yorkv and
. first nlghters will find diffi
culty to, satisfy lta cravings
. j for something new. Tbs trouble ! that
there ar too many racnt proaparoua
playa on the boards to need renewal.
' The Harlem opera house gave us the
nly sew - play of the week; wnen on
, Monday "The Undertow," by Eugene
. Walters, a newspaper man, was pro
flueed, This - play would have bad a
Broadway opening several months ago
bad not a combination of clroumstances
occurred to prevent It. f
. The author bas used on of bla psr-
sonal experiences which happened In the
' middle west as a foundation. Tne piot
turns upon political Jugglery with
. moner interest, and Its end is . what
j might be looked for when such powers
com In contact.
The- atorr odcim In a newspaper of
, floe on election (tight,' when a new In
dependent league overwhelms, a ponti
"cal machine pledged to support a dls-
bonest coterie of traction promoters. It
' develops then that Dick Wells, half
a-enlua. - half drunkard.' fanatic and
' erratic, has been sane enough to guide
the independent league to auoecss.
. Dick Wells believes that the traction
teal Is ow impossible. Th rest t
the play deals with the plans of th
, millionaires to restor their ..power.
Characters ar destroyed, homes are
Invaded, bribes ar offered, and In the
third act at a session of the common
council th franchise Is carried. Wells
- Is defeated and degraded and, finally
deserted by tb woman, b la . to
Left antirelv alone. with Insult
added to Injury, when th president of
th grafting company whom b one
defeated, offers Dick weua a position
and chano for llf 1 he wll turn from
" bis principles and become a shrewd
worker in th interest of graft. .-
He denounces th magnat and re-
0 fuses th offer. . But by this, open
avowal of bis honest principles he wins
back th girl he loves and wbo bad de
serted him. and at the last they face
1 th futur band tn hand without money
but firm In th knowledge of th love
and devotion of each other.
In the cast are Paul - McAllister,
George Howell, William ' Norton, Peter
Lang, Mis Beatrice - Morgan, Louie
Randolph, Agnes Bcott and other tav-
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"The Jung la" at Fifth Avenue.
At Keith and Proctor's Fifth avenue
theatr "Th Jungle", Upton Sinclair's
vivid portrayal of llf in Paeklngtown.
4 dramatised by Miss Margaret Mayo, was
. produced . n Monday. . This play has
been produced on tb. road, but had Its
first performance tn New Tork. The
' complete acenlo equipment with th
" realistic ecceeeortee of llv oatu which
made such a rnsatlos in other , cities
wa presented with true fidelity.
"Tb Jungle" revealed ' an unusual
dramatic aspect and one of rare novelty,
If perhaps strongly sensational. In the
caat are Cecil Owens. Goo. D. Maolntyre,
Dwlght Allen, Urneat Andereon, Wllaon
Melrose, Misses Henrietta Browne, Lo
rena At wood. Dorothea Sadler, Kmelle
Melville and Mathilda Uesbou. t '
''Before and After." ' :
Th Leo Dletrlchateln farce,' "Before
nd After," Inaugurated ,th season, of,
comedy at the Astor theatre on Thurs
day night. This play Ja fhe most popu
lar of all this author's merry, come
dies. Its merits are known to ..New
York, where it. had a run of HOi per
formance at the Manhattan theatr.
,rt this revival Managers WsgnAll aV
K jnper have drawn from the coterl of
players who are to interpret all the
Dletrlchsteln, successes of the paat as
well as the new farces that srs to be
written for the Astor for several, seasons
to com. . Among th cast of ("Before
and After" ar: Leo Dletrlchateln,
Charles Dickson, Henry Donnelly, R. C
Hers, F. Newton Undo, Kenyon Bishop,
Miss Julia - Layton and Georgia 'Iaw
rate, ."r -v-
"Little Johnny Jonee." :f ,
George M. Cohan took a run down to
th Academy of Musio after playing, op,
down, and across Broadway. He held
forth In that bit of rauslo and fun called
"Little - Johnny Jonee." Although Mr.
Cohan baa played this piece hundred of
times. Its popularity baa not been worn
out apparently. j
Tbls nimble-heeled comedian ha An
nounced, , however. that this engage-1
ment will be his last as th jockey in
"Little Johnny Jonee." Bealdea Mr. Co
han, the company Includes Samuel 3.
Ryan, Thomas ' Lewis, John - Raffael,
Frank Montgomery, . William Meehan,
James ... Keen, Henry . Kettrldge, th
Misses Hasel Low rev, Lottie Medley,
Ida-ManteU, Stella Tracer and Adele
Bafter. . , ,, .
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Playa ThaStay- .i.
' Cyril Soott and th clever company
supporting him . In "Th Piinc Chap"
at th Majestic' theatr. hare repeated
th success mad' formerly at th Madi
son Square theatre. Tb original cast
remains pretty nearly th same, ' and
th performance if anything surpasses
th original Broadway production. This
is Mr. Scott's farewell engagement in
New Tork In "Th Princ Chap." Eddie
Foy In hi new summer show,' "Th
Orchid," ha found a musloal comedy
vehicle that has struck the high not of
popularity and on that will carry him
all through th summer at th Herald
Square theatr.. The comedian,- funnier
than 'ever, shares honors with th n
tlre company of to. .
Bom idea of th enormous amount of
money spent by th public in theatre
going rained from th statement of
the management of "Th Red Mill" In
which Montgomery and Stone ar play
ing at tba Knickerbocker theatr. that
half a million of dollars have been taken
In at the box offloe In th last SO weeks.
This Is a phenomenal auccess and breaks
all record a.
Th Belasco theatre, where Frances
Starr In "The Rose of the Ranoho" Is
delighting her audience by ber charm
ing portrayal of Juanita, th Spanlsh
American heroine- of Jhe lielasco-Tutly
drama, still continues Its business to
th full capacity of th house. It Is
without doubt sssured that thla attrac
tion will remain at the Belasv-o theatre
for months to com.
"Brewster Millions" Is drawing tha
blggeet business aver, known to this
playhouse of v successes,., the Hudson
theatre. This sterling American com
edy Is a play that promises to live many
years.- . :' :. . .. ;
The last week of th season of "Th
Great Divide" began on Monday. Miss
Anglln and Mr. Miller appeared for the
two hundred and fiftieth time on Fri
day night. ; "'
Ethel Barrymore, In th ' Marshall
comedy. "His Excellency the Governor,"
which she Is now playing at tha Em
pire, 1 on of th greatest successes of
her career. Although the comedy Is not
new, the role of It heroin offers Miss
Barrymore such unusual opportunities
of which she takes full advantage, and
th play Itself Is of such delightful
qualities that th patrons of th Em
pire take unusual pleasure In it. ;
William Collier 1s approaching the
one hundred and fiftieth performance of
"Caught In th . Rain" at th Derrick
theatr. This wlll"ofcur on Monday,
May 6, when the event will b marked
by handsome souvenirs. : -
Th run of "Th Three of Us" at tb
Madison Squar theatre ends this week,
with its twenty-second year perform
ance. Th longest run at this theatr
sine th days of th Hoyt farces, "Th
Three of Us" goes on th road.
Alia Naslmova's success In "Comteas
Coquette." at th Bijou -theatr, confirms
th Impressions mads by this clever ac
tress In "'A Doll's House" and "Hedda
Gabler.'' ' As the impetuous, capricious,
brilliant wlf In Bracco' daring play,
ah ha proven harself th mistress of
comedy Just as In th Ibsen' plays she
showed ber remarkable emotional abil
ity. "Comtess Coquette" Is on of th
most novel' and audacious plays of re
cent years. It fairly scintillate with
wit and th dramatio Interest I strong
throughout. . - '
A Hensl Blinders, Louis Mann, at
th Casino, 1 now In th fourth month
of "The White Hen." This role give
him unusual opportunities for' f un
making. H has been surrounded by
th Schubert with an unusually bril
liant company. ' -
"Th Parisian Model," In which Anna
Held is appearing with such great suc
cess at th Broadway theatre. Is run
ning merrily on and Is booked easily to
run out the season. Noveltlea ar be
ing constantly added, th latest being
a roller-skating Teddy bear In tb rink
scan.
THE MODISH HANDWRITING
. Our ' Grandmothers Penmanship
. - Again in Fashion.' , v
.' Youngish mothers of well grown
daughter are waking to th fact that
what was held to be a proper handwrit
ing for a woman -JO yaara ego I no
longer taught In th schools. Th uer
nruiir hand that women still affected
10 years ago has given place to a hand
writing with curves, ana tn vwucsj
wrKlng of a few years ago4a disappear
ing before a moderate slant.
Th woman whose handwriting Is
narked by the extreme form of tb an
gular style Is aa easily recognised for a
person no longer young as th woman
who persists in th fashion of Hl.
Soma unmarried women . who Ilk to
think their state not Immutable would
be glad to get rid of their telltale band
' writing. .
. Th younger grandmothers who did
not wake to th angular band In time to
change now retain th essentials of th
eld copperplate style that was taught
In tb '0o and '70s. It Is astonishingly
neat and clear, but as manifestly of an
earlier generation a th hoopaklrt or
bustle.
; Th girls of today ar reverting to th
handwriting of th generation befor th
copperplate waa Invented.. Th women
who were still young In 1140 uaed tbls
rather unconventional style.
If you, happen to hav a few bundle
of old letters belonging to tb mlddl
auarter of th last century you will not
th dlffereno r between th women'
writing of that day and that of their
children, and discover that th genera
tion of today writes raor Ilk th grand
mothers than th mother.
A .still earlier generation of American
women, soma of whom were born In th
closing year of th eighteenth century,
Imitated th neat handwriting that pre
vailed among men a generation earlier.
Th men Of th period ' Immediately
after th Revolution wrote a large
formal hand. 'and their daughter lm
luted It but softened the Unas.
Th next generation was leu conven
tional, and then cam copperplate with
Its neat artificiality.
Old-fashioned woman vn of today
nna it nara to conform to tha modern
fashion of scratohlna- off a short nota In
hast. They have th old tradition that
any written communication save of th
moat formal or trivial kind must be a
letter of considerable length, and th
heavy, unllned paper of today la an of
lenc to their tradition.
The leisure of an earlier time and
the difficulties of travel wer th excuse-
for long Utter. Between swift
express trains and th long distance
telephone women ar losing th art of
letter writing, and D Qulncys dictum
that to see th best of English pros
style you most rifle th malls and read
th latter of clever, well brought up
women u naraiy as true a it one was.
STATUE RESURRECTED
Untimely Goddess of Victory Bid-
' den In French Senate Cellar.
A Strang, resurrection of a statu
ha recently taken place In Franc. It
waa found . In th cellar of .th senate
buildings where It had lain alnc mo.
Early In that year, when everything
looked peaoeful la France, Napoleon
llf ordered the fimntu BAtilntAP nna
tavs.Adolph Dlr Crank to model a
statu of th Goddess of Victory to be
east In brons for th Luxembourg
garden, where several other statues
by Crauk ar displayed.
By a strange fatality th sculptor
hipped th completed work from his
studio In Valenciennes Just in time for
It to be delivered In Paris on September
t, th day of th capitulation of th
first French army with Napoleon him
elf at Sedan.
Th Goddess of - Victory had ' not
many worshipers in ' Paris at that
Mm. Th statu was never vn un-
GERTRUDE RUTLEDGE
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With tha Irish Comedian! Murray and Mack, tn tha Musical
Farca-Comedr. "ArcAind tb Town," at the Helllg; Theatre
Next Saturday and Sunday Nights, May 4 and 6.
Raymond Hitchcock, Who ' Appear
in tha "Yankee Tourist" at th
Helllg Tonight.
boxed. It was shoved out of sight and
promptly forgotten. Lately Senator
Glrard. who halls from Valenciennes,
got some hint of th existence of th
work and started a searob for It There
talk of holding an exhibition of
Crauk works in Paris at an early
day. Th atatu was round and th
crltlps pronounce It a work of merit.
Th superstitions seer in It discovery
an omen of returning military prestige
to Franc. .
Senator Glrard at one laid claim to
th statu for th sculptor's native
olty. Nobody wanted to carry out the
project of Napoleon, so h carried hi
point. Tb atatu has been erected In
Valenciennes and unveiled with lab-
orate ceremonies after it 16-year sleep
in oust ana oarsness.
. . A COLD BIRD
But So Bottle of Any Kind for Lit.
' tie Polar Penguins.
"Not many blrda undertake to lay
tbelr ggs In th darkness of a polar
winter nor do many dims appear to
think that sea lee Is th most attractive
ground to sit on. -
-wnen, in addition to this," writes
Bdmund A. Wllaon In "Th Vorase uf
th Discovery," "w find th emperor
penguin hatching out Us chicks tn th
coldest month -of the whols Antarctic
year, when th mean temperature for
tn montn la IS degree below sero,
Fahrenheit, and th minimum may fall
to IS degrees, I think w may rlahtlv
consider the bird to be ecoentrlc
"Th emperor penguin stands nearly
four feet high and weigh upward of SO
to to pounds. He is an exceedingly
handsome bird, with a rich black head.
a bluish gray back and wings, a lemon
yellow Breast, with a sa tinlike gloss on
th feather and a brilliant patch of or
ange on th nck and lower bill.
"His movements ar slow and stately
and th dignity of his appearance Is
much Ineressed by th upright carries
of hi head and bill, '
"Hi vole 1 loud and trumpetllk and
rings out In th pack Ice with a not of
defiance that makes one feel that man
Is th real Intruder. They have no fear.
but an abundance of Inqulsltlvenea, and
wiu walk up to a human . being and
stand In a ring around him. with an oc
casional remark from on to th other,
discussing, no doubt, th nature of thla
new and upright neighbor.
'The method employed by the emperor
penguin for carrying th egg and chick
upon his feet Is shared also by th king
penguin of th sub-Antsrctlc area, as w
saw In our visit to their rookeries In
the Maequarla Islands.
"Th king penguin we saw as he sat
In mud and puddle, with his single egg
upon his feet, end now we saw the em
peror penguin doing precisely the same
thing with his slngl chicken to keep It
eff th Ice, and we ar agreed that the
term pouch, which ha been used In
this connection. Is on which not only
does not descrlb th matter but la anat
omically wrong and misleading.
-i n aingi ess, or th ehlck, alts
rstlng on tb dorsum of tb .foot.
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Allocution. O. Belllf, President.
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And a Big Company of Funmalicrs
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OLADYS VAN
MAY GABRIEL
BAE HAMILTON
THOS. T. SHEA
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Aeeooiatloa. O. BelUg, President.
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. - GEO. 1 BAKER General Manager.
Poi-tlantTai Rnathlonabl Popular Rrlcss Thaatra
and Horn of th I'amoua Uaxkesr Htoclc Company
WeekBeginnlns Sunday
Matinee Today, April 20
WILLIAM COLLIER'S GREAT COMEDY SUCCESS
BY RICHARD HARDING DAVIS : v
, ' One of the Funniest Comedies, Ever Written.
THE BAKER COMPANY WILL GIVE AN UNUSUALLY
, s . CLEVER PRODUCTION . '
Under Personal Direction of MR. ARTHUR MACKLEY.
MATINEE SATURDAY. .' I-':. "I
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I EMPIRE THEATER
THE HOME Of MELODRAMA
13th an4 Morrison Sta. : '
Pbon Main llf
MILTON W. SEAMAN. Manager.
SECOND WEEK OF THE SEAMAN STOCK COMPANY.
And Already Enjojrlnf Imraen Popularity.
Starting Today's Matinee, J 28
A Most Vivid Story of Life A Great Moral Lesson. .
TOW
OF MEN
Intens Rolea for All Popular Member of th Company,
A Play Tbat Teache th Reward of Truth and Honor, tha Terrible
Consequence of EviL '
Sut Under Personal Direction of MR. HERBERT ASHTON. "
' MATINEES WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY.
NIGHT PRICES, 10, 20f, 30f, &Of. MATINEES, 10f ; 20
THIRD WEEK: WICKED LONDON.
wedged In between tb leg and th low
er abdomen, and over it falls a fold of
beavtly feathered skin, which Is very
loosed and can completely cover up and
hide th erg or ehlck from view. When
th ehlck Is hungry er Inquisitive, It
pokes out from under th maternal (or
paternal) lappet a piebald downy head
of black and white, emitting Its shrill
and persistent pipe until th mother
oT4h father) fills It up.
The feeding I managed as with cor.
morants and many other birds, th little
on finding regurgitated food when It
thrusts Us head lnsld the parent-
mouth.
"I think th chickens hat their par
enta and when one wa tehee th proceed
ings In a rookery' it-strike on a not
surprising. li th first place, there ie
about on ehMik to 10 or 11 adults, and
each adult has an overpowering desire
to sit on somsthlng. . Both male and
female want to nurse, snd ths result
Is that when a chicken find himself
alone there la a rush on the pert of a
dosen unemployed to seise him.
"Naturally, he run away, and dndg
her and there till elx stone emperor
falls on him, and than begin a regular
football scrimmage. In which each tries
to hustl th other off, and th and 1
too often disastrous to the chick.
"Sometimes h falls into a ersck In
th 1c and stays there to be frosen
while tha parents squabbls at th top;
sometimes, rather thA b nursed, 1
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Q lth and Wasblagtoa ana.
Wedodr STminf, May i.'
NOVELi FEATURE. Including a
$reat hippodrome rac. a moat
sensational spectacle.
V Advaae 1 Piles.
Admission 10c State 15c
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LYRIC THEATRE
Week of April 29
LYRIC STOCK COMPANY
In the Famous Melodrama -.
MATINEE EVERY DAY Two performances Saturday
- and Sunday Nights, the first at 7:15 o'clock. :
NEXT WEEK The Allen Stock Company, with MISS
VERNA FELTON, In "BROWN'S IN TOWN."
THE CEl Am :WS5
-VAUDEVILLE DE LUXE
. Headed by
ARCHIE
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Presentinf tha Rural
, Sketch
"After
Many
years
Special Adied Attractlca
The Three Valentecnes
Caating-Act la Black
EDMONDS. EMER50n AND
EDMONDS
Presenting th Farce
"ONLY A JOKE." "
EMILY NICE
Singer of Catchy Songs
THE CA5ETTAS
Whirlwind Dancers
FREDERIC ROBERTS
Illustrated Songs
GRANDISCOPE
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ledg and remain there, where th old
one cannet reach him. I think It I not
an exaggeration to ear that of th 77
per cent that die aa leas than half ar
killed br kindness."
Oerrltt J. Dlekema, th Republican
candidate for WllUara Alden Smith's
aeat In th house of representatives,
has long been prominent In Michigan
politics. H has served four terms In
the stat leglslstur and haa been chair
man of the Republican stat committee
elnoe 1909,
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The Allen Stock Companj'
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