THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAC PORTLAND,"- SUNDAY- MORNING, ' OCTOBER 27. 1007.
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Spanish Dramatist Who Wrote the Original Took " Some
r Pages From His Own Personal Experience
THE) French, who are second only to th Hebrew of old ia the ability to
Include a great truth in a few words, hv a proverb which runs aom-.
thins like "La mortle du jnonde prend plahile medlre, t i'autre xnortie.
a orolre IQ medisancea" (One half the world takee dellfht Jn telling slan.
der, the other half In believing li), ;M v
At one Of the local theatrea a week" or so ago .we aaw a play based on the
vil caused by the world-wide love of gossip. "All on Account of Ellaa" waa
.a pretty little comedy; the gossipy distortion of algtagged village mlnda did
but little harm to the schoolma'am, and all ended happily. ' It was a case where
the one gossiped of had the good fortune to live down the buay tonguea and
ineir wagging
To many who saw the playt aeemed like farceHke a crass exaggeration
of condltlona even auch aa are found In the antique, stralght-laced New Eng
land villages wflere the church steeples set a model of woodjness ' and straight
oess for the backs of the citlsens, snd where, too - frequently," the church-bell
also sets "its examplo the example to the ever-willing tongues to take advan
tage or every opportunity to ring out wildly..
Little Ellaa, In the story, had worn a low-necked gown in public. Pljag-dong
bell. Ellsa had kissed a man in . the cemetery. Ding-dong again. And then a
few rings lust to keep up the interest of the neighbors.,
When William Faversham was In Portland a few.weeka back he told about
bis new play, "the World and His Wife," which deals with the. same problem
, that little Ellaa waa forced to grapple with.
Only the people in the Nerdllnger play have a worse problem to solve. They
Mtruggle with the slander of fools and of knaves, of women and of young men
the four classes who are supposed to take partlculardelight In gossip. In the
ind they lose their reputation oft got without merit and loat without deserv
Ins" and the play ends- in dark and very bitter tragedy. "
It Is taken from a story and play by Jose Echegary, the Spanish dramatist.
Which the author called "El Oran Oaleeto" (The Great Gossip). Echeaary Is
rather an Interesting fellow, and Is ssld to have suffered greatly himself from
the evil tongues of his supposed friends.
He was a mathematician a professor in Madrid, lster a political economist.
was a revolutionary loader and minister of the short-lived Spanish republic.
He took to writing after the dashing of hla political hopea, and aucceeded and
Called as have all men In all times.
He suffered the great tragedy of his life through slander the tragedy that
vershadowed even that of the bursting of the bubble of his political Ideals.
And then he wrote the terribly morose but wonderfully Impressive "El Oran
Galeoto." In It he deplete bitterly and movingly the wrong done by the talking
Of curloua neighbors.
Whether such a play will be a success remains doubtful. There ere some
faults common to us aa a world-race that .we can hear spoken of with equa
elmlty.
We share a very common greed for gold, and we Smile comfortably when
the spectacle of commercialised souls Is spread out for our perusal. There sre
very wide social atns which never trouble our consciences longer than 10 minutes
at a time, ana are then puaned benina us ana xorgouen.
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But this Question of gossip, which Is so very near snd dear to us, is dlf
Cerent. It Is a bore to mention the fact that It may result In harm. A spicy
itorv Is dearly loved by nine out of ten peraons.
It la said that in our very best circles there are certain bits of news to hear
which even the bridge table will be temporarily abandoned. This sounds
highly improbable, but Is given on the very best of authority.
And then we middle-class people all know with what delight we greet the
irrlval of our buaybody friend the one for whom the French have Invented
the name "la mouche de coche" those nice, fussy coach-files which go bussing
ibout into everybody'a business and flit from person to person whlnperlng all
the house-to-house leased-wlre service at least a day before anyone elne geta
hold of lL
W clasp them to our bosoms the minute we see them. We bring in a pot
Of chocolate and arrange the cushions and settle ourselves expectantly.
Let no unwary third partit dare to put in a hindering hand and suggeet a I
kindly explanation of the rtspicious circumstance. Duti upon the douDttng
iv retch! He's a sour-visa Bed creature,' anyway.
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In one of the western cities there Is a writer of something more thsn past
silddle age. During hla time he has probably done a personal act of klndneas
to nearly every one with whom he has come in contact He has given many a
soor, frightened chap, with the fire of ambition burning bright In his aoul but
without the chance to prove his worth, the dealred opportunity. He has helped
to find a market for hla work and has directed his talenta in their right direction.
And one day a group of men were gathered in a club in that city. And in
lhat groifp were several of those whom the man had helped.
It seems that he had been mixed up in some disgraceful affair he had rowed
with someone's husband, or done some other beastly thing, and the news had
ipread fo the club very quickly.
With what delight was the morsel psssed sround the men in the building!
Iowthey dldnilously ask 'one another tor every possible detail: How their
yes gllstened'as they spread the report! The Home Missionary society of the
First Congregational cnurcn or ureal uarrmgion, msmbcuuhphi, cuuia noi nev
tarried the thing off better
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Benefits foraot are crueler than those withheld.
In a little tree-shaded college town in the east a professor who lived a rather
ngregarlous yfe, to the displeaaure of the rest of. the community, suddenly
began to act suspiciously.
There were many things that militated against him. His subscriptions to
the various school funds were infinitesimal. His clothes were too rusty, too
hlny, for a professor even In that modest little college. Strange and com
pletely unexplained nocturnal visits stretched the curiosity of the community
to the point where something had to break.'
Something did break and, unfortunately, it we the man's heart They
(earned the whole miserable story afterward, and were sorry and did their best
the best which was dictated by the mandates of New England consciences
to make reparation to his family. -
Of course, the reparation didn't do any good, but gossip lost something of its
popularity in that particular settlement for a good many years. -
Last week we were given sn opportunity to contemplate the results of what
one busy tongue managed to work for the cause of the telling of something
that one lan't supposed to tell.
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It ia said that F. Augustus Helnxe, the copper king, was forming a ring I
with which he expected to corner the copper market. His plans and those or
hla assistants were all laid everything was in readiness and but awaiting the
arrival of the propitious moment to aprlng the deal and send Standard Oil and
Amalgamated Into a long and dreamless sleep.
But Mr Helnzn had a guest a young Butte girl, who loved to walk In the
corridors of the Waldorf-Astoria, and of whom the copper magnate waa very
fond He talked over his plans with her and made a confidant of her.
-When the other women told their choce blta of news she was Just dying
to spring her surprise and one day she did It, extractlngTsolemn promises from
her hearers of course, that it would go no farther.
Of course, such things never do go any farther. , But the next morning a de
tective agency had the details and had planted Its agents everywhere among the
Offices of the men concerned in the copper deal.
And laat week the sequel came in the form of ruin for Mr. Helnxe and his
frlNo8doubt the other women had, lots of fun hearing the young lady from
Butte tell all she knew.
The gossip is usually a person whom we, acknowledge to be brilliant. Our
friendships are based far more often on common dislikes than on common likes.
If some one of our acquaintance will only express a good, strong, biting
opinion of some one else of our acquaintance, we Immediately fold her to our,
heart. ...... . .
What remarkable discernment sne nan: meres a tiovtr woman mr yojii
Good women, the kind who go around with a smile and a cheery word for every-
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one. ...
. -,u i. on nirt Bavin that if you only throw dirt enough some of It is sure
- lint ' " - - "
t0 Thackeray's Becky Sharpe was an Ideal gossip. Her active brain seised
nnnn everything within reach and converted It into the cleverest, the most de
lightful examples of what is known in the vernacular as the "knock."
And she remains today doubtless one of the most popular; characters in the
r" of fiction Most men have secretly or openly wished they could have
known her and heard her consummate descriptions of her friends and their little
'0l vrnt women would like to have known her, but all would be somewhat afraid
of the acQualntancehlp. It would be delightful, of course, to hear Becky talk,
but one would waivt to seal her mouth before one let her out Into the world
betHrt1hetlsnuccess of "The World and' His Wife" Is problematical. It depends
. ' ,!,!. more than the mere cleverness of the men and women who play
t-Bomething more than the bright dialogues and interesting situations.
r ven the aood looks of Mr. Faversham himself; it depends upon how closely
ths ludlences will feel called upon to accept the moral of the story as applying
t themselves. And that Is something about which, as "G. B. S." has said, you
mvnr ruin tell.
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V?-Won What He'll Do Next:
VThere'a ,th laslest men who ever
slgued a bote! register, remarked Col
onel Peacock, -the . veteran , managing
elerk of the Hoffman house, Indicating
a large wsll-get-np stroller about the
corridor, 'j.-r; 1 ,
.'lie's a drummer for a big Philadel
phia silk house, and his nam la Sam
uel Parker Sedgewlck Elliott. When I
first knew him, 10 years ago, he used to
alga his full nam in a very deliberate
and careful manner, using considerable
flourish. A couple of years after he
began to abbreviate it slightly, like
wis:-
, "'Samuel P, Q. Elliott' .
Then 1 noticed on th register Sam'l
p. a. Elliott
"The following trip disclosed a fur
ther slight elision, 'S. P. O. Elliott.'
"Coming in on night rather late, he
took the proffered pen and wrote '8am,
Elliott!- ..'''
"On his arrival here last week I saw
he had the habit Incurably, and ther
was no hop for him whatever. Here is
what he naa sorawisa: u. t.iow
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Week Commencing Mon
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In Chas. Horwitz's Original
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"The Marriage fee"
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Sidney forrester
"The English Costermorlger"
The Hassman Trio
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Hi Tom Ward
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Dave Braham Jr.
Joseph Wilkes
Geo. Merritt
Robert Craig
Geo. Miller 1 '
Howard Smith
Geo. SeyboH
io Nathen Pauline Eberhard
lax Moree Mabel Stoughton
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Stephanie Longfellow
Lydia Dickson
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leThree of Us
BY RACHEL CROTHERS
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A Triumph in San Francisco.
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AH Week Commencing Sunday Matinee
October 27, 1907, TODAY
THE BAKER STOCK COMPANY
In a grand revival of
SARDOU'S FAMOUS PLAY.
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An intense drama of Russian intrigue and police spy system.
Translated from the French by Clement Scott.
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Absolutely Correct Scenery atid Stage Settings. .
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MATIINEB SATURDAY
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NEXT WEEK: Hoyt's "A Hole in thedr.und" I
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?ans Last June of the Noted English Artist
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Song, Dance and Change Artists
Joe Thompson
"San Antonio"
Why Jimmy Didn't Sit Down.
The woman who had shopped until
the closing Kong had sounded stood at
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suburban trolley. ' . .
"What," she wearily asked nerseir,
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trace of physical freshness?" )
Presently the car came along. It had
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Seat Sale Opens Next Wednesday at Theatre
EMPIRE THEATRE
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1ITLTOV W. SEAMAXT, Manager. Phone Mala 117
Playing Only th Btalx-Xavlla Eastern Boad Attractions.
The
Beaatifal
Comedy
Drama in
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A Struggle
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W.B,Patton
Matinees Sundays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at ' J
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Matinees Wednesday and Saturday.
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The 'New Rowland & Clifford Comedy-drama Success,
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A dramatization of Bertha M. Clay's novel by Lem Parker. .
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