The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, December 08, 1907, Image 21

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Newspaper Page TextTHE OREGON SUNDAY jdURNAU PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER , 18OT. 1. . DRAMATIZATION OF SOME NEW BOOKS MEETS FAILURE Pleasure-Producing Hovels Produce Anything But When Put on the Stage "Merry Widow" Cap tures New York Body and Sout - Thtf A By. J. F. S. 1 NOTIIER on of book plan eem to have been launched with more or less eclat. Several that have cped th hand of the dramatist (or a time and whose admirer had really begun to hope would never be drafted out from the quiet decency of, cloth cover to stalk aero the stage at tha beck and call of the Iconoclastic state-manager, have been given "action" and a oheerful ending and exhibited at 12 a scat. ( Aa might have been expected most of these felled utterly. Nothing could have bfen more quietly, restfully, attrsctlve than W. H. Locke's story of "Tlio Beloved Vagabond." which has recently been dramatised and produoed by Ileerbolin Tree at the Publln theatre Royal. it tells, as many may know, the tale of a charmingly unconventional char acter, king of the London wits, whS buys his char-woman's boy for half a crown ana proceeds to make an artist of him. He doesn't approve of the boy's being an artist. When he discovers his new charge's tiilent he has given him the name of Astlcot he draws n very clever picture of an artist's life. His definition of an artist Is worth cutting out and pasting on the wall of one's studio or den or whatever elee ha may call his private workehop. An arusi. my little Aatlcot," Bay Paragot, "an artist Is one who wraps oul up In brown paper and sella It for shilling." Hut thero are many other entertaining features to tlio story every page la interesting una entertaining. Hut as Tor action Its very charm to most people probably lay In the fact Hint It was as laxy und restful and dreamy aa a June morning. Pa rn got was one of thoae wonderful people a kind that Is not run across In a day nor a month, nor yet a year who really enjoyed tho unconventional. For moat of us a little Hnhcn ianlmti goes a long way. We are content to make weekly trips to Liberty Hall and ilrlnk our beer and partake of our aklttle and the rost of the time settle down In the quiet homeliness of a Morris chair. An evening at Lamb s If It's In New York, or at the Uohemlan club In Ban Francisco, It delightful and refreshing. We enjoy tho conipnny of clever and unusual men. Hut to wake up the next morning and eee the name Interesting; characters peering at us through the odor of stale tobacco Is rattier trying. Most of us can only stand a certain amount of Oie unueunl and after that, our taste Is cloyed. "A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the best of men." It 1 perhaps pleasant to enjoy nn evening's questionable entertainment occaalonally. The thought of how uncommonly wicked we are adds sauce to the feast and flavor to the wine. But when morning dawns moat of us prefer a grapefruit and the ever-present eggs In the prosaic surroundings of our own dining-rooms to clambering out of bed, poking around over tallies and chalra and through trie ashes of burnt-out genius to secure a questionable breakfast of herrings and warmed-over coffee. Yet Paragot wonderfuK man ate his herring brenkfants with tranquil Joy and found time and Inspiration to deliver some of his cleverest remarks during the frugal and aeemlnxly tinixtlatable meal. Moat of us are most deadly Philistines when we approach the breakfast table. Paragot drifted he and little Aatlcot and Blnnquette. with her beautiful white teeth and went from farm to fnrm through lovely France, working In the fields, playing the violin and singing and dancing nt the village festivals, Paragot all the while content with his philosophy, Astlcot content with seeing the new faces and the now landscapes and the faithful Dlanquette happy because ahe win with her adored Paragot. , As for conventionality T Why, ' con ventlonallty was thrown to the winds. That was the very charm of the tory. Along towards tho end there Is a little action Paragot meets his old-time sweetheart and goes with her to her home In ICngland and is entertained by ner In her homo In the stupid, proper, legal Kngllnh village. And, of course, he realise that he will never make a vestryman in the church of England. He doesn't like I Engl lull food, nor English ale, nor Kngllsh ways. The description of a tea which is given In Paragot's honor by his fiancee, the Countess de Verneull, Is an enchantlngly funny piece of ironic writing. We wouldn't have to ko so far fronv home as that Suffolk village to recognlso the conversttlon of the three elegant young ladles whoso entertainment was com mitted to Astlcot, now grown and a full-fledged artist. So at last Paragot Hnd Astlcot pick up their meagre belongings and return to Paris and the boulevards and the Saturday nights in the Moulin Rouge. BJanquette Is happy and Hie countess doesn't greatly mind she finds her con solation In the retired army officer the one of a type of which there are 10,000, and that kind that, nfter all, are undoubtedly Intended for matrimony much more than are Paragot's sort. v Mr. Locke's other and equally clever book "Tho Morals of Marcus Ordeyne," was also dramatlrod by him and met witn some success. It made a rather in teresting play. But to in.tect action enough Into the reposeful Paragot to make him and his friends succtpaful stavo characters seema a woeful soiling of good material. The really digressing thing about It Is that in the play the very -essence of the character Is destroyed by having him sentimentally marry his old sweet heart In the end. To lovers of the story as It appeared In book form this liberty Will seem like profanation. Another and even more generally popular favorite to be delivered over Into the hands of the Thespians Is Sir Gilbert Parker's "The Right of Way." This book, when it was first issued, impressed many with Its strong dramatlo qualities. Tho motif Af the story was the enUma of Charley Steele and his agnosticism. Eugene W. Presbrey, who took Sir Gilbert's dramatization and threw it out of the window, then sat down and wrote one of his own, has taken the usual liberties with the plot. He has made a play of five arts, the last one showing Charley and his sweetheart bidding each other farewell. It may bo foT years. It may tje. for ever, or perhaps they'll clutch one another agnl next week. 1 Sir Gilbert's version left one In' no such galling uneertitude you will re member that ho has Charley make a dramatic rescue of the llttlo Iron cross from the burning church, dying as he brings the sacred relic out from the flamos. Mr. Presbrey, however, has attempted to please everybody. If you are orthodox Christian there is no earthly reason why you can't fix it out to suit yourself and have Charley return the following Monday, a pious Christian, to tell Rosalie that h" cannot longer lipve hopes of marrying her and therefore he is going Into a convent. ' If you are sentimental, why Just have Charley wait a bit and return to an-; Bounce that his love is wortn more than life or faith or anything else. 1 If you are a strict moralist, have him return to Quebec and expose his first j Wife's second marriage and demand that she return to him. But like the man In the fable who was berated for making his ass carry i him and who then tried to pleaso by carrying the ass, only to meet with more ridicule than before, Presbrey has failed to pleawe everybody despite his at- t tempts to saddle the enigma. The play isn't much of a success, It Is said. i j And then there is Tom Jones. Henry Fielding, who conceived the bold bad hero, was by a strange chance responsible for the establishment of the censorship Of the stage In England, about 200 years ago. But they say that it is a very iiH innitrnnm v mi rv t ml comic orera. The naughtiest tiling In It Is said to K0 Jh.. nniomin Partri,i moiirnlnir for Jds not of leeches from which the tcvnrir t.ii hum rlennrted. cries out mournfully for "Lizzie, my leech! The music Is rather good, however, according to the New York reviewers, and whatever success the opera gains will be due to Edward German, it is said. Thu far the season has not teen a pleasant one for the New York mana gers "The Thief" Is apparently the most successful perious piay or me ran ana .,,.,,. "Tho unr widow" T.ebnr's rhnrminir opera. Is the Sensation from a that wo will are a production of tho latter piece In Portland this season there are two companies on the road now and Manager Pangle of tho Hellig is trying to perfect arrangements for one to Visit Portland. , tv. tu..'. rnann i-hv h theatres of this citv shouldn t keep on In their --r, eiMnnetaiiv Kiiceeasful career for the rest of the winter. The panic that t n -ra, nv.r the enst has affected thlnKs but little here, f ih n.io psneelnllv when the attractions havo warranted them. v,vn't hut few tears will bo shed over the failures. The present stringency ahould have a good effect on the theatrical market. ma that men tit naalum Uarhtra asaura win not oe the case. vnce gins strike their proper gait and are made to eD It until it be- come habitual they are safe. Thlr tp will lengthen proportionately a their stature Increases. Oh. ye, 1 have several grownups, but for oine reason I find them uninteresting. A I have '--J11 non,y by the work I cannot afford to be too YhooMy,' but I often wish they would go to someone else. ANNOUNCEMENT HFII IC. Theatre IILILIU 14th and Wash; Phone Malnl Beginning Son day, Dec. 15 Henry B. Harris Presents Charles Klein's Great American Play THE LION AND THE MOUSE Seat'sale opens next Friday. One ef my pupils, and about the hardest worker 1 have, I a grandmother. She I from the wast, very rich, and very anxious to live up to her opportunities, bh I taking walking lesson of met next month she will begin dancing le. on, lesson in deportment and then she feel that she will make a credit- J? !X.'how the rnd opera with hsr children. "Getting rid of flesh I simply a mat list is oni ter or siercl and diet. That I of the special tie of my class watch the children and never allow a delicate child to get overtired, whlla the fat. overfed children I get quite well heated before turning them back to ward home. By the end of this year there won't be a fat child in m CIS THEATRE HEILIG 14th and Washington Phooi Main 1 I jf & MR. GEORGE Thursday Evening Dec. 19 Heilig Thealre Seat Sale Opens Tuesday, Dec. 17 PRICES: $1.00 $1.50 Four Nights Beginning Tomorrow INight CHARLES DILLINGHAM PRESENTS fITZI SOfffF IN THE BEST AMERICAN COMIC OPERA 10DIST By Henry Blosson and Victor Herbert, with complete New York cast. AUGMENTED ORCHESTRA TRICES Lower floor, $2.00, $1.50. Balcony, $1.50, $1.00, 75. Entire gallery, 50. Seats now selling at theatre. 4 Ge fTD a n rrrrb theatre PORTLAND'S FASHIONABLE POPULAR PRICE THEATRE Boas ef the Xaoaaapcrael Bake Stock Company. : Week Commencing Sunday Mat inee, Dec. 8, 1907. Today 'Mil etc. By JAMES A. HERNE, Author of "Bhor. Acre," "Heart of Oak A BEAUTIFUL PLAY OF NFW ENGLAND VILLAGE LIFE Scene and Character In the Shipbuilding Hamlet the Eastern Coast of Sag Harbor on nui rocs nr tomtlawd stocx. Strong Play, Once Seen, Never forgotten ! STAOS VjTDXB DWiCTXOaT WJSJLAM BXSJTaVBO. X Matinee Saturday. Erenlng price 25a 854 60a. Matinee 15 25. : THEATRE j 14th and Washingtoa t Phoai Main if HEILIG $2.50 JS&Sb. DECEMBER 13 and 14 ItLu, TXB BOSK COICFAHT'S XMJCZWSB PSOTAOTCVJLB rBODUOTXOV, THE LAND OF NOD rBBSBVTBB BT i 80 Comedians, Singers, Dancers a cbobui or I 60--Sweet-Faced, Graceful Girls 60 1 T Ana With a Vat Equipment of Magnificent Scenery. Costume T and Electrical Effect. x MTBoyoiniK cart, rwcxTrDiiro xnox wixaov as "apul J rOOXn" AJTD UMUU ICABOX AS "TXB OXOBUS LABI," Direct From Its Great Success at the New York Theatre rzBroBUAjrcz axd a PBOBxroTioir or txb xzaxEiT seobxb or rsBrBCTxojr. THE GUAM Eviiflina PBxczs: Lower floor 11.60 11.00 Balcony 11. U0, 76c, 60c Entire gallery 60c SFECZAX, XATZXZB rBXOBSi Entire lower floor $1.00 Balcony 76c, 60e Gallery js0 i- t Next Week 'The Three Musketeers" I EMPIRE THEATRE! Corner Morrlsoa aad Twelfth MaTOI w. llalLUi Manager. PLATING BTAIR-HAVLIN EASTERN KOAD Street. rboaa Mais 117 ATTRACTIONS ONLY ONI WEEK STARTING MATINEE TODAY. SUNDAY, DEC 0th. 1 907 Matin. Wednesday aad Saturday u comttb rxzsxxx rXXSZYT LL1ELLA MOREY as SALOME nr cxabxxcb bxbxbttv "TMoflyCity"! The Original "John the Baptist" Play SEE Night prices 15c, 25c, 35c, 50c; matinees 10c, 20c I Next Attraction"A Girl of the Streets" The Dance of the Seven Veil. King Herod Palace. The Street of Jerusalem. The Tnnm flat. The Crucifixion (after, Michael Angelo' famous painting). ium r uidi pi mo Angeis ana me Ascension. SEAT'SALE OPEN ISEXT WEDNESDAY Vaudeville de Luxe faA4Aa44X 3 Week of Dec. 9, '07 EXTRAORDINARY ANNOUNCEMENT! B TITBIT BNOAaBUnSirT Of the Prettiest and Highest Salaried Act Ever Brought to the Coa.it, Madam Naynon RBSSlBlKaiEHEBIUIIIHIIBBllIIEIIUUIIIiniClBIIII iiiARQUAI GRAND g Portland's Famous Thiatrm Phonm Main 6 g ONE WEEK, COMMENCING M ATlrMFF THriAV 1 n Matinees SUNDAY-WEDNESDAY IflrlllllLL I VlM I B 5 SPECIAL MATINEE TODAY ! GEO. PRIMROSE ALL STAR Tropical bms i MINSTREL COMPANY And Xer Wonderful Tralnea Troupe of The value of Birds Madam Naynon's Is S10.000. Good houses have And whan TEACHING ClIILDBEiV. Girl Who Conduits Outdoor Classes ' for Younger Girls. One of the numerous young women mhn urn tnkin'ar suuolementary courses In New York this soason Is .paying her expense by walking classes for girls, fine declares that the lda Is entirely her own, and that so far as she knows there is no other such class In exist ence, says the New York Sun. "It Is a case of necessity being tho mother -of invention," she explained to the reporter. "I 'wanted to take tho course and had to have gome way to earn money. I began by escorting glrld to matinees and back and forth to school. -Noticing that so many of them walked Incorrectly I began to take an Interest In teaching thorn not only to hold themselves straight but the length of step each one should take to insure a graceful carriage. "Once the idea came Into my mind I began to work it out to perfection. 1 spent five of my hard earned dollars under one or tne Dest teacners or gym nasties In the city of Now York, and when he said I was proficient enough I set out and went the rounds with my little package of printed cards. They were very simple, stating that I waa getting up classes out of doors to teach young girls how to walk correctly, and giving my teacher In the gymnasium as reference. On my first visit I found that I had omitted a very important point neglected to name a reference of my own personal character. For tunately that was an oversight oon rei paired, and I enrolled the daughter of that household as a pupil. '.'My charge were tS for lessons of three hours Irrespective of the number of pupils." ' The teacher in tha gym nasium advised me on that point and It . has proved wise. . Some person prefer their daughters to go alone, have the undivided attention of the teacher, while others are quite willing to have them among a party. Personally I think class lessons are the best unless a Elrl is peculiarly sensitive. As a rule sensitive children need the com panionship of others of their own age more than those whose nerves are not so keenly alive. "How do I measure a girl's step? With an ordinary taneltne. I stretcfi it In the road and make her step It off. Bo far as I know thero Is no rule for measuring the length of a person' steps. It seems to depend on the build of the nerson as much as the lentrth of her limbs. I have a little pupil who has an unusually short trunk for the lenKth of her lejrs. vet if she takes any besides what In another child would bo termed mincing stops she looks ex tremely awkward. There Is another, a short plump child, who looks ridiculous unless she etretches her fat little legs to their utmost. I make them all strike their own gnit and then teach them to keep it. It Is simply a matter of habit. "Personally I cannot say positively that they will not have to be taught every year as they grow, but the gym- S FECIAL ASSES rEATVBB LA BELLE ESTELITA "TEB DANCES AND TXB TOSEASOX." A Pantomime In One Act, In Which La eBlle Estellta Is As sisted by Senor Garcia. Mr. & Mrs. MARK MUNR0E "TXB BEATJTT SOCTOB." s n M U H M 3 SAY! WE GOT MELANCHOLY WHIPPED TO A PRA2ZLE Beaded by Amerioa's. Host Marr.lou Comedian, Sanolnf GEO. H. PRIMROSE Own Magnificent Company Blaok-rao. Ent.rtala.rs. of th. With XI Land's Leading Including Bill Beard. Neal Abel, Dave Irwin, Joa Magers, Sam Harris, Walter Van Allen, John Burke, the Kennedy Bros., and rOXTT OTXBB8 Acknowledged the world over to b. tha beat of Its kind. 8STH EDITION BTBXTTXZXO Prices Evenings, 25c, 50c. 75c and $1.00. Matinee 25c, 50c and 75c. THE STAR Telephones Old M. 5496 New A. 1496 i OPENING SUNDAY MATINEE, DEC. 8th, 1907 FOR THE ENTIRE WEEK The R. E French Stock Company Presents A Romantic Love Story of the New England Coast I The First Time Here The Lighthouse! by the Sea By Owen Davis Positively the Greatest Production for the Money Ever Offered the Public of Portland. Matinees Sundays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 2:30. Prices 10 and 20 cents. Every Evening at 8:15. Prices 15, 25 and 35 ' Reserved seats for all performances by either phone. Christinas Week "The Queen oi the White Slaves" DON'T FORQeT TtlEJ DATfcJ r MEISBDEBBEKIBBBHIBIIIM BBKBKBflBBflBBBBBBSBBBSSSBEl I JACK LYLtr B&ACXTAOB MOWOiOOUIBT. WEDNESDAY EVENING SXCXMBEB 11 Portland people will have an oppor tunity of hearing "THE SLATONJUBILEESINGERS" AT THE Y. M. C. A. AUDITORIUM Plantation day In Dixie landatory told in aong four eras of American life illustrated by melodies. From Bos ton to 'Portland these well-known artists have appeared la every large City and are unquestionably the Ideal colored artists In America. T, M. C. A. auditorium, . December 11. - Admission 60c. . CARL HERBERT Sensational Man of Mystery. JOE THOMPSON "When the Blue Birds Nest Again, Sweet Nellie Gray." 20th Century Motion Pictures Exhlbtlng the Latest Film. Three shows daily, at 2:80. 7:30 and 1:15. Evenings and Sunday and holiday matinees. Lower floor 25 cents. Balcony and gallery IS cents. Week-day matinees, entire house except boxes, . II cents. Bunday and holiday matinees. ; Curtain rlsea at I p. "m. ' Week of V A 1X10 A AVT O Fourth and i December 9 irIJ 1 aAVPlLd Stark Sti. f BEST FAMILY THEATRE. J. A. JOHNSON. Resident Manager. ADVANCED VAUDEVILLE Dan J. Harrington STABS Or AW RATIO HS The Buckeye Quartet COMEDY BIZTOEBS, A Second Big Feature Jim Cooper HOVOLOQX8T. Fred Bauer TXHOS. BIO AOT3LAI. ACT THE LUCRETIA LEOPARDS Which re compelled to do mexs their ralna. daring In his Ventrlloquil Comedy, "OTXB THH MOO" 4 Alberus & Altus Cyclone of Juggling MeXlment. Lyric Theatre j MAZ 4685 both rsoBxa P. R. ALLEN PRESENTS HOKB A-103 ! MISS VERNA fELTON and the Allen Stock Company In That Great War Drama, Entitled - ' Motion Pictures Pantages Exclusive Film. j PANTAGES UNEXCELLEDORCHESTRA, Direction H. K. EVENSON. PBBrOBlCAWOBS CAXLT AT BOO. 700 ABD a B. K. PRICES-rLower floor, 35c; gallery and balcony, ISc. Boxes 60c. ABT BSAT AT WXZX2A XATXBXSB, TZTTXXM CXVTi. : : i a : .. Matinees Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays, 2 :30 Z 10$ and 20 , . EVERY EVENING AT( 8:15 J PRICES 10c, 20c and 30c . ' ; ' BOX OFFICE OPEN FROM 10 TO 10 J lifexl week Ihsl liri!::zj elective Crzr.i Ccr::t !i t:.: V.Cj J .... 'i ,- .1 . --.... . .: