THE 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
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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
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Lower floor 11.60 11.00
Balcony 11. U0, 76c, 60c
Entire gallery 60c
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Balcony 76c, 60e
Gallery js0
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t Next Week 'The Three Musketeers" I
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MaTOI w. llalLUi Manager.
PLATING BTAIR-HAVLIN EASTERN KOAD
Street.
rboaa Mais 117
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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
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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
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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."
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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"
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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.
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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
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