The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, December 22, 1907, Image 21

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Newspaper Page TextI THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNINO, DECEMBER 22, 1007. HEILIG THEATRE MARQUAM GRAND Mth and Washington Phoqea Main 1, All 22 f Portland' Famout Thiatr Phont Main 6. .4039 4 Sffift! TONIGHT S XMAS GRAND XMAS ATTRACTION j Matinees Janday, Xmas Day, Saturday MATINEE TODAY I MR. JOHN CORT PRESENTS AMERICA'S FOREMOST COMEDIAN M KMkm FRANK W. HEALY PRESENTS THE FIRST REAL NOVELTY SINCE "PETER PAN THE IN HAROLD MacGRATH'S FAMOUS STORY I MEN TOO SENTIMENTAL SAYS ACTRESS if (St fe I i; ' (of i 'mM i I 81 II "11 II nn VilUrVSl PlIsT 7a B.rj 7 ! ' J1 j The Man TheBox HE DRIVES DULL CARE AWAY THE SPEED LIMIT FOR FUN BTtnlnr Frteas apaolal Zmu Matlae Frices. I.ower flooi 11.80, 11.00 Fntlre lower floor 11.00 Haioony $1.00, TBo, BOo Balcony - Tfto, 60o Oallery 3Sc, 260 Oallery J5o, afto SEATS ARE SELLING AT THEATRE TOY-MAKER A dainty, dancing, delightful corrtic opera See the wonderful workshop with its hundreds of living toys. Prices: Evenings 25c, 50c, 75c; Matinees 25c and 50c HEILIG THEATRE I I &f?e 14th and Washington Phones Main 1, A 11 22 t nun a ttf.in t BAKER ITT) THEATRE D Um. Baker, Oom. Mgr. 3-NIGHTI-3 BEGINNING DECEMBER NEXT THURSDAY Special Price Matinee Saturday HENRY B. HARRIS ANNOUNCES ONE OF PORTLAND'S GREATEST FAVORITES RALPH STUART I PORTLAND'S FASHIONABLE POPULAR PRICE THEATRE lorn of tko Xboooi parable Baktr atoek Company. IN THE COLLEGE PLAY "STR0NGS1EA BY WILLIAM C. DE MILLE RT GRAND CHRISTMAS WEEK ATTRACTION Opening Matinee Today, Sunday. Dec. 22 TU OBEAT VXW EHOLAHD CHARACTER COMEDY I A IVIBDNIGEil BELL BY CBA1LSI X. HOYT, Author of "A Milk White nag." "A Trip to Chinatown." "A Bunch of Key a, Etc. FULL OF HOLIDAY ATMOSPHERE WINTER SCENES IN OLD NEW ENGLAND Delightfully The Country School, Bee, Evening Prless Lower floor ai.80, fl.OO Balcony $1.00, fSo, 50o Gallery 35c fl5c ap.clal Saturday Matin . Entire lower floor fl.OO Balcony 75o and 6O0 Gallery 35o and 850 the Church Choir, the Bowing Funny Comedv, Strong Plot ( BTAGE DIRECTION WILLIAM DILLS. SPECIAL CHRISTMAS DAT MATOTEH WBDHSSDAY KiaULIB MATIHES BATTTRDAY. Evening Prices 25c, 35c, 50c; Matinees I5c, 25c SEAT SALE OPENS NEXT TUESDAY AT THEATRE I f Next Week: "The Crisis" $ T Iaaa4aa44aaa4a4oa44a..a4aaAaaaaaaa444aaaaA4 !5 EMPIRE THEATRE THE STAR I By J. F. 8. N the midst of the Shaw cult there are a few who nre hopeless; they have read him, they have enjoyed him and they have immediately tnkin all their friends Into their confidence and ever afterward they tell how thoy wore the living guldeposts to Shaw for the community It is a malady that is hopelessly Incurable this desire to . be responsible for Shaw's popularity. Once the microbe gets Into your system, you are lost. You never hear the man nor his works spoken of but you feel a conscious sense of su nerloritv overmastering vou. You mnllo benevolently and remark: "Oh. ves: I was the orlelnal G. B. S. enthusiast Therefore, when Dorothy Donnelly bubbled over the other evening and confided that she had renlly introduced Shaw to the American public, my lieart took a downward ' course. From the minute nhe stepped on the stage and beamed her unclassic and contagious smile as Shirley Roms- more, anyone with half an eye to the symptoms or uie naw disease could have told that she was one of tin m But prepare yourself for a shock. Hhe honestly did first nlav Candida on the American stage, and. ns she mot estly admitted, made his plays popular over here. And she confirms an opinion already half formed that Shaw himself Is more interesting than his plays. "I don't want to say that I know Shaw intimately." said she, "but I do know both him and Mrs. Shuw fairly well and have visited them on several occasions. "And their life is the most ideal one you ever heard of. There is no superman about Mrs. Shaw. 8he is womanly, domestic, devoted to her husband, and he is devoted to her. "I became very interested in them, of course, and at one time I asked Mr. Shaw what I could do I saw that he was always busy, and it made me restless and anxious to employ my brain and hands. " "What do you do for work?' I asked him. " 'Why, we study politics,' said Mr. Shaw, smllfng over at his wife. "It shows how at one they arc everything Is done together. She helps him with his plays and his books, and together they delve into the political situation of Great Britain, which is their particular hobby." Miss Donnelly Is an enthusiastic Shawist. She forgot all about Mr. Freck and the fact that he was sketching her In her enthusiasm over the home life of the much-talked-of Hibernian. "You know, much of what ha says is done tc attract attention," said she, defending her idol from a question as yet unasked, But evidently foreseen. "He says many things that he does not mean literally, so that people will read his real messages on socialism and other political subjects. "You know, he once said that all good Irishmen leave Ireland as soon as possible. Now. he didn't mean anything against Ireland by that he simply meant that they are so restricted and held down in Ireland that it is Impossible fur them to secure their rights there. No more loyal Irishman lives than Bernard Shaw." It was with trembling and fear that I approached the great, the almost terrible, question as to what Miss Don nelly herself thought of Candida, the lady of the shawl and fiurlty whom ner creator sweeny reierreu 10 as inai vtr; mmoral female. Candida." She started to answer, but a change In her pose re minded her that she was being sketched. "Heavens"! Let me see what you have made of my nose sne aemanaea or Mr. rreca. lie, with visions of the destructive Mme. Calve still haunting his mind, demurred, at first mildly, then firmly. But she insisted. She Is Interested rather deeply In the subject of her nosa; it has a character-bespeaking minute that she ever thought of leaving hpr husband for the boy she merelv wanted to show him the right way. "And he Oh. rarest of men! had the discernment to appreciate this, and to see. after she had shown him the path, that there was something higher and more noble re served for him than the mere living of a happy life with a woman he loved. He saw that he had higher business on hand. As Shaw himself said 'he was really a god going back to his heaven proud, unspeakably contemptuous of the "happiness'' he envied In the days of his blindness.' " But Shaw himself. In a letter to James Huneker, gave the following delightful account of his heroine: "Candida Is as unscrupulous as Siegfried. Morell him self sees that 'no law will bind her.' She seduces Eugene Just exactly as far as It Is worth her while to seduce him. She Is a woman 'without character" In the conventional sense. Without Drains or sirengin 01 raiim one wuum uc a wretched slattern or voluptuary. She Is straight for natu ral reasons, not for conventional ethical ones. Nothing can be more cold-bloodedly reasonable than her farewell to Eu gene 'All very well, mv lad; but I don't quite see myself at 60 worth a husband of 35.' It Is Just this freedom from emotional slop, this unerring wisdom on the domestic plane, that makes her so completely mistress of the situation." And It is Just this "emotional slop" that Miss Donnelly blames for half the troubles In the world. "Women enjoy the company of men and like their friendship," she said. "They may find traits of character that they can admire in perhaps a dozen men of their ac quaintanceship, and they would like to keep tneir relation ship with those men upon that plane. Hut do tne men agree: un, n ii nm 11. j hj sooner know a woman well than they insist on Becoming sentimental. Ninety nine men out of a hundred shriek with litnrhter at the idea of Marchebanks going off happy at the Idea of finding something better than lovo. They insist on being sentimental." The artist laid down his pencil, and we sat without mov ing through our arralgnmenf. And neither of us even had the nreKenee nf mind tu sav the irallant thing. As living samples of the sentiment-mongerlng sex we scarcely dared speak. Miss Donnelly really wasn t as serious as ner wu ui sounded, however. She has opinions on other things De- sides Mr. Shaw and platonlc friendship. She wants to play Magda. And Miss Donnelly some aay should make a satisfying If not a great Magda. A sne says, there is plenty or room in tne great worm iur iiwh who are not Bernhardts or Duses. Her Magda, when It comes, will be pleasing, because to a very unusuai degree i Miss Donnelly Is mistress or many mooas. Ana n ye was ever a woman who was as many-sided as a carefully , cut Jewel, that woman was Sudermann s unnappy opera. singer. . . 1W Magna and KeoeKKa is nosmersnoim wiuso me Donnelly's Ideals. She does not fall to hitch her Chariot to star. Kebekka Is as rtirricuit a woman 10 ponrnj as uj j that the grim "Norseman gave the-stage; she is a more stria- ine blending of the real and the Ideal man even jrieaua. n will take all of Miss Donnelly's temperament, all of her ca-i paclty for study and her Gallic nlmbleness of wit to fit her i for the part. But it should be well worth the trying. ,! Corner Morrison and Twelfth Str..ta. MXLTOB W. SBAXAB, Manager. Phon. Main 117 PLAYING STAIR-HA VLIN EASTERN ROAD ATTRACTION'S ONLY Telephones Old M. 0496 X INw A.I496 I Opening Sunday Matinee, Dec 22d, TODAY FOR THE ENTIRE WEEK Holiday Week Dec. 22, 1907 j special Christmas matinee Matinees Wednesday (Christmas Day) and Saturday E. J. CARPENTER'S GREAT EDUCATIONAL DRAMA THE R. E. FRENCH STOCK COMPANY Presents the Most Sensational Melodrama Ever on Any Stage "WHY LEAVE GIRLS HOME" CJUREN OF THE l WHITE SLAVES ! A SERMON IN DRAMATIC FORM Every man and his family should see this truly instructive and educating play NIGHT PRICES 15S 25, 35, 50Y ALL MATINEES 10, 20 iNexl Attraction: "Are You Crazy" I In Five Acts and Eleven Scenes. The Auction Sale of the White Slaves Hot ween Decks of the Yacht in Mid Ocean Main Deck of the Yacht and Life Raft at Sea. The Beautiful Tea Gardens at Hongkong. "The Terrible Nine." Rescue of the White Slaves by the U. S, Marines. Regular Matinees Sundays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 2:30 Prices 10c and 20c. Every Evening at 8:15 Prices 15c, 25c, 35c THIS IS POSITIVELY THE GREATEST SHOW EVER OF FERED FOR THE MONEY IN THE CITY OF PORTLAND; DON'T FAIL TO SEE t RESERVED SEATS MAY BE SECURED BY EITHER PHONE. 4 Itourbon curve to It. The upshot of it was that the profile was given up end she settled down again for a full-fared sketch. Then and not till then did she consent to give her opinion of Shaw's most Interesting woman. "Why, she Is the most delightful woman I have ever conceived of thoroughly pood with an unusual, almost a masculine, turn of mind. She saw that Marchebanics needed i help that he was of that temperament which could easily be Influenced for right or wrong, and if for wrong the re sult would mean irretrievable ruin. I don't imagine for a She did essay an Ibsen role for a few brief weeks play ing the part of Irene in the Ill-fated American production of "When we Dead Awake." The mystical woman who believed sue was dead was too much for the public it wasn't Miss Donnelly's fault; it was a voice crying in the Wilderness, and neither Miss Donnelly nor anyone else could have mad. i success of it at the time. It is too closely woven with all ! of the Ibsen teaching to make a popular success. It scarcely stands on its own feet. Miss rmnnellv's western trip, she says, was mado with i a view of becoming acquainted with western audiences. And. of course, she has fallen In love with Oregon and Port land they all do excepting when the log gainers m tneir , throat and want's to come back here. Perhaps when she ; does return again It will De tn one or ner greany aeirea "intellectual'' parts. At any rate, it will be interesting to se. If she still puts her faith In platqnlc friendship. Week of December 23 PANTAGES BEST FAMILY THEATRE. Fourth and Stark Sts. J. A. JOHNSOir, KESIDENT MAXTAQEX. ADVANCED VAUDEVILLE STAJUH Or ALL HATZ0V8. THEATRICAL NOTES Marguerite Sylva, now of the Opera Comkjue. Paris, has just, added to . her European successes by singing Carmen at the Theatre Royal, Antwerp. A lot of chorus girls In Paris struck recently when asked to do the work done by an American chorus. The girls :of Paris said they were paid to sing and that If they danced and romped about th stage they must be paid extra. I From all accounts Ether- Barrymora f baa a big success In "Her Sister" 4a which she is now appearing on tour. She opens in New York Christmas week at the Hudson theatre. The play was written by Cosmo Gordon Lennox and Clyde Fitch, and it Is the first col laborative work by an Englishman and an American produced in this country. Maude Adams' tour of the south was one succession of triumphs. Her com ing has been the season's event in every she has played shattered its record fo. big receipts. "Peter Pan" has won the hearts of Dixie as his own elfish self has done in everv part of this broad land. In December Miss Adams comes to New York for her season st the Em plra theatre,. -During Christmas and New, Tear's week aha will play "Peter Pan." Attar this sha will seen (or one week in her former popular success "Quality Street." Following this season Charles Frohman will produce "The Jesters" in which Miss Adams will again have a boy's part. If one were to prepare a list of at tractions playing at the principal thea tres In this country the result would show that comic opera and musical comedy organizations outnumber by ration of at least two to one. The city she has visited, and every houseJcrase for light musical plays has now held sway for nearly a decade, and the fiopularlty of such entertainment, from ndicatlons based upon the liberal pa tronage constantly given auch . shows, will continue or an Indefinite period. Considering the great number or these attractions that can boast of a well- known- feminine star or prima donna. tha qtrtitioiv "Where da all of the light, From RAY FERN A REAL MONOLOOIST. The SAWADAS Foot Postering. Fred Bauer Tenor. SPECIAL CHRISTMAS FEATURE. THE FAMOUS SHEDMAN PACK OF TRAINFD DOGS 30 FINE AN1HAX.S Trained to the Minute, Surpassing All Rivals. The Four Franks "A Mixed Affair." West & Benton Artistic Sinking and Dancing. The Biograph Pantageg Exclusive Motion Pictures. Lyric Theatre KAIH 468S both FKonsa xomx A-ioae Week Commencing December 23 P. R. ALLEN PRESENTS ' v MISS VERM FELTOU AND THE ALLEN STOCK CO. IN A GRAND DOUBLE CHRISTMAS BILL' THE PANTAGES ORCHESTRA Direction H. K. Evenson. BFECIAL HOLIDAY KATTHXXS DAILY. Performances daily at 2:30. 7:30 and 9 p. m. Prices Upper floors, 15c; lower floor, 25c; boxes 50c. Any seat at week-day matinees. 15c. opera prima donnas have their theatri cal beginnings?" naturally anises. To supply the demand for women of the stage who can successfully sing, dance, and present an attractive stage appear ance. Is there a 'prima donna," factory. they, a gia nee at opsy. ths I "Just happen stags .careers of some of ths better known of ths present day musical comedy and comlo opera stars who permit the management to display their names in big electric let ters In front of the theajres, it will be seen that the majority have come Into the concentrated rays of ths spotlight through the raifjts of tne chprus. DAILY MATINEE AT 2:15. PRICES 10 AND SO mm EVERY EVENING AT :U 10(, 20ft AND S0f Sox office open from 10 to 10. Sea" ordered by either . phone will be held until ! p. m. end 8.U p. ro.