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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNINO, DECEMBER 22, 1007.
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Opening Matinee Today, Sunday. Dec. 22
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EMPIRE THEATRE THE STAR
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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.
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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;
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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
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Week Commencing December 23
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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
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EVERY EVENING AT :U 10(, 20ft AND S0f
Sox office open from 10 to 10. Sea" ordered by either
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