THE .OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAU PORTLAND. SUNDAY , MORNING, JANUARY 5, 1008.
PORTLAND GIRL WINS PLACE ON ;
STAGE AFTER YEARS OF HARD WORK
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"Jut bard work nd study and love
of my firofeHnion," Ji th way Tablthe
Cecil Kern explains how she won her
flrit poaitlon on th professional stage
with Eelasro's "Sfan of tha Hour," com
pany; 1 ' .
MIrh Kern is th dauahtfr of J. J.
Kcrn tli oldest; German editor In Port
land and her prother and sister nave
the Deutsche ZlDtunr or ttils oily, l ney
are exceed' agly proud of Gielr "little
girl," aa thev affectionately terra her,
and all . of , MJxs Kern's ' frtenda are
a watt hi jf with Tloannt expectations her
appearance at the Heillg next week.
"My alsler has been prern.rlnB; for
the at a ire, for years she seemed to be
born for It," said Miss Meta Kern In
tipeuklnir of Cecil's work. - "Khehad a
remarkable memory when a chila of but
three years old and never tired of -mlm-ickinir
and recltlnr. 8ho must hnve in
herited some of my father's qualities
ot- application and ability, for study
She attended school In Portland, later
studied draniatk) art with- Paul Gerson
In San FranrJsco, , had a term at the
Morgan school In Chicago and then In
New York. While In New . York she
met Mr. Belaaco and he ennasad her to
co out with the western 'Man or tne
Hour" romnanv.'
Miss Kern s part is mat or ino stea
ocTunher to Mavor Bennett, the man
of the hour, end she has received very
favorable notices throutrneut tne tour,
which began early last fall in Atlantic
C)ty -'Unlike
many actresses Miss Kern has
kept iri close touch with her family In
iortiani ana tne rrequem letters re
ceived by them here testify to the pride
ana interest tney taice in ner worn.
'A grat play of American lire today
that is what theiHon. T. L. Bulllvan
Democratic leader of New York City
and one of the most potential politicians
of the., day. called "The, Man of. the
Hour." Yet, "Tim" Sullivan Is looked
Upon by many as the very typo of
"practical" politician against whom the
morals of "The Man of the Hour"' waa
directed , by George -Broadhurst, Its
author. Another New York city politi
cian who praised the play as a stirring
picture of American life was Magistrate
Finn, famous In the literature of pol
ities as "Battery, Dan."
It is queer to think that these two
rowv '"Big Tim" Sullivan and "Battery
Dan" Flnrf, are regarded by many as
the originals of two of the chief char
acters in the,, play. "Boss" Ilorrigan
and Alderman Phelan. ,-,,
THEATRICAL NOTES. u ' "7',v.f --
5 MU&I hfU.fy MMIVIL.tzJ
"Last year, , while abroad," Louis
Mann relate, "Mm. Munn and 1 had
the pleaHiire of visiting .Germany near
wnere isarn was oorn, aiso me piace
wiiere Outlier rewrote tno ibies in met.
there were a number of historical lo
calities near by, and we utopped over
niniuy ai m miie inn in , Aisenacn.
where the, landlord greeted ua In broken
English." ; i. . J v
"Ah, you are American becblcs, yesT
Once I'was.in Amerlca-once in . Ave
nue A, yes? You .hat nice time, year
We ware amused at his efforts to bo
sociable, and asked to be taken to our
looms. . . ,
The, host Informed us that there wis
an elevator.' tie whistled and shouted
down the shaft for' "August." then Jn
vlted ua to atep in the cage, himself
running the,' elevator. We were half
way up the .first floor." when: with- a
rattletv clank the caee stuck.
After mucn effort we gained the of
fice floor once more, and the landlord
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"It is a sten out Please: the Juice is
out, Kever, never, this happen befo.-e,
please, up to tonight Is not possible;
out aown is it.- r-
An-' old friend asked Mrs. ! George
Gould (who osed to be dlth King-
don) if she ever Yell a return Of her
old Impulse toward the stage,. "Oh.
well." ahe said, "when you have rubbd
against, the scenes you can. never get
rid of the emeu or paint."
A stage version of the novel "Three
Weeks," written by Elinor Glyn, is, be
ing maae. ume, rsaiimova is enaeavor
ing to secure the rights for American
presentation. .. -i
Penman Thompson ' celebrated . his
75tU birthday Jast. Week.
- James CNell has announced that this
year he will confine his. efforts to pro'
auctions ; or ' "juuus uaeear, "virgin
lu," and "The Count of Monte Crlsto'
Ml art Christie MacDnnald has been
engaged by Charles Frohman for his
productlpn ' of a new musical comedy.
entitled "Miss Hook of Holland." a Lrfm
don. success of the first order.
Sometimes there Is fun on the stage
Which persons in the audience do not
suspect. At a recent performance of
Tom Jones ' the mem hern of the com
pany were convulsed with merriment
over a trick John Bunny played on
Henry Norman. Mr. Norman in the
character of Squire Western Is a hard
riding, hard drinking country gentle
man, who. tosses orr glass after glass
of wine at a hunt breakfast. The scene
calls for the 'drinking of six bumpers
of .wine in rapid succession. Keai isur-
gundy is used, but for stage purposes
only a little is placed in eacn glass, as
ni human 'Stomach could hold six- tlg
glasses. At the performance in ques
tion Mr.. Bunny slyly filled the glasses
to the brim, ana as Mr. jNorman
downed the wine in plain sight of the
audience his face assumed a look of
consternation at sight of the quantity.
Everybody on the stage saw the trlcK
and watched to see how Mr. Norman
would handle the plight He drank
two glasses, tackled a third, gasped,
and then turning half aside from the
u die nee. made pretense or getting away
bwlthithe others. No one in front sus
pected tne tries: wnicn mr.-uran cii-
loyed as geemy as anyooay.
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Miss lEthel Jackson who Plays the
title role with Henry W. Savage's New
York "The Merry widow" company.
and Mme. Llna Aharbanell, who plays
the same part In Mr. savage s Chicago
company of "The Merry Widow' are
exactly the same age. They were both
born on February S, 188. ' 1
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". Venn the New Vftrlr World.'
Hamlet's soliloquy, as E. Fpy Fits
light give It:
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Hully gee. That's
gerald might
To be or not To be?
. the aut-stlon:
Whether .'tis nobler, bo, not to set up
. a tan scream . t- . J :
When you're stungr or put up a scrap
, against a sea or troubles.
To croak; to , pound the feathers- or
1umn la .v . , - V .-
At the sound of the gong and go to It,
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And so forget your troubles, see?
A , guy is . sum up . against it in this
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And If yon jump, off the dock, where
1 do-ye4i come in:
A. lot of boobs put' up with it because
. they don't v v- . i.
Know where they get off. , It's a bard
- luck storv. bo.
For most of us; so many things put on
. , the cheese,: ' , .
Our .best friends pan us, a skirt Will
throw us down:
Bulls in "harness pinch us, what's the
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: "Mr. 'E. Foy Fltxgerald will, present
himself as Hamlet.1' So the bill will
read In springtime.
V ' a. TB . . L 141 kill Lla.t4
jar, rvy, vr im win uiii uuincii
thon.vhavlng taken up his- family, name
for dignity reasons. "E. ' Foy Fits-
The Massachusetts Federation of
State. City and Town Employes' unions.
at the annual convention held recently
Maiden, extended its scope to tnat
a- national body. Application has
been made for a national charter from
the American Federation or LAOor.
geraldr assured us of this in all sin
cerity In his manager's office at the
Iyric theatre last Monday arternoon.
' "I have as much right to play Ham
let as . anyone else," said ' the great
actor. "I paid 56 cents for a copy of
tne piece, ana mars an 11 cost anyooay
else. , . , - ,
"Yes. I used to sing Hamlet was a
Melancholy Dane,' but I did not state
It as a fact, and even If It were, so,
that has no bearing on the case.
Tt Ian' at fnlra althnlirh I VAffarrl
this, the greatest of all Shakespeare's
works, aa a comedy and not a tragedy.
I don't Intend to gag It, although I will
play It for the laughs, and there are a
lot of 'laughs In it.
'T .win put 'Marnier on in tne spring
right here In New York. I can't repeat
too often that I will give It a respwtful
handling. The book will not be re
written, for. with all due resnect to our
modern librettists, Shakespeare Is good
enough for me.
"I will hot interpolate any songs. The
Pony ballet will positively not be fea
tured.
I nave never played tne part or Ham
let right out on the stage, but for 20
years I have read and rehearsed it.
I do a turn wun it every aay i am
home in New Rochelle, in my barn. Mr
wife and children think it does me good.
and then, some men drink, you know.
So they don't Interfere.
" or rive years I nave practiced it in
my stables, so. you see. I can say l
have barnstormed In the part.
AS I said. I win have my premier
right here In New York. I will not
open In New Haven and then go on the
road for aweek while we rix over tne
piece. I have tried it on the dog. My
dog' sloens In the barn. He can't sleep
while I'm rehearsing, tnougn. Decause
I act the part; I doh t read 1U
I'll play It as a young man. Hamlet
was a young man. Yes, I know he says
he was fat and scarce of breath,' and
that In one Dlace he alludes to- 1U4
beard, but I'll play It without either pad
or bushes. And I will not pick up
Yorlck's skull and say, 'Tls a pretty
thing! .............
What Is my conception of the part?
Hamlet, In my opinion, was a nut. Just
a nut. I've seen all the great actors In
the part Booth, Tom Keene. : Forbes
Robertson all of them. In nay opfnlon,
though. Booth' Interpretation was the
best Robertson made him a wise guy
not that Hamlet wasn't skilly, at that:
but he was a daff. There's nothing to
It; the prince of Denmark was a star
gater. all right,1 all right. - -
"I'll play It made up Juvenile, a
Scandinavian Gnorgle Cohan who took
himself seriously. Of coarse I frxpeet a
lot of people to think I'll mug and gag
and do a dunce In the solilkiuy. i . r
"None of tkat In mine.' I'm going to
play it straight, and tne oniy runny
thing about It Is that nobody but actors
will believe I'm In earnest In this mat
ter. I meet a dosen crushed tragedians
very day, who come saver" from the
lunch counter and give me advice. I
don't need any advice. I've seen James
Owen O'Conor, Charles Leonard Fletcher
ana Kdmund Russell piay . liamiei
know what I'm up against. - I'll pli
without. tha alii of a net. too.
' "No, I don't .expect anything' to be
thrown at me except bouquets." . I re
member once out In a sleepy little town
In the west Shakespeare, Montana, so
called because "Only a little Hamlet
slept.' A bund of bad sheepherders
threw eggs and vegetables and even old
pans- and kettlea , at .. James )wen
O'Conor.
"He caught a counle of the eggs and
some of the vegetables, .and Picked up
vnu ui me pans ami took nimneij. m
tomato omelet over tne rootngms.
" "I will come' t a- the theatre when I
play Hamlet, however, after I dine, and
no ivor win oe aone me oy lowing ino
eggs, vegetables or kltchenware. Be
sides, footlights In New York are incan
descent lamps. ' ;;
owen uuonor, tne tragedian, I would
not have any one infer that my pro
duction of Hamlet will be anything In
the nature of a revival.
' "I'm going to; use E. H. Sothern's
acenery, most likely, and I will have a
competent support. I want to be careful
or tnat. Nat Goodwin wants to play the-
First Grave Digger, nut could I trust
him to stick to his lines when I say,
'How long will a man He In the ground
ere ne rotr
Nothing would keeD Nat Good w n
from saying, 'Not long. If he's as rotten
as you are in tnis part.'
"Hown I dress the partr wen, not
tn a pad ana a brush, as I told you.
Nor as a Joey with a red nose and a
bald wig.
"I'll wear. a hawbuck for the usual
black and maroon. And I'll get away
with the part. It's ail sure rire hokum.
It may be stated right here that a
"hawbuck" Is the stage slang for the
conventional doublet and hose worn In
all costume plays of the time of Hamlet
or the era of Elisabeth.
"Sure fire hokum" Is actoreae for
lines that are always applauded, such
aa 'Rags are royal raiment when worn
for virtue's sake!" "He who lays his
hand upon a woman, save In the way of
Kindness, is unworthy tne name or an
American gentleman!'
"Get It down right." concluded E.
Foy Fitzgerald, erstwhile Eddie Foy.
"I ll be in this burg In the spring to
play 'Hamlet.' and I'll be. here with
chimes on my clothes!" ,-
When Mrs. Foy, who was present, was
a Wed what she thought of it. she said
she would rather Eddie played "Ham
let than the horses.
Whereat Mr. Foy Fltxgerald senten
tlously std: "It's enough."
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- Among America's foremost comedians
who will be seen In Portland within the
next few weeks are Frank Daniels In
"The Tattooed Man." and De Wolf Hop
per In "Happy Land."
An early attraction at the Heillg
theatre will be the rollicking college
play from the pen of Rlda " Johnson
Ycung, "Brown of Harvard," in which
Henry Woodruff is starring.
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LONDON" SCATS' ELYSIUM
The Door of Doom.
From the Reader.
Many old houses In- Holland have a
special door which Is never opened save
on special occasions when there is a
marriage or a death In the family.
The bride and bridegroom enter by
mis door, ana it is tnen nailed or barred
up until a death occurs. When it Is
I opened and the body Is removed by this
Metager fits glasses for tl.
Von Can Tell It by the Cats You
Meet In the Street.
A lover of cats once said that .he
summed ' up the general character bf
the Inhabitants of a city by the way
the stray cats received his overtures
of friendship, aay s a iondon dlsputch
to tne New rorg nun.
In Paris the cat literally walks alone.
as Kinling prophesied It always would.
It is Impossible to get near enough to
one to stroke It. , French cats are only
" 1, uai linn , (ill 1 1 v. n. . J kf niiu.nii.
and apparently always in a' state or
panic. This arises from the fact that
the French are not lovers of animals.
In London It is oulte different. Lon
don is an eslyslum for cats. The cats
you meet In the street are always sleek
and happy and are most friendly.
A cat is really a sort of necessary
finish to a London home. Just as she
poor little wild bird in a three-frano
cage gives prestige to a French menage,
so a large, well-groqmed, well-fed cat
eems to give respectability to an
English household.
Stray cats are always well treated
here. Of course, the day comes when
they are gently picked up by a man
in uniform and placed In a cart and
taken to the cats' home. Here they
are kept a few days, well looked after
and fed. Then if no one claims them
they are sold, if valuable, or else pain
lessly translated into whatever sort of
angel a cat becomes.
Such being the situation it was nat
ural that the nineteenth show of .the
National Cat club of England should
have been an event of importance. Some
430 cats, accompanied by adoring own
ers, competed for prises. .
The Countess of Strafford is president
of the league, and Louis Wain., the
cat portrait painter, is the chairman.
There were six Judges, and they had
their bands full in keeping peace, not
among the cats but among the cats'
owners who did not win prises.. The
cata themselves were haughtily Indif
ferent as to results. .
They were divided Into 104 classes.
There were two main sections and these
were subdivided Into open, novice, kit
ten, team, brace and breeders' t lasses,
according to sex and . colors.'. white,
black, blue. - chinchilla, ' smoke, silver
gray, brown tabby, red tabby, silver
tabby, orange, cream, tortoise shell and
any other color. -'
The shorthalred . varieties Included
Siamese. Abyssinian, Manx, Dutch and
British mousers.. The longhaired were
the Persians. Angoras, etc. The great- ,
est price ever known to have been paid
for a cat waa secured in London. It
was f 5,000. .1
Just as every dog has his - day so
does every cat. ' This year the Siamese
reigned supreme as being fashionable
and most successful.
A Elgber Health, level. '
"I have reached a higher health level
since I began using Dr. King's New
Life Pius." writes Jacob Springer, of
West Franklin, Maine. "They keep my
stomach, liver and bowels working Just
right." It these pills disappoint yon on
trial, money will be refunded at Skid-
more Drug Co.'s drug storei- J5c.
ADVENTUEES OF AN
1 ENGLISH PUDDING
" From the Billboard.
Twenty per cent of nothing equals
whatr . . :
Is a genuine English plum pudding
ifactured- from metal?"
vThese w ouestkwis- spoiled the
CraiBtmas dinner of, Miss Olga Nether
J.Ala lK. tTlm.ll.U
MIho Nethernole is Datrlotlc. and she
decided tnat she would nave a real pium
pudding, made in "dear old jungiana,
sent to her here for her Christmas din
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But she forgot all about uncle sam's
red tape. Misn Nethersole Is here, the
pudding is there, the dinner has bean
arranged, but the customs officers aie
lira mmndaryrand it may be necessary
to refer the matter for decision to tha
secretary of the treasury, in which case
Miss Nethersble'k pudding will have to
remain Iny the custody of the officials
untfl .'most everybody has recovered
from the attacks' of dvsoepsla and Is
already "looking forward to Christmas
a year hence. -- .
The Budding reached Cleveland, where
jMlas Nethersole was playing, last Week
The trouble began at once. ; . Punzled to
classify the Pudding, the officials de
clared that It would be subject to an
ad valorem duty of 20 ner cent, and
ipassed the case up to the assessor. The
Hatter refused the; responsibility and
promptly returned an- official ruling
that the pudding "had no commercial
value." -
The .collector sent a reauest at once
to anuw now- no s jswiig w cuuqc
2Q per. cent or noiniug. , jie- was toic
that , the matter did not come-under
the scone or any oiner aoDariment. and
he would have to settle it himself.
Then he appealed once more to the
superior officers for a classification of
the "Importation." Again he met with
no success. . -
If it is anything like tne plum pud
ding I , ate last, Christmas It ought to
be classified as 'manufactured from
metal.' ".declared the head of the classi
fication, department
When the office closed at night the
officials were still undecided. And the
pudding Is being carefully guarded. In
the custody of the United States gov-
ernmeni. i.
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XakM Five Ille to School
Trim the" Philadelphia Record, t i
While tha ordinary boy. is spending
s out of school hours Dlavlng. William
Harris, 9-year-oldflad. who lives on
Whiskey road," half a mile tout of Mer
chantville,, 6pends three hours every
day walkinr to. and from school. The
Harris family are -Catholics, and as
there is -.no Jiarbchlal school in Mer
chantville the boy, trudges to Camden.
It Is five" miles each 'way. and the bos
walks the 10 miles In three hours. This
morning the snow Interfered with bis
cuKtom, and -he used a trolley car. "l :
There is . not enough money allowed
William to , pay his carfare jind keep
some for himself.; so -he. would -rather
walk and savjp 60 cents a week.T -. The
lad has made- many friends along' tha
route of his dally journey, who urge him
along with .cheery gteetlngs v . v ;
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It is a simple problem during this clearance sale with our well
bought stock. We are making room for heavy shipments of fur
niture, carpets and stoves expected next month.
Do Not Forge! That Cur January Clearance
Sale Prices Extend to Everything in the Store
Having just completed stock
taking, we find we are over
stocked with Steel Ranges,
and are offering our famous
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