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THE OREGON SUNDAY. JOURNAL PORTLAND, .1 SUNDAY : MORNING. , FEBRUARY , 0, 1903.
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iCUIMTE I III
; II A, D'Arey, who ii In Portland in
'the Interest of. De .Wolf . Hopper, 'li-a
poet-playwright and t r propounder of
Ideaa. Ha has invented a new supersti
tion, which. If unreasonable,' U at least
an Interesting etudy. " He argueg . that
alliteration In names la lucky and offers
examples In stare 'Ufa to, bear ;out his
theory.'. He says: V," I I
"It Is Quite a number of years; ago
when I first noticed the large percent-
are of theatrical names, the Initials or
which correspond. , It occurred to me
that most Of these names were assumed
ones and adopted In the Interest of
euphony, but I found this was not too:
then I discovered beyond dflubt-. that
alliteration was a lucky quantity." ,
Juliet in the balcony scene voices one
of Shakespeare's most famous axioms.
Miss Capulet Is awfully "gone" t. on
youn Montaa-ue and. bemoaning the
fact that his name Is objectionable to
Her family, says, "that a rose dj any
-other nam would smell as sweet. The
young lady may be correct, but she has
no more proof to back up her assertion
man i nave 10 me coiurwj. . ;
that If the rose had teen named, 'cac
tus." U would not shave been the ideal
rower we know. There Is much in
names, or why do poets and novelists
christen their virtuous maidens Mar
tha, Florence, Gladys or Maariine,
while they Invariably call their adven
turesses Cora, Lin a. Nana, Lna, za
or some such name with four letters
and ending with "a"? But 1 am only
discussing one example in the value of
aMnh m hAfora stated, la al
literation.
i Couple two or more names commenc
ing with the same letter, and as sure as
ou ao. It wiu innuence gooa lonune.
would need a column of this newspa-
rer to give -me examples or wnicn i
now. I will start with a few and give
the reader a chance to continue the
list. . ..
Home lucky women or ine siage
(Tie Ellsler, Charlotte Crabtree, Char-
otte Cushman. Charlotte crampion.
Maggie Mitchell, Maggie Moore, Amy
Ames, Flora Flnlason, Lillian Lamson,
Orace Golden, Daisy Dixon, ' BUHe Bar
low, Minnie Maddrrn, Marlon Mannia
Mason, Katnerine Kiaaer, muie jhibkb,
Besale Bonehlll, Lfllle Iinatry, Emma
Karnes. Marguerite Mather and Mary
Mannerlng. ,tt
Some lucky men are Collie Clbber,
Joaeph Jefferson, Walker Whiteside,
Dore Davidson, Frank Frayne, Harry
Harris, Melbourne Macdowell, Harry
Hawk, Edward Eddie, Charles Coote,
Roland Reed and hundreds of others. I
waa once seated at dinner table , with
fo
three ladles of a certain mioo(m'
company and remarked the factV al
literation in their names. - It had never
occurred to " them- and -yet they were
companions. Fancy, - Clara, Coleman,
Alice Alnseoe and Florence Foster Hem
lng and all assured me their namea
were not assumed ones and each admit
ted that Dame Fortune waa more than
Borne lucky, partnerships, Harrlgan ft
Hart, Henderson A .Hanley, Harrlgan
Hanley, Barnum ft JJalley,- Booth
Barrett (who, though great actors, were
signally - unfortunate until,, associated,
when they made the most colossal for
tune known to the profession), Russell
A Rosenquest, during their partner
ship, made $100,000. and lost the same
after they separated. Havlln. Hasan A
Hulton. man a Ar a of theatres In BL
l Mii- an fhin&orn. may date the com'
mencement of their collective fortunes
to the day they .became .associated in
management.. ' , ' '
- It may. oocur to the reader that, be
ing a theatrical man, I am taking all
the value of this charm to my own pro
km at It may . be traced
in hiatorv to the world. Waa U f ate or
design that Mahomet waa born in Mecca
and burled in Medina, or that Wellsley.
Lord Wellington, won Waterloo, that
famous battle was -fought t on Friday,
the. unlucky day of; all fatalists. Had
Blucher be?n arrayed on the side of
Bonaparte, the .issue would surely have
been reversed. When a man takes, up
grins against a government, if he falls
he la a rebel; If successful he is a pat
riot No wan ever took so great a
risk with results on his side as General
Ouseppl Garabaldl. -Fateful Friday was
again arrayed agarnst the eharm of al
literation when f Christopher Columbus
discovered tnia country. - ' . ,
Nor .la alliteration the only example
hih onatrnvorta . the araument that
there Is nothing In a name. It Is only
a few years ago that some one d)s
MivartMi the fact that to name a ship
after a city was-unlucky, via. City of
Boston. Vllle de farts, etc., ana tne
New York Herald published a list of
nntahla wracks at sea which, going back
for about a hundred years, gave the
names of ill-fated vesaeia thus named.
Th number was frightful te contem
plate. AU the vessels of the famous
Inman line were rechrlatened.
. No, Miss Capulet, your, great love
suggested an argument which la very
doubtful. I, for one, believe that there
Is much In-a nam, ana. wonaer it nas
not been a factor in the success of De
Wolf Hopper In "Wang" and "Happy
land: also If it is not of good omen
that De Wolf Hopper s manager Is
named Harmon and his leading support
is 1 named Wolff.
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con OPERA
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lernard Daly as Dan O'Hara, the Kerry Gow, at the Marquain Grand.
TUEATEICAL NOTES.
In "Dream City" Little Chip and Mary
Iarble and their merry crowd of fun
akers are - establishing new records
r box office receipts all over the coun
ty. In no other production have they
Iver been seen to Detier naviumio.
bream City" Is the laugh-hunters' par-
Irtlse. At the Marquam urana tneatro
pon.
Scheduled to be at . tho. Marquam
ithln the next fortnight in mi new
ay, "The Wheel of Love " Paul Oil
ore will be eagerly watched, by his
any admirers here to judge by com-
krlson of his improvement since no
as seen here lasi seusun in
iir college play. "At Yale.". The two
an totally different, tins latter
lie giving more scope to the actor.
eorge V. nODari wiut mo
m 9
Bernard Cavanaugh has assumed the
hportant role of To mas. tne pnuo-
wo IV iouu-i
Mr.
with Bertha Kalich.
Evanaugh was engag early this wa
in by Harrison wey iwm, ,
.nnp.rliif In "Leah Kleschna.
'"'""Ju.; A in this role that
h was advanced to the same part with
rs. FlsKe. wno on nor iioiiihjp 'V"'
toeared m tnia pmy " x. "
tJrbervilles." Now the actor has in
mas a character of exceptional Op-
hrtunlty, and is wen-received ,
Two of the most beautiful ktrls of
a n wolf Hopper company are Nella
id Marguerite Shayne, nieces or Mr,
upper, com sisiero .-r-". ';,
rii-at nimcii slnsfs the . roll
Wthe Lady Patricia and Marguerite is
e or toe jjeues oi nuivjuuiu- . v
IWlll Hutchins, in an essay; in the
iringrieia iwimuinwii
olm." in which Mrs. Flske and the
mhattan company are appearing,
lis this 6hetof the very greatest of
dern dramas. He eays that Its per
rmance in the hands of Mrs. Flske
d the Manhattan company has a
atlve significance."
iMr. Hutchins . says " Rosmersneim
not a problem' play; s incisive
hral judgment is ; too Dosltlve---too
tain and too swlft-to allow any iin-
ring doubt. With utter absence ,-ot
fctacuiar glamor or or pnysicai vio-
bce th nlay ilnvalnna , In cumulative
jwer, In an accelerating moral veloc-
ranged life
with ho
are 'laid hare, ana mere,
llne-erlnar over details, no trem
bling In the face of destiny, solves it
self into one supreme moment of life
and love asserting themselves in what
is at once victory. ano surrenaer.
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New Torki Feb. 4.;The curate of "Bt
Augustine's church, In - Eaat Houston
street, the Rev. Daniel Hugh Verder, la
ambltloua to write a musical comedy
that' will hit Broadway straight between
the eyes and give him a lower i berth
along with George Cohan, Irvln Cobra
Hill Irwin's brother Wallace, Harry a
Smith and Qeorae V. Hobart In "Jfrme'a
Twentieth Century Limited."
Young Mr. Verder likes the life of
tne auey. ana has a pretty weii-devei-oped
hunch that he can give It original
expression. The fact Is. lie has written
already quite a bunch of lyrics and
iignt, merry little verses wMcn wouia.
he says, fit nicely in the libretto of a
musical piece. He doesn't see any rea
son why a curate shouldn't produce a
musical comeay. -So
far the Shuberts, Klaw A Erlanger,
Dillingham and Frohman haven't both
ered Mr. Verder with Insistent requests
that he get a move on and .turn out a
laugh-maker before Lent puts a damper
on the theatrical business, but wait a
bit. Maybe they haven't read his . book
of poems, "The Snow Bride," or bis
latest lyric, "The Great White. Way."
At any rate, aa Mr. Verder say, . he is
willing to go alow, always with a hand
ful of salt to spill on the tall of that
coy bird, "Success," If it should flirt
its wings anywhere near him.
The other night Mr. Verder went to
the Casino and heard Iron Hand, the boy
usher, beat his hands into a pulp when
Maude Fulton skipped out and sang; the
newest Broadway song. Whereupon Mr.
Verder got an idea. He would write a
Broadway song that would be a bigger
smash than "The Troubles of Workln'
Gel." but It wouldn't be so light-minded
and frivolous. It would be amusing, but
not too merry, full of a deeper note,
containing a hint of the darker side of
the alley a contraat, in short, of the
gaiety and the gloom of Broadway. At
the same time It might serve as the
nucleus for the musical comedy he had
In mind. So he dashed off "The Great
White Way," one verse of which runs:
No monks nor cowls nor any such thing
But steady burns the electric light.
No shadows does the darkness bring,
but like the day Is the livelong
nla-ht.
Oh, the Great White Way
Is always gay.
It Is, Indeed, a wonderful sight.
Of course, if a piece is a hit snd the
audience splits Its gloves and calls for
more, there'll have to be additional
verses.
Knows Xast Bids Zdfe.
As a curate of 8L Augustine's, Mr.
Verder is familiar with the life of the
east side, and is convinced, so he stated
today, that there is much good material
there for the right sort of man to bring
out in the form of stage entertainment,
drama or musical comedy.
"I have written what I call, 'songs
from the slums,' " said Mr. Verder, diffi
dently; "but the opus is not nearly com
pleted. 1 have finished only about 100
verses. They deal with the life of the
submerged, their Joys and sorrows, their
toll and tbelr amusements."
It should be stated that Mr. Verder,
while in college he Is a graduate of
Trinity, '99 wrote many sonnets, and
is the author, in his riper art, of "Love's
Unrest.''
How Cold' SO Degrees of Frost. Is.
From the Dundee Advertiser.
It Is diffioult for us to form any
Conception of the degree of cold repre
sented by the 80 degrees of frost re
corded rrom certain parts or Kussia.
Sir Leopold McClfntock tells how in
one of his Arctic expeditions a sailor
was foolish enough to do some outdoor
work at precisely this temperature. His
hands frose, and when he rushed Into
the cabin and plunged one of them Into
a basin of water so cold was the hand
that tbe water was Instantly converted
Into a block of Ice.
At . 25 degrees. Dr. Kane says, "tho
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Icy crusting. Your chin has a trick of
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even a wink was unsafe."
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Magician, Mimic and Humorist
in His New and Novel Mysteries.
. Keller's Virginia
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RINALDO
The Wandering Violinist.
Melnotte-Lanole-Duo
Novelty Acrobatic Wire Act.
James McDuff
Imitator and Mimic
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