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.- 1THE ' OREGON ; SUNDAY JOURNAU : PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 23. 1003. PLAYWRIGHTS SHOULD r ; : LEARN ARCHITECTURE So Says Clay Clement, Actor and "Writer of Tly Poetic Outburst of "Pretty Actress t the Baker. '. f- i 5 CHARLES C MS r 1 V1 f 4 - - 18 3 " I Z.BTTA. cJEWEL EU 0 TUB WKBKi. 'Clement at wHLEEN KEKR.6AN "THE NEW lNlON Tf 'DELL5WL0!JD(M rA5U2ANC5 AT 'THEWEQUAM 3 THEW,EQOWt GEWD DRAMATIC CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK - HEILIQ Monday night, Paderewskl recital: Wednesday night, Eichen Uub recital. . MARQUAM Tonight, tomorrow and Tuesday nights. Clay Clement In "The New Dominion"; Wednesday and Thursday, "The Bells'; Fri day and Saturday, "London Assurance." BAKER Jsetta Jewell and resident stock company In "Graustark." 1 EMPIRE "A Battle of Life." LYRIC Allen stock company In "Camilla." STAR French stock company In "Adrift In the World." UKANi) vaudeville. FAN T AGES Vaudeville. NEXT WEEK'S OFFERINGS HEILIO Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Kelcey and Shan , , non In "The walla of Jericho"; Thursday, Friday and Saturday, "The - Virginian." MARQUAM Paul Gilmore in "The Wheel of Love." BAKER Isetta Jewell and resident stock company In "Zaa." . LYRIC Allen stock company In "By Right of Sword." EMPIRE "No Mother to Guide Her." PKOMISES MADE BY THE PBESS AGENTS ' -43 Clajr Clement, surrounded by a first class company of actors, brought direct ly from New Tork to Portland. Ore gon, will open Sunday matinee at the . Marquam Grand opera house In a rep ertoire or delightful plays, Including "The New Dominion." 'The Bells," and "London Assurance." Perhaps no other American actor is o well fitted by nature, genius and experience, to give a varied presenta tion of lofty and ideal characters of a pronounced type as is mis author. And It is surely fitting that he should make this new and ambi tious adventure on, the Pacific coast, wnere toe first sprung into fame with . the -production of his own beautiful idyllic drama "The New Dominion," in which is that noble idea of a true rntl(tma.n re ri resented in Baron Hohen xtaufen, the central figure of the play. The late Colonel Ingersol pronounced the baron to .be the most perfect type of man he had ever seen repre sented on the stage, and as played by the author It is certainly a most charming and complete character, am bitious, lovable, gentle, simple, poetla just, with a tenderness for the weaker creatures of life that Is inspiring, and withal possessed 'with that saving grace - of humor ana aeugntrui play , in . xancy wuiuu uiu bviuioi .hp dent kin to all the world. Had Mr. Clement' been; content' to play this one character continuously, ne might nave been today a rich man. The management has given Mr. Cle ment first-class support and the plavs will vall be staged in the most fitting ' manner. During r his present engagement Mr, Clement will produce "The New Dominion.' "The Bells," and "London Assurance." It is asserted by critics that in some respects Mr. Clement's portrayal of Mathlas in "The Bells," Is more convincing than that, of the late Henry Irving, in that the character conceived . by the present ac tor, is more human, more generous and Jclnd in the beginning, and more deeply mysterious and poetic in the conclu sion. It. is a metaphysical study vt the first order, as 'written; and few factors have been bold enough to at tempt the portrayal of such elusive human emotions. Herbert Kelcey and Effie Shannon. Herbert Kelcey and Effie Shannon have been engaged to co-star In the London and New York success, "The Walls of Jericho," and will present it at the Hellig theatre for four nights, beginning next Sunday, March 1, with a special-price matinee Wednesday. Alfred tsutro. th author nf "tk vvnua 01 jericno, Derore Its production, had for many years been struggling to gain recognition as a dramatic author. Play after play was ejected until ha hit upon the Idea of presenting to the British public a picture of the doings of mo M.ii wunu, wmcn ne called. The Walls of Jericho." From the first this play met with great favor and enjoyed gopularlty for over two years at the rltish capital. Later it was brought to America and presented in New York, where its success was Just as emphatic and secure. Seat sake opens next Friday, February 28, at box office of the theatre. . Charles B. Hanford Coming. The eminent' actor and tragedian, Mr. Charles Hanford " and his company of players. will present "The Taming of the Shrew," "Antony and Cleopatra." and "The Merchant of Venice" at the Hellig theatre In the very near future. This will be welcome news to the many ad mirers of this celebrated aptnr h ..in be glad to learn of his early appearance In this repertoire of legitimate plays. The Virginian" Coming. .-V a v 1 t'i' 3k aTTLc WftlUOFJEEICHO wTJIB 1 i my j Is of the romantic class of Anthony Hope's "The Prisoner of Zenda," and the thousands of readers of the dodu lar bopk will want to see It Many inauiries nave already come in reaara lng "Graustark" since It was first an' nounced for the season. The scenes are laid In the imaginary European principality of Edelweiss wmcn is ruled over Dy the beautiful Princess Yetive. Grenville Lorry and Harry Anaulsh are two young ana adventurous Amerl cans who go over to Edelweiss search' lnar for a certain woman whom they afterwards learn is none other than the princess Yetive, and they also learn at the same time of a cowardly plot to kidnap ner lor political purposes. v1-i www; frnrrJ J 1 1 1 1 r i'iV' At' r'Mk n I y f v xSn, I IN ( y. i' . j . .It. y .T;i-r,-i W , They enter into the name with char- The famous and familiar western acteritc nerve and promptness to pro- drama. The Virginian, will be the at- their purpose and become embroiled traction at me ileum tneatre. Four, into tne affairs or tne country to a tpnth anil wh(ifnn .t.t. ,i most serious extent. Lorry soon be nights, beginning Thursday. 'March 6e comes wildly in love with the Princess with a special-price matinee Saturday and circumstances favoring his suit i mirKHAi lr jn inn Ann. I fi.ru i m n mi. "to I ture of dare devil coftiedv and thrilllm "Graustark' at the Baker events that decide life and death. an The dramatization of 00r b-., nr"gn mem au our 'young intrepid - m a j rrifPii'M rm i-iiiiim fin i wnn rivino- ai Ata Cutcheon'e famous novel "Graustark." Miss Izetta Jewel who gave such a will be the Baker Stock company's at- delightful portrayal of Nance Olden .mm: :asrss as PSSi:3F Portland appearance of the play which iarga number of supernumeraries and strong, romantlo -play. The costumes, scenery and stage settings are up to the high standard that is never per mitted' to fall -at the Baker. The en tire cast will De as follows: fimn fell Lorry, an American, Robert Ho- mans .Marry Anguisn, nis Trlend. Dnn. aid Bowles: Prince Gabriel' of rtrn stark. William Gleason; Prince Bolarcz of Axphlane, Edward Lawrence; Prince jorenz, nis son. uenion vane; Hitzky bell boy at hotel. Howard Russell; Os trom. guard to Gabriel. R. E. Hmrthni-t,. Allode. guard to Yetive, Charles Lewis' Dannox. auard to Yetivn. .Tsmu. Murphy; Lady Mlsrox. Miss Hilda Gra ham; Lady Linnox, Miss Elsie Garrett,' Teel. Miss Fay Bainter: Aunt Vrnnn Mlna Crollus Gleason; Countess Dag- msr, inupr in waiimg to xetive. Miss Louise Kent: Therese. Yetlve's maid Miss Marlbel Seymour: Yetive. tiring. of Graustark, and "Miss Gugenslocker," Miss Izetta Jewel. Miss Jewel to Appear as "Zaza." For Miss Izetta Jewel's closing week with the Baker company, it has been decided to present the great emotional play "Zaza,". for this is a role in which the charming young- -leading ' actress has achieved notea triumphs, ' and in which it. will afford greatest Dleasure ror uaaer patrons . io . see , ner. ruexi week will be Miss Jewel's closlnr an' pearance Of the limited special three C031DJ61OTnB ttBILie. tiful young Mexican girl, and in spite of the fact that he has a wife already, has an illegal marriage ceremony per lunueu. Alter several roonins. How ever, his crime is found out. and he Decomes not only a fugitive from Jus tice, but also from the girl he has wronged. He seeks refuge in the heart of the Sierras, but without avail, for one rouows relentlessly. Finally he eludes her for a time. weeks' engagement with the Baker com cany and her interpretation of the heavy I roie or .aza, - win De round to d a I Marie Thompson at the Lyric, 1 ' most Intensely interesting one. Hr "Battle of Life"at the Empire. Starting with the matinee today the thrilling new melodrama "Battle ' of Life," 'Will openfor; the week at1 the : Empire. - The scenes - are taken from Bret Harte s famous writlnes of Call. fornia, and ..vividly picture "the days of old the days of gold, the -days of '49." Richard Gordon, an eastern ad venturer comes to California and -auc ieea la .wlnninf- tb heart f bean. but his greed for gold overcomes his caution and in the end Justice over taxes mm. in ner desire ror personal revenge., his unlawful wife seeks to Kin mm with ner own hand, but is jrevented by the Interference of a Mex- . v . 1 1 UU.V...0V, wiiv uiiiincii gives LUC death blow, but not until after Gordon nas lnnictea a ratal wound upon him. Tne cnaracter or tne Mexican arlrl. and will be played by Miss Ethel Tuck er, an actress of ability. There will be matinees Wednesday and Saturday. At the Star. ' "Adrift in the World." Did you ever hear of that play before?. No, of course not, unless you read the eastern papers closely, for "Adrift' in the World" has never been played on this side of the continent.. It will be seen in Portland for the first time this afternoon, when the Richard E. French stock comcanv presents it at the Star theatre. The play win run an week. .It is tne policy or the French stock i company-to ..present as many new plays as possible. The management realizes that the theatre-going public Is ever clamoring lur numeming new. it wants to see plays that have not been pre sented before by other companies. To Please tne dudiic. Manager French is obtaining every good new play that he hears of and that Is why so many novel ties are produced on the stage of the Star. "Adrift in the World" is one of these new pieces ana rrom what the review ers said of it in New York it must be a cracker-Jack. It Is not a howling muiourama, out is a rennea, sensational play, with excitement, humor, love and adventure. It tells of the struggles for existence in a large city, tne tempta tions to be met and overcome and tho philosophy -of virtue and hard .ork. 'Adrift in the World" nromlsM tn h Din wmcn win niease the most exacting patrons of the Star and it will show the stock players in a verv favnmhia light The scenery will ba. appropriate and the costuming correct, as these are aetaus wmcn never escape the attention or tne stage manager. - Matinees of "Adrift in the World" will be held today. Tuesday, Thursday and oaturaav. seats can ne reserved nv ti ephone when convenient. ir it The Grand's BilL , Those who want good vaudeville 'are promised tine of the best shows they ever witnessed at the Grand this week, when the new bill begins tomorrow aft ernoon. There are musical acts and any number ' of comedians, dancers and novelty people. Gilroy, ' Haynes and Montgomery will be heajdllners.' - They present "The Good Ship Nancy Lee." a nautical "burtetta" and one or the fun niest acts imaginable. A couple : of years ago this act, played the Grand an4 1 made one of the record hits 'In the his tory of the house. Since then tha act nas played all the big houses of the east It is a real musical and comedy act and la so guaranteed. "The Kid's Dream of the Bogle Man" is the title or me venicie or IJonnelly and Rolatl, the prima donna and the comic opera comedian. This act will have electrical eiiects ana is one no child should miss seeing. The special added attraction will be an;ia ana Arno. European eccentriques. iiity nave an act or oddities and wher ever presented the team have made vomaoie anocx-out. it is a scream oi laugnter. james K. - Watte & Co. have a seaside playlet. "At Lighthouse jroini, wmcn is more pretentious than the ordinary atvle rf entertainment found in the. vaudeville theat FAN rh piayiei was written Dy Lawrence Bar' buur. Brown and Schomer are a hrai nf Doys wno are dandv dancers nnd thv can sin k. too. uoo" ana imrrnn win appear in "xne jockey and the Tout raueiracK comeay witn a line of iaugnier mat an who ever attend a track will aDDreclate. Thi a ni. xinuer ino wire aneaa or all competitors no " n rusy winner everywhere. Then there will be a new illustrated hi. lad sunc by Joseph Thomnson and Im ported moving pictures. This bill, as uumiitu, is une or tne Dest ever put together by Sullivan & Consldlne for the west. This afternoon and tonieht win end the present program, headed hv the five Hawallans,' and half a dozen other star acts. V There will be the usual Sunday uEiiuimiuitci iuuo.y. inia ending Dill Is one worth witnessing as it ! irnm vi -vuii;ujr, k w "The Wheel of Love." George V. Hobart, in the new west ern play, "The Wheel of Love," has sur rounded his hero. Jack Hartley, with an Interesting set of characters as are not often seen behind th'e footlights. The story is a. semi-western, semt-auto-mobile love romance that carries lt dramatis personao from Lake Hopat cong, New Jersey to Rosebud Ranch, Texas, stopping' at busy New York on the way for a. bit of local color. Mr. Gilmore is -delighted with his part and the country is delighted with both him and his newi play and there you are. Both will be seen .at the Marquanv unu)a lur one weea, opening on March I. "No Mother to Guide Her." Holden Bros. & Edwards, who have presented many successes, stars and plays, have i. organized an unusually clever company for the presentation of the big metropolitan success. "No Mother to Guide Her," written by Lil lian Mortimer- and headed by that clever comedienne, Jeanette Carew. Every woman who Is a lover of the drama should see this famous play. It will be at the Empire all week start, lng next Sunday matinee, March 1. LAY CLEMENT is an . amusing man to interview, because you feet the minute you see him and he nods grandly in the general direction , of where you may be standing that ypu are but one of ten thousand. . .' You arc a unit, but an extremely unimportant onet v He has dealt with us in job 16ts for the past thirty years. ; ll ' . " He hasn't played "Sam Houston" "and Bsronj Hohenstaufen In "The k m bh a . .a at. at ab'..'' . ixew dominion, ana au.ine omcrs oi tncir scnooi lor.noioing, tie hS imbibed, or rather Jias become saturated with their mannerisms, their views of life, probably even to a certain extent with their ideals. He lives in their atmosphere as much when he is in the lobby of the Portland hotel as when he, is sniffing. the air of the green room. Instinctively when you are talking to him you have the frightfully un- II comfortable sensation that you aref standing in the reflection of the foot ' lights: that what he is saying is melnt for the larse and attentive audience' 1 behind you; that his gestures are carefully brought out for the crooer stave S en,ect- At no time do you come ir actual contact with warm flesh and Diooa. He is used to us, so irritatingly used to us that his first remark is ' majestically to point the way to the nearest cafe where the waiters seem a part of the settings and where the illusion is so perfectly carried out that ; your throat instinctively prepares for a dry "stage'1 drink. It really, is wet. nowevcr, ana is paia mr, soiucwnai 10 your asionisnment, witn real money. But when you finally settle yourself down into your orchestratchair to see and listen you are given a good performance. Not at all a personal performance, mind you, there is nothing in it that will tend to make von at all egotistical, but nevertheless an entertaining one. For instance, Mr. Clement has his own r&as on writing plays. As he' has had considerable success in that direction these ideas may prove inter esting. He advises all prospective playwrights to study architecture thor oughly. Take a course, in a technical school if you can. Anyway study it and learn thoroughly the principles of the art. Then, if you. still must write plays, go to work at them, but keep in mind all the time what you learned on architecture. . y For instance, you have been taught that you must not build your structure around a fine piece of ornamentation. You must build your house nrst and add the ornament afterward, loo many playwrights, he says, conceive some brilliant situation and build their play 'around it. It is sure 'to be a botch. Also, pick out your characters, think about them, live with them, but whatever you do, don't write about them. Let them grow and attain ma ture years in your imagination. Wait until they say what they want, not what you want them to. Let them be entirely distinct individuals, with wills and personalities of their own. Then when they have reached the point where you have no control over them at all sit down and let them speak and act and live and die through your pen. Mr. Clement didn't add that most playwrights have evidently taken their preparatory course in a carpenter's shop, not an architect's studio. Jrle has grown charitable with the years. Versatility is rare on the stage, even as it is rare in all walks of life, Mansfield was heavy in comedy. Henry Irving seldom attempted a light role. Nat Goodwin as Shylock converted sympathy into unforgiving rage. We weep copious tears at the thought of Eddy Foy attempting to undo poor old melancholy Hamlet. This very quality of rarity then makes versatility doubly dear when 4 is occasionally unearthed. And to our contemporary in things dra matic, Baker's players, we owe a debt of gratitude for disclosing the fact that one of the 'Baker company is not only versatile, but something more. She is marvelous. The. nine muses are at her feet. '. . ; That she is mistress of the art of Thalia her industrious work iontf since convinced the most unbelieving. A certain infectious, irresistible,' inimitable, joyous enthusiasm carries her audience off its feet and to her own. That is well, of course, but a dozen actresses have done the same thing a score have made people laugh with similar amusing mannerisms and a hundred have called forth smiles by the laugh in their own eyes. Terpsichore is the twin sister of Thalia, they are the most intimately related of all' the nine, so when it is said that Terpsichore, too, has lent her art to Maribel Seymour those who have had the pleasure of seeing her dance and hearing her sing will comprehend that as yet there is no cause for the stretching of credulity. TOOK HUSBAND'S PULPIT Rev. Mrs. Varney Successful as Pas tor of Michigan Church. -The Rev. Mrs. Mecca Varney Is the Sastor of Christ church. Paw Paw, lchlgan and is said to have Increased the membershiu one third sine takln charge last October. Last summer the Rev. Dr. Charles E. Varney, with his wife, the Rev. Mrs. Mecca Varney, was spending the summer at Eael Tlcn when he was invited to fill the nuinit nf Christ church. When the time came for Dr. Varney to resume his lecture work his wife was asked to become pastor of the church. f.S She began the work October 1. A rally day was held the first Sunday is the year and revealed the fact that the church is growing with amasing rapid ity, the Sunday school has the laraest attendance in its history and the Junior ana nnsiian unaeavor societies are, tne oesi in ine county, At Christmas one of the nresenta given to Mrs. Varney for the church was a bouquet made of white paper floweia with dollar bills for J eaves. It renre sented the contribution of one Sunday school; class .and amounted to just 127. Other classes presented sunUa though smaller bouquets. -- But Euterpe also! Can it be possible that she who presides over lyric poetry joins her lovely sisters in smiling upon this most fortunate of maidens! Does she number among her costumes a riding habit with which she dares mount Pegasus and drink from the fountain of Hyppocrenel Yes, it would seem so. unfortunately we have heard far too little of the sweet music of her oaten pipe. 'Tis but the sweetest grass of Helicon that tempts her winged steed. But now and then, in the course of the week's work, comes some lift in the lute'of happiness that finds its ex pression in song. Such as, for instance, fathered, or should we say mothered, the following favorite stanza: "I tell you when the captain goes It's a sorry day for us; It means a lot of woes, It means a chance to cuss, It means the whole blame day starts wrong, The dickens is to pay, f And right is wrong and good is bad When Geo. L. B 's away." This sentiment well begun, the youthful Sapho goes on to exolain ia further detail that: 'The theatre don't seem the same "J ,, (The audience don't care) 'i' r J They don't know we gaze over them '' , To see if HE is there; ' l And when that tall form don't loom up, The acting in the play .' Just lack's a certain something When Geo. L. B-r-'s away." There's something about the swinging, reiteration of the final line, the touch of a busy commercial life comminRiinK with the arts lent bv the ab breviated Geo., the element of mystery contained in the "B ," that makes one hurry on to the third and last: . - " "You long to know, that he is there; You don't care if he's mad; v You don't care if he calls you all, And tells you thines are bad: You know he'll tell you when they're right, . And when he smiles well, say We miss him like his mother does,' When Geo. L. B's away." . ' ' ' We do not wish to pass criticism upon noro haggle over any piece ol creative work, but we suggest that perhaps Miss Seymour has chosen too somber a subject for the bright little paper to which her effort Was con tributed. Why does she look back to old, unhappy, faroff things? Mr. B . hasn't been away since his trip south. Why refer Jo other, sadder seasons? v y ' . But at the same time we .must rnot let that incident blind us to an ap preciation of her success in embracing Euterpe, Erato, Polyhymnia, in cluding just a hint of Melpomene all in three'eight-line stanzas. The first four lines are distinctly lyric. And surely Erato can claim as her own that line: "We mis him like his mother1 does," ' . . '' 4 while to none other, than Polyhymnia herself, she who has the prescience ot sacred poetty, can be assigned that fervid bit: V - "To see if HE is there." .. . . ' The muse oi tragedy, of course, is always hovering near; you can hear the rustle of her ominous draperies and , catch a glimpse of the shadow cast by .her closely xlasped : mask of terror. $ But think how Melpomene wourd have exulted had. $liss Barney contributed the 36 lines to the Players! But Jet's take up the most cheerful aspect, Qf;the poem, the great thing Eerhaps that will cause it to stand with the works of the poets, not of the lood-boilinsr. . trouble-stirrina "type .represented, bv. Bvron and Swinhnm and Heine, but. rather of that safer, saner,' domestic, class of which Tenny son, Whittier and Longfellow as well as . Miss Seymour are the represen tatives. This is that.it reflects such an unusual, but highly desirable sym pathy between employer and employes. Here is a band of toilers that can not do without the master. When that tall form don't loom up they: jiist can't act at all." -But when HE smiles but we'll be breaking into poetry ourselves here in a minute or two and that's no part of a critic's duties. mm
