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e THE OREGON- SUNDAY. . JOURNAL, PORTLAND SUNDAY ' MORNING, APRIL ;' 5, 1803. Homely Old Playhouse ; One of Sights of London Memories That Hung About Drury Lane Theatre Had Special Attractions for American Visitors to Town of Fogs and Soot Something of the History of the Building About Which Centered the Fashion of the Times . in. forPortlandmiisiciov By J. F. S. '.,''' "Mrs. Flowerdew It was a sealnu firayer I heard brother make concerti ng playhouse. 4 , Bird For charity, what la It?' r. ' F. That the Olobe, wherein (quoth he) reign whole world of vice. Hud been conaum'd; the Phoenix burnt to a the." Rundolphe's "The Uuii'i Looking glass." IT was some centuries back that the prudish Mrs. ; Flowerdew voiced her highly appreciative views on the burning of the old Drury Lane theatre, which was then known as the Phoenix. And now this home , of the English drama, which has been so per sistently followed by the demons of fire, has again been burned to the ground and the memories of another and later "world of vice" turned to ashes. The largest , mualo event before th people of Oregon la the three day a" musical festival to be given by the Chi cago symphony orchestra at Armory nan. Apni 10, ii and XI With an or- cneura or C5 skilled muslolane, four eminent vocal soloists, some distingu ished instrumental soloist and a chorus of 100 of the best local singers,- the brl fit eerie is'gratirylngly Th 'Chicago Symphony orchestra was y.mcu in jsyv. Adolun Roaetibeoker, tne noted director, has Loan rhnua another aeaaon and will conduct during Since 1J01. th orchestra has been rnasing annual tour and it haa been Th, n,fi,rf. ,),- mcf f,m fr. nf th. .im.. ? ' " Pincipai cities I made their homes at Drury Lane and there was first t' SZiVL?: presented "The School for Scandal." Here, too, flour- from here the orchestra went to San i . t ir -.!- , .i . ... . e m i in.intu, wntri live concerts were isnea loveiy ixancy uianeia, tne lavorue 01 nurcnm, given and the orchestra was received Barton Booth played Addison's "Cato," while the name W,A" nigncst praise. oi v.oney L.iD0er was most closely associated witn It. ra ha mad extended tour to th Quin, Macklin, Garrick, Kate Give and Mrs. Fritchard played their best days in Drury Lane. It successively saw the triumphs of Quin. Macklin and Garrick. while Alexander rope and ur. Johnson came to admire and criticise. Also it saw the glories of the erratic Edmund Kean, of Mrs. Billington. of Miss Parren and Harriet Mellon, Mr. Nisbet and Macreadv. lne most important event in the historv of English opera was undoubtedly when young Michael Balfe, an insn musician, became a member of the orchestra of Urary Lane. Balfe was an unassuming young fellow, " si'". 1 ' a.:.-, ' WV.'V.t.J T '! V fj i .. . . . 1 ' . - )A m ' 4 1 to ' jf f ' w """" puoiic lor live years ana is , 1 v s s o t n fi 3 I I i yl widely heralded as a alnger of sterling , - . - f 1 I ' V Vis Qualities. HI Interpretive power and v f, ' v I , ' th0 brllliancv of that rarest of voice. , ' - '- t i I " j purely lyric tenor, have been Instru- '- r .T t v- .. v." I "leniai in winning nlm the best ot no I through th rebellious aepoya arwl saved 'vi l w.-" .. ; -i , v I tlces wherever he haa appeared. I the boselged U) wn of Lucknow, where - ! ; I ' tV HI . vole baa been thoroughly x ' x!" I v Vr." ! ! I; .-t"' t Pl'ooled, and ha handles all the pas- , ' ,J " j I , " -" Vi' 3 ""Res of Intricate work In the oratorios ' " I . " . A V:vtf other difficult compositions with i C V T y :. . -A jfrA. K tula Anil tyivtp 141a alnirlnar la M rt " ,V', A CtJlIU ' O "2x. be markedly aympathatlc. of even qual- 1 , - ' A.isa n7 b ty and sincerity. He I at pres-nt ' . - " V V Ror I. nannnn t,,nor "ololst In Bt Paul' Universal K i? , -? K0Be anno- church. Chicago and a member of ill t-i.h-,,,.., a 'I U f' i ' for i -I i I . ,fVttMr&lf.-wtM V II I .-V " -A AT SHERMAN-CLAY'S V MUSIC STORE ; r' arrrx Aim mouhov 10 a, a. Vatu p. m. J. !.s.-- v I : liiUu' mi. it - i1i'Ti riSmaur i.n - , -It il 1 I I Ifie ii i St' . MBBaBftBaBBBaMssjsBBaatM GUI CAGO 5YMPMON Y OBCHT55TBA. ' Th Incident on which thl cantata ia baaed belong to the) period of h In dian mutiny of th year 1867 when Scotch hlgnlandera. under Sir Colin CsmpbeU. afterwarda Lord Cylda, broke throurh th rebellious sepoy and saved the bcselged Ipwn of Lucknow, where British troops' and elrlllans, Inoludlng many women and children, were Im prisoned. Girl lares Iowa Among th beselged was a Highland Scotch girl who on night gar m cream of delight and said that ah had heard th sound of bagpipe mualo made by advancing Highlanders, Her word "- a5 .1. . . j f . I " J. ' A -5 Mi I. f; i.- , . ..j r . Drury Lane Theatre, Recently Destroyed by Fire. iic rnosi recent aestruction ot Lirury Lane seerqs aad like most Celts, a dreamer, but somehow he had the less fated to result in a new and better house to bear stuff in him to make of his dreams realities, and his "VT ilu viian uia any oi me previous ca- two hrst operas, "The Siege of Bochelle ' and "The Maid tastrophea For in the old days of Drury Lane the of Artois," were first heard in that house. Later a pouse stood almost alone in its position as the home of statue of the composer was placed in the lobby of the tamous plays and players. Its only rival of any con- theatre and it along with the other art treasures of the .tHuCUi.5w.w,cni oaraen me nouses twain ot theatre was destroyed in the recent fire. Covent Garden and of Drury Lane" and in those The first building of Old Drury was burnt in 1672 and - v..,v..vu y. ui me iwu gicBi piay- me new Duuaing, designed Dy Sir Christopher Wren, : n Alicia ct rTt vi sf rx-k 1 1 m .... m -a t A . v. k ...vwVKU4 na3 a,, cvciu ui cxircmc im- was opened two years later with a prologue and epilojrue forSa?Crl0-niUch SO that- both thc tires of 1672 and bv Dryden. It was subsequently owned by Cibber and vT ,e.ft.thcir Permanent mpnnt on the literature of Booth, and in 1714a life patent was granted Sir Richard tne periods. Steele. Later Lacy and Garrick secured the house and VJitl c . 8 backrounl. makes one gasp it was almost wrecked by the anti-French mobs who .k ; .i. "pei oi it several times, and tt were angered by French dancers introduced by Garrick. tnJ t u ni nhborhood of the playhouse, then Then Sarah Siddons and her brother. John Kemble, known as the Globe or the Phoenuc, and still earlier as became the principal attractions of the house and held M jv. ij" ,,lv""lc na"nl Sl tnc suiy 'ovaole undisputed sway for years, with the dramatist Sheridan fi". djo,nin? ' was the Rose-where Pepys as proprietor. Here the most wonderful era in English t J J ,u f J an afte.rnon and his rest, acting was seen, with Mrs. Siddons and the two Kem- seated near the front of the inn where he could spy blcs playing Shakespearian plays and introducing Sheri- afely and pleasantly upon the ladies of fashion as they dan's inimifable comedies. miroaucing ihen tripped along Russell street or alighted1 from their sedans. Under the date of 1662 lie writes: "To Lin- coin's Inn Fields, and it being too soon to go to dinner u as ln 1809 when the theatre was again destroyed, I walked up and down and looked upon the outside of J S1eridan and his goss'P. Barry, sat in a nearby ne new tneatre Duilding in (Jovent Garden which will tuucc ""sc aranK a Dome ot port while te fa . be very fine." ' mous theatre burned, Sheridan remarking that it was "hard if a man could not drink a glass of wine bv his ; It was Thomas Killigrew who in 1663 took out the The rebuilding of Drury Lane was the occasion for first patent to bu. d the Cock Pit, Killigrew of whom the issuance of that famous book of verse "Rekct? PePVS wrote that "when a hnv h- umnlrl err, tn h- R-H LAA.... u u , , VC,5C cjccie.. n j i ew .w ... jiuuivaata, luaiciicu ui iiuiacc ana ames Smith and 'jgtAr?. containing 21 imaginay prologues on the Suction ri. ,j t ' ";,S",U1 scc.inc P,ay Ior nomingr ot tne old tneatre and the opening of the new The then would he go m and be a devil on the stage, and so essays imitated the styles of the various prominent get, to see the plays. " The "Red Bull" was another of writers of the day-Byron, Scott, Crabbe?Word worth the famous old inns of the vicinity-the one before Samuel T. Coleridge, Thomas Moore and Dr Johnson which, according to tradition, young Will Shakespeare Lord Byron said the verses were the best things of the' held gentlemen s horses. Later on Pepys was to go to kind since the "Rolliad," and they contain much that is Drury Lane and see the plays offered there, for he saw still delightfully witty and entertaining Beaumont and Fletcher's "The Humorous Lieutenant," The new building-the one destroyed last month-in the first Play given Jn Kil hgrew's house, and of which thc words of one of the "Rejected ManuscriW'-was Be Wrote: A Silly Olav. I think onlv the snirir in it "a nlain li SvL! rS FTA tKI &A d then Sinks again Lto nothinff brick P'ayhouse-a large comfortable house thanks o navmar two heads hrHincr imnn 1 v: r, yr uil.'.i i U3C' luailKS to "C.in.ababov,c we sPied But: !f Plain and homely Drury Lane, for the Ameri ir- .i,.. ' a v 8 K . , llicy,Va lca u? ?na we siayea can visitor in .London, had always its own neculiar at tor them: and Kninn took all in nA c: u- j r ' ,. . 1 Peculiar at- r ' r - us iu iiaviiuii. Venice ANNUAL SPRING FESTIVAL CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 65 MUSICIANS 65 TO OLOXSTB 4 10 zvfmvinsvTAi; SOX.OXITS . 10 300-VOCAL CHORUS-300 ATdMlAPRIL ARMORY EE Friday Night nd Orchestra Concert i "Fair Ellen" Br Max Bruch. Story of th Sie oi juuecnow. Saturday Afternoon Popular Orchestra Concert Saturday Night Grand Orchestra Concert and "The Swan and the Skylark" By A. Lorinc Thomas. principal Canadian cities, and on two occasions as far south and west as Texas. Manv nf thn lanritnir Tnnaloal cities and festival centers have been Vlflited. and nna aorlna liven at tha wnicago Auditorium. Leading; Bluffer. Mrs. Genevieve Clark Wilson, soprano. Is recosrnized as one of the teadlncr Am. i erlcan aingtrs. Bhe has achieved notable success In oratorio and her sympathetic uire ana aruguc rendering nave won unlimited praise. She has appeared with many of the prominent orchestras throughout the country and by her brll llant voice, wlnnina- Dersonalltv and in telligent reading has made friends everywhere- Mrs. Roue Lutlirer-Gannon, contralto, Is slso widely known. She has recently returned from her studies ebroad with tne noted Jean De Reszke. Her voice is remarkable for Its richness and beauty, has an unusual ranpe and is of the most finished quality. In her ora torio work she has been very success ful, and her rendering of ''He Was Despised.' from the Messiah, has been spoken of in the highest term- for Us fine seriousness and intelligence. John n. Miller, the tenor, who Is to be heard with the orchestra, has been Chicago Musical college faculty. The fourth member of the solo artist band is Arthur Mlddleton, basso, whoe rich full voice, mobile and of wide range, charms every audience before whom he appears. Other Competent Musician. Many critics have united to place Mr. Mlddleton correctly before the people He is said to create rreat enthusiasm. for he has lust the sort of voice that th people love to hear. big. rich, vi brant, mellow. In simple arias and In difficult and climactic musical composi tions alike he wins honors. Beside these we are to hear Edtth uic uays oi me nrst theatre R.icclt trZ V a prcuyr woman. wh acted the great part, street has been built up closely with shons and hZZ, fi'iS l ltry firnC' PFCtty wel1-,1 kis?ed a,ready old and smoky- The Doric porticC on Cafherine Prohat.lv M?1iv, w e .?iP y . " . on Russell street were added at a . . , - . ' ; ""v Hi-iijr tiic3j iu -a mici uaic viiau IUC main DUllainc All I r,nAn : It kissed beneath the shadows of Drnrv T.an-r,nlw m.,HHv ond ro, Knt .u . t).. ".IT, u London is not all men took the, ore H tni,Zl ..l"' -nZ r CVL, vu"c ! Mreer entrance to . ... . v 4.vv liiii wives liuiy xvexiic was no ifiiiizrr in siir n a . : j a ha . " ' " w,,uhiuii as inat : a 1. . i i , mvii vvirva Aauiv wain w oa nu itj ; Vim -them n1 allmir tViAm U. iL. r . - i. a . - iv oi.aic mc joys oi Kissing aescriDea in tnc Aaaresses tviv av.iui inc. ..llii.p.?!?ablI that he Cock Pit was the first theatre when cu 1 r . A?. ' "u"un ana open dunne ftvlOun- TC Cmp.?ny PyingP there waf styled lne Uueene Servant-e" i kai passed for the 'suppression of stage laVs'and th Cock ",(d !nto an emLnV proper scnioT roora, one that would have suited the tastes of Mrs Flowerdew herself.; This did not last long however- the nam. was immrt Si uuwever l permanent use as a srhr.nl V aUataTaj 4M4 i a H V. . "Tender beauty, looking for her coarh Protrudes her gloveless hand, perceives the shower. And draw the tippet closer round her throat. And ere she mount the step the oozing mud Sinks through her pale kid slipper On the morrow She coughs at breakfast, and her gruff papa Cries. There you go! This comes of playhouses!' " Old Drury, with its memories of Harris v -1 a i a. - . a - "-..Vl Ollli IVfTtlli Stage property. Later it onr X." "u ana lne .nr" oooin. xai oweet well liwynn and the Sid position and we find that tireless m 7 i," us u,u aons ana cmDiC. n . f erring to it repeatedly, telling how KVkPyr' 7" bleSI,ng1d i,r,,the W . nal" there io 1662. and how th. "e saw Thc .Car'- which looked like a bad med its old dons and Kemble, will not down merely because it ha nira time. A lie grimy old build naplorniHi (r. tj 1 . , ---o vi a. Jiugann etcninR time, ihe grimy old building cesses Had entertained General Monk p was su iiiipuriaiii ui uic niMm-y oi London that to-think evening. 2,000-YEAE OLD - PLAY SUCCEEDS Modernized Version of jPlautus' Com - , edy ."BIenechlnlt,, by M. Tris , tm Bernard, Makes Hit, I0r many an of Russell . street without Drury Lane theatre Wm,M be to have Washington city without the monument. - f V 1 ' i , ;. Tarla, March l6;-4-Th latest dramatic noveltr In-Part la a modernized version f I'lautua comedy, ,"Menaechmt,"' by ai. i risian Bernard, to Which he bas rrlven ; the title of -v Jumeaux de Hrlshton," ;., Ia ;pft xt th , fact that the plot la,' nearly two thousand- years oM-th vis eomlca was so rreat that ti tnndernlsed Itln - comedy had a et sur'Ms. ; Many present hardly i' i'-cl that it was not a modern work. Charles Frohmah at the Hotel Rita says the comlngr theatrical eeason prom ises to be the most Interesting In years. H aid: ' ; . .aTjer going to be a reaction ln vi E ? Joward human Interest plays. ua .tnri Berlsteln in The Thler has i kT. wa7- but French playwrights ThL . J?d Americans ln this movement. The Vft?eLL toward plays like PhansT' " B1-eilu an a no xwo ur- Ics""11 dramatic erit- ooor niU..abu"e managers who produc inf.rir, J "ul lae auinors.k wno ara Tha i. "L00 aever criticism. hoM hi n,,n Rous evidently wants to Mlaa vV; VCura Ior internationalism. senLi a Sous brlllUntly. ?pre- ""tf?. fjnfj-'ca for the last ? the pAl,MVhf,,,Mr revue, "fion AlteSse i Amour, br mm n n. ji tt .Ji. -I1.?..11111! HU1. while - the Mea v rs V? ,,nc,uoa th dlvettes Meaiy, Gaby, Lesly and Balay. , , i STBAtIS IS HAILED IX BADEX VILLAGE Pure Milk Plant Presented to Sand hausen Saves Lives of Manv Babies. -A as V "r 1 "l iiii v f.Ti ,, ,,.,,,,,. j.zzn' f ' - - : ; .... s Sunday Afternoon Grand Orchestra Concert and "The Messiah" By Handel Sunday Night Grand Orchestra Concert, with Vocal and Instrumental Soloists. PRICES: Season Tickets $5,00 for 5 Concerts Evening and Sunday Afternoon Lower floor $3.00, 91.50, $1.00 Balcony $3.00, 91.80 rortnvAJt - mere cto.dzeit's acATZvsa satttbdat atteb- STOOH , 980, BOo, 7Bo Mail Orders Received roox nr avb out or toww Address letter and make checks and money orders - payable to W. T. Pangle, Manager Jlellig Theatre. GWWve Clark Wilson. Maxam Gray, pianlste. Jan Van Oordt. violinist, and Frans Wagner, cello solo ist. The first evening- will be devoted to a grand orchestral concert, and 'Fair Ellen, by Max Bruch, a story in music of the siege of Lucknow. Saturday aft ernoon a popular concert will bo given; Saturday night, a lull orchestral con cert and '"fre Swan and the Skylark. ' by A. Gorlna- Thomas. , Sunday after noon a grand orchestral concert, Hn del's Messiah," will be given, and Sun day night an orchestral concert, wilh vocal and instrumental solos. Scotch night at the music festival Will be Friday nlsrht. April 10. when Max Brueh's "Fair Ellen" will be sung. 1 J?CZ,JySO. was doubted, but ihe persisted ln her story. And sure enough, arising abov the noise of battle came the piercing pibroch of Highland bagpipers, forming part of the army of avengers under Mir conn Campbell. It is said that the pipers played as they and fhe army came on, "The Campbells Are Coming. rne town was saved! 1 The name of the heroine who said she had heard the bagpipes at Luck now is a matter of dispute. Some give her name as Ellen Campbell, and the Hootch poet, Alexander McLaggan, who died in Edinbufg in 1879, gives the girl's name in, - his . poem "Dinna, Ye near 11; cts ueasia uruffu. dujuq writers even deny that the historical Incident mentioned ever took place, but this objection is not usually made if any Dig Scotchmen are around. The music Is martial and patriotic, as be rus me occasion. This will without doubt be one of the most satisfactory and interesting musical events that Portland has ever had the privilege of hearing. Musical people from all parts of the state are coming to attend. The chorus, 300 strong, which is rehearsing with W. H. Boyer, has entered fully into the spirit or tne occasion ana wiu add not a little to the enjoyment of those who attend. Berlin, March 30. Nathan fitr,.- Ne York Is regarded almost as a sa vior by the people of the little South German town of Sandhausen, which ha greatly benefited by his "pure" milk Sf-W"1!. A comPet pasteuriTi 'FnJm . "'Presented to the inuntc Ipality of Sandhausen by Mr. Straus for tha tniim i...rU .A:. ....! LtheRmllk supply, which las hi?herio been very Inferior. io the. bad mil supply was attrib- uted the appalling high Infant mortality rate of 47 per cent, the highest in the Grand Duch- of Baden. Many of the cowsfrom which . the supply was de rived were In a tuberculous gtae. Mr. Straus has not on)y 'given the pasteurizing plant to the town, but he has borne the expanse of fitting up the pure milk depot, and also provided for a free supply of - milk. Thus be has earned the deep gratitude of the inhab itants of this obscure German town, which can now boast ' the purest milk supply in Europe. Mr. Straus's efforts ln the direction of pure milk have been watched with great Interest by the dowager grand duchess v of Baden, who has asked to be supplied with reports on the progress of his . good work. TELLS MUKDER TALE BY .SIGNS IN COURT Dumb. Witness Appears in Trial and Gives Vivid and Impressive Evidence. Harold M. Bewail of Bath has an nounced himself as a candidate for' the Republican nomination for representa tive lnVongress from the second Main district, to succeed Congressman Little field, who is to resign In September, Mr. Bewail -was formerly United States minister to Hawaii and acting in tbJt capacity received the - transfer of th islands to th United States ln 1S9S. - Paris, March 28. A dumb witness In a murder .trial at Bordeaux described In graphic pantomime yesterday the dis posal of the body, as,' ha alleges, he saw it The prisoner are three men and a woman, keepers of an inn at the vil lage of -Langon. - They are accused of murdering- a guest named Monget, and of throwing th body into the rtvox Garonne. ' -.' o Three close friends of th witness acted as "Interpreters," says the Matin, talking to him by gestures and occa sionally explaining m pantocaine to thai r f. ' ; . . . v ij Judge. The witness Is a railway porter at the village station, opposite which Is the Inn. The crowd In court was gen erally able to follow the gestures as well bs If he had used words, and Watched with painful Interest as the drama of murder was unfolded ln clear and unmistakable pantomime. The. mute described how he tried to enter the inn, of which ho was an naDitue, nv tne rront door on the day of M. MoTiget'a death. The door ' was looked. The mute described in creature now no went rouna to we cellar door, how he opened it. how he found, two men and the woman or .he house frn tlcally washing their hands,-how he no- iicqa a great epiasn or oiood on the woman s apron, new ne pointed It out to her. and how she aulckly threw the apron into a nre- . , - Next he described how he went alone afterward to the cellar, and there discovered- In a corner the battered corpse of M. Monget One of th male prison ers found him. culled him. cursed him. and flung him out of the. house.. He stayed near by to watch. After mid night he saw th male prisoners coma out, one holding a candle, another wheel ing a barrow with the corpse strapped into it. They went to the banks of the Uaronne and flung th body in. So clear was the mute's pantomime in the final stages of his story that not a word was spoken. Judge, jury and spectators watched tnthralled the dumb man s gestures in tne railing lljrht. and the teeth ln helpless terror at their silent accuser. the only sound was the chattering of h of the prisoners as they stared KAISER CLINGS TO BIG WAR HOARD Keeps $80,000,000 in Gold Stored in a Tower as Part of Ger many's "Preparedness." Berlin, March 28. Members of tho appropriation committee of the Reich stag have urged the government to consent to the use of the war board of 130.000.000. which Is kept ln the Julius Tower at Spandau, for the current ne cessities of the empire, since the coun try borrows and pays interest to meet its deficits. For 37 vears th government has kent this store of gold for instant use in case of sudden necessity to mobollze the , forces of the empire. It desired to avoid the necessity of even a day's delay. secretary or the Treasury Bvdow said the government would not consent to. this war treasure belnsr diverted to general expenses, as it was an essential part of the general preparedness of th empire. Under Secretary Twele then. said that It would be well if this sum was tnree times a exeat, as the out break of a war might be coincident with a general financial crash. On- these representations the members of the committee who raised this ques tion decided not to press it. Under Secretary . Twele then an nounced that fhe government would have to borrow 165,000,000, and he so asked authorisation to increase the im perial treasury bills from 187,500,000 to ' n8,750.000. The committee agreed to this and then approved the entire budget The latest slate nicked riet.a-et...a .' large from . Hhicw York to the Chicago' convention is man up of th name of Stewart L. Woodford. Frank fi. ri Seta Low and Jacob iGould Schurman. v
