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THE' OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL' ' 10, 1908. i 1 PESSIMIST MRS HIS &m OPINIONS 3N? MUSIC : 1 , ! ThliiksiSome Little Jim Might Profitably De Devoted to' Afternoon Symphonies Baton -Vi 1. "J HEY' meet rxtai astonally -at dinner quite by chance fT and discuss -various thing! from,. President "Eliot'a view! on early. marriage to 'the aeven re tnaininsr dramas'of ' Sophocjea, with, all the fine , egotism, of. youth, ;i 7'.;',- ', . -fV'T ' A To .youth; the, mysteries of life "are still in truth mysteries and are to be talked. of boldly and objective ly.' If , 1' only to agef that-they appear shorn .of their divinity and stand - forth as., the actual. And as the , actual they lose their charm as topics of conversation, Butjhl shabby, little dining room; is especially con ducive, to idle chatter..,'.. It is reached by an out-of-the- waywalk and pops up' suddenly when you least .expect to. discover It- The steps are rickety they ' bend , as you.' go, up or down them as though long exposure to Oregon's rains had weakened their will beyond hope of redemption., but the door stands hospitably open and you grope jrour way inrougn ine narrow mwe.oiu falhioned' halls. until youVhand finds a door knob and you tII fall into the lighted room. It is a miracle .of a room andcombines the excellent quality of being Im maculately eiean wttn tne comiortabi appearance-of being imidiy dirty.- - y - . . . , , , Many cafes are painfully radiant their windows and silver shlnt like the face of a child that has been called in from play and .' mercilessly- tubbed -and scrubbed. The tableware is 'lamentably tinny, it is true, and the dishes are ot tne concrete variety, but .- the , aoup is aromatic with vegetablea. and seasoning, while the fish is served with a sauce' the secret of, which the pro prietress Drought who ner trom oascony. ine daugh ter of the house is neat and quick as are most French peasant girls, and when you have drained you pint of harmless California claret there is a grate fire burning on these cold spring evenings and you can sit and drink black coffee 'and smoke and dream into the noisy flames. The aVrival of the demi tasse was, as usual, the signal . ... ! 'a. - Jl! If tor me pessimist to aenver nunscii 01 nis groucn. .www "I've been waiting for years," said he, "to discover whether or not the business man, Mr. Ordinary , Busi ness Man, takes any real interest in good music or good literature, or any of the tine- arts, l ve aooui aeciacu that he doesn't. And that is not troubling me half so much as the reason why he doesn't. It must be that, as Bernard Shaw says, he concentrates his efforts to ward the accumulation of as much money as possible, With the idea that his comfort demands that he be rich. He sees, possibly quite correctly, that he cannot waste his time on the secondary things of life. .Assuming that his standard is correct and that what he terms the sec ondary things are in truth such, he quite' naturally looks upon those who devote much time to the pursuit of them as fools or idle dreamers. It is against this stupid attitude which they assume that I protest. "A few weeks ago the Portland Symphony society gave its 3rst concert. The theatre was filled with women who were evidently representative of the lead ing families of the town. They were well dressed and intelligent appearing women. They apparently enjoyed the excellent work of the orchestra, not alone .because they thought it was proper to do so, but because of the intrinsic value of the performance. "Bnt where were the men? I looked around the parquet and saw here and there a few piano salesmen and anaemic persons in male attire. The business men, the intelligent men. if you will, of the city, where were thev? I confess I don't kiTow. I saw two as I left the theatre.- They were talkingover the perform- ance earnestly ana naa apparently enioyca it. wren I hurried to overtake them and learn who they were I saw that they were not Americans at all, but Germans. , They were m,en of apparently more than average intel ligence, but tney were uermans. It nejpcd to con firm in my mind the statement we hear so frequently that we are not a music-loving people and that what taste we have for music is artificial. It is not found in Americans au naturel." "But New York spent $4,000,000 for opera alone last year,' interposed the oldest and presumably most sen ' aible member of the party. "Surely that is expensive artificiality." "Just my point exactly," said the pessimist. "New Yorkers are not raw Americans by any manner of means. They are subjected to a thousand modifying treatments every time they stick their heads out of doors. They have forgotten what it is to be Ameri cans in our sense of the term. And this affectation of music is merely one phase of their artificial life." www THEATRE 14th and Waihlngtoa Phones Main 1, Aim Tfee Y7 ill j Cart of Principals Bthel Dorey lre4 O. TNNdiU Tera XasaUtea Prank WmI Albert Sealer MBS BCaaley Grustav rill Bellies Waiters War. Z wolf Oeo. W. Wandllnf Bea.0. Ooearaae aad IbnbU of tautest Oowae4 Olrli BTzznra man Lower floor balcony ... Gallery .... Boxes ..... 11.00. ....11.60 TOO, log. .au EZZZXEKZEIXaiinSKXSU&KSa fhoaes M 2 and A-S363 "But how about the Chicago Symphonies last week? Surely they were well attended by men who could not in any way be called anaemic." "Yes," continued the pessimist, "and how did they act? They had evidently been roped in to see the per formance and were bored to death. They vented their feelings On the rest of the audience by behaving in as noisy and boorish a fashion as possible." "Again you're wrong,", chimed in the -sensible one. "I attended most of the concerts myself and noted par ticularly how the' various people in the house took the music; which to tell the truth, was much of it poorly played. The men may have been bored in fact many, of them composed themselves to sleep as long as the intervals between the Wagnerian selections would let them, but they did not keep others from enjoying the concerts.". k "Well, as much could not be said for the women," rejoined the pessimist;' pitching , into hie favorite sub ject with, keen, relish. i"They. chattered Incessantly and drove the lew who were lett between tne cnanerera ana the deepen to1 the verge of-madness. At one of the concerts I aat near a gentlemen: who was. like me, en deavoring to pick out a strain' now and then, through the din. that surrounded us my neighbor by the way, was evidently a' German merchant. ' Beyond ui sat two women and behind us were any number of them. And the great? majority was talking, as fast and as loud as possible. . Two immediately behind me;, won my espe cially delighted attention. They kept up a running fire of ' mane remarks-i-discussed ' everything ' from Merry Widow sailors to what they thought of Anna Gould and De Sagart and only stopped to comment now -and then on the playing ot the orchestra and to connae mar. u was ''rotten.1. Perhaps 4t waa. I'm quite willing to ad mit that it might have been. But to speak from my own knowledge was , impossible. . And yet I was every bit as ranch entitled to pass' judgment upon the character of the i playing as were they. ' . . ' But what do you think we lose by our failure to listen and to appreciate music?" . . , , "We lose our ability to sympathize. ' sympathy, it is true, is a feminine instinct- largely, but to us who are following the paths of the secondary' motifs of life it is indispensable. Does the man who resolutely follows the. sole aim of acquiring bis desired competence ever tasta the supreme joys that are to be had from the un derstanding sympathy with which The Divine Comedy' is read, the Mona Lisa is viewed or a Chopin nocturne is heard? "Dn f nr rosl! mn l!v mnff while I hear the immolation of Rrunnhilde from 'Die Gotterdammerung' j than does yonder successful whatever-he-may-be in all the actual experiences of his life? In those strains I can hear the sacrificial note of the -ages of centuries that have gone by and centuries that are to come. I can listen to a sonata by Johann Brahms and feel my intellect sparkle in response to the austere intellectuality of his music-Mhe virtues of limitless worlds are mine. Let them play Motart'i 'Don Juan' and I am a creature ot flesh 1 iee tne DJooa oi iucius larquinius in my veins. The Venusburg music awakens m me loves that I have riot dreamed of. When I hear Chopin 1 understand Swinburne's: J'The low flown lean to the sea; the stream, , T'VOne lolet thin, pulseless, tremulous vein, Rapid and- vivid and dumb as a dream, Works downward, sick of the sun and the rain; No wind is rough with the rank, raw flowers; The sweet sea, mother of laws and hours, Shudders and shimmers as the gray wind gleam, Turning her smile tQ a fugitive pain.' "When I listen to some music I feel that my life is limitless that I can experience all the struggles and passions and joys and triumphs of the composer him self. That is because I have sympathy." The sensible one had been waiting impatiently for the diatribe to stop. ! "Your reasoning is as bad as your poetry," he said, ! "and. there is as much lefgic in the one as the other.' It was impossible for Swinburne to string sense to- j gether he was swept away by a mad desire to sensual ' instead of Intelligent verse. He appeals to the emo-1 tions of surprise rather than the emotions of recogni-, tion in Henry James' classification of taste in the ap- j preciation of imaginative literature. It is like one of Arthur Davies'r impressionistic canvases, all color and ; Deauty so mat you minx 11 must De teeming wttn great thoughts. But somehow the thoughts are lost in the form. 4 Nights tt! April li i ll BPECIAL-PBICH MATINEE SATURDAY THE MUSICAL TREAT OF THE SEASON -naurr J. aadam" f ' j' 'OFFERS THB BIO MUSXCAI COMEDT-IUCCESS X BSirict Words, 'book and muale by1 Joa, B. Howard A Rollicking, Rhymctul, Musical Play with a . ' Reason An SYIEKBU or -axAaTxrr ooimo oxblb Tiie Song Nlu iraaa Tea o Oa . . to Sine - ' to Xau-t to Xt Way Xows is Jtntf WoV Tou My CMrlla Blag ainf Sammy , aa ometlUiii' Doing Aronnd My ImjI Wait'! tho Cm ot Pr mln a lu Old atory . Borne la Soma Final Brxcxix aunrBDAT ataTiaia yrnxoaa Lower floor 11.00 Ualnnn ..... 7Bc BOO 00 " O.H.r . tSfl $10.00 . Boxen 4 $7.60 MAT BAM OFXVS XXT XOVSAT AT tKXATai Portland'g Famoui Theatre Phones4 Main 0 and A1020 J l I UHIUI 1 1 PERFORMANCE 166 FLOliP i a 1 r TONIGHT Mm 6 SffiS MONDAlRII? 20 THE BELLE 0P1 sssssxssszzzixznRim Introducing ROBERT LETT Famous Broadway Comedian EVININGS 25C, 50c 75c, $1-EIATIrEES 35cf;5Pc75c: DARrO THEATRE Om. X Baker, Oea. Mp. PORTLAND'8 FASHION A CLE POPULAR PRICE PLAYHOUSE Home of the Baker Theatre Block Company. Week Commencing Sunday Matinee . April 19, 1908. Today The Rollicking Comedy of Modern English Life The Strange Adven tures of Miss Brown One of the Cleanest and Best Laughing Plays of the Century LIFE IN A SELECT YOUNG LADIES' SEMINARY A Comical Collection of Merry Mixups A Pretty Love Story Another "Charley's Aunt" for Fun and Laughter Stage Under Direction WILLIAM DILLS EVENING PRICES, 25c. 35c, 50c. MATINEE, 15c, 25c MATINEE SATURDAY NEXT WEEK: SHERLOCK HOLMES THE STAR IS phonos M. 549o A. U90 HOW BAXTER: 4 i Beginning Sunday Matinee. April 19, 1908 THE R. L FRENCH STOCK COMPANY OFFER THE CELEBRATED COMEDY. DRAMA , BUTTDEP 'IN?, - IN FOUR'ACTS-BY OWEN DAVIS THIS WILL BE THE FAREWELL PRODUCTION OF THE FRENCH COMPANY 7 ; V Matinees Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 2:30 P. M.; Prices 10c and 20c Every Evening at 8:15 V P. M.; Prices-15c, 25c and 35c BEGINNING NEXT SUNDAY EVENINO, APRIL 88,'. The Armstrong Musical Comedy Co. will open an indefinite engagement at the-Star, their open- ing production to be "A SCOTH HIGHBALL WATCH DAILY PAPERS FOR SCALE OF PRICES "Why can't a man listen to music and enjoy it com fortably and sensibly? According to your own con fession, if the mere listening to. a Chopin nocturne or Tschaikowski's 'Symphony Pathetique' makes you boih a criminal and a saint in one short afternoon why shouldn't the police step in and stop the performance? We went to the symphony and you sinned all the dead ly sins and came out to take your place with a non suspecting, Hcney-fearing public once again. And the same night we went to a boxing match, which I am sure roused no other feelings except those of interest and admiration for perfect physical development, and tne law was invoked to stop the proceedings and turn us away from our entertainment. Mr. Dicrke and his ; baton are infinitely more dangerous instruments of evil fhan Stranglcr Smith and his famous throat hold." , Instruments of evil -and of good, replied the pessi- j mist. ' But all this is beside the point I started out to make and that , is that there are not enough of the business men, the substantial citizens of Fortland, who ! are willing to attend an afternoon symphony to war-1 rant their continuance' excepting in the evening. They will not leave their offices at .1 in the afternoon no matter what the provocation. There's no such thing as an entirely leisure class in Portland, and perhaps it is just as well that there is not. But why must we go to extremes and why cannot we devote some time to the secondary issues, at the expense perhaps of an hour or so from our offices?", "You're- both mad," declared the night city editor, scraping his chair remorselessly across the hearth. And they, followed him down the crazy,' steps and into the sanity of the night, quite unwilling to. argue his assertion. ME HEEALD WINS NOTICE Ilackenschmldt'a Press Agent Givea Lovely Account of Beauty .of Employer. Chicago, April 18. The sporting ed itor waa grouchlly humped over a bum presa agent cigar. "Dere'i anodder presa agent what wants to se yer outside,"' said the copy boy, ' "Tell him to go to the dickens. If lt'a the duck that gave me this cigar, show him In. but if it Is any on else tell him tn ak'ddoo." i "Is this the sporting editor?" Inquired a silvery feminine voice. ' "Oh eh hum, yessum," eagerly said the sporting editor, scenting a romance and dromon his cigar, likewise his grouch. "What' can I do for you, madam?" 'v - .... al Vawa. . . ' "I am representing Mr. Hacken chmldL thn world's champion wrest ler." conceded the charminK damsel with a grande dame manner. "I have here a little truthful news about Mr. Hackenschmidt whicn may or vame as well as of Interest to your readers scattered over this large country," she firocialmed, carefully adjusting a stray ock of hair wblchhad Just emerged from the marcel undulation waves. I should be delighted to publish any thing you may . have my dear young 'Woman' replied the regenerated S. K. The following, written on pink pa per; heavily -scented with ;. something worth 1 about 95 cents an ounce, waa handed out This Is what she wrote:--- 'Hackenschmidt. the mighty Russian , Lion, much pampered and petted by the bluest blooded, ladies of London, gave - Imitations In Philadelphia on Thursday nfght of air the ancient statuary that has ever been exhibited in the art mu seums of,- the . world. - His audience, composed mainly of society women and 4the members of Ibsen-i-and- Bernard Shaw ..clubs, .went Into ecstatic rap tures over his apollo-like beauty and fell lhto wondering awe at his Hercu lean strength. -Could Atlas' shoulders have been more superb than these? No, cried the ladles. Could the winged grace of Mercury coual the afeillty and viril ity of thisT No, cried the ladies, and so on from pose to pose amidst the 'oh' and 'ahs' of delighted femininity, Mr. Hackenschmidt bowed himself on to the platform a Russian Hon and bowed him self out of the building the lion of Philadelphia lions. Delightful for Hon. , "Mr. Hackenschmidt takes great de light In exhibitions of this sort, ilus t rating '.as It does, the classical devel opment of the body. His development is not the ordinary conception of a well trained set of muscles, but his whole body and every action is a physical ex pression of an unusually well trained mind. In Boston, where the art of Physical culture is carried to Its high est degree, and' there are nearly 100 training schools where physical cul ture is taught as an art. Instead of a pastime, Hacxenscnmidt caused a sen sation. Physicians, well-known club women, ana teacnersMsr physical cul. ture proclaimed him the most superbly developed man ever seen in that section. The combination Of skill, strength and agility astonished the thousand people who witnessed his exhibition. He picked up a'Uerman weighing more than 2(0 pounds, and. lifting him from the floor, threw htm about the ring with the most apparent ease. " VESPERS A FAILURE. University of Michigan Student Wouldn't Attend Services. There has been a debate at. the Uni versity of Michigan over the advlsabll Ity of resuming vesper service. Prea Ident Angell gave this . opinion about tne services after telling about the be ginning of them: ' ' u . "The audience were m&e up chiefly of the ladles from the town, who came to hear the music. Even the members of the students' Christian association took so more Interest than the rest . , - ii i.uuo students were to come regu larly. It would- be worth while to re sumo the services, hut T rinn't .think thin would be the case. The Ideas waa all right, but nobody ever went.' u - CARUSO SIGNED A SHYLOCK CONTRACT P0 Wednesday Cvening-SECOND CONCERT May 6th RTIAWD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Soloists CM AS. DURKE, Conductor MRS. WALTER REED HENRY BETTMAN (Violinist) Soloists Tickets Now on Sale at Eifcrs and Graves & Co., 50c to $1.50 Wednesday Eve. HEILIG THEATRE May 6th PRINCE OF WALES SETS NEW FASHION Womanlcss Dinners Are Given for Twenty-four Persons by Royal Host. Tenor Bound Himself to Pay Per Cent for 1,823 Performances. 23 Naples, .April 18. The prospective re turn of Caruso causes a leading musical critic to tell a story of a "Shylock con tract," which the tenor unwittingly en tered into with his old singing master. The latter, Berglne by name, did not noia a nign opinion or caruso s voice, and used to sat that Enrico would never e2En. more than 400 franca, per month (180). As Caruso had no means to pay his master, the latter took him on a percentage -ine lenor was to pay him J6 per cent of his earnings during iu iirsi urn can oi nis stage career. The master drew ud a contract aim- posedlv to that effect and Caruso signed without reading it. A year later he was engaged Dy tne manager of the Naples Opera, and like an honest fellow sent, nis io per cent regularly to Berglne. Thla little matter ha haDDened tn tion to his Impresario one day. and the Naples theatrical man, who knows Berglne, said: "Let me look at your - "When the contract was examined It was found that Berglne had secured Cameo's signature to a promise of pay ing him IS per cent of his earnings for fiveyears of tnglng," that la for Ave times 166 performances. - "Accordlna: to this naner then. Rere-ln has a mortgage on me for life," ex claimed Caruso. "I am a ruined man." "Since Berglne - bunkoed you, you needn't pay him a cent," . said the Im presario. And Caruso stopped payment rem that hour on. Bere-ine went to law. and the tudo-e decided that the contract eouldn t hold. In the end Berglne accepted 8,000 francs In settlement. Wfiere Happiness Lies. 1 Why will men weep and rail at Fate, whom they s'er call contrary For happiness can still be found r In , Webster's dictionary, , . ' -F. B. Ih Detroit London, April 17. The Prince of Wales Is setting "a new fashion In stag dinners and the idea is not finding fa vor with- the women ljflk, who consider themselves neglected by the arrange ment. But the prince is not at all wor ried at the attitude of the women, and he has no difficulty In finding guests readv to enjoy the privilege of a seat at his mahogany. The idea is a 24-cover male dinner. The prince sits In the center and the conversation Is general and compare tivelv unourbed. The catering is ex iremely well done. The menus are not n hr-lof bm thnnn at Kin AT Edwards din ners, but they are shorter than those of the ordinary banquet. There is plen ty of champagne of a brand the prince i particularly rona oi, ana no gener ullv follows this with claret After dinner the guests break up into groups and pass Into tne womaniess rirawins- room, where they regale each other with stories and the prince proves Ma Malm in ha regarded as an animated anecdotallst. About 11 o'clock whiskies and sodas are handed round, and then the- function closes and the guests dis appear. , 'j DRUNKS, SICK MEN, TO ' BE LED GENTLY HOME Harrisburg's Medical Mayor Tells , Police to Aid All Ail ing Jags. Harrlsburg, Pa.. April 18. On the theory that merely getting fflrunk Is not a crime.- the new mayor of Harrlsburg, Dr. Exra 8. Meals, announced today that "drunks", will be sent home Instead of beina; locked up. , "DrunkmnMn uM he. "Is a disease. The man who Is intoxicated but not dis- I 1-. . L 1 , .a ft. I kAm. require the saloonkeeper at whose place he got the liquor to take care of him un til he Is fit to be sent home. , "Habitual drunkards, who make nuis ances of themselves, will of course be locked up until they're sober, and then P A N T A G E S AVsjek of April 30 Fourth and Stark St. TBS BEST XJT TIOSITILLII. J. A. JOnrsOsT, Besides aegx. wssk EHDnft? BTtTBDATi DON FtTLANO. The Black Beauty' of Vaude ville"; THE3 O'BRIEN TROUPE, WALDRON ' BROTHERS, TOM MAHO NEY, WINNIFRJED STEWART, JEAN WILSON, THB BIOORAPH. FOR THE NEW WEEK BEGINNIQ MONDAY GBXAT erSCTXOUULM XOTXX.TT The Neillson Aeriel Ballcl Beautifully Staged Elaborately Produced A Daxxling Spectacle! A KBOOBB nSATITBJi LAURRAINE BUCHANAN & TROUPE IN A BRILLIANT NEW COMEDY SUCCESS. CONLON AND RIDER LIVELY COMEDIANS. THB BIOORAPH NEW MOTION PICTURES. THE SOUTHERN BELLES BANJOISTS. FRANK n. CLARK MONOLOGIST AND DRAMATIC SONQSTER. JEAN WILSON ILLUSTRATED BONO. PANTA0E5 ORCHESTRA DIRECTION H. K. EVENSON. Matinees dally at 2:30, 7:30 and 9 p. m. Nights at 7:80 and s o'clock. Prices: Upstairs. 15c; downstairs, 2Bo; boxes, 60c Any seat at week-day matinees 15o. , !..-; LYRIC THEATRE Corner Seventh and Alder. Both PhonesA-1026; Main 4685. Commtncins Monday, April 20 P. R. ALLEN Presents MISS VERNA FELTON and THE ALLEN STOCK COMPANY in Charles W.: Chaae'g Dramatization of Marie Corellis Celebrated Novel Matinees Tuesday, Thursday,. Saturday and Sunday. Pricea H and 20. Every evening, at 8:30. ? Prices lOf, 20jt and 30 ;f : NEW MOVING PICTURES BETWEEN THE ACTS NO LQNO, WAITS. "';,,' ril take them In hand " - I election, had the hearty support of the Mayor' Meals, la hi campaign, for J liquor selling element. TIicGraiffl tzltWe it luxe , ITeek Ceslssba " EIOHDAY. APRIlt 29, 1SS9, A WONDERFUL . VAUDEVILIE PROGRAMME Headed by ttii Wen-Known . Eaatem Stars, ' ' Halleo & Fuller Co. Presenting - 1 , Geo. M. Cohan's Great Comedy, "ELECTION BETS" tnOAJs JLBSBS ATTBACTXOir ' MR. LEO COOPER AKD COMPANY Presenting , worn or vo-vrsm" TWO ROSES High-Class Musical Offering; ffESSOU, WALTERS : & WESSON . OOMXST XITOH ABTXSTt 1 ao. m, niouio WHITMAN & DAVIS a -km smnuB qmxx ' A Pretean Comedy . fiketch ot Varied Novelty and Interest NAOMI ETHARDO European EauillbrisL FRED BAUER Tha Popular Illustrated BaTladlst Tm Araid to Come Home in -,the Dara." . - F. F. MONTRESSA Tha Dean of the t. A. T. 8. I uperiiom win mninii Tha Latest Motion J'lctures NEXT VVnGIC . TheGreatlfenriFrcr.:! Mimic Actor and Impersona t .-. TX3CB AST . EIC1 kiaxar Tsa ba; t o r.: