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the Oregon' sunday journal, Portland, Sunday morning, October- 30, 1910. SARAH BERNHARDT TO COME . ; TO PORTLAND-NEXT'WINTER PLAYS AND PLAYX'RS X rr rs no 4 s .. f am:, uw i.iiiiriin ummmm m iiwwmimwii ' "x " wm '"" 111,1 1 11 1 ew 'Nl I &A'hZ& I If V fn II RE i:';::''''-':: -tf';- i V- .vi"?" ! ' - r r Mme. Sarah Bernhardt, ". Accompanied by her son arid several other membera of her family, not in cluding, however, the great grandchild which, recently made its debut, Mme. Sarah Bernhardt arrived In NewYork yesterday to begin her soventli Ameri can tour, i Though' her sixty-fifth birth day was reached a week ago yesterday, ill A . .,!,., I, .,.J.t that this Is not her "last farewell per formance." While the great American dollar holds out, the "Divine Barah" will return. ,. ; y; a For almoHt half a century, Madame Bernhardt has been on tlfe atage, " arid ilmnut tn vana ahd lintt Kami aft 1 1. aown tne eartn, wun pauses now ana then for a few months at her own theatre In Paris. Long before she left the Theatre Francala' in -'1880, .aha was an international personage. No one knows better how to practice the tricks, indulge the fancies, and pursue the arts that bring such celebrity. Once she had gained it she abandoned them, and turned to her real art in the theatre with the inexhaustible" energy that still makes her capable ' of eight perfor mances of as marly parts in a single tan? aaV T ; la-1 im1niirf Aillv . f Via f : txrartrv and not the arts of the dressing room that really hides her yeara - The French aotresa travels aa of yore In a state of luxury only equalled by royalty.-'' Three maids of her 'household her maitre d hotel, and' her coachman are included in. the party. Her itinerary will take Madame Bernhardt-to wash lngton, Oregon and Ca41forn)a, and back on the southern circuit,:, including Mex led and Havana. In a recent interview her manager jWllllam F. Connor Bald of her: . "She spread the French language all -over the , globe, , yet has never been decorated by the Legion of Honor, fer haps that la because the authorities know she is capable of refusing the 'decoration; A rejection of such an honor would amaze them: no more than her secession from the. Theatre -Francalse to become a - star. She herself nce re marked that a prayer is no less efflcafi' loua in : an ' attlo than in a cathedral, It Is, much the same with acting. ! 8he lends dignity to all places." . Mr. Connor says that Madame Bern nardt' will appear in Portland. t)n ac count- of ,' the theatrical' war between KUw and Erlanger and the Shuberts, she cannot appear at the Iletllg, there fore, some 'less imposing edifice will have to be used for the great French tragedienne. Her repertoire will include "Madame X,"? Alexander" BIsson's won derful play, VL'Alglon," "Monna Van na," "Sapho," "Fedora." "La Tosea," "Hamlet," "Tha Resurrectlen," "Jeanne d' Arc," and a score of other famous plays. '.' 1 I Here Is a lesson In .pronunciation in view of the opening tomorrow night at the Helllg of Madame Nazlmova. Nazl mova is the feminine of the, Russian Nazlmoff. It should . be ' pronounced Na-zee-nif-vah. - Don't slur a single syl-raTjle.-. The accent falls on the second syllable In this case pronounced "zee." Get the "zee", and the rest : Is . ea3y. Don't call it "zlm." Thia is the undla- putable authority of the ..lady herself." And now cornea the . news that one pf the Broadwty manager proposes to give morning roof garden - entertain ments for night; owls. The, next thing In- order are performances 24 hours a day, the actors to sleep between acta. ' : '. ':' . : v'''Ai ". Laura Jean Libbey. the celebrated au thor of "All for Gold; or. The Terrible Murder Right on the Red' Plush Sofa,; who recently appeared- wtlh . distin guished success in vaudeville, is now writing- AdvfcVto the love lorn for the Chicago Tribune. Amy'with , the' Twist j 111 IV"' SCI uun - . .. ;. v--i ,Vf I In her early , staie Career Mrs. FIske, then. Minnie Madderh-.: waa supported by Richard Mansfield lh. "In Solte Of sAlU' and by Wilton Lackay: in . ''JTeither- braln." . In later years came Maurice Barrymbre, Joh'n Mason, George Arliss, Tyrone ; Power, Guy Batea Post, tHol brook'Bllnn and alarge number ot im portant though, somewhat lesser llghta, in that they oict not appear in jeaamg roles,- including Augustus Cook; Freder ick ' DeBellevllle, Charles Cartwrlght, William BMack. Albert Brunnlng, Full er. Melllsh and many others. Theodore Roberts says there are many ways of showing appreciation of a play, but'the one beyond cavil is keeping your seat ? after the play and ; waiting, for more, .reports the Dramatic Mirror., He said: ."By that sUndard my . greatest success was when I played in t a pro duction of 'Lticretlo , Borgia.' No, I, didn't play the title role. In the last act a curtain is drawn back, disclosing six cof fins, ' each presumably containing a corpse. Then . the leading man mur ders the star. Everybody in the play is dead. "But Tin audience in wavaaa sat on after the curtain went down and I had. to go out and, tea inem mai mui waa all thera wasn't any more play" Whrn .tulla Marlowe recently returned from F.urope she declared over JlO.OOtt worth of costumea. ' ..." - .. . Mrs. licslle Carter and her company for this season, which Includes; Frank Worthing,. who has been engaged as her leading man; Harrison Hunter, tsranaon Hurt, Arthur R. Jbawrence, Jjouis Myu, Helen Tracy, and others, have beaun rehearsals of ; a new play,: '.'Two. Wo men," by tlupert Hughes. Mrs, Carter, who is now under John Cort manage ment will begin her starring tour at the Colonial theatre, Cleveland, on Novem ber 7. ..'' A LITTLE NAUGHTY CHOCOLATE SOLDIER WORTH A RE-HEARING More than any other operetta to De . temembere for year has "The Choco lste Soldier"' proved Itself worth a re hearing. , Even thus early In its stay f th arrli.v theatre, manv in tne -lona lines of ticket buyers have made known they arpianning for their second, third pr even tutu vibiv. . xno iuubiu ui work1 has a charm all its .own. and- its - technical- beauty " is" ao concealed in Its aDDeal to the popular taste lor meiooy and : whlstleable tunes that a aecond hearing brlnga ; put new beauties that cannot be seen in the overflowing abun dance that floods -upon the. listener at . the first hearing.- a" -r' . .-: - ::, "The Chocolate s Soldier" Is also un usual In the contrasts provided by the three acts; the first being sovery close . to the line of grand, opera that half its time Is spent in that field; the second, is opera bouffe with all the sparkle and merriment that still recalls the times of Offenbach, Audran and MUloecker at their best, and the third Is comio opera with a dialogue bristling with hu mor, none .of. which' Is commonplace or descends' to the level of the slapstick or interpolated foolishness. The work is an opera of principals, although the chorus is large and sings as- does only a chorua of the T. C. Whlt ney,brand. . , , ,., i .-...;-. Henry Miller has had a most success ful from coast-to-coast tour in "Her Husband's Wife." At the close of his Paclfio coast engagement Mr. Miller will sail for London to stage thelece In the British, metropolis., Mr. Miller will re turn late In the, season and produce in New York a new play, "The Guest." by Harry Sophus Sheldon. Remarkable Is the. fact that "The Guest" requires but three players. The characters are the husband, the, wife and "the other man." ? Virginia Harned opened in Reno.'Nev , October ,19 in. hernew play, "The Wo man He Married," by Herbert Bashford. In theast are Paul Harvey, Frederick Munier, George Baldwin, G. Lester Paul, and Margaret Gordon. . , COINCIDENT BRINGS SUCCESS Personal Anecdote From Life of Arthur Schnitzler, Author of "The Fairy Tale." ' Not many personal -"anecdotes are tf be f ound regfardlng Arthur Sohnitaler, the ' Australian author whom Mma Naa lmova will Introduce to local audiences Tuesday night, when she present for ; , the first time here in English. "The Fairy Tale, a translation of Schniu ler's."Das Marchen," , by Nina Lewton. , One, - however, Is of a - rather unusual nature. , , . The sensational euccess that attended the first Berlin performance, of Uchnlta ! ler'a tly "'Frelwild,' about 10 yeafra j back, had ,lta, birth ii- a lucky colnel dent. In.thla play he.tells.the story of an oflcer-who brutaly, murders a civil ian because the liter-refuses to fight a 'duol with Mm. The officer's desire for a duel was called forth by the fact that, the civilian had Slapped his antagonist's face In reproof of ah Insult offered by the' lieutenant to a defenseless Woman. The civilian refuxes to fight. The offi cer knows that his career is ruined if -He Js. not granted a 'duel, 'and he shoots the civillah dead, "to avenge his honor." 7 This play had been accepted by a . leading Berlin theatre, and the actors were Btudylng their parts when the cel- 'cBrated Karlsruhe restaurant affair oc curred. This was the deliberate killing of young civil engineer by Lieutenant voii Brusewltz, besause- the former had jostled the offlcer'a chair in , passing, and angered by the lieutenant's hrusoue tone refused the formal apqlogjr the oth er deniandod for a wholly unintentional Slight. "My honor Is avenged..was all that rjlir1 -IJliUTflarf r vftnfthmfii "Qr''TJs""d"ee'd. . , , . .- - . Kchnitzler hrourht in the,"woman in the oesc" to make the story' at all possi ble as fictlpn. iOne of the well known German comlo magazlnea summed up ino nauer inscsrwon pnnraymg Juan, ager Brahm of the DeutSehes theatre Seated at his deck paying rovsltlea t6 fiuderoiann, - Haptmann -and - SchniUler, : ..-.-ST' - :: . - 1 f ' V. ' Mme. Nazlmova. who had 'furnished - the - leading sue cesses of the season at hjs, house,' -when the door opens : ntd Lieutenant von Brusewlta walk? in with the remark. "I've come for - mv share, 0X.iUa.- f0y. allies ou 'FrUwUuV '' . ' IS HER PHILOSOPHY V 1 ' ! i ," : . ..v.-x-i-Xs-: v. . . ." : ::" 1 . . 'v-'-.Y:-;.. I ' A i KWO -tx V. frAa- Grace Merrltt In "The Blue Mouse" at h9 . Bungalow next week. Grace Merrltt in "The Blue Mouse" company discusses the wickedness - of the stage..,; Many a manager has pro duced a goody-goody show to find the theatre empty, claims' Miss Merrltt. A little more or less of wickedness ap peals to every one, and the publio is more or lsa , Interested in the ..actions of a so-called bad girl, " The atage girl In The Blue Mouse" to a narrow- minded person is . supposed to be bad, but in reality ahe isn't Before the final curtain - falls she has endeared herself to her audience and accredited herself to every one ahe has come in contact with, for she really loves Just one man,' Just the same as a demure little bride In the audience who. loves her husband. However, s.he may anglo and flirt, and all that sort of thing Just tq keep the man on the "qui vlve," but If any ; one will , follow, my recipe and not forget the sugar opatlng ending of it I think ahe will find life pleasant and happy. . ', .. , Miss ' Cliarlotte i Crabtree, who .' as , "ijotia was woiiiea, by the precedlnit generation of playgoers, and la now un-. derstood to be Immensely jlch, and Mr. David Warf leld, generally regarded na the most prosperous actor in our the atres, are said to derive , large annual Income from moving picture auditoriums In which they htfld an- Interest or own outright,-v;..;, - ,;.-' -" Although 'Mme. Nasimova has 'acted almost all -of Ibsen's plays, ' both In Ejjglish and in hep native tongue, Rus rlan, Bha never. Saw the Jramatistjilm self., j Jot Mong ago in discussing the Nors playwright, she said that she con- nAtriA :htm, thft . nrintaft Hrnmntlr. - n,V. only has, she peyer met,, him, but sua has never known' anyone who has talked with Ibsen. ;-"-.'-; -V v, f.:-. . I ' i . ' V . PreparaltlontT for ; tha Amerlpan pre mier e off Mascagnrs' "Ysobel" have gone so far that a' series of dress rehearsals will soon" toe given In the New theatrn, New-Ynrlc1ty7-whpro 0e opora wilj first We hrd on November tX. " ..... . . . i . . . .. . .. . .. - . ALOHA ALOHA Fa 0 CMC Special Excursion to Hawaiian Islands SMls Pete 1911 Thirty Days of Complete Relaxation from AH Business , ; Cares Make Your Reservations Now Wireless Telegraph to Keep in Touch With the Folks at Home First Personally-Conducted Excursion From Portland WM;jSj ':1La "?ffJ-Z. ' ; i :J '-, . ' ' a : ;- ; ; ; : ' .' :' .:' .: .. .. . " -' '. - - Among the special features arranged are : A free side trip to the crater Kilauea, an audience with Hawaii's dethroned queen, Liliuokalani, surf riding and oathing at Haikiki, a glimpse of the poor unfortunates of "Molpkai the Blest V consigned to a ' , . living death, a visit to the wonderful .Nuuanu valley, where Karnehameha the Great ' drove his enemies, the Oahuans, over a precipice 800 feet high, Honolulu's floral ' festival and its famous parade on Washington's birthday. " : jA One day in Astoria, two in San Francisco, three at Hilo and seven in Honolulu during the floral festival. . Popular excursion S. S. "Queen" chartered from the Pacific Coast S. S. Co. for the thirty days' cruise. ewtiiliiwlliiwii' JilMiiTiihiiii'i l 'iniiM i will iijin Total Expense pf the Trip $25ti;00 ' Hawaii a wonder land a climate all its own beauty with no handicap natural - . . "v .' wonders on all sides. Its craters the home of eternal fires. Fine roads" and drives with innumerable beauty spots along the way.. Hawaii for health. Hawaii for f pleasire. Hawaii for sport. Hawaii for rest recreation and relaxation. ' s ' "" V' - v" t - ' I " , ... ... . The Cuisine of theS. S. "Queen" a Special Feature Table supplied with the choicest meats; vegetables and fruit the markets of two countries afford. The passage prjee of $250 includes all-expenses from -Portland back to Portland, including the three day side trip to the crater Kilauea Surf Bathing at Waikiki Sir Frederick Treves, Bart., Sergeant Sur geon io H.JB. M. King George, Said of the Bath ing at Waikiki: "One great joy of Honolulu is the sea bathing ; for nothing can surpass it. Those who find delight, in this rudimentary pursuit must go to the Hawaiian islands to understand it in perfection.-, It may be claimed that there is luxurious bathing on the Lido by Ven ice, or at Atlantic City, or on thexoast between Cape Town and Durban. These pjaccs, as Mercutio said of his wound, 'will serve,' but they fail to approach such bathing sft can be found inthe cove which lies in the shelterof Diamond Head.'. - : FofMetailed information of the trip and illustrated pamphlets of the Hawaiian ; ' islands,, phone Main 229 or A-2293 or call upon ., ' Roche 6 Thompson, Managers 216 Worcester Block Pacific Coast S. S- Cq: 249 Washington Street