- THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 31, 1911.
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LAUDER DOESN'T
LIKE THE ENGLISI-
Prefers His American Man
agers; Weekly Gossip of
New York Theatres,
New Tprk, Deo, 80. Harry Lauder is
a mad Scotchman and may shake the
dust of Londpn from his feet. He
makes no bones about saying that he
preiers me management or American
music halls to that In England. "I am
going up to Manchester for the coming
Christmas pantomimes," he declared to
an Interviewer. "I am having no more
pantomime engagements In this coun
try. I have pad $1600 to get off my
engagement ror pantomime at Christ
mns, 1912. If I could have got out of
-me pantomime this Christmas I would
not have come home from America
now. I don't like English manage
ment as well as the American menace
ment. On my thinking, they want to
take everything, and give you nothing.
l have had 10 years exeprience, and I
know what I am talking about. When I
nm 111 and sick and lying on my bed
tney aon t believe my doctor s certlfl'
cate, but they must send down their
own aoctor to see that I am not sham
mlng. That Is one thing that English
management has done to me.
English Outrages.
"The very latest development of your
English management's attitude towards
ie Is that if I am ill and off work
week they are going to raise an action
and take ma to law, and make me ful
fill a week's engagement In lieu of
the week I was 111. Of course they
will have to go to court, because I can
not stand that. If I was a mediocre
turn on tho bill, and had a 20 weeks'
engagement with the syndicate. If I was
off more than three nights, or was
not Just to their pink of satisfaction,
they would Immediately cancel my en
gagement for all the unexpired period.
Juet take notice of that! Then, again,
If a management sees a turn In the
provinoes or on the continent, or In
America, and engages It, we will say.
for a month or six weeks In London, if
It does not come up to their expecta
tlons they will Instantly remove the
turn from the top of the bill and put
It anywhere they liked, besides chang
ing the position of the turn In the pro
gram, putting it In first or last In
fact, they would try and break the
heart of that turn so that It would get
up an Ill-feeling or an argument with
the management so that the latter might
Bay, "Well, quit.' I mean the manege
nient would do all in their power to
provoke a quarrel. That Is your Eng
lish manegement. I have found them
better in America, but I am only speak
ing rrom my own experience.
Mary Anderson's Picture.
When Mary Anderson de Navarro was
in New York a few weeks ago, she al
lowed the photographers who had made
pictures of her when she was described
as the most beautiful woman on the
American stage to photograph her as
site is today.
Among tho portraits of actors and
actresses more or less celebrated which
cover the walls of this particular stu
dio Is one taken of herself 25 years
ago; a famous picture in its day, show
ing her in a high, pearl embroidered
Elizabethan collar. There la no love
lier a face even now la all that follec
tlon of stage charmers.
Miss Anderson as Americans will
probably keep on calling her to the end
of the chapter looked at the picture
of her former Self, so the studio people
my, with a good deal of Interest Then
the called her maid.
"That." she said, "Is the way I looked
a good many years ago.
Her Marriage Happy.
It might havo taken more courage to
suhmlt to the 25 years after test If
time had treated her as shabbily as it
does most people. Happiness seems to
have been an efficient doctor In Mary
Anderson's case. Her married life is
said to be Ideal. Every one who met her
' n her recent visit here found out what
a supremely Important role her bus
land pinys in all her affairs.
It was 'Tony' this and Tony' that,"
says the photographer. "Nothing was
done without regard to what 'Tony'
.oulcl think about It. Her husband and
her two children seemed to be almost
her whole life. 'My two pigeons' was
what she called the children. I never
heard that expression before."
To be exact, it is 22 years since this
match was mads. If there are any
other women whose pictures taken two
score years and more apart cou,ld be
put sldo by side and occasion as little
shock as do those of Mary Anderson,
thny ought for the sake of their sex
to tell how they have managed It. In
form and face Mrs. de Navarro is aa
handsome a woman as Mary Anderson
was beautiful as a girl.
Mansfield's Retort,
A belated story of Richard Mans
field Is provided by an aotor who was
In his company at the time when the
principal bill was Ibsen's "Peer Oynt."
There were various elaborate dances In
the production, and the dancing "cues"
were given by the orchestra. On one
SEATTLEITES LIKE
0RPHEUM PLAYLET
Miss Anna Chance.
Miss Anna Chance, who will be a
member of the Orpheum New Tear bill
In the support of Charley Orapewin In
"The Awakening of Mr. Plpp." the
playlet that has set Seattle crasy. The
Seattle .Post-Intelligencer pronounces
next week's bill the best seen in half a
STAR WINS NAME IN
"A FOOL THERE WAS"
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Rpbert Hllllard.
Robert Hllllard.
under the direction of Klaw & Erlanger
at the Heillg theatre next Sunday, Mon
day and Tuesday, January 7, 8 and 9,
went into business in Wall street after
his graduation from New York college.
He built a theatre 4 In Brooklyn. Lester
Wallack played his final engagement
there in "Rosedale." It was at the vet
eran actor's suggestion that Hllllard
went upon the stage, appearing first at
his own theatre in "False Shame." His
New York debut was made with Georgia
Cayvan in "A Daughter of Ireland." one
of Charles Frohman's earliest failures.
His first distinct success was in the
title role of "Mr. Barnes of New York."
He was Mrs. Langtry's leading man.
and subsequently created the leading
roles In a score of well known plays,
including "Blue Jeans," "Jim Bludso,"
"Wheels Within Wheel a, " "Sporting
Life," 'That Man and I," "The Nomi
nee," -i.ost 24 Hours" and "The Mum
my." While starring In the last two
named his company Included Amelia
Bingham and Raymond Hitchcock. Dur
ing the long New York run of Belasco's
"The Girl of the Golden West," Hllllard
personated the picturesque express rob
ber. Vaudeville, for its high salaried
allurement for dramatic headliners,
claimed Mr. Hllllard from time to time.
In the spring of 1909, at the .Liberty
theatre. New York, he resumed as a
dramatic star in "A Fool There Was,"
which has met with undoubted popular
success, breaking numerous records. In
cluding that of Mr. Mansfield at the
Garrlck theatre in Philadelphia. This
sonson Mr. Hllllard takes it to the Pa
cific coast for the final time.
occasion the stage manager forgot that
tho dancers were too far from the mu
sicians to give or get cues. The ex
pected happened. No music was forth
coming at our danoing cue. After a
pregnant pause for the music the actors
ambled through the dance as best they
could. The line following this dance
came from the Dovre King's daughter.
It was addressed to Mansfield.
"How like you this dance?"
To which Mansfield usually rejoined:
"The music and dance are botn ut
terly charming!" '
This night his answer came promptly:
"The music and the dance are ut
terly charming separately!"
Battle Arnold's Record.
It is Hattle Arnold's boast that kIio
will not retire from the stage gntll
she has played in 200 light operas and
musical comedies. Nor is It an Idle
one. With her amusing role as the
former prima donna in Victor Herbert's
omlc opm. "The Enchantress." this
genial old lady has played 178 different
prominent characters in musical pieces.
She created the role of the dainty
prankish Josephine in "Plnnfore," when
it was first produced In Philadelphia,
some 30 years ago.
There Is a rumor that next season
the New theatre in New York, now re-
christened the Century theatre, will be
used for grand opera. The rumor, how
ever, is not confirmed. Llebler & Co.
have the present lease of the house.
An ordinance has been passed by the
New York alder. nen to revive the for
mer custom of permitting theatres to
sell standing room for several rows
back of the seats. The ordinance must
haVe Mayor Gaynor's approval to be
come a law.
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PLAYS AND PLAYERS
'The Rosary" will be produced next !
summer In Australia,
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Marie Dresser Is playlnr her fifth '
New York engagement in "Time's 1
Nightmare."
George C. Dougherty, the father of
Graoe George, died at his home In New 1
York recently.
Marie Cahill made the first nradnn-
tlon of her new piece. "The ODera Ball." ;
in Utlca the other night 1
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Mrs. Stuart Robson, with her own
company. Is presenting a playlet, entl-
uea "Mrs. iioney s .Honeymoon."
Louis N. Parker, author of "Disraeli." '
has undertaken to dramatize Charles
Kingsleys "H. patia" for early produc
tion. After the holidays the Shuberts in
tend to produce a new musical comedy,
entitled "The Man With Three Wives." 1
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It is said that Weber and Fields are !
willing to come together again If busi
ness details can be satisfactorily ar
ranged. Francis Wlleon will nnitnnm th r,
duction of his new play, "The Spiritual
ist,- ana continue in -a Bachelor's
Baby."
Already the tour of "The Garden of
Allah" is being booked. The spectacle
will open In the Auditorium theatre in
Chlcagonext fall.
A Man of Honor" having proved a
failure, Edmund Breese IS going into
vaudeville. He will aot in "Codv." a
playlet about newspaper life.
Maclyn Arbuckla and Edgar Guest are
the authors of "The Reform Candidate,"
which is slated wf or elaboration into a
longer comedy next season.
The Nora Baves-Jack Norworth miml.
cal company possesses the distinction
i of presenting the longest aot ever In
polite vaudeville. It ocouples an hour.
Rose Melville Is planning to take "Sis
Hopkins" to Europe. The play has had
13 seasons of success, and has been
played In almost every city, town and
village.
Following the withdrawal of "The
Lady of Coventry," Viola Allen Is soon
to appear In a new play by Rachel Cro
thers, author of "The Three of Us," and
"A Man'a World."
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Louise Closser Hale, wife of Walter
Hale, and herself a fine actress, is
going to give up the stage and devote
i herself to literature, as Bhe has won
much success as an author,
Joseph Medill Patterson Is making a
'play out of the late O. Henry's stories,
"The World and the Door" and "Cab
bages and Kings." Charles Waldron
will have the leading role of the play.
Edna Goodrich, formerly Mrs. Nat
Goodwin, has been engaged by Daniel
Frohman to appear with Charles Cherry
in "His Neighbor's Wife," opening at
Powers' theatre, Chicago, on January 29
next.
PROMISES MADE BY
THE PRESS AGENTS
(Continued From Preoedlng Page.)
of the past to give Portland in future
the same high grade quality of acts that
has made the Empress popular.
Like a page torn from the notebook
of a police reporter Is Joe Maxwell's
"A Night in a Police Station." This Is
a novelty and Is also humorous, as it
Is true to nature. There are 12 people
In the cast and they represent all the
varieties of human beings who find
their way to the desk of the officer in
charge of the second night relief. To
those unfamiliar with a police station
after dark the act will be Instructive
as well as entertaining.
That distinguished character deline
ator, Hal Stephens, is now on a tour
of the Sullivan & Considlne circuit Mr.
Stephens appears In famous scenes from
famous plays. In each he gives a life
like delineation of some familiar part
In which the gamut of human passion
and emotions is reflected.
Joseph K. Watson, the vaudeville
comic genius, billed as "The Happy He
brew," Is a comedian of the elde split
ting kind. Mr. Watson can tell a story
so that every laugh In It is sent across
the footlights.
Luckle and Yoost are singers and
dancers and, unlike the average dancers,
they can sing. The act is of the neat
and refined order and warranted to give
satisfaction.
Lillian Selger, a noted female cornet
lst, will have a repertoire of popular
and classic selections and her act will
be found more than ordinarily novel.
Robert and Robert, introducing the
world's wisest bulldog, will alsoappcar,
A vaudeville show without a flaw has
been appearing at the Empress Christ
mas week, the last performances be
ing given Sunday.
The Barrier Coming.
For all week at the Baker, .opening
next Sunday matinee. Rex Beach' fam
ous play of Alaska, "The Barrier" will
be the attraction. "The Barrier" was
one of thesuccesses of last season which
NEW YEAR'S
HEILIG
Matinee Hew Tear's Say Special Price Matinee Wednesday
4 -2SS53. TONIGHT
AUTHORS' PRODUCING COMPANY,
Charles Klein's
THE
(EAMELEMS
WITH
PAUL EVERTON
FSICES
Evenings and Ifew Tear's Matinee
Entire lower floor $1.50
Halcony, first G rows 1.00
Balcony, next 6 rows 75
Halcony, last 11 rows B0
Gallery, resv. and admission. .60
BEATS HOW SELIira AUTOS and
SEAT SALE OPENS NEXT FRIDAY'
HEILIG
THEATRE
SUNDAY,
MONDAY
TUESDAY
Jan. 7-8-9
in Els Euor-
moua Snooess
Lower floor 11
6 rows, $1.00; S
Beginning v
Monday Matinee V
DV.ANCKT
VAUDEVILLE
CHARLEY GRAPEWIN
Assisted by Anna Chance & Co., in
"THE AWAKENING OF MR. PIPP"
Reynolds and Donegan Oscar Loraine
Schenck and Van Ruby Raymond & Qo.
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The Four Famous Vanis Bob and Hp Trio
Evening Prices:
DAJTXT KATIWXI ISO, 230, BOO.
RAIL HEADS SAY
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COURTESY PAYS"
Rock Island Officials Issue
Symposium of Pithy Ad
vice to Employes.
Chicago, Deo. 80. There Is nothing In
the railroad category that makes court
esy Impossible, according to a sympo
sium of "courtesies" compiled by Rock
Island officials which , represents the
comDosite view of officials and employes
rrom eVery department of the system.
Here are some "courtesisms":
Courtesy leaves a fine flavor dis
courtesy a bitter taste.
Courtesy makes friends and friends
make business.
If you must fight with some one, join
the army. The railroad service is not
a training school for oombatlveness.
The men at the top are uniformly
courteous. Are you headed that way 7
Courtesy Is not a veneer, covering a
bad disposition. It must be genuine
and penetrate to the heart to be effec
tive. Good Temper Valuable Asset.
Good temper is an asset to a railroad,
as witness the following advice:
Every time you lose your temper,
you do two things: You lose a patron
for the company and you injure your
digestion. One is as necessary to the
company as the other Is to you.
Complaints cost more and multiply
correspondence correspondence means
postage, and postage costs money. We
have to haul a ton of freight two miles
and ti half in order to pay for one 2
cent postage stamp.
The only -things railroads have to of
fer In exchange for business are serv
ice and personality. Personality In this
connection means courteous treatment
and affability.
Courtesy always pays dividends.
Theses dividends may not come back to
you In the form of dollars and cents,
but they most certainly Inure to your
land the company's credit.
Blames Fublio for Accident
The Montana state railroad commis
sion, In its annual report, holds the
desire of tho public for high speed in
railway passenger service" as responsi
ble for accidents on the railroads.
The report shows that In the year
ending September 80, 191L 71 persons
were killed and 62& injured on Montana
railroads. A majority of these deaths
and accidents the report attributes to
fast running of trains, which Is strong
ly condemned by the commission.
pleased and as large audiences greated
the company almost everywhere, there
wo a rnnirW.lhl n TO fit. wlllch is bft-
lng utilized this year In placing a much
stronger company and more elaborate
production before the public. Hex
Beach, the author of "The Barrier" has
agreed that "The Stiver Horde" or "The
Ne'er Do Well" will follow the present
"Barrier" company, appearing In such
towns and cities as appreciate "The Bar
rier" enough this coming season to war
rant a later visit of the newer dramat
ization. ATTRACTION-
THE ATR E
Seventh and. Taylor
Phones Main 1; A-1122
8:18
O'CLOCX
JOHN CORT, PRES.. ANNOUNCES
Greatest Play
A?nT A SPLENDID
SUPPORTING COMPANY
Special Price Wednesday Matinee
Entire Lower floor $1.00
Balcony. flrBt 6 rows 75
Balcony, In rear first 6 rows. .50
Gallery, reserved 35
Gallery, admission 25
CAHJXXAQESTlaV 8 AND 11 P. M.'
KLAW & ERLANGER PRESENT FOR
THE ONLY TIMES HERE
ROBERT
A Cnnl fhprs. Mno" T Porter
Emerson Browne
-PRICES: -
rows $$.00; 7 rows $1.50.
rows, 75c; 11 rows 60c,
Balcony, first
Gallery 60a
PLone. Msm6, A. 1020
Week, Jan. 1
lGc, 25c, SOc, 75c
KOXJSAT UATXXXES Wight Price
Coming
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PACHMANN
Heilig
Theatre
Friday Evening,
Jan. 5
8EAT SALE JAN. 3
Prices $2.50, $2.00, $1.50,
$1.00. Gallery (reserved), $1.00;
admission, Sc. Box seats, $3.
Loge seats, $2.50.
BUNGALOW
THEATRE
ONE WEEK,
Commencing: with New Year's
Matinee
Monday, January 1
Matinees Monday, Saturday and
Sunday.
Jack Hoskins
Announces His Sensational,
Comedy Drama
THE NEW
Millionaire
Tramp
First Time at Popular Prices,
15c, 25c, 35c and 50c.
Special Bargain Matinee Satur
day, 15c and 25c.
PEOPLE'S
THEATRE
TODAY, TOMORROW AND
TUESDAY
VOICE OF A CHILD A Moth-
er'a Rescue.
THE AMERICAN GIRL Makes
Nobility Bow.
BUNNY'S VAPOR BATH A
Fat Man's Dilemma. )
FAIR EXCHANGE Comic.
THAT TRIO in Complete Change
of Songs.
Coming Wednesday Snowball,
the Posing Horse; works alone
without master on the stage.
STAR THEATRE
PAID BACK Son's Vengeance
Against Mother's Wrongs.
ONE WAY TO WIN Barber's
Shrewd Scheme.
BIRD IN HAND Troublesome
Turkey Deal.
STOLEN TREASURE Juvenile
Drama.
DORIC TRIO Another Song Hit
ARCADE
THE ORPHAN Sentimental.
YANN TROUBADOUR Roman,
tic.
THEIR LAST CHANCE-Comlc.
PITY TO LOVE Dramatic
Coming Wednesday,
CINDERELLA 3 Superb Reels.
OH JOY
DAUGHTER'S BRACELET In
dian. BRONCO BILL'S DEED West
ern. UNCLE HIRAM'S LIST Comic.
MUSHROOMS Industrial
ELWOOD Singer.
Coming Friday Night,
THE FUNNY AMATEURS.
TIVOLI ,
FOR MEMORY SAKE Drama.
STUFF DREAMS MADE OF
Comic,
- and
TWO OTHERS, ' v
With
MR. ARTHUR ELWELL Singer
CRYSTAL
COMPLETE CHANGE OF BILL
TODAY WITH FOUR OF
BEST PICTURES of the WEEK.
- and - . , .
MISS NEILSON, i
I Singer. 4
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Opening Sunday Matinee DEG31,1911,T0DAY:
Including Special New Year's Day Matinee Monday, 25c-Wc
LaShelle Virginian Company
Presents
The
Thoroughly
American Play
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VKGIMAM
By Owen Wister and Kirke La Shelle
Bargain Matinee Wednesday, 25c, All Seats Reserved
Sunday, Monday and Saturday Matinees, 25c-50c
Evening Prices 25c, 50c, 75c, $1.00
Next Week-'THE BARRIER'
Offl
Week, Jan. 1 t V
Joe Maxwell's
A Night in a Police Station
Little Ruth Frances
ia rsopui la
NELLIE
A Youth
LUCKIE
Songs
An Amuslns; Oddity
ROBERT AND ROBERT
The World's Wisest Bulldog
Premier Cornet Soloist
LILLIAN SOGER
Offering- In Popular and Classical Musia
Special Added Feature
Vaudeville's Comic Genius
JOSEPH K. WATSON
"The Happy Hebrew."
ORCHESTRA
Unequaled Vaudeville
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seventh
Week commencing monday matinee, jan. i
ATTRACTION
5-CYCLING
Europe's Latest
COOPER and DAVIS
That Happy Pair.
LES ARIBOS
Parisian Acrobats.
EXTRA ADDED ATTRACTION
Hal Davis & Miss Anne Rodgers
IN
"THE UNEXPECTED"
A Rattling Comedy of Lifo and the Track.
Boxes and First Row Balcony Reserved. Phones, A-2236, Main 3646.
prjcesl5c and 25c Matinee Daily. Curtain 2:30, 7:30 and 9:00.
LY IR.IIG
Fourth and rTnTUTTC?
THEATRE
Stark Streets
WEEK COMMENCING TOMORROW MATINEE
THE
KEATING & FLOOD MUSICAL COMEDY CO.
PRESENTS
"Frolics of 1912'?
Pretty GirU Funny Comedians Catchy , Music
HEAR THE NEW ELKS SONG
"Brother Bill, the Town Belongs to You" ,
Two Performances NightlyJ 7:30 and. 9:15, 15c and 25c
Matinees Daily 2:30, Any Seat 15c : (except Sundays
, and Holidays) ;
FRIDAY NIGHT CHORUS GIRLS' CONTEST
Next Week THE GAY DECEIVERS Ntxt Wet!:
theatre:
ICsJa a. A4M0
oso, jf saaat
The Play
the Public
Demands
FORMERLY THE GRAND
SULLIVAN & CONSIDINE
The Distinguished Chanctar
MR HAL'IfEPHENS
Presenting-
TAMOTjrs irani raoK
and a Maid
AND YOAST
and Dances
THOMlaB
and Alder Streets
EXTRAORDINARY
MARTELLS - 5
Vaudeville Sensation.
ARTHUR RIGBY
Veteran Minstrel.
PANTAGESCOPE
Latest Animated Events.
A TPTTBTTT1 Fourth and
Stark Streets
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