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THE ;- OREGON . SUNDAY, JOURNAL." PORTLAND, ' SUNDAY- MORNING, MARCH'. 22, 1913.. . ,, rr ? , . V 7 ''Sit . t S S ' L i ! rv " ') '' 1 ' i . V- J:t"K ,gi. - M: r" -.- 1 I: : : ' ' ' - -- - ' 8 Lent Is epouU -" !' There 1 fairly busy month alirad tlieatrlcally followbig the marked lu)l I ef the pant wek. The movie ftn4 vau- Ucvlllo had It fell to tiiemaelVea. They : fulled through, all right;' but r ft haa j tiot beeru. eesanr ,W,ngaK uexiru 1 kelp t flgifrfua..Jfte.rwk, rMelpta,? It's cood to announce William II Crane opening tonight for four nlghta at the Helllg In "The Senator Keepa House," This year actually la the fif- tletb consecutive rear Mr. Crane haa been on thy American stage, and In one f respect he is like unto a vintage. With Mr. Crane this -season is Al&bel Burt, remembered for' her 20,000 performances a the mother la "Ben Hur." Zeffie TU- Jury, also of tho'company, is the flaueh er of Lydia Thompson, who a genera. . tlou ago was a burs lavorlte. Mr. Crane's new play cornea guaranteed as t most worthy successor to ''Father and the Boys." ; 'Talking Movies" Is just about the latest tiling la vaudeville novelties, and naturally enough Martin Beck Is send ing the twafe oftg-tntrow cuit. The Klnetaphone will be seen and i beard for the first time In Portland to- . borrow . afternopn. , Bometime9 little !rlvate ' advance- exhibitions are ghren a cases, of this kind, but so fai. as can. . 'be learned nothing of the sort was at 'tempted n this instance Teinorrow we'll know about It. ! 5o 1, . ; . ' " . i '"What .Happened .to ..Jones" '.was . i enough to make it a decidedly happy week at the Baker. The White Sister" , is another jlay.agajty :bp.fV U ; haa been cast It will be nicely taken care of. . ; John I Sullivan was almost In a riot at the Pantages. The "noblest Roman" carries his years well, and isn't as bad "varletlvely" as some baseball players and exchampionM who use a vaudeville . ; contract as s, license to foist themselves I upon an unsuspecting public. The Flo i rens Family of - European acrobats at 1 pantages head the new and promising : looking bill. S Lyric patrons enjoyed "The Pawn broker." Crowded Hotel," the new -1 week's offering promises something un usual in the way of musical burlesque. MISS BETH LAMAR IS CLEVER GIRL V Mifs Belh Lamar, the effervescent eomedlewaer whe owes tHl Paiwages for a week beginning tomorrow af ter jioon, lias, Just f iallied up a uccesfui pon in Now Tork and Boston. Muss Lamar It very flatteringly spoken of in ii-FMHir reviews wherever she has ap- f ' ' ?)' ' t ! i s f v- T , . I - , .4 ! , j 1 y v 4 . 7xS -: -:7" Xiy- . U7' J - tt 0 i 'i - $ ' V . r U VrJ " " . 7 - As C r PROMISES MADE BY i THE PRESS AGENTS W. II. Cfranc Helllg. Ai excellent comedian, a good play and a .splendid supporting company make a combination that satisfies, and all these are present with William It Crane In "The Senator Keeps House." which opens at the Hellig for' four nights and a popular price Wednesday matinee, commencing tonight. it was ?The Senator Keeps House" which Mr, Crane brought out at the Gar rick theatre, New York city, last sea son, and in which he had a run 6f four months before he terminated his sea son, it was written for his use bv Martha Morton, who has contributed several of the most ..notable, successes to Mr. Crane's extensive repertoire of American comedy productions. ror her newest story Miss Morton went to Washington, and her scenes are laid in the present. Mr. Crane is Intro duced ss Senator' Christopher Larkln, a member of the upper ho,use of congress. As the title of the play suggests, he is discovered In a peck of trouble, trying to run his own .household. . He naturally misses doing this. A woman "comes to his 'rescue, and "straightens things out Behind the .domestic -note, the author lays .a semi-political question of a du bious land claim,. which. soma political schemers are trying' to Induce the sen ator to report favorably on. . The play' possesses appeal, -humor and force, and these Influences carry It for. ward to a happy termination. Th role of Senator Larkln Is more than con genial to Mr. Cranes-it suits him. What more coud be asked f ' ' The Senator Keeps .House" would be Interesting on its own' account, but with Mr. Crane, its protagonist, it is excep tional, and more than Worth while. Tickets; are ieejlin, for 'air perform ances. ' '" ' ,"'"' -".' ' '! . " :'" " . "The White . Slater" Baker. The White. Sister,' In which Viola Allen created, such success, will be the offering of the Baker Players for Easter week, commencing this afternoon. The play is dramatized from the noted novel by F. "Marlon Crawford and closely fol lows the storyi The scenes take place at a convent, near Rome and. the central character Is the nun. Sister Giovanni, an exceedingly beautiful and lovely glri, who, believing her fiance has ' been killed In the African wars, has taken the veil, determined to devote her life to her sacred duty to humanity-and. re ligion. '. In the beginning of -fne play her lover Suddenly returns. He has been a' pris oner with barbarous tribes for five years and the" experience has hardened him, so that when he finds all plead Jngs, threats and anger unavailing in his attempts to Induce her to renounce her vows he determines upon a desperate scheme. Under pretense of having a W'tmd-soWertf'TitirsffTre Induces her to come to an out of the way place and there seeks, to force her to-sign an ap plication to the pop for her release. When he has frightened her into sign ing, remorse overcomes him. and he tears the paper up. Then they are dls- DRAMATIC CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK HEILIG (Eleventh and Morrison)-Four nights, beginning tonight, Wil liam H. Crane In The Senator Keeps House." Thursday night, The atrical Managers association In "1S18 Follies." t BAKtiR (Broadway and Morrison) "The White Sister," week beginning with matinee this afternoon. .-. - ORPHEl' 'Broadway and Taylor) Advanced vaudeville, featuring the Kinetophone. - PANTAGES (Broadway and Alder) Vaudeville, featuring- the ? Florens family. 'LTRIC tFonrth and Stark) Keating' & Flood musical burlesque' company," beginning tomorrow afternoon. COMIXQ ATTRACTIONS HE I LI G "The Prince' of Pllsen." April 3, 4; S. ' v, . BAKER The Barrier," week beginning March 30. ' ORPHEUM Chicago grand opera company, March 31,- April 1 and 2. covered' by a Jealous woman who , he knows wlll use her knowledge to ruin the nun and so he shoots himself. Be fore he dies he confesses the plot to the.fatber.and thereby clears the nun of suspicion. Miss Fleming will appear in the star role of the nun, with Robert Conness as Giovanni and Robert Wayne as Father Saraolnesca. The usual matinees will be given Wednesday and Saturday and the popular bargain night performance Monday. '. , Kinetophone Orphetun. ' :' Talking Movies" will be beard for the .first time' In Portland tomorrow afterioon at the Orpheum, where Edi son's': wonderful new Kinetophone has been set up and put in working order. The Kinetophone la pronounced the greatest of all . Thomas Edison's mar velous inventions and Is being head lined as a special feature In all Orpheum houses.- Occupying regular-headline, place on the;- poster are Homer B. Mason and Miss Marguerite Keeler, who return in their snappy comedy, "In and Out," by Porter Emerson Browne. Mf.;.Mson is well remembered as" the star In "A Stub-i born Cinderella' and Miss Keeler was a featured member in the same company. They are supported ;; by ? four clever comedians.-' '.,:.' ''n-.-. ..,. i Daisy Jeromei-England'i youngest comedienne, whose - captivating way have won her the title of "The Electric Spark," holds second place and she promises to be one of the big hits of the 'bill. All -of ..her. songs are written especially for her. i.'f Stars in their own field of work are the Great Dane dogs appearing in San dor's Burlesque Circus, a European novelty, from which much may be ex pected. Vendors ventrlloqulal powers ddtd theact-"" " : f Blxley, snnd .Lerner, J tfr iWelbaiAiyJ Caruso of vaudeville, are clever charac ter delineators . who offer an, act for laughing purposes only, t The Muslkal Girls will be a welcome return-number with many new features. Esteile Churchill 1 still the Jolly drum- Dalntee la Crandall. the glrlW th wire, wears exceptionally pretty. frock! Vt nimble fingers and nimble tongue is Fred M. Griffith, - known " as- the tricky mOnologlst who has a .number of surprises in store. . , . i jian -vin upening iignrr ana other I numbers on tWs week's bill close Trito ' " the performances this afternoon and to- nlht. H- ' ' r -..a..-- , --' ' "" Florenz Family Pantages. With the Florens Family, Europe's foremost society acrobats, and Miss Beth Lamar, the effervescent comedi enne, topping the bill at Pantages for the week commencing with the matinee tomorrow at 1:30, attendance records at that house promise to be broken, for these headllners -are expected to attract unusual attention. " V The Florens Family was for several seasons' . featured In the ' Barnum & Bailey and Rlngling Brothers' circuses. At the conclusion of the present tour, they.wlll return to tented engagements. - Miss Beth Lamar has been a favorite with vaudeville critics during her recent successes throughout theT east Miss Lamar confines her program to genuine ragtime hits and several of these will be heard for the first time in Portland, as Miss I Jim a r holds the exclusive pro duction rights. 7' .Spectacular feats on cycles -of all sorts are accomplished by Valentine and Bell, . who present their unique attrac tion, The ,Wheeler' Jag on Wheels." Both are able cyclists and their work will be new, to local audiences. i Charles R. Sweet, the musical burglar, has long been a favorite with easterji audiences. Mr. Sweet assumes the garb of afburglar and makes his stage ap pearance with all the earmarks of a pro fession house prowler; : ; f U Lola MHton and her New York con pany wlllt-present the culinary comedy entitled "A Course Dinner" - The scene of tha sketch is Jald in a kitchen with Miss Milton In the principal role. : . Emll Sobers, better known to vaude ville patronsas The Georgia Boy,".wia be heard In hits original blackface fun. introduclng-several' of his latest laugh able parddlesv -The Pantagescope win show new animated events. ,, . t6h Ik Sullrraft,nhe thamplono. aU ring champions, will make his final ap pearanee before a local publlo with: the performance this afternoon and evening. 1 . : ,-Crowded t Hotel" LvtIc A'Crowdei Hotel 'or d;0. D., wrll by ChaVles Alphinand stagedrund edlreetlon"ef Edward S. Allen. th fyrij?opuJar?medIaofcTyLJ,,the btll a that cosy playhouse all week comme?lng with tomorrow's Easter Mondel mstineei The fun in rA Crpwdi ed'HoEeV' -elirts when lazy Cohn and jviko -xi-miay 'visit a Deasiue note and are presuaued to form a corporation end' buy the hotel. Articles of agres. ment.are drawn up' and are signed with a proviso that the part pertaining to the pro rata disbursements is to be elim inated, as Cohn not knowing what pro rata means decides that he wants money Instead. Gideon Bright, a' Union busi ness agent, who has a mania for boy cotting, appears. " The hotel is crowded by a circus troupe and business Is rush ing. " When the first day's receipts are counted Cohn demands his share, but the others of the company refuse to divide with him as he refused- to accept his pro rata. Cohn gets the aid of the business agent and proceeds to boy cott the hotel, he himself acting as the picket. The fun Is fast and furious. ' Harry Hart will . bs seen as "Mike Brady," Reeoe Gardner as "George Swift," Jack Wise as the ringmaster of the circus, .Lou Davis as- the business agent, Miss Hamilton as "Miss Bay rum," the circus queen, and Frances White as "Miss Puffsandf rills," a con cert singer, . t The performances will open with mov ing pictures. Three Shows daily at 3:80, T:30 and :15. Sunday night per formance Is continuous, beginning at 0:30, end running until 11.. Tuesday mgnt after the first performance, the chorus-will be seen In en athletic con test.,; and on Friday night, after each performance, there will be the regular professional contest. Every child at tending the Saturday matinee will re ceive a pretty and useful present. -! SHADOWS. CAST. BY C0MIWG ATTRACTIONS The Prince of Pllsen," the happy muslftal comedy by ' Frank Plxley and GustaKLuders, will be on at the Hellig April 3,4 and 6. Manager Henry W. Savage, ih reviving this , tuneful and popular entertainment, has limited Its presentation to one company, which in Its personnel represents a Judicious dis tribution of the various characters among those who have. .shown their su periority la previous casts of this play. "Jess" Dandy retains his humorous Im personation of Hans Wagner. Lottie Kendall, who Is to play Mrs, Madison LIKES ROLE OF PRIEST IN "WHITE SISTER" Robert ' Wayne. Robert .Wayne of The Baker Players, after playing the part of Giovanni .In The White Sister," one whole season on i.ie road, is to appear in the role of FatherSaracinesea, the priest, the com ing week, and when it was given him he nearly shouted, far Joy, for he has always wanted to play It, and considers it one of the strongest roles ever writ ten." James Q'Neil co-starred In it with Viola Allen, and It admits of wonder- 4ut-epertiittte,' wh(oh"Miv-Ws jme-w pects to take enure advantege of, hav ing spent hours: With the local priests this week, closely marking their every act and gesture, end receiving, many kindly and valuable sugVcBttons from them relative to the proper rendition of tha superb role. - s 4 :-:"-;:w First Press Agent Was Adam 7. and He Workedifor Himself -.'.vrJ'r,.-.--..-'---,-. -', H "in li iiiimi. jiii ii ii ma. :jx:.-m ,.: Since Those Old Days There Have Been- Countless Ones;, , Nero-Had Press Agent; What fs Necessary to Make : r v " a Success in the , Publicity Business. " ' rl .-.77TT7TT I By Sam Raddon Jr. , ' 1 Adam' was the first press agent. . lie worked for himself. - Since the time of Adam, press agents have been lur tely responsible for the high lights, which 1 illumine - history's pages, Nero had a good one, and so did Caesar, i Joan of Are- and Cle opatra were much In the public prints . of their times. Queen Isa bella first made 'Use of the actress' favorite "story" when she "-pawned ) the crown . Jewels to raise money that Columbus might discover America. On our own aldtf of the ocean old Cap tain John Smith and the beautiful In dian maiden Pocahontas were among the first ta furnish good "copy" for the press. paul Revere did Well to ;have his midnight ride so thoroughly "cov ered," and ho was a cleVer chap who dug up the cherry tree story about George Washington, Coxey at the hend of his army had ' the right Idea and Colonel Roosevelt, like Adam; works for himself and makes a great success of it. In fact, the only, active men or woman of modern times who does not go in more o'r less for the press agent stuff seems to be the press 1 agent himself. Naturally, because their living depends to such a great extent upon their being prominently In the public eye, the peo ple of the stage are roost keen for pub licity. To accomplish an end which they themselves .have not the time and prob ably not the wits to accomplish, they engage the press agent. The' press agent may then make them or break them, but in either event his own lot is usually oblivion. Publicity, but for others, Is his chief concern. . The ways to theatrical publicity are many and devious. The. best of it is naturally the hardeat to get, and In the final analysis the struggle resolves It self into a personal matching of wits between the press agents and the edi tors, of newspapers and the managers of the great national and International news service associations, it is tne publicity that money : can't buy that counts. Advertising and even reading matter can be published for a price, if marked so that the public may knew that it Is paid for. But thus branded it loseg its potentcy. : It Is only when ac cepted and printed by the newspapers as news that the press agent "yarn" has accomplished the greatest results. With keen scented news editors al ways on the alert to prevent-JUst what the agent would aceompllsh. it must be admitted that when the agent V oes ;"put one over," ho 1 entitled to a good line of credit. M . It was a clever "plan t" that resulted In the yards and yards- of newspaper pubHdtv glveh Anna Held, because of. the "milk bath" episode. Miss .Held's enterprising press agent put the story throujh via the courts., miss neia was living in a well known hotel . In New York City, where she was playing. , -The newspaper reporters considered It a perr fectly legitimate piece! of news when they discovered on their dully run of the courts that a .milk man had filed suit against Miss Held to' recover money alleged to be due him for the delivery to Miss Held of some hundred er so gal lon of. milk. ..Said milk: had been de livered, plaintiff alleged, at the rate,of two gallons per day. " , . ; t Wasn't it a, perfectly; natural thing (that Ihe.newspaper ooys snoma wonder what Miss Held aid witn so mucn mim.r They did. wonder. To wonder with a newspaper reporter is to find out for sure, and Miss Held, when they asked her directly about it. replied In all ser iousness that she used the milk for her dally bath, end that dally milk baths were responsible for her beauty;. Whetn er Miss Held Is beautiful or not may be a Question but there was hO question ! about the way the newspapers "fell for the story. It was pumisneo irom Maine to Oregon together with the pic ture of Miss Held in her "tub of milk." Crocker, the coquettish widow, was se lected from 4 list of U prima donnas who desired to sing the tuneful role. Bernard Berguson has the part of the real prince, and Fred Lyon plays the part of the American " naval- 'officer. Mary C. Murray; a clever singer and actress, Is among the newcomers In the company, and: Edna Pendleton brings to it a voice of pleasing quality and a personality that fits admirably into the pictures. ' - - - ' - ' ' The advance seat sale opens Tuesday, Apru i. , j v The ! Baker Players will next week present Rex. Beach's thrilling play of Alaska, "The Barrier " The scenes are laid In a trading post called Flambeau on tha .Yikon, at thebeginning of the great gold excitement and the charac ters are wild and crude. -. w '" ' . "Little Miss Brown," which has been altogether well spoken of during a west coast engagement, is dated to show at the Hellig early in AprlL SURE!: WRITE A PLAY; .GOOD AS A GOLD MINE "If I had a son and be had the In stinct for. the work," said Wllliem A. Brady recently, "I would say to him: u knw i.irii In Ka m. nlnvwrirhL It ..A j k w j ,. - r . v Is the greatest profession there Is. "I paid George uroaonursi izuu.uuu in roy alties recently. , That is what 'Bought and Paid For" did for him. For 'Baby Mine' I gave Margaret Mayo a check for 90,000. I wonder If any novelist ever. made $200,000 out of a single novel that Is, f within the coufse of two -or three ycarst 'I doubt It. And there are a good many novelists and mighty few playwrights. Indeed, tne field of the former is crowded, and the field of the latter Is practically i vacant, So well, there's the opportunity, and there's the work, sand they are both worth while very much worth while." ;:.., PRESS AGENT CHICKEN : LAYS EGG DURING SHOW , i ... : .:;-, '. - ? -. -One of the ' members appearing with William T. Hodge In The Road to Hap piness" under the Shubert management, is a white hen. he appears, in the third' act, and her part of ' the stage "business" is to. help the ."atmosphere" of the production. On the opening night in Utlca, New York, she overplayed to fthe extent of laying an egg on .the stage Ms, Hodge took, this for a good. omen, and in a curtain speech he thanked the fates ."that the egg was on the -right side of the footlights." JULIAN ELTINGE'HAS 7 : --HISEETHrlNSURED V Julian Eltlnge believes that' his teeth are es valuable is his Impersonation of wtmen as are the fingers of Paderewski and ICu'oclik in their professions, and the voice of Cnrnfo, which was recently Insured for JtiO.OOO. Consequently, .El- Milk baths, moreover, became Quite the fad, among tho woula-be beauties, and tbe'r sensation lovers.- Anna.'.Hsld was ." the " topic,,, of conversation' for months, ' -The milk niim who, filed the "suit.", was given 10 or so and a ticket to the. Held show. lie jimt uaturally -dropped from sight' at the - Suggestion of ths pre-.a agent. - , ' . . -. Scarcely lois general' was the public ity i' given : Charmlonf . the ; "French" beauty, who was doing a poor' little tra peze bar stunt at Sutro'f baths In San Francisco, when $ "natural born - press i agent taw her; ooncelved- the idea of a , disrobing act, , and Created a mild sen sation with It. It is said that, the act cleared . 1 160,000 before tlie : publld - de mand for Charmion, which the newspap ers Created, had beep satlated;i ' t When an enterprising press agent had tan bark spread around Mrs. Pat Camp-' bell's apartment, - newspaper epOTters, , lnc6mmon With ether again wondered Why." They -were told thatthe'nolso ofv fbotlalu; on i the ' sidewalk rjarred -Mrs. Campbell's high strung, tempermontsl' sensibilities, - and that -tlie '' tan bark was used to deaden the sound. It was the same publicist who. wrote bf ,the wonders of Mrs. "Pat's" dog. "Pinky, PdnkyPoe,". n(J he PWt hie etuff up In. such good, newsy wajrv that the. papers t eagerlyaccepted lt- :-'j!' -V Hackneyed as It is, the "actress losea-.. jewelry" feature .Is still used occasion ally, and the other day. the press dis patches carried the "news" of a chorus gtrl who had been discharged because she wss "to pretty." Not long since in a western town in which a moral cru sade waa on, a prose agent stated the story that the girls of his show would ' parade down the main street of the city in bathing suits.' The "purity squad" Immediately - appealed to the public "sense of decency" through the news papers, to protest against the parade. The publlo took sides on the matter and as a result of the Interest taken In the question the show did the biggest busi ness In its history, In that town. There was no bathing suit parade, of course. When a busy press man ga,ve, U -out that Sarah Bernhardt would play In a tent In Texas rather than accede to the demands of the "theatrical trust." the newspapers published the story so gen erally that; the "divine one'" to "make good'" did play In the tent. Even tho little three or four line "story" that the press association sends over the wire may mean weeks, perhaps month) of work on the part of some good : presa agent. Such "stories' do come almost daily, too. Not longer ago than the day before yesterday Dustin Farnum "announced" down .In Rich-. mond, Va.. that ha will "permanently retire" from the stage after this week, -From the eouth at the same time comer the story that Dustin Farnm is going to play in Los Angeles Tn May In a new., play by Paul Armstrong. , There you are. Mr. Farnum must have to press agents, and they're both "on the . ' ...v....:,., V,.- Imagination, the "news Inetlnct." humor, .courage and personality are all necessary, qualifications of the success ful press agent : There are those pur veyors of publicity who. send out dally matter-of-fact bromidic "stuf V- poorly written and not Interesting, which, fills tha bill all right for the country weekly, but which seldom gets beyond the waste basket where news is news the day .it happens. . They are in a class by them selves, however, ana ao not rsnK wun the real live wires In, the publicity line. Good press agents often develop Into play writers, managers or producers, but -because they are usually- Br tnodet lot on their own account, the transition is orteri' unrecorded. - " '.' "The Friars," New York 'city, is a large organisation the membership of which is mAde up of press agents and theatrical press representatives. ,v tinge opened negotiations with -the Lloyds, of London, and has JUst been In formed by his New York attorneys that the 3360,000 policy for his molars has been received end ' the first ' payment made. - This is at the rate of $8000 per tooth. . ,- --' ' " .'. , '! '' J.j. J - . ; Since When, ri, Vivian Marshall, who appears at Tan tagea In a diving act with many sen sational features, is a Los Angeles girl, and the daughter of a well-known news paper woman of this city. Los An- ' geles Times. - : -;,..- ;- !:;, ',- - - -i - r' ' '' ' ' NOVEL-MUSICAL ACT r WILL BE FEATURE ; -MlStf Edith BSwaC : - t Pe w-.feature of .'aspeofat .Interest in lim iviuhicmi iviria rt of the t Vmhanra next week Is offered by Miss Edith B. Swan. In addition to her work on the -trombone she will .give a solo on the eu- pnonium, one or the most difficult brass ' instrument for m. vrmn s ..... ..v...m. .v iiinni,i, Her tons nrk la d).i t, i i:.J.:V- J ;vrV',v:- ' f4 ; 7 r , , - , fKC' ry ' jV..w., JJJ allr beautiful. . ".