THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, I SUNDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 15, 1914.
Bj A. h.
WWSS9 such an actor as IS. H.
Sotbern, when such an reper
; tolra aa he offered made aucb
ter of dramatld lntarcat last
week, and when such a combination
played many of Its performances not
tonly to llcht bouses bat even to a
mere handful of people, may on not
be tempted to ask. where were those
who bare been lifting- their voices in
- protest at the lack of food things
which are sent to the coast?
Theatre manager cannot support
themselves nor their houses on "empty
eats, any more than actors and ao
tresses who are doing- big things can b
tempted across the continent by a
vision of empty teats.
Is It, then, so very remarkable that
there is frequently the condition of
cheap attractions in- the first class
bouses? If people want them and will
go to them, can a manager be blamed
so much for booking them? He must
maintain his house. When people of:
means and culture, the ones most to
be expected, are conspicuous by their
absence at such an offering as EL H.
Sotnern, can they expect much future
consideration In the filling of Portland
theatre dates?
Beginning tonight, a New Tork suo
cess. "The Quaker Girl," featuring
Victor Morley Of "Three Twins" fame,
will be the Heillg attraction for three
nights. On Wednesday one perform
ance will be given, a bargain matinee.
Muslo of another sort will round out
th week when Besale Abott comes
In "Robin Hood," with a very superior
. company. The engagement Is for
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, with
special matinee on Saturday.
"The Thief." should prove a splendid
play to. exploit the talents of the
Baker players for the week.
The Lyrlo will offer "The Matinee
Girls." with John Spain and company,
broncho riders from the Pendleton
Bound-Up, aa a special feature.
MJas Rhoda Royal and her three
high school horses, formerly with
Bells-Floto circus, are featured at Pan
tages. The second of the series of Jack
London's stories, made by the Hobart
Boswortb company, la "John Barley
corn," that will be ahown at the Peo
ples for the week. It la a six part
production. "The Sea Wolf," was the
first of the series.
"A New England Idyl," with Mlas
Rhea Mitchell, the Portland girl, la
the big feature at the Columbia the
first half of the week. "Mable'a Bear
Escape," and the Mutual Weekly, com.
plete the program, with the usual
Bduslc.
At the Globe for the first half
two reel Snakeville comedy, "Sophie
Picks a Dead One." heada the program,
completed with "Aa It Might Have
Been," a stage story, and the Paths
Weekly. Three especially interesting
features of the Paths Weekly are the
automobile and aeroplane race in
southern California between Lincoln
Beacbey and Barney Oldfield, the
. - V ... 1 A. Wl m -k
after their collision, and the obsequies
.of the Dowager Queen Sophie of
Sweden.
"Rork'i Drift,' a South African tale
of adventure, la the Star feature.
At the Circle today and tomorrow
the big first run feature - will be
Reliance heart interest drama, "Pat
Flannagan's Family." On Tuesday the
big picture will be a three part War
. ner feature, "Thorns of the Gay White
Way," a political drama.
"Am I in the market? Do I want
to sell what I write? Certainly. Why
not?" was the very positive reply of
Mrs. Albert 8. Burleson, wife of the
postmaster general, to an eastern inter
" viewer on the subject pf her short
stories, aketchea and playa.
"Recently," she continued, "I had
short story accepted, and received for
It $75. . This Is no great sum, to be
sure, but there is a certain gratlflca
tlon In the reward of honest toll, how
ever modest that reward may be.
"I cannot aay that I have a favorite
among modern dramatists," says Mrs.
Burleson. T read them all Shaw,
Galsworthy. Wild", Sudermann and
. the others. I cannot say that the prob
lem-play tendency of the modem
drama. Interanta m nartlpnlarl-r That
phase of the drama aeema to me over
emphasised theae days. I believe the
best play Is. that which holds the mir
ror up to life and human nature, not
that which exaggerates them. My own
ambition is to keep my pan perfectly
true to life.
vy nan oo i writs, ana wnat is my
literary method? Ton will be amused
. to know that almost the only time I
rive to writing of any sort is when
- 1 11 down to rest for a half hour or
mora each day. During this rest time,
. and often interrupted by telephone
, y,. .v.'M-.t. '.. ' :iy v. V '. .
V ; v d ' t J ' y,
Mrs
Albert S. Burleson, wife of the postmaster general, who la
coming known as a short story author and playwright.
be-
MAJESTIC
THEATRE
Program Today, Monday
and Tuesday
CHILDREN OF THE
FEUD
An exceptional story of
Kentucky hatred and love
A two part Vitagraph.
FITZHUGH'S RIDE
A great war story in two
parts, by Lubin
THE GUN BEHIND
THE MAN
calls, I manage to cover a few sheets
of my writing pad.
Since I was 19 years old, I nave
been snatching a few momenta when
I could for this work. Writing la to
me the most dearly desired and most
satisfactory form of self expression.
But when It comes to being written of
aa a literary woman, the mere thought
of that is embarrassing to me.
Mrs. Burleson is more Interested in
play making than any other form of
literary work. Her play, "The Deluge,"
has been produced by a Massachusetts;
stock company and the last week In
December Preston Gibson, Washington
society man and writer of plays, put
Mrs. Burleson's sketch, "His Secretary,"
on at Keith's theatre. The whole of
ficial and resident society attended to
see the first play from the pen of a
cabinet member's wife that had ever
appeared on a vaudeville stage.
!
The Liebler company has succeeded
in extending its contract with Cyril
Maude, the celebrated English com
edian, whose work In the successful
detective comedy-drama, "Grumpy,"
has made him the rage of New Tork.
ibis means that he will be seen on
tour In this country next season. Mr.
Maude came to America this fall with
a contract calling for a 15 week tour.
with the option of a renewal for five
additional weeks. He spent four weeks
In Canada, and then opened an en
gagement at Wallack's theatre. New
Tork. So great was his success there,
particularly when the popular "Grum
py" was put on, that all subsequent
dates were cancelled. Mr. Maude has
now agreed to remain rn this country
until April, and to return next season.
This month will witness the termin
ation of Mrs. Flske's tour In "The High
Road." For an eastern spring tour.
playing Boston. Philadelphia and other
large cities, she win revive "Mrs.
Bumpstead-Iielgh." Next season Mrs.
Flske's vehicle wlU be an eighteenth
century comedy by John Luther Long
and Frank Btayton, i
Rumor has it that stars of the Or-
pheum circuit and United Booking of
fice have been subject to a 60 per cent
cut In salaries due to three-a-day
CHAUNCEY OLCOTT IS
MAKING REAL HIT; IN
. AN AMERICAN PLAY
Booster for AuId Sod In New
Role; New York Dramatic
Notes, i !
middle, with the trusting publlo aa the
goat, is becoming a fine art In the
Nsw Tork theatre business. Men con
nected with the Shnbert organisation
recently bought a controlling interest
in a ticket speculating company. Im
mediately a blood-curdling squawk
went up from the Klaw A Krlanger
offices. Mr. L Bystander surmised
that maybe the syndicate was yelping
more In chagrin than in righteous in
dignation. The syndicate possibly was
put; out because the Schuberts beat
By Bean Rial to.
New York, Feb. 14. In this wreck-
strewn season of dramatic paradoxes.
when good shows have failed and
medlcore productions have scored hits,
one should be surprised at nothing.
But It does give one a start to see
Chauncey Olcott, that staunch booster
for the Anld Sod. uran American play,
His latest production at the ! Grand
Opera house Is about the American
revolution. But its name la "Shaxneen
Dhu." Rlda Johnson Toung wrote It,
and Its scenes are laid in Ireland, so
Oloott's departure is not radical after
alL The play Is about a represent
tive of the continental congress who
goes to Ireland to solicit help for the
42olonials and all the action deals with
George Washington's struggle against
the British. The piece is filled with
genuine humor and a lot of pretty
songs. Also there is a regulation love
story that ends as all love : stories
should. Olcott aa Dare 0DonneU Is
the hero, . and the heroine Is Peggy
0Dea, played by Miss Constance Mol
ineanx, a brand new leading woman
who is having her first Broadway
chance. And she gets away with it.
Olcott found her down soutn some
where last summer.
American plays and players In
London are scoring marked success
this season. Miss Marie Doro, playing
in "Diplomacy" was commanded to
give a performance before King
George, Queen Mary and the royal
family at Windsor Castle. The young
American star was cordially received
by their 'majesties and warmly com
plimented on her work. It amused the
little leading woman not a little that
she was requested to remodel all of
her ultra-Broadway costumes used in
"Diplomacy" to conform to the rather
rigid fashion Ideas of the queen. Slit
skirts were sewed up. petticoats lm
provlsed and low corsages fitted with
"Dickies."
About the same time of Mlaa Core's
marked triumph, George M. Cohan's
"Broadway Jones" had its London
debut and made an Instant hit. .
Playing both ends against the
vaudeville and motion pictures. Nora
Bayes, a $2500 a week attraction la
said to have been cut to $1000. Ethel
Barrymore from $8000 to $1600 and
Sam Bernard from $2750 to $1760.
i
B. A. Bothern, father of IB. H. Soth
ern, chartered the first hansom that
was brought to America where It was
considered a great freak,
I
A long play ils to be developed from
Frank O'Brien's short story, "The
First Woman on the Index," which
appeared in the December Munsey.
OUT
And
IN THE RAIN
Two Subiect Reel
Subject
Comedy
of
REMEMBER
Any seat; including entire
lower floor and balcony.
10c ADMISSION 10c
CALENDAR OF THIS
WEEK'S ATTRACTIONS
Globe Theatre
11TH AND WASHINGTON
Today Monday and Tuesday
A PROGRAM OP GREAT
I MERIT
Biograph Drama
As It Alight Have Been
The Story of a Stage-Struck
, -j Girl
TWO REELS OP SCREAM
Sophie Picks a Dead One
One of Those Awful Funny
bnakeviiie farces
Pathe's Weekly
"Replete with newsy pictures.
including! Aero-Auto race be
tween Lincoln Beachey and
Barney Oldfield. War news.
Obsequies of Queen Sophie of
Sweden, i Kansas City Cats.
Great German Landslide.
Vitagraph Drama
TheRetnrnofJackBellew
A Tale of the Sea
10c? ALL SEATS lO
b HBILIG Eleventh and Mor-
b rison. "The Quaker! Girl" to-
S night. Monday and Tuesday
p nlg-hts, and Wednesday matinee
only. Bessie Abotti In "Robin
b Hood Thursday, Friday, Sat- .
b urday and Saturday! matinee,
ft. BAKER Broadway, MorrU
son and Sixth. Baker Players
In "The Thief j
p LYRIC Fourth and Stark.
t "The Matinee Girls."
PANTAQES Broadway and
Alder. Vaudeville Feature
w Miss Rhoda Royal and her
w high school horses.
fj PEOPUES West ! Park and
Alder, Motion Pictures, Jack
London's "John Barleyoorn."
COLUMBIA Sixth. , between
Washington and Stark, Motion
Pictures.
GLOBE Bnerenth and Wash-
lngton. Motion pictures.
" STAR Washington and
4 Park. Motion -Pictures.
ARCADE Washing-ton. fce-
tween Broadway and Sixth,
Motion Pictures.
Attractions of ttte Vast Week.
HjEILIG E. H. Bothern in
"If I Were Bang." I "Hamlet,"
. "The Merchant of Venice" and
"Taming of the Shrew."i
BAKER "The Country Boy."
LYRIC! "Setting the Pace."
... PANT AGES Vaudeville.
PEOPLES, MAJESTIC, CO-
LUMBIA, GLOBE. STAB, AR-
CADE Motion Pictures.
: j
THIRD SEASON
1913-14
PORTLAND
SYMPHONY.
ORCHESTRA
FOURTH CONCERT
Mose Christensen,
Conductor.
Heilig Theatre
This Afternoon
At 3 o'Clock j
, Dvorak's Symphony
"From the New World"
PRICES
50c, 75c and $1.00
'am to It. At any rate the uproar
worked to the advantage of the public
to a certain extent. The best seats In
the theatres were on sale at the box
offioes at the regulation price, $1 the
night of performance. That in itself
was an innovation. Heretofore the
speculators bought up all tbe choice
seats for days, even weeks tn advance
for the popular shows and sold them
for 1 more, sometimes IS and $S In
advance of the list price at the " box
offices. Klaw & Erlanger announced
Portland's Model Photo-Play
Hnn
. Perfect Ventilation Fireproof
Always
the Best Attractions
Shown
"The New England Idyl
Broncho Two-Part Drama, Fea
turing Rhea Mitcnell, a Port-r
land girl j and formerly of the,
Bakej- Stock Company
"Mabel's Bear Escape"
Keystone Comedy with Mabel
- Normand and Ford Stirling
in the Cast
Mutual Weekly
Showing Animated Pictures of
World-Wide Happenings
Richard DeRievere
jLyrlo Tenor.
KARP'S ORCHESTRA
Open 11 A. M. to 11 P. M.
10 ADMISSION 10
T O D AY
5 Wonderful New Reels
fork's Drift
2-Reel Tale of South Af
rican Adventure
A Nest Unfeathered
Biograph Drama j
Bunny's Birthday
The Fat Comedian
His Royal Pants
Filled with Rapid-Fire
-i ""Wit -:
4th at
Wash.
HEILIG
THEATRE
Eleventh and Morrlsom Vts.
Fhones, Mala 1 and A-1182
NIGHTS
BEGINNING
TOXOKBOW OCOarSAT) HIOKT ZB
John T, Blocum
TONIGHT 8:15
oaxbt vmxox
.T.WXSXXSDAX
ana
THE CHARMING MUSICAL COMEDY
Uit
ill
that, because of the action of the
Shuberts in soins into ticket specula
tion, in syndicate houses no loncar
would sell tickets to speculators. This
was the explanation of the rood seats
to b had from the box office. Theatre-goers
took the announcement with
a grain of salt but were content to
take the seats without betas; held up
for a SO per cent bono a The ooarses
of the syndicate and the counter
charges of the Shuberts made such a
racket in the theatre 'world that Dis
trict Attorney Charles 8. Whitman
heard of it, and made a personal in
vestigation of ' the . ticket-speculating
business on Broadway. The result
was an announcement by him that
there might be an official Investiga
tion, -j
WXTK
VICTOR MORLEY
OmOXZSTBJL
Lower Floor, 10 rows, 11.00; IS at $1.60, Balcony, t rows,
$1.00; 4 at 7 5c; 10 at 50c
BlMaOr PKXOB KA TOTES Coaly) WSSHXSSAT Zntlre Iowsr noor,
9ijoa. XMueoay, s rows, 70c; xv rvwa, eve
KEATS VOW BXX&rsTO TOB, HVOXOTXEWT
3 g2Sg? NEXT THURSDAY, FEB. 19
Tpecial Fries Mettaee Batarday
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BESSIE ABOTT
THE AT R E
i Main a. A-83M
Oee. X Baker, laaaager.
BAKER
ENTRANCES, Broadway and Sixth Screeft.
Home of the Famous JBaker Players . (j
Portland's High-Class Stock Organization ' .
Week Beginning Matinee Sunday, Feb. 1 5, 1 9 1 4tToday
Margaret Illington's Greatest Success,
'in 2e Xoven's Oxeatest AJertoaa OonUo Opera
"ROBIN HOOD
Henriette Wakefield
CJCetropoUtaa Opera Co.)
Ralph Brainard
(La Boala, M an)
James Steven
rOhloaao Orsd Opera OeO
Helena Morrill
(Boston Oxand Opera)
Jerome Daley, George rrotMngham, x Bronson, TUlie Ballln, ger, orena
sxoxEjrr osoBxra bttfk a pbodt cnoar la nr obxtjcbstba,
CITY MAIL ORDERS RECEIVED NOW
Kegul ax Box Office Bal Opena XTezt Tuesday
Bvenlngs Lower Floor, 18 rows, $J.0o: 4 rows, $1.80. Balcony, 8 rows at
$1.50; 4 at $1.00; 6 at 75c; 4 at 60a Special Price Saturday Matinee Lower
Floor, 18 rows, $1.50; last 4 at $L Balcony, 6 rows at $1; 4 at 76c; 10 at 50c
4 ESS NEXT SUN. FEB. 22
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THE
THIEF
DOSOTT ISO
Dramatized from the French of Henri
Bernstein, Author of "The Whirlwind."
"The Secret," Etc.
One of the Most Powerful Emotional Dramas of the Age.'
Intense scenes. Gripping- situations. Thrilling Plot. Superb Stage
Settings. ,b'.
Direction of James A. Bliss. ?'' -Evenings
2Sc, 35c, SCta, 7&c Box seats, $1.00. Sun. and Sat Mat
inees 25c, 50c Box 75c
Two Special Bargain Perfonaances .M AD Scats 25c
NEXT WEEK : OUR WIVES 99
COMING 'THE LJTTLEST REBEL"
greatest Stock BxhiMUon Zver Been Vers
Unequaled Vaudeville,
i Droadway and Alder Street-
Week Commencing Monday Matinee, February 16th
MISS RHODA ROYAL
AND
Her High-School Horses
In Routine of , Marvelous
Equine Accomplishments .
"Stockton's Busy Day
With HalDavU & Co.
Murray:; K. Hall
rantagescope
Brighton Quartette
Melnotte-La Nolo
Troupe
Pantaget Orchestra'
WHO AREi THEY?
Four Portland Society Girls
tn
THE TANGO
Can You Penetrate the Mssk?
DAXXT 3:30
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SAX T aao
Popular Prices. Boxes ana First Row Balcony ReservedJ jpox Office open
from 10 A. M. to 10 P. M. Phones, A-223S, Main 4636. Curt In 2.70, 7:15. 9:10.
CITY MAIL ORDERS RECEIVED NOW
Segalas Box OfTlce Sale Opens Pilday, Tebmarj 80
Evenings ower Floor, 10 rows, 12.00: Is rows, $1.B0. Balcony, t rows.
$1.00: C rows. 75o; 4 rows, BOo. Special Price WW. Matinee Feb. 26 Low
er Floor. 10 rows, $1.60; 12 at $1. Balcony, 5 at $1; 4 at 75c; 10 at SOc.
?.i - 1
Coming Feb. 26, 27, 28 and March 1
Mutt and Jeff in Panama
Now
TKB BEST MOTXJTO glCTUBS
with the best Musical Talent. Free box
seats foe ladles only. Forced air ven
tilation. Open :S0 a, m. to 11:8 p. m.
TT ,Y R. I C
J i m ssl roxurtn and Stack Streets
Toattng1 si flood, rroprletora
--.2-""-.'",i!!';: -
Keating &
Flood
Company
"THE
MATINEE
GIRL"
One
Week,
Beginning
Monday
Matinee,
February
16th
RICHARD
BURKE
Rope Expert
Great Added Attractlos
IHUM CD AIM The 1911 Pendleton
JVillY O JT-1 IN Roundup Champion"
And his company, in a wonderful exhibition of Riding, Rope Throw
ing snd Steer BuUdogging.
No Advance in Prices.
Night, 15c, 25c; Matinee, any seat, 15c
LOOK FOR THE BEAR
Today and All This Week
Jack London's
; i
him hsskm
IN SIX PARTS -
Made in the Splendid Sea Wolf Series
In This Great Work JACK LONDON
Lays Bare to the World a Desperate
Struggle Against the Excessive Use
. of Alcohol
Though Secured at an Enormous Extra Cost,
There Will Be Absolutely No Raise 1m Price
Balcony 10c Lower Floor 20c "
Box Seats 30c
Reserved in Advance by Phones Mar. 80, A-2087
SCHEDULE OF SHOWS
11 '30 a. n, 1 p. trut 2:30 p. m., 4 p m.,.50
p. nu, 7 p. 8:30 p. m.v 10 pi m. .
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NEXT WEEK MARY PICKFO) IN
HEARTS ADRIFT?'
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