ArjARK house, technically knfewn as "janitor s delight" will prevail " at the Helllg today. Dramatically, the tig attraction of the week does not come until Wednesday when delightful Rose Stah 1 will 1 present her newest comedy, '1A Perfect Lady," by Chan ning POIlock. The play is In four cts and has for its main theme the lntro- .1. ..... won intn a. small town, where the Inhabitants had never heard of the tango untn tne arrival thrj members or a traveling uumcm5 company. Miss Statu appears as oiiia i Tomhnn whose real nam Lu is . . t .nr4iiA TTfo-rn Th nlav abound , In I a wealth of unique cHaracters. The, en gagement continues through the feek with a special priced matinee on Sat urday. I -MnnAav nleht Mrs. Rose Cour sen- Reed will give her annual pupuo at th Mpilier and Tuesday re- eve- nlng the Teyte concert will take pi Af the Baker Jthose . who have inH Marah Ellis Ryan's deligh jace. en- tful story, "Told in the Hills" will bavj- an opportunity to see it in dramatic fprm tinder the title of "Genessee cf I the Hills." It is a romance of the Mon tana hills with abundant opportunity for the picturesque. This enga&enjient of the play will be its firbt in Portland. ALTHOUGH ticket scalpers of the street were made way with In jjew Tork some time ago, three billa lave teen Introduced into the legislature with the object of remedying thej re maining objectionable features. !The substance of the senate bill It. pat anybody who sells theatre ticket. or tickets to any place of amusement hall pay a license fee of $250 tor iach theatre or place of amusement to which ka tl.1jA4a a H ml t . Thin H . I 0 Tlllt flInV to theatre box offices. One of the bills Introduced into the assembly provides that a schedule of ; prices shallj be posted conspicuously ; In the lobbied of - theatres and prohibits increase in rates until 30 days' notice of It has been sim ilarly posted. The other assembly bill ' forbids the .sale of tickets to tneatres. unless the price, is printed on the ticket n that tin addition to the nrice it (shall appear on the ticket that i the ticket cannot be resold for more pan the price- printed on it: neither jean ' there be a demand nor receipt in ex cess of the printed price by the nian ager, agent, employe upon any pujblic . street or place, or by any sub-agency at an excess price. The west has little cause for complaint along such 1 tyet much of the ticket speculation fon- i dltion In New York is said to have i leen brought about by out of t6wn theatre patrons who do not "know the game" In Gotham. T1E RIB OF MAN" is the latest JL piece by- Charles Rann Kenn dy. author of "The Servant in the ilou ise." It combines" the novelty cf a mill tiary aviator hero with another discuseioik of modern man and woman. Mr. Ken nje'dy Is expecting to produce It in the spr: ing. mPOMMON CLAY," the prize play at larvard this year, which has already reached its one "hundredth per formance at a stock company In Bos toni has been secured by A. Woods i promises an elaborate production with an unusual cast next season. Se and property are the problems treated toy the author, Cleves Klnkead, a young Virginian who has written his drama Jn a prologue and three acts. From Aft ATtA 0 V1otn dKml rfavf Km nnina from Harvard and Radcliffe the Har vard Dramatic flub has chosen three for its spring production. It is notdble that all of them were by girls "fhe titles are "The Florist Shop." "Toy SjSol diers," and "Garafelia's Husband." Two f them are war sketches. Dr. Ordya- akl. Max Reinhard't chief aid In stag ing plays in Europe, has recently been engaged by the club as' its coach nd general director. , His most notaible woBk Jn this country has been the pVo- : rlurtion rtt 'Snmnmin i a I TJOOR "Lady Macbeth! Now Valetka a Suratt has designs on her and tihis Js her bolt from the blue: "Don't you dara laugh when 1 tell you that I wiill lo Lady MacbethJ I will put so mwch ?ep-lnto that dame that she will bp a , Broadway sensation. Shakespeare knew how to create a regular woman. To my mind. Lady Macbeth is a tem per" woman. I .understand her $.nd I can creep under her skin and give a performance" that will make profles tdonal tragediennes bite their nakls. there's a ig knocking- at the dbor scene in 'Macbeth.' Believe me, there will be "no knocking by the critics the day after my debut, excepting knock ing, at my door for Interviews as to Jiow, 1 made Shafrespear's mighty suf fragette or the'-dark ages live agaib." MADGE LESSING has returned to this country after rsi absence it mora, than 12 years and it Is reported that she will make her New York jre wppearance as the star in a forthcojm Sng musical production. Fifteen or fto years ago she was a reigning favorflt9 In New York and all over the country in such pieces as "In Gay New York," -Jack and the Beanstalk," and "The Whirl of the Town." After winning - Kw York, she went to London and was j equally successful In such productions ad "The Sleeping Beauty and Beat." and "Mother Goose." She th!en ;lreturned to New York and appeailed .with De Wolf Hopper and Franks wuson out since i04 she has divided lier time between London, Paris alnd Berlin. . j THE first revue ever written by J. Barrte has been presented by Charles Frohraan afthe Duke of York's theatre In London with Gaby DeBlysitn . the chief role. The production wias delayed because Mile. Deslys waa 4e m ftalned in Paris owln to interruption of channel traffic. Mr. Barrle's latest work consists of two plays, 'Roiy Rapture. "The Pride of the Beauty Chorus," and "The New Word." j CYRIL HARCOURT. author of 'A Pair of Silk Stockings," one of tie successes of this season,, has heeded th many requests that have readied iini and has begun the novellzatlon of his play to be ready for autumn publi cation. Mr. Harcourt, who is 'an au thority on British slang, has announced another Intention, that of writing a play on American slang. . . ON March 1 In Winnipeg, Sir John ston Forbes-Robertson unveiled' a .tablet to the memory of the late Law rence Irving and his wife, Mabel Hadk rtey. The ceremony took place in the , Walker theatre which waa crowded with a representative audience. 1 The boxes were reserved for city officials nd specially invited guests, sir John ston made an appropriate address, j v THELEOTA DRAMATIC SCHOOL ; tTnder Personal Direction , MISS XiEOTA. Twelve years' actual - staff xDri rice. sketches written and coached. 609 Eilers Bldg., Broadway and Alder. Stage director Outlook Dramatic club. BlLUE BURKE'S PROTEGE . -- f I nnii " '-i ' " r' J He lit fT " ? l " Jl s Rose Stahl, who opens at the Het Although Billie Burke has been much In the public eye, there jis one chapter of her life which has not been general ly written of. The fact that it was not written about was due rather to the modesty of Miss Burke than any- ( thing else and her reticence has kept the many admirers she has from know-i lng that she had practically adopted a ' daughter some six years ago. In a recent issue of "The Green Book," writing of Miss Burke and her home life, Rennold Wolf says: "Resid ing with Miss Burke, besides her moth er, is Miss Cherldah Watson, a protege, who seems to have absorbed much of Miss Burke's charm. Miss Watson, familiarly called "Cherry," is a most engaging young woman of 19, de- liciously ingenious and completely In harmony with the Burke menage. Miss Burke took her in charge at the death Plays Nowadays Have Become So Poor . Intelligent People' Have Lost Interest Barry Says If Theatre Is to Be Saved It Will Be by Such Writers as Galesworthy Therei is so much fine workmanship all about us, both practical and artis tic, that it is1 strange there should be so little fine workmanship In the mak ing of plays for the amusement and edification of the public," contends John D. iBarry, well known writer on things theatrical. "Indeed It is so un common !to find a really good play," continues Mr. Barry in his article on "Workmanship in Drama," "that large numbers of intelligent people-have lost interest ! In the theatre altogether. When they hear a play commended, they pay no attention. They know that many plays, with scarcely a merit are among the most successful and highly praised. "in no department of writing Is there so great a rewird for the writer as In the drama. For this reason it would seem as If, inevitably, during the next ! few years, we must produce a higher quality of drama. Tha ablest minds engaged In literature are stead ily drawn tq" the theatre. Twenty years ago it was unusual for a writer of distinction to attempt' the dramatic form. He was likely to be disheart ened by the conditions. James Was Exception. "Henry James, '-.curiously . enough, stood out as an exception. At a time when the theatre was in- an even more degraded : state than it is now he had several plays produced. Once, in Lon don, he experienced the indignity of being called out and "booed. No won- E W iw I - 4TH AJTD STABZ STS. Playing Only High Class Vaude-. viue and Photo Plays ; rnree i Says, Commencing This Azternoom THE NYMPHS: ' 'I!.'-' . . 'A Classy, Artistic. Aquatic Per- juum.ikc Uy oix eautlfuL Shapely Maidens ; and q Other Vaudeville and Photo-1 Play Acts. 5 i-ajrn -aro Houi Continuous Performance Prom j. a. a. o ii tr, m. Amateurs Every Tuesday and IS WITH ROSE STAHL lid Wednesday in "A Perfect Lady." of the young woman's mother six yfars ago. She is giving her a com prehensive education iwith the ultimate plan of training her or the stage." The protegehas how completed her education under the motherlncr care of MiS3 Burke and is ! undertaking her fi-st real part on " the stage. Under the name of "Cherrie Carlisle,"1 this' daughter of Miss Biirke by adoption. h4s her first important part with Rose Stahl in ' "A Perfect Lady," the new cqmedy which will be seen here the lafet of the week. Hating been adopted and brought up by Miss Burke, Miss Carlisle is now under the watchful care of Miss Stahl, who personally di rected the young woman through re hearsals and is keepijng her work un der constant observation. Miss Car lisle gives promise that her foster miother will have evry reason to be proud of her as an actress. . and Shaw. der he declared -that 'a! pit of vulgarity.' nlnvs fallprl ha saw the theatre was While his own other plays, of no artistic worth, drawing large audi ences'. - 'But he. with his peculiar point of view, could reach only the small mi nority. There were ijnany other men, off wider and more sympathetic out look on life who, with equal art or with even greater art, might have been drawn from the field of fiction to the drama, essentially democratic and di rect in its appeal. ''The writers of distinction who have lately been successful in the theatre are breaking down conventions. Here, perhaps, is their greatest service. Hoi Come of the Famous: Told in the Hills Week Opening Sunday Matinee March 21, 1915 TODAY! First and only dramatization of Marah Ellis Ryan's famous and and widely read romantic novel ever seen in this citjr. iemessee aIIIIIs The true American 4 western play that is different. A wild country. As played in Stage Under Direction Evening Prices ....25c, 50c, 75c i Box Seats ...,.$1.00 Sat and Sun. Mats...;.. 25c, 50c Told in the Hills Box seats . aus tia two siteoxaxi KOHDAT A I I SIGHT SEATS Next Week, Starting . Most Startling Dramatic DAMAGED GOODS ' I ' ' '-. I 1 "" - - ' ' - - ' ' ,''.' I By Eugene Brieux of the French Academy " t sociological Medical thesis delivering a terrible warning against the ! most jdreadful scourge of the human race. Special Matinees for women " only. No children under 16 admitted -! ; unless! accompanied by parent or guardian. No advance in prices. .Mail and H SEATS NOW CALENDAR OF THLS J WEEK'S ATTRACTIONS HEILIG Broadway at Tay lor Rose Coursen-Reed's pu pils recital, Monday night. Tuesday, concert. Beginning Wednesday for the remainder of the week with Saturday matinee, Rose.Stahl in "A Per- feet Lady." BAKER Broadway and Sixth. Sunday, Wednesday and Saturday matinees, j Baker players In "Genessee of the 3fc Hills." . tDRPHEUM "Broaidway at Hfe Stark. Vaudeville. Feature," Madame Llna Abarbanell. PAN TAG ES Broad way a t Alder. Vaudeville. Feature, Tas manian Van Diemans. LOEW'S EMPRESS Broad way at YamhHl. Vaudeville. Feature, Qscar Lorraine. LYRIC Fourth ;at Stark. Vaudeville and motion pictures. PEOPLES ' West Park at Alder. Motion pictures. COLUMBIA Sixth between Washington and Stark. Motion pictures. NATIONAL Park and Stark. Motion pictures. STAR Washington at Park. ; Motion pictures. SUNSET Washington at Broadway. Motion pictures. MAJESTIC Washington and Park. Motion pictures. CIRCLE Fourth at Wash ington. Motion pictures. Attractions of the past week: HEILIG "Today." i BAKER "Tess of the Storm Country." ORPHEUM Vaudeville. LOEW'S EMPRESS Vaude ville. PANTAGES Vaudeville. LYRIC Vaudeville and mo- tlon pictures. I PEOPLES, MAJESTIC. CO LUMBIA. STAR, C I R C L E, SUNSET, NATIONA1 pictures. Motion American Authors on Same Footing England Gtres Equal Bights With British Writers In right Protection. Throusrh an order Matter of Copy- promulgated by the British government it has placed American authors on same footing as its own exactly the pubjects with regard to copyrignt pi will save American . -hi a anil punense In protjee tion. This thors much protecting their British rights, although the order does not extend to uanaaa ish possessions. and other Brit- They have already shown that plays, artificial and feeble in idea and me chanical in execution, were Accepted largely because the public was used to this kind of work, j By offering better work, they succeeded in making what had gone before somewhat ridje ulous. The taste that they developed grew by what it fed or. "If the theatre is to be saved at all, it will be by the work bf such men as Galesworthy, Barrie, Shaw, Stan ley Houghton, and the others now following In their footsteps and daring to tell, not the old-fashioned fictions about life, but the truth American Writer Par Behind. "So far as plays are concerned, the writers of this country, jas compared with those 6f England, are far behind. But they are trying to catch up. Even in some of the poorer wbrk they are rtnlnJ nnn can see effort I in the risrht direction. It is regard for character T tween the old-fashioned dramatists ! and the new. In the best drama of today the human interest is always expressing itself. I "Even where the incidents are slight the characterization may keep the work absorbing, in its appeal, and where they are complicated and excit ing, they serve as the cjieans of re vealing character under intense stimu lus. ' ' ' "The Greeks, In the drama that they left to ' posterity, sent through the world a great Idea, onljj- partly ob scured by their mythology and now everywhere accepted and! continually preached, the idea that character is fate." j William Wlnbiddle, Mexican war veteran, is dead at 94 in Pittsburg. THEATRE Main a. A-53SO Geo. Xi. Baker, Maaager BROADWAY AND MORRISON STS Tpld in the HiUs romance. .Scenes laid in Northwestern Montana story that appeals to lovers of the New York by Edwin Arden of Walter B. Gilbert Told in the Hills ...75c baboact pskpokkajtcss (Except Boxes) 25c WEDHESBAT MATIBTEE Sun. Matinee, Mar. 28 Sensation . Ever Staged phone orders promptly attended to. SELLING I ACTRESSES ARE HOSTESSES AT ORPHEUM TEA ... ; ! " ' . - ; - . - i -. . 11 ' .viiiS&l,' w I AST , . . S; m. t '.VST ') 'V'l N -jer r v - i s ' Tt " ' " ' Miss Leila Mclntyre, who spoke at the Orpheum tea By Vella Winner. "Who was it said wholesale domes ticity and ar 3 not mix,: that hus bands and Children are a drawback in stead of ah inspiration? j Well, she didn't know, anyway," declared Miss Leila Mclnjtyre, known in private life as Mrs. Gebrge Hyraes, the isoft voiced little actress, who captured Everybody's heart at the Orpheum last week. - According to the Orpheumfs new cus tom of serving tea on thej mezzanine floor Wednesday afternoons jat the con clusion of the performance,! giving the women of the audience an Opportunity to meet personally the women of the stage, Miss Mclntyre'and Miss Bonita shared honors Wednesday of last. week. Long before the curtain! was rung down on the last number the' mezzanine floor was thronged wih the smartly gowned women of the matinee audi ence. Then came the serving of tea and cakes and candies and then ' Misa Mclntyre was introduced 4ni In her most winsome way she told bf her own happy home life as compared with the wild life which many people think act ors and actifesses live. "We are Just plain folks with a llt- Broadway at Stark 1 1(1 Week! Beginning Sunday Matinee, March 21 I ZHZTXAii j VATJBiiviijLE apphabahcz: LIMA ABARBANE Misloal Comedy's Pavorlte Prim Doana. JS GREEN BEETLE Most Important, and Legitimate Dramatic OfferibR of Season The SEVEN COLONIAL BELLES THT KERVILLE FAMILY irick BiUiardlsts' GALLON! And His Lunatic Sticks SOc Nights Beginning Monday, March 22 REDUCED PRICES NIGHT AND MATINEE Performances as Follows Nicht Prices ! Any Seat on Lower Floor 50c Balcony f First .Eigjht Rows . . I,'. .25c : Last Nine Rows. ... ..j. .. 15c Boxes arid Loges , . . 75c ! Matinees Saturday, Sunday and Holiday Matinees First 15 Rows, lower. floor 50c Last 10 Rows i.i ..25c 1 Last 9 Rows. I Boxes and Loges .75c SOc Nights I on "The Home iLlfe of Actor Folk" Wednesday afternoon I tie summer home out of New York, whither we hie as soon as the season is over, tO""enJoy the countryl the fish ing, the golfing and the- motoring and to revel In the companionship of the one In whom our ambitions and our, hopes are enshrined our; little daugh ter. She is nine years old and is In school. She write us reqentlly that in j German ship got 100 per tceht and her ratner immeaiateiy wrote wsiung ner what the allies gave her, hut she hasn't even deigned t answer.' dine of my greatest pleasures Is in doing- as much sewing for my little girl as my limited time will permit. When 'I am home I spend considerable time cooking, too,' so I will be very happy to exchange recipes or patterns with any of the guests this afternoon." . In the course; of personal chatting with her new friends, Missj Mclntyre said: "The prevalent idea, that people of ' the stage aire very lax In their morals is largely wrong.. . While there are occasional oies who seek! notoriety by means of salacious lines, publicity of scandal, etc., j the profession should not be condemned any more than the church because an occasional minister or priest goes wrong. That sort of Phones Main 6 A-1020 305 Matinee! Seats at 25c Wtth Louis q jasavant' and com- pany. a tremendous White Slave Story of New Yorlt's Chinatown. ' I - - B. A. Kolfe 'Mnslcal Oxierlar CKiHLCT MAY Brown and Newman Songs and Patter I MAX LAUBE The Human Bird' ! Matinees WiU Go Into Effect at The , Matinees Any Seat, Except Last STine Rows in balcony.-. 25c Last 9 Rows in Balcony i5c Boxes and Loges. . . 1 . . . . 50c Balcony, Firstl 8 Rows. .1 5c 15c Matinees C i . ' I i 2 S to either Mr. ; ny kiics or 111 v acit-" have always stood for purity and wholesomeness." I Miss Bonita, Known in private lire as IMtb. Lew Hearne, attained much no toriety some years ago by being voted the most beautiful woman on the American stage. -. She spoke briefly on the English custom of r tea drinking, i saying she was. happy to see this I charming custom' Introduced Into the American theatres and declaring ' that after a two years' residence In Eng land, she. became so ', devoted to her cup of ; tea in the-af ternoon that she now carries her i own little stove andr I "tea things" and serves tea to the mem bers of I her company,, wherever she is playing. As a means of getting thin, Miss Bonita said she drank hot water and lemon in the morning and omitted I potatoes, sweets and -cream from her diet and takes plenty of hot baths. ,ii i , 1 I j Dickey Bird Adds . New Slang Phrase Playlet! Has for Theme Man Born to Be Ben Pecked and That Is What - Expression Means.' New York, March 20.--"The Dickey Bird," which Harvey 6'Hlggina and Harriet Ford wrote as a curtalfi rais er to their drama of Mormonlsim, "Polygamy," has not merely afforded thing does " not appeal HEILIG I - - 1 i . 4 SS NEXT WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24 8PZCUI PKICE UATISEE SATTJBDAT THE IHEXTBT B. HARRIS ESTATE PRESENTS ROSE XIC THE A PERFECT LADY BT CHAHHIZCa POLLOCK and BXKOLS W0X.P. . THE TANGO CRAZE DRAMATIZED ' Evenings Lower ipioor, 11 Kows. $2.00; 7 Rows, 1.60. Balcony $1.00. 75c, 50o. Gallery. 60c. Special Saturday Matinee, 1. 50, 1.00. 7&c, 60c. BOX OFFICE SALE OPENS TOMORROW ' "i v- I - I ' ' - i - . 7 Nits Begjimmg SUNDAY, MARCH 28 i Bargain Pxic Matin, Wdn4ay Spdal Prlc Matin, Saturday i OUrtr Moroaco T PEGGY O'NEAL &Yao" CAST Evenings: Iower Flobr. ill Rows. $3; "7 Rows. $1.60. Balcony, $1, 75c. 60c. Gallery. 60c i Wednesday Mat.. $1. 76c, 60c, 36c, 25c. Sat. Mat., $1.50 to 60c. MAXXi OBSESS HOW. BOX OPTXCB BALE OPEBS KMT THURSDAY. : ' ' 1 - . Unequaled Week Beginning Monday Matinee, March 22 Ok, Ton Zdttl Stan, Oo Hid Tour Kaada In th Prnc of Thii Mon t ' I : star ArrrrtloB of VaudarUl Artlats. j Hara'a tba Blc Bill Toppr That Ton Oat W&aa Tou SUp FIt Jltny . j Aoroaa tba MarWa BUb InPront of tb Box Offlc! The Six Tasmanian Van Diemans Tnajr Do Things la Midair That Tou Couldn't Doon tha Ground. This Za a Xnockout Green & Parker Thaaa Chaps Har Tdghtalng '.- Chaatad.1' y V . The Juggling Barretts BAto Ton ETOr ZJatad to That Idttla Bttll Toloa? If Tou Har j. : . . -j. Than Xilsttn to THE GREAT LESTER Who Alaxaadar Paatag-s Offara to Ton to Pill Tour Oup of Oladaasa I-. to th Ovarnow. BOXEf AIO PZBJBT BOW BAZ.COHT BEATS RESERVED BT PHOHZ, ! -; . -. . MAZH 4689, A-S330. iSST!.:i:::i a vast deal of amusement to the Park theatre audiences, it has added a new phase to the current slang of Broad way, .... "The Dickey Bird" In the playlet is a man who waa just born to be hen pecked i-who extricates himself from the toils of one dominating woman, only to fall Into the hands of an other, of a different method, but no less efficacy, and who does not ;even know, in the second case, that he is being henpecked. So successfully did the authors con vey their ideas concerning the man who was born to be some woman's victim, that one hears from j .every quarter, "On! he cant do anything with her he's a 'Dickey Bird!" The name arose from the fact that the man of the playlet was ; called Richard Bowen, and that both his first wife and hi second called him "The Dickey Bird" with only thinly veiled contempt, . In the most dramatic moment of the piece, when by an amusing com plication, both women confront him at once, he says that the reason he re volted from his first wife, and de serted her, was that she had draK''1 him to see Ibsen's "I.oll llourft," imd that a realization of his true jvosltion had come over him there, i "I saw that all my life I had len a 'male Nora," he says. "I had been bullied, and exploited, and disregar ded. So when Nora weiit out into the night. I went out after her." THEATRE Broadway at Phones, Mala Taylor 1 and Street A-naa XTEW COMEDY Prnta th Comdy, 1 wMtmkli " I" j Vaudeville Broadway at Alder ' Which Ar Tou? The Devil, The Servant and j The Man : Italy's Xtoss Is America's ! Oala, Hie Bernivicf Brothers BROADWAY AT YAIIHIIL