TUESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 21,1926
POLICE UNABLE
TOFIND WOMAN
IITSBAKD CONTINUED TO HOS
CI j riTAI rVDKR GUARD
Official and Relative Believe
That "Sin. Honck Wm'
fc " Murdered
WASHINGTON. Dec. 20 (AP)
A fruitless search vas conduct
ed today by police and relatives
. for the- body op hiding place of
Mrs. Gladys W Houck, wife of a
taff physician at St. Elizabeth's
hospital here who dropped ont of
sight last Wednesday. The hus
band, Dr. Knute Honck, who also
disappeared on, Wednesday, was
brought back today from Hornell,
N. Y.. where he was picked up on
A street apparently suffering from
a mental breakdown.
Houck, held under guard at
"Oalllnger hospital, gave police no
clew as to the whereabouts of his
wife. s ,Still in a highly nervous
condition, he told a disconnected
story of how she had "left" him
and how he himself had "vanished
from his home the same night.
Weeping bitterly, Houck ad
mitted that he and his wife had
Bad "trouble" and that the night
before she disappeared he had
beat tier.
I was dirty and contemptible,"
he said. "Then I awoke from a
, good dream to see her slipping out
" of the door."
'"' The 30 year old physician dis
missed the opinion that his wife
migbt'have committed suicide. She
had threatened to end her life on
several occasions, he said, but he
felt sure she would nejter carry
out such a threat. 9
. Expressing confidence that once
lie got home again he would find
bis wife waiting for him, Houck
said she probably was with friends
somewhere.
- Although baffled in their at
tempts to get some line on Mrs.
Houck's movements after her dis
appearance, police generally are
pf the opinion that she was mur
dered. This belief was strength
ened by the finding of some wom
an's night clothes in a box of
rash on the back porch of the
Hourk home, but it was estab
lished late today that stains on
the garments were not from blood.
:S Relatives of the missing woman
also were insistent in their belief
.that she is dead. They scouted
the theory that she might have
endod her life or Tun away -from
loTne. She would not have gone
away, they said, leaving a three
year old son in the house.
and Nevada, who haa been on trjal
in the United State district court
here .on a charge of having em
bezzled government liquors, -was
expected tonight to be left .to a
federal Jury tomorrow afternoon.
When the court recessed late
today both the defense and prose
cution each still had 45 minutes
in which to submit their final ar
guments. It was believed the sub
mission of these arguments will
take up the entire forenoon and
that the noon recess will be fol
lowed by the issuance of the
court's instructions by United
United States District Judge A. P.
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Prohibition to Be Local Problem
Soon, Andrews Declares
CHICAGO, Dec. 20. (AP)
Within a few months, the govern
ment will have stopped the opera
tions of bootleg rings on a nation
al or interstate scale, and when
that time arrives, prohibition will
become a local problem with each
community virtually able to de
termine how stringently it wants
the Volstead Act enforced, Lincoln
C. Andrews, , federal prohibition
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facturers of malt beverages here
today.
The government, Andrews said,
has three immediate objectives:
To stop the smuggling of liquor
into the United States from
abroad; to halt diversion of com
mercial alcohol to the beverage
trade; and to close old time brew
eries still manufacturing real
beer.
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SAX FRANCISCO, Dec. 20.
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Visiting Boyhood Scenes
Dr. L. C. Henderson of Spokane,
of the U. S. bureau of animal in
dustry, in which service he has
been for many yeara. is visitine in
Salem, accompanied by his wife.
They are guests of his brother, R
G. Henderson, of the Kort Kafe
Dr. Henderson was "Charlie
Henderson in Salem, his birth
place, as a boy. The visitors will
be here till after the holidays.
Henri Gressitt. who has been
bringing famous attractions to the
Pacifle const for many years, is
here all the way from New York
to inform us that we-are to have
the exceptional pleasure of having
the great Madame Bertha Kalich,
in person, in Sudermann's "Mag
da." which she produced last sea
son with such success in New
York, Philadelphia. Chicago and
other large cities of he east. This
will be Madame Kalich's first tour
to the Pacific coast In any of her
great successes, such as "Fedora."
Maeterlinck's "Monna Vonna."
"The Kreutzer Sonata," "Marta of
the Lowlands," "The Witch."
"Therese Requin." "Jitta's Atone
ment," "The Riddle Woman" and
numerous others.
It is certainly delightful to learn
that the theatergoers are to have
something really fine in the drama
which has been so neglected in the
past few years as all of us have
realized, and wondered if it would
ever return.
"What a treat you will have
when Madame Kalich appears her
for the first time in her greatest
of all her successes. Sudermann's
Magda. which has really ausedyfJADAME BUTTERFLY"
a sensation in every city in which
she has played, said Mr. Gres
sitt, "and the reason Is very sim
ple when yon think cf what a great
artist Madame Kalich. is and has
been for many rears. Without dis
paraging any of the women on our
stage. I think I can honestly say
that I cannot recall one name that
can do the work that Kalich does,
for she is a superb genius and has
been reooKniz--d as such the world
over. She has been called by
practically every critic the Bern
hardt and Duse of the American
stage, and there is really no one
else to compare her with in my
day, and I have seen them all.
Then Madame always surrounds
herself with a very fine company
of players, and the combination is
wonderful. Add to this Sunder
mann's masterpiece. 'Magda,' and
you can anticipate a treat that you
will remember to your dying day."
Madame Kalich is making a
world tour that will take her to
London, Paris. Brussels, Rome and
Berlin, where she will give 'Mag
da' in German, with Sudermann
present, and at the same time she
hopes to produce the play which
he is writing for her.
Mr. Gressitt told of the Ma
dame's triumphal tour in the east,
and particularly about the num
ber of performances which have
been sold out even before her
arrival, and wound up by saying:
"Madame Kalich comes to the El
sinore theater on Thursday eve
ning. Jan. 6, under the auspices of
the Salem Woman's club, which
fact will please the many friends
of this well known organization."
WINS MUCH PRAISE
(Con tinned from par 1)
t rat Ire wonder pf her voice. The
famous Duet of the Flowers must
have left some mark in the walls
of the theatre, so vital it was.
"One Fine Day" was all that- the
most musically surfeited could
hope to hear.
Sergei Radansky took the role
of Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton
instead of George Brandt who was
listed.
" Madame Muira has a marvelous
sensitivity to clothes. The lavish
ly kimonas in which she appeared
one after the other last night were
proof of that.
A group of Japanese residents
of .Salem presented the prima
donna with a gorgeous basket of
scarlet poinsettias and another of
golden chrysanthemums which im
mediately became a part of the
stage scenery. Madame was most
touching in her gratitude. One
party for the performance came in
from the Lake Labish celery mea
dows. .
The half-hour ballet which pre
ceded the opera was full of the
tragic splendor of the Orient. En
titled "The Temple of the Sun."
the act exemplified a season of
sacrifice, in Syria, to the Sun God.
The dancing, the costumes, the
lighting, the properties were full
of the rigid, inexhaustible beauty
of the East that is so mad and yet
so glorious.
It is interesting to the proud
citizenship of Salem to know that
W. E. Cuthbert, manager of the
Manhattan l Opera company de
clared the theatre which George
B. Guthrie has given to Salem is
at least fifty years ahead of its
time, adding "there Is no other
theatre so distinctive, and none
any more beautiful."
Performances on level with
the grand opera which left the
audience amazed and delighted
lust night will come again and
again to this beautiful theatre so
suited to them; and Salem's part
is to lend suppoVt. not once, but
always, until the best in theatri
cals becomes a tradition.
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"A Perfect Tribute"
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To the Elsinore theater:
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After Salem's first grand opera
last night. W. E. Cuthbert, man
ager of the Manhattan Opera com
pany, said he had seen most of the
great theaters of the world, and
not one of them equals in dis
tinctiveness the Elsinore of Sa
lem. And he added that the Elsi
nore is 50 years ahead of the
times, and said he was willing to
have his name signed to the statement.
' Some ; of the people of Salem
have realized the truth of Mr.
Cuthbert's words, and they have
ben confirmed by numbers of out
siders; but there has not been be
fore such a perfect tribute by such
an outstanding man; one qualified
to speak with authority.
The people of Salem and the
surrounding towns and of the
tributary country did themselves
Kreut credit last night by filling
th" Elsinore for the first grand
opera for t!ie capital city. Nearly
every sent w;u occupied.
The Tapanese of Salem ,md sur
rounding country paid their great
countrywoman. Tamaki Miura,
"the incomparable" in "Madam
Butterfly," the tribute of helping
to fill the Elsinore last evening.
This was one of the things that
inspired her to put the finest
touches of feeling into her part.
The next big thing at the Elsi
nore is to be Madame Bertha Ka
lich, in person, in Suderman's
"Magda." under the auspices of
the Salem Woman's club, on Jan.
6th. She will not even appear in
Portland, there having come about
a mistake as to dates in booking.
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