DAQT CAPI TAL JOUKNAL, SALEM, OZEOOV, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1911
is making a whirlwind, tour to the Pa
cific coast and back under the manage
ment of the Messrs. Shubert, will be
seen this week in St. Louis and in Kan
sas City, playing each of these cities for
three days only. "The Little Parisi
enne," which is serving Mile Deslys as
her vehicle this year, has developed into
the most profitable and most artistic
attraction in which she has ever been
seen. The astonishing thing about Ga
by on tour is that practically all the
The 100th consecutive New York per
formance of "At Bay" kill take place,
at the 39th Street Theatre on Friday
evening, January 2, 1914, Special sou
venirs will be given to all the ladies at
tending that performance. This will ba
the pirst piece to attain its first ccn-tury-mark
in the year 1914.
Although "The Lure" ended its en
gagement at Maxine Elliott's theatro
last Saturday night, endorsements of
this piece continue to pour in unsolicit
ed from social workers, suffragists and
legal authorities. The true value of the
instructive warning contained in this
play is only just now beginning to be
appreciated. '
TTKIIE'ATriEIEiSS?
lANJD xmesjrhans
SEVEN ACCIDENTS WITH
BOMBS IN MAKING COMEDY
seats have actually been sold for every
engagement before her arrival. Beyond
all question Gaby is the greatest indi
vidual drawing star ever offered the
American public.
Salem's Movies, Vaudeville Houses and
Opera House Have Steadily In
creasing Patronage,
One of Those Kind Wherein Chee-ild Is
111, Needs Operation and Grand
Parent Finally Relent.
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SECRET OF SUCCESS IS
ENTERPRISE OF MANAGERS
No Expense Spared in Giving People
of City Beet Attractions to Be
Found During Tear.
'The play's the thing," according to
ne of Shakospeare's heroes. It figures pro,iu,.ei by the Nestor company, seven
quite prominently in Salem's pleasure- men woro burned ami bruised by the ex
loving pcoplo's program. The movies plosion of bombs. The play is a traves-
lave been steadily growing in favor ' 0,1 ol,l timo melodrama. Eddie Ly-
, . , ons, who played the chiof of police,
sere. During the past year the movie ... ... . . ,. , .. , ,
. vii i wni,o riding his bicycle through a dozen
Globe being opened last Bpring. With
good films at the Globe and Wexford,
and the same quality at the Bligh and
Ye Liberty, interspersed with vaudo
viile, coupled with the road shows at
the Grand, there 1ms been an abundance
of entertainment during tho past year.
The road shows have been probably
the best in tho history of Salem. Man
ager Waters has been successful in
booking high-class attractions and Bo
lero has had an opportunity to see stare
who have hitherto come no nearer than
Portland.
Size Is Increased.
The size of Ye Liberty was increased
largoly by an addition, which also in
cluded a stngo for use in vaudovillo at
tractions. Following this addition, Ye
Liborty's card included vaudeville
shows two nights a work. -
Tho advance in photoplays has boon
narked during tho year and there has
been great progress made in producing
attractions which required stars of tho
so-called legitimate stage. Promises of
startling developments in tho photoplay
staging was foreshadowed by the Edi
soa talking pictures.
The outlook for Salem amusement
places during tho coming year is prom
ising. The mnnngors are enterprising
and up to date nnd Huiro no exponso in
giving their patrons tho best tllms pro
duccd.
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Indians and Mexicans undertook to
tflttlo some of their grievances against
sumo cowboys by ramming metal anil
lead down tho muzzle of their guns and
firing them during a recent sham bat
tle that took pliuo in tho making of
spectacular western photoplay for the
"101 Bison" coinpny, at tholr ranch,
ear Los Angeles, California, Both
cowboys and Indians were employed by
the company, and it is first time iu the
history of motion picture that such a
thing huppened.
Tho pieces of lend and tho inetul and
empty cartridges shown iu the accom
panying picture arc a few of the sam
VETERAN ACTOR WILL PLAY
WITH UNIVERSAL COMPANY
Genial John Stoppling, whit lias a list
of succeses after his name as long at
the River Nile, been engaged by the
UnWerwil Film Manufacturing com
any to play character parts ia l)lrc-
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During the production of the comedy,
'And the Villain Still Pursued Hor,"
fell just as they exploded. He was
burned seriously about the face and
hands and his hair ami eyebrows were
singed. Prolwbly this was the most
sorioiiB accident; minor players recciv.
ed hurts such aS cuts from flying rocks,
burns and soverc fulls from bicycles.
Many of tho things that happen in
the production of a comedy which are
not in tho scenario are ofttimos mo'O
funny than anything in tho script, even
when they are unfortunate.
ATTRIBUTES HER SUCCESS
TO HER UNTIRINO WORK
There is a popular idea that tho a,
tninmont of suceoss sb an actor in mo
tion picture is mtlmr a matter of good
luck than ability and the result of down
right hard work. Hut a careless glance
over the biographies, of motion picture
stars will dislodgo this notion. Kiln a
Miiison, artist, actress, singer and lead
ing woman with tho Otis Tumor Rex
company of tho Universal did not attain
hoc success through any accident.
Until she joined tho Universal forces
she hud been on tho legitimate Btago, or
in opera since she was six years old.
Mho is now a finished artist. Though
she is a master at portmying dclicutc
on well ns basic emotions upon the
screen, still (inch night she studies long
and hard because she bulioves iu the
gospel of hard work.
SHAM BATTLE IN'."
.WHICH "MOVIE'INDIANS
MEXICANS USED
'LOADED GUNS
ples found lodged in tho saddles of soma
of the cowboys. That none of tho men
were injured is considered miraculous.
Previous trouble had existed between
the whites am! reds at tho ranch and
Manager llernsteiii hud taken extra pre
cautions iu preventing bullets of any
description entering the ramp. How
ever, the old lushioned guns, having a
large bore, t hut are most used, permit
ted n nst any Mid of slug being rain
ined down them.
As a result of all this Manager Horn
stein has been forced to attend all the
workout where lucre is fighting be
tween his forces.
tor Allien K. ( bristle's comjuuiy at the
Pacific Const studios.
Hailing from Philadelphia, he made his
debut under Uuuiel Frohman in the old
Lyceum stock company. He liiis been
with K. 11. Sol hern and was in tho ori
ginal production of the "Prisoner of
Zenda," Ho was a member of the New
York Stock Company, and aside from
Klaw ft Erlangor productions, he has
been with Olga Nethersole and Henri
etta Crosiinan.
STARTS IN BCHOOL.
Like mnnj auutlier who has gained
success on the stage, Miss ha Shepar.l,
playing buds opposite Edwin August
with the Powers coiupaiiy, found he:
inspiration iu a school entcrtainii t
It w not a passing fancy with Mi
Shcpnrd. She went through the nriod
of loitering at the stage door to catch a
glimpse of her favorito leading man u
woman. Finally, with parental ohjet
Hon overcome, she got "on" under tne
direction of William Bernard at the old
Columbia then It In Portland, Oregoe.
CHILDREN OF THEATRICAL
PARENTS MAKE THEIR DEBUT
Thirty-Odd Road Shows Closed Recent
ly and Many Stage People Are
Seeking New Jobs.
BY BEAU RIALTO.
(Written for the United Press.)
New York, Dec. 20. Broadway has a
real, Christmas play for the first time
in many seasons. Incidentally the first
snow of tho season, either stngo or nat
ural, foil at the Maxine Elliott theatre,
when "Things That Count," opened
there the other night, succeeding "Tho
Lure," of police and grand jury fame.
"The Things That Count" are children
which is as it should be in a Christmas
play, and the piece is itself one of the
fow things theatrical that count in this
season of tnilures and near-fizzles.
The play has not much of a plot; it
does not tax the intellect or the credul
ity to follow it, and it is filled with just
the right mixture of laughter and tears,
snivels and shrieks, which is what the
Manager Waters, of the Salem
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holiday plays, demand. ( ortuiu it is
that if "Old Scrooge" had lived to see
this pretty, thoroughly wholesome pliiv,
tho rattling chains would have been
superfluous in his conversion from a
human crab to a benevolent old gentle
man. "A Christmas Carol" would be
no misnomer for "The Things That
Count," except that us a title it is a bit
threadbare.
A young man nnd girl are estranged
from his parents, who refuse to accept
her. They have a little child, who gets
sick and must be operated upon. The
tragedy happens on Christinas eve, at i
children's party in tho tenement where
the young people live, and at tho criti
cal moment the elder parents of the
man arrive on the scene. Tho old wo
man immediately melts and becomes a
veritable Christinas angel. That's the
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"The Living Corpse," Count Tolstoi's Famous Play in Four Parts, at the Wex
ford Sunday and Monday.
whole story. An atmosphere of snow,
sloigh-bells and the "peace and good
will" stuff do the rest. The lead is
most capably played by Miss Alice
Brady, daughter of William A. Brady,
the manager.
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Broadway. Mibs Alice Brady, who has
been on the stage for a season or two
in minor parts, made her first appear
anco in a serious role as the leading
women in "The Things That Count,"
and her success was instantaneous. Two
nights lator Miss Elaine Uammerstoin,
daughter of Arthur Hammerstein and
grand daughter of Oscar Hammerstein,
niade her first appearance in New York
in "High Jinks." She is a bud of this
season, and had her first experience
when "High Jinks" was tried out on
the rood. At Ilammersteins Victoria at
the same time was Miss Liane Carrora,
daughter of Anna Held. Miss Carrera
Amusement & Holding Company.
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edv nnd is snul to be a "chip o thee1
old block," so to speftk, especially in
the matter of eyes that will not behave.
Tho success of these three young ac
tresses is most gratifying to their fam
ilies and friends and is considered an
other bit of evidence that "blood will
tell."
Some 30-odd road shows closed last
week in the East, West and Middle
West and reunions are things of mo-
mentnry occurrence these days along
the liiillto. Advance men whose com-
panic have quit business, an- to bo
seen on every corner and nil sorts of
actors and actresses ure hunting tho
agencies, looking for almost any old
thing that will keep the wolf from the
dressing loom. Take it from the agen -
cies and the thespians this hns been a
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disastrous season. That line of talk
is always heard about this time of the
year along Broadway, but in this in
stance it is more or less substantiated
by the facts. Shows have failed every
where and their bleaching bones mark
the various circuits from coast to coast
and from Canada to the Gulf. Peculiar
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Pla.v wat have gone by the board,
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Productions that have done fairly well
in New York, have failed utterly on the
road, and other plays that have toured
successfully for weeks in the West and
Middle West, have failed signally on
coming to Broadway.
There are manay contributing causes
to this state of affairs. Primarily, of
course, the fault must lie with the plays
themselves. Few dramas or musical
comedies of real merit .have been put
out this season. The play-wrights seem
to have lost the knack. But a contrib
uting cause, heavily responsible is the
moving picture theatre. Every city in
the United States is now honey-combed
with "movies," there beinrz one or
'two in every neighborhood, easy to
( reach without going down town.
St. Louis, for instance, has about.
700,000 inhabitants and last year there
were 64,000,000 paid admissions to the
"movies" in that city. The picture
houses now put on a few Vaudeville
turns, and some, in New York and oth
er large cities, maintain stock compa
nies to intersperse the picture with tab
loid dramas. Admission ranges from a
nickel to a quarter. When one, for five
cents, can run around the corner and
got an evening's entertainment, with
out an automobile, and without "dress
in' up," it is small wonder that the
exponsive downtown theatres are suf
fering. NOTES OF THE STAGE
OF INTEREST TO EVERY ONE
Madam Aguglin, tho famous Italian
actrtws who scored a sensational hit on
Broadway about four years ago, is to
return to this country in the near fu
ture under tho management of the
Messrs. Shubert. Madam Aguglia will
present a number of plays from her rep
ertoire, which includes "Zaza, " "Tho
Thief," "CamiHe," "Salome" and
"Electra," in addition to a number of
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a tragedy iu which sho scored a verita
ble sensation on her first visit to this
country. Madam Aguglia, who is due
in Now York on December 20, has been
playing in South America for two years.
Sho comtB to New York City direct
from a long and notable engagement in
'Buenos Avres.
The engagement of "The Pleasure
Soekors" nt the Winter Garden has
bo,,n extended, and this production will
remain in New York for Borne weeks to
COIno- Ttl8 tw0 fading women in this
ver.v W' and amusing production are
Florence Moore nnd Dorothy Jnrdou,
l,otl of wh"" ,,ttve muile Kr,lt P'-rsonal
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Acted in a most capable manner and
directed with expert skill, this Rex pho
toplay revolves around tho efforts of a
young doctor to improve conditions in
the tenement district of a great city
to force a certain owner to buildiu.;
bettor houses and pay more attention to
his tenements. Through the daughter
of the tenement owner, who falls in
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Ethel Davis, leading woman ot ine
Powers company, was painfully injured
as the result of an accident when "he
was thrown into a lion's den. She hat
been confined to the hospital at the
company's ranch for three weeks with
a complicated internal injury that, for a
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This photoplay which deals with a
timely subject is not merely entertain
ing, but is intended to accomplish some
thing in the uplift of humanity, in the
regeneration of soiiety. You have
heard considerable about the evils of
some soft drinks. Edwin August, the
producer has made this subject the
theme of his play. He is shuwn in a
new role, that of a father who is crush,
ed with the unchangeable moral that
"crime, like a chicken, comes home to
roost," The story, gripping in it-n heart
interest, vividly shows one of the great
evils that has an invidious huld upon so
ciety. Dave Harding, as played by Mr. Au
gust, Is a millionaire manufacturer of
soft drinks. His son, Frank, is engaged
to Eileen. Frank becomes addicted to
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mance is brought into the story, and it
'is this girl nnd the narrow escape from
death she experiences in ono of her
father's own houses, that finally brings
about a reformation. It is a play that
deals with present social conditions
that need improving and should make a
lasting impression.
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tune, threatened her life. Tho accident.
! occurred during the production of " In-
to the Lion's Pit," a Roman costum.)
story in two parts. The pit into whic.i
Miss Davis waB thrown was built espe
cially for the occasion and was thirteei.
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liquor and wild company. Harding fin
nlly manages to wean the boy away
I from this liubit and reinstates him in
his affections and his sweetheart's love.
Belioving that the soft dring manu
factured by his father is harmless,
Frank makes a specialty, in a short
time, in drinking it. The drink con
tains nn insidious drug and Frank be
comes a rlave to it before his father
rcnli.cs. The father suffers the pang?
of the damned when ho finds his boy is
in mortal danger as a result of his own
concoction. An operation is necessary.
In the meantime, the puio food authori
ties investigate tho father's product,
and prohibit its manufacture. Harding,
in remorse, closes down his factory and
gives his ill-gotten gains to charity.
The operation on his son is a success
and he is cured of the habit.
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