Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-11-17
Those transformers Once More
EDITOR HoLosuA:

and dement's of the DALEY COM
bination of "all STAR thespia ne
which might well lave been ex-
pected to subside with the de.
parture of the troupe from our
shores, has acquired new interes,
from an article in this mornings
Adre'tiser. For myself, 1 must
own that, since being treated
to column-and-a-half of good
natured ignorance" at the hands
of Mr.. Daley, mere than a week
ago, have felt too utterly crush
ed to either respond in print or
to avail myself of the one dollar
which he said he sent for me +,
(but didn't send) to see another
play by those artists.
1t is sufficient to say, of the
latter performances, that they
are admitted to have been of the
"rockiest'' description, by all
who saw them, and who know
enough Of such things to be able
to form an opinion. 1t might be
expected of manager who is
rendered benefit by the people
of the city, that he would exert
himself to present good play in
good form, yet what honest and
informed person will contend
that the namby-pamby variety
programme of Wednesday night
last was better than can be seen
at High School exhibition, at
any point in the "States?'
1t really seems that Mr.. Daley
has been playing Honolulu audi
diences for a shoal of suckers
treating them as the veriest guys
in thus imposing upon them a
third rate school-boy performance
and taking it for granted that
they were too ignorant to detect,
or too good natured to resent the
imposition.
l can we'll believe Mr.. Daley S
assurance that the San Francisco
"stock" actors, from among
which his company is said to
have been recruited) command
good engagements in the east.
Nay! more. [ am convinced that,
when he picked up his pictures
que troupe, all of said actors
were already engaged, either in
the east or somewhere else, and
were not available for engage
ment by Mr.. DALEY.
But there is another feature al
this debate which | think, de-
serves the attention and the re-
probation of the public of Homo
lulu 1t is the attitude of the
public press as fawners upon or
critics of the dramatists who
present themselves upon our local
stage. 1t is we'll known that the
Advertiser has, during this entire
Daley season, fairly stopped over
in adulation of its every perform
ance by that troupe, when the
majority of those renditions were
most sloppily and stability pre-
sented. 1t may not be generally
known to the public, but such |
am assured is the fact, that all
the theatrical ehtiques of those
performances which have APP.
peared in the Advertiser, were
furnished by Mr.. Daley himself,
What was the consideration re.
ceived by the Adusrtise" for its
inordinate putting of that slop'
py troupe ! Was it anything
more than few free tickets forts
staff? If that was the extent o.
the compensation, how cheaply
the leading journal" hold itseii
and its adulation. and for how
little it allows itself to be used as
medium of bamboozing the
Honolulu public on the one hand
or of misrepresenting the artistic
taste and capacity of four citizens
ON the other. For myself,
deem it distinctly unfortunate
for Honolulu that its public pres
I should send abroad the impress
sion that such rant and horse
{ play as that presented by tn
DALEY troupe passes current her
!. for dramatic acting. | do no
know the extent of your owl
SHINING in this particular, Mr.