The Hawaiian gazette., 1894-10-30
The Trials and Tribulatio1s Of 3
Manager.
DALEY AND HIS GREAT TROUBLES.
Some OF the Features OF = Theatre
cal Mans Life-Why the Dragon
Did Not Fly-A Man Who Wanted
some UusIacRed Lime 20 SMOKE.


Of the curtain. know suythinE Of what
goes on behind the scene>9 How many
rsslize the trials snd tribGla,ions q
the manager, the stage manager. the
property man, the leading lady, the
leading man. the Soubrstte, ana even
the call boy. How manye Not one
in 5 hundred.
The life on the stage i not one Of
perpetual bliss, aS school girls, sud
some girls out OF school, 50 fOnily
imagine. There i something more
10 Go than 70 come out from the J.. [.
entrance. say. in s pleasing voice,
Patience, Camille, " snd retire down
and of the stage, while the house
wildly applaudS There Is considers
bly, more than this. The study Of new
parts, rshearsa :, the difficulties Of not
having everything 60 OF all right.
and the occasional fights with every
one else in the company, take up
little time.
The troubles Of manager sre, or st
leaSt be thinks they ale, overpower-
ing. Manager Daley i no exception
10 this rule, and if sll OF his troubles
here could be published, they would
fill q book. \ few Of them msy be
interesting.
Those VINO ssw Faust" 5 week OF
two aEo. remember how well the per-
formance looked from the front sud
how smoothly everything appeared 10
work. This performance was the cause
OF more worry 10 Daley than sUything
be has vet given the Honolulu public.
He had special SceLery painted; be
arranged for au electric fountain: he
bsd fireworks, and be even bad
big fiery dragon made for Use in
the Broken scene. The dragon w2s
arranged on wires, and was 10 fiy
across the stage, giving unprepsrvd
men an idea that they had s sudden
stack OF jim-jams. When the time
came for the triumphant entrance Of
Mr.. Dragon. he wouldn't go. Some
thing was wrong with the wires. The
curtsiu was up, and there was 10
time 10 stop and fix anything. Daley
had been depending on this dragon IS
one OF the finest spectacular effects Of
the performance He was standing
back OF the scenes, and, when II
work. he hunted up the man
who was 10 b anne and, in very
quiet, polite way, said TO him:
40 ~ - ,-,SI :"
This was more effective than COM
mon lecture, snd the next time the
dragon i expected, il Will be there.
In the same play Daley wanted TO
have some smoke. This j usually OBJ
tsined by pouring water on uuslacked
lime. DALEY told one Of the stage
hands 70 get him 3 few buckets
Of unslsck-d lime snd have /.
st the theater that evening.
When the time came, the man
.abored TO the stage with four buckets
flied with something white, but when
the time came TO have the smoke, it
was found that the intelligent stage
hand had got lot OF Stacked lime
which wouldn't smoke if II had pipe.
Daley repeated the remarks quoted
above, but the mischief was done, and /
here was DO smoke.
This same performance Of Faust I
vas the one in which Hsllet g0t his I
head bumped when the men pulled T.
ID the trap too quickly. He arrived .
N the stage nearly 3 minute before /
le should have, but probably no one .
Z the audience knew II.
It i no easy matter, OF course, TO T.
.tudy and become letter perfect in 4
bree plays every week. But the .
members Of this company knew what .
hey had 10 90 when they came, and +.
: i certainly sn eXaSpeTating thing
o have them say they viii not 10 II.
This. however, was another OF Daiiey's
rails one day last week After the
one Of the leading mem
,ers OF the company sent for Daley
nd told him thst she had been study
NJ too much, her brain was ex-
lsusted, and she would study DO more
arts. Whist could he do? Several
.b>Oiutely new plays were on his re-
,srtoire; he had been 81 considerable
Expense already In the matter; aud
.Ow one OF his leading people an
OuUced that she would not study sny
1Ore. TIE matter viii probably De
arranged, but Daley
Jund three more gray hairs in his
cad the next morning.
The people whom il Is Necessary TO
ave help run stage. are, with few
RECEPTIONS, inexperienced There are
OF many shows coming here, and the
ractice which makes perfect Is lack
lg. This i one reason for the long
-aits which sometimes occur Esch
ne Of these waits, which certainly
re tiresome to the audience, is the
ause Of s little more OF Dsiley's scalp
nOwing on his rspldiygettiBg bald
cad.
One other thing which Is slowly but
lrely driving Daley to the insane
sylum, Is the actions Of some of his
len who work the scenery. For in
ance, il Is not especially pleasing to ;
mans sense Of the artistic TO have
ne Of the sUpsrs let down one Of the Z
les which represents scene in bO-ky
len. when the hero Is struggling |
trough the depths Of love seem in
luxurisntly furnished psrlOr. Nor
D q few high backed, antique oak
lairs exactly ut the surroundings in
rocky glen. Yet this has happened
bee OF twice, and has caused The Re ,
,r1ing Angel to DO q little hssty .
iting. II these things were done
ith slipsbod, careless manager, the
lter probably would not care. But
it'll q man who has some little sense 7