Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-11-08
Good Natured Ignorance
NJ EprroR.

YOU VIII return 10 the ikhOiaht
pretented critic who contributed
personal article to your paper last
evening. and permit me to qualify
myself regarding the writer's evil
dent desire not only to pose as
critic, but as a skeptic on theat-
ricals.
Firstly Mr.. Good Nature you
should be taught that consist
ance thou art a jewell and that
such sentences as the very STACEY
Mr.. Snow" and Mr.. Snow pass
cd the line Of mediocrity' do not
harmonic. If Mr.. Snow was
STACEY he could not even APP
proach the line of mediocrity.
Again you state in general terms
j. G. dizzy acting" and in a
second breath commit yourself
10y allowing that "old Vanalstyne
and his other son with the old
clerk closely approached the
line" l would consider to use
your stereotype word, that your
solecism is most objectionable,
AID your general knowledge Of
theatricals is doubtless on the
same par. You head your COM
munication transformers, and
yet | am inclined to the belief
that in any other than a literal
sense, you do not know the defen-
ton of the word or its origin, and
if YOU are even that fnr convers-
ant with our business; it was ex-
treme bad taste on your part to
mention Stuart Robson or any of
40 leading actors of today, but |
am forgetting that you have not
read stage history, and know .,as
little about its campaign from
1860 to 1874 as pig does about
heaven. Your memory seems to
serve you In some respects
or you would have the
public believe it does and
cite pleasant recollections"
of Stuart Robsons company in
the same piece. Enlightening
you is my present mission, and
while in this mood would inform
you that aside from two seasons
when Crane first and Mordaunt
after were members of the CON-
pany, the organization was COM
posed lone part" actor picked
up at the respective agencies in
New York, and drilled for months
like a kindergarten youngster to
play their respective roles. They
were not and doubtless never will
be stock actors owing possibil-
ity to the fragrant lack of pport-
unity prevalent in the east for
years. But they pleased your
narrow mind and thus you are
licensed tself constituted to pose
as skeptic on footlight and
foyer. Your accusation of dis
honesty is in thorough keeping
with the entire literary melange
or buneombe your contribute,and
is but additional evidence
that you and the stage are
entire strangers. was fully
three months in making the
personelle of this organization as
it takes men aud women of brains
to study three new piece a week
and present the same at two re-
hearsals; the actors You men,
ton would hardly be acceptable
servants. Versatility. stability
and experience is the motto Of
Stock Company and the stock
actor of San Francisco is today,
the most sought for and best sal
aried exponent of the drama in
the New York books. Few, if
any Of them is there, who has not
played one hundred and fifty DIFF
ferent roles and such experience
has its market value. They stand
today under the same light that
shone on the old California Stock
Company, and its not uncommon
to hear Of one rising to greatness
in the field from which you ideals
eminate. 1t would be imparting
too much knowledge 10 your mar,
row Uranium TO cite the present
California stock actors who have
forced you ideSls back behind a
counter or driving a horse as SO
much date might lead you to APP
ply for a position as dramatic