The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-11-09
THE CHINESE THEATRE.
A Fashionable Fad with the
Foreigners.
THE ACROBAT OF THE CENTURY.
Plot of the Play for Tonight-Red Fire
and Buhach for stage Effects.
Thrilling scene in a Tank Drama.
Play without Lover-The Villain.

Ever since the publication in the
ADVERTISER regarding the re-
nOwned Chinese acrobat, Lo Fat, at
the new Chinese theatre, the curl
osity of foreigners in the city has
grown to such a pitch that every
evening the attendance has grown
larger. Thursday night there were
over forty white persons present,
among whom were many society
people of the city. Chinese theatre
going has become a fad, and now
threatens to become a mania. Sew
eral of those who were present
Thursday night thought it would
be a good thing to have a special
night for foreigners. The manage
ment heard of it and took it up
very quickly, arranging matters
50 that an entertainment will be
given tonight, the special feature
being of course the gyratious of the
famous Lo Fat. Seats may be had
of Chong Kim at Hartwell &
Thurston's office, D. L. Kwai at
w. S. Edding's, and Charles L.
Yung, at G. T. Gulick's old office.
Seats will be reserved for foreign
ers, and Lo Fat will endeavor to do
his best work at that time.
In order to give those who in
eend to go some idea of the play,
which would otherwise be one jun
BILE of smiles and squeals, one of
the management was seen yester-
day and gave a very good synopsis
of it.
1t is called Tau Tau by those
who are on speaking acquaintance
with it and is said to be a drama
in two acts. If it was in English
it would be called a drawma but in
Celestial lingo, drayma goes. The
characters in the play are a rich
man and poor man. Then there
is the wife of the rich man not a
sure enough wife just make be-
lieve and, as in all Chinese plays,
the female character is essayed by
lady-like young fellow with a
falsetto voice. Besides these there
are characters portrayed by the
masses and known as Exhibit B, |
1856.
In the first act the man with the
sack returns from COrea where he
had been running a bicycle contest |
for a daily paper. The season had
lust closed and he came back with |
all kinds of money in a bag.
The poor man, Lo Fat, the aero
bat. was down on his luck and was
trying to appease a pie appetite on
a yesterdays bread purse. His
stomach yearned so much for some !
thing better than he was getting
and he decided to take to the road
or run a newspaper. Without
stopping to consider the enOrmity |
of his crime he jumped on the rich |
man and touched him for all the
money he had in his Jelly bag. |
When the rich man became poor
and the poor one rich they began
to parley over the change of affairs
and the poor mans heart was soft
ened when his victim began tell
ing him how much better he would
enjoy his wealth if he came about
it honestly, and on the promise OF
the once poor, then rich and now
poor man that he would let Lo in
on the next contest the latter dis
gorged his i'll gotten wealth. Be
fore the act closes Lo regrets his
course and decides to visit the old
mans house at midnight and prop
erly do him.
Act brings the rich mans wife
and mother-in-Iaw to the front in a
four round contest for points.
Their grown up daughter sec
onded the mother and handled
her all right, but before time
was called in the second round
the old lady fouled her daughter
in-law, and because the referee
would not allow it the girl quit
and went to her room. The fight