The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-10-03
" YUMPIN YIMMINY."
Dress Rehearsal of the Ole Olson
Company Last Night.

When the members of Company B
Dramatic Company gave their first
dress rehearsal for Under Two Flags"
there was found room for improve
ment, and this paper took occasion to
criticise the individual members taking
part in the play. But when the play
was presented to the audience it ran
as smooth as would be demanded by
anyone.
The excellence of the production of
that play was due mainly to the efforts
of Bob Scott, who rehearsed the COM
pany and took part in the play in or
der that Company B might be financial
benefited. 1t may not be generally
known, but the financial support given
the enterprise by the public was not
enough to swell the treasury of the
company. Mr.. Scott had much work
without compensation in the last play,
and in order that he may be remuner
ated for what he did, and to show their
appreciation of his services, the per-
formance tonight will be for his bene-
fit alone.
Mr.. Scott selected "Ole Olson" as
suitable play because he played the
years that it is second nature to him
to speak the Swedish dialect. The fol-
lowing, from the ST. Louis Post-Dis-
patch, hypercritical sheet said of him
Lo in
"Pope's theater was crowded from pit
to dome last evening by fashionable
audience, the occasion being the first
appearance of Robert L. Scott as "Ole
Olson in a comedy drama of that
name. While the citizens of ST. Louis
are not altogether familiar with the in
tracicies of the Scandinavian dialect,
Mr.. Scott's conception of the part and
the mastery way in which he persist
emily changed or G into Y was
enough to keep the audience in laugh
ter whenever he was on the stage.
even in the strongest situations, where
quaint manner of expressing himself
had the effect generally of driving back
the tears. In the second act, where
Ole accepts the bribe to steal the child
of his friend, the occupants of the
chairs were ready to give up their re-
spect for the Swede, but when he used
the bribe to purchase necessities for
the mother and boy, he won it all
TO- off fn
pronounce J as it should be created
much amusement, and when Ole, am
azed at the difficulty in mastering the
lesson, said, "Yumpin' Yimminy, what
a lot of Yays." the fun reached it's
climax Mr.. Scott is at once an actor,
and best of all comedian, and one of
the best dialect artists the st. Louis
public has had the pleasure of listening
to for many years"
The dress rehearsal for Ole was
given at the drill shed last night before
a half dozen persons, and it passed off
without a single hitch. Every member
of the company was perfect in lines and
fully understood what to 10 in the
if any of the defects usually so notice
able among amateurs were apparent
last night, and with the courage this
has inspired there seems to be no
doubt that the play tonight will be an
artistic, and it is to be hoped, finan-
cial success. Mr. Scott was irrepres-
sibly funny at times, and as intensely
dramatic at others. There is nothing
of the ranter about him, just the plain,
easy going, good natured Swede that
the author of the play intended he
should be.
The scenery for the play is entirely
new and was painted specially for Mr..
Scott by Dick Westoby. The box
scene in the third act represents a
mountain pass, and is quite the best
the artist has done here.
Seats are on sale at the Hebron
Drug Company, and may be had there
until the doors at the drill shed open
tonight.