The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-08-09
OLD LIME KILN
Katie Putnam and Co.
Won More Honors.
Very Satisfactory Performance
Before a Crowded
House.

If anything was required of Katie
Putnam TO win the friendship Of her
audience for herself and company. il
was supplied Saturday night at the
performance of the cOmedy-drama,
THE Old Lime Kiln" One or two OF
the posters that have decorated the
walls in the city might give the i'm
preston that any number Of the acts
of the play might be given up to the
| sensational, but in this the audience
was pleasantly disappointed. There
was but one blood-curdling episode in
the play, and that was so cleverly
acted that Miss Putnam, Mr.. Jefferson
and Mr.. O'Harra were obliged to re-
spond to a curtain call.
The theater was crowded, and the
audience most enthusiastic. AS usual,
the star won favor with her sweet
voice and cleverness as a dancer, and
she adds to her popularity by singing
only new compositions with pretty and
catchy melodies. Her coon song, Sat-
urday night, added to her lausels. The
play and the acting on this occasion
was so much an improvement on the
previous performances as to give the
ater-goers better opinion of the COM
pany. The cast required a larger COM
consequently both Mr. Emery and Mr. |
O'Harra were obliged to take dual |
roles. AS the man with a secret, the |
former so effectually concealed his in
as to be unrecognizable, |
and his rendition of the character was
exceedinly good. AS Jack Ridley,
which is really a Juvenile part, he was
also good. His first scene with Miss
Putnam, in the heart of the Yellow
stone, was nice bit of acting, and |
was much enjoyed by the audience
His attempt and final success at love-
making was one of the features.
Mr.. O'Harra, as Bud Markley, love-
sick, half-witted boy, left nothing to
the imagination, and his change to the
character of Horace Mervyn, a decrep-
it, cynical old cuss, was a complete
transformation. 1t is in such charac-
ters that Mr.. O'Harra excels, for he is
4 close student of character and facial
and a conscientious actor
Mr.. Tooker assumed the part of Rob
ert Morris, a degenerate, and after
wards reformed man. He had little
to do in the play, and it must be con-
tossed that that part of the role which
calls for the dignifed, but sorrowful
nan, was more to his fancy and more
to his audience than the
other. Mr. Jefferson, as Captain Nor
on, was quiet and reserved, as the
over of Margery, even after he had
been rescued from the burning lime
Kiln. Miss Watson, as Anastasia Rem
ngton, was very good in her role as
,haperone to Helen Norton, a young
ady with whom Jack Ridley is in
owe. Mrs. Geo. Otterson essayed the
,art of Helen, and did very we'll She
vas called upon at the last moment,
md was letter perfect in her lines,
nd grasped the situations with the
Onfidence of one who had spent her
life on the boards. Mr.. Scott played
he part of John Norton quite up to
is standard.
The comedy roles aside from the
art of Margery Morris by Miss Put
am, were played by Miss Stockmeyer,
3iddy Flynn and Mr.. Bruins Corporal
tumps). They kept the audience in
n uproar whenever they were on the
age, and they were particularly in
whence in one of the songs by Miss
utnam. This called forth an encore.