The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-11-04
DANIEL LIKES HONOLULU.
HE SAYS IT'S AUDIENCES ARE
BRILLIANT.
He Started His Company With $50,
and is Now Rich Man-ls Not Su-
perstitious About Thirteen.

r. Daniel Frawley, who heads the
popular organization Of the same
name, has II warm spot in his heart
for Honolulu. In private letters he
states that he will he glad to reach
Honolulu again. In u recent inter
view he said:
sour visit last Autumn to Honolulu
was a delightful surprise. We found
a beautiful city of cosmopolitan char
acter. and we carried everything be-
fore us, clearing $4,000 in three weeks.
The Hawaiian Opera House is "A fine
new theater and its audiences are brit
liant. They manage one point better
in Honolulu than we do here. Every
one comes to a theater in a carriage,
and. after the play, the streets are lin
ed for blocks with vehicles of every de-
scription. Instead of permitting a
crew of gamins to run about shout
ing carriage numbers with frightful
din, they have four couriers. on spec
dy horses. who take numbers at the
door, dash along the line of carriages,
arranged in numerical order, and
bring each vehicle to its owner as
called"
\ few years ago the name Of r.
/
out in the Pacific Slope. To-day that
same name is familiar to every play
gopr in that part Of the world and to
| many in this part too, standing for
the leading spirit and the inspiration
of the Frawley Stock Comnany. an or
ganizaton which in a few short sea-
sons has come to be recognized as one
of the representative amusement en-
terprises of America.
In speaking of his managerial start,
| Mr.. FrawleV said: "When the cur
tain went up on my own company.
March Is. 1925, at the Marquam Grand
| Theater, Portland, Ore, my capital
/ consisted of exactly $50. and no end
of confidence and enthusiasm. IT had
occurred to me that there was a field
| in the Far West for good plays with
good paper, presented by capable ac-
tors and actreSses-plaVs which al
ready had won their spurs before met
ropolitan audiences. Our first pro-
| duction, The Senator. did much to cs-
tablish a favorable impression, and it
was followed by all of William II.
/ Cranes successes, many of David Be
lasco's, and similar works. which Of
fered every opportunity to the mem
] DerS OF me company. SlngNlarIN
enough the number thirteen has fig
ured largely in my luck and now. in
stead of regarding it with supersti-
tious awe. | rather look for il eagerly
rs rood omen. We began our first
San Francisco engagement, opening
the new Columbia tneater, on the 18th
of May, with thirteen i'm the cOmpa-
NY. and we played there for thirteen
weeks, during which time the city or.
dained MS as popular favorites. Thir
teen has been our mascot. The seal
of San Francisco's approval argued
so much for a future of prosperity
that one of The theater owners pur-
chased half interest in the company
for three years. The enterprise has
grown in power and scope until | dc
not believe there is a better stock or
ganization in this country. and am
DESTROYS that the companv a"or1d
have New York hearing, being CON
tident that their success ON the Coast
would be duplicated in the East But
| wish to retain undisputed the ter
ritory now covered. and if an East
ern tour should be made our regular
season of thirty weeks would be eX-
tended probably to forty-fve weeks.