The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-05-14
THE DRAMA ON
A PLANTATION
Amateur Actors Play for Swc Get
Charity's sake at
kohala

kOftALA PLANTATION, Hawaii, May
~ a dramatic entertainment was given
In Kohnla Social Hail on Saturday, the
ith inst, which had for its object the
purchasing OF false hands for a native
who had lost both his own In an unfor-
tunate ACCIDENT. The first part OF the
program was a onc-act farce by Alfred
Bum. entitled "My Neighbours WIFE,"
with the following cast:
Mr.. somerton. an artistic. ..,....
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. MIR. Y. G. Paetow
Timothy Brown, a city broker .......
....,... OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. ID. Shanks
Jonathan Smith, a tailor....n. l.. King
Mrs. Somerton .,,,......,.. ......,..'.....s
........ ................ Miss Maud Wight
Mrs. Brown, Timothy Browns wife,.
...................M Miss ethel Van Deerlin
Mrs. Smith, Jonathan Smiths wife,.
.................Mi Miss Evelyn Van Dccrlin
In the interval which followed a vocal
solo by Mrs. John Hind and a trio by
Mesdames Hind, Bond and Austin were
beautifully sung and heartily encored.
Then followed the second play, also "A
one-act farce, entitled Lend Me Five
Shlllings," with the cast. as follows:
Mr.. Golightly ............ ..................
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Mr.. II. Il. King
Captain Phobbs ...... ..............-,.....
...... .................. Mr.. +. c. Paetow
Captain Spruce .............. ..............
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. MIR. +. Il. Gliding
Mr.. Moreland 900. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. -. Mr.. j. Hall
Sam, walter david Shanks
Mrs. Major Phobbs NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Observation-Disclosures. Mrs. IL. II. Old!ng
Mrs. Captain Phobbs Observation-Disclosures.
........ ................ Miss Maud Wight
The plays were so well rendered and
free from the amusing bitches, one al
most always expects In amateur acting,
that scarcely one player could be sin
gled out. Perhaps the make up of
Messrs. King and Shanks added some
what to their fame. 1t took the audience
some time to realize that the corpulent,
be-whiskered Adonises were the slim,
tall young men so well known in Ko-
hala. Miss Maud Wight's acting was
good indeed. She certainly can portray
a dignifed matron besides one with a
keen sense of humor, and created much
in her treatment of the am
crous Brown and Smith. The Misses
Van Deerlin did so well and looked so
charming that 1t seemed as If their err
rant husbands did not deserve the for
giveness so freely extended in the end.
In the second play Messrs. King and
Shanks kept up their good work, whilst
Mr.. Paetow seemed to have SO warmed
up as to excel himself. He looked and
acted the choleric, equity Army captain
to the letter. Mrs. Il. ~. Gliding, a very
youthful and pretty widow with the Sc
rious duty of looking after her flirting
sister-in-law-and rather inclined to stir
up hearts herself-grasped perfectly
both the grave and gay demanded of
her. The other parts taken by Mr.. Hall
and Mr.. e. L. Gliding, while not so prom
inent, were SO well done as to entitle
them to more important parts in future.
the large audience felt highly
pleased, and the actors must feel en-
only by the good opinions
won, but by the thought, "'Tis well 10
do so much for charity"