The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-04

midsummer seems to have become
recognized this year as the time for
things theatrical in Honolulu. For the
next three months there will be a sue
cession of amusements varied enough
| to suit all tastes.
After opera, melodrama and farce
Will make their appearance with the
| Elleford company, followed by the Neill
season of comedies and society drama.
the complete round of attractions being
made with j. Rails vaudeville combi.
nation.
The EIleford company leaves San
Francisco on the Sth instant to open
at the Orpheum on Thursday, the 10th,
in Quo Vadis.'' This organization has
| been playing the Coast towns to uni
| fornly crowded business, having lust
closed week in Portland with the
standing room only" sign in evidence
every evening.
The company has been brought down
here by a local hui of young business
men. who think that there is an open
| ing in Honolulu for the class of plays
presented by the Ellefords at popular
| prices.
The Ellefords are not a high-priced
combination. and the point is probably
! well taken, that a 25-cent 50-cent and
15-cent company can better afford to
| play here six nights a week, at the
same prices, than three nights at the
| Opera House for double rates Sala-
ries being contracted weekly, it Ger
tainly costs no more for an organiza-
| ton to show six nights than three
| One constant drawback to Orpheum
| productions has been the lack of seen
| cry. which is to be remedied by the
| Elleford's bringing thei~ own complete
stock with them. An enthusiastic
Coast town manager writes to the ORA
matte Review that the scenic effects
carried by this company are equal to
any shown in that town, even those
used in the James-Kidder-W arde COM
bination's production of Midsummer
Nights Dream" AT that rating they
should be good. Fourteen players con-
stitute the caste, all of whom have
played continuously together for the
past four years, an undoubted factor
in the success of the company.
1t is not claimed by the local impre-
sarios that the Ellefords are a first
class" company. but that they give a
f1rst-class performance with actors who
are all responsible"
Two children come with them to
meet the requirements of certain plays,
both of whom are accredited as talent
ed beyond the ordinar'."
The repertoire, consisting of thirty
plays, opens with Quo Vadis," and In
cIudes The Blue and the Gray The
Celebrated Case" etc.
The season arranged for is four
weeks at 25 cents, 80 cents and IS
cents.
If the Ellefords are what the locali
Californian managers say they areI
they should draw big houses.
1t is not at all unlikely that melo-N
drama and the broader lines or come
dy. filed in with plenty or specialties.
will touch the popular pulse.
NC.II -hn n 40 INC
House the first week in July, have sew
| eral plays new to Honolulu and the
Coast A new version of Nell
Gwynne" may be given, while several
dramatizations of well known novels,
as THE Sprightly Romance of Mar
| sac" The Honorable Peter Sterling"
and "Under Two Flags" are included.
| The personnel of the company is little
changed, the support including Edythe
Chapman, Frank E. Camp, Julia Dean,
| Frank MacVicars, Robert Norris, Lii
Ian Andrews, John w. Burton, Donald
beth Forbes, Scott Seaton, William
! Jarrett. Maude T. Gordon E. L. Brent,
Ruth Hickstein and W. P. Davis.
! The vaudeville combination booked
| to arrive here on the 9Th of July, is
upon a round-the-world trip, via Aus
tralia. and is engineered by James Rial,
one of the best known of midcontinen-
| tai variety managers.
| The date unfortunately, combats
with the Neill engagement, but the en-
gagement is of only a weeks dura-
| ton. Rails name is usually guaran-
| tee of first-class talent. The combina-
| ton will appear at the Orpheum.
! Death and disaster has been busy
with well known names IN the pro1es-
sion of late, and alarmists are already
asking who VIII take the vacant places.
| Harry Monkhouse, known to all Eng
! iishpen and most Americans as
comedian of the first order. is dead.
Roland Reed, most popular of Ameri-
| can comedians, died last month; olga
/ Nethersole is, on an eminent physi-
clans authority, dying in London: Jas
| Hearne has announced permanent re-
| tirement through increasing throat
trouble; Jean de Reszke is again voice
| less, this time in all probability hope
! lessly; Hackett, the matinee idol, has
| broken down, and Maurice barrymore,
prince of good fellows and actors, IS
confined in an insane asylum. He was
termed among those who knew him
| well, the greatest of living epfgram-
matists. Once when playing with Mod
| jeska and receiving rebuke from her
for his department in a dfgnifled role,
said: Madame, the name of Barry
more was familiar one IN this land
when most of the people thought Mod
jeska meant some kind OF a tooth
wash"
| Truly, the lie OF the ACTOR Is Hot oil
strewn with beds of fiowery ease,
though Bernhardt, Irving and our own
/ Joe jefferson show that the hardest
workers among the profession can sue
| cessfully weather the storms of many
| seasons.
! Coming back to Honolulu again, the
Stantons present Fra Diayolo" to-
night with Henry Hallam in the title
ALLAN DUNN.
NaTINEE CONCERT