The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-29
The FETE
SUBMER ERGED
Downpour Spoiled
the Gibson
Play.
SOME ACTING
| BETWEEN SHOWERS
After the intermittent Performance
Crowd Went Home Without
patronizing Booths.

Over thousand people had gathered
at the grounds when the curtain was
drawn back at Sis o'clock. A har-
monious quartet. composed of Mr..
Robert Atkinson, Mr.. Clifford Kimban.
Mr.. Isaac Dillingham; and Mr. Walter
Dillingham;, opened the program, and
tiny midget in red danced fetching
cakewa1k
The Gibson play was then put on,
and simultaneously with the appear
ance of Mr.. George c. Potter, the hero
of the romance, the clear sky began to
empty itself mysteriously, but copious-
ly of its contents. Undaunted, at first.
Mr.. Potter proceeded with his lines.
and the crowd resigned itself to the
wetting, A number of the thoughtful
ones had brought umbrellas, and the
miniature tents began to pop up like
mushrooms over the crowd; presently
those at the back of the audience
commanded a splendid perspective of
umbrella tops, and as the shower CON
tinued, the rain poured off the tips Of
the umbrella ribs in little streams
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| the umbrella owners. Everyone was
good natured, and those In the back
rows climbed up OH their chairs or ran
for the shelter of the trees.
Now and then the rain ceased and
the umbrellas came down. The first act
Of the play was concluded and the sec
| ond begun, pretty minuet by eight
III In iyf
of the court. being completed between
showers.
| The play in brief was the story of
Morton Carlton, an American artist,
who fancying himself In love with
photograph Of a princess, sought to
meet her, following her half around
the world for the opportunity Final
ly, at the Hotel Grande Bretagne, for
tune favors him. In the course of his
! travels, however, he meets an Ameri-
can girl, Miss Norris of whom he
makes confidante; on board an At
lantic steamer he is about to fall in
love with her, when he learns that she
/ is engaged to be married. After that
| he tells her of the princess and she
assists him to arrange the meeting A
/ succession of accidents defers, the
meeting with the princess, and at the
/ Hotel Bretagne he learns that it is
! Miss Norris sister, and not herself,
who is engaged to be married. Fol-
lowing the denouement he discovers
that he is very much in love with Miss
Norris, who secretly cheriSheS the re-
ciprocal feeling and, sitting in the con-
servatory of the kings palace, whith-
er they have both been invited, they
plight their troth. The princess who
t,.a
in love with her photograph has be-
! come interested and carries in her
bosom a note written by him and at
tached to the photo. She mentally
weayes romance and desires very
much to meet him. However, she is
escorted from the ballroom to the con-
servatory just in time to overhear the
artSst declaring himself to the Ameri-
can girl. The stage is left clear and
the curtain goes down on the princess.
sitting sad and alone in the conserva-
tory, her romance shattered.
Mr.. George Potter took the character
of the artist, Miss Mary Widdifeld
was the princess, and Mrs. John s.
Walker the American girl. Other char
acters We're the Duke of Hohenwold,
Mr.. Isaac Dillingham;: Captain Mon
tague, Mr.. Robert Atkinson; Nolau, the
artists servant, Mr.. Clifford Kimbalr,
Mrs. Downs aunt, and chaperon OF
Miss Norris, Mrs. Walter Frear, and
Simpson. the princess maid, Miss Ju-
liette King.
The dramatis personae were well
chosen, and each was suited to his
part, and weather permitting, the Glib
son play would have been a pretty and
successful entertainment AS it was,
in the conservatory scene, where the
ladies were attired in delicate bali
gowns, the shower became a torrent.
and Mr.. Potter hurried to the front in
his personal capacity, to announce that
the play would be postponed until the
rain had let up. the princess and the
ladies of the court fleeing precipitously.
AS the curtain was drawn together u
glimpse was had of the princess duck
ing under the shelter of a cotton UNI
brelIa.
The Gibson tableaux, which followed
the play. were all good, being stage
productions of the Gibson drawings
The drawings represented were arch
cry" rs a Caddy Always Necessary
Their Presence of Mind" wireless
Telegraphy" and Advice to Beginners;
Keep Near to Nature" In the first
two, respectively, tiny Cupid in pink
tights and silver wings. and a pickan-
inny caddy figured prettily.