The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-07-29
VAUDEVILLEANS
HAVE HARD LUCK
MANY MEMBERS OF WORLDS
ENTERTAINERS STRICKEN
BY SICKNESS.
POWELL AND FEBNIE
GAssMANN ON SIERRA.
Musician Tobin Not Expected to Live.
"Old World" Bunth Sick, Allan Shaw
nl-The Pickanninny Suspect.

| The Sierra brings from Australia
among its passengers several mem
/ bers Of the Worlds Entertainer Com
! panies that have passed through here.
Professor Powell the clever legerde-
main artist and prestidigitateur,
"Feenie" Gassmann and one picaninny
and the DeMar sisters besides assist
ant members of the party are among
the returning ones.
The DeMar sisters viii be well re-
m"mbered for their extremely clever
dancing, full of chic and abandon with
which they helped to score the hits OF
the first company that came through
II .Ie under the management Of Lee and
Rlal. 'feenie Gassman was known
in Honolulu with the Daily company be-
folc sne. started out as a vaudeville coon
shoCter Sand achieved success with her
Ficahinnies. She also went through
With the first combination. Professor
PoweA came later with Bunth and
kuCd of old World" fame ana was
the introducer of the gold fish trick
WI ereby he caught specimens of the
Chinese carp in mid air.
Everything has not gone well with
tie Entertainers # lac. No one is
strarded and all are coming bach in
first class cabins to q j engagements
but sickness seems to nave made a
shining mark out of the w ill 3 Enter
tainers and combination of plague
and drouth in Australia has cut down.
the profits of Lee, Rial and Williamson
an necessitated the clJslug of The
season three weeks ahead OF time.
"H ne Entertainers" says Professor
Powell did splendidly for a long time,
the read company playing practically
TO standing room only rigat along.
But the combination of plague in Sgd
ney and drouth in Melbourne was 100
rluch All the floating population Il
Melbourne disappeared to their parch-
ed holdings and held on to all the money
they had So that at the last business
was anything but what it shou,d be
and We closed prematurely, thre. weeks
ahead of the stipulated time. The co.u-
panies were split up cOnsid erably. ~
len Shaw, the coin maniDu,a -, was
quite i'll when we arrived ana sTili Is,
and / took his place in the No. l col.I-
pany Bunth and Rudd Wee engaged
to supplement the same company but
Bunth fell i'll. Tobin, who with his
wife constituted the clever mu sical team
is i'll with heart trouble and general de-
bility and cannot live. One of Miss
Gassman's picanninies is detail ned in
quarantine at Sydney as a susp 1T.
don't think myself the child has any
thing worse than a cold, put any lii
ness, however slight as yOI are going
away, is construed into a suspect
case.
we found the Australasians very
cordial. I myself consider ii a very
satisfactory tour 1 had many new
things to show them and they appeared
to appreciate them heartily. They are
peculiar in one thing, never allowing
credit for any act that they have seen
before. They pass it by without COM
ment as to whether it is artisucally or
clumsily done. But they are good peo-
pie to play to-"
Arrangements may be made whereby
the members of the company now on
board the Sierra will stay over for a
few days in Honolulu and give perform
ances at the Orpheum in the interim
between now and the sailing of the
Alameda.