The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-07-17
THE DRAMA


Those fun makers, Evans and Slime
and their company of comedians, gave
another rollicking entertainment at
the Opera House last night, and clearly
captured and carried away in frequent,
g-continued bursts of applause, the
largest house that has greeted them
yet, a house that practically filled the
/ theater.
Browns in Town" is cyclonic in it's
rush of situations and puzzling in it's
compiled tons. 1t is the kind of a
play where action does not lag. 1t is
a clean, wholesome play however. There
is not a line or situation in it that can
offend.
The plot present a newly married cou-
pie who have married without parental
consent and for the time being, and
until parental consent can be obtained,
and the clouds blow over, want to keep
their marriage a secret, and so have
taken a farm house and are living I'M
der the assumed name of Brown" But
everyone of their acquaintance, in
Guiding the father Of the groom on
whose account it is especially desir-
able that the marriage should be kept
secret by the merest accident" dis
cover the whereabouts of the young
couple. Every body is let into the
secret eXceut the father, and all enter
into a conspiracy to keep the secret
from him. And out of this situation
the complications arise. The father,
a bluff hearty old fellow. by his very
bluffness and heartiness keeps adding
| to the complications.
| Finally when matters have reached
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get any more complicated, the young
couple own up, and to their surprise
! find that no one, not even themselves,
scarcely, is more delighted at their
marriage than the father whose OBJ
jections they have been so much afraid
! of.
! The plot offers plenty of opportunities
| for specialties both of songs and
dances, which, are splendidly improved
! by the company. Douglas and Ford
| did a splendid song with dance accom-
| parliament, which quite captivated the
| house. While the Bicknells did some
dancing and singing that seemed bet
ter than even anything they did in
"Mama's New Husband"
! The burlesque on the celebrated
Floradora seXtette, was a very clver
thing in which there was good singing,
and clever dancing. The audience de-
manded repetition after repetition, and
We're not satisfied until Charles j. Slime
one of the seXtette, between his gasps
for breath, demonstrated in his speech
that this was a turn" that couldn't
be repeated indefinitely, at least not in
/ this climate.
| Miss Marshall as MARY Ann" and
/ Miss Ford as "Freda Hollenbeck," pre-
/ sented the low comedy element. Miss
! Evans as Lefty Leonard" the wife
was most excellent, whether in comedy
role, the scenes were heroics were the
proper thing, in specalties. in pleasing
songs, or simply as the wearer of pref
| t. gowns, Mr. Slime as Abel Pres
! ton" Dick Preston's" father was a
good show in himself. Mr. Bates, as
/ Dick Preston the man who is in
cyclone center of trouble all the time,
looked the part
Both the company and the play were
designed to make fun. AS the French
say 1T is to laugh"
Browns In Town" will be repeated
! Saturday night. Monday and Tues
day nights the company win present
| Where is Cobb"
| ABNER MCKINLEY PARALYZED
| SOMERSET Pa July l6-Abner Nc