The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-11-25
Town TALK
By The Man About Town.

allowed his love for liquor to become
his dominant weakness. But despite
his decline, the memory of the former
detective will always be kindly recall
ed. with all the amiable qualities of
his race he likewise possessed ability
of a sigh type that placed him in the
first rank in his profession. His days
of usefulness could we'll serve as a
model to the youth Of his country.
Apropos of the appearance of Richard
BUTLER as the Count of Monte Cristo
an experience of James O'Neil in that
role is recalled. As every theater gOer
knows. O'Neill is the man who made
that part famous. He is to the Count
of Monte Cristo what Edwin Booth
came to be to the role of Hamlet.
O'Neill had played the Count thousands
of times, but he always scored a hit
i'm the role except on one occasion.
That occurred in Pittsburg many years
ago. The most dramatic scene in the
play occurs at the end of the first act
where Edmund Dantes, after escaping
from the Chateau DIFF swims through
he leaps to his feet and as the cur
tain descends, exclaims "The World is
Mine"
In that particular performance
O'Neill had escaped from the Chateau,
had climbed upon the rock and was
bracing himself to launch forth his
eloquent exclamation when to his hor-
ror he heard a shrill piping voice from
way up in "nigger heaven eXclaim:
Der wurld is hissen. Let der Drown
ded rat have it," And the curtain
descended with O'Nenl speechless and
the audience in roar of laughter.
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1 am afraid it is no use having
discussion with the Advertisers By
stander. He has the straw man habit
too bad. There must be a peculiar in
tellectual pleasure in quoting man as
saying something he never said and
then triumphantly showing it to be
wrong, but have never learned to in
dulge in that sort of dissipation. Add
to it a happy disregard of the facts and
a wide liberality in inventing state
ments when they are needed as props
and you have a controversialist as in
vincible as the Voice of Sinai.
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r. d. Lydecker reminds me of that
little song about the ostrich in Francis
Wilson'S opera the Merry Monarch. ''If
you search for information 1 would
seek your invitation, I'm merry little
ostrich and I know it all" Since he
took charge of the government archives
he has shown himself to be a wonder.
In fact if he keeps up his present gait
of finding things he will play the
mischief with the lost, strayed or
stolen columns of the newspapers. For
merly when person missed any article,
from a kitchen fork to a piano, he
would advertise in the newspapers for
the recovery but now no such thing
is necessary In fact that is the OBJ
solute method in Hawaii. The owner
of the lost article can simply go now
to the government archives building
tell Lydecker his troubles, Lydecker
will take a lantern so into his gar
ret rummage about the archives and
Lo return with the missing article.
Although he has been but a compare
lively short time delving over the ar
ChiVes, he has made a splendid record
as discoverer but l look for even
greater things. For weeks past I have
been picking up my Star in the
expectation of seeing the announcement
that Lydecker had discovered the
identity of the author of the Letters
of Junius, the man who stole Charlie
Ross and the other mysterious person
who soaked Billy Patterson.
Il wish you had been with me last
Sunday" said Harry Armirage thought
fully to be one day this week 81 went
on an automobile trip to Haleiwa."
well, why didn't you ask me?" /
said. you know l would have en-
joyed the trip"
Yes, I think you would have en-
joyed the trip to Haleiwa," he said,
but / was not thinking so much about
that. 1 was thinking that you would
have been very useful on the way
back"
1 wanted further enightment.
well, we only broke down once on
the way out and the repairs were made
by another auto man who came by,
but on the way home, when about five
for good. Yes. We went back. 1
walked and pushed the machine all the
way, That is why I wished that you
had been along. You look strong.
after ALL" he added Horses aren't
so bad"
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A good deal of interest in a some
what unexpected direction has been
aroused by some of the plays which
Richard BUTLER and the National Stock
Company have been presenting at the
Orpheum. l happen to know that their
presentation of the Three Musketeers"
has aroused quite an interest in the
original Dumas story, and in the series
that followed it in which the same
characters appear. A number of my
friends have been set to reading, re-
reading, or at any rate to furnishing
up their recOllectiOns of Twenty
Years After" Fifteen Years Later,
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