The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-06-11
STAGE PEOPLE WORK HARD
misunderstanding Pepe-Stage
and Of the Stage-Iike Homo
lulu-Learnng Laugh-Stage Kisses Real
BY LEONARD WILMINGTON.
z LEONARD WILMINGTON.

looked az if the stage manager had
his hands full.
It was something of a shock to see
Myrtle Selwyn tearing around the
stage in a cotton dress and a Ha-
waiian hat with a yellow lei around it
after hearing her sing Meet me up at
Portland in vivid red creation from
Paris. And Auda Due, the glorious
Trilby who is plain Mrs. Pietro Sosso
off the stage, in a shirt waist and
walking skirt, sitting on a chair in the
midst of the confusion eagerly reading
a letter from home. Charles Elder,
the villain, who gets himself cordially
hated every evening, was a jolly good
fellow that morning at eleven. 1t
seemed inconceivable that the man
who was so interestingly relating
his travels should be such a blood
thirsty wretch when the footlights
We're ablaze, working the audience up
so that they cheer to the echo when he
is at last driven to the wall.
Then George Hernandez, who gets
off those side-splitting comedy scenes
and his wife, who plays the 'auntie"
roles to perfection, We're the most Sc
rious people in the world. Marion had a
jolly smile quite different from his
grim parson roles. And Grace Lamont
and Fent and Daul and the rest, inter
ested in the morning paper or the mail
from home, failed utterly to suggest
the same people as they played to the
gallery gods when the footlights shine
and the orchestra plays.
Tell the stage-struck girl who sees
the glitter and light of the theater
from the boxes that it is work, hard
work. said Auda Due. ''Some people
think that it is all roses and dinners
and fun. But it isn't; it is work, one
OF the hardest professions that there
is. This is my first season on the
road, though L did some work in the
dramatic clubs in Salt Lake City. 1t
is work, but like it. One meets lots
of nice people. We have been treated
beautifully by the people here and
shall carry away a fine impress
sion of Honolulu. But, after all, 1
would like to be back in Salt Lake
City. That is home, you know.
''Of course, a long enga cement like
this one is not so hard as the week
engagements, but they are heaven
compared with the one-night stands.
That is what wears one out, packing
after the show
Just then Miss Selwyn, or Mrs. Ed
Ter, just as you please. came tripping
in after casting an imaginary infant
into an imaginary sideboard, for
Whose Baby Are You?" was being
rehearsed. Thank goodness, that's
over she said. Speaking of packing
after the show, / have accumulated so
many leis and calabashes and other
curios here that l think I'll have to get
am addition put on to our baggage car.
The people here have been just lovely
to us. We were rendered a luau the
other night. This afternoon we are all
going to Waikiki and Friday l want to
go TO the museum. Oh like Hawaii
Do you know Allan Dunn? Well he
wrote those Hawaiian verses to Dane
ing the Two-step with Lulu and they
take every time. When in doubt sing
that is my motto. Some songs last
for five or six years. That is one of
Them Then she asked which play
liked best. On receiving a reply she
said, II think the people down here
like melodrama best. They want
plenty of shooting. Audiences are