The Hawaiian star., 1906-02-03
AUTOS At FULL
SPEED ON THE STAGE
THE MOST AMBITIOUS MECHANI-
CAL EFFECTS EVER ATTEMPTED
IN HONOLULU.

Shakespeare never wrote, nor Henry
Irving never put on such a show as
Tracked Around the World" which
packed the house to it's capacity at the
Orpheum last night and gave eminent
satisfaction to the audience. There
was more action than dialogue, and
everything went in cyclone fashion,
when the curtain was up.
1t may be called one of the greatest
mechanical comedies on the stage, and
the applause it got and the furoyG it
created can only be compared to the
scorching automobile race on the stage
in the fifth act. The play certainly
was worth the price of admission, and
in mechanical stage effects surpassed
anything ever seen in Honolulu. The
two masterpieces in this particular,
were the Pullman sleeper at full speed
across the continent and the auto
mobile race in the envirOns,- not sub
urbs, but environs-of Paris. The only
possible suggestion of improveme mt
that could be made would be that
barbed wire fence instead of a picket
fence would be more in keeping with
the actualities. The management might
also notify the maintenance depart
ment of the railroad that some of the
pickets are broken.
From the standpoint of the classical
drama, there might be some criticisms
of dialogue, action and arrangement of
the play. But there could be no criti-
cisms of the staging or mechanical ef-
fects, from this standard.
The play starts in Chicago, proceeds
minute of the time, to San Francico.
There there is highbinder's opium
den, an abduction, police interference,
the exchange of few shots between
the william and the hero, and, presto
the play is in Paris. There there are
Partisan gowns and Partisan intrigue,
more exchange of shots, and then comes
the automobile race. The villain and
his assistant are carrying off the perse-
cuted innocent of the play in an au-
tomobile i'm haste to throw her into the
river to drown her, and thus destroy all
evidence of t murder of her father.
Just in the nick of time the hero and
his assistant jump into another auto
mobile and give chase. Slowly the
second automobile owe rtakes the first.
heroine, i'm a swoon is rescued and car
ried off in the overhauling auto.
OF course Richard Buhler is the hero
in the character of "BQl Hickory, the
Detective Just as certainly, Tom
Lowell is the villain i'm the character
of Bert Fox, alias Count FOXhall."
Henry Auerbach is the Achates Fides
of Hickory Bill" the Eddy of the
play, whose fade away" caught the
gamins in the gallery till they made it
their own and were prodigal in the use
of it. Rupert Drum was "Vandine,"
the assistant villain. Brenda Fowler
was the heroine of the plot, Laura
Folly" Lillian Hayward was the ad
ventures, "Jennette," Louise Oren-
dorff was Lady BeeswaX," while Ju-
liette Chandler was "Frisco Kate"
true as steel but tough in manners, and
she caught the house.
The plot of the play is impossible,
but there is plenty of action in 1t.
Virtue triumphs; evil is overthrown
and thwarted.
The staging is excellent, the mechan-
ical effects, vastly more ambitious than
have ever been attempted in Honolulu
before, and the whole play is one that
makes a splendid diversion for an even
ing.
1t will be presented again this even
ing, and Is well worth while going to
see