The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-03-09

CANA. entitled "a Bunch of Nonsense
at the Hawaiian Opera House, last
evening to an audience that filled
evey seat. In originality and minstrel
quality it ranked well with its prede-
cessors. and i'm some of the scenic eff
fects arranged. it exec ded them.
The management was not quite able
to keen it's promise that the perform
ance should be over by 1890 o'clock,
though it was not so very much later
than this when the curtain went down
on the finale. "A very striking stage pic
ture of an Indian camp i'm the forest |
with noble Elk i'm the background, !
disclosed just as the curtain was about |
to descend as the last verse of AUD |
Lang Syne" was being sung by Hugo |
Herzer. the company and the audi !
ence.
There is considerable i'm the first part
of the performance that can be cut
out with advantage i'm Saturday nights
performance. There are several OF
the colloquies between the end men
and the interocutor which are entirely
too long drawn out for the quality Of
the humor or witticism in when
they eliminate. and there are entirely
too many good things in the songs,
! topical and otherwise, and in the snappy
collouues to handicap them with the
ponderous ones For instance if the
| local steamer than John McCandless
built were cut down about two-thirds
it would improve it vastly
! It's a good show that will bear re-
peating. but it will be a better show
| Saturday night if there is not so much
i'm it to repeat
The introduction of the end men af-
! ter the opening chorus by the circle,
was particularly happy-summOned as
they were by Mephistopholes, and ar
irving by automobile, air-ship and
steamship and from the festive water
melon, the historical bottle of Scotch
| and an art poster.
| my Irish Molly O" sung by Jamse
Dougherty i'm pleasing voice was an
excellent introduction to the more
"mnstrelly." Every Little Helps" by
J C. Johnston. and Everybody Works
but Father" by j. Walter Doyle, in
each of which topical verses We're in
troduced that hit off some local char
acter or condition. The Oregon Girls
and Bert Peterson were particularly
cleverly handled i'm Doyle's song.
The tension of travesty was relieved
by the really beautiful ct was Not So
To Be-" sung eXcellently by l. S. Dill
ingham and then came some more local
hits in Mr.. Lawson the Man From
Boston," by A. H. Moore, In the Shade
of the Old Apple Tree" by Rob rt w.
White. 1.-THE Mormon CooU." by ],
Hastings Rowland and ION Robinson
Crusoe's Isle" by Guy Livingston.
These songs were interspersed with
colloquies between the end men and
the interlocutor a. e. Murphy, in which
the business" as a rule was exceed
ingly well designed and executed. There
is room to question the good taste ever
i'm a minstrel performance, of some OF
the things said about the Oregon Girls
i'm one of these collOquies.
Among the hits of the costuming
were certainly j. Walter Doyle's "BlacR
and White, Scotch" and Bob Whites
sailor outfit, especially his cap.
The Clio opened with a song by the
Dillingham; quartette so well given thai
the singers had to respond to re-
call
Sam Johnson assist by Ben ]
Clark, U. Lemon and George Clerk gave
splendid exhibition of work on the
horizontal bar. Most unfortunately
Sam Johnson, in jumping from the bal
at the finish of one of his exercises
hurt his foot and was not able to &C
on.
Bruce Hartman's stunt was one OF
the best of the evening. Made up t.
caricature a down-east farmer, he
recounted in very good verse how hC
had been sent for by Governor Jack
to come to Hawaii and report on lane
and labor, small farming and a few
other things. He even read the let
ter Then he told what he had found
and he told it well. The small far
mer, the Molokan, the missionary, The
governor and the acting governor, anC
pretty nearly everybody else of pro
r minence, and pretty nearly everything
, of current interest came in for def
, joshing. The audience evinced its grasI
; and enjoyment of the hits" by fire
quent applause.
The Ginginham Quartette, Rober
= White, Guy Livingston, J. Hastings
Rowland and J. c. Johnson gave som,
of the old fashioned negro melodies
with coon song and rag time accom-
paniaments,
The last scene, that of the WOODLAND
camp, was strikingly well designed an,
arranged. The entire performance wa
given under the stage direction o
James Dougherty and reflected credi
on his skill.
The program was as follows
Q FIRST PART
Opening Chorus" by the Compan
= "A Gathering of End Men. .........
Bro. ]. Hastings Rowland, Bro Rob
I ert White, Bro. AL. II. Moore, Bro. j
J Walter Doyle, Bro. Guy Livingston