The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-02
WILL CRESSY'S
IMPRESSIONS
Acter Playwright Longs for
Good Old Days in
Hawaii Mel.

A breezy, gossipy letter. breathing OF
homesickness for the Hawaiian Islands
was received yesterday By W. D
Adams of the Bergstrom Music Com
pany from Win Greasy, who visited
here few months ago and became 3
warm admirer of everything Honolu
Ian. Mr. Cressy and his wife, known
on the stage as Blanche Dayne, present
in vaudeville Mr.. Cressy's one-aet
plays of New England life. His letter
is as follows:
Columbus. Ohio, Nov. II. 1908.
One Chip Adams (Hawaiian Yank1
IN the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Dear YOU have been trying for
weeks TO write to you, asking if you
ever received about a thousand dollars
worth 90 Of photographs l sent you
years and years and years and years
ago from some western town. But
somehow it always got show time Just
as / would get round to do If, so it
never got done.
But when We opened up here this
week and found three real HonoluIar-
ians on the bill with us, playing gui-
tars and ukuleles and singing ''Aloha -
and the gal dancing the hula, why we
have had two reminders every day;
hence this epistle.
The Hawaiians are really making a
very big hit over here; | am enclosing
a press notice of them here. (Of course,
you don't have to read about how
good we are.)
If you come east next summer, re-
member that during June. July and
August we are at t'Cressy's Point, -
Blodgett 5 Landing, Lake Sunapee.
n. H., and you have standing invi-
tation.
A year from next summer we are on
the Pacific Coast again, reaching there;
hold on, though, I will enclose our route
for the next two years, so you viii
know where we are all the time
Write once IN while; it seems like
8 news from home' to hear from YOU.
The memory of our short STAY there in
your beautiful islands viii never be for
gotten; and the view [ remember best
Of all is the one from your home.
left home when / was seventeen, and
have been a tramp ever since; but
never until ] heard these three people
here in the theater singing Aloha
asst Monday afternoon have I known
what it meant to be homesick'' But
At the first sound of that song my
thoughts went flashing out across the
sea to you people; and I would have
given million dollars tout of Rookie
teller s pocket) to have started right |
straight for there.
Oh. I don't think I ever thought to /
ell yea, in writing that description of
nv fishing trip over there, / couldn t |
hink of that other chaps name to save
ny life; and l had got to call him some |
hing, and / didn't expect he would |
.ver see the article, so / Just called him |
: Pin, - because it was the first word /
hat flashed into my head. 1t was not
meant in ridieuIe in anyway. Please |
make this plain to him, won t you; for |
would not have him think I was so
for the world.
Didn 4 I see something in the papers |
bout the United States government |
opening up some lands over theref Do |
ron think that viii make your darned |
own growf Gosh, l would like to
come over there and take hold of that |
larned old theater Of yours and run
vaudeville. But the town must grow
irst.
/ don t suppose I could, in writing
or year, ever make you believe what |
deep hold that fool island of yours
ook on my heart: / am a pretty cold /
FLOODED proposition when it comes TO
airing much for any place; | have /
hree nice homes, and I haven't seen /
me of them in three years, and the /
thers in two years; I 20 to visit my
ather and mother. and in two hours /
IN ready to leave again. There ism I
ne week a year on an average that /
IN not glad to see Saturday night
ONE. so I can "mOve on. But that /
iod blessed little wart of sunshine of
ours. out there IN the middle Of that
Jig puddle, took a hold Of my heart
3 no other spot on earth ever did.
here never comes a cold or rainy or
Loudly day but what ] think
he sunshine is pouring down in molten
gold over there;
he southern breezes are murmuring
through the palms and flowers
over there,
md tonight the tropic moon is CLEAN
ing across the ripping waters Of
that southern sea, over there.
And if I was sitting up in Bill
dams hillside home I could look down
cross the city, cut BY Diamond Head
ght, and out across that moonlit sea,
way to the southland.
Oh. ] IA going to bed. Good night.
fife SAYS, - Ne, too,'
Your h0mesick friend,
WILL 81. CRESSY.
-~a-%.s--
Notice &c Mariners.