The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-07
4 GREAT SHOW
AND 4 BIC HOUSE
Vaudeville and Joe Cohen Score
a Triumph at the
0rpheum.

| Vaudeville certainly justified itself
last night at the 0rpheum.
A crowded house broke over all re-
straints of tropical insouciance, and al
lowed itself to thoroughly enjoy and
| grow enthusiastic over the eight mum
bers of a program that went with n
vim, and go, and dash that carried
the most enjoyable interest with it
from beginning to end
There was not number that did
| not challenge interest and offer en-
ioyment by its novelty. There was not
performer that did not have some
thing worth while to give. Each bore
the brand of excellence in conception,
or rendition, .or both.
Vaudeville may not be Shakespeare,
but for relaxation, for entertainment
without pretence, for provoking whole
some laughter, for collective enjoy
ment, good vaudeville is its own best
testimonial, and last night made it
certain that the Henri French Hallen
and Fuller Vaudeville company haa
made a hit and the success of the en-
tire engagement is certain.
James Polk gave a new value to
the banjo. The play bin calls him the
wizard of the banjo He is. When a
man can transform the PUNK PUNK of
this instrument associated with min
strels and coon songs, into effective
rendering of Wagner, it must be ad.
mitted that he deserves the title the
play bill gives him. Polk did it, and
then just to show that it wasn't a
Wagner banjo he gave lot of music
that WASH t Wagner's s.
Clever serio-comic songs never fail
to eaptiVate the average American
crowd. "To Make Home for MOTH
err is clever. At least it's clever
when Miss Agnes A. Miles sings it,
and acts it. Her other songs were
taking and the musical repartee with
William Welch in the box was an in.
novation in Honolulu and made hit.
Miss Miles was recalled again and
again.
The ingenuity of absurdity can
hardly go farther than Hallen and
Fuller's skit Election Bets. Ap-
parently all the fool election bets that
were ever made and lost have been
studied over and the fooIest ones pick
ed out and utilized. 1t goes with dash
and there is a take-off of real foible |
in every absurdity.
Wilson, the spinning eyelist, and |
Adonis, the equilibrist wonder, and his
dog Lottie with the "human brain,"
supplied the "ground and lofty tum
bling" feature without which no
vaudeville bill is complete. Trick BIZ
cyclists have been on the stage ever
since the bicycle was invented, but
Wilson shows that the capacity of the
wheel as medium for the display of
skill in balancing and juggling, and of
the human muscle in balancing and
Juggling, has not yet been exhausted.
The well-trained and clever animal
performer is always a source of the
best kind of enjoyment. The dog Lot
tie is both well trained and clever
performer. Adonis is an equilibrist of
high order. Their stunt brought a
program that was good from beginning
to end to a finish that the audience
was reluctant to believe was indeed
the finish.
The vagabond touch to the program
was given by Rinaldo, the wandering
minstrel. Dressed in a half gypsy cos
tune that harmonized with the char
acter, he made his violin talk and sing
and whisper and laugh. 1t told the
story of the poet and the peasant, and
it made some of the old Moody and
Sankey tunes sound like orchestral Sc
lections, and then it took coon songs
and made them express real human
sentiments Whether it was in Rinal-
do. his bow or his violin or all three,
there was mastery of melody and har
mony.
Vaudeville as presented last night
made a hit.
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