The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-11
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Sweet as the scent Of clover ned,
Clear as the Angeius bells,
j. the voice of our dainty Eva Moore:
And something prophetic 1t tells.
And this is the prophecy of her voice
And her manner 5 clinglng charm,
To stay in the rut of Opera B0uffe
Will do her only harm.
For she has an air, and a presence too,
Suggesting sweet womanly tact.
Above all, she can wear her
dresses, and
Most certainly can act.
So. if a scribbler perehance may in
trude
And say what is in his heart,
Our Eva will play, as she did last
night,
Some noble woman 5 part.
oueenly in gesture, thrilling in voice,
A figure embodying grace,
If she once gets chance where the
big critics roam,
She will take the highest place.
Good as were all the young actors
in the ..Charitv Ball. last night, well
as the piece was played, great as was
the reception they received from a
crowded house, one thing was apparent
to everybody who watched the per
Torrance. Eva Moore will some day
be great actress.
Jumping. as she has done, from comic
opera roles, in which she has been edu-
Gated and brought up, to one OF the
most human parts ever written, she was
good. Her portrayal of the part OF
Anne Kruger in the "Charity Ball .
last night was nothing short OF won
derful.
At the age when most asplrants 10
fame on the stage are besieglng man
ayers for a chance to get waik-on
part, she is playing a part that calls
for very sympathetic acting, and She
does it well. She is not perfect, Of
course. She carries many little lido
svncraces from her comic opera roles
that need eliminating. But she mas
the Unborn grace of manner and ges-
ture that makes a great actress. Some
dav we shall all be proud to say that
we knew Eva Moore when she was Just
graduated from the Lilliputlan com
panies.
The audience was about the largest
and most sympathetic that the Opera
House has ever seen. Each musical m
terpolation was loudly encored three,
four. yea. aud even FIVE, times. Fred
BindIoss made wonderful hit with
81 IN Starving for Sight of You,
and the mirror song by Ada Hind, TO
g Meet Me at the Bodega, was en-
cored so many times that IN pure pro-
lection the stage manager had to send
on the PLAYERS, who took their cues
from the last words of the song.
Alfred Geulding was better as the
clergyman hero even than in the dress
rehearsal. He spoke very clearly and
the hard business of repression all the
way through was carried without a
flaw.
Ada Hind was refreshing whenever
she tripped on the stage. Her little
love affair with Teddie Mcnamara was
we'll exploited by both of them, and
the last act, where she and Teddit
wrap themselves in flag, made great
: hit
The aCharity Ball placed the audi
ence 1t will probably continue t
please. In future let US hope that the
exeerable hoboes who made nuisances
of themselves in the gallery will moi
attempt to get in. The management OF
the Opera House deserves great credit
for it's summary action in ejeetIng sew
eraI of them last night. The Pollard:
are playing high-class drama and com
edy and not barn storming shows thai
cali for indecent Interruptions from
the 9 gods J. n. ID.
A Peep Behind the Scenes at the
Orpheum.
A reporter of the Advertiser happen
ed down Fort street yesterday in the
vicinity of the Orpheum and hearing
lots of hustle inside dropped in. He
found a bunch of our best theater-goers
at the box Office window, and the pleas
ant cllnk of coin showed that there
was something doing in the way OF
buying seats. Joe Cohen invited hin
back on the stage where he found ev
erything topsy-turvy. Two big dray.
were diseharging their loads of trunk:
and scenery at the stage door and the
stage crew under the direction OF
''Press' We're slowing it away ane
hanging it in the flies in preparation
for the opening of the Elleford com
pany on Monday night. 1t was per
feet bedlam of voices on the stage and
some of the conversation sounded like
this:
.3 Press :, who is hurrying up some
OF the stage hands)-'FH Hale oe hama
wiki paepoe kepo''. Don't know
what he said but the boys hustled all
right. (From the scene painter on the
paint BRIDGE -" Well, you girls get ont
from under the bridge if you don t
want paint all over you. This is no
garden party. From one of the
ladies after they eseape)-''I wonder
if Press would have time to swear at
that painter. He has covered nv new
hat with yellow paint and l never could
wear yellow.
Then some of the old members of
the company were sitting on one side
of the stage and the conversation
sounded something like this:
Hernandez - Hope they II like me