The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-24
MARSHALL DARRhCH
IS FOND Of FISHING

! Marshall Darrach, the man who
turns blank platform into an orchard.
battlefield, or a ship in a storm at
! sea, merely by few gestures and the
to go yachting. He is very glad to
talk about fishing and any other sport
on the water or in the open air. but
of himself he says nothing and shuts
you up with a discreet turn of the con-
-versation when you try to get at him.
| In his way Mr.. Darrach is an
anomaly. Here is a finished and ac-
complished actor who has never known
| the feel of grease paint and who has
never acted on the theater stage. He
has none of the disliked traits of the
average actor. He hires no press-agent,
| he courts no publicity and he is as
genuinely modest as he is well built
and that is saying very much.
This Darrach is built like a Hercules.
! The fantastic drapings of modern even
| ing dress show only the breadth of his
| shoulders and depth of chest, but the
innate power and vigor of the man
show well when he walks and the Wal
kiki bathing suit displays biceps,
forearm and leg muscles that remind
| one of champion wrestler.
| 1t is perhaps some of this muscular
strength, so well mastered and gradual
| ed by his active brain, that enables
him to depict his many characters and
to stand the dreadful nervous strain of
an entire evenings performance.
He loves Shakespeare. Perhaps that
| is sine qua non in his profession. He
finds no difficulty in memorizing the
| lines and can quote any part of any
of the plays he portrays at any time.
| 1t was hard to get him to talk. even
about Shakespeare, but he loosened up
| when reference was made to fine
pungent humor of some of the lines in
Twelfth Night and how they put to
shame the efforts of modern slang.
There are many lines said Mr..
| Darrach, "that appear in Shakespeare S
plays, which are laden with punning
| hits. But these hits were adapted to
the times in which they were written
and SO 1 have to slaughter many of
them. While the cultured listener ap-
preciates that there is humor in the
lines, he cannot possibly grasp the
sense of the allusion, far less so when
am depicting every character than
| if the play was produced on stage
with full cast.
| Audiences differ greatly. I have
appeared so much before audiences com
posed of college students that / have
| learned not to trust to applause. Col
| lege students will applaud whether they
have really enjoyed and appreciated
the performance or not. There is
something perfunetory about it and
do not base any feeling of success on
the noise made.
90 Take for instance last night in
the Young Hotel. There was not very
much demonstration but | had one of
the most pleasing audiences to talk to
that / ever appeared before. There
was no moving in the seats. No pust-
ling in the audience. Everybody was
attentive and, from the first few min
utes, / felt that mysterious rapport
between myself and my listeners which
always enables me to do my very best.
"Slang? Well, yes, have often
thought that much modern American
slang was captured from Shakespeare.
Take for instance that line of Sir
Toby's l spoke last night. Nay
you be an undertaken, then I'M for
you. Can your baseball writers beat
that for succinet and clever express
sion in the case? / think NOT
Mr.. Darrach will probably stay in
Honolulu until July 90. He will give
two extra performances after next Mon
dav ono of which will he the Temnest
His friends are anxious to have him
appear in larger place where there
will be room for more than a mere few
to listen to his magic portrayals OF
Shakespeare characters.