The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-08
EVA MOORE IS
VERY CHARMING
Leading Lady of PoIlards SINGS
Unaffected|y at Scene
Rehearsal.

Smooth as the flow of the late flood
tide,
| Perfect in every line,
Is the swing of the old rehearsal stunt
| When the Pollards get in line.
Graceful the work of the tall first man.
All of his stuff is pat
Tuned to the letter we like him the
better,
For losing that ssdinky hat.''
This by way of joke and not of
a slam on Alfred Goulding. Just how
man can gain the knowledge Of stage
craft and general "Back-drop SAVIOR
faire' that this young Australian has
accumulated in twenty-four wears. it
is hard to say. But he has it and he
was unconsciously showing it last
night.
The last rehearsal of "The Charity
Bali except for the big dress re-
hearsal stunt tonight, was filing the
Opera House with mirth and tuneful
gladness, not to mention something of
real pathos and the tender voice of
human sympathy last night.
With the gaping emptiness of a
" dark house in front of you, it is
hard to put anything but the mechan-
zeal business into your lines, but the
young Pollards have nothing mechan.
zeal about them. They are young, they
are enthusiastic and, above all, they all
have a touch of the divine fire of
genius that enables them to reach the
highest form of art, expression.
1t is hardly fair to tell about the
plot of play, or to write of the differ
emit points that are hoped for-hits, but
there is one scene in the first act OF
1.-THE Charity Ball. that, even in dull
rehearsal, is so charming in its quaint
simplicity that all the stage managers
in the world and the ogre of the box
office combined could not keep fingers
from finding the keys of it on the
wheeling typewriter.
Eva Moore, playing the part of
Anne Kruger. befriends tired little
waif of the streets. She fills the poor,
little, empty inside of the youngster
with good things to eat and they make
an entrance with the small boy replete
with meal such as he has scarcely
ever had in his short life and very,
very sleepy and tired. At the back of
the stage is a raise where a chair
stands in front of a fireplace The
youngster is dropped sleepily into the
chair and then Miss Moore sings over
him.
It is a dainty song, Ma Cherie''
they call it and the words swing easily
into the lullaby lit of the music.
there at the back of the stage,
in plain street clothes and without the
hid of makeup or any accompaniment,
but gentle undertone from the piano,
Eva Moore sang the song SO sweetly, so
unafectedly and with the full fresh
ness of an unspoiled voice, that the
mere recorder of events forgot criticism
and all the supple appliances of stage
craft and knew that it was good, very
good
The method of introducing the must |
cal and dancing numbers into the play |
is very clever. Alfred Goulding has |
worked it out and each song or dance
comes in just as naturally as though it |
were figured on by the author of the |
original play.
To know just how this is done and |
to appreciate the art of it. of course
one must go and see the play. All the
Pollard people are good in their differ
ent parts. They have the natural Aus
,ralian vivacity of delivery tuned down
% clear and easily-heard method of
speaking and their acting, as everybody
Snows, is that which comes from the
exercise of natural talent.
J. N. d.