The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-11
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A Charming Texan Girl.

Fresh as the wind on the Texas range,
Bright as the sun of the prairie land,
Charming with every wonanly
change
Oh, lucky the soldier who won her
handi
A daughter is she of a cattle king,
And princess by right of a royal
face;
Her coyness and charm FER the foot
lights take wing
And hit all the men In the very same
place.
Which all refers to Matte Lloyd
Luce, who plays the part of Bossy in
"A Texas Steer at the Orpheuna, I'M
fortunately only once again. This little
actress has been very pleasing in all
the parts she has played here, but never
| has had one that fitted her so charm
ingly as does that of the prairie-bred
| daughter of the cattle king.
She is engaged to a soldier, who does
not believe in ladies appearing in Wash
ington, in the middle of the day, in
elaborate evening toilets, and there
| is ruetion between them. Bossy learns
much wisdom about the method of do
| ing things IN Washington in a short
space of time and the final scene,
| where she sends for her lover and cum
ningly obliges him to make up the
quarrel, is as cute and pretty piece OF
acting as the boards of the old Orpheum
ever had the happiness to witness.
Hoyt's great comedy is as good as
ever. The beauty of 1t is that it will
be just as good fifty years from now.
The lines are teeming with clever hits,
and they are all well delivered. The
hardest work falls on George Herman
dez as the colored offieeseeker, and
| Clarence Ferguson as the Texas Steer.
Hernandez is very good. He gets off
| his work In a very quiet and droll way,
| and there is a laugh every time he
opens his mouth and many while he is
| merely acting. There IS a ticklish lit
tie piece in the play where, as the I'M
| fortunate political aide who is look
ing for a job in Washington, he de-
claims to the congressman from his dis
| trict, the Texas Steer, on the subject
| of officeseekers in the capital
Having nothing but funny business
to do up to that time, Hernandez is up
against hard proposition, but he car
ries it off magnifcently. and the mix
| ture Of humor and pathos is delivered
70 the audience so eleverly that you
| don t know whether to laugh or cry.
If somebody were to sit on the stage
| and merely read the script OF the play,
it would be immensely entertaining
Acted as it is By the Elleford com
| pany- it is even more so. Miss Luce
| and George Hernandez are to be con
| graduated on the work that they dc
in this comedy, and the rest of the com
pany backs them up very cleverly.
A feature of the show last night was
the appearance Of our one and only
| Frank Wyman as a colored waiter. He
is very entertaining and was unob'
trusively funny all the way through
He made a trem essdeus hit in the scene
where he introduces a lady to the
apartments of Maverick Brander, the
Texan congressman. and was careful
not to overdo il. We should ike 80 see
Frank on the stage more often
After the third act the Osborn kid
dies sang some very clever songs and
did Mexican dance, in which they
were very graceful.
"a Texas Steer viii he repeated
tonight. and tomorrow viii be anothel
special matinee of ''Cinderella TO
the children. The house sold out at th'
!. last matinee. which encouraged th'
management to give repetition of thi
pretty play. The Orpheum was almos
crowded last night, which seems TO b.
a sign that the people are waking III
to the fact that the Ellefords are reall,
, putting On excellent shows.