The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-03-29
MRS. FRANCS R. DAYS DRAMA
CREATED A BIG SENSATION
Honolulu Authoress Who Returned Yesterday
Hit Rockefeller in Play Produced
in His Own University.

Mrs. Francis R. Day, widow of the
late DIR. Day Of Honolulu. was a re
turning passenger on the Korea yester-
day. Mrs. Day is the authoress Of
play, produced i'll Chicago, which made
a national sensation. and the San Fran
cisco papers contain stories OF how she
FASTENED a revision Of the play in order
to have it finished before the Korea
sailed. The Examiner says:
Mrs. Francis R. Day, the playwright,
who since Saturday has been working
night and day at the 1t. Francis Hotel
ON the revision of her industrial drama,
Goliath, viii sail for Honolulu today
on the Korea. Two weeks ago Go
Hath was presented by the Dramatic
Club OF Chicago, causing a sensation IN
that city ana resulting III strict cen
sOrshlp OF dramatlcs III the university.
The play Is founded Oh Jne = Harper
wheat deal Of twenty years ago, i'll
which the Standard Oil Company. by a
campaign OF cruelty, heaTtieesuess and
greed, WAS able to crush tWeuty-three
brokerage firms to the wall and clean up
more than SlU,OUU,0UU. When Go
Hath, " bringing up the memories Of
that series OF tragedies, was presented
by the university founded by John y.
Rockefeller, Chicago was astounded.
just why the dramatic club departed
from its regular custom Of presenting
classical play aud gave a modern IN
dustriaI drama OF tins type is still uu-
explained.
Faculty Was Dismayed.
Mrs Day told last night OF the seIcc-
tiou OF her play tor the dramatic club ;
annual performance in ignorance Of the
significance attached to the plot, Of
the dismay and prompt action OF the
faculty when the parallel was disclosed
by the presentation and OF the subse~
quent scramble Of professional mana
gers III Chicago to procure the play.
Mr.. Terrence Wallace. manager Of
the Sylvan Players, finally secured my
play, said Mrs. Day. with the lnteH-
tion Of putting it on rehearsal at once
| then started Tor Honolulu, where
am going to spend the summer. Last
Saturday MI Wallace wired me to re
wise the last act before | sailed, 50 |
| had to shut myself up away from my
friends and do week ; work in two
days.
CONSERVATION Was Great.
There was great CONSERVATION in
the faculty Of the university when the
parallel was pointed out, and the pro
| fessors stopped the production after
| two performances had been gIN en-.
Strict rules were passed which will
make it impossible for the students to
give another play before the professors
have looked through it for any sig
nifcance there might be.
''Eyervone in Chicago seemed to see
| the facts Of the famous Harper deal
| in my play. continued Mrs. Day. " but
! | have not confirmed their beliefs any
| more than to say that the plot is taken
| from a great wheat deal which was
ruthIcssly put through in Chicago a
| little more than twenty wears ago.
Here's a Deadly Parallel
The following analogy between $50
! Hath and the Harper deal Of 1887 will
show why everybody in Chicago seemed
to see the facts of the deal in the pre-
, sentation of the play:
In "GoIiath' Henry France Is
the principal figure in the Wheat
panis In the Harper deal Henry
NJ FIagler Cipher "France } was
the principal figure in the wheat
panic.
In the play Philip Shields is his
partner in the manipulation. In the
real manipulation Philip D. Ar
| mour was the partner.
| Edward Bard in the play is the
| Cincinnati banker who is ''squeez-
| ed in the deal Edward l.. Har-
| per. banker Of Cincinnati. was
ruined by the Harper deal Of 1857.
| The plot is almost identical.
PurposeIv spread rumors Of the in
soIvencv Of the Cincinnati bank
bring on the panic, both in real
life and in the play. In both IN
| stances the head broker believes he
is buviug for France (Flager).
! when in reality the stock is being
| rcsoId secretly
In '|Golah' a pretty love story
| runs through the stock market
| manifestations. in which one Of the
brokers is saved from ruin by his
| sweetheart discovering the perhdE
| Of France. after eighteen firms
have been crushed to the wall.
In the Harper real the double
doaIinr was not discovered until
too late to save anybody, with the
! result that twentvthrec firms went
| down i'm the crash.
Broker Gave Her Facts.
! NJ. Dav- for many wears lived in