The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-10-11
NEW ORPHEUM WILL
OPEN On MONDAY
Company Will Arrive on Mariana
With a nUp to-Date
Repertoire.

While local devotees of the drama
have been hungry for months for some
thing good in the theatrical line it has
at last been placarded that local the
atergoers VIII have placed before them,
in the very near future, a splendid his
trionic bill On Monday night the New
Orpheum will reopen, after a short sea
son of darkness. The George B. How
ard company, one of the widest known
and longest organized repertoire band
of players on the Pacific Coast, which
will arrive Friday OF the Mariana
from Vancouver, is bringing to Homo
lulu list of plays which would do
credit to any stock company IN the
States and lovers of thrills and whole
some comedy viii find their fill at the
Orpheum this fall and winter. The list
includes William H. Crane 5 three sea
son 5 success. FFather and the Boys, >
John Mason 5 dramatic triumph 1.-The
Witchlng Hour" The Travelling Sales
man" Paid in Full, "Christopher
Jr.. "Because She Loved Him SO, -
| THE Private Secretary" 1.-The Man
From Mexico,' ''Other People s
Money! and host of other great at
fractions.
Among the most important of these
are Father and the Boys which will
be the initial offering next Monday
NS't+abIprr H = 7 he
most stirring plays of modern dramas.
THE Witching Hour" is from the pen
of Augustus Thomas, America s great
est and richest playwright, author OF
Arizona, - I'm Missouri, and other
successes.
With John Mason in the leading role,
1.-The Witching Hour is IN its fourth
year 1t was given It's premier III FRO
violence and then taken to New York,
where at the Hackett theater 1t play
ed 800 nights. John Mason Is now
touring the States for the second time
with this wonderful play.
FEATHER and the Boys, William IL.
Crane 5 latest and most successfl play,
has lust closed a tWo-years run, the
creator of the first named part having
gone to London recently TO join Charles
Frohman 5 AII-Star Repertoire Compa-
ny. 'Father and the Boys only re-
Gently showed at the New Columbia
theater in San Francisco.
THE Travelling Salesman has been
a Broadway and Eastern success Tor
the past two seasons and is still going.
" Because She Loved Him So found
plenty of business in and around New
York for two years while the popular
| itv of ''Christopher Jr., - "Other PEG
pie ; Money! paid in FULL and
the other pieces mentioned IN the How
ard company 5 repertoire Will survive
another decade.
! As to the caiiber of the players which
! the Howard company has in its per
sonnet. their standard is measured by
| the successes they have attained
! throughout America as indiviuals and
particularly in the Pacifc-Northwest as
| an organization. The members of the
! company come to the New Orpheum
management highly recommended and If
| THEN standard Is to be measured by
! the high-cIass and modern plays which
! they promise to submit ii can be safely
said that the theatergoers of Honolulu
are to be congratulated in having such
n brilliant theatrical outlook for the
| coming season.
The Howard company includes among
others: George b. Howard, Robert
NcKim. Guy Ritner. Jas D. Norton,
oliver b. Daley, Charles Murphy, John
Baxter, Betty Johnson, Marion Dunn,
Eva MartelIa and Doris Mathews.
The sale Of seats for the opening
wees will begin next Thursday morn
inc at the New Orpheum box office.