Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-31
BANKERS To GIVE
MUSICAL COMEDY
Production Is Planned as Enter
tainment Feature During
October Convention
SCENE LAID IN HAWAII ISLAND
Many Los Angeles Women viii
Take Feminine Singers
Parts in Play
SCENE LAID IN HAWAII ISLAND

III particular ana llle community III
general will occur during the week of
October 3rd-the thirty-sixth annual
convention of the American Bankers
association and the annual show to be
given by the Los Angeles Chapter of
the American Institute of Banking.
The play is one of the events planned
for the entertainment of the visiting
bankers
The bankers this year will present
"Manalay," a new Hawaiian musical
comedy by Harry Girard. Mr.. Girard
is an honorary member of the local
chapter and will direct the produc
ton 1t will be given at the Auditor
ium October to 8. The scenery for
the production is being built by J. D.
Martin of the Majestic theater
The officers of the local chapter of
the American Institute of Banking,
which is presenting the musical COM
edy and which numbers nearly six
hundred members, are:
President Leo S. Chandler: vice
president, H. c. Hurst; secretary, w.
G. Mohr: treasurer, G. S. Greene; di-
rectors, Leo S. Chandler, H. c. Hurst,
chairman educational committee G. S.
Greene, chairman ways and means
committee: F. A. Ruenitz, chairman
Thomson. chairman auditing commit
tee George Carlisle, chairman house
committee; j. G. Noodle, chairman en-
tertainment committee.
While it is a bankers show. there
will be no male prima donnas and
soubrettes and no deceptiOns will be
practiced as to who's who in the caste.
The women will be real and beside
those in the principal roles there will
be sixty pretty and sweet-voiced So
Ciety girls in the chorus. There will
also be one hundred members of the
institute in the chorus The bankers
will confine themselves strictly to male
roles and the feminine parts will be
taken by the following well-known Los
Angeles singers:
HEROINE MUST MARRY
Agnes Cain Brown -Girard. to whose
ability as a singer Los Angeles au-
diences have always given warm testi-
mony and who will sing the leading
role: Miss Hazel Rundge, Miss Edith
Salyer, Miss Jane Metzler, Miss Alma
Murphy. Miss Jesselyn Van Trump,
Miss Ion Gale, Miss Helen Sullivan
of the BelascO Theater company, and
Miss Jane Urban, soubrette.
The male portion of the caste is as
follows: Messrs. Ed. Philbrook, Fred
c. Macpherson. T. ]. Finn, c. F. Sci
del, Carroll johnson, Ray Padrick, f.
B. Dunwell. ]. B. Sherry and Henry
Balfour The musical comedy is an
Interviewing of Hawaiian melodies
which are used to tell in song the fol-
lowing story:
Manalay is an island of the Pacific
ocean and lies on the one hundred and
eightieth meridian, the international
date line. The crown of the island has
descended to and is shared jointly by
the Princess Louise and Prince Me-
hoku, a kanaka. Louise has come into
her inheritance through her Octoroon
mother but her father was an Ameri-
can naval officer, Captain Obediah Tar
box The conditions of the Will by
which Louise came into possession of
half the crown were that she must
marry before her eighteenth birthday
or lose the succession in favor of
Prince Mehoku: if, however, she mar
ries within the specified time the crown
becomes hers solely.
The scene opens on the last day Of
her reign. She has but twelve hours
more to hold the crown unless she mar
ries within that time. MehOku feels
sure of acquiring the crown and plans
at the same time to force Princess
Louise meet it is a case of love at
Admiral Att, commanding the South
Pacific squadron of the United states
navy arrives in the bay at the east
end of the isle. Louise has sent for
him to aid her in her distress, know
mate of her fathers. With the ad-
mral is his favorite nephew, Lieuten-
ant Ney Val Flagg. When he and
Louise meet is IS a case of love at
first sight Seeing this, MehOlIu flies
into a rage and stirs up the natives
to help him. He makes prisoners OF
the admiral the lieutenant and Prin-
cess Louise and then proceeds to nave
himself hailed as king. But his plans
are spoiled by Louise who manages to
send a signal to the fleet in the bay
and the L. S. jackies come to the re-
lief of the prisoners.
REVERsEs LIQUOR CURE
The second act shows how a date line
can be of use in musical comedy Ad-
miral Att makes use of the fact that
vessels sailing westward set the time
tWenty-four hours ahead on reaching
the one hundred and eightieth meri-
dian and applies the plan to the ISL
and. which is divided into halves by
the line. This gives Louise twenty
four hours longer to hold her crown
but she had already fastened it Sc
curely by marrying the valiant lieu
tenant.
There is q secondary and comedy
Mot in which Timothy Hanks, king of
a naighboring isle, has won the heart
of the Widow TarboX under false pre-
tensions He has played the GaShlng
clubman, when in reality he is temper
ate. The widow has determined upon
the gold cure for him as a condition
to marriage. Hanks fears tha effect
Of an unmerited cure, but more, he
fears confession The widow succeeds
I'm administering a shot of gOld chlor-
ide, whereupon Hanks, crazed with
the powerful drug, turns to liquor as
a sure "cure."
Freddy" Virgins, a New York bar
keeper. is serving Hanks as personal
mixer Reddy laments mixing drinks
for Hanks to throw away. He welcomes
the admiral and his officers as real
consumers. Another love story run
ming through the play is that Of
Freddy" who loves Hua, native prin-
cess. and wins her
The work of rehearsing for the pro-
duction will commence at once. The
bankers have allowed plenty Of time
for thorough work and as the event
is planned in honor of the visiting
bankers. no effort will be spared to
make it a first-class entertainment.
Members of the institute who are
serving on the various committees for
the show are:
Business managers, George S. Green
and Warren Smith.
Advertising r. w. GalWe, Jr., II. c.
Hurst r. A. Ruenitz.
Printing, Carroll Johnson, w. NJ
Kreim, II. Albert dewitt.
Finance, G. S. Greene, w. Fl. Lutb,