Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-08
HAWAIIAN PLAY
SUCCESS AGAIN
bird of Paradise" Now in Sec.
ond Season and Making
Good Easily

Bird Of Paradise. Is row in its secoE
se2s0n ID has been given Voclfer
Gus welcome in Chicago, the iIally
News publishing hattering re"Ie "
Ii is too Tong 10 quote i'll fC!l:
; That HawAi! Should come at US con
siderab.y lit up aHd sultTy with the
sulphurous lava or Pele hot ScOtChIng
about prOmlscu0usly ought neither te
a surprise nor tCc., Lut exactly the
sort of thIn2 expected Of Hawaii dram
atlZed
PIaintive!y Flowery Love Story.
Mr. fully has dOped himself vehem-
entity with the tropical air Of HOnu-
lulu and delivers himself of q plant
lvely tiOwery love story approaching
the poetic. Sometimes the sophomore
enjoyment the author takes in the pa
thCs of his own theme carries him into
lugubricus minors and wOrdy thren-
ody, but his play is odd with walls
OF lazy music trailing through the
dripping vines and iGdisputable atmC-
spheric truth and that piteous happi-
ness known only to genuinely super
Sltious and idOlatrous natives Of sun
stricken climates. Where the snow
is, and crisp, nigh air, nothing of this
innocent sort exists, and that is what
the beach comber in Tully's The
Bird of Paradise" cOnfesses when he
warns the rather easy mark doctor
that he would better fee the disas-
trous sun, lest it clutch his brain with
it's tiowery fingers and leave him I'M
done and wrecked.
1t is so wildly operate that before
it is totally lost Puccini or Mascagni
or Leoncavello, one of the pulsing ro-
manticists of the latest Italian school,
ought to dream wonderful score for
1t. Even as it is, there is inseparable
from the unfolding of the play, an un-
der current of deliciously atmospheric
music. Idle men lounge amiably
around twanging miniature guitars and
beating gourds, rafting seed tambou-
rines and bringing fearful patters and
sobs from the empty fruits of the is
land. 1t is eXultantly theatrical and
keyed up to an extraordinary pitch of
sentimental extravaganza. Emotions
surge and play in sulky lightnings all
through the story and the contrast be-
tween blunt, cold Americanism thrust
close into the poi kettles of this celes-
tial abode for the tomorrow man and
poppy seed lends brilliant colors to
the human part of it. Were the plot
laid, in any other country it would be
the baldest rubbish and unendurably
priggish and artificial. But put in a
land where they have to sing every
thing over twice before they. decide
about it and where they look upon
money as a most annoying mistake,
why, the the theme slips into the eli
mate eXquisitely and braves cynical
alarms. s- =....:
Cream Of Players for Company.
Mr.. Morosco's companies are always
selected from the cream of players,
and, although the present organization
has lost that prismatic creature of
made the play tolerable, it reveals
Miss Bessie Barriscale in more than
a servile imitation of the palpitating
Taylor. That Miss Barriscale has
wisely followed Miss Taylor is laugh
ably apparent, for Laurette's hula-hula
strut, the glance of the long, deep eye
and stoop in the pitiful little hurt
shoulders are wildly Taylor, but beau
tifully done by Miss Barriscale, who
has beauty of nearer sort to the
acolytes Of Pele than cold, blonde and
blue of Taylor. Miss Barriscale has
a trainante, tender voice and charm.
ing personality, is pretty, vivaciously
dramatic and altogether adorable. .
Guy Post does excellent work in
part which is merely an episode, with
conspicuous power nor COM
pactness. Frank Sheridan is immense
as the cane planter with political I'M
derstandings and big, luminous char
acter. Lewis Stone plays thesslippery
doctor bravely and with great elegance
of dramatic touch.
In the following cast are several ia