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

DECK Tuitt : HaHajtan play. "Tl"
Bird of l'Ar"uH'. i now III its seC0n!
s,aSOn. II Mas, been given "a NOClter
GUS welcome III thj'2~o. the l'atiY
News rubi.nru@ Il t,Htyving rc!Ies.
It is TOO hug to quote In fan.
That Hawai- lH,:utd come at AS cen.
side rab!I ht up aid sUitry with the
sulphurous lava OF II r not Scotch!ng
about prOmlscuuU.!y Cu"ht neither L"
Il surprise nj = core. tut exactly the
sort of tang expo cttu # Hawaii dram
atIZtd.
PIaintiveIy FIowery Love Story.
Mr.. Tully has t"p~d himself vehen-
emily with the tropical air of Hone
lulu and delivers himself OF a plant
Ively tiowery love story approaching
the poetic Sometimes he sophomore
enjoyment TIE author taxes in the pa
thOs Of his own theme carries him into
lugubrious minors and WOrdy thren-
Ody, but mis- play is odd, with walls
of lazy music trailing through the
dripping vines and iHdisputable atmC-
spheric truth ard that piteous happi-
ness known only to genuinely super
stItIOus 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
its tiowery fingers and leave him I'M
done and wrecked.
1t is SO wildly operate that before
or LeoncaveIlo, one of the pulsing ro-
mantiCists of the latest Italian school,
ought to dream a wonderful score for
it. Even as it is, there is inseparabIe
from the unfolding of the play, an I'M
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, /. We're the plot
laid in any other country it would, be
the baldest rubbish and unendurably
priggish and artificial ii 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 most annoying mistake,
why, the the theme slips into the ell
mate exquisftely and braves cynical
alarms. ,~~r x .r~>"~'--
Cream Of Players for Company.
Mr. Moroscos companies are always
selected from the cream of players,
and, although the present organization
las lost that prismatic creature of
beauty and force, Laurette Taylor, who
made the play tolerabie, 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 I4aurette'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
neither conspicuous power nor COM
pactness. Frank Sheridan is immense
as the cane planter with political I'M
and big, luminous char
acter. Lewis Stone plays the slippery
doctor bravely and with great elegance
of dramatic touch.
In the following cast are several ia
miliar names:
liliha. .............. Miss Pearl Rose
Makia. ........M Miss Jane Meredith
kanoa. ...........W W. K. kolomOku
hapule. -. .............B b. WaiWaOle
Maine ................ .. NJ. halaWe
huaklnl .................. T.. LOke
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