Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-09-12
MAKES GOOD AND
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]. Rufus Wallingford, worlds cham
pion get-rich-quick artist. accanlpan.
led by his able confederate and pal.
Horace Daw, breezed into Honolulu
last evening shortly after. eight
o'clock with q bankroll. Of $40 and his
nerve. He stuck around for about
three hours, turned square made q
large number Of frienlls and broke
into the Carnegie. Rocksfeller class
George N. Cohan's drsnlatization Of
the bunco stories from the pen Of
George Randolph Chester makes one
OF the best offerings, thus far, in the
repertoire OF the Worlds Eair Stock
Company. gives each member OF the
organization an opportunity to extend
himself and herself &c the limit and
proves a laugh getter thar II would
be hard TO beat. incidentally the
stage setting In the final act. which
shows a veranda on Wallingforl'
home after two prosperous years in
Battlesburg, Iowa, Is one Of the finest
pieces OF work Ct its kind seen in Ho-
Moulin in long ume
The brilliantly iliuln mated city.
which has grown from village 10
pretenfious Eanufactory with T5.-
900 population under the efforts Of
Wallingfords Is shown IL TIVE distance
while miniature electric sdrS rane sbf
WaIlingford's first ventures crosses
End recrosses q bridge correcting
two Of Battlesburg's main arteries.
The scenic effect is excellent and call
ed for hearty. applause from last
nights audience.
Ferdinand Munier. as Walliagford,
showed to good auTantage and Demon
strated his versatility as an actor
in fact this applies to the entire mem
bership Of the company. James Dill
Ion, as -Blackie. Da~, was s3oj,
while John @. Wray, as Eddie Lamb.
the hotel clerk had a part that might
have been written particularly for
him.
Virginia Brissac as Fannie Jasper,
d stenographer-later Mrs Wall;ng-
ford is the personification of sweet
ness, while Ruth Van as Dorothy
Wholesaler Mrs. DAVIS excellent.
But why particularize? Below is he
cast of characters, complete and from
top to bottom there is not a member
Of the cast who did not handle the as
signed part In good shape, giving a
production worthy Of q travelling
company.
For fast and furious action from
curtain to curtain but few plays have
been written thai compare with Wal
lingford. With ('hcster's strange sill
nations and langh-getsing lines and
Cohan's. knowledge ri stage craft al
production mas been floatfd that is a
rapid-fire lacglrgetter. There is a
laugh In almot every line and thei
Worlds Fair Stuck Company gets
every laugh oct Of the production
that Conan intended to be gotten.
The ease with which Wallingford
and ,Daw trim a boob" is well known
to the average magazine reader who
has found It impossible 10 escape the
Chester habit. In the dramatiza-
ton "the boobs" DON. wait 10 be
approached but willingly relieve them
selves of their spare cash begging
wallingford to favor them by taking
the coin. While the original inten-
ton Of the pair. of grafieis was tol
trim every boob in Bsct.esbucg. clean
I'D about q quarter of milton ana
blow, little Dan Cupid interferel. both
so down for the count in the arena
of hearts and their efforts to bel
crooked lead them to tie straight and
narrow where they cleanup in legit-
innate manner through the nannfsc-
turing of covered-headed carpet lacks,
the operation of rapid transit lines
and other live and up-to-date business
ventures. Both marry and live happy
ever after.
The love scenes in Wallingford are
most refreshing. the mushy manner
liz which such scenes are usually
handled being entirely lacking.
Some stunning costumes are worn
by the ladies of the cast, especially
Miss Brissac and Margare. Nugentl
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