Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-09-04
Virginia Brissac And Associates
Are Welcomed Back to Honolulu
Worlds Fair Stock Company
Opens with Success in The
travelling Salesman

The Travelling Salesman" arrived
at the Opera House on the Sis train
Hast night, and unpacked line OF
samples that brought him deluge Of
orders. and assured profitable bus
mess during his stop-of in this burg.
Getting away from the slang of the
road" the facts are that John Wray
presented Virginia Brissac, support
ed by the Worlds Fair Stock Com
pany, and under the management OF
U. C. Cohen. in the opening bill OF q
series of the very latest and great
est New York successes"
II was a gladstone and even joy
GUS occasion In the first place the
opera house was filed back to the
Great Wall of China with people who
came to look at the show on the
stage, not at each other, and conse-
quently the -admonitions Of lmpresario
cohen to dress foS comfort and not
for style were needed. The opera
mousse was cool enough, and the cor
diality of the audience was warm
enough. Then theatrical friend after
theatrical friend appeared on the
srage. to be welcomed with quick
salvos OF applause by their friends
from orchestra to gallery. There was
carload Of flowers banked on top
lof the piano, and Conductor Carl Mflt-
her, at the end of the first act, gave
a correct imitation of perpetual mo
ton as he handed them across the
footlights to the surprised-of course
recipients. = Efs
To round out the reasons for joy,
the opening play was James Forbes
The Travelling Salesman" that
Odyssey Of the drummer. This Is a
real Forbesy play, which is saying a
lot to those who remember his earlier
success, The Chorus Lady" 1t has
all the bright, crisp slang, the pun
gent epigraIn and the shifting emo
ti6n Of The Chorus Lady" and a dis
tmctive plot of its own. The plot
misses mefodrama by the width Of a
split hair. There is the dear old
farm, not much of a farm, but good
enough for stage purposes, brave
little, sweet little girl named Beth
Elliott. who is purveying railroad
tickets and sunsniny remarks. at the
station in Grand Crossing, and who
hopes pretty soon to save enough
money to pay the taxes on that farm,
and presumably retire to it There
are two crafty villains, Franklin
Royce, q smooth young man in cor
rect brown clothes and correct black
eyebrows, and martin Drury, an up
to-date Satan with an imperial beard
and crooked eye. There is also
bob Blake. knight of the road. FIRE.
pressible of speech, quick of emotion,
mighty good at heart, in spite of the
fact that his clothes look as If they
were made for his small brother. But
that Is probably q new style In drum
mer,s apparel.
Well; tine plot thickers around the
efforts OF Royce and Drury to swindle
this brave little girl out of hersf farm
by buying 1t in a tax sale. Here is
where the drummer enters and gets
busy It's Christmas day when he
blows upon the scene, sees Beth Eli
Oft selling tiekets and becomes her
willing slave. How he foils the vii
Iians, after series of misunderstand-
ings with Beth, and how the dear old
farm is saved and the drummer goes
to the rock-pile thereon instead of on
to the next town, Is told tn four acts
full of wit and spontaneous gaiety.
The play affords a fitting vehicle
for Forbes light, airy, sIangy humor
and for the Worlds Fair Stock Com
Ipany5s capable actors and actresses.
Miss Virginia Brissac, already popu-
a I A. 4.