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
last night, and unpacked a line Of
samples that brought him deluge Of
orders, and assured a 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
}. c. Cohen, in the opening bill OF a
series of the very latest and great
est New York successes"
II was gladstone and even joy
Gus occasion. In the first place the
opera house was filled 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 ImpresariO
ICohen to dress for 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
Stage, to be welcomed with quick
salvos of applause by their friends
from orchestra to gallery. There was
CARLOAD of flowers banked on top
Of the piano. and Conductor Carl Milt-
her, at the end of the first act, gave
correct imitation of perpetual mo-
ton as he handed them across the
feotlights to the surprised-of course
recipients.
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 sayirgia
lot to those who remember his earlier
success, The Chorus Lady" 1t has
all the bright, crisp slang. the pun
gent epigram and the shifting emo
ton of The Chorus Lady" and dis
tlnctive plot of its own. The plot
misses melodrama by the width of a
split hair. = There is the dear old
farm, not much of a farm, but good
enough for stage purposes, a 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, 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, ire
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 a new style in drum.
mer's apparel.
Well, the plot thickens around the
efforts Of Royce and Drury to swindle
this brave little girl out of her farm
by buying II in 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 tickets and becomes her
willing slave. How he foils the vii
lians, after a 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 in four acts
full of wit and spontaneous gaiety.
. The play affords a fitting vehicle
for Forbes light, airy, slangy humor
and for the Worlds Fair Stock Com
pany's capable actors and actresses.
Miss Virginia Brissac. already popu-
lar from her former appearance here,
has the part of Beth Elliott and car
ries out its possibilities both charm