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n, LAWRENCE REAMER.

TINE retirement NJ Edward H.
Sothern from the Shakespearlan
= field removes the actor who had
been most successful In building
up a loyal public on whose support he
could depend. Probably Mrs. Sothern
Julia Marlowe) was the more popular
Of the two, and her retirement makes
the continuance OF the plan which these
Two have so prosperously followed FOR
decade or more altogether out Of the
question. Tho majority OF their spec
taiors probably went to see Hiss Mar
owe and Shakespeare and took incl
dental pleasure out Of the participation
Of Mr.. Sothern. Some Of his perform
snces were fine enough to have de-
lighted any admirers OF Shakespeare,
Notably his Jacques, which he took up
late IN his association with the actress.
and his Bcncdick, which was seen last
winter after the two players had tenn
psrsrily dropped the comedy from their
repertoire for several seasons, are GER
AIN 90 be remembered with pleasure.
But this Is no time to be estimating
NJ. Sotherns achievements I'm the
plays Of Shakespeare. Yet there Is
never minute when any admirer of
The theatre may not with justice de-
plore the retirement of Miss Marlowe.
Perhaps after a while she may be per-
suafes to appear occasionally In New
York, without attempting the severest
work of her profession IN other places.
II ia doubtful II there will be
scramble for the place left vacant by
the retirement Of Mr.. Sothern and
Mas Marlowe from the position they
made for themselves. Robert Mantell
continues his yearly tours with ap-
parent prosperity. Doubtless in many
cities the public which had formerly
TUNED 10 tho other two players will
had their satisfaction in Mr.. Mantell's
appearance. A year ago there might
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pleasure wherever they were disclosed
outside New York.
Thus beyond the prosperity Of the
Sotherns and Johnston Forbes Robert
son the artistic adventures OF the ambi-
tious who essayed the plays of Shake
spearc this season have not been happy
In the event. There Ii no particular ex-
PLANTATION for this result. unless II he
that the English are more successful
than our own actors in these attempts.
Beerbohm Tree has made public the
statistics OF some OF his revivals at His
MaJesty's Theatre. and they are not Of
a kind 70 discourage any mana gers.
Certainly Johnston Forbes Robertson
Jared famousy in his season Mt the
Shubert Theatre. There Is no reason
in tho world, however. why there should
have been any greater success for his
revival OF "Othe!lo" than Mr.. Faver-
sham enjoyed. The stars performance
posse ssed a certain distinction, but the
general performance. barring ono i'm
portant role, was Inferior to that OF the
actors at the Lyric. 1t is never AMI
cult to explain the success OF the Eng
lish players Hamlet. That is incom-
parable on tho English speaking stage
to-day. when he was ten years younger
and ten years better. however. New
York was Indifferent to his achieve
ments. Surely the announcement that
no was to retire could not have
awakened an interest In a performance
which was praised to the skies yet
failed to bring the public To the theatres
in which he acted. Was IL the wide
circle OF acquaintance he made In The
Passing Of the Third Floor Back" that
attracted the attention OF the public to
him?
Then the plays at the shubert were
not during the Forbes Robertson en-
gagement limited to Shakespeare. There
were some OF the other pieces in his
repertoire which had previously been as
powerless as his Hamlet" TO interest
the public. There was none of the God
given genius In any OF the Shakespeare
seen here recently to justify success on
this ground which so many OF the ad-
mirers OF the Elizabethan plays say Is
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tina rehearsals of Drake AT Her
Majesty's he dismissed the entire COM
pany one day and, taking pal with
HIM, drove to the East End 10 watch
the antics of a troupe or trained
monkeys. I hope IN like manner 10
foll6w tho fortunes Of Tcchow's cats
and Montague's cockatoos.
AT any rate do not care what man
ner OF act prccedes or follows me. 1t
Is up To me To work out my own saliva
ton wherever they place me on the
bill. You might have known that |
was new to vaudeville when on Monday
afternoon | did not insist on the pro-
scenium drop being lowered after the
Jolly comedians who preceded me. AS
il was, the stage manager simply raised
an ollo drop and the audience was
shifted abruptly from street scene TO
Jim Cdrst0ns ranch.
1.-THE vaudeville houses seem to me
TO be better run than the legitimate.
The efficiency Of the stage crew al the
Colonial is a matter OF marvel 10 me-
yet they say that the mechanical STAINS
OF all the Keith houses are equally eN-
pert. The business direction too Is ca
act and scientific. Mr.. otto Kahn, the
banker, told me not long ago that the
only branch Of the amusement business
which was conducted according tn mod
ern business practice was what IL known
as big time vaudeville, II seems that
the managers base everything upon the
reliable average income and do not
make the wild CANDLES that are SO COM
mon in the legitimate.
Would Ike to play Shakespeare all
the t!me'
~ would not, think that there 10
nothing that makes such bad modern
actors as TOO much classic drama, but
on tho othcr hand there Is nothing so
good u develop talent A. certain
amount or experiences In Shakespeare,
No artist can fail to be bonented by
breathing that large air snd aiming A.
tho representation Of those mighty per-
sonaiitier, We have many nne actor.
whom n season NJ classic training would
make great. Il would give them the
big note,
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William Faversham finds vaudeville
so eXhilaratng that no Is already ne
gotlat.ng with the United Booking
Offices for an annual spring season IN
the two a day. His first weck IN the
varieties AT tho Colonial Theatre caused
him 70 realize that n great new public
sat before him. Ho has SGT out to w.n
the men and women who feel that no
artist can hold tho boards successfully
for moro than thirty minutes at a
stretch.
Ie goes 10 the Brooklyn Orphcum
this week and thereafter sixteen weeks
Of big city timo has been laid out for
him and the contracts delivered. After
that he has the refusal OF another
twenty weeks over Martin Beck's or
pheum circuit. Discussing vaudeville
and Shakespeare In his dressing room
during the Colonial engagement Mr..
tAvershanl said:
II like vaudeville.
Vaudeville audiences are thoroughly
human; there Is no artihciality about
them. They do not care for padding,
for frippery. for pretcnce or for the big
bowwow manner They want sincerity
and common or garden humanity. They
get the points OF a play surpriSngly
quick.
The reception OF The squaw Man
makes me eager 70 play again smash
ing big mclodrama. There is nothing
l!ko good melodrama 10 get YOU close
to your audience. 1t Is the most salts
factory sort Of play for you 10 get a
grip upon your public that no other
dramatic voh.cle affords cannot tell
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all l had to do was to sit tight and
await results.
These began to appear In about four
weeks time and the audience gradually
increased in number until the theatre
was full. Thus play which might
have been tossed into the discard within
week or two ~ its production is to
remain in New York until the beginning
Of summer and perhaps longer, for
when a manager really establishes a
success particularly with a thoroughly
clean drama) that has built Itself up I'm
this way II Is a reasonable certainty
that he has something which will stlck.
But, as already intlmated. it would
not do by any means TO tic up too many
plays to which the public seems indif-
ferent at the outset. IT has turned out
that The Things That Count was
worth while, but. it does not often
happen that way in tho present day.
Perhaps hanging on would not have ap-
pealed to me a. sensible thing to DO
in this instance but for some OF my
earlier experiences. notably with Way
Down East which the public would
not have at all when 1t was hrst shown,
but which through careful nursing
based on Arm belief became one OF the
greatest theatrical properties over
known and In its twenty years Of life
has cleared profits that would DO al
most unbelievable.
'btill whom all 10 SAD ana done tho
manager who sends 10 the storehousa
any play which has no we'll developed
appeal At the beginning ana dsvotes to
Staying an absolutely now deal tho
money ho would hava spant In carrying
his production over the bridge between
failure and suaosss will be far better
of In the long run than the one who IL
stubborn IN tAs fsse es sluggish sscas.
Ritiea."
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play. billie burke has confessed 10 the
ambition to try Dilberfc some way, and
Elsie Ferguson II carrying about with
her an unsatlsnod ambition 70 play
either Pdrthcnid--I go 20 cleanse the
cups--or Gcldic1.
Then why in tho world should not
ono OF these talented young ladies oc-
cupy one OF her afternoons by acting
the rolo she wants TO? Certainly the
financial outcome 81 such n venture
would be certain. They have admirers
enough TO insure a large audience at
least once. The wise business eNecu-
tives OF these actresses assure MS that
IN such a course hes ruin. To inter-
rupt the course y, II successfu' play by
any such experiment e regarded a.
almost sure TO influence Tor the worse
It's career az regular performances. The
public mind Is supposedly 50 Indifferent
20 all details IN the matter ~ rs anuso-
ments that It cannot recover from the
interruption to the regular order OF
events by having n play acted az n
matinee when there Is another one to
be seen at night. Personally we take
no stock IN any such theory and regard
Il as pretext OF the commercial thea
tire by which any unusual artistic effort
Ia avoided.
Miss Taylor made the experiment sue
cessfully and her admirers have not
been compelled 20 wait untn the distant
end Of Peg O. My Heart" 90 see her In
some other phases OF her delightful
talents. In tho meantime there must
be wisdom IN the course OF any actress
who seeks to enlarge tho field Of her
talents and popularity.
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was required formerly. High living
makes people fastldlous. Abundance of
stage production MAKES it harder to
appeal To the public appetite.
in order to get an immediate success
nowadays you must fairly startie your
audience. as In the case OF TOO Many
Cooks 1t was complete surprise
and set everybody to talking. 80 that
there was Il big demand for it over
night. But in the instances OF
nine out Of ten plays which do not cap
ture the fancy of tho public within
the first few days tho manager had
better pocket his loss and try again.
Naturally n manager who watches
his productions with minute care can
tell in the course OF a week or so after
they are launched whether the pub
lie Is going to respond or not-and this
without much regard for what In sctn-
ally happening in the box office.
For example. there 10 the case Of
The Things That Count The play
began quite slowly and did not show
any immediate tendency to increase
very greatly In the matter OF re-
ceipts But in the lobby between acts
and after the performance the people
who had seen the play almost without
exception were talking about II In terms
OF tho greatest enthusiasm.
"This was my cue. for It showed mo
In the first place that ! had not been
mistaken In my own estimate Of the
plays value and Il gave mo tho further
ana sure Information that those who
Witnessed tho performance would talk
about Il to al their frienda ana ac-
ouatntancss, OF course everybody knows
that this most valuable advertising In
the world u the kind that goes from
mouth "a mouth. and its very evident
sppessaass h eepnS1tisW with The
Thiusp maj ceuat' esaviaesd me- that
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merit in actors could have come u any
such conclusion. on the other hand
New York delighted in her characterize
ton Of the pushing parvenu. Now Billie
Burke must have Il second play To fnish
out OF season, because the public will
accept her only In the familiar incar-
nation on the chocolate box. Truly the
responsibilities OF genius to-day are
overwhelming
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THE HIPPODROME.


There are but two weeks more NJ
the present spectacle America at tho
Hippodrome. The audiences have grown
larger 20 view this production, which
has been the most successful IN the
history of the institution and has been
the only one dealing with this country
almost exclusively.
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Yet It seems as IL there could not be
too much Of the same Kind OF talent
from nm actress. Bille Burke Will not
play Maugham's interesting II grim
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NOVELTIES OF THE WEEK

MONDAY-Hudson Theatre, Mar
garet Anglin in AS You Like IT,"
knickerbocker Theatre; Julian e.
finge In THE Crinoline Girl"
Century Root Theatre; lie Voleur."
by the French Stage Society.
Palace Theatre; Mile. Dszie In
"Pantaloon." by J. Nj. Barrie.
TUESDAY-Longacre Theatre; "A
Pair Of Sizes" farce by Edward
Peple.
WEDNESDAY-Irving Place Theatre;
"Pygmslion," satirical comedy by
Bernard Shaw.
New Amsterdam Theatre; "Msids
OF Athens" comic opera by Franz
Lehar.
Princess Theatre; Marrying
Money" comedy OF social life BY
Alfonso Pezet.
THURSDAY-Hudson Theatre; Mar
garet Anglin and company in THE
Tanning Of the Shrew."
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-04-04
Posters Place in Art

Four American posters figured in
the Dore collection. and they are all
of them pictures which arrest the at
tention by their freshness and orig
inality Of manner and delight the eye
by their success in conveying an eff
feet by no means elementary with the
simplest Of means. They are tri-
umphs no less for the color printer
than for the artist, and If Mr.. Wan2.
makers good example should spread.
the hoardings would become danger
Gus rivals to the exhibitions. Some
thing of the kind. We gather from this
collection. must Ee happenings al.
ready in Germany. TaiiorS modistes,
restaurants and even a vender OF
cheap ties for men are among the
patrons of the German artists who
have designed these posters. Their
work, to our eyes, does not approach
the French or American examples IN
beauty or daring, but it shows lab
oriOus and meritorious effort to please
or amuse by such a use of color and
line as will f1atter an educated eye.
But this exhibition does in the main
convey the same impression as the
hoardings of the Strand. It is manag-
ers Of theaters and exhibitions, or rail-
ways bent on recommending plea
sure resort, who show the greatest an
xiety to arrest our attention by pleas
ing our senses. Is it because they
know more Of psychology than. other
business men, or is 1t that they appeal
to leisured AMI presumably educat-
ed public? We believe, because we
wish to believe, that the pleasing is
better than the strident advertise
ment, and we can give a reason for
the faith that is in us. The muffin
mans bell makes at the moment the
greater din in your ears, but it is the
lavender-seller's tune which hauntS
them. A good. advertisement VIII re-
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LETTERS
ANSWER TO MOTHER"
Honolulu, T. H.. April 3. 1914.
editor Honolulu Star-Bulletin,

Honolulu. T. H.. April 3. 1914
Editor Honolulu Star Bulletin.
Honolulu, T. Fl.
Sir:-Replying to Mothers" in
quiry In last nights Star.Bulletin.
would say that my estimation Of CIas
r. Guertler as an honest. upright and
useful citizen, was not based on the
moral side of the question involved
ION which point from a mothers
standpoint there can be no answer)
but on the slain man as l knew him.
Perhaps, il the mothers installed in
the minds of their children a greater
respect for the law of this country
and OF the impossibility of money,
family or sentiment purchasing immu-
nifty from II, there would be less like
lihcod of men like the slayer and the
slain being found in such surround
ings, and such variance in verdicts
as is shown by a study of the Mar
shall and Whaley trials.
Yours truly,
-. J. A. BALCH.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-04-04
TIE uELY MONROE DOCTRINE

How many people know just what the Mon
roe Doctrine is?
Nine men out Of ten speak as glibly of the
Monroe Doctrine as though they We're talking of
the stock-market, baseball or the weather.
Pinned down by Il question as to it's exact ma
ture they would answer lamely
President Monroe's message to Congress on
December > 1923, contained the following
words:
''In the discussions to which this interest has
given rise, and in the arrangements by which
they may terminate, the occasion has been
deemed proper for asserting, as principle in
which rights and interests of the United States
are involved, that the American continents, by
the free and independent condition which they
have assumed and maintain, or" .h"Ht~fOfh not
to be- considered as subjects for future rolo"ica-
ton By any European p0trcr.
Eve owe it, therefore, to candOr and to the
amicable relations existing between the United
States and those powers to declare that we
should consider any attempt on their part to cT-
tend their system to any portion of this hcmi-
sphere as dangerous to orr peace and safety.
"With the existing colonies or dependencies
ct any European power we have not intcrfered
and shall not interfere. But with the govern
mcntS who have declared their independence
and maintained it, and whose independence we
lave, on great consideration and on just princi-
pies, acknowledged, we could not view any inter-
position for the purpose of depressing them or
controlling in any other manner their destiny by
any European power in any other light than as
the manifestation of an unfricndlv disposition
toward the United States
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EDITOR

and what an pncroaching administration is
striving to annul.
1T was Oscar Underwood who wrote int" I'll"
per cent on duties on goods imported in -\mrri-
can ships This measure, of such vital imp"r-
tanrr to American shipping, waS vi gor"uSly de-
balrd in the house and senate 1t WAS property
considered and discussed in it's every aspect.
Finally being adopted. it went with tn" act Il"
the president and was signed
".Almo$t instantly the president. through tn"
attorney general. ordered that clause of the law
ignored. The one thing in the tariff bill de-
signed to encourage all American industry to
uplHild the languiShng merchant marine Of tn"
United States. was annullrd by Il mere exccu-
tive order from the White House
ITO this hamstringing of the law Mr.. Under
wood cmphatcally disscntS. His program has
been all for the upbuiding Of American indus
tries He finds himself confronted by an adj
which treats his efforts in this di-
recti0n with Indifference if not hostility
ut is for this reason that we say thar Mr. Tn
Mondays Examiner makes him the true leader
of the Democratic party. He alone manfnlly
keeps the faith and adhcreS to the creed laid
down at Baltimore"
William Randolph Hearst is evidently play
ing his old, Jealous game of trying to set the
party leaders one against the other in the hope
that he himself will reap some political benefit.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-04-04
THE SEAMEN'S BILL

Hawaiian interests, through the Chamber of
Commerce, have protested against the La Fol-
lctte seamen's bill This BILL under the guiSc
of increasing safety at sea and tightening the
burdens Of the sailor, calls for such elaborate
precautions that few shipping companies could
stand the financial burden. Recently Pacific
Coast company Outfittcd one Of its steamers
with the number of lifcbOatS demanded by the
law. Th" result was that almost the entire
drCkSpacc was covered with boats. they were
hung up daVitS everywhere, and the imprHc-
tirahlr nature of the bill was illustrated to the
point of ridculc. There is no question that
MANY ocean steamers should carry more life
boats than they are NOW equipped with. or that
there should be more men on tn" crews able to
handle boat once launched. but the IaFolrttr
bill has not met the occasion. 1t is an example.
us one speaker in Congress said. Of "marinr leg
iSlatinn from tn" standpoint of the man who
never saw an ocean,
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TAKE WILSON'S EXAMPLE

Can it be possible that men Of capacity for
leadership in this community will So far lend
themselves to personal and political pickering
that they and possibly the community may lose
sight Of the fact that Hawaii has serious prob
lens to deal with, and the quickest and the best
results are gained by following the paths Of cor
dlalsc0Gpration and peace?
One might think this not only possible but
readily believe the war in full swing if he were
to judge the situation by reports probably cir
cllated by thoughtcSs people.
Mr. Arthur Wilder's published statement that
he intends to go on to Washington and attend
to his differences with the United States Dis
trict Attorney adds to the impression that some
of our citizens are spelling for a fight.
From community standpoint what is to br
gained if we all stop by the roadside and watch
D dog-fight while very important business
should command our undivided attention?
Someone suggests that the Governor NAV he
brought into Il contest which for some cause I'M
known has started between Mr.. Wilder and Mr..
AIcCarn. What good reason is there for the
Governor coming into it?
Mr.. Wilder's declaration IF his intention to
leave for Washington next week to follow the
trail of the Thielen- McCarn diamond incident
must be accepted as notice that he does not in
tend to press his candidacy for the chairman
ship of the Public Utilities Commission. One
would hardly expect Mr. Wilder to follow his
harsh criticism of the utilities law and the re-
cent chairman with a trip to Washington imme
diately he was appointed,
So the small wiirlwind that is stirring up
4 personal matter The Star.Bulletin considers
the McCarn- Thielen incident sad affair from
every standpoint, and Mr. Wilder could exercise
a control over himself which weuld add mate
rally to his usefulness in community affairs.
The average men, the men generally whose
sole aim is the uphuilding of our city and our
territory, the men who hope for and are giving
the best that is in them for sound progress want
to know what it is all about, and why any de-
tail of public administration should be delayed
while men or factions settle their differences on
the side. -.- ..'
The progressive people of these islands re
gardless of their political affiliations are heart
ily in sympathy with the Governor in his refusal
to be brought into. personal wrangling
A forward movement, sound, businesslikc,
red-blooded, thanksgiving and courageous,
movement which furnishes scope for whoIe-soul-
ed unselfish men and noble women such move
ment is the only thing of real interest to the
average work-a-day people of the territory to-
day
Peanut politics and personal pcttifogging are
out of style and ont of place
The man who set the style of aiming at higher
ideals and making of them Il practical working
force is President Woodrow Wilson.
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Old Docs Talk
ON THE SECRET OF HAVING TIME. II. .
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10 muscle a chance 20 relax from
morning till night.
They imagine themselves and make
c;ht~S think that they are busy. when.
a. a matter of fact. they wouldn't be
missed in the world if like Let's vile
they We're turned ;n.o pillar Of
salt.
Nj son. keep Your eyes open. and
yCu Will soon discover that the great
men Of the world have always been
possessed a certain amplitude o.
leisure" characteristic CT EmersOnl.
which made their presence not C1ly
lestfnl and pleasant bat stimulating.
You Will discover that the bIsie-
YOU are the more time YOU will find
TO do yCUr business in