Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-05-22

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. English goyerness. Marie Baker :!
= Baron De Witt, Minister OF Police :;
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= Princess Irma Augusta Elizabeth =
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. Anthony Hamilton Hawthorne, ::
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= Augustus Ill, King of Borroyina ::
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. Prince Vladimir Halberstadt. 8:
= ........t..... Guy Hitner 8;
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. Reporter of the Borroyina cim- .
= etar.... Percy Pryor. =
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= Casino .,.......s.. Geo B. Berrell :;
= Kate Ballard, an American girl {:
-. :. ..s..ss..... Inez Ragan :;
:: Senator Ballard, her father :;
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Let us get up into the superlatiyes
at once. It is easier to discuss the
new offering at the Biiou in that key.
And one of the best things about Il
is that when you get up there You
can stay. you don't have to come down
for the minor chords of criticism.
Nothing has ever been nicer done by
The Players, and nothing has beer al
together more pleasing than this ro-
mantle comedy drama, Hawthorne u.
s. A." which opened at the Bijou last
night
But that dses not begin to tell 1t.
To say It is pleasing is only a mild
way of putting 1t. It delighted us,
thrilled us, and above all made us
laugh until we forgot every dull care
in the world. forgot everything but the
scene before our eyes. There is q
blend OF seriousness and hilarity, of
|sang-froid and Yankee determination,
of love and adventure about this play
that cannot be beaten It is the cley-
crest thing we have seen here.
And not alone is the play good. but
II is performed splendidly George
Webb Is at his best--for all of that,
the entire cast is at its best. The re-
suit is that Hawthorne u. S. A.
makes one OF the most delightful en-.
tertainments one could wish.
We won't reveal the plot of the play,
except to say that Anthony Hamilton
Hawthorne, a young American tourist,
who has the distinction of having done
things In New York politics and OF
breaking the bank at Monte Carlo.
finds himself. quite by chance, in the
beautiful but defunct kingdom Of Bor.
rovina. Scaling the garden wall of the
palace at 0beron, he meets the Prin.
cess Irma.
From the time George Webb scales
the wall, as Tony" Hawthorne, until
the last minute when he wins the
princess, we iaughted and smiled and
followed the uncertain fate of the king.
dom and "Tcny's" loye-affair with un.
broken interest Florence Oakley ap.
pears as the princess, and a pretty
princess she makes. Jay Hanna PLAYS
Rodney Blake, HaRthorne's friend, and
he is very clever in this part. Inez
Raglan is cast as Kate Ballard. and
Frank Bonner as her father, Senator
Ballard. BY doing a little shadow
work, Blake discovers Hawthorne,s
secret garden meetings, and in order
to do him good turn, wires to his
fiancee. Miss Ballard, and her father,
to visit Borrovfna, saying that the
water there is great for rheumatism.
So by the opening of the second act.
four Yankees are in Borrovina; and
things are beginning to happen in that
moneyless kingdom On parade the
king is shot at. the princess faints.
Tony meets and defeats the treach.
erous prince, vladimir. 1t is this
meeting that brings On a splendid eli.
max, one Of the cleyerest possible, for
the second act. :
Guy Hitner plays the part of Prince
Vladimir. He is very good. And Jack
Belgrave as King Augustus III, de-
serves equal credit Percy Pryor is
cast as the reporter on the BorroYina
Cimetar, and to him .sTony" comes to
be put next" to the inside and I'm.
derground affairs of I he kingdom.
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