Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-05-12


-. ..S,,.s. Mr. Jack BeIgraye =
= Hobbs, Wilson's servant Z
..... Mr.. Geo. B. Burrell Z
James Wilson Mr. Guy Hitner =
Dallas Brown. Mr. George Webb =
r Anne Brown, his wife 4
...<....- -. Miss Inez Raglan .
. Kit Hemlich Miss Leah Hatch .
= Aunt Selma !. Miss Marie Baker 3
y Bella Wilson Miss Olga Gray =
Tom HARRISON. Mr.. Jay Hanna q
Officer Flanagan .E............ =
....a....... Mr. Huron Blyden =
8 q ne q Eza 81 RRzzs 8
1t took real humorist to write it,
and 1t took real company Of play
ers to stage ii, this hilariousIy funny
comedy Seven Days" which opened
at the Bijou last night. and kept Us
laughing for two solid hours. II Is q
real farcethe kind we have hoped
for but very seldom found. II did not
bore rs for q minute After all that
Is the highest praise that can be Civ
en- any performance.
II you've got, bad collection of
blues. or II you are worrying about
business, OF the lack Of it, the Bijou's
offering should appeal to you. But IL
syou don't want to laugh II you don't
want to forget your unhappy misad-
ventures then you should remain
away until The Players change their
roles. For as sure as you 60 you will
laugh as regularly as the stage clock
ticks, you will laugh at the sheer wit
Of some Of the lines, the comical sit
uations. and the cleveTness Of the
cast in making the most of every OPP
portunity for hurnor
II Is Just to laugh, this Seven
Days Nothing more No moral or
s'problenl, is dragged into it. Il is
wit for wits sake alone, and for that
we are glad 1t is q relief to see q
play that doesn't try to pound In Q
sermon They are so seldom found
now. Seven Days treated as to two
hours of laughter, and when the last
curtain rang down yesterday evening
We felt we had just passed through
two hours of delightful living. The
program gives this play as q fafcial
comedy in three acts--s0 II il, but Ii
is too bad there are not ten acts.
The performance was not impeeca.
Bile. We saw q few. faults, but the
faults were trivial when compared
with the big success Of the rest Of the
show; and we were really glad to find
them, for that Is q pleasure. Looking
for faults In performance is kind
of q game, and one feels disappointed
at not finding them. There were q
few small breaks in the lines, and
one OF the cast had q difficult time.
IN throwing on the burden of anoths
er and q different part played In e
preceding show.
The important thing is that The
Players made US laugh for two hours.
The writer for one would forgive them
one result. Fortunately for them that
ID not necessary, for the "bad spots
were few and almost unnoticeable,
and may be attributed to the neoes,
sary haste IN fehearsing the play, and
the natural limitations OF the cast.
we have reference here to things ply.
steal. James Wilson, the divorced
husband Of Bella Wilson, is supposed
to be q very, very fat man. One can,
not expect Guy Hitner, who plays that
role. to fatten up to the part in q
night. Hitner is man, not bal;
loon. Suppose, though, he did fatten
up to the part-wouldn't 1t be awful
when called upon In some future play
to be q mountain climber! Well, he.
managed his part under the circum.
stances admirably
Inez Raglan was delightful as Anne
Brown Particularly clever work she
did In the first act, when. made tipsy
BY a cocktail. she salutes the straight.
laced Aun- Selma, proclaiming her the.
namesake of q distant relatives cat.
And little Miss Leah Hatch, as Kit.
Hemlich, is charming. Her acting is.
as real as life, and deuce Of q lot
funnier than most Of it. Against her
win masduerading as the wife Of
James Wilson, while the latter's Aunt
Selma il on the premises. she finds
lharooif n, the coeond ant forcad In