The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-04-30
Dominant Figure OF American
Stage MarveIs At Beauty Of
. Honolulu At Night
CITY SHOULD PRODUCE
A MASTER DRAMATlST
War Has Submerged TheatricaIs
: But After Conflict Drama
,a. viii Be Restored

They were on the roof Of the Young
hotel--Marc Klaw and Malcolm A..
Eranklin, collector of the port. The
clerk had said they were watching the
sun set. But the sun had set.
II was the moon swinging high over
Punchbowl last evening that held
them when a reporter for The Adver'
tiser arrived.
Thus Mr.. KIaw not only is the domin.
ant figure of the American stage, but
he also is aesthetic to his finger tips.
tie sees beauty with the eye of an Ar
fist and he loves it with a poet soul.
That may seem a strange side Of o
greatly successful man-but it is a real
side.
He pointed out over the city's lights
glowing amid the gray green of the
trees, fading into night. Above shot
the spire Of the Central Union church
against the background of the mount
aims. ~@
cit is as you say" said Mr.. Klaw
to Mr.. franklin. 1.-THE spire makes
this almost Swiss canton-and yet
the whole, if more brilliant, if more
gay, might be Monte Carlo"
Sees Honolulu With Appreciation
Mr.. Klaw, in his first day here, saw
Honolulu with keen and appreciative
eye. Away down toward the end Of the
Interview, he made a statement that
should be of interest to Honolulans.
"This city should produce a master
dramatist. | am not saying that be-
cause j wish to be pleasing" he ad.
ded hastily. 81 would bet my hat
that he will come. I mean it. You
Afave everything here. Mountains and
sky and sea and people-ah, the people!
L looked over the rail at them this
morning, as they lined the dock. / was
astounded. 1t was marvellous. People
Of such diverse races, living here so
peacefully and quietly, getting along
| so eongenially! We seldom hear OF
the Islands in the newspapers, which is
the best proof that peace and order
prevail"
| "But the drama this man will
| write interjected the collector. an
will be placid and pleasing, not great
and heroic. 1t will be in tune with the
setting"
"Probably," admitted Mr.. Klaw
| NJ man CoCapO dlbOBobhOE
his environment. l feel that line from
The Bird of Paradise which speak.
of the hold the Islands take, deep in q
mans breast. But do not forgetl thai
this wonderful mixture of races here
is a great thing.
"Your lack of a theater here is 4
handicap. OF course, you have the
opera house; but mean a theatel
where drama could be staged regularly
that would command sufficient pat
ronage. Still, / believe the dramatis
will come.
Isolation Helpful Thing
''Your very isolation is a helpful
thing You are here alone. Look a
San Francisco. 1t could not depend
on the East. 1t was forced to work TO
itself-and look what it sent us, ant
he named a great list of famous stag,
folk who had gone eastward from tn,
Golden Gate.
He is a slender man, with q whit,
mustache, close-cut; thin face; a fin,
command of English, vivid but no
flowery, forceful but precise. HI
arrived in the Matson steamer Mat
sonia yesterday morning on his frs
visit to the Islands. He will depar
in the Matsonia for San Francisco mex
Wednesday. After spending anothe
week at the Panama Pacific exposition
he will work back to New York slowly
arriving about June. He is on a vaca
ton, he said, and will spend his tim
here quietly, hoping to return late
and remain six or seven weeks.
"There is only one point concerning
which wish to ask you, Mr.. Klaw, ,
said the reporter, opening the inter
view. THAT is: What about the wa
and the stage"
War Submerges Stage
off you mean Immediately, the eff
feet is to hurt the stage in attend
ance, was his reply. "People ma.
read at the breakfast table of create
tragedies than the stage can shov
them. The war simply is submerginI
everything. Take the loss of you
submarine here. 1t was terribl
catastrophe, but it was lost in the wal
Twenty one men died; but thousand
are dying in Europe. The Italian
earthquake, for another example, pas
sed almost unnoticed. The war
everything. Naturally, the stage feel
it,
"Not that. They say in England
for example, that this IS the end O
George Bernard Shaw; that peopl
never apain will lie content with hi
keen, pitiIess satire. What about tn
ultimat" effecti' the reporter wishe
. to know.
"This war will produce some grea
plays. 1t must. The world il nav
ing a fearful price for it, of course
hut, sinre the price is being paid, lie
Us renu the advantage" There will
two kinds of plays, | believe. On
will be that with blow, punch. IL
us say a big lesson. The other will b
the quiet. pastoral drama
FINLAND Cannot Subdue Shaw
~ do not agr"" with En"Inud Gov
,rruinV Shaw. She is too inclined /
look through dark blue glasses now