Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-12-31
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CLOSING TEAL
SHOW TYPICAL
FARCE,COMEDY
Two Tags With Musical and
Barnyard Trimmings Bulk
of Farewell Show

A typical Teal show-roaring farce
comedy, snappy songs and choruses,
occasional drops into slapstick CON-
ledy, one or two songs and lines that
good taste would omit plenty of hu-
NOR and sort OF sociable time all
around-that is-the bill with which
Raymond Teal and his company are
closing their IA straight weeks in
Honolulu
"A great big house came out last
night to manifest its appreciation of
the company and also on the chance
of drawing something in the country
store scheme which closed the show
Each member OF the audience got "a
numbered ticket on entering the door,
and about Is of these tickets drew
prizes. Last night the prizes consist
ed Of small and squealing pigs, chick
ems, ducks and big turkey, and the
drawing OF prizes, as the numbers
were read out from the stage by Mr..
Teal, was attended by gale Of mer-
riment Most of the prizes made
noise also, the combination closely
resembling barnyard in full blast.
Is The closing bill Of the engagement
is The Country Boy" invoking "a
red-cheeked pumpkin who falls heir
to- million dollars IL he eludes the
wiles Of matrimony for the remainder
Of the day on which the bequest is
made public. Two scheming relatives,
Hiram Doolittle and Jerald Casey, con-
spire to break the bequest by getting
him in the power Of beautiful Lulu"
her Il q I'D r1S fnfp
while viewing the bright lights, and
almost acquiring terrible jags. As
usual the plot is the smallest part Of
the show. The troubles of the two.
Doolittle and Casey, with their jags,
wife and daughter and finally with
Lulu, who comes inopportunely to the
home, furnish the situations.
/ Fritz Fields, as Doolittle, and Claude
Kelly, as Casey, give extremely funny
performances. their sjags' being not
only lifelike but full of iaughter-spots.
Art Phillips doubles as a muchmus-
fached and mysterious detective, and
ii solemn old chump of a notary. Roy
Kinslow has, a mincing little charac-
ter of a French count, which is we'll
sustained. One stunt-that of cool
himself off with a glass of water-is
repeated until 1t becomes extremely
Wearisome. The country boy is played
by Homer Long, whose clothes look
the part, but whose hair continues to
be too nicely brushed to be consistent
and his dialogue also is hardly that OF
d country lad.
Miss Madeline Rowe carries the
principal feminine role, that of Lulu;
Corinne Carkeek has the familiar part
of shrewish wife and Pansy de La
cour is the daughter, while Hazel
Lake is the short-skirted maid in red
tights.
The musical numbers are generally
I'D to standard. Lulu" appears to be
q wholesale lifting of alma" and
rather strangely failed to make hit.
The chorus does number OF very
clever dance-numbers Miss Lake
sings suggestive song in the second
act, which deserves the frost it got
last night, and there are two or three
other spots In the show where the at
tention of the cleanup squad would
not be amiss.
& AT the end of the performance last
night Raymond Teal made a straight.
forward curtain speech announcing
that the company will go to Hilo for
three weeks and return here late in
January for two-weeks' farewell en-.
Fgagement, putting on some new stuff |
as well as old shows for which re-
Quests are made The first will be
sThel Hanlh / thd Pia8 az and the Girl.