Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-05-02

of the Lytell-Vaughan Company. Last
week a story of the underworld, in
Guiding dips and Jams" was pro-
duced to the accompaniment of all
sorts of melodramatic thrills. Last
night the company opened its second
week in Honolulu by the presentation
of Under Cover" the four acts of
which abundantly proved that this
stock organization is one of the best
if not the best that ever bowed to a
Honolulu audience. .....
The Cast. :.....
Tin the order of their first appear
ancel ..>.% =.
James Duncan, assistant to Daniel
Taylor ............... AleXic Luce
Harry Gibbs, a custom house inspect
or ............ William Amsdell
Daniel Taylor, deputy surveyor in
the customs .... Henry Simmer
Sarah Peabody George Knowlton
Ethel Cartwright. -. Evelyn Vaughan
Amy Cartwright her sister. -.
.................. Mae Thorne
Michael Harrington. .,.... ......... T..
......... Ethelbert D. Hales
Lambart, butler at the Harrington's
.............. Ernest Van Pelt
Nora Rutledge. Jessie Schouler
Alice Harrington. ..... Jane Darwell
Monty Vaughn ........ Phillips Tead
Steven DENLY ........... Bert LyteIl
Under Cover" is billed as melo-
drama, and in fact some of the famili-
ar Accomplishments of the 'melo" are
produced with the requisite punch"
Revolver shots at times punctuate the
atmosphere at the Bjou: there is a
pearl necklace-worth only 5000, 000-
which figures largely in the plot:
there is a wronged woman, hero
who wears evening clothes superbly:
large man with rude manners who
is always on the verge of cumming
up the whole game, and who comes
as near being villain as the confines
of the story admit; there are some
scenes where the lights are low and
folks 90 around on tiptoe doing a lit
tie convenient spying; there are occa-
sions when men armed with big re.
volEers come climbing over balconies
and dash into private rooms without
regard for the inmates feelings;
there are low, mysterious whistles,
confed crates, traps, and strata gems
There is even a little music of the
Eliza Crossing-the.Ice variety.
Plenty Of Hunor. .-.>.. ..........
All of this is melodrama and we
all love it. And the Lytell-Vaighaa
company does it mighty we'll But
Under Cover" is more than melo-
drama: it is at times a farce-cOmedy,
and even in the tensest situations,
when everybody in the audience holds
on to his or her seat wondering how;
the mischief the heroine is ever go
ing to get out of this awful mixup
without losing her negligee and her
eputation-well, right in these criti-
cal moments there is usually injected
some malaprop remark or sudden hui
morous turn which keeps the action
from being too tensely keyed. F.: s.I
. Under Cover" is Inore or less OF
a society crook play and at times is
reminiscent Of both Sherlock Holmes
and Raffles. The story is that of the
New York customs service and an at
tempt to catch some CRATER high in
the service who was lettiRg smugglers
go -scot-free, presumably because they
split with him. Daniel Taylor, dep
uty customs surveyor, forces Ethel
Cartwright. a society girl, to enter
the secret service in order, he tells
her, TO catch the crook as we'll as to
nab a big smuggler who was putting
through a 100000 pearl necklace.
Having found out that her sister in a
Of weakness had pawned
Ethels jewels and defrauded bur
glar insurance company, Taylor made
Ethel do his will " ~. .....=. f.