Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-05-16
Miss Evelyn Vaughan Gives
a Fine Performance as /
ChanqeabIe Wife t

One big laugh through three acts
such is Edgar Seiwyns farce Nearly
Married as given by the ,Lytell-
Vaughan Company at the Bijou. open
ing last night Here are the folks who
supply the laughter:
CAST.
TN the order of their fist appear
anCe.D
Hattie King. divorce specialist .....:..
................... Mae Thorne
Hotel Page ..........E Ernest Van Peh
Maid at the Hotel . Jessie Schouler
Gertrude Robinson $1,000. Jane Darwell
Betty Lindsey ...... Evelyn Vaughan
Tom Robinson .......... Alexis Luce
Harry Lindsey. ..........B Bert Lytell
Richard Giffen .... Phillips Tead
Prince RanjebuIle of the Cherry
Tree Inn. ...... Ethelbert ID. HaleS
NOrah, his wife. -. George Knowlton
Peter DOOlin. justice, OF the peace
Observation-Disclosures. Henry simmer
Taxi chauffeur. $780,. William Amsdell
Fireman '....-...Ch Charles Elder
Fire Captain. ........ Ernest van Pelt
Almost anything but roaring farce
would have been a sad anti-climaX
Seven KEYS TO Baldpate." The Lytell-
Vaughan Company show both wisdom
and skill in not attempting to follow
that with another play in any way APP
preaching the serious and the melo.
dramatic. Instead. the players have
chosen a vehicle of fun, pure and SIM
pie. 1t is just one funny situation aft.
er another.
Neither plot nor situation is particu.
larly new. There's the old story of a
happy couple with an outsider-in this
case young imp of a brother-to
create discord, and some well-meaning
friends to help the discord along.
There is also the familiar idea of
getting the right people in the wrong
rooms-or the wrong people in the
right rooms-all perfectly innocent, to
be sure, but in a strange inn at night,
and with all sorts of diabolical COM
plications. .-
Selwyn's farce runs along with such
an ineXhauStible stream of ludicrOuS
entanglements that any audience with
"a spark of humor must catch the in
fictitious mirth, even while catching its
breath also at some of the delicate sit
uations. IT,. r..
The bulk of the work is done by six
members of the company -. Miss
Vaughan as the unhappy young mar
ried woman; Mr.. Lytell as the unhap-
Ply young husband; Phillips Tead as
the irrepressible troubIe-making bro
Their of the wife; Alexis Luce and Jane
Darwell as the well-meaning friends,
and Mae Thorne as the dashing, dar-
ing young creature whose presence at
the inn, and elsewhere, causes most of
the complications. H." ~
These six, ably assisted by Ethel
bert Hales as Prince Ranjebulle, the
East Indian hotel manager, and his
Irish wife, played by George Knowl-
ton, whne Henry Simmer, William
Amsdell and others render valuable
aid at opportune moments. 49,. r..
Miss Vaughan's clever work in the
first act, as the petulant and senti-
mental. irritated and contrite, angry
and loving young wife is not only one
of the best pieces of acting she has
done since coming to Honolulu, but
one of the best to the credit of the
company. Throughout the play she |
gives fine performance, perhaps the
best in the opening scenes. The role |
is well suited to Miss Vaughan. Her
gown and hat in the first and last |