The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1922-05-09
Mokihana Clubs
Dramatic Program
Pleases Audience


public with some exceptionally good
entertainment last Friday night
when they presented three one-act
plays. From the time the curtain
raised on the first play until after
1t fell after the last one there was
not one dull moment in the program.
In Josh Billings famous words, "Ev.
erybody done himself proud"
The first play was a pleasing
little sketch, "The Maker of Dreams
by Oliphant Down. Lyndall Jacobs
as Pierette, was seen tripping light.
ly over the stage setting a table,
making tea and warming the slip
pers before the fire for Pierrot. Pier.
rot, well played by Helen King, came
singing in, dreaming of beautiful
lady without a soul that had smiled
at him as he sang that day. He
saw little of beauty or cheer in his
own little flat and disregarding Pier
ette's charms and advances went
forth again to seek the unknown,
hard hearted beauty who had smil-
ed at him earlier in the day.
The Maker of Dreams, Frances
Middleton. came in while Pierrot
was gone and found Pierette crying.
When Pierrot came back Pierette
was sent to do some shopping and
the Maker Of Dreams gave Pierrot
the bill of sale for his dream, a
fair haired, blue eyed lady with a
soul. To make long story short,
when Pierette came back, Pierrot
found that she exactly filled the
bill and all ended happily.
In the next play, Beauty and the
Jacobin, by Booth Harrington, Mary
knight as Anne de Laseyne, T. e.
Longstreth as Marquis de Valney,
Oherault, her brother and Sybyl
Morgan as Eloise d'Anville, their
cousin and former fiance of de Val
ny, were seen in a cheap rooming
house in Bologne in 1893 trying to
forge passports out Of France so
that they could escape from the ia
cobins who were then prescribing
and beheading all nobility Of their
class that could be caught. The
fair Eloise was somewhat Obstre-
porous, proclaiming herself one Of
the people and in no Near of the
guillotinet She objected to all the
preparations for flight and loudly
DETAINED her cousin and former fl.
ance for his cowardly flight
Then came the sound of martial
music and entered Charles Fern
and William Balthis as Dossonville,
Valsin's aide. After much CONVEX
sation Valsin, who was then in alb
solute charge of Bologne with pow
er of life and death over the SUBJ
jects, proclaimed that he had spe-
cial grievances against de Valny for
former injuries and intended to have
him beheaded. The fair Eloise woke
up to their danger at last and of.
fered to marry Valsin il he would
protect her frienls. Her wrath when
turned down gave Valsin an idea.
He decided that the most subtle re-
venge he could take on de Valny
was to get him married to Eloise.
He maneuvered so that all escaped
as women and the curtain fell as
Valsin fell exhausted into a chair,
laughing at the revenge he had ex.
acted. All the actors played their
parts admirably.
The last play. Suppressed De-
sires," by George Cram Cook and
Susan Glaspell, was a satire on psy-
cho-analysis. Beatrice Lane as Hen.
rietta and DR. #. J. Morgan as Ste.
phen Brewster, her husband, were
seen setting at the breakfast table
fussing over psycho-analysis. Steve
was decidedly opposed to the art
which Henrietta w0s trying To force
upon him at every occasion. JUS.
then Floye Midkif, IS Mabel Hen
rietta's sister, who had come from
Chicago to visit them, came to break
fast.
. In a very short time Henrietta
had discovered that Mabel ought to
be "psyched" and had cited the ex-
amples OF several of her friends
that had been told by the intallible
psycho-analyzer that they should
part with their husbands. Steve.
in desperation, goes off to be psych-
ed too,
In the second scene Steve comes
in and gently informs Henrietta
that the doctor OF psycho.analysls
had told him that he had SUP.
pressed desire TO leave her Henri.