Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 90, 18 ʻApelila 1894 Edition 02 — BEFORE THE FOOTLIGHTS. [ARTICLE]

BEFORE THE FOOTLIGHTS.

Monte Cristo at the Hawaiian Opera House. — } “Standing room only could well have been placed on the entrance doors to the Opera Hoase last evening before the cnrtain ro«e on the first performanee of tbe Dailey Company of players and who made their initial bow to the Hawaiian puhlie in the well-knowa, aged. butever intere«ting drama of “Edmond Dmtes, or tbe Connt of Monte Cristo.” The audience was a raost fl ittering fne to the uew comers and the interest creited bv Manager Erank Hoogs ahowed n resu't, whieh the performers endeav< red to prove worthy of by raeritorioas efforts to effectively portrav the characters in their keeping. The first scer.e, depicting a view of the haibor of Marseilles, also showed a group of people expecting the arr:val of the ship Pharaoh on whieh their townsman Edroond D;intes was an officer. Here the amlienee heeame introdaced to members of tho new company in Mortiraer Snow (Mons. Nortier) Mr. W. R. 1 Dailey (Cadarrusse) and Mrs. F. M. Dates (Carcont j . wife of Cadarnsse) May Nannary j (Mercedes) and last.bat notieast, D.irrel Vinton ( Edraond Dantes). : Miss Josie Gassman introduced herself in a catehv rendition of i " m i “Daisy Be!l” and. later ou, in a I pas de deux , Sailor’s FFornpipe in ; both of whieh events she received hearty encores. The business of the play from this first act allow. ed of none other interpolations and from thence on the andience | had fnll opportunity to be j idge of the meritorions manner in whieh Mr. Vmton presented Edmond D mtes und the Count of 1 Moute Cristo; Mr. Mortiraer ! Snow his interpretation of Nortier, Miss Nannary as Mereedes | ! and the others of the cast in j other roles. That the andience 1 were iu an appreciative mood was ; j plainly apparent and it culminat I i ed at the end of the 3rd nct by a eall before the cartain of Messrs. Vinton, Snow, Dailey, Mrs. B ttes and Conaors. In the 4th act, Miss Genevive , i Nannarv (Albert de Morcier) ; 1 acqaitted herself raost crēditably ; ! and M iss j\Iuv Nannarv added to . her list of admirere b\ r the clever and not overdone acting of the I Conntess de Morceir, in the difficnlt scene betwean herself and i the Count Monte Cristo. The j last act of all was ratlier crndely performed for professionals. especially the ‘ duel to the deith ' sceno, the forest of Fontainablean l having a chilling effect upon the previously heated and impres- ; sionable dictnm and acting of the j participators As a whole the i performance was far better than i any that has been presentcd upoo ■ the boards of the Opera House for many a day and there is no doubt, bat tbat tlie company has foand a plaee in puhlie f »vor. | Before leaving the snbject it is snggested that the acoustic properties of the hali are poor, ami it wouhl be well for the perforra ; ers to increase the voiume of tone ased when back from footlights. In tbe dungeon scene, 1 ist uight, nearly all the dialogae between the Coant of Voute Cristo, and the Abbe F.iria was uaintelligble . althongh spoken well. “Wife for Wife” is uuderline I for tomorrow Thurtday evening. aml tlie box plan is now open at Levev’s. I . ... ..i.i— ——' . ■■■—