The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 15, 1899, Page 27

THE SUNDAY CALL : caid HONOLULU, STILL ARE VERY PLEASING ACTRESSES. 5 WRITES BESIDES POSSESSING VERY BEAUTIFUL ARMS. a K OF PLAYS AND L ! | THAT ARE MAKING A HIT IN HERE s no feason whatever why | a play cannot be e ing, spark- | ling, intensely intcresting, thor- i oughly laughable and comical, and a | financi ss withal, and yet) ss complete freedom from vulgarity. An impression prevails among many man- agers that unless a play have certain im- prieties either actually enacted or 1y suggested it will fail to draw he ke a mis of the god rmless ways | ! too | re are indeed many peo- | 1 minds who like it, but | 1. Others, indeed, | objectionable plays, but | s have something | besides thelr vulgari- | the fame of certain | n theaters, ! ic—all | | ple with un actors, the gor ive mus fons from (he‘ luced every but sill such as or “The Girl| hat Willlam | » taboo this last < a disgrace to our stage. 1s might have been | for the amuse- Hé speaks of the witnessed and | dents and frivol- | latest abomination | 1 | With what 1d and refreshment of »ominabl one tur ties of o a| itua- | laugh- | genuin iffers from the or- 3 n in insipidity ¢ gooc A farcical comed like this does much to purify the stage | rossness and cause re- | hful pleasure. - That It | on its tour through | of the United States nd is written | nd s presented | his compa ot particularl formly good work. nger here, for he He grown | ne to find | m and | ry dis- : s arise eral different | nceals his identity, spirit he 1 perplexit hings and all in_the the drol-| of the | e in his narra- | tive at the end < in a beautiful and | | tender way the close union which exists | | between 1 tear | trembles on says | nish fests | large well-rounded | resentation of “A | rest of course ze Riddle, who | the butler, | ded for his | ce Erskine as the | ace Dudley, who skillful musement they minister. | “Miss Hobbs” is a refined as well as clever and interesting comedy. An ac- complished dramatic f the New York Sun sald the other day: “The play 1s charming from the first line to the last and deserves more success than it will | prob: attain.” The public at present | is so taken up with an farces utterly devoid of humor in most cases that ft will overlook a plece which is pure and clever in its rush after the so-termed sensational. s unfust to the New | York public, and the public is dafly fur- nishing a refutation of the assertion Every night the cozy, homellke Lyceum | 1s filled by enthusfastic, apprectative audl- | ences. The success’ of *“Miss Hobbs" | seems assured and the play will be seen | | at the Lyceum for some time. The play's | the thing, but the acting {s also the thing. And much of this success must | be attributed to Miss Russell and her able | company. Bad acting has killed many a | good play, and good ting has carried ! many a bad play. Glven a good play and good acting to; d the combina- | tion is an artistic delight. The play at the Lyceum has been written by Jerome K. Jerome and in his best style. The aialogue s witty and the story ingenfous. Miss Hobbs is 2 new woman full of ridic- ulous theorfes in regard to marriage. She has an exaggerated idea of man's bad- ness and an exalt=d idea of woman's goodness, But instead of being old and plain with cork-serew curls and wrinkles, | an angular figure, a cracked voice and squinting eyes, sne s young and falr, graceful and gentle, endowed with soclal resources, has a sweet, low volce, and tender, gracfous manners. When one says that Anne ..ussell is Miss Hobbs, then all this is sald. Miss Russell i3 distingulshed for her brightne: nd archness, her charming simplicit d naturalness and her power of expressing pathetic emotion. She is 0 sweet and gentle that she could not make Miss Hobbs terrible if she tried. Fortunately shc does not try, and Miss Hobbs does not demand that she should. Before her first entrance @ sufficiently hide on 15 conveyed of her un- | lovely steristics, and £ 12 ey it eyl Tt b Kau.]’ PHOTOS.BY THORS | mave s falze impression of the strong. | 5 s = : rinded woman are very much surprised - when they see how charming and lovely she 1s. PHoTOS BY THORS .