At Honolulu we had our first taste of the "Welcome home" we were all so fondly counting on. A new theatre had just been finished and a Mr. Marks, now one of the lessees of the Columbia Theatre in San Francisco, was on the ground making arrangements for its formal opening as agent for the Frawley company.
As Bob Acres
I gave Bob a country dialect
Almost as soon as we docked a dozen gentlemen approached me and asked that I give a performance that night in the new playhouse. I told them it was impossible; our wardrobes and scenery were packed in the hold of the ship; it would be out of the question.
"Never mind," said they, "go on in your street clothes!"
I explained we had no make-up even. My company was scattered all over the island, sight-seeing.
"We'll send out a posse and corral them," they insisted.