Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1881-01-15

IT will be seen from advertising columns
that the Library and Reading Room Association
propose giving musical and literary entertain
ment for the benefit of their instit.ion ON Friday
evening next, Mt the Music Hall. The details Of
the programme are not yet fully arranged. Mean
while they publish for the information of the pub
lie the names OF the ladies and gentlemen whose
services have been already engaged. glance at
the list is sufficient to show that the entertainment
will I've thoroughly good throughout. Mrs. Patty,
Mrs. Hanford, MIR. Castle, the Messrs. Berger
and others who have kindly volunteered are all
parties whose talents are too well known and ap-
preciated in this community to need any special
comment. Miss Ida Mohrig, who il n stranger
among us, deserves a word of notice. We as
sured by competent judges who have had the
pleasure of hearing her in private that she has n
fine, fresh soprano voice combining purity of
tone, sympathetic quality and great hexibilty,
with more than ordinary compass and power.
Her method and style of singing admirable
and give evidence of the best kind of training.
Prof. BENZ. Owen is well known musician of e.
tablished reputation in the United States. His
standing AZ pianist and accompanist can be
judged from the artists with whom he has been
associated while his capacity trainer of voices
is sufficiently evident from the admirable results
he has attained in the case of Miss Mohrig after
only n few months instruction.
The following description of the Honolulu
Music Hall, we clip from the San Francisco Post :
The building is of brick, the dimensions being
12Ox62 feet, with seating capacity of about 800
people. i ne parquet and dress circle are on the
ground floor, capable of seating 375 people, and
furnished throughout with the patent folding
opera chairs. Gas has been introduced at great
expense-the auditorium being lighted from the
dome by n sunburner of forty jets. This most
important factor will DO utilized largely in pro-
ducing moonlight, sunset and storm effects upon
the stage. Particular attention has been paid Ia
the stage and scenery and the very best artists in
their line have been brought from San Francisco
to attain the desired perfection. Mr.. William
Porter, for years the principal artist of the Cali
fornia Theater, San Francisco, is painting the
curtain and scenery, and his name is sufficient
Mr.. Stephen CULVER, also of the California Thea
ter has erected and furnished the stage, which
has width of sixty feet and depth of forty two
feet; all the necessary adjuncts of traps, flies
borders, ETC., are i'll USE and the stage is capable
of producing rs grand effects any play requires
Special exits and means of egress in case of an
alarm have been provided, making it possible To
empty the house, when crowded in every part,
within the space of two minutes In fact no labor
| or expense has been spared to insure the perfec-
ton of beauty and comfort"
KAUAI
THE weather has been very cold and stormy 70,
several days.
| The new wharf ut Nawliwili ia nearly com.
pleted, and is great improvement ON the old one
NUMBER of mills have commenced grinding
and the prospects for good yield are generally