The Hawaiian gazette., 1881-02-09
What I Don't Like to see.-
HONOLULU. February LIST.

HONOLULU, February LIST, 1881.
EDITOR GAZETTE: Will you allow suggestion
or two as to the Music Hall !? The hall is much
too pretty and comfortable not to interest every
lover of music and the drama in having all its ap-
pointments perfected. Here are several things we
don't any of us like to see:
We don't like to see ladies and children as they
are trying to reach the door on their way to the
hall, in danger of being run down by native ex-
presses and private carriages dashing like a drove
of bufaloeS promiScuously up to the door, leaving
no avenue for foot passengers. The bifurcated sex
may usually escape by climbing tree or a lamp
post; but 1t is of the disabilities of the sup
pressed sex that they can't climb tree. Some
such arrangement as that recently adopted on
steamer day at the landing would be the thing
Then, with good footpath, we might get into the
hall comfortably.
We do like to see convenient ticket office, with
a quick and capable treasurer, supplemented in
side by courteous and wide awake usheIs Good
Now are inside.
We don't like to see the gas man so impetuous
IN his ardor that he turns the gas four feet high
and lets 1t I'LL the room with horrible smell and
brighten the ladies out of all the rest of their
senses by cracking globes and chimneys before
the gas is restrained within proper working limits
Turn 1t on gently, and our noses will bless you.
We do like to hear the music furnished by Mr..
Berger and his orchestra, and don't like to have
the music syncopated and manged by people
banging their seats down like trip hammer as
they come in late.
ladies of the chorus have to 60 outside and climb
over pile of debris like a lava flow to reach the
stage. There ought to be way of going from
front to back of the footlights without climbing
over Punchbowl.
There are few things in the audience that we
don't like to see, but it is hopeless to think of
their correction until good manners and gentle
breeding shall prevail over all. The galloWs and
the hoodlum in the gallery are equally signs of
civilization. Without the shrieks and catcalls of
tAe e Sc c6Tash 2gld feel unhappy and outside the
with the arduous donkey who spoils all the best
passages in the music by dreary observations on
nothing in particulars or by whistling or hum
ming, to exploit his familiarity with the music
or, who laboriously insists upon uncovering his
the work of the masters, and loudly proclaiming
his preference for the hee-haws of unsophisicated
pastoral animals of his own kind. :" None of your
Eyetalian squealing for him, where you can't
understand the words and they don't keep good
time; what he wants is something simple
Tidiotically simplel with plain words, and
hifalutin kafiummixes the upper notes." He
wants the singer to grind out some sweet niger
minstrel ballad about Old Uncle Ned or some of
his sisters cousins aunts, and he wants it done
with the steady tread of blind mule IN a bark
mill. These observations he pours out all through
the best passages while your tortured ear struggles
in vain to catch the divine strains of the mmortas
in music You can't kill the man-it would muss
up the seats If you can bear 1t for one whole
evening you will deserve the martyrs crown.
Excuse me. If / have said too much, cut it. 1t
Is a relief to pour out ones feelings sometimes
even into an editors waste basket.
AMERICUs