The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1889-01-30

ilCl hOJal liiEhhSSS Npiui"hi, GU
tended by Miss Reiseberg, Misses
Cleghorn and Widemann, Captain
Acland and Lieutenant Kingsmill, |
r.. N.
The cast was as follows:
Col Calveily( officers TAT Atkinson
MAJ t1oS M"Fs"- the Gt E i Bishop
Lieut.. the Drag
Duke of DON Tom May
DunstableJ Guards
Reginald Bunthorne, fleshy poet
..............,L Lieut.. +. r. Pears
Archibald Grosvenor, an idyllic
poet. ...... Lieut.. P. S. ST. John
Mr.. Bunthorne's Solicitor. ......
............ Mr.. T. r. Walker
RAPTuRoUs MAIDENs.
The Lady Angela ...............
............M Miss Mabel Rhodes
The Lady Saphir. ...............
............M Miss Constance Mist
The Lady Ella Miss Dora Dowsett
The Lady Jane. Mrs. f. P. Hastings
l. dtlClCtt iitlb
.........M Miss Rose Makee
CHORUS OF MAIDENs.
The Misses Zoe, LAM and May At
kinson, Bernice Barnard, Nellie
Brown, Lizzie Coney, Adrienne Du-
dot, Clara and Flora Glade, Nina
Green, Pauahi Judd, Fanny May,
Mary Mcbride, Edith Mist, Marie
Won Holt and Ethel Wodehouse.
CHORUS OF DRAGON GUARDS.
Messrs.. W. II. Aldrich, w. III.
Baird, j. L. Brown, Lieut.. Garden,
C. Crozier, w. J. Harding, l.. Harris,
C. P. Iaukea, c. II. Judd jr., w. S.
May, S. Monsarrat, S. E. Pierce, G.
E. Smithies, E. Stiles, G. Widemann,
E. Wodehouse and DIR. Yeo.
At O'Clock the curtain rose and
disclosed twenty love-sicl1 maidens,
dressed in aesthetic costumes, group
ed about the stage. They play on
lutes, mandolins, etc., as they sing,
and all are in the last stage of des-
pair.
The grouping, medieval 18th CEN
fury costumes, together with tue
graceful bearing and movement of
this bevy of fair damsels, formed a
striking picture, which was greeted
with deserved applause.
The opening chorus, Twenty
love-sick maidens we, love-sick all
against our will, ETC." was exceed
ingly we'll sung, and the young la
dies succeeded in looking very I'M
happy indeed, whilst making known
in plaintive song their woe begone
condition, consumed, rs they were,
by hopeless passion for the poet
Bunthorne-a most decided case of
misplaced affections.
Whilst this melancholy assem-
blage of interesting damsels were
swapping notes on their bad pros
poets, Lady Jane (Mrs. f. p.
Hastings), enters upon the
scene, and clectrifies them by an
nouncing the fact that Bunthorne,
the cynosure of all their eyes and
hearts, was in love with Patience,
the village milk maid.
The entrance of "Patience"
(Mlss Rose Makee), herself al
this moment charmingly at
tired in a milk maids costume
(happy milk maid to possess such q
dress) was loudly applauded, The
blithe and lively song beginning. 81
cannot tell what this love may be,
in such marked contrast 10 the sol
emn lovesick "damsels" around
her, was as a CLEAN of sunshine in {
dark place.
These young ladies then leave the
stage singing the old refraiI
Twenty love-sick madens we,
and are hardly out of sight when il
march twenty dragons, old vete
rams every one of them 60, ant
forming in line, sing patriotic cho
rus, and lock very stiff indeed, al
the true military man ought to do.
Colonel Calverley's rollcking SOM
"The Heavy Dragon" was render
ed in excellent style.
Upon the ladies entering ono
more upon the scene, singing
mournful ditty bewailing their sa'
condition, the war-like Dragon
filed with envy and Indignation a
the preference shown for tn
"melancholy literary man" sin
with much energy the chorus, 'Eno
is not this ridiculous" etc.
Lady Angela (Miss Rhodes) san
with much sweetness, "Mystic Poe
hear our Prayer" eyincing musici
talent of high order. Nor shoul
we omit the Lady Ellis, (Miss Mist
whose voice in the pathetic render
ing of "Though so Excellently Wis,
etc., reached every corner of til
packed house with the clearness
Il silver bell.
The part of the Poet Bunthorn
was taken by Lieut.. Pears, of /
, M. 5. Cormorant, and the eXcellel
acting, and perfect rendering OF Il
g difficult music allotted TO TIL
{ character, made him fayorite fro