Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-01-08


like better than all the other
plays.
The Honolulu audiences are not
very enthusiastic, particularly the
down stairs portion of the house.
They hardly applaud. They pre-
fer comedies and enjoy a play
very thoroughly without much
demonstration. The gallery peo-
pie are demonstrative and make
up for the reserve of the down.
stairs people. They are very just
In their distinction and signify
their approval or disapproval with
the same unmistakable vigor.
Very fortunately for us, with the
exception of one occasion-which
was a minor mistake they lid not
find it necessary to disapprove.
The lalies down stairs go to the
theatre in evening dress and all in
light colors, with the gentlemen
in evening dress, forming a
pleasant contrast and making as
nice a looking audience "a l have
ever looked upon from behind the
footlights.
Theatre-going in Honolulu is
rather an expensive luxury, when
one figures on the same people
exactly three times a week, and
sometives four. No young man
there thinks of taking lady to
the theatre without ordering a
carriage to and from, which costs
from three to five dollars a per.
formance and three for seats added
to that, making it cost SlS at the
very lowest calculation for each
of the young men. Theatre night
in Honolulu, to look around out
side of the theatre, one could read
lily imagine they We're at the
Grand Opera in New York from
the number of carriages on the
street, all four ways being literal
ly blocked and reaching away be-
yond the Government Building
Park. They have a man on horse
back there who rides up aud down
calling the numbers Of carriages as
the occupants d2sire them. In
that respect they are little ahead
of us in America. They have
a very beautiful theatre, of
which everybody - NATIVE and
foreigner - is justly proud.
So much for the theatre; now for
their institutions: A person
looking at those few little spots
out in the middle of the great
Pacific Ocean cannot help feeling
a little surprised on reaching
them to find such an advanced
state of development. They have
as nice a club in the Pacific Club
as one could desire. They differ
from us in their club life in one
respect-havipg no bar, except for
wholesale purposes. Each mem
ber has his own locker and stocks
it, making it considerably cheaper
to entertain his friends-the only
objection being that l lost three
different keys to three different
lockers and had to order a new
stock for each one.
The Honolulu people have de,
rived more benefit from the tele-
phone than any American city.
rhey do their shopping through
the phone. The central Office is a
general bureau of information,
from the fright time" to Swear
ords" in Kanaka, every ques-
ton being Legitimate one is
patiently and carefully answered.
When ship or man of.war ar
rives in the harbor they just run
a wire over to her and run up a
telephone. Then the Grocer or
Baker is rung up, who either
comes over or takes the order
through the phone. They have n
we'll regulated water system, using
about six million gallous
a day, but are capable
of supplying twelve. The
water is obtained from artesian
wells. The amount used is &C
counted for by each one having
their beautiful front lawns, and
each vieing with the other in
making it more beautiful. Ii
seemed odd to me, from the far
East, to wander through banana
groves, pineapple farms and mum
berless cocoanut trees. [ also