The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-10

ter audience by audiences back in the
States, and manager who imagines he
can work the 300 consecutive nights
scheme or any run of plays involving
repetition there will be doomed to dis
appointment and an eXchequer as bare
as Mother Hubbard's cupboard" says
Charles Aston Parker of New York at
the Kenyon in the Salt Lake Tribune.
"Honolulans are great theater-goers,
| only they have to be catered to in
| ways that might seem peculiar in this
country. A manager finds a play takes
and advertises it for a second per-
Torrance, but behold-no audience.
Once is enough.
Moreover, only high-class plays and
! high grade companies will do in Homo
) lulu. There are seventy-two million
aires on the islands, and the business
people generally are cultivated and as
: critical as any in the world. The audi
ences our troupe, the James Neill COM
pany, played to in the Royal Hawaiian
Opera House were as fine audiences as
1 have seen outside of the Metropolitan
Opera House in New York. They are
wonderfully dressy, and the auditorium
seems a mass of elegant white opera
capes. Honolulan people give Tues
days, Thursdays and Saturdays to the
theater, and the other evenings in the
week to social functions. We gave six
teen performances, and by presenting
new plays each time. with one of the
best aggregations of players ever on
the road, we took in $25, 900 in gross re-
ceipts. This was last summer. We ex-
pect to return next summer
zee
Everyone has had difficulty at one
time or another in distinguishing mar
ried from single women. In European
capitals hereafter sartorial distnc-
ton is to be made to the end that en-
barrassing mistakes may be avoided.
Hitherto the only distinguishing mark
between the married and unmarried
woman has been the wedding ring, of
no particular consequence at evening
functions, where, with the exception of
dinners, womans hands are never
uncovered.
Now all is changed Coiffeurs insist
that'madam must wear her aigrette on
the right side of her head, mademoi-
sele on the left If mademoiselle de-
sires to enhance her beauty by a flower
instead of an aigrette, let her have it
by all means, tucked in with seeming
artless grace. but let her make sure it
is the left side of her profile she studies
while arranging the effect lest later on
she be accused of endeavoring to seem
that which she is not
Dressmakers are following the same
unwritten law with flowers on the huge
chou bow so Indispensable this season
to all smart frocks. Let no unpractic-
ed hand be so misguided to imagine
that this chou can be carelessly put on
either the right or left side. Its proper
adjustment is a matter of art; it's in
artistic adjustment is enough to ruin
an otherwise chic gown. The size of
the chou should bear some relation to
the figure of the woman who is to wear
it. 1t is prettiest made of lace, but
may be of chiffon, or even silk or vel
vet, If desired. Commonly it is the size
of a penny, of a contrasting color to the
gown and may have ends or not, as one
likes On a slender, flat-chested wo-
man ends that fall below the waistline
are most desirable; woman of good
curves, on the contrary, prefers the
chou without ends. But, with or with
out, uii IldtfoH TlSHt or .1ldluen leIC
the chou must be set down on one side
of the bodice just below the decol-
letage.
Young genius seldom finds out tn,
/. truth about the prophet in his owl
! country until too late, and then 1
i. young genius is of the male sex h,
hunts Job and works his way VI
till he's known as a bushes man anC
a respected citizen, and if young genius
is a lady, she marries, if she's lucky
and settles down to a life of servant
:, girl discussion with the other goot
: housewives in the vicinity, so says tn
SIT Lake Tribune.
" In either case contentment kills am
4 bition, and young genius is a dead one
e Julia Dean is an exception and mos
# successful one. She left her nativ
: heath in time, and now she returns t
! it with all the honors she deserves TO
e her pluck, her perseverance and he
e hard work. She has been successful
g from the first, but it was easier. in
IS way. for her, because the dramati
j. fever is in the Dean blood. and oftel
]. ! blood will tell.''
4. Julia Dean Hayne, the great actress
n was an older sister of the present Ju
r. liza Deans father, so it is no wonde
r, that Judy became stage-struck at
very early age.
She was always an actress when
l. child. Not affected but full of life an