The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-21
A SOCIAL
TIME.
Football Players
Meet in Cloud
OF Smoke.
WAVERLEY
HALL ALIVE
Men of the Warspite Sing and
Play the Rousing
Pipes.

peculiar to Old England is foStered and
served up with all it's time honored
trimmings, that place is Honolulu.
Several times every year the various
local athletic clubs give smokers which
for jollity, mimic and downright good
fellowship are hard to beat.
Last nights function given in the
Waverly hall by the Hawaiian Asso-
citation Football League, was no excep-
ton to the rule; indeed, it is open to
doubt if a similar entertainment has
ever been more successfully carried
through. The attendance was good, the
program excellent and the spirit of
good fellowship which prevailed
throughout the evening superfine.
Nearly every athlete of any promi-
nence in Honolulu's sporting circles
was present and a large and distin-
guished contingent from H. B. M. S.
Warspite lent additional eclat to the
proceedings.
L. G. Blackman filed the chair and
started the ball rolling with a neat
speech in which he alluded to the sig
nal success which had attended the
leagues first season. He said that the
local clubs had proved themselves capa-
Ole OF coping With SOIle OIL the pest
clubs at home and spoke in fiattering
terms of the future of the game in Ha-
wall He looked forward with pleasure
to the time when it would again be
reasonable
ITO chase the rolling circles speed and
urge the flying ball"
The program proper was opened by
George Davies, who played a selection
from lei Captain" on the piano.
| w. L. Stanley followed with a song
about a dispensary doctor. 1t was one
| of the real old smoking concert type
and reminded one of "beano" in the
Cannon Street hotel, London. During
this number the audience found them
selves, to speak nautically, and the ap-
iplause which followed was a caution.
| e. A. Mott-Smith next played some
thing choice on big fiddle which was
productive of an encore. To quote
! spectator, THE artists technique is
wonderful and his timbre must be heard
| to be believed" There is no doubt but
that this is so.
| Mr. Dinwoodie of the Warspite obliged
with an Anglicised version of "Whistling
Rufus" and the din Woodie made could
! be heard in Hilo. He has a great voice,
as had the audience, except when they
| applauded with bottles instead of shout
| ing.
G. ]. Harper told those present about
| Christmas Day in the workhouse and
| the drip of the teardrops into the glasses
| as the young man cut loose chunks of
pathos resembled an April shower pirou-
| citing on tin roof.
| Messrs. Beardslee, Elston and Melvin
of the Tuxedo Quartet charmed the
house with several melodious selections
| rendered in their best style They were
recalled over and over again. One of
their gems read thusly:
! There were two Titles flies In a mo-
| lasses cup,
! But they would not speak, they were
SO stuck up
Then Lieutenant Bromley of the War
spite brought his bagpipes out They
We're Stuart tartanned pipes and the eff
feet of the machine upon the Scotchmen
present was magical. They laughed,
danced and acted as if a great joy had
come upon them. One poor fellow put
the lighted end of his cigar in his mouth
and another unfortunate drank a glass Of
water by mistake. 1t was all very
touching. The operator played Cock O.
the North Bonnie Dundee" Scots.
! Wha' Ha'," THE Barren Rocks of
Aden," Annie Laurie" Loeb Lomond,"
| and other Scottish airs with ease and
/ consummate execution. An Irishman in
the rear of the hall shouted XIII him!"
but was Modified when Brompley played
THE Wearing of the Green"
| Norman Kings fine tenor voice was
heard to advantage in Queen of the
Earth and True Till DEATH" the lat
ter being given as an encore.
Messrs. Elston and Beardslee ran into
great danger by perpetrating a musical
| story, the plot of which was as follows:
| One Rosenthal had a pet goat which
! he had cared for since it was a kid. One
day the ungrateful beast repaid its
owners kindness by eating two red
shirts from off the clothes line. This in
censed Rosenthal and he tied the under
wear-devouring ruminant to the rails Of
a railroad track. (Here the two sinners
hummed Sing Au Revoir But Not Good
Bye" and the audience sent the walters
out for more 'kerchiefs)
Presently the goat saw the Aberdeen
express approaching and then he thought
of the days of his youth and-coughed
up a red shirt and tagged the train.
| That Messrs. Elston and Beardslee
We're suffered to depart unscathed was
little short of a miracle.
Aleck Morrison sang ''The Man With
the Tartan Whiskers," and for an en-
core Jenny Shaw" Aleck is a born
humorist and his musical nonsense was
enthusiastically received
One of the-most meritorious numbers
of the evening was a recitation by Mr.
chamberlain or the WarSpfte, emitted
THE Lion of the Fleet" The piece was
above the average standard of recita-
tons. and the artists rendition was both
forcible and finished
Carl Metz played as a piano solo the
intermezzo from "Cavalleria Rustican4
and proved himself to be an efficient per-
former on the stringed box.
Mr.. Matters of the Warspite obliged
with that good old sea song, Nancy
Nee" which wars received as it always
is all over the world wherever two or
three Britishers are gathered together
for duty or deviltry.
George Davies wound up an excellent
program with couple of songs, In one
of which an umbrella received frequent
and doubtless deserving mention. The
brilliancy of his second effort was DIM
med to some extent by the density OF
the tobacco smoke, which made 1t im-
possible to gain any intelligent concep-
ton of what the ditty was all about