The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-05-02
THE MAY DAY CONCERT
PUPILS PRESENT EXCELLENT
PROGRAM.
Memorial Entertainment Proved to Be
esting Program at Opera House.

The May Day entertainment by the
government schools proved to be a
great success upon its presentation at
the opera house last night The pro-
gram was well arranged and admirably
carried out, without number that
failed to be interesting and with plenty
of diversity in the style of the enter
tainment.
Aside from the merits of the presen-
tation itself, there were one or two
cOmmendable features that should serve
as a model for similar occasions. Some
one in authority, with far seeing wis
dom placed the phrase mo Encores" on
| the program and some one else, also 70
! be highly commended, saw that the
suggestion was carried out to the letter
| AS a happy sequence number succeeded
number without a hitch and, while still
| fully interested, the audience left the
| opera house in time to get home well
| before eleven o'clock. Not that the
| performers were not well deserving of
| praise, but an encore to one number in
an affairs of this kind means an newt
| able encore all round and finally, a tir-
ed audience waiting for the end or filing
out to catch the last car.
| Praise may be bestowed upon all the
numbers Unfortunately From the
! first rise of the curtain with Berger and
his musicians in the background and
bevy of nymphs weaving PAGES and
| winding ribbons around a maypole, to
! the final tableau the interest was fully
sustained and spoke volumes for the
thoughtful planning and patience of the
| teachers and the willing cooperation of
| the young performers. AS befitted
| May Day performance the various
| stage settings were arranged in a series
of woodland pictures against which the
white dresses of the girls and the pretty
posturing showed effectively Calciums
were introduced in some of the numbers
| very effectively
The chOruses from the Normal School
the Kawaiahao Seminary and Kane
hameha Girls School were rendered
doubly interesting by the pretty pic
lures presented by the girls themselves
as they grouped in unaffected pose, the
! same holding good of the Oahu College
chorus. The Kamahemaha Boys were
| well to the front musically with Hawai-
ian melodies, supplemented with or
chestral music.
Miss Adams, with her we'll drilled
boys from the Royal School in the
Wand Drill achieved a hit The
youngsters were completely under dis
cipline but marched and cOuntermarch-
ed with a vim and evident boyish plea
sure in their work that helped the sue
little sylphs, trained by Mrs. Gum,
bounded out of fairyland, danced with
airy abandon, like forest leaves in a
breeze with all the grace of youth and
the elan of the professional danseuse.
Under the immediate training of Mrs.
Russell a cottonfield full of darkies sang
the Old Kentucky Home with appro-
pirate gesture while the calcium shifted
the green and red lights of the Kaa-
hr~"" M school COlors on the changing
tableau,
g.. less Ivy Green" cantata, appro-
priately changed to the Male Green
was the final number. Pretty girls sur
rounded a Male May Day queen and, in
answer to her bidding, after they had
saluted her with speech and song,
footed it neatly on the green" Each
carried a wreath of MALE, the leis en-
tering prominently into a number Of
intricate figures and graceful poses exc
Cuted in uneXceptional manner. The
scent Of the MALE came out from the
stage like a breath from the wood
land and the girls might have been as
many dryads had it not been for the
eminently material but useful presence
of Captain Berger, his baton and his
band n the background. AS a climax
the girls grouped for a graceful tableaU
representing Hawaii Offering memorial
before the picture of Mckinley while
Uncle Sam and Columbia smilingly
looked on.
Miss Anna Tucker made a graceful
queen of the mimic court and Miss
Emma Taylor sang charmngly in
fresh soprano a pretty solo that added
tC the success of the number Miss
Cooper, daughter of Governor Cooper,
made a little speech of welcome to the
queen in self possessed, winsome man
ner.
Some $3.50 is expected to be cleared
for the benefit of the fund from the re-
ceipts. $466 was realized on the sale OF
tickets an amount to which the per-
formers themselves contributed nc
small share, many of them buying Their
way in besides giving their services on
the stage. Altogether the affair was q
great success and well deserving the
hard work of those who had planned
and carriad ont the entertainment.