The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-06-12

and Ornamented with silver Skewel
Some had stockings, but most of the
We're content with their own dal
skins and shuffied in with naked a
kles. All officialdom honored the she
by it's presence. The Gobernador, Il
Presidente and a half-dozen othe
had front seats. The box office WI
managed by a former Chronicle" T
! porter, and was damned with tickle
buyers. Opposite it was the read
made bar, and, after buying reserv;
/ places, tars and soldiers fraterniz'
/ over glasses of a fluid which is clair
/ ed to have made Milwaukee famous.
Many of the men had no money,
! pay day had passed a fortnight, bl
so obliging and anxious to repay tt
actors and actresses for their journe
were the officers of the Army and Nav
| that they had been furnished wit
hastily made scrip, and their note
We're taken by the theater treasure
These amounts was held out of eac
mans pay at the next disbursement
The officers and a handful of Anne
lean women-their wives and sisters
! stroIled in leisu@ely from their qua,
! tiers about the time set foc the Gu
tain, ana the orchestra tuned up.
dozen musicians, all F'ilipinos, stuc
pretty closely to American nation;
airs, with sprinkling Of Spanish an
so-@alled Filipino pieces. THE Agu
naldo March" is a decided favorit
with the natives and is a lively cor
ceit. AguinaIdo used to teach schoC
near Cayite. and it was in this Pre-
vince that the revolution began j
1896. The bumptious little Tagal wa
not at the show. but one of his mos
noted generals sat in the orchestr
circle and pretended to understand tn
stage doings.
It was haIf-past 9 o'clock before tn
curtain was carefully handed ~ b,
two men to a third, who naile1 it to
rafter. 1t was too big for the proscen
ium arch, and between acts it fell witt
a thud when the aerial artist pulled
out the spike.
AN IGUANA APPEARS.
Just before the first act began Their,
was a series Cf shrieks from behinC
the curtain Several of the ladies rush
ed frantically onto the stage-not II
view of the audience though-anC
Mary Van Buren,, the female star o.
the company, protested that an ALI
gator had come through a hole in The
floor of her dressing room, and hal
attacked them. Frawley and I arm
ed ourselves with some property
brOoms and bearded the saurian. i
proved not to be an alligator, but on
ly a gigantic iguana, a reptile which
is not considered harmful by the ma
tives. He was about four fee. long
though, and by the misty light of can
dies looked ferociOus enough to scare
women unused to his kind.
The floor of all the dressing rooms
and the stage, too. was of sliced bam-
boo laid a quarter of an inch apart
and in some places two or three Stats
were missing, so that one had to De-
careful not 20 slip into the holes. The
of this odd flooring caused
One who moved quickly across it TO
bounce as if on a spring board, and a
tragedy would have been impossible of
enactment on account Of the mincing,
udicrous gait it gave the perform ars.
It was simply made of bamboo poles
sliced in quarters and put down with
he round surfaces uppermost.
"AI the Comforts of Home" began
happily enough after the alligator in
ident, and was greatly enjoyed by
H. The Grand Opera-house was
lacked to the saloon at it's portal, and
II the players were wildly applauded.
The waits between the acts We're
ather long, because the scene-shifting
resented a new problem each time.
Everybody behind the stage took a
and, and as the audience was not
ritical of the settings, the play went
nerrily.
It was after midnight when the cur
ain fell for the last time. The SOL
iers and sailors hurried out to try the
ottled liquids along the row, the Off
ers and their ladies sauntered back
D their homes. and the stage manager
nd his helpers attacked the scenery.
I was easier to take it down than it
ad been to put it up. and as it was
OF necessary to keep intact the thea
CT after the play was over, the
-earied men did not hesitate to knock
Ut a section of roof or wall. Toward
o'clock in the morning the special
oat which had been chartered
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