The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-05-22
ENJOYED
A KIPLING
EVENING

The audience. which gathered last
evening in the Sunday School room
of st. Andrews Cathedral. was enter
tanned with an intelligent interpreta-
ton of Kiplirlg's works 1t was truly
IAN evening with Kipling,' and those
who had hitherto failed to catch the
spirit of the Ikiplingesque humor, went
away charmed. Not alone was the in
depreciation of the British poet and
author given in recitation but there
were tableaux and songs.
The room was decorated with banana
stalks with wide fiaring leaves, palms
and the paratite vine, giving the int
rior a tropical touch in consonance with
the spirit of most of the selections.
One end of the hall was marked by
draw curtains, and where the two parts
met, there was exhibited an excellent
painted likeness of Kipling, the fami-
liar picture of the writer in his close
buttoned white coat. This was the
work OF Harry Ceuzins. The tabIeaux
presented during the evening were un-
der the direction of Mrs. Camp and
Miss Annie Parke, artistic conceptions
of Jungle and hill life. Several shadow
pictures, the excellent handiwoIk OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Couzins. afforded
the audience much amusement. The
sketch work was clever and was warm
ly appIauded.
Mr. George Davies was the intro
Queer of the program numbers and the
persons who interpreted the selections.
Mr.. Davies spoke of Kipling as mas
ter of poetic and prose description. a
writer who had been able to suit the
moods and temperaments of readers in
every cline. Mr.. Davies running ac-
count of the shadow pictures and of the
poems as each person was introduced,
was interesting in itself, and provoked
was shadow picture showing how
the elephant got his trunk, humor-
Gus suggestion by Couzins taken from
Kipling's jungle series. Mr.. D. W. An
and Fuzzy wuzzy," and was follow
ed by DR.. Humphris who read in his
delightful manner, "Paget, NJ. p" The
readings of both DR.. and Mrs. Hum
phris were the more interesting by
reason of the true British accent which
added not little to the value of the
The tableau, 1.-THE Tomb of his An
cestors'', was an excellent jungle pic
tllre in which banana stalks, the pecu-
liar trailing parasite vine, broad-leaved
taro plants were used to form a shady
jungle retreat with tiger In hiding.
The effect was quite startling Mrs
Faraday sang MY Lady of the Shows
in an exquisite manner. The reading of
His Welded Wife" by George C. Pot
ter was one of the humorous hits Of
the evening. "Mowgli and the Wolves"
was another fine shadow picture. The
Dillingham; quartet rendered ION the
Road to Mandalay'' SO well that they
were compelled to give as an encore, |
The Mulligan Musketeers," the only |
I'M Kipling feature on the program
The tableau, "The Woman of Sham |
egh'', was presented with Miss Ber- |
nice Kopke posing in a Jungle scene. |
Miss Kopke was effectively CARRIED in |
Oriental dress and made a charming
4indoo woman. Mrs. DR.. Humphris
gave as a recitation, Tine Colonel's
Wife,, in a pleasing manner. DR..
Iumphris recited the laughable pink
1ominoes", and Eugo Herzer added to
lis musical laurels by singing Danny |
Oeever'' The entertainment closed |
With the singing of the Recessional by