The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-06-11

and Miss Annie Parker. The invita-
! tions read: You are cordially invited
to attend a tea to be given on the
! opening of an Arts and Crafts exhibit
/ at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel on We'd
! nesday, June fourteenth, nineteen hum
dred and five-Three to six" This is
! followed by a list of the patronesses.
! The decora tons will be in charge of
! Mrs. E. d. Tenney and Mrs. DIR. Camp.
! In other words, they will be everything
/ that can be desired from an artistic
| standpoint. The various artistic pro-
auctions of Mrs. Burton have taken
New York society by storm. although
she is a Californian. and it will be
great treat to the local lovers of things
beautiful. The exhibit will last for a
fortnight or longer.
ta.s.3
Brigadier General Edward Davis, L.
S. a. Cretired), and Mrs. Davis were the
guests at tea yesterday afternoon
given by Mrs. osborne in the st. Gle
ment's rectory grounds. General and
Mrs. Davis will reside here in the
future Their daughter sometime ago
married Mr. H Nick Harrison of this
city.
~ .3.1
The next dramatic offering for the
delectation of local playgoers will be
given on the 18th inst. and July LIST by
the members of the Kunalu Rowing
Club an institution supported entirely
by young ladies. and which has al
ready made name for itself in the
local athletic world.
The ladies of nerve and muscle will
present the four-act drama, Ala
bama.' written by Augustus Thomas.
and which has been played with great
success throughout the United States.
The Opera House will be the scene of
the presentation.
The performance will be for the
benefit of the club it being intended
to form the nucleus for building a new
boathouse with the proceeds.
RehearsaIs have been proceeding for
three weeks and from present indica
lions the performance will be very
successful.
Alabama" is a story of the South
after the Civil War and is Accordingly
interesting. A pretty love story runs
through the piece which is essentially
a home play and entirely devoid OF
hight flown melodramatic attributes.
All the scenes are exceedingly pretty
and some charming effects are intro
duced. thanks to the latitude afforded
by southern foliage and that peculiar
picturesqueness which obtains south of
the Mason and Dixon line. An effort
has been made to tone local color
down to a point where eXaggeratfon
shall have been entirely eradicated and
trueness to ideal prevail to as great an
extent as possible.
The cast consists of twelve mem
bers comprising the following:
Miss Charlotte Hail. Miss Irmgard
Schaefer Mrs. Watkins, Mrs. j.
Dougherty. Paymaster Brown. L. 5.
N. and Messrs. Dougherty. Raymond
Brown, Gus. Murphy, Blackman, Jor-
dan, Webb and Jeffrey.
The stage management is in the
hands of Mr.. w. D. Adams.
The cast is a strong one and intro
duces number of amateurs new to
the local boards. 1t is said that more
than one of these is showing a sur
prising amount of talent and that all
are making more than satisfactory
progress in the portrayal of their diff
ferent parts. The other names speak
for themselves. Successful dramatic
performances in the past have been
due to them.
The young ladies of the club are
making enthusiastic preparations for
the event. All the paper floral decora
ton for the stage is being made by
them and each will do her best to dis
pose of as many tickets as possible.
They will also provide the ushers for
the night of the performance.
a feature of the play will be chorus
singing of plantation melodies which,
though old, stand today unsurpassed
for sweetness.
This is the first entertainment given
by the Kunalu Rowing Club and there
is little doubt that the public viii sup
port it generously.
$50
The ladies' doubles championship
match in tennis is TO be played next
Wednesday afternoon at O'Clock on
the Beretanfa courts The players
will be Miss Horner and Miss L. K.
Ward and Mrs. S. G. Wilder and Mrs
Ivers.
.s.s,s
Mrs. JACK BeiScf entertained at
luncheon on Saturday for Miss BeIser.
Covers were laid for six.
s4sSH
4 glimpse of stage life behind the
scenes was afforded the patrons Of the
Orpheum yesterday on the occasion of
the last matinee this season of the Ellie
ford Company When the curtain had
gone down on the last act there was
expectancy in the faces of most of
those present. for they were to be Civ
en- a peep behind the fOotlights-to the
uninitiated one of the most enhancing
mysteries TO be unfolded. Then the
curtain went up again and there were
the members of the company, smiling
and in ambush behind d table laden
with cakes. ice cream and cool lemon
ade in large bowls. The smile of vel
come was not long without some to
take advantage OF the opportunity 10
step upon a real stage Soon the ice
between players and audience was
broken and a stream OF people march
ed I'D behind the footIightS and were