The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-10-06

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The Rev. DR.. Day of Los Angeles,
one of the stranded passengers of the
Manchuria, had a peculiar experience
with a supposed heather, while a pas
senger on the deep blue sea, according |
to a story that is being repeated with |
a good deal of pleasure by some of the |
unregeneratc. 1t appears that the doc |
tor made the acquaintance of a Chinese |
on board the steamer and as matter .
of ordinary hospitality he one day in
vited the Chinese to join him in lit |
tie refreshntent. The Chinese refused. |
He was then asked to have a cigar, |
His reply to the minister of the Chris
tian religion was ME no dlink, no
smoke, me Christian"
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The presentation of the Passion Play
pictures at the Orpheum the other 7
night, it seems to me, went far to
prove that such plays are not appro- |
PIRATE for general presentation The
subject is too serious. The slightest
touch of incongruty in the surround
! ings destroys all harmony between
scene and setting, and creates the eff
! feet of irreverence, even when no ire
verence is intended.
! At Oberammergau, all who have seen
! it declare that there is nothing that
does not seem appropriate and fitting,
because of the simplicity and serious
ness of the people who originated the
play, and who carry it out. There
does not seem anything incongruous
even in depicting our Lord by human
representation.
But when you get the pictures of such
things in the Orpheum or any other
vaudeville playhouse there is an in
appropriateness that is really provoca-
tive of irreverence. Now the other
night when the pictured representa-
ton of the Last Supper was thrown on
the screen, and Our Lord, surrounded
by his disciples are seen to rise and
hold slightly aloft their cups, as the
wine Is blessed, the simplicity and ma
turalness of it in it's appropriate set
ting Is lost and When some one in the
gallery shouted, "Prosit," it seemed
hypnotically suggestive, and no one
could help laughing, no matter how
much grieved they might be the next
instant.
Then again in the picture where
Christ appears before plate, an ire
weren't wag cried Give him 80 days"
ana again there was a burst Of laugh
ter.
> In the picture depicting Christ's
triumphal entry into Jerusalem, before
him moved crowds waving palms and
evidently shouting. 1t was at this
point that the gallery shouted, Ban
zai," Banzai!"
And yet, the truth is, as l believe,
not that the audience was inclined to
irreverence, but that the incongruity
of the pictorial representation, and
the surroundings and place, was so
keenly felt, that the apparent irrever-
: ence was really the protest of the re-
weren't spirit rather than the expression
of the irreverent one.
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=, | went to the Orpheum last night
= and was fascinated. l wasn't fas-
= cinated by the Wisconsin amateurs, al
though they are all right and l enjoyed
them immensely. But l was fas-
cinated by a left handed violin player
- in the orchestra. I have seen thou
n sands of fiddlers of various grades but
, l never saw one that fiddled left hand
ed before. 1 sat where 1 could see right
down the aisle and have an unobstruct.
ed view of him, though of course 1 was
v looking at him from behind
l. 81 couldn't keep my eyes of that
e wonderful motion which bowling witt
q the left hand seemed to give AND
Il then l couldn't keep from specializing
o as to the results and effects of lef
f handed fiddling. For instance, if the
n usual order of the strings were pre-.
:, served, E. d. A. G. in order from right
e to left, the left handed fiddler wou!
d go up and down the scale in his play.
@ ing in just the reverse order that g
r right handed player would But Il
d the order Of the strings were reversed
V so as to make the running of the scales
V conform to right handed fddling. f
r would bring the string just above tn,
e usual position of the sounding post
= which is placed there in order to beai
= the strain of the heavier G string, anC
70 l wondered if the change would max,
r. any change in the quality or timbre O
II the tone produced Then I wondered
# If i'm reversing the order of the strings
g the position of the sounding post could
, be changed too and if so what effec
q it would have.
>. Altogether 1 have seldom had so in
II teresting an evening at a theatre II
l. my life, and so far as I am concerned
d that left handed violinist was the draw
: ing card.