The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-11-23

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sage. with the other.
why John Manhattan. are you gone
clean out of your mind?" demanded
his wife. Here we are miles at sea
and you talking of going to the
theater!"
But John Manhattan wasn't crazy,
nor was he in an asylum. He was on
board the newest ocean liner equipped
with an up-to-date playhouse, says
the New York World.
The last word in luxury afioat-a
theater in midocean!
This is no rosy dream of the press
agent, nor just a scheme evolved in
the brain of some o'erconfident manag-
er. It is the plain business proposition
of a theatrical manager and business
man. He is willing to establish a
theater on the great deep if the steam
ship companies can see it that way,
and it seems certain now that one of
| them will.
| Think Of tia premier performance
in midocean. No trying it out ION the
dog" in Poughkeepsie or Trenton.
The American theatrical company 60
ing to England or the English COM
pany coming here can polish up the
performance at sea far from the critics
but hold; how about the wireless?
| Tt means one more added luxury Of
| life at sea-perhaps the final one.
/ What more can be done?
{! People have liked to dub our newest
ocean ferryboats floating hotels"
/ They are more than that now. They
are regular city blocks, with offices,
shops, telephone and telegraph, flower
/ stand and candy; a restaurant, grill
and bar; a library, music hall and
gymnasium; Turkish baths and mas
L sage; barber shop, manicure and
j acknowledgements have to have their
sea legs put in shape too; a doctor and
dentist; and even tennis court.
for that is planned for the Europe OF
/ the Hamburg American line.
Il All that is needed is a trolley car
and Wen have a floating town across
the Atlantic.
! Time was-and it wasn't so very long
ago-when people went to sea to es-
cape from things of the land.
If they could get three square meals
a day, have dry bed at night and
I perhaps a toddy or a glass of wine,
they were content.
They wanted to be away from the
| telephone and the wire. They didn't
want to see a newspaper. They had
enough of restaurants and theaters.
They had enough of buying flowers
and candy. They hoped to escape the
dentist, and they didn't want any more
| of books more than, perhaps, the
harmless paper backed novel or two In
the portmanteau.
All they asked for was peace and
quiet life.
Let us forget the things of the
town." they begged. I'VE don't want
to see a newspaper or get telegram
or hear a telephone. We want rest;
We want to do something different.
! And now, today, the man who goes
down to the sea in a ship might just as
! well stay ashore as far as escaping
/ everyday life is concerned. He is In q
floating Waldorf-Astoria, a sea-going
plaza. a maritime st. Regis. He is
for the time being passer-by on a
Broadway block gone TO sea-
He has his newspaper every day with
;ts news from all over the world by
wireless. He can't even get away from
the stock market-he gets daily quota
lions from New York and London. He
has a telephone in his stateroom that
communicates with all the ship, and ne
gets kilograms from both sides of the
| ocean by wireless.
He doesn't walk up or down stars
there is the ships elevator. On his
way to the smoking room he passes the
flower stand with its fresh posies every
dav He has a gardenia one evening
IN mt in the buttonhole of his claw
hammer coat; the next night when ne
dimes in the Ritz-Carlton restaurant
he has a big fresh white carnation for
his dinner jacket.
IF he feels seedy he can work up a
perspiration in the gymnasium, nave d
little massage and take Turkish bath-
IF he feels inclined to read he isn't de-
nendent upon the few books in his SUIT
case He has a fine library of 5000
1,ol,rnes 10 choose from-everythlng
from history or astronomy to the lat
est problem novel.
IF his teeth bother him, here is
dentist aboard. He can be mancured
or have his corns pared with equdl
ease On Sunday he can attend divine
service. If he wants a box OF cahdy
or a corsage bouquet for ms WlIe' OF
+be very agreeable lady to whom his
friend introduced him, he can find
flower shop aboard ship.
Among the latest propositions Inaoe
&c one by New York department
800 here. which wants to equip the
fopr big express steamships OF the
North German Lloyd Company with a
denartment store annex.
The firm making the offer points our
that a steamship of the size Of the
Kaiser Wilhelm II. or Kronprincessln
Cacilie has a population of about S,ooO
persons, who have nothing to do but
look for bargains.
If only there were a trolley car on
- ~ wouldn't even have TO walk
he could do his shopping just as ne
does in town. At that, there Is the
elevator, so he doesn't have to cln9
stairs. So it can safely be assumed
80 ,,ra++v soon he won't have to walk
- docks if he doesn't care to-