The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-17

! Kilohana Art
! League Notes
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The Musical Gree has issued invita-
tions for an evening of Scandinavian
{ composers to be given at Bishop Hall
Punahou, May 26th. Tuesday evening
at $50.
j Mrs. H. NJ. Won Holt has prepared
rare program and the members ant
their guests are looking forward to at
tending.
Nav has proven our musical month
indeed. During its passing Kubelil
came to give US a glimpse of his great
ness. Mrs MackaI's splendid musical
Mr.. Herzer's enjoyable opera and Mr.
Livingston's satisfactory cantata have
been occasions in which our members
have been interested
To close our musical month of MAY
Mr.. and Mrs. Vergil are expected to
arrive in Honolulu. An effort is being
made to have the Ladies Musical Club
the Honolulu Symphony and our Mus
ical Circle join hands in welcoming and
entertaining them in a manner which
will give pleasure to the visitors and
pride to our musical organizations of
Honolulu.
Lady Fortune and Second
Thoughts" are being cast. Amateurs
have to be made for their parts at
least, in casting characters may be
made to look parts, but the actors must
know how to act the part. Our plays
have always held to so good a standard
that we wish to be able to promise the
members and the puplic a good drama
tic evening.
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the way, was one in which Ethel
Barrymore starred while that play ran
in New York. are same of the best
amateur talent in Honolulu. Under
the able coaching of Mr.. Gus Murphy,
the players are working hard for sue
cess. though the reputation establish
ed on previous occasions by the High
School pupils is assurance that this
will come to them.
The cast for the play is as follows:
Cosmo Gray. Mr.. Sam Wight
Amy Gray. Miss Lydia Wagner
Leonora Dunbar Observation-Disclosures.
................Mi Miss Florence Crozier
......... Miss Marguerite Creighton
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Colonel Gray. Mr.. E. B. Blanchard
Alice. ............N Miss Ray Bell
Stephen Rollo. Mr.. Daniel King
Richardson - Miss Mabel Lightfoot
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In his preface to the Peacock Edi-
dition" of Pride and Prejudice"
George Saintsbury says: I'm the now
els of the past hundred years there
are vast numbers of young ladies with
whom it might be a pleasure to fall
in love-but to live with and to marry,
1 do not know that any of them can
come into competition with Elizabeth
Bennett" In the play to be given by
the Oahu College Dramatic Club, one
of the most clever and capable MEM
beers of the club will have this part.
Her reading of the lines shows the
sentiment of prejudice" overworked-
as does the part of Darcy that of
Pride
Mr.. F. F. Fyler is visiting at Kona,
as the guest of the Rev. and Mrs. D.
Douglas Wallace. of Kealakekua.
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Mrs. Douglass gave very pretty
card party last Tuesday afternoon at
her residence on Vineyard street. Her
guests were Mrs. Renton, Mrs. J. F.
Morgan, Mrs. Gill, Mrs McGilI, Mrs.
Charles L. Rhodes, Mrs. Abrams, Mrs
Garden, Mrs. r. w. Carter, Miss
Blair, Miss Lucas and Miss Wills.
Whist was the form of entertainment,
Mrs. Renton winning the first prize
and Mrs. Carter the consolation prize.
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Friends received word by the Korea
OF the safe arrival in San Francisco
of Mr.. and Mrs. A. II. Briggs and
Mr.. and Mrs. H F. Briggs and their
two sons, who visited here month
or more on their way from Japan, and
left by the Korea on her last voyage
to the Coast.
The cornerstone-laying ceremony at
the Oahu College last week, at which
little Miss Dorothea Alice Cooke was
the central figure in the practical ded-
ication of the new building going up
through the generosity of her grand
father. c. NJ Cooke. was a notable
affair through the large number of
persons present. Pu-
nahou is rich in her graduates, and
these have not forgotten what they
owe to their college.