The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-20

the show places of four continents. Miss
Margaret Anglin, the celebrated act
ress, has returned to America convinced
of the fact that there is no spot in all
the world as fair and as attractive as
Honolulu. She is now in San Francisco
and, in an interview with the San
Francisco Bulletin, says of her trip and :.
of this city:
The moon goes around the earth as
matter of course, but not until recent |
ly has there been any record of star /
making the trip.
The star, Miss Margaret Anglin, is, !
of course, American, and the Journey
which she completed when the Kaiser
Wilhelm III locked in Hoboken had it's
beginning when on May % of last year
she sailed from San Francisco to play
a seven months engagement in Aus
I.tralia.
Miss Anglin did not act all around
the globe, though she can act all around
great many things But she had
many interesting adventures while on
her world girdling trip, and of these she
talked most eloquently at the Hotel
Plaza.
Miss Anglin is now much simmer
than [ have ever seen her. She has in
fact brought back with her a marvellous
slenderness which is going to prompt
every woman she knows to inquire
where and how she got it.
~ IA very glad we been around the
world she said, ssif only for one
thing, which is that / know now that
the most beautiful place on earth is
| in America No-not New York. I
mean Honolulu sailed from San Fran.
| cisco on May %, year ago. The first
stop was. of course, at Honolulu, and
none of the places I have visited since
can compare with it in natural beauty.
| You know the natives come down to
meet the boats with many wreaths and
boas made of the most gorgeous flowers,
and these they threw all around the pas
sengers as they land.
FIJI, ISLAND OF CoNvICTS.
Our next stop was at the FIJI Islands
| You get the impression there that Fiji
| is a land of convicts, for you see nothing
| but convicts in the streets, natives
wearing a single white garment orna-
mented with one or more stripes as hon
or marks. It appears the only way you
can make a Fijian work is by convict
ing him of something. Prison discipline
| is very lax, I heard. There is one jail,
and if all the prisoners are not back in
! it by 9 clock they are locked out for
!! the night. One night the jailers went
to ball, and as they were not back
when the curfew rang the. prisoners
locked them out.
After FIJI we stopped at Tanning ISL
and, Just a cable station, but lovely to
look at, in fact Just like a green wreath
laid in the middle of the Pacific, for
there is lagoon in the middle.
Tanning Island has a population of
six white men and two white women
and the two white women don't speaki
7 don t know what will happen to me
| for letting the world know of this feud.
While we were there I was told that
another bold traveller who had preceded
| us had once written on a postal card
/ the true state of affairs. But of course,
| the postal card was censored and the
reference to the feud of the two ladies
erased before it left the island.
AUSTRALIA KNEW HER.
'sT had expected when I reached Aus
| tralia to have to tell people about my,
| self. I never dreamed they would have
heard of me. But it seems that they
| read all the American magazines and
newspapers-much more, indeed, than
the English periodicals, and they really
knew what plays I had appeared in and
a
but, of course. not personal to me. The
names of Maude Adams and Ethel Bar
rymore are just as well known IN sgd
ney and Melbourne and Adelaide as
they are in New York.
"And did YOU find an Australian au-
lience like one in New York2'
"Audiences are more emotional IN
Australia than in America" Miss An
glin answered. "They take much more
intimate tone with you. They don It
leave the theater Immediately after the
| performance. but insist that you make
them a speech. Boys in the gallery call
out compliments to you, and If you re
little bit shy at talking to them they
call out Come on, now. don t be afraid
7 never missed a performance in seven
months. but on matinee days could not
leave the theater for dinner because
of the crowds waiting at the stage
doors. They had all sorts of things
they wanted to give me-fowers, OF
! course. and blessed medals. One old
man after seeing the performance walk
ed fourteen miles into town the next
dav to give me a portrait of myself
he had executed in two pounds OF
butter.
HAD BABY KANGAROO, BUT
.'I was also presented with a baby
kangaroo but it didn't like me and
died-or perhaps it had presentiment
as to the popularity of kangaroo steak
in New York Just now and didn { want
to risk being brought here.
'eThe Australian roses are the most
| beautiful in the world. They really
have roses of dark purple and also OF
flame color.
con the night of my last perform
ance got hundreds of boomerangs
made of flowers. Of course you know