The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-25
Fancy Stunts at Rink.

There was much fancy skating but
| the most picturesque of them ali was
| an engineer who, with his breeehes
and fancy cap swayed on each outside
edge with charming lady friend. The
| fancy cap was donated by the rink and
the sway was donated by the engineer
| himself
BONNIE Show Good.
The BONNIE theater was well filed
| by those who did not want to mix I'D in
the noisy element downtown. There
were several delightful pictures of for
eign countries. 1.-The birth and adven-
lures of fountain penn was one film
that made a great hit.
BONNIE s place of art production also
made hit with girl IS boarding school
stunt. There is no doubt that the ORR
ginal moving picture magician has them
all going, even on Christmas eve.
Little Eva Was There.
Even at the Novelty theater there
was big crowd. The place, concrete
reinforced building, held large crowd
/ and there was much cheering when the
villain on the screen was properly
mulled.
Taking it all round the downtown
shows were patronized well. Those that
hold forth without the limits didn It do
so well. People who wanted to have
a good time alternated between the
| shows and the street.
Palama Celebrated-Sure Kela.
| If anyone thinks that Christmas
means nothing to the heather Chinee
| just because he is heather Chinee. or
/ to the diminutive brown Japanee just
because he is a Japanee, that one
| should have taken a little wander
| through Palama last night He would
| have acquired few new ideas and a
new notion of the degree to which the
| oriental assimilates at least some of
| the occidental customs.
Palama celebrated last night, cele-
brated loudly, noisily, brilliantly. All
Palama was decked out in holiday ar
ray. Mr.. and Mrs. Chinee and all the
! little Chinese were out in their best
bib and tucker, and if Mr.. and Mrs.
| Chinee didn' t always toot tin horns
and ring cowbelIs, all the little Chi
| nese did. Of course, the Chinese pop
! ulation could not celebrate quite prop
erly without the aid of firecrackers, but
the cruel edict of Sheriff Jarrett and
the watchfulness of the police had
them headed off there, so they had 10
do the best they could with other
producing instruments of torture
and merriment
And Mr.. Japanee and Mrs. Japanee
| were out with all the children. They
were not quite so voeiferous in their
exhibition of the Christmas spirit as
Of 4botr e
| and nationalities, but they did their
| quiet best to show that they knew
something was happening that happens
| only once year.
Did Palama celebrated Well, rather
Palama got out and marched up and
down the streets and announced in
loud and magnificent tones its JOY that
the holiday season had arrived. Pa
lama put on its best raw silk trousers
and its for-Sunday obi, and it's little
pink cap with gold tasseis, and went
out to show the haoles how to do it..
And all that part of Palama that does
not wear raw silk trousers or for-Sun-
day obs or pink caps with gold tas-
| sells put on its best holoku and its Sab
bath Day shirt, with a new yellow. lei
around its hat, and started out to dem
onstrate to the oriental population that
| Christmas is distinctively an occidental
holiday. Oh, yes; Palama celebrated.
Incidents of the Evening.
All kinds of pretty girls were seen
on Fort street and in the downtown
| districts. Hawaiian maidens with their
hair done up in knots were suddenly
| converted into queens when some fes-
tNTn ant HpTx- ~
fetti. The colored paper stayed on
! every dainty couture and turned the
darksome head of some sweet Hawaiian
girl to the sparkling radiance of a real
crown.
There were more girls out on the
street than are ever seen on ordinary
occasions. There was enough beauty
of the modest and admirable variety
to make the average man lose his heart
about six times over.
1t was not rough crowd. The
women folk weres allowed to pass by
with nothing but a shower of confetti
and an admiring glance-the kind of
glance that does no good woman any
harm.
Withal Joyous Christmas Eve. it
was one of the kindliest Honolulu has
mad In many a year. The girls were
able to come out and enjoy a freedom
IN watching the doings and listening
to the noise that was going on that
was entirely without any faint of in
trusion.
Some of the rummies who tried TO
butt IN got theirs in great shape. Just
below Hotel street on Fort a member
of the reeently-dissolved RiaIto buns
became a trifie fresh. He would put
his arm round the waist of girl pass.
ing down the street.
The girl resented the impudence and
made to smack the half-drunken bum
in the face. She did not have to 40
any smaeking. Before her hand reach
ed the notified features that she was
reaching for. great big fellow with
a forearm ike Cyelops and chest like
the coming of dawn reached over and
spilled the bum. The latter sat in the