The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-06-22

| After touring the world and visiting
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
a 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 II locked in Hoboken had its
beginning when on May 90 of last year
she sailed from San Francisco to play
a seven months engagement in Aus.
,tralia.
Miss Anglin did not act all around
the globe, though she can act all around
a 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.
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than have ever seen her. She has in
fact brought back with her marvellous
slenderness which is going to prompt
every woman she knows to inquire
where and how she got it.
"I'm very glad I've been around the
world,n she said, "if only for one
thing, which is that I know now that
the most beautiful place on earth is
| in
mean Honolulu. I sailed from San Fran.
cisco on May %, year ago. The first
stop was, of course, at Honolulu, and
none of the places | 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
isl 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. 1t appears the only way you
can make a Fijian work is by convict.
ing him of something. Prison discipline
is very lax, heard There is one jail,
and if all the prisoners are not back in
it by Q 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 green wreath
laid in the middle of the Pacific, for
there is lagoon in the middle.
Tanning Island has population of
six white men and two white women
and the two white women don t speak,
| don't know what will happen to me
for letting the world know of this feud
= While we were there ] 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.
~ had expected when l reached Aus
tralia to have to tell people about my
self. / never dreamed they would have
heard of me. But il seems that they
read all the American magazines and
newspapers-much more, indeed, thar
the English periodicals, and they really
( knew what plays l had appeared in and
{ all about me. 1t was very fattering
. 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 al
they are in New York.
Sand did YOU find an Australian au
dience like one in New York;"
"Audienees are more emotional IN
Australia than in America,n Miss An
glin answered. "They take much more
intimate tone with you, They dom
leave the thea'er Immediately after the
: performance, but insist that you make
them a speech, Boys in the gallery cal
out compliments 10 You, and II you =,
little Bit shy az talking TO them they
} call ont 'c0me on, now, don 7 be afraid,
, never missed performance In sever
months, but on matinee days could mol
, leave the theateT for dinner beeans,
b ~ the crowds waiting az the stag
. doors, They had all sorts OF thing
D they wanted ~ give me-noweTs, 81
course, and hlussed medals, One old
man after seeing the performance walk
cd fourteen miles into town The nexI