The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-04-22

balcony that is a well-equipped res
taurant; nor of the two Paris variety
houses. where one may eat meal
and look 'twixt mouthfuls across an
audience at stage; nor yet the typ
ical resplendent London music halls,
wherein intensely modish folk uccupy
the parquettes, while promenades are
free to sirenic women and men
FOUNDERS, with maids behind bars.
Our Winter Garden, capitalized by
some of the same wealthy men who
endowed the New Theater for high
dramatic art, serves light refresh
ments in gallery, and drinks and
ices per natty maids in all parts, IS
practically an enormous vaudeville
theater with a recklessly expensive
vaudeville show.
La Belle Paree" calls itself play,
but is meant only to loosely hold to-
gether a programme of specialties,
They are shown in twelve Partisan
places, from public squares to pri-
vate resorts, and from ornate cafes
to dingy slums. The scheme. you
perceive, permits the introduction of
selected American stunters along
with imported novelties The place
looked at the opening like the Metro
politan Operahouse-well. say half
way. 1t held one moiety of ultra
mqdish folk, whose private motor
cars made line around three blocks:
while the other moiety was made up
of less afhuent town-rounders: so
that the women showed contrasts of
tasteful modes and coarse famboy-
ancy.
The men on the stage are SO dim
in the effulgence Of the women that
they're not worth mentioning. But
the actresses are high-priced, and
worth their COST Kitty Gordon ana
Jean Alwyn are from London. Kitty
is beauty all over. Her face is q
trifie hard, and she has been OLD
enough for suffrage for some years,
but our women agree that she has
the most superlatively lovely figure
that ever grew, and she is wonderful
ly adept at wearing fine gowns eff
fectively. Jean is smaller and live
lier. Both sing well. They are
brought together in Partisan
shop of modes kept by Jean,
visited by Kitty, and QUILTED
with dozen show girls selected to
personate models. Kitty has on a
harem gown to slightly advantage, and
shows other whimsical garments, in
Guiding suffragette trousers, with a
masculine side out and a feminine
side in, the lining being lace and EN-.
broidery. She sings about clothes,
too, and displays dozen girls in ev-
ening gowns cut so low behind that
so she says-the sit on their bare
backs when they take chairs. A
handsomer line of models hash
crossed a stage in a long while
Jean Alwyn has a song about these
backs, and when, at pertinent line
in her .ditty, the dozen face up-stage
and stand arrow, the sudden exposure
of cuticle is expansive. At another
time Jean has a song that isn't
Scotch in tune, although it is about the
"Edinboro Wriggle," and kits serve to
emphasize the physical exercise that
illustrates a sort of Celtic ragtime
cakewalk action.
From Spain comes Tortjada, an al
most savagely saucy beauty ,of the
Carmencita and Otero type, leading
sixteen imitation senoritas in defiant
songs and dances. Twelve tall Amer
lean girls are brunetted to resemble
her, and they back up her fandangc
in spirited duplication. From Paris IS
Yvette, not the French balladist, but
a little fiddler who Wriggles and
twists like a contortionist while
playing and dancing, and l wondered
why a perfectly Opaque, loose robe
chung close to her every motion unit
woman told me it was weighted
along its lower edges.
That Dazzle dancer who caught
New York as the Girl in the REQ
Domino in a roof garden four years
ago and later was the ballet premiere
in our grand opera, is a principal II
La Belle Paree." In a cafe of bo-
hemian revelry, she reverses the
year-ago new, but already obsolete
Apache dance, for as the girl in a
waltzing couple she, not the man, is
the hypnotic spell-binder, cuddling
him in her arms and kissing him as
" E. III