The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-05-03
.PUNAHOU PAGEANT WAS A
SPLENDID SIGHT WATCHED
by ADMIR|NG THOUSANDS
Historic Scenes We're
Reproduced 'On a
Big Scale.
(Trom Thursdays Advortiser.)

The ages marched grandly past in re-
view in the May-day pageant at Puma
hou College yesterday morning, -four
hundred and fifty children, of all ages,
in gala costume, taking part in as elab-
crate and beautiful fete as Honolulu
has yet seen. Watching and applaud.
ing the various young mummers as they
came and went across the green and
played each their part in the unfolding
drama of civilization were hundreds of
proud parents and relatives and friends
of the young actors and of Punahou.
The pageant dealt with the known
history of the world, almost, beginning
with the stone age and the cave men
and concluding with a grand tableau in
which Columbia reviewed her children
and watched the representatives OF the
units of the Union "Salute the Flag
and pledge their continuing allegiance
The aborigines of Europe and of Amer.
lea were there; the glories of Athens
and of Rome were revived and Column
bus rediscovered America after the
maids of Merrie England had danced
gaily around the May-pole to the music
of gaily bedecked troubadors. The
Crusaders marched against the Infidels;
Rip Van Wrinkle slept again through
score of changing years and George
Washington smiled upon his and Martha
Washington's guests through stately
minuet and very pretty caprice, In
which six Colonial Danes tripped it
with an equal number of knickerbock-
cred and be-uueued pallantS.
The last feature of splendid pro-
gram consisted in grand review, IN
which the entire troupe in the pageant
marched past the grandstand, horse
and foot, the glittering armor, flowing
draperies, bright colors and happy faces
making a delightful series of pictures.
The pageant will be repeated this
morning, to the presentation of which
are invited the children of the various
public and private schools of the city.
There were probably twenty-five hun
bred present yesterday, including a
large number of the prominent gov
eminent, army and navy and other Off
Gals in the city. and many other we'll
known people. The weather was on
the whole most accommodating, the sun
being prevented from smiling upon the
pageant too broadly by welcome rain
clouds, which merely dewed the sum-
mer gowns and picture hats in passing.
1t was liquid sunshine of the finest Ha-
waiian brew
The Cave Dwellers.
With all the grace of born tree and
cave-dwellers the thirty or: so young
sters who make up the first class of the
preparatory school rushed on the plat
form as the moment arrived for the
pageant to commence. The big stage
was divided into two sections while off
to the right was built large cave. In
one section stood Eskimo Indians, an
iceberg looming up in the back ground
and hut of ice beneath it, in and ont
from which passed the youthful actors.
Here was fur.clad Indian leading
three quite lively Eskimo dogs about;
there was an Eskimo squaw cooking.
blubber. Quite solemnly and much at
ease the little chaps went about their
parts as if they had lived on ieebergs
all their lives.
The iceberg furnished cool contrast
to the other side of the stage. Here
palms were growing for the occasion
in luxuriant freshness and out of YER
dant bowers peeped veritable little pre-
Adamite tree-dwellers, who had no diff
ficulty at all in acting the part, being
SO close to the original, anyway. About
the stage were scattered the bones of
the slain, with here and there a prehis-
toric warrior shaking spear OF arrow
head out of them.
One by one the tree-dwellers, came to
the front of the stage in grotesque
jumps and bounds and then Strengthened
out for a moment while they told the
people why it was they lived in trees,
dressed in grass. how they ate and slept
and how they hunted their dinners and
all those other intimate details of tree
dwelling life.
Then several little chaps walked out
of the cave with bravely-draped skins
hanging over their young shoulders and
told why it was they lived in caves and
how they found fire and all the rest
of IT
All of the actors were under seven
or eight and the self-assurance of each
astonished even their parents. There
xvara M haltinp snaachaa and If nar-