Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-11-28

galvanized iron. flank two sides Of gnal
enclosure. The other sides are shut @close
set rows Of banyans Of such size that their roots
and downreaching branches mingle to form al
most solid wooden terraces upon which hun
dreds of spectators may find seats without
crowding.
The stage is a hard packed piece of ground
slipping gently down to a crystal clear stream
which meanders past, sparkling in the sunbeams
like of footlghts, the position of which 1t
approximately occupies Behind the stage is a
creeper covered wall of rock with face so
sheer that the direction exit rear" must neces-
sariy be eliminated from all performances. To
the left is down Ta-roo-la, the of the little
stream, and to the right 3 up Ta-roo-la. Actors
waiting in either wing are screened from the
sight of the audience by the ends of the rows
of banyans.
The music is furnished by a slightly wheezy
organ, clarinet and lot of hollow tree tom
toms, and to the stirring strains Of the Mar
seaise" played by this orchestra the curtain
is rung up upon the tablesu of Christ and the
Children" OF course there is no curtain and
no ringing up. Christ simply strolls In froIa up
Ta.roo-la and the children troop in from down
Taroo-la and they meet In the middle of the
stage
There are no stage settings and little is done
in the way of makeups. The children are SIM
ply children and Christ is smply-well, for the
last fifteen years he has been Lurau. Lurau is
the greatest pearl diver and shark fisher in all
the Marquesas. There is little In his disposition
off the stage to fit him for his role. He owes
the honor that has come to him to his beard; 1t
is the only one borne by native In the Mar
quesas.
With his hair and beard neatly oiled and
combed and dressed in a trailing white robe of
snowy muslin Lurau makes a far more acceptable
Christus than sees in many of the South
American presentations Of the play. The only
especially Earring note in his makeup is halo
which is apparently cut from a piece of shiny
biscuit tin. During the week of the play, both
on and off the stage, Lurau is quiet, dignhed and
paragon in every particular afterward he is
Just like all the rest of his brothers and sisters.
The second scene is the Redemption of the
Magdalena." The latter wearing bright red
holokau or wrapper, comes strolling in from
the upstream side and discovers Christ resting
OIL a niche of the rock which forms the back
wall. Her repentance and forgiveness follow,
after which Lurau presents her with pure
white holokau She receives blessing, trips
off down stream, changes holokaus behind the
trunk of breadfruit tree, and the curtain" fol-
lows her disappearance upstream in her trailing
robe Of white.
For the supper scene no endeavor is made to
reproduce tableau patterned on the famous
painting of Leonardo da Vinci bountiful re-
past of breadfruit, pantains, prawns, yams and
cocoanuts is spread out upon cover of banana
leaves and everybody sits down crosslegged AND
eats for fully five minutes before word is
spoken
Supper over, the remnants gathered vi
and thrown into the convenient Ta-roola, Ther
follows the washing Of the feet of the Disciples