The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-31
Pretty Little Pauline Thurston Eighteen and Dainty
Tells Dolly How She Learned the Hawaiian Hula-Hula
BY DOLLY pALRYMPLE

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~ Eukeleles wicki-wacki- walling and
4 w. the thrum of the sensuous. eupho-
MUS, tuneful, Hawaiian melody
! full, Hawaiian melody
"She is my dear little sweet little, Ho-
nolulu Tomboy.
"she lives on fish and poi. nui-nui,
moi-moi,
| Pah-la-oe-oe."
| died away at the Lyric matinee yester-
| cay afternoon, and the last exotic glimpse
! of THE Garden of Aloha" vanished from
, view, preparing to make for back stage"
to ask pretty little Pauline Thurston how
she did the wonderfully clever dance she
executes in this attractive vaudeville act
my attention was diverted for moment
by a conversation which went something
like this:
do you know I like that girl, she's
sort of chummy-like in everything she
does; feel as if I'd known her all my
life
Whereupon the gentleman's lady friend
responded with cold and cutting sar-
casm:
"Of course. AS a rule you never see
anything but the squads Jimmy"
well, I'd like to know why not?" re-
piled Friend Husband Qor of course
that's who Jimmy" was). THAT girls
clever, she is; got her audience with her
every minute of the time, too"
And SO she had. and "Jmmys' wife
and myself and all the other people in
GLIDING Friend Husband" didn't need
to give an excuse for our applause and
enthusiasm and joining in the chorus of
devotees and making more encores neces-
sary, for little Pauline Thurston deserves
IT.; she's a wonder, is this little 1S-year-
old gir! from down in Texas who is play
ing her first road engagement" and is
just as clever and sweet and pretty and
refined as she can be.
Everything she does-every step-her
grace and her talent register 100 per cent
without half trying; this little mite of a
girl (she wears her hair hanging down
her back and her little skirts OH ever
so short-"off stage'D swishing and twirl-
ing and piroueting about in the dance of
dances-the famous Hawaiian Hula Hula
is really adorable
There isn't any use to go into a tech
meal description here because you've
seer the "act') of all the intricate, amaz-
ihgly graceful steps and movements and
WHlTuHS TeNOluLlOnS JndL S1e llldheS, Luey
are part of the game" the business
as it were; but there is some use to re-
mark upon the refinement and the dain-
tiIess of what she does, because the
Hula-Hula is a dance that could SO easily
be "overdone' or "underdone" and
commonplace, but with little Pauline
ThIrston executing the many steps, we
begun to wonder if dancing is a trade"
after all; if it is something a person can
learn; doubts about it; we somehow sort
Of think that these subtleties must come
along with us all packed up tight and
tied with pink ribbons and ready for use.
Out of the land of the Hawaiian has
come color and romance and charm, each
full blown; usually erotic. The American
stage is full today of Hawaiian dancers
and singers. New York has been sur
feted with them this season; society is
leasing the Hula" the stage has
already adopted it, the dancing masters
are booming it, and everybody with five
fingers is playing a eukelele and singing
some sort of dangerous plaintfve melody
that reeks of the Banyan moon and tbs fts
exotic, sensuous, equisitely enchanting
rhythm of the far away South sea island,
as we hear the greeting" softly said,
"Aloha-lei'' (My love to your and ro-
nance stalks gaily through the moonlit
land.
found little Pauline Thurston. as meek
as a little lamb and as modest about her