Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-03-15
"Entertainer' is
Not Allowed to
Go Into Canada
Hawaiian" Lecturer Fails to
Answer Questions SatiSfac-
toriIy and Is Barred Out

1t Is not so easy to enter the Domi
MON of Canada from the United States
as formerly. Even the magic word
Hawaii is not sesame at this time.
Much as Canadian immigration inspec-
tors may desire that the good church
people of their communities should
hear of the beauty and the lure Of the
isles of Peace" they find it essential
that would-be lecturers should first
answer certain personal and pertinent
queries truthfully and satisfactorily.
This Miss Dottie Tillotson, Hawaiian
entertainer" has learned, according
to the st. Ignace (Mich.) Enterprise,
which publishes the following:
Miss Lottie Tillotson, the Hawaiian
entertainer, who recently appeared
before small audience in this city,
is on the Canadian blacklist and in
consequence was not allowed to enter
the dominion where she was sched-
uled to give long line Of entertain
ments extending from the Canadian
500 to Winnipeg. It was rumored
about the Soos that the lady was in
the employ of the German government
as spy, but no proofs were submit
ted to substantial the rumor. While
in this city she claimed her birthplace
was Buffalo, that she had been
school teacher but owing to her health
was obliged To give w this mode OF
obtaining livelihood and decided to
become lectarer and entertainer.
At the Ameri ian 500, where she APP
peared Wednesday evening of last
week, she got into a heated argument
with the local committee over her
proceeds and is said to have been dis
agreeable in many ways. Relative to
her 500 visit and the refusal Of the
Canadian authorities. to allow her to
cross the river the Evening News has
the following:
"Hawaii-How are you?
Miss Tillctson. who was there one
time, stopped long enough to find out,
and has been telling about il, for
money, ever since, and entertainingly,
too, it would seem. But those mem
bers of the st. PauPs Presbyterian
churcn at Steelton, and ST. Andrews
Presbyterian church of the Canadian
500, who were hoping TO hear OF the
land OF the ukulele and the surfb0ard
were disappointed. Difficulties with
the immigration authorities over her
answers to a few questions concern
ing her birth place, a9c, ETC., caused
the cancellation of the engagements.
The lecturer, who pleased large
audience in the First Presbyterian
church in this city Wednesday evening
under the auspices Of the Ladies' Aid
Society, but later incurred the enmity
Of certain members by quarreling over
a few items not included in her con.
tract, left at o'clock yesterday after
noon for Canada. She found her Wa
terloo in the office of the immigration
department at the depot in the Cana.
dian Soo
asked her birth place she replied
Quebec is as good place as
any for a Hawaiian entertainer to
be born in. The officers disagreed
with her, but Miss Tillotson was con-
WINGED she was born there, having
been present al the time. Besides it.
they were going to question her she
wanted an attorney.
George Hayward was called as her
attorney, and after consulting with
his client for some time, advised her
to tell the truth.
she had made a slight mistake
about her birth place, which was Min
nesota. Her mind was also refresh.
ened about several other items which
she did not answer previously TO the
satisfaction of the officials. One was
that she had been in Canada before
Part Of the tine was IN the capacity
Of lecturer which her press clippings
will show, while another six months
were spent in Mercer penitentiary,
where she served a sentence for shop
lifting.
When this information was given
the officers. Miss ,Tillotson was exclud-
ed from Canada for attempting to
make entry under false and misleading
information. A Canadian immigration
official who was interviewed on the
American side this morning refused
to say whether the sentence she
served in Toronto would make her an
undesirable alien.
Canadian immigration officials
have Kept track of Miss Tillotson for
some time. When she was here last
October making engagements for lee.
lures, which she did by telephone
and not by personal solicitation, they
knew her record ;
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