El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-05-04
HAWAIIANS GET
MANY ENC0RES
Chautauqua Audience Re
luctantly Allows Lecturer
to Start Her Number.


Friday nights Chautauqua audience
was so thoroughly taken with the mu-
sic Of the Royal Hawaiian quintet that
II very reluctantly permitted the en-
tertainment By Miss Mildred Leo
Clemens. cousin Of Mark Twain. 10
begin. Each number given by the
musicians Of the Pacific islands was
encored. Supt Guy n Bingham final
" had 10 firmly tell the tent fun OF
applauding people that the Hawaiians
must not be called back again.
Carolyn silverthorn's Mother Goose
festival. in which FL Paso children
were employed to carry several stories
OF interest TO the little folk. was the
opening number and pleased the early
corners
Joseph Kekulu's guitar playing was
the feature Of the Hawaiian music. He
uses. the steel method, producing mu-
sic from the guitar not before heard
here. The members OF the quintet are
all soloists and each did his turn
Their hula dance numbers and "Alo-
ha-oe" were fetching.
Portrays Hnwairs Beauties
Miss Clemens. assisted by stereop-
tic0n and moving pictures, portrayed
the beauties Of the Hawaiian islands.
and told OF her voyages around them
and interior explorations. a place
TO put the kaiser" was one sugges-
ton offered when she showed the
boiling lava rivers Of the Kilauea vol
cano. "Closeups" Of this inferno in
dicated that the camera man had been
almost near enough 20 the spouung
lava at places 10 have it splash his
machine.
Japs in National Guard.
Pineapple. sugar cane and rice fields
in the Islands were pictured. Miss
Clemens said there were $4,000 Japa-
nese Iaborers in the islands and that
the national guard OF the territory
had three companies Of them as sol
diers. Her 81 varieties" Of school
children provoked laughter from the
audience as she spoke Of Hawaii be-
ing the melting pot OF Pacific races
she pointed out the former habita-
tons Of Robert Louis Stevenson and
Mark Twain, who wrote Of the Pearl
OF the Pacific"
May Not Return in 1919.
ChautauQua may not come back 10
Fl Paso next year Supt- Bingham
exclamation was that not enough To-
cal people had signed the advance con-
tract 20 guarantee the return Of the
Ellison-White company which called
for the sale Of 600 tickets at 81. or
total Of $500 for seven night per
formances, emitting the afternoon
numbers as presented this season
fsIachine cum TaIker.
r. V Adams was the afternoon lee
turer. his subject having been Grapes
Of Cold" ar Adams is q very rapid
sneaker. and & was said by some peo-
% nr.nH r
points because Of his machine gun
delivery The theme of his talk was
the influence Of mind over body, or
the power o. suggestion
Claim They smelled Peppermint.
He began by saying that his hobby /
Is air currents in any place he Is TO I
speak. and 20 demonstrate that there
were currents in the tent, he would D
sprinkle some essence OF peppermint
on the platform. and ask his hearers
10 nod their heads when the odor
reached them A number Of people
having an acute sense Of smell re-
sDonded TO this Later in the lecture
he Informed them that what he had
sprinkled on the floor had been pure
water.
asfcEH Suggestions Are bad.
He said that If one man met an
other man four or five times in day.
and each time told the other man that .
he was looking sick. and added mt
tie each time, he would have the other
man sick by night His idea was that
fannfness and the right sort OF
Thought lead 10 any kind OF success
desired In a tribute 10 the president, I
he said that although much criticism
end SANDER had been thrown his way, ]
the head OF the nation had never re-
piled in kind, had never tried TO give
as good as he got
GRFCIAN-ALL NEW PROGRAM.
Today only the Grecian viii show an
excellent short program. consisting OF
the first GoldWyn comedy, Bits (
Baby" and a new chapter in the Ire
~ Abraham Lincoln. My Father
The GoldWvn comedy viii introduce
smiling Billy Parsons TO Grecian
PATRONS. and it is an assured fact that /
those who see him viii like him. Ny
Father is enc Of the Lincoln series, I
with the life Of the greatest American /
in a human and intimate way Many l
people have expressed desire 70 see .
every one of these pictures and II you /
see one you VIII certainly want TO see I
the rest
Monday the Grecian presents the /
ever bevftchinE Mabel Normand in 1
Joan Of Plattsburg." This is called a I
patriotic edy-drama-' as il has I
everything from fun and thrills TO I
inspiring patriotism Miss Normand 1
has never had a part as great as this. (
and never has GOldWyn produced 7
better picture--Adv.
HTJOU-aOVER THE TOP.7
Today is positively your last chance /
10 see Guy Empey in his famous pic 1
ture. "Over the Top" at the Biiou- /
Special permission was granted US by :
the producers TO keep this picture to- D