The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-03-04
SCHOOL CARNIVAL
AT LAHAINA WINS
WARM APPROVAL
Kamehameha iii School Stages
Show Children Will Long
Remember and Which Old
sters Enjoy.

By the dozen, then by the score,
then by the hundred Maui folk flocked
to the grounds of Kamehameha Ill.
school last Saturday afternoon and
evening to attend the school carnival.
Dimes and nickels flowed into teh cen
tral box Office faster and faster until
there were gross receipts of more
than $500 and net receipts approXi-
mating $500. Not for long time has
any entertainment been staged on
Maui that had so much of punch"
and the grown ups had almost as
much fun as did the youngsters who
will carry recollections of the affair
into the long years to come in their
lives.
Really worth while was the carnival
at Lahaina and it is a question whe-
ther any other school on Maui could
have carried it off so well. Only the
enthusiasm and the hearty cooperation
of the teaching staff made it possible
and the spirit of the teachers became
the spirit of the scholars.
Early comerS found the carnival
& was not really to start until after the
parade of decorated vehicles and
scholars in costume, the shows not
starting nor the booths opening until
after the parade. Starting at the
school grounds the parade proceeded
through the streets of Lahaina and
back into the grounds. There were
decorated bicycles, tricycles, go-carts
and baby carriages and the artistic
sense of the children together with
their skill in carrying out decorative
ideas made the task of the judges no
easy one.
Pretty Spectacle Presented
In the bicycle section Riuji Yamada
had his machine camoufiaged as a
battleship and won first prize. In the
baby carriage section Margaret Thorn
son of Wailuku with a carriage be-
longing to Mrs. Hinton, decorated in
red, white and blue, with Master Hin
ton as Uncle Sam in the vehicle took
first honors. There were close COM
petitors in carriage of pink and
white, with the girl wheeling it and
the child in it clad to match and in
another carriage that was mass of
foliage and tiny electric lights. TWO
boy were given first prizes in the
tricycle. section, the judges being un-
able to decide between them. John
Cockfort had his machine decorated
with a large umbrella and bougain-
villea and Sadao Matsuda had machine
and himself arrayed to represent a
humble bee. In the girls tricycle. Sec
tion Ruby Ako dressed in white, ma
chine decorated in green and white
and white flowers won first prize.
The parade ended some flocked to
the really charming miniature tea gar
den for supper of sandwiches, salads,
tea, coffee and cookies, a surprisingly
good meal for a surprisingly low cost,
others to the ice cream and soda
booths, others scattered about the
grounds and still others started on the
rounds of the shows as fast as they
opened.
Shows Well Patronized
Largest receipts came from the ice
cream and soda booth but not the lar
gest net receipts for there was ex
pense attached to that booth not at
tached to the others. OF the shows
Fancy Dancing, in charge OF Miss
Seong entertained 1872 visitors, Mrs
Mookini's Hula Dancers being second
with 665 and Miss Colbert's minstrels
third with 571.
Especial merit attached to the hula
show where little kiddieS in grass
skirts over yellow suits gave really
pleasing dance while older boys rat
tied the calabashes. So also there
was real enjoyment in watching the
Spanish and the gypsy dances and in
listening to the singing of the girls
under Miss Van Keuren, the songs
being illustrated by girls who Were
attired in costumes appropriate to
the words of the songs. There was a
zest to the minstrel show Miss Col
bert's youngsters put on and its bal
lyhoo" was the best in the grounds
Miss Thomas had arranged an anus
ing exhibition of fake hypnotisln and
there was interest to the trained ami
NAL show, while two tiny little chaps
put on an exhibition of boxing thai
was a show in itself, outdoing the
older and larger boys who appeared
Miss Jackson as gypsy queen fortune
teller had a busy evening but she had
to care for her patrons one by one
and in consequence was handicapped
in competition for for receipts.
The jitney dance was popular with
dancers on the floor all through the
evening and the merry go-round, an
improvised hand affair, was none The
less fun for the kiddies.
With special lighting arrangement
on the grounds and the spirit of cal
nival reigning it was happy afaii
and one that sets new mark IL
school entertainments.
Kau Wants acknowledgements
tive Muller has introduced a resolu
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