The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1922-04-25
Maui Teachers
Show and Dance
Great Success
Vaudeville Numbers are Elab-
crate Well Staged and Fine
ly Carried Out; Dance also
Enjoyed

AiAJOyCd
Tally one for the Maui Teachers
Association. The vaudeville entertain
ment and dance offered under it's aus
pices at the Territorial Building Sat
urday night was a thorough going
success both in points of attendance
and the enjoyment it gave. Credit
must be divided between the Associa-
ton, Mrs. Louise c.. Jones, the direct
or, and the performers and there is
enough to go around and to spare.
Saturday nights attendance was
about the largest that the Territorial
building has housed except during fair
times. Every seat down stairs was
occupied and about a hundred persons
found vantage points in the gallery.
From the entertainment point of view
more was given than had been promis-
ed and the dance at its close was a
fitting climax.
Performance is On
Enthusiastically oriental was the
music of the Mary Hoffman orchestra
before the curtain rose for the first
number to a pretty stage setting.
Grouped about in Turkish costumes of
gay colors were the ladies of the
harem," Mesdames Humphrey, Light.
ner, Holt, Wilson and Jones and Miss
es Veale, Murdoch and Rodrigues.
Mrs. Leslie Watson waS charming as
she rendered with rare grace of move
ment an oriental dance. Misses Irene
Moura and Blanche Garcia were two
pleasing little slave maidens and
Frank Bal, as the sultan of the harem
sang most pleasingly. Encores, which
were the rule during the evening start
ed with this first number brought by
applause that was spontaneous and
enthusiastic.
Next came a mirth producing farce
with Mrs. James Taylor and Floyd
Brown as the cast that kept laughter
ripping through the audience. Both
did eXcellently.
Ten minutes of singing and dane
ing" heightened into a longer period
and then was all too short. Karl Jet
ter has a fine voice and his singing
numbers were received with pleasure.
He is new too affairs of this kind on
Maui and is a welcome acquisition.
This number brought out the pony
ballet, six misses who are as charming
and graceful as any who ever trod the
boards, whose dancing rythm was per
feet. They were Misses Hutton, Ross,
Rodrigues, Rego, Walsh and Sparks.
In tulle costumes they were easy to
look at" and their execution of the
ensemble dance numbers warranted
the encores they received.
1t vas in this number that Mr.. and
Mrs. Vernon Palace" appeared in the
latest dance steps. They were one
of the chief hits of the evening. Much
curiosity as to the identity of the
couple had been voiced and finally
they were identified, Reg Humphrey
as Mrs. Vernon Palace, in an ultra
fashioned evening gown and Hosmer
Rolph as Mr.. Palace.
Mrs. Louise c. Jones rendered three
character songs which drew round af-
ter round of applause. First in Gyp-
sey costume she san Sweet Marie"
and a few moments later in Scotch
kilties she sang the old favorite,
Comm Thru, tn Rye" and followed
with a third selection in different
costume.
aloha Land" was the closing num-
Der and nothing better in the Hawai-
ian entertainment line has been seen
on a Maui stage. Misses Weight and
Copp and Mrs. Wilmington, Mrs. Gar
cha and Mrs. Buck were seated amidst
tropical verduTe and wov leis as they
sang. From the wings came the sound
of male voices with instrumental &C
compartment and the men of the cast
entered. They were Messrs Brown,
Lyons, Waiwaiole, Hoopii, Rego, Apo
and Cockett. Hoopii put an especial
amount of vim into his work but the
others were not far behind. As each
male singer or dancer closed his part
he was lei decked by one of the wo-
men Lyons steel gutter number made
a hit as did his hula dancing. Little
Master Bal had previously done a
hula that won him a place in the
hearts of all who saw it and simply
had to be repeated.
When the curtain fell Boy Scouts
moved the chairs to the lanais and to
the sides of the large auditorium and
in a few minutes Mary Hoffman's or
chestra was dispensing modern dance
music. On the floor the scene was a
gay one, the costumes Of numbers OF
those who had been performers On the
stage adding brightness and color to
the scene. Two hours of dancing fol
lowed and brought a most enjoyable
night to an end shortly after midnight
Indications pointed to a goodly sun
realized toward the ~defraying of eX
penses of the Maui delegate to the
convention of the National Education
al Association at Boston next summer