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The Pacific Commercial Advertiser.
Honolulu, January 6, 1891, page 3
Hawaiian Opera
House
Complementary Benefit to be Tendered
Mr. W. L. Roberts.
Mr. W. L. Roberts, the popular young actor, is soon to leave
Honolulu for the States, and his numerous friends here have
kindly volunteered to give him a benefit at the Opera House on
Thursday evening next, when the following programme will be
given :
PROGRAMME.
Statue Scene from Pygmalion and Galatea.
Recitation: Mrs. L. Berkley.
Song: Miss
NoIte
Song: Mr. Geo. Allen
Banjo Solo: Mr. U. J. Ordway
Recitation: W. L. Roberts
NAN, THE
GOOD-FOR-NOTHING.
Tom (a gardener): W. L.
Roberts
Harry (an engineer): H. B. Cockrill
Mr. Simpson (a capitalist): C. T. Miller
Charley (a carpenter): J. M. Sims
Miss Olive Berkley as Nan
The box plan for the sale of reserved seats
is now open at the photographic gallery at Mr.
J. J, Williams.
Chronicling America
The Pacific commercial advertiser. (Honolulu, Hawaiian
Islands) 1885-1921, January 06, 1891, Image 3
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The Pacific
Commercial Advertiser.
Honolulu, January 9, 1891, page 3.
OPERA HOUSE.
Mr. TV. L. Roberts'
Benefit Success
A Fashionable and Appreciative
Audience Present.
An unusually large
audience turned out to hear the entertainment tendered Mr.
W. L. Roberts Thursday evening.
The programme opened with a scene taken from Pygmalion and
Galatea, Mr. Roberts as the former and Miss Olive Berkley as
the latter.
Miss Berkley held the enraptured attention of the audience
as she began to realize the ways of this world.
The acting of this scene simply caused the audience to wish
the whole of the play could have been enacted.
Mrs. Berkley was heartily recalled after
reciting a selection, and when it came to the vocal selections
given by the Hawaiian Quintett Club, Honoluluans showed their
appreciation of home talent by insisting upon their giving more
than the programme called for.
Miss Nolte in singing "Love's Joy," proved herself equal to what
is expected of her by a Honolulu audience, which is by no means
little.
She received an encore, as also did Mr. Allen after singing
"Fiddle and I."
One of the principal features of the entertainment, was the
music performed by Prof. Ordway.
The audience could not get enough playing from him, and from the
Quintet Club.
Mr Roberts recitation showed what is already known of his
strength and force of acting in the "Nan the Good for Nothing"
he
performed his part perhaps the best of all.
J. H. Sims sustained his role of carpenter with credit while
Miss Berkley as Nan simply could not help capturing the hearts
of the gardener the carpenter the engineer and the audience too
It was an entertainment throughout, that, pleased all who heard
it and it was gratifying to see the large number who went.
Mr. Roberts and Miss Berkley will leave Saturday with Aloha Nui
from all.
Chronicling America
The Pacific commercial advertiser. (Honolulu, Hawaiian
Islands) 1885-1921, January 09, 1891, Image 3
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The Daily Bulletin.
Honolulu, September 9, 1891, page 3.
OLIVE
BERKLEY'S STORY.
The New Orleans Daily Picayune of August 2d contains a neat
sketch, entitled: "Dandy John; the Fate of a Samoan Stowaway ; a
Tale of Travel by Little Olive Berkley."
It is illustrated with three engravings, and tells of a Samoan
who stowed away on the steamer Mariposa and, after being
returned to his native isles, was seen among the Samoans who
came out to the Alameda.
This time he was dressed in a tall silk hat and a red tie,
bought for him in Sydney by the "Warblers" of the Mariposa.
"John had become & high priest among his people ; was sought
alter and reverenced" on account of his dude outfit.
We are indebted to little Olive for a copy of the Picayune
containing her story, accompanied by her compliments.
The young authoress will be agreeably remembered as playing
"Little Lord Fauntleroy" in Honolulu a few months ago.
Chronicling
America
The Daily bulletin. (Honolulu [Hawaii])
1882-1895, September 09, 1891, Image 3
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The
Hawaiian Gazette.
Honolulu, September 29, 1891, page 10.
PASSENGERS
ARRIVALS
...
From San
Fancisco, per R.M.S.S. Mariposa, Sept 25-
..., Miss
Ritchie, Chas Richie, ...
Chronicling
America
The Hawaiian gazette. (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918,
September 29, 1891, Image 10
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The
Roanoke Times.
Roanoke, Virginia, October 7, 1891, page 2.
SURF-RIDING.
How the
Hawaiian Islanders Sport in the Breakers.
A curious
pastime which is somewhat in vogue among the natives of the
Hawaiian islands, and was more popular formerly than now, is
surf-riding.
In the
opinion of a contributor to the Journal of American Folk
Lore the difficulty of the accomplishment has been
exaggerated.
He describes
it thus:
Six stalwart
men assembled on the beach of a small cove, bearing with
them their precious surf-boards.
These
boards, in Hawaiian, "wave-sliding boards" are made from the
wood of the bread-fruit tree.
They are
eight or nine feet long, fifteen or twenty inches wide,
rather thin, rounded at each end, and carefully smoothed.
They are
sometimes stained black, are frequently rubbed with cocoanut
oil, and are preserved with great care, sometimes wrapped in
cloths.
Children use
smaller boards.
Plunging
through the nearer surf the natives reach the outer line of
breakers, and watching their opportunity they lay flat upon
the board.
The more
expert among them kneeled.
Just as a
high billow was about to break over them they pushed
landward in front of the combers.
The waves
rushing in were apparently always on the point of submerging
the rider; but unless some mishap occurred, they drove him
forward with rapidity upon the beach or into shallow water.
In a high
surf it is an exciting sport, and demands skill and
experience.
A few days
later I was initiated into the mysteries of surf-riding by
my host, who is himself quite expert.
I learned
the principle, and believe that practice only is needed to
gain a measure of skill.
For persons
accustomed to bathing in surf the process is far less
difficult than is usually represented.
Chronicling
America
The Roanoke
times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, October 07, 1891, Image 2
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Melbourne Punch
Thursday 22 October 1891, page
2.
PEOPLE WE KNOW
...
All, Melbourne will remember little Olive Berkley, whose
illness and death were erroneously reported.
She was the Australian Little Lord Fauntleroy.
She is not only alive and well, but since her return to
America has blossomed into an authoress.
Sketches of her travels in the Sunny South have been appearing
in New Orleans paper.
The manner in which her death came to be reported is rather
curious.
Her mother, writing to a friend, giving news, informed him
that
"Little Lord Fauntleroy is dead", referring to the vitality of
the piece in Australia.
This was repeated, but the actress and character were
confounded in the gossip.and so the rumour got into print.
When the last mail left America
Olive and her mother were in the best of health.
Trove
1891 'PEOPLE WE KNOW', Melbourne Punch (Vic. : 1855 - 1900), 22
October, p. 2. , viewed 11 Apr 2016,
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The Hawaiian Gazette.
Honolulu, October 27, 1891, page 7.
LOCAL AND GENERAL
...
Manager
Johnson of the Hotel furnished a supper for the band boys
Saturday night at the conclusion of the concert.
Manager
Johnson of the Hawaiian Hotel contemplates many improvements
for the comfort of the guests of that house.
Chronicling America
The Hawaiian gazette. (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918,
October 27, 1891, Image 7
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The
Hawaiian Gazette.
Honolulu, November 10, 1891, page 5.
CANARDS
An Interesting Paper by Dr. Lyons
QUEER
STORIES ABOUT HAWAII
The
Imanative Ruth Ward TeIIs Tall Lies About Ants n Thomas
Square
C. W.
ASHFORD TELLS THE DETROIT FREE PRESS A SHARK STORY
Some
Things About Hawaii That Hawaiians Don't Know
An article on
"The Hawaiians" by J. N. Ingram in the September Chatauquan
opens thus:
"A voyage of
28 days from the Golden Gate brings one to Honolulu, the
Hawaiian capital.
Rather slow
traveling that in these days of steam.
It is a city
of thirty thousand inhabitants, fifteen thousand Islanders,
five thousand Caucasian and ten thousand Chinese."
Then follows a
glowing description of a city gorgeous with flowers its
atmosphere "perfumed with the fragrance of eternal summer."
After this
preface the main subject of the article is broached in the
statement that the natives who are said to be a Malayan race
are of a light yellow color.
Elsewhere in
the article their complexion is described as olive and again
the girls are spoken of admiringly as orange colored nymphs.
...
Then "stroll
out in the forests on a Sunday morning and listen to the
nature choirs singing in their chapels amid the roar of the
surf" if you wish to have a "rare pleasure."
Rare the
combination would certainly be on the Hawaiian Islands
...
The Hawaiian
girl is a famous swimmer that is not news to any of us but we
learn now that she is also a born navigator
The snowy sail
of her canoe may be seen any day as it rides the "great
breakers" of the stormy channels that separate the islands
When not surf
bathing or sailing her canoe or taking moonlight horse back
rides in her white riding habit if she is not practicing one
of the peculiarly graceful dances of the country you may find
her sitting on her coral block reading the latest "sea story"
or posing over a religious book or possibly the weekly news
papers for she is fond of reading.
Chronicling America
The Hawaiian gazette. (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918,
November 10, 1891, Image 5
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