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HEXES . m I I I ,' t : I M 1 ; I ; i , , -J I I " r I 'LA GIOCOM' WITH VEIiGEM TO OPEN SECQKD WEEK OF GRAND OPERA Faust, With Wanrell and Kris toffy, Billed for Tomorrow Night; Friday 'La Tosca' (By HALLETT ABEND) ttesplte tli seeming Indifference of Honolulu to the very ' good grand opera being presented here, the I)e Folco Grand Opera Company In going bravely ahead with plan for the sec ond veek of the engagement, during mhich a more richly varied repertoire than that of lat week will be offered. "La Gioconda, the bill for tonight, will be an even more ambitious and elaborate performance than was "Aida last Monday at the opening of the season. Madame Verger! is to sing the title role, and the cast will Include other principals who have won high favor here. - Tomorrow night "Faust will be pre sented, with Kristoffy as Marguerite, Wanrell as Mephistopheles, and either de Folco or Fogg! as Faust, This will be followed Wednesday by "Cavalleria Rusticana and "I Pagliacci; on Thursday by a repetition of tonight's opera and cast; Friday, "La Tosca" with Kristoffy; -a repeUtion of "Aida" for next' Saturday's matinee and a second performance of "Faust" Satur day night' ' :. No Poor Performance. Though the Dfe Folco con;jany has sot given one poor jierfortnanoe In Ho nolulu, the public continues apathetic, as was witnessed 'by the dwindling audiences last week. Saturday's matinee, when Vivian Kingston re peated "La Travlata," drew only a corporal's guard, and Saturday nighJ when Kristoffy eang a second time in "Aida" there were only 88 people downstairs, and a proportionate hand ful in the balcony and gallery. retary, has been at several of the schools and colleges In the city, and has aroused great Interest by his talks on operas, and the offering of special students' rate tickets in book form for several operas. It is understood that several hundred of these have been disposed of, and that a realiza tion of the educational value of opera may lead to an even larger attend ance from schools in Honolulu. "Aida" went well Saturday evening so well that the very small audi ence raised several storms of . ap plause which, by the sound, might have come from a packed house. Late Arrivals Seated. Several minor Incidents were to be regretted, notably the seating of about eight late arrivals during Kristoffy's first big aria when she had the stage to herself In the first Bct;ahd the "fact that two members of the organization walked back and forth on the left side aisle during Kristoffy's big aria In act three. Also a small corsage bouquet for the prima donna was not given to her when' she responded to encores, but was pitched unceremoniously on to the floor of the stage during a crowd ed ensemble. The disturbing use or the aisles dur- Inc hlr urmnpa :h-w mem harm nf fh Sings In Faust - - :.- . . .: . . i '. ... ' . . . - ' ' : ' ' .' ' y ; , ; " - , - . '. -, A' w, '- : 7 i 1 v it 1 ; ammammmmmKammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I t i . , Program btglrxnlrvg Vlj30 p. m. until 4 p. m. ' Evening (two shows), 6:30 and 8:30 SPECIAL PROGRAM FOR TODAY , AND EVENING "The Cypher Key" (three-reel drama) .......... .................. Lubin "Home Comforts" (comedy) ... .... Essenay "Mra. Jarr's Auction Bridge" (come-': dy) Vitagraph Li r flPE Joaquin S. Wanrell, the very cap able basso of the De Folco Grand Opera Company, in costume as Me phistopheles in "Faust," in which he appears tomorrow night. company has been- referred to pre viously In these columns. Surely the management can restrict all coming and going to the periods between acts. De Folco's continued absence from the stage Is a matter of keen regret to those who heard the tenor when he was here with the Lam bard i com pany three years ago, and to those who listened to his fine singing as Rhadames last Monday. It Is to be hoped that he will soon be in condi tion to resume the handling of his roles. Lulgi Poggi, meanwhile, has been doing valiant service, and ; has handled difficult and voice-exhausting roles night after night ' Those Wha Sing Tonight v For "La Gioconda' this evening the following cast has been announced: La Gioconda, soprano, Emilia Ver gerl. ' : .. , ' , ... I-a Cieca, contralto. Bella Fay. Alviae Badora, bass, Joachin Wan relL ' Iaura, mezzo, Bernlee Holmes. EnzO Grimaldo, tenor, Poggi or de Folco. ' Barnaba, baritone, Paul Galizzl. 1 Zuane, bass, Umberto Rovere. : Isepo, tenor, William Giuliani " A pilot bass. Mario MartL Iuist evening the company presented "Aida" to a large audience of array people at Schofield Barracks, with Kristoffy In the title role. Other per formances may be arranged at Leile hua during the company's engagement here, which has still three weeks to run. Friday Night for Circle. The night selected as 'Outdoor Circle Night" at thfr grand opera Is Friday of this week, and the opera chesen Is "La Tosca." The juvenile members are to act aa ushers and that in itself is an at traction. The house has not been bought out by the Circle, so that any one wishing to go will find room. It Is the wish of the Circle that every person In the house wear their favor ite hibiscus, as the . hibiscus is the Circle flower. 1 1 mm m British authorities seized every parcel- post package aboard the steamer Goentoer. 6f the Rotterdam Lloyd Line, bound "for New York. ' 1TI0NAL10V FIXE SURPRISE Two Hlah Class Vaudeville Acts and Fine Films at Hotel St. Theater Opening One of the theatrical surprises of the month was the high standard which P. J. Byrne set for the new Na tional theater with his first show last Saturday night In the crowd that filled the small playhouse to capacity comment was generally expressed that If the proprietor can maintain the high level this first show has fixed he should achieve a success limited only by the seating space of his build ing....;; First, It appeared on opening night that Mr. Byrne is seeking to create an atmosphere of refinement which will appeal to the fastidious as well as ordinary mortals. Two demure part-Hawaiian girls in dainty frocks of black anT white, serving as ushers, helped some in the effect. These, by the way, are an innovation here, though feminine ushers are employed very successfully- in a few cities on the coast and quite generally in mo tion picture houses throughout Aus tralia. . Mr. Byrne also has a good orchestra, a new motion picture machine, and has dressed his establishment nicely and in good taste. Good Vaudeville Acts, i But by far the big feature is the show Itself.. Herbert Winter, comical English monologist presents a high class act. It, like all the rest of the bill, is clean, and his dry humor kept his auditors chuekting throughout his "turn." The Mnsleal Goolmana wrung some remarkably - beautiful strains from weird and unusual Instruments, to such success that at the end they were- recalled four times, finally stop ping from sheer exhaustion. ' Of the film features it can be said safely that no better or higher-class drama has been shown 1b Honolulu than "Th District Attorney," drama tization of Charles Klein big; play. And J. Rnfns Wallingford, the new serial, is brilliant. A third film was. shown, but if any criticism of tho en tire program caja be made it. is that, this should have been eliminated, it not only did not fit with the other high class acts but It made the show longer1 than performances ot the kind should be."- ; y-. , The same program will be shown tonight and tomorrow night HAWAIIAN BAND AT LILIUOKALANI SCHOOL Under the leadership of Prof. Petef Kalanl, the director, the Hawaiian Band will give a public concert in the grounds of the LilluokalanJ. School, KalmukI, beginning at half-past 7 o'clock tonight The program for the evening will be as follows: iS ' ' : . America r .. March The Universal Cityl.C. Arthur Overture The Caliph of Bagdad.. ......................... .Boleldieu Walts Hesitation Geraldine . . Hoogs Grand Selection Faust . . . ' Gounod PART II. -Four Hawaiian Songs....;; ..........Hawaiian Band Glee Club (a) Sweet Lei Lehua..King Kalakaua (b) Lihl Wai Aloha a ka Ohelo. .Elia (c) Beauty (Lei Ohelo) ... P. Kalanl (d) Llllii manu AIlaikI......Kapoho Soloists Mrs. JL K. Chilton and Mr. Z. Kapue. Echo Piece Musicians Astray in the Forest (by request). .P. Herman Hula Step Cunha's Hula Medley.. ..... .Arr. by P. Kalanl Aloha Oe Hawaii Ponol, The Star Spangled Banner. . 9 Fifty dollars has been sent to Maui by the local Japanese Young Women's Buddhist Association for the relief of flood sufferers. The Daily Nippu Jiji has received 50 from K. Matsumoto and $S from the Japanese Actors' As sociation for the same cause. S. S. Gerwan, the American aviator who fell 150 feet while testing a new aeroplane at Guatemala City on Mon day, is improving and is expected to recover. 1 7f " sir r : HOTEL STREET NEAR YOUNG HOTEL 1 v TONIGHT . SECOND NIGHT OF THE BIG VAUPlEVtLLE AMD FEATURE PICTURES Saturday Night's Audience Would Not Let The Musical Goolmans those Clever Musicians, leave the Stage. He kept the audience in a chuckle of laugh ter all the time.. Who? Why Herbert Winter OF COURSE. J The People Say That The District A ttorney in Five Acts is the best Feature Picture I ever seen in Honolulu. The Audience stayed till 11 o'clock to See New Adventures of Wallingford The New Comedy Serial in Two Parts TOMORROW NIGHT LAST NIGHT OF THESE PICTURES - COMING WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, : v CHAS. CHAPLIN IN "DOUGH AND DYNAMITE'' . Prices, 10, 20 Cents. Reserved. 30 Cents. Phone 2873. SPECIAL MATINEE WEDNESDAY 2:30 SORRY FOR HIS PROMISE TO SET HIS WE FREE Jes I. Lasky s?nds to the TJb- rty. theater for the first half cf the veek a number of the old favoriies of that studio with a new star. Fannie Ward, in 'The Marriage of Kitty, a deMehtful comedy which becomes al most a satire on modern life in Ameri ca and continental Kurope. Fannie Ward Is a new addition to the Para mount firmament. In the role of Kitty, Miss Ward, a renniless yoang American pirl. mar ries an English nobleman who prom ises her a :' handsome sum and a sj eedy divorce when tho '.al formal ities of marriage are settled, that he may inherit a large fortune. Neither Kitty nor her English husband, Lord Reginald, had seen each other prior to the ceremony and they separate im mediately thereafter. Subsequently, realizing how attrac tive Kitty is. her titled husband does not keep his promise to release herv much to the chagrin or an adventuress who had anticipated marriage :th the nobleman. . Numerous humorous and I'cmplicated : situations precede and follow the marriage of Kitty.' "Near of the Navy." is coming strong. The story Is appearing in the Saturday Star-Builetin each week and the serial is shown the first half , of the week. Episode number two con tinues to promise the best serial yet shown here. :r ; e mm ' Second of Fox Films Rroving v . . 4 r " 4 '."- ' .a' t. 'i VI i Toni ght, 7:40 p.m. THE THEATER HAV. ING THE LARGEST CROWDS WITH THE LEAST ADVERTISING. ':::'r WHY? PARAMOUNT SPELLS SUPREMACY Jesse L. Lasky Presents -v;, I - i - l . -. '. ' "' ' i -: .',-: !' Drawing Card X V.I f ?s,. 4 Jt Dorothy Donnelly in "The Thief." : Dorothy Donnelly in "The Thief." one of Henri Bernsteln'a greatest stage offerings; adapted to the film by the Wm. Fox Corporation, proved a worthy successor to "A Fool There Was" at the Bljon theater Saturday and last night.. Incidentally, this pic ture jast-about makes secure the Fox service as one of the premier screen services now being shown in this city. In addition to fhe , big feature, "Work," a two-reeler with Charlie Chaplin in the foreground at all times and with another Honolulu favorite appearing in one of the leading roles; Marta Golden, is a big success. It is one of the latest Chaplin releases and, according to information that reached this city several weeks ago Miss Gold en was severely Injured during the photographing of this picture. It is stated that she suffered three broken ribs and a badly lacerated head probably when a" gas stove , explodes and tumbles about the ears . of the leading characters. Another of George Ade's "Fables in D A COMEDY DRAMA OF KUROHOAX (HH'RTSIUP ' ' TDK SFrOXD EXCmXU ('If APTHR This wonderful naval romance surpasses anything ever attempted in serial form. The U. S. Government co-operated with the producers, loaning their battleships and crews, to make it the most educational and exciting naval picture of modern times. 1 PRICES. . . . . . . . . .... . .10, 20, 30 CENTS BOX SEATS. .4. ............ .50 CENTS Slang" is ably told in picture form, with a good company participating. These pictures are among the most popular single-reels now being shown. They are well photographed and the Ade "punch" Is well sustained, r Appearing with Miss Donnelly in the feature films is Richard Uuhler, several years ago a popular idol of this city and for many years the most popular stock actor in Chicago. 'The Thief" is a strong play, well handled, and the cameraman has done equally as good work as in the previous Fox feature. STAR-BULLETIN GIVES YOU TODAY'S NEWS TODAY. Quality Inn Hotel Street, near Fort Give your children and tliei r I i t tie friends a party in this beautiful - place. AVe have made special ar rangements to care r for tliem, and can relieve you of all the preparations. . : V We serve the most wholesome Candies and refreshments to be found in Honolulu. Telephone to make your ar rangements. : 'V : Foster & Orear's Candies Rawley's Pure Ice Creams v 'mill I 11 V c. L . fpnr wsi Chaplin Film at.. ....... ..8:00 The Big Feature at,.. .....8:30 William Fox presents Ho nonlulu's old-time favor ite Richard Buhler AND Dorothy Donnelly the creator of Madame X "The Thief" ALSO Chares nt i uiapi Phone 3937 for Early Reservations, in The King; of Comedians in "WORK" Prices, 10, 20, 30 and 50 Cents. tK ' ' ' " ' . - . ' --': Hawaiian Opera House De mm mm mm co. EUOENIO DE FOLCO, IMPRESARIO TONIGHT 66TT Mme. Emilie Vergeri Who sings in La Gioconda tonight Tuesday. . ... . .Cavalleira and Pagliacci Friday ...... ... ...... .......La Tosca Wednesday . . '. ... . . . . . .... Faust Saturday Matinee . . v. . . . . . . .Rigoletto Thursday La Gioconda Saturday Night . . . . . .......... .Faust Company of Seventy-Five Artists; Grand Chorus, Orchestra of Twenty; Corps Dc Ballet; Special Scenery Gorgeous Effects; Elegant Costumes EVENINGS Lower Floor, &!.50: Balcony (first row). $:0; Balcony, next four rows, $2.00; last row, $1.50: Upper .Balcony, $1.00. Box Seat $2.00. MATINEES Lower Floor, $1.50 ; Balcony (first row), $1.50; Balcony, next four row?, $1.00; last row, 75c; Upper Balcony, 50c; Box Seats, $1.50. Seats on sale at Hawaii Promotion Committee rooms, Young Building. L