The Honolulu Advertiser from Honolulu, Hawaii • 38

SECTION MARCH 28, 14 ARTS RADIO-TV AMUSEMENT MUSIC to "-i i '-i r. 1 0, Mf Mil Symphony 'V i Si S.J- OP: A1' i Ui K- out A ir i -y. 1 Will Close 50th Year This afternoon and Tuesday evening the 90-piece Honolulu Symphony orchestra will play its last pair concerts at McKinley auditorium. A gala air befitting the final concerts of a season which has been a success, both musically and socially, will prevail. And for kamaainas in the crowd it will be as different from the concerts of 25 or 50 years ago as Bach is from bebop.

In the spring of 1904, Honolulu's symphony music depended on the moods of a forerunner to the present energetic symphony society the symphony club. Women of the times did their listening to Brahms and Beethoven when club members invited them to lawn concerts on the slopes of Punchbowl. Symohonv music didn't yet be I if 'II I i i "Si iff i 1 i 7i p- long to the whole city, as it does today. Nor had regular concerts and seasons been established. Attired in their Japanese silk or Irish linen lawn (45 cents a yard if they watched for sales), the ladies apparently had as good GLAMOROUS YESTERYEAR A tableau of concert-goers of 50 years ago is seen in the Stephen A.

Derby garden on Makiki Hgts. drive. From left are Mrs. Richard Cooke Mrs. Hugh Petersen Jr Mrs.

Aaser Everest, Mrs. L. McCully Judd Jr. and Mrs. Garton E.

Wall. Mrs. dress, once worn by Governor Frearsuife, and Mrs. Everest' 's are from theicard robe of pioneering symphony patron Mrs. Benjamin F.

Dillingham. The others are from the Derby family. Mrs. Cooka 7iears tJie Judd family's antique earrings of gold and human hair. a time then as now.

An April, 1904, edition of The Pacific Commercial Advertiser reported one of the early concerts a "delightful" and praised the hospitality of the host club. Mention of the sympnony movement in the beginning years 1 1 1 is spotty, reflecting its moaest start. Local historians say tne first group of musicians got to gether about 1901, but anytning resembling a concert didn't materialize for several years. When the harp and the oboe ESTHER KAPIOLAM (Ghergo photo, Rome) .3 did call. Honolulu socialites re sponded with finery that would sound like double-talk to today's young setrpeau de crepe, Foulard illusion, peau de cygne, grenadines, torchon and Normandie laces.

By 1924, when such signs of Sparke-Steele Wedding Held In California Yesterday afternoon at four at St. Andrew's Episcopal church in Ojai. Miss Leilani Merritt Steele, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Percy Davis Steele of Santa Barbara, became the bride of Esther Kapiolani To Wed Young Italian Marchese By DRUE LYTLE Advertiser Society Editor Of great interest to Hawaii is the announcement made today by Mrs. Harry M.

Field, the former Kapiolani Kawanana-koa, of the engagement of her daughter, Esther Kapiolani, to the Marchese Filippo Marignoli of Rome and Spoleto, Italy. The young couple met several years ago in Florence at a party during the time that Kapio- I 'Don Thomas Sparke, son of Mrs. civilization as Maggie and Jiggs and 80-mile-an-hour dirigible had appeared, the Honolulu Symphony society was presenting as many as 60 musicians. And on a stage, not a hijlside. Locale was the Princess theater, also the home of movies featuring Betty Compton and Colleen Moore.

McKinley high school, where today's concert will be held, still was being built. (There was trouble that year, The Advertiser reported, about plaster falling Ahlstrom Sparke of Inglewood, lani was studying and resting had been a student, and took her ferfh with Mr. and Mrs. Field at Villa 1 bachelor's decree in Enelish lit- orth Hollywood, Calif. The and Emile Thomas Turk Rev.

Earl Rankin read the serv II Tondo. i-'V -i I i fv i i ice in a setting of almond and peach blossoms and white standards holding tall tapers against a background of greenery. The bride was given in marriage by her father who returned several days ago from Honolulu following a business trip. She wore a white Chantilly lace and net frock with a lace jacket fashioned with long sleeves. Her fin from new walls.) It was an era of progress.

Mrs. Ernest Mott-Smith Mrs. Joseph R. Farrington, Mrs. John E.

Russell and Mrs. V. B. Libby posed in bloomers and middies on behalf of YWCA gym classes, telling reporters, "Health keeps 1. i ff erature at Dominican college jn San Rafael.

She did graduate work in literature at the Sorbonne in Paris for a year before going on to Florence with her mother and Mr. Field. There her art studies were supervised by Elda of Uf-fizi galleries, while Signora Lydia Tani Recroix. was her tutor in Italian and literature. After a late summer wedding the young couple will make their home at Palazzo Marignoli in Spoleto.

Miller-Sturges Troth Revealed Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Miller of 220 East Walton Chicago, announce the engagement of their daughter, Lucky Key, to Charles Phillips Sturges of New York City, Washington and Honolulu. Miss Miller attended the Fer-mate school in Aiken, S. and is a member of the Chicago Junior League.

She is the editor of the column "Front Views and Profiles" for the Chicago Daily Tribune. Mr. Sturges is the son of Mrs. William Kearny Sturges and the late Mr. Sturges of (Continued on Page D5) Kapiolani, a member of the last reigning family under the Hawaiian monarchy, is descended from the famed King Kaumualii of the island of Kauai.

Her grandfather was Prince David Kawana-nakoa. He was the nephew of Queen Kapiolani, consort of King David Kalakaua whose sister, Li-liuokalanL, was the last ruler of the Hawaiian kingdom. Maternal grandmother of the bride-to-be was the beloved Princess Abigail Wahiikaahuula Campbell, whose father was James Argyll Campbell, a Campbell of the Argylls of Scotland. Other members of Kapiolani's family are a sister, Virginia Poomaikela-ni, who is living in the islands, and a brother, Edward Keliiaho-nui, now residing in California. The young marchese, of a distinguished Italian family, is the son of the Marchese and Marchesa Giulio Marignoli.

He is a cousin of Principe Alessandro Torlonia who is married to the Infanta of Spain. Kapiolani, who has just finished her studies of Italian literature and history in Florence, took her early schooling in California. She attended the Convent of Notre Dame at Belmont where her grandmother, Princess Abigail, gertip net veil was caught to a Juliet cap detailed with pearls, and she carried orchids and stephanotis. Clusters of seed pearls taken from the wedding gowns of her mother and grandmother accented her jacket and veil. Attendants were Miss Karen Steele and Miss Valkyrie Steele, sisters of the bride, and Miss Darlene Valli.

They were attired in pastel net gowns and carried colonial bouquets of spring flowers. William Norman West Jr. of Los Angeles, was best man. Ushers were Ray Quinn of Los Angeles, Archie Horvath of Newport Beach, brother-in-law of the bride, and Cpl. Robert Edward Elmore, Edwards air force base, Mojave, Calif.

A reception was held at the us young and efficient. Mayor John H. Wilson was charging "rank inconsistency" in the way the board of supervisors made property purchases, and women had pushed their waistlines down to their hips. Cookes, Straubs, Castles, Ather-tons, Dowsetts, Carters and a dozen other Honolulu families filled loges or blocks of seats on symphony afternoons. Ten years later fashions had flipped past the flapper stage (rubber bathing suits, remember? and a front page item in The Advertiser reported the Prince of Wales approved of women in shorts) but concerts still were at the Princess.

In crepe frocks with cowl necklines, Honolulu's women and their escorts turned out in GIDDY GIRLS Flappers icith a yen for symphony instead of Charleston tunes posed in the Hold place garden of Col. (retired) and Mrs. Rartley M. Harloe. From left are Mrs.

Jo L. Fuller, Mrs. Randolph Crossley and Mrs. Harloe. Mrs.

Crossley wears a pumpkin georgette beaded formal which she brought to. Honolulu in 1925. A siren with fox fur, Mrs. Fuller Tnodels Mrs. Harloes lace embroidered beige batiste frock.

Mrs. Harloe herself is attired in the rhinestonc-sparked French import which she wore to Calvin Coolidgefs inauguration. (Continued on Page D4) (Continued on Page D3) i iv: -V- -Yi'PY- pS-v; iSU' 'A- I 'AS Y- i i.A t. svl 7 lf Y- 1 1 jt 1 4 I I J. i- v- i WS I I I -Y I i y.

v. r'i 1Yt I WW j. i in i i i mn-moui. ll 'I Y. i JOREVER FEMI-MPsE It's 50 years or more since this post-Gibson dress of grey, green and white chiffon went stepping out to a concert but on Miss LaVerne Megee, left, daughter of Maj.

Gen. Vernon E. Megee, it still has charm. Center, Mrs. Franklin A.

Hart, wife of Lt. Gen. Hart, an ardent symphony, patron, wears garnet crepe with pale chiffon neckline. Her stole is amethyst taffeta. Right, Mrs.

Charles H. Hayes in the gala spirit of the final concert wears a coronation-inspired dress of eggshell tulle over taffeta. Silver sequins and embroidery cover the entire gown. Mrs. Hayes is corresponding sec retary of the symphony women committee.

(Hawaii Visitors Bureau photos.) COSCERl TIME '54 Graceful waltz length gotvns of today are modeled by marine officers9 wives at Makalapa. Fron left are Mrs. J. T. Moore in black moire taffeta, Mrs.

M. P. Romeo in embroidered cotton, Mrs. CL. Banks in white chif fon, Mrs.

C. J. Mabry in ruby silk taffeta and Mrs. M. McA lister in navy cotton le.