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FIFTEEN THE HONOLULU ADVERTISER. SUNDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 22, 1929. 73 Literature the Fin A rts ana USIC "The Voice of the City9' Coming 1 Ha waii Tonight is Breath Taking All-Talkie Melodrama Intimate Study of Champion of Democracy By Former President Calvin Coolidge9s Book Review OJRRENT-BOOKSOF (Continued from Pase 13 Spirit of Japan in Song K3 SW Charles Euspie banks which he proposed to deal that kept Mr. Woods on solid prurid.

He was no visionary but an eminently sound man. desire for helping his fellow men lod him into no economic vagaries. He never was an advocate of trying to increase the property of those who had little by making all property insecxive, nor did he give any encouragement to those who thought wages could be paid which were not earned. While he was tremendously interested in the material welfare of those who needed help he form the duties imposed upon him by the public law. There was nothing about him of the fanatic.

"During the war he, was very active in welfare work amoftg enlisted men. His training and experience enabled" him to make a large contribution to the morale of our forces. It fell to his lot to be the friend and counselor of both the wage earner and the employer and the Intermediary between the wayward and those charged with the duty of enforcing the law. "Though he favored national prohibition he seems to have been troubled by the thought that it might be an unwarranted" Interfere ence with the right of the individual. But he felt the position he wished to maintain justified fcy the English, philosopher.

Thomas H1U Green, who was one of the leaders of modern terest, and adventure calls. Sheridan, writing an old newspa sudden happenings and death of the underworld, running rampant through its reels. It also has a love story of unusual sweetness and appeal. Mack, aside from being the author, and director is also the chief character actor, a determined but quite human detective. His characterization is not the normal or rather the abnormal detective of the stage, but Just a hard-boiled but thoroughly human man who although he is a man hunter.

Is so thoroughly human and real that you like him. Robert Ames appears as the boy who escapes from Sing Sing and for twenty-four hours lights desperately to keep out of the clutches of the police while Sylvia Field is the heroine In the story. "The Old Barn" a talking comedy from the Mack Sennett studios and a novelty cartoon, "The Sidewalks of New York" are shown on the same program with. "The Voice of the City." you are told that an excit-ins a chase by a detective and a breathless and diHerer.t romance are all riled the dramatic space of one iiav vo- can appreciate that Wtllard picture, "The Yokp the which opened a weel-i at the Hawaii gtar'n afternoon is a definite--" melodramatic and highly en-ter. bit of PlaT construction.

Followers of the legitimate theater, who ii-e witnessed one or more of the many successful Mack plays, will be delighted undoubtedly, over the move of this competent craftsman into the field of talking pictures. Mack knows his melodrama and the ingredients of the sure-fire thriller. He tells his stories at a rapid tempo and develops a logical, though always exciting climax. "The Voice of the City" Is a story of gangland, with all the secrecy, fear, bravado, double-crossing, crime, ales lout In Hawaii" tiy Heriha Frederick A. Stokes, Publisher, New York.

Trice $1.25. The legend is always a vital cri per friend in Honolulu, says he believes his tale is an exceptionally un usual one, and after reading it, one believes. It is chock-ful of dialogue, and has wierd pictures. was ever more solicitous for their spiritual welfare. He sought to have people live rationally.

Yet he was ticism of life. Its worth is established In its age. It has survived time. It has the vigor of action. It is representative of the lofty regions of the imagination.

It is new as thoroughly practical. Ke knew the "The Paradise of the Pacific," by John T. Paris; Doubleday, Doran Inc (1929.) need of charity and was ever ready to assist in administering it but he never encouraged anyone to think It morning and evening and the com ing of the moon are new. was a method of getting a living. Polynesia is a rich field for the "It was with this background that Mr.

Woods took up the settlement legendary writer. The language of Polynesia Is itself legendary. It is the youngest of tongues to achieve universality. And it was in Hawaii work of the South End House at Boston and continued in its service for a eeneration. He went to those he Qinhnrrl Div in A Neil) that this tongue first took form.

And that form was worked out of the legendary history of this sea-faring By A. P. TAYLOR Strangely enough the recent publication of a book about Hawaii under the title of "The Paradise of the Pacific," makes the third history of Hawaii under the title and each by a different author. In 1892 "The Paradise of the Pacific," a history of Hawaii, was published by Rev. H.

H. Gowen, who also wrote "The Napoleon of the Pacific." In 1900 G. Waldo Browne published "The Paradise of the and now in 1929. John T. Faris publishes his "The Paradise of the Pacific." wished to help, lived among them, became one of them and made their problems his own.

people who populated the thousands thought, when he found he had said: Now the moral end, and freedom to fulfill that end, being absolutely imperative, and all rights being the absolutely necessary condition of the attainment of freedom and the fulfillment of that moral end, it follows that the right necessary for the free action of a good will directed to the moral end must be secured even at the coercion of the actual will. Her ws reach the paradox, the unavoidable paradox of state action. It uses force to create freedom. This is but one illustration of the studious investigation he made of the social and government problems with which he had to deal. Others might not agree with him but he was honest wita himself.

He would take no position he could not justify to his own mind. In his conscience he required both Indian Drama "Redskin" Said To Have Created Real Epic of islands of the Pacific ocean. 'To tell of his services in his chosen field would require a history of settlement work development for the last third of a century. His sanity and common senss made him a leader in a nation wide movement. He did not lose his faith.

He did not expect perfection. It was sufficient unto the day if he found people had Its Back in the early 1870s, William Bliss published a narrative of Ha waii entitled "The Paradise in the Pacific," using "in" instead of "of." si v-' The Advertiser on Thursday, in its maHe some improvement over their past conditions. He seems to me to differ from the great mass of his "40 Years Ago" column, stated that both J. J. Williams and T.

G. Thrum assumed credit for the origin of the phrase, "Paradise of the Pacific." J3X fc- mm Mr. Faris visited Honolulu a year ago, remaining here about three the end and the means to be right. "Those who read the life of Robert A. Woods will come in contact with the record of a scholar and.

a statesman who could lead and Inspire but who was above all else a great humanitarian. How many men and women he led on to better things, we shall never know. His work is just begun. His form has vanished and his voice is hushed but the influence of his character goes marching on, making childhood more sweet and maturity more satisfying." his tribe because he refuses to follow the traditions of his race. He is desirous of marrying Corn Blossom, a girl of another tribe, the traditional enemy of the Navajos and only escapes the wrath of the rival tribesmen when caught In his love making by taking to the desert.

A Wanderer, near death from starvation, he Is prompted through a vision of his mother to enter Forgotten Valley and there locates oil. True to his name and the stalwart power of bis race he outdistances pale-face prospectors to the registry office, the discovery and prospect of wealth In abundance to both tribes settling their differences and laying the way clear for his union with the pretty squaw. Rene Williams and his augmented band will contribute a special musical score for "Redskin" Introducing the theme song and also in their stage program "Tom Tom" melodies and "Singing In The Rain" will be featured novelties. "Close Shaves," a peppy comedy and news reel will complete the bill. weeks or so.

His book, attractively bound, gives an interesting running A new chapter has been written into the history of the motion picture. A new wonder has been revealed the new Richard Dix epic of the West, opening tonight at the Princess for a four-day engagement, marks a wonderful step forward. Beautiful scenic backgrounds are revealed in all their true color and beauty. The hills and valleys of the Indian country are reproduced for the screen just as the eye sees them in nature. And the powerfully gripping story, true to Indian traditions and customs, unfolds In this native setting.

A master cast enacts this drama. Richard Dix, who made such a tremendous success of his picturlzatlon of "The Vanishing American" turns his thoughts to the serious drama again and records a new masterpiece worthy of place with his previous enduring epic. The story concerns Wing Foot, an educated Indian who Is driven from associates in that he did net try to change institutions but put all his efforts Into changing individuals. He had the insight of a statesman. "Because he was recognized as a man of practical affairs and high ideals a Governor of the Commonwealth turned to him for -service on the License Board of the City of Eos-ton where he served with distinction.

In the administration of his office he did not permit his personal beliefs to interfere but did his best to per- account of his impressions of the Isl ands, and when he comes across a public building, a statue, old church. or heiau, the records its history. In "Tales Told In Hawaii," is the latest book to present the dramatic legends of Polynesia. It Is by Bertha Metzger, a young woman of Honolulu. In reading this book we are Impressed with the feeling for "the tale" that is instinctive in the mind of the author.

In the 79 subjects treated we do not find one that has not the legendary atmosphere. All legends having been born of a desire to interpret nature deal with the three principal divisions of animal life, that of the sea, that of the land, and that of the air. And the legendary poet has always made these interchangeable man becoming fish, animal or a god as occasion demanded. Miss Metzger keeps her "tales" within the smallest possible compass. She does not Introduce foreign matter.

Her intention seems to be to make her drama complete in itself. She does not limit the action. She goes to the depths of the earth and to the Seventh Heaven without difficulty. Her characters take whatever form is best suited to their desires or intentions. And yet they never lose their individuality.

They are real. In that same sense that the creations of a great dramatic poet are real. They are authentic. There have been a number of books In which Polynesian legends have been presented. Several of these have been in the original language.

These have been translated and have no doubt furnished the material for many of the "Tales" In Miss Metzger's charming little volume. But she has been extremely the latter effort he has copiously Mme, Tamaki Miura drawn upon former histories and de scriptions. Tamaki Miura is the most individual stage celebrity now Many unnecessary errors have crept before the world. We are pretty familiar, with her stage history, into the book, many of these being misspelled words. Others include his The critics of Europe and America have exhausted their voca naming Kalanimoku, who was a sort New War Book To Appear In Five Countries bularies in attempts to set forth the peculiar charms of this diminutive prima donna.

She is now in Hawaii on concert tour to everybody in the world to read. "It is not a novel, not a report, not even a diary," wrote Miksa Fenyo, one of the foremost critics, in Nyu-gat, the leading literary Journal. "It is the Leviathan itself, that has laid its horrible body upon us and covered the world, in five years, witn the sufferings of centuries." Markovits is a lawyer, who had done some journalistic work, but "this is his first book. It was born out where so many of her own nationality live. Our judgment as well as our appreciation of her genius has been given.

Let us quote from an editorial in the, Hawaii Mainichi, written of prime minister to Kamehameha I and II, as Kamehameha III and the author of Hawaii's national motto. He says there is no foundation in fact about Koolau, the leper, on Kauai, although it Is a fact known to many kaamainas that Koolau stood off for a time most of the national guard of Hawaii. He says that Lunalilo was first buried in the palace grounds and then placed In a by Souno Inouve, a Japanese publist of unusual discernment. The readers of The Advertiser are familiar with Souno's writings. New Type of Western Melodrama Is "Terror Mountain9' With Tom Tyler In Leading Role He has heard Mme.

Aliura sing and interviewed her in the States some years aeo. special -tomb built for him in Kawai ahao church grounds. Lunalilo was first placed in the royal mausoleum in Nuuanu Valley. He says that is was Kamehameha who, in 1856, married Emma Rooke. 111 Of course, she married Kamehameha IV.

He continues the error that of his own experience, although It la uot told as autobiography. Taken prisoner by the Russians in 1915, lie spent five years in various prison camps in Siberia. The incredible things it reveals, particularly about conditions during the revolutions and counter revolutions in Russia, and the author's amazing power to depict the cunoua psychology which the years of confinement and horror developed among the prisoners, are the outstanding features of the book. TODAY'S CHUCKLE JACKSON, O. (UJ.) A baby gill with a perfectly formed tooth Ws born to Mr.

and Mrs. Ray Gehrlng of Vellston, near here. "Halemaumau" means "House of Aesop's Fables are on the bill to further the merriment while the Universal novelty "Footprints," Fox Variety and Fox News will complete one of the most entertaining and interesting of programs. Introducing The Latest In Endurance PORTLAND, Sept. 21.

(UP.) Peter Fountain's endurance test Everlasting Fire." Mr. Faris fell into an error not en tirely his own, in referring to Hawaii as a "possession." What he saw In his travels over the Islands is attractively described KODIN MAKKOVITS revealing a modern Hawaii that requires a competent penman to ac complish. PETER PASSES came to an end In Municipal Judge Stadter's police court here recently. Peter, -who told the court, he came Mme. Miura (he says) is the only Japanese singer wno ever reached the- august peak of playing prima donna roles in the Metropolitan Opera House of New York and in the Chicago Civic Opera Company quartered at the Auditorium, the most lavishly endowed opera companies in the world.

Considering how few men and women of American birth ever sung the leading roles in those aristocratic opera houses, and remembering that no other Asiatic had been honored with the prominent roles in those elite circles, the achievement of Mme. Miura appear truly phenominal. Her "singing acquaintance" with Italian, French and German languages (an accomplishment rare indeed among Japanese singers) was certainly a mighty help to her musical achievement. "The chief opera companies of affluent America, as well as those of Italy (called the fountain head of operatic music) are usually managed by Italian impressarios. The aspiring melodist who never sojourned In Italy and who is ignorant of the mellifluous speech of that land of vineyards and olive gardens, is under a terrible handicap if he tries to enter the opera "racket." We do not know how thorough Is Mme.

Miura's knowledge of Italian or French languages, but she certainly understands them well enough to sing Intelligently and emotionally in those tongue-tripping lingos. Many esteemed music critics have affirmed that Mme. Miura is a better actress than a singer. Her singing voice (in any of the five languages she is acquainted with) is exquisite, most precisely modulate and timed faultlessly to orchestral accompaniment; but the volume of her vocal tune is neither voluptuous nor resounding. Of course, that's due to the physical defect common to all Japanese.

We are not a habitually singing people, as the Italians are, for instance. The vocal organs we inherited are neither so large nor tuneable as some of the Caucasian folks. That she made her way to operatic eminence despite that unerasible natural defect is an everlasting credit to Mme. Miura's high Intelligence and devoted efforts. Therein lies an excellent lesson for all ambitious youngsters of Hawaii who are panting for some scintllating careers.

We cannot igree with our friend Souno as to the voluptuousness of Mme. Miura's voice. It has a different volume of pathos than English or European singers, hut it carries fully as rich a field of the emotions as any one of them. She is a wonderful singer, a wonderful actress and one of the most charming of world celebrities Ave have known. Peter you remember Peter the Manx cat whom McFee made known to fame in "Aliens" is dead.

Peter's career was a brilliant and erratic One of the most genuinely human and Interesting productions and, the same time something new In the way of western, melodramas, will be found in "Terror Mountain," latest stellar vehicle for Tom Tyler and his little playmate, Frankle Darrow. which, opens a three-day engagement at the Empire today. The plot of the story is refreshing in itself for it is laid in. the colorful snow country and Is a masterpiece in. scenic splendor.

A tantalizing suspense introduces the ever popular Tom Tyler as a hard fighting, straight shootin' hero of the screen who receives an. unusual fan letter from a youthful admirer. He plans to take his vacation at the boy's mountain cabin. After deserting his car which is snowbound he continues his way on a pair of skiis. An unusual angle throws the hero and the girl together during some riotous comedy while Tyler is riding sklls for the first time.

He learns of the attempted plot of a gang of crooks who are endeavoring to steal the girl's money and after some thrilling escapades he saves the girl from the conspiracy. It is a fast moving and mirthful melodrama from start to finish. Good work is done by Frankie Darrow and the entire supporting cast which includes Jane Reid, Jules Cowles, Al Fergusen and others. "Taxi Spooks," one of the Taxi-man series of laugh makers and here from Wisconsin, was picked felicitous in her presentation of them. Folk lore tales and folk lore poems are all of a piece.

The substance of them is practically the same. They were conceived under the moon. In them might be found all the plots for the great books. Bertha Metzger has given us a little treasure in her "Tales." They are told In Hawaii but she has given them wings to fly far so that they cover the Polynesian people. Miss Metzger knows how not to tell too much.

She takes a legend and gives you the texture of it, the perfume of it, the seed of mystery that it contains. And she does this with an art that keeps her well within bounds. The original legend is often made commonplace by elucidation. The legend Is a mysterious" tale, a dream that might come true. Who knows? And these pretty fancies come to us in a book Jacket that fits them perfectly.

It was designed by Elsie Carroll of Honolulu. The illustrations, pen and ink sketches by Verna Tall-man, are equally pleasing. As a proof of its virtues Miss Metz-ger's book of little stories, was on April 27 put on the list of supplemental readers by the elementary course of study committee, and it is expected to have wide use in the schools of Hawaii. Shichuro Watanabe, principal of one of the Japanese language schools here, has begun a Japanese trans up about daylight on a charge of one. He lived with Arthur Elder the artist.

In New Jersey and so did McFee. The two became inseparable friends but every once in a while Peter's wanderlust overcame his de vagrancy. "Guilty or not asked the court. "Well," answered the prisoner, "yes and no. You see It's this way.

Judge. I haven't had any sleep for seven days and seven nights." "How come?" Queried the Judge. -1 i Horace Liveright will publish in this country, on September CO, Ro-dion Markovits Siberian Garrison, the remarkable war book which is appearing simultaneously In four other count.ies, England, France. Germany and Holland. The bool: lias a curious history.

Published obscurely in Transylvania, coi-s cf it reached the various publishing houses of Budapest, but wanted to publish it. In the meantime, however, the few stray of the Transylvanian edition in circulation in the city begin to be read and over night all literary Budapest was clamoring for the book. Tattered copies were passed from hand to hand, and one newspaper estimated that there were about one hundred readers to a copy. It sold, of course, at a premium. In one newspaper office the one copy which the staff could obtain wfs torn to pieces and passed from one reader to another in twenty to thirty page installments.

Needless to say, an Hungarian edition was rushed through the prerses. Its success, "Been maklne an endurance test," votion to literature. On one of his runaway journeys he was lost In Newark but true to his artistic instincts he made his way to the Doubleday, Page Bookshop in the heart of the town and stayed there until the agitated bookseller notified McFee. Of late years Peter and McFee have lived in Westport where they have been Interested in explained Peter. "Was reading so much about those fliers tnat 1 thoueht I'd trv and see how they felt going without sleep, so I ve Just been wandering around son 01 a the efforts of the Westport players non-stop walk.

But I don't think I can beat the record." He was told to get himself a room and some sleep and the court would While Peter was never a dependable actor, he had a beautiful voice and always felt that if he had entered the theatre earlier he would have forget about it. lation of the book, with a view to had a memorable career. HENRY'S WIFE publication in Japan. rs. Isaac Cox The tales are Polynesian in sub stance.

They could not well be told with verisimilitude of any other Program For Service Men In the concert at the Army and FOR SALE at the Advertiser Office or Any Book Store PKICE $1.00 Sara Lindsay Coleman, the author of "The Common Problem," is none other than Mrs. Sidney Porter, the childhood sweetheart whom O. Hen both popular literary, was in mmmssss people. Yet the author has succeeded To Give Talks On Chinese Art ry married after fame had discover stantaneous. "Markovits has written the beck of the Unknown Soldier," said Szazadunk.

a distinguished literary review. "One vents to give It THF. COOLEST inUiiW. avwm ed him in his beloved Bagdad on i in giving them that universality tnat is possessed by all the immortal legendary stories of the world. "Poly-nesls," she explains, is made up of two Greek words meaning "many is Navy Y.M.C.A.

this afternoon, at 4 p.m. the following entertainers will the subway. Back home in North Carolina Sara Coleman read one of his stories and wrote him a note lands." So all the stories of Poly saying "If you are not the Sidney iNPi Evenings. 10c. 20c.

3 Ob Matinees: 10c, 25c 6:30 TONIGHT ONLY 8:30 Esther Ralston in nesia belong as well to one as another of the islands. Porter that I used to play with, you need not answer." But he was and he did. Mrs. Porter's own novel is about the North Carolina hills Eachelcr cf Music Teacher of Voice Culture, Sight-singing and the Theory of Music Miss Metzger gives the key to the pronunciation of Hawaiian words to begin with. It is an Important addition to the literature of Hawaii.

in which she found her own 91 romance. OFF TO THE HILLS SAWDUST PARADISE The hot weather holds no terrors The Honolulu Academy of Arts announces that during the coming season Mrs. Isaac Cox will give four series of talks on various phases of Chinese art. The first of these will be a group on Chinese sculpture to be given on four successive Tuesday evenings beginning October 17. Mrs.

Cox will trace the development of sculpture, dealing particularly with the early forms before influences from the west strcngly affected the style; and will give the religious, philosophical and historical background. This announcement will be of special interest to thos; who are eager to gain an appreciation and understanding of Chinese art and have not been able to enter Mrs. Cox's course at the University of 7 Robinson UPSTAIRS Phone 35S9 PAUAHI AND FORT STS. for Frances Noyes Hart for her new appear: Mrs. Wm.

Potter, piano; Gordon Virgo, baritone; Miss Thelma Smith, cello; F. W. Reid, violin; Raymond Reld, flute; C. W. Best, piano.

Belleclalre March Kessler. Gondoliera Moszkowski, Quartette. Bohemian Dance Frlml. Song pf the Brook Lack, Mrs. Fetter.

Until Sanderson. For You Alone Geehl. Mr. Viro. San Toy Sidney Jones.

Quartette. Sonata, Op. 7. (1st Grieg, Mrs. Potter.

The Blind Ploughman Clarke. The Deathless Army-Trotere, Mr. Virgo. "The Little Spotted Seal." by Sol. N.

Sheridan (illustrations by Mahlon Blaine); Harper Publishers, September, 1929. $2.50. mystery romance "Hide in the Dark' Tuesday 7:45 Monday is finished and will be off the presses on August 16t.h, and she has de 99 "TWO LOVERS parted for Maine with her two young daughters and Mr. Hart, her favorite lawyer. "Laughing Boy," Oliver La Farge with Ronald Colman Vilma Banky widely heralded Navajo love story originally announced for publication on September 6 by Houghton Mifflin Company, has been postponed until Wednesday :45 Thursday 7:45 "FORGOTTEN FACES" with CLIVE BROOK November.

NEW MILN' NOVEL Louise Jordan Miln, whose new no 1 2:45 Friday Only 7:45 This is an imaginative tale of the Hawaiian Islands, an unusual tale, and one can easily forsee its great popularity as a Christmas season gift for boys and girls throughout the Hawaiian Islands. Sol Sheridan, who was an. able writer on the Honolulu Advertiser perhaps a score of years ago, has written a glamorous, imaginative tale of tropic seas and the land where the lost imaginary playmates go of the adventures of three human children, of Waikiki. who went with their little spotted seal to visit these forgotten comrades of sunken treasure-ships, strange deep-sea monsters, enchanted pirates, boats without crews a fascinating story of enchantment and poetic fancy. Sheridan knew the Islands, knew them well, and knows their background.

His is a far departure from Hawaiian legends. His is a modern tale, of three boys at Waikiki, who followed their little spotted seal friend out into the waters and beneath them (having first learned from the seal how to remain under water). It is a magic story with much real sea lore and with an adventure of keen interest to every boy or cirl in those midd years when fairy tales no longer hold their in- "THE CHINESE OF HAWAII" (In English and Chinese) Just Off the Press 'ith Fabric Cover $3.00 With Paper Cover $2.50 For Sale by Wing Sing Wo. Honolulu vel BY SOOCHOW WATERS was published by Frederick A. Stokes Company, August 22, Is spending a year in a charming country home in Suffolk.

She writes her publishers that "England is bathed in perfect weather now. And I am burning Chinese incense for its continuance until after September!" Early In the Autumn, Mrs. Miln plans to go to Italy, where she expects to spend the winter "on the very edge of the sea." IRENE RICH in "POWDER MY BACK" 2:45 Saturday Only 7:45 Double Bill Program ASSISTANT TEACHERS; Mrs. Agnes Healy Miss Ai Young Chung RESIDENCE 1403 PUNAHOU AVENUE Tom Tvlpr in 'Trail of Horse Thieves" of the Show" with Gertrude Olmstead Hilt Rev. Lo Yuet Fu, Wailuku.

Maui. ev. Yuen To Pui and Ah Mai Rev. Tsui Hin Weng, Waimea; Wong Chan, Kapaa, Kauai I 3 tv Hoholulu Academy of Arts OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Sundays 3-fi Tuesdays 2-5 lhurday 2-9 Fridays 2-5 Lntil October Saturdays 2-5 Sundav. Sent.

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