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Starting to-morrow, Bondi will be en fete for a week, and many of the attractions offered are entirely new.
The carnival week opens with a procession from Queen street, Woollahra, at 2 p.m.
Among the items are tableaux (on lorries), representing the Allies, the Dolly Vardens, the Dickens, France as it was yesterday, to-day, and to-morrow, Returned soldiers, Tingira boys, friendly societies, sporting bodies, tramway tableaux, etc., and numerous brass bands will be present at the beach.
The programme includes the Freshwater Duke surf board display, surf events by leaders, surfers, athletic events and novelties by East Sydney Amateur Athletic Club, "The Anzac Derby," physical culture display by Tingira boys, greasy poles, duck hunts, etc.
In the evening a Scotch concert will be held. .

The carnival week at Bondi Beach, which has been arranged in aid of the Mayor of Waverley's patriotic fund for wounded or distressed soldiers or dependents, opened on Saturday.
A procesblon marched from Ocean-st, Woollahra, to the beach, the streets through which it passed being well lined with people, who evinced great interest in the pageant,.
It was headed by a military band, and comprised some striking tableaux, one by the Anti-German League attracting a great deal of notice.
A company of French soldiers with a field gun were well received.
Prizes were given for the best arranged displays, that representing Father Neptune being placed first, Nurse Cavell second, and France third.

Arrived at the beach, the sports programme was carried out, also exhibitions of life-saving by the Bondi club, and a surfing board display by members of the Freshwater Club.
A number of boys from the Tingira also gave an exhibition of physical culture drill.
In the evening a Scotch concert was held.
The carnival will be held each evening till Sunday next, when there will be a "gold rush" on
the beach.

North Steyne Surfbathers Lifesaving Club held its annual carnival at Manly on Saturday.
The first of four contests for the Cecil Healy Memorial Shield was the principal event, and the
competion was keen.
In the senior alarm reel race, Harold Hardwick and Harry Hay (beltmen) provided a close and exciting finish, Hardwick just winning.
Cecil Healy Memorial Shield, Surf Point Score Competition
- Manly Lifesaving Club H. M. Hay, N. C. Smith, S. O. Wright, M. O. Crackanthorp, 1,
Cronulla R. Bowden, H.R. Congdon, F. Maguire, F. Sandon 2
Bondi H. Fletcher, W. Douglas, E. Clark, R. Stewart, 3
Life Line Rescue: Manly B team, 1, North Steyne and Cronulla, tie, 2.
Sack Race: L. Maguire (Cronulla), 1, P. Schaffer (Bondi), 2, L. Quinn (Collaroy), 3.
Senior Alarm Reel Race (teams of five): Manly A, 1, Manly B, 2.
Surf Board Display: C. West (Manly); 1, S. Dowling (Manly), 2.
Beach Flag Relay Race: Coogee A, 1.
Wheelbarrow Race: E. Wigney and A. Hilder (North Steyne), 1, J. Dempster and O. Cunningham (Dee- why), 2.
Junior Alarm Reel Race: North Steyne, 1, Manly C, 2. Manly A, 3,
Surf Boat Race (crews of five): Freshwater A (R. Matheson, captain, H. Lassoo, D. Matheson, S. Barker, and A. Colter).
Surf Race: E. O. Watson, 1, R. E. Brown, 2
Tug-of war: Collaroy 1, Manly, 2.

If Richard Walton Tully's new play mast be pronounced weak and uncertain on the dramatic side, it still possesses touching moments, and there is no mistaking the picturesque appeal of George Upward's, beautiful scenes from island life.
Indeed, the American producer, Mr. George Barnum, seems to have had a free hand in the lavish staging of a piece which mainly attracts by the deep, strong charm of an atmosphere constantly maintained on the lines indicated.
There is the plaintive, sweet, and monotonous music of the ukuleles, with their zither-like tones, the weird chanting of Hawaiian natives, and the dancing of the hula girls.
The curtain rises upon a cave in the Island of Puna, where the pleasuroe-loving islanders sing and strum at one of the many self-imposed holiday picnics which so exasperate their "sugar-man" - the American manager of a great sugar plantation.
Suddenly the sun-filled scene, with the bright blue sea beyond Uio plumy palms drowsing by the shore, is overcast by a passing storm.
A clever spectacular device sugests the torrents of rain which fall upon the beach without touching the groups beneath the trees inland, and then in a moment the tropical visitation melts like a dream, and the somnolent sunshlne-charm reasserts its accustomed sway.
In this way infinite artistic skill has been bestowed upon the mounting of "The Bird of Paradise" all through to the tragic close, where the gloomy volcanic mountain of Pelo vomits flame and steam. Here the unhappy princess-herolne leaps into the glowing crater BB the needed human sacrifice to appease the offended deity, and save her suffering people.
Thousands of playgoers will admire and marvel at the scenic triumphs of the new piece, and this one in particular was applauded with enthusiasm.

Muriel Starr is linked with these scenes as Luana, the central figure of the romantic love story. Incidentally, Luana's career emphasises the misery ultimately and inevitably caused by the union of an educated white man with a half-clvilised native, and further exposes the moral deterioration arising from life in one of these Pacific paradises, where everything comes for the asking, and the warm tropical sun, with flower-covered fingers, binds and paralyses the healthy action of heart and
brain.
Miss Starr was especially happy in suggesting the light-hearted witchery of the dusky, dark-eyed Luana.
Especially was the spell of her love-making apparent in the scene in which, with a caress in every word, she persuaded Dr. Paul Wilson to miss the steamer for the leper settlement in order to admire her prowess as leader of the surf-board bathers.
Two years later Luana and her "Paula" are man and wife in their fascinating grass house.
He craves, and she hands him, the fatal cups of awa (called also "kava"), which keep him without will for work, idling from day to day.
It is here that the sugar-man, a character realised with masterly strength and vigour by George Bryant, offers Luana the choice of a crown as vassal-queen under the American flag, or of allowing the Washington Government to declare a republic.
Luana's childish, unsophisticated joy at the idea ot unlimited fine clothes and costly gems, mingled with a cunning which caused her to decline honours abroad in order to keep her "Paula" away from the white ladies, was amusingly shown by the actress; and the anguished grief of the little princess at the discovery that she was unsuited to the society of Captain Hatch's dinner-party at Honolulu, that the god of her idolatry had wearied of her, and that nothing remained but immolation upon her country's altar, deeply moved the audience.

Louis Kimball, playing against tho sympathies of the house, was successful in showing the weak, egotistical, and petty nature of the always distrustful Dr. Wilson.
Mr. Frank Harvey was strong as the ragged, trembling Ten-Thousand-Dollar Dean, a beachcomber ruined by drink, but ultimately redeemed by the inspiration of a woman's love.
Tien Hogue, as the fair-haired Diana Larned, was at her best in the sincerity of her appeal, "Come up to the light," though the dramatist develops the actlon of his story too rapidly and too abruptly to meke the situation convincing.
J. B. Atholwood, a venerable and picturesque figure as the Hawaiian High Priest, played the role with imposing solemnity of diction.
James Hughes, an aesthetic, though somewhat stout, stalwart, in an abbreviated bathing-suit, made a sensation as Luana's native admirer.
Edwin Lester and Marion Marcus Clarke filled minor roles as the Rev. and Mrs. Sysonby, familiarly known by their undressed flock as "the mikinaries."
Maggie Moore won the audience as the genial and motherly Maheemahu.

Notes.
For Richard Walton Tully biography, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Walton_Tully
Bird of Paradise was filmed twice:
1932:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022689/
1951:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043343/

The secretarles of the Navy League yesterday received the following cablegram from Admiral Lord Charles Beresford:
"Wish you every possible success for 'Jack's Day.'
I heartily approve of all the objects you intend to benefit."

An exhibition of 70 paintings, sketches, and art photographs presented to the Jack's Day Fund by tbe artists of Sydney will be opened in Canberra House, at the corner of Liverpool and Elizabeth streets, by his Excellency the Governor, at 3 o'clock this afternoon.
The exhibition will be open to-day, to-morrow, and on Thursday.
The pictures are to be disposed of by art union.

The organisers of the Jack's Day procession are making a special appeal to tbe employers of cadets of the Royal Australlan Naval Brigade to allow the lads permission to take part in the procession through the streets on Jack's Day.
The boys are to muster in the Domain near the Registrar-General's office at , 9 a.m. on Frlday.

Notes:
Jack's Day, 1 November 1918, was a fund to help the men of the Navy and the Mercantile Marines.

On November 8 and 16 the New South Wales Surf-bathing Association, the Manly Lite Saving Club, and the Manly Swimming Club will control a series of events in connection with the Victory Carnival. They will include an alarm reel race, a surfboat race, a surf-board display, and a surf race, which will be open to members of any club affiliated to the New South Wales Surf-bathing Association.
The principal attraction on the harbour side wall be an exhibition of aquaplaning behind motor speed launches.
The other events, which are restricted to members of the Manly Swimming Club, include high diving displays and noyelty events.
It has been decided to have a netted area for the swimming races, which will contain a 60yds course. Big prizes will be given, including an order tor 6 guineas for the champion surfboat crew.

Several beach and surf events will be hold in connection with the Manly Victory Venetian Carnival this afternoon. Large entries have been received from all the life-saving clubs for the suriboat race, surf board display, surf race, and alarm reel race.
There will be a special boat service for those travelling from and to the city.

North Steyne Surfbathers' Lifesaving Club held its annual carnival at Manly on Saturday.
The first of four contests for the Cecil Healy Memorial Shield was the principal event, and the competítion was keen in the senior alarm reel race, Harold Hardwick and Harry Hay (beltmen) provided a close and exciting finish, Hardwick just winning.

Cecil Healy Memorial Shield, Surf Point Score Competition -  Manly Life saving Club: H. M. Hay, N. C. Smith, S. C. Wright, M. C. Crackanthorp, 1; Cronulla: R. Bowden, H. J. Congdon, F. Maguire, F. Sandon, 2; Bondi : H. Fletcher, W. Douglass, E. Clark, R. Stewart, 3.
Life Line Rescue -  Manly B team, 1; North Steyne and Cronulla, tie, 2.
Sack Race - L. Maguire (Cronulla), 1; P Schaffer (Bondi), 2; L. Quinn (Collaroy), 3.
Senior Alarm Reel Race (teams of five) - Manly A, 1; Manly B, 2.
Surf Board Display -  C. West (Manly), 1; S. Dowling (Manly), 2.
Beach Flag Relay Race - Coogee A, 1.
Wheelbarrow Race - E. Wigney and A. Hilder (North Steyne), 1; J. Dempster and C. Cunningham (Dee-why), 2.
Junior Alarm Reel Race -  North Steyne, 1; Manly C, 2; Manly A, 3.
Surf Boat Race (crews of five) - Freshwater A (R. Matheson, captain, H. Lasson, D. Matheson, S. Barker, and A. Colter).
Surf Race - E. O. Watson, 1; R. E. Brown, 2.
Tug-of war - Collaroy, 1; Manly, 2.

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