MAORIS REFUSE TO PERFORM ON SUNDAYS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13791, 21 July 1910, Page 6

MAORIS REFUSE TO PERFORM ON SUNDAYS.

Chicago.'has seen tho Maoris— been astonished (writes the special cdr-3, respondent.of the Auckland Chicago is the second largest city mSEJ the United States, and it takes a Jot Mf£ astonish it; but when Chicagoans ed that the Maoris, who were billed "wild savages from New , Zealand— wfrkj most Rtartllng act on the vnudeviH*k! stage," would not perform on Sundays,.,Ei they were amazed. The Maoris had'*Sj nine months'- engagement with Sn«l> e r»£i and Anderson to appear at tho ««*>?; York ■ Hippodrome, and it pened that the Hippoaromo which has proved a record 'one financially—closed two weeks before U»% M aoiris , contract' expired. But Shubeflm and Anderson, instead of losing thing, saw a means of "euWettWg,, .5. and made a contract with Morris, the big vaudeville manager, f«<. the Maoris "to perform for two vceK3 t y i> t the American Music Hall in Chicago-f This contract, as tho Maoris' niana#*[i, (Mr. Whyte) soon learned, called fcrp performances "each and every 9*l ? during tho two weeks. The <*»««»£ Music Hall, like most of tho placee «£, amusement in this city, remam* op«e on Sundays—-performances every noon and evening of tho week. Whyte immediately notified the agr-ment that the Maoris would not available for Sunday performances;? they having had a distinct und«t-«; standing, on this matter with 6mi-£ bert and Anderson's tive before they left Rotorua W' sure wds brought to bear both oy WHr.4 liam Morris and Shubert and Anderwn, v but the Maoris stood firm. fei»™**; came and they did not appear, and in „ epito of the difficulty they vere pa^ ; every penny due to them.