Wherahiko Rawei

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THE MIDLAND LYCEUM BUREAU PRESENTS
Dr. Wherahiko Rawei
IN HIS INIMITABLE RECITAL
Uncle Sam's Samoan Islanders

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PORTRAYING THEIR WONDERFUL
ARTS AND CRAFTS MUSIC, SONGS
AND NINETEENTH CENTURY DEVELOPMENT

A Foreign Novelty Recital of Unusual Merit




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UNCLE SAM'S SAMOAN ISLANDERS
Portrayed with
SONGS and STORIES of the SOUTH SEAS
By WHERAHIKO RAWEI
A Native Raconteur who fascinates with the witchery of his Word Paintings.

Robert Louis Stevenson.

The Midland Lyceum Bureau with their Worth While programs—have introduced many noteworthy folk to American audiences, but none more remarkable than Wherahiko Rawei, Polynesia's most gifted Native Story-Teller.

His new and fascinating recital portraying The Arts, Crafts, Folk Lore, and Music of America's Samoan Islanders, is brim full and bubbling over with humor, romance, philosophy and spiritual uplift.

Wherahiko Rawei is an adept at describing The Witchery of Tropical Moonlight Nights and duplicating The Wierd and Thrilling Music played by untutored Island races.  He appears in picturesque native costume, and aided by a beautiful scenic background of waving cocoanut trees, and colored light effects—he reproduces with realistic accuracy and gripping force all The Wild Charm and Languorous Glamor of the South Seas, and does this with an enthusiastic realism born of a great love for, and a thoroughly intimate knowledge of—Our Wonderful Samoan People.

Dr. Rawei has consorted with famous Samoan Chieftains and Medicine men, and, in their company, penetrated lonely unexplored Pacific Islands to hidden away Aboriginal native villages far remote from the eyes of the ordinary globe trotter, and, what is still more remarkable, has managed to preserve a whole skin through all this Tangle of Adventure and Travel.

Apart from its value as a charming and educative description of An American Garden of Eden—not yet commercialized into A Paradise Lost, this unique and captivating offering is a refreshingly novel and spectacular one, sparkling with real Wit, refined Humor and Heart Stirring Pathos, all blended by a highly cultured Polynesian gentleman into A Delightful Entertainment Classic that is unquestionably one of the most original Chautauqua Tit-Bits of the year.

The late Robert Louis Stevenson in a letter dated Bournemouth, England, forty-one years ago, wrote and appended his signature to a curiously apt and faithful description of this gifted native as he is today—

Wherahiko Rawei is a Polynesian raconteur who fascinates one with the witchery of his word paintings, so beware, lest he start you roaming o'er Southern Seas.  Apart from this bad habit, he is a fine fellow, and one of my choice friends.

Robert Louis Stevenson.

MIDLAND LYCEUM BUREAU-1921, 1922, 1923


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(A Reprint from The Lyceum Magazine, September 1922)




UNCLE SAM'S SAMOAN ISLANDERS
The real Americans of the Southern Seas.—Louis Becke.

NOVEL, fascinating and inspiring are adjectives that only inadequately describe this astonishing Polynesian recital.  The audience is wafted as on the wings of the wind to the Paradise of the Pacific.  The captivating music and thrilling spiritual melodies reproduce the subtle atmosphere of the South Seas, making it a program most delightfully different from all others.

Dr. Rawei very graphically describes the wonderful arts and crafts and high Christian ideals of America's little known Samoan Islanders, and exhibits, during his fascinating recital, the most astonishing oratorical and musical gifts.  Wit, pathos and mimicry—with native character sketches, masterpieces in the way of mental photography—are cleverly introduced and rivet attention from beginning to end.


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