We put the world before you by means of the Bioscope and Urban films (Nov 1903)

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36 dance in their deer-skin moeasins. Hut their feet slip and glide in and out in the most difficult steps with an ease and lightness that scarce disturbs their lithe swaying bodies. Hold the feet close together and try to glide around a room keeping time to the measured tap tap, tap tap. tap tap of a drum, and sec what kind of work it is. And yet Pau-PukKeewis, who weighs perhaps two hundred pounds, does this and many other equally difficult steps with apparently as much ease as did the little Hiawatha. Follow ing the Beggar's Dance are others shared by all the actors. Even old Nokomis, whose weight must be more than two hundred, and her husband, who is eighty-six years old. join the dances and keep step with the same even lightness. Perhaps the Indians themselves are conscious of their skill in this pastime. Calling one day at the wigwam of Nokomis, w ho speaks very good English. I was invited w ithin, lagoo, who was bus^ putting the finishing touches to an arrow, presently took up his precious old drum and crooning the usual accompaniment began the tap tap, tap tap, which is thr only system they ever use. Immediately his daughter took the floor and entertained me for five minutes in a most artistic manner. The bridal dance, which Hiawatha and Minnehaha dance together, is very pretty and full of stately grace, and again we catch the same tender meaning in eye and hand. Gambling, or games of chance, was ever a human weakness, and these ancient brethren of the forest seem to have had their fair share. "The cunning Pau-Puk-Keewis " seems at his best here, so much so that one cannot help a fear that this splendid creature might easily become a wreck — the victim of his own magnificent but misguided strength. Indeed the gambling scene in intensity and excitement may be said to be the climax of the play. The players kneel, facing each other upon the ground, and the juggling goes on by means of three mocassins, under one of which a stone is hidden. Pau-Puk-Keewis wins one after another of the handsome furs that are put up, and at last the boy, which his frenzied opponent reluctantly stakes. This is plainly an innovation which the warriors find it hard to permit, and they withdraw to discuss it in savage groups and with averted faces. Pau-Puk-Keewis meanwhile struts oftensivelv up and down the stage, and presently fills the measure of his misdeeds to overflowing by frightening Minnehaha and old Nokomis into screams of terror. Not only Hiawatha, but all the warriors throw themselves into a mad scramble to catch the defiant fugitive, —and here the acting is very real.