Word: hawaiian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under a bright Hawaiian moon, dainty Anna May Wong put out to sea one night last week in a pineapple barge. Embarked on neither a pleasure jaunt nor a cinema stunt, Actress Wong and 446 fellow passengers were en route to the U. S. For three weeks, they had been stranded in Honolulu by the shipping strike (TIME, Nov. 23). A few tourists, including a California man and an Australian woman who met and married in the interim, had enjoyed their isolation. But most were glad to be towed in the pineapple barge last week, two miles...
...Richest Girl in the U. S.," to bulkhead a Kaalawai Beach cove into a private swimming pool near her proposed $500,000 home. Declared the Board: "This question of great wealth being used for private ends is contrary to the public good." Annoyed, Mrs. Cromwell threatened to abandon her Hawaiian property, build her home near Palm Beach, Fla., instead...
Died. Michael Dole, 2, grandson of Founder James Drummond Dole of Hawaiian Pineapple Co.; of a streptococcus infection; in San Francisco...
Conventioneers were promised prizes for the largest orchestra, the orchestra which had traveled the greatest distance. Likewise this week there were to be banjo, mandolin, hillbilly, Hawaiian, junior, electro-phonic and popularity contests. To be seen and heard in Minneapolis were the most famed virtuosos of fretted instrumentalism, some of them playing on instruments worth thousands of dollars. Tenor Banjoist Albert Bellson played, for the first time anywhere, Bach's famed Chaconne, which is ordinarily a sombre, magnificent violin showpiece. Rev. Adam F. Hunkler, O.S.B., self-taught Catholic priest, played the five-string finger banjo on the same program...
...were chosen at all from these States. First National had only three abstractions, a few surrealisms, countless landscapes, mostly of each artist's native town, plain, mountain, sierra, river, lake or desert. Overwhelming majority of the artists were entirely unknown, uninspired, surprisingly competent. A bad start were the Hawaiian entries, except for John C. Young's painting of blue-white water foaming against rocks. Puerto Rico's N. Poy was even worse with a peon and green bananas. The Panama Canal Zone had a slightly superior cubic nude by Blanche Lupfer. The Virgin Islands scraped the show...