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...finished it a week later. That was Producer Selznick's first inkling that Gone With the Wind held almost as many headaches for him as it had pages. First thing he saw as clear as the Hawaiian sunshine was the hopelessness of trying to make a film of conventional length...
Climax of the evening came when the temple-dancers forgot about the temple, and swung out in a lowbrow song & dance from modern Bali, accompanying themselves with corny, Hawaiian-style music on a steel guitar and a couple of mandolins. Though purists complained it was not according to the Sanskrit, the bronze-skinned Balinese broke down and grinned, swayed like jamming jitterbugs, wailed a torch song or two, and showed that East is meeting West as fast as the flicker of an exported Hollywood movie...
...United States, Panama and elsewhere in the Americas an espionage system from coast to coast? Why, also, should Japanese fishing fleets congregate in such numbers off the Pacific Coast of the U. S. and why should Japanese fishermen ply their craft in every bay and inlet of the Hawaiian Islands...
Manhattan's winter nightlife season got under way, set New York society columnists to twittering over the new nightspots and their patrons. Most twittery spot: the new Hawaiian Maisonette of the swank St. Regis Hotel. Most twittered-of socialites: Tobacco Millionheiress Doris Duke and her husband James Henry Roberts Cromwell, who was photographed in a lei, hula-hulaing with bare-foot Hawaiian...
Dancer Lily Padeken (see cut). Most twittering columnist: Hearst's Cholly Knickerbocker, who cheeped: "With the wave of a magic wand, and the expenditures of what must have been oodles of $$$$$, the onetime Maisonette Russe has been transformed into the Hawaiian Maisonette...