Word: hula
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After seeing the preview of a cinema called Honolulu (TIME, Feb. 20), Manhattan members of the Hawaiian Society got up on their ear, condemned in no wavy way Cinema Tap Dancer Eleanor Powell's version of the hula-hula. Fumed the Society's president: "In the true hula the dancer waves her hands to indicate a fish. She moves her hands to her eyes to indicate eyes. . . . There are many sorts of hulas, including epic hulas. There can even be frivolous or comic hulas. But Miss Powell's is not any of them. It is a serious...
Honolulu (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Further foot noises by Eleanor Powell, this time executed in a hula hula skirt and applauded by Robert Young...
...Manhattan there are ice shows on night-club floors where once there was tap dancing. In the Midwest fancy skaters have supplanted hula-hula dancers as dinner entertainment at conventions. In Los Angeles suntanned citizens skate outdoors on artificial ice in bathing suits. And many ambitious mothers, well aware that Sonja Henie has made over $2,000,000 in the three vears since she turned professional, are making sacrifices to give their little girls expensive skating lessons...
...browed Broadcaster Anthony took the station ownership road to radio importance. In 1922 he founded 50-watt KFI, built it to 50,000 watts. He brought fame to his newer station, KECA, bought in 1929, with his program of symphonic recordings. A spare-time musician himself, he collaborated with Hula-Expert Johnny Noble on a popular tune, Coral Isle...
...same as the Navy in Boston or Brooklyn, with the same characteristics off duty, it would be foolish to bring the names of countless innocent Hawaiians, Puerto Ricans, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, and Stanford girls by mentioning the army. From the army one passes in review, to the hula in which one is told to watch the hands. The hands, the Waikiki beach boys claim, flashing their teeth in a smile, are very important...