Word: hula
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...semi-humorous incidents; Bing Crosby and Shirley Ross and numerous semi-romantic incidents; and numerous biological implications. The latter are of course the concomitant of anything and everything Hawalian in the layman's eye. "Waikiki Wedding" consists of practically anything and everything Hawalian in the layman's eye, from hula to volcano, from pineapples to, of all people Crosby...
...favorite orange blossom. It is what Hawaiians call their sweethearts. It is also what they call Vivienne Mader, a young lady from Brooklyn who can perform the graceful native dances with strict accuracy. Vivienne Mader first visited Hawaii in 1929. Elderly Helen Desha Beamer, famed native dancer, taught her hula along with her own grandchildren. All over Hawaii Miss Mader has been a sensation. The late Princess Elizabeth Kalanianaole acclaimed her. She has danced throughout the U. S. and last week in Manhattan's Town Hall. Brooklyn's Huapala gave her most ambitious recital under the sponsorship...
Waikiki Wedding (Paramount) exhibits Bing Crosby crooning pseudo-Hawaiian ditties through a wreath to the accompaniment of innumerable hula-hulas. As Tony Marvin, he is the indolent press-agent of Imperial Pineapple, spends his time lolling on his schooner with a hillbilly called Shad Buggle (Bob Burns). One of Marvin's sporadic publicity ideas is to choose a "Pineapple Girl" who would come to Hawaii for three weeks, syndicate her enthusiastic impressions. Winner is one Georgia Smith (Shirley Ross) of Birch Falls, Iowa, who wants romance not pineapple. Imperial Pineapple orders Tony to provide it. When crooning fails...
...taught himself to play the piano by a mail-order system, pounding out jazz on the famous gilt piano. Thereafter he moved to the Mayflower Hotel, but he remained popular with the Roosevelts, their official friends, and particularly the children at Warm Springs, for whom he once did a hula dance...
...Dalles, Ore. American Legion State Convention, when Legionaries put on a burlesque hula-hula dance in costume, a bystander playfully poked a lighted match into Legionary Olaf Nelson's grass skirt. The skirt blazed briskly. Olaf Nelson ran screaming from the platform, died...