Word: hula
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...schoolmarm, teaching English grammar to youngsters from the plantations. One day, while singing with a native chorus for some mainland tourists, Clara impulsively stepped out of line and let fly a few lyrics of The Cockeyed Mayor of Kaunakakai, She followed it up with a naughty burlesque of the hula...
Grinning, pumpkin-plump Clara, 46, is not the cinema ideal of a hula queen. One night at the Royal Hawaiian, to the distress of the management, she sang and danced a brazen number called When Hilo Hattie Does the Hilo Hop. Composer Don McDiarmid was aghast ("I had in mind a slender, beautiful Hawaiian maiden-and look at you"). But the cash customers wanted more. The song became her trademark, and Hilo Hattie soon became Clara's professional name...
Reformation. In Honolulu, Tattoo Artist Urbano Manipon got a jail sentence for sketching a naked girl on a minor's arm, got the sentence suspended when he added a hula skirt...
...Madison Square Garden last week, as the hula-dancing queen of her own Hollywood Ice Revue, La Henie had fined down...
...Honolulu, the U.S. Government will pay the bills of veterans who want to learn the hula. In California, the Animal Lovers Association will teach an ex-G.I. to train rodeo horses-by correspondence course. He can study "sleight of hand and prestidigitation" at the Chavez School of Magic, or master the art of makeup at the San Joaquin College of Cosmetology. Other schools will show the ex-G.I. (for tuitions curiously close to the legal maximum of $500) how to make candy, model for ads, decorate a cake...