Word: hula
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over in South Africa John Barkham and his daughter Jennifer Lynne paid their annual Christmas call at the farm of Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts. And out in the Pacific William Chickering reached Hawaii from Guadalcanal in time to have Christmas dinner with Bernard Clayton and go to a hula-hula lawn party...
...delight of millions. Comely Lena Home proficiently marshals Count Basic's band and numerous choristers through a particularly unpleasant stretch of sub-operatic Africorn about the walls of Jericho. Eleanor Powell, who is the best female tap dancer on tap, proves it in a rope dance, a modified hula and a rampant straight number on a milk-white stage battleship. But Red Skelton is the best...
...wiggling their hips on their stools, somehow manage to control their machines. Jack & Heintz associates are also permitted to smoke, receive a dole of free doughnuts. They get one free hot meal per shift, unlimited free vitamins. They even have free vacations, which are apparently spent dancing the hula-hula in straw skirts on a sun-drenched isle off Florida...
Effa's Eagles. Best-heeled of the Negro majors are the Newark Eagles, owned by a hula-hipped Harlem beauty named Effa Manley. Effa received the club as a present from her husband, a onetime Jersey big shot. She appointed herself field manager, until recently directed her players from the dugout in a manner that would have tickled the late great John McGraw...
...Hawaii that suffers from too much red tape and not enough women. The cast contains 30 soldiers (six of them former actors) three paid actresses and seven local girls or wahine. The musical gets going with the outfit landing in Honolulu and gaily met at the dock by hula girls. From the wings comes a soldier bearing a sign: "Any similarity between this scene and our actual landing is purely accidental...