Word: hula
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indiscretions, overdoing the broadest points, throwing away the few finer ones. Sylvia Stahlman (Eurydice) had the prettiest voice, at its best in The Old Time Religion ("Bacchus my king, O let's be romantic"), and Hiram Sherman (Jupiter) hammed his part happily, right down to losing his hula skirt. Musico-medienne Paula Laurence was the most professional of all as Miss P. (for Public) Opinion, "a vestal virgin with a bachelor's degree." Her message: break as many commandments as you please, except for "Thou shalt not be found out." But the audience easily found out Librettist Bentley...
...change in atmospheric pressure was so sudden that she got the moral bends. Everybody in the house was a movie extra, and the first day Norma Jeane was there they gave her whisky bottles to play with, taught her a card game and put her up to a hula dance. "They drank, they smoked, they swore," says Marilyn. "It used to keep me busy praying for them...
...insisted that discrimination against Asians was entirely a wartime, military measure. To get the technological jump on Trans-Pacific it replaced four of its old DC-35 with five new, 284-m.p.h., 44-passenger Convairs, costing upwards of $600,000 apiece. Trans-Pacific counterattacked by having its hostesses do hula dances aloft, set up a charge-account service, pioneered cut-rate family fares...
...Catholic, but I . . . want to give you my highest praise for your article on the Maryknoll Sisters [April 11]. I am glad to read that they are broadminded enough to appreciate the hula, and that some of them keep up with things by seeing movies. I also agree that their habits could use some redesigning, but nuns should look like nuns, and not like policewomen or WAFs...
...eager to snap up his rival's discarded aces; The Mariners, a Negro-white quartet (their last song for Godfrey: I Didn't Come to Say Hello, I Came to Say Good-Bye), also got a Sullivan offer plus a flood of nightclub bookings. But Hawaiian Singer-Hula Dancer Haleloke, a longtime Godfrey fixture, was so upset that she took to her bed. As for the writers, Godfrey said: "They just write those little cards I read from. I don't need writers unless I can find some with new ideas." After his hard...