Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miss Edith Jones will speak on, "Of What Are Stars Made?" on Wednesday, May 12, while the title of the following talk is "Measuring the Heat of the Stars...
...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 of the Hawaiian Society...
...each dance Miss Mader performed the conventional pan (bow), lifting her arms shoulder high, thrusting her right foot forward and putting the weight on her left. A large sprinkling of Hawaiians shouted interminable hikis, the equivalent of "bravo." People who do not understand Hawaiian were most amused by Miss Mader's Roosevelt Dance which she sang in English. When the President visited Hawaii three years...
...Nawahi wrote a song of welcome, upon which Miss Mader based a dance. Words: "O Roosevelt, universally known, President of the nation, the foremost of America. You are the only President who has come to Hawaii. You have braved the stormy weather and traveled the long seas, stepping over the waves to our calm shores to find Hawaii situated in the midst of the Pacific. Welcome! Here we stand ready before you, the President of the people. Tell us, what would you like us to do, Roosevelt...
...this point Miss Niesen went to dress for her numbers and, singing to a packed audience, she nearly brought down the Mayfair's mirrored pillars with her throaty rendition of "Heat Wave" and "St. Louis Blues...