Brandt to be honored
at 'Le Masquerade'

Gladys Ainoa Brandt has been named the recipient of the Honolulu Theatre for Youth's Nancy Corbett Award.

The award is named for the woman who founded HTY in 1955. Brandt will be honored Oct. 24 at HTY's "Le Masquerade '98: World of Wonder" benefit at the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel. Tickets are $150. For information, call 839-9885.

Brandt began her career in 1927 as a public school teacher and advanced to principal and district superintendent of Kauai.

She also was director of high schools for the Kamehameha Schools and chair of the University of Hawaii Board of Regents. More recently she has been an interim trustee for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, and is one of the authors of "Broken Trust."

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PREVIEW

Three films open on Oahu this weekend. See Thursday's "Do It" section for reviews and theaters:

"Ronin" -- Robert DeNiro stars in a fast-paced, low-tech international thriller on a post-Cold War European playing field that pits Irish terrorists against the Russian Mafia. Rated R.

"Pi" -- Darren Aronofsky's debut feature was one of many movies declared "the hit of the Sundance Film Festival" last January -- an annual event that's becoming more unreliable each year. The film depicts "one man's obsession to construct a theoretical, numerical order out of chaos in an attempt to decipher a pattern to both the stock market and existence as a whole." Rated R.

"Urban Legend" -- Horror film features a serial killer whose murderous pattern is based on urban scare stories. Rated R.

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