Hawaii
A new nightclub tour of Hotel Street featuring the Club Hubba Hubba and the Glade kicks off tonight. A brochure listing the features of the tour starts off with, "Waikiki Hotel Pickup." Hmmmmm. (July 2, 1969) ... When Wads Yee was flying from London to L.A., he was upset because the plane was held up for 20 minutes waiting for a VIP of some sort, identified only as "Mrs. P." Finally, Mrs. P. arrived, carrying a baby, with a maid behind her carrying another child. Yee noted that the woman wore a sloppy T-shirt, had no makeup on and her hair was disheveled. The babies began to fuss and cry, causing Yee to flee to the upstairs lounge. The day after arriving in L.A., he picked up a newspaper, and there was the woman's picture, complete with T-shirt, hair, babies and all. It was not until then that Yee realized that the plane companions were Mrs. Andrew Previn (otherwise known as Mia Farrow) and her celebrated twins. (July 5, 1971) ... 1969: Mia Farrow
happened to be
traveling incognitoWE liked the way Gus Hannemann, the big Samoan, handled the emcee chores at the Miss Hawaii-Filipina contest Saturday night. He added a bit of humor to what is all too often an overly dramatized event by comparing the contest to Samoan beauty events. "You're looking at a typical Samoan man," said Hannemann. "The typical Samoan man is 6-4, 240 pounds. The typical Samoan woman is ALSO 6-4, 240 pounds. At a Samoan beauty contest, we don't go through all the trouble of posing in bathing suits and gowns. We just haul the scale out on the stage." Good fun. Incidentally, the winner, Jackery Lim Tejada, was a popular choice. (July 1, 1974) ...
SHOWMAN Don Ho has encountered nearly everything on his Polynesian Palace stage and handled everyone he calls up to join him with aplomb. But he met his match during the Variety Club telethon when a delegation of performers from the Glade arrived at about 5:30 a.m. in full transvestite costume and makeup. Turning to his co-emcee, Ho said to Doug Mossman, "You talk to them." Both Ho and Mossman were happy, however, when they found the group brought money and did their part in raising funds for the Variety Club School. (July 2, 1974) ...
THREE weeks ago, some remarks by Young Americans for Freedom chairman Sam Slom appeared in this space about conditions in New Orleans, where he was. He pointed it out to be something of a paradise with no parking meters, 99-cent breakfasts and newspapers costing only a dime. Well, now comes a note from former Hawaii ACLU official Scharlette Holdman, who is now the executive director of the ACLU of Louisiana, with headquarters in New Orleans. Someone apparently sent her Slom's remarks, and she now replies: "Sam never left the French Quarter. There are no parking meters there because there is no parking in the Quarter. The rest of the city is covered with meters. That 99-cent breakfast including grits was a grit-and-coffee breakfast. And finally, our papers still cost a dime -- but how much is a newspaper that opposes the Equal Rights Amendment worth?" (July 2, 1976) ...
SORRY to learn yesterday of the death of friend Peter Canlis. Pete prided himself in the fact that, bucking all the "experts" of the day, he was the first restaurateur to charge extra for a baked potato. (July 7, 1977) ... Localite Judy Mattoch, wife of attorney Ian Mattoch, is back from San Diego where her mother, after having her hair done in the beauty shop, went back to her hotel room and breathlessly reported, "Did you know there's a rock group saying here -- Oranges & Burt?" It wasn't until later that Judy learned that Peaches & Herb were in the hotel. (July 1, 1980) ... If you noticed that some of your favorite watering holes were dry yesterday, it's because that was the deadline for bar owners to show their state and federal taxes were all paid up. Those who couldn't had to stop sales of booze or just close up. (July 3, 1984) ...
CLEVER title for the shot photog Mark Williford took of blond model Carolyn Bosanko reposing on black sand at Maui's Wainapanapa State Park: "Beached Blonde." (July 6, 1988) ...
The Week That Was recalls events culled from
Dave Donnelly's three-dot columns over the past 30 years.
Dave Donnelly has been writing on happenings
in Hawaii for the Star-Bulletin since 1968.Contact Dave by e-mail: ddonnelly@starbulletin.com