Hawaii
FAVORITE watering spa for Hawaii residents in San Francisco is Canlis' at the Fairmont. Lloyd Samaha, the ex-islander who runs the restaurant, reports that in one evening last week the house variously served Malcolm MacNaughton and his covey of young MacNaughtons; former Gov. Bill Quinn; Royal Theater head Herman Rosen; HVB gal Ann Holt with friends Winona Love and the A Freitases; Phyllis Spalding and Sara Gene Kostelanetz; food broker Alister MacDonald and retired Adm. and Mrs. "Putt" Storrs. Airline types there included the Brian Cookes and Ed Sheehans of World airways; Jonathan Rinehart of Eastern and Marden Leaver of United. But were there any San Franciscans there? (Feb. 6, 1969) ... 1969: San Francisco restaurateur
hauls in isle clientsFUNNIEST listing in the yellow pages is on Page 100 under "Bee Keepers." The second firm listed is "Alboro Guitar & Karate Studio." Alboro has branched out this year. Under "Music Instruction," he pops up again, this time offering "Karate, Nerve Pts., Arc Welding, Net Weaving and Coconut Hat Weaving." (Feb. 5, 1971) ... Funnyman Jerry Lewis flew in on a Continental 747 and will be stopping over at the Kahala Hilton for a couple of days en route to Australia where he'll be the opening act at Down Under's first legal gambling casino in Hobart, Tasmania. (Feb. 6, 1973) ...
THIS week's Chutzpah Award goes to Rep. Kenneth Lee, who, you may recall, is the guy who slugged reporter Gregg Kakesako in the mouth during the last Legislature. He introduced a bill yesterday that would make legislators immune from damage suits for assault and battery, among other things, if the action took place in the exercise of the legislators' duties. For one thing, if passed, the law would tend to make reporters a bit wary of asking Rep. Lee anything, for fear it would be the wrong question. And secondly, don't our representatives have anything better to do than introduce bills that would get them off certain hooks? (Feb. 5, 1974) ... Steve Boyle, sales director for the Maui Inter-Continental, is into Japanese poetry. He composed the following: "Nippon quarterback/Getting set for big touchdown/One, two, three, Haiku." Don't call us! (Feb. 3, 1977) ...
Aldyth Morris' one-man play, "Damien," is going to be repeated on KHET on Feb. 14. And still the raves over it and Terence Knapp's performance come in. One of the greatest raves I've seen came from Kay Gardella in the N.Y. Daily News: "Of the great solo performances on television, this is by far the best. ... As a critic who has looked at a lot of television, we can say unequivocally that this is one of the finest productions we've ever seen. KHET is to be congratulated." Hear, hear. (Feb. 5, 1978) ... The spectacular twosome dining at the Bistro at Diamond Head this week was Loni Anderson of "WKRP in Cincinnati" and superstar actor Burt Reynolds. Everyone who saw her said Anderson looks even better in person than on TV (if you can believe that). Reynolds, who'd dined at the same restaurant a week earlier with Jim Nabors, shaved off his beard between stops but kept his mustache. Bistro co-owner Mike Pirics, who's worn a beard for many years, asked Reynolds why he decided to clean up his act, and Reynolds proved he has an innate knack for hoomalimali by quipping, "Because when I was in here last and I looked at you, I realized that what I had on my face wasn't a beard." Exit Pirics, beaming. (Feb. 4, 1982) ...
QUITE an array of managerial talent dining in the Bali Restaurant of the Hilton Hawaiian Village the other night, all here for the Hawaiian Open. Among those dining at the Bali were James Dunn, vice chairman of Forbes Magazine, Norman Furuta, president of Mazda in Japan, William Howell, chairman and CEO of J.C. Penney, Robert Mercer, chairman of Goodyear, bandleader Les Brown, plus football great and Hertz spokesman O.J. Simpson. Hertz chairman Frank Olson hosted the feed. (Feb. 8, 1989) ...
Dave Donnelly has been writing on happenings
in Hawaii for the Star-Bulletin since 1968.
The Week That Was recalls items from Dave's 30 years of columns.Contact Dave by e-mail: ddonnelly@starbulletin.com