Hawaii
Dave Donnelly
CINERAMA is a movie firm, but you'd never know it from the way it has been buying up hotels in Waikiki. Its latest acquisition (for $9,450,000) is the soon-to-be-completed Kuhio Hotel, adjacent to the Coral Reef, also nearing completion, which the firm has an option to buy. It earlier picked up three hotels from Roy Kelley: the Reef, Reef Tower and Edgewater. (April 10, 1969) ... 1980: Jack Lord
thanks CBS for
‘Five-O’s’ 12-year runSUNNING at the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel through the weekend are Barbara Eden and her hubby, Michael Ansara. Lorne Greene and wife are also part of the Hollywood contingent at the Big Isle resort. (April 11, 1973) ... It looked like a revolt at the new Burger King on Beretania when a bevy of waitresses trekked across the street Friday to McDonald's, all decked out in their uniforms. Don't stop the presses, however. The girls were merely taking a break in their training classes and had to eat at McDonald's because Burger King wasn't serving yet. It finally opened its doors on Saturday, and the Beretania Burger Battle is on. (April 11, 1977) ...
IF there's a truancy problem in isle schools Tuesday and Wednesday, you can thank Donny and Marie Osmond. You see, they're opening up the set of "Aloha, Donny and Marie" on those two days, and on a first-come, first-admitted basis, fans of the Osmonds will be admitted to the Hawaiian Hut (starting about 9 a.m.) to watch the two rehearse numbers they'll sing in the film and perhaps some filming itself. (April 9, 1978) ...
IT'S not every day that you pick up a national magazine and see a huge headline, "Mahalo Nui Loa," but it happened yesterday. Jack Lord took out a full-page ad in Daily Variety in order to thank CBS and everyone concerned with the 12-year run of "Hawaii Five-O," and he used the Hawaiian expression as a means of getting attention. The ad mentioned that "Five-O" came up with 284 hours of shows for CBS -- the final episode was shown on the mainland Saturday night. Reruns to follow! (April 8, 1980) ...
AFTER reading about Rita Jenrette's liaison with her congressman husband at the entrance to the Capitol in Washington, Zoulou asks, "Is she going to have a step-child?" (April 7, 1981) ... Nice to see that the Funeral and Memorial Society of Hawaii has a sense of humor about dying. Their current newsletter contains an item headlined, "Being Taken to the Wrong Mortuary Can Be a Grave Problem." And a contest is under way to name the newsletter. Sample title suggestions mentioned are: Checkout Times, From Here to Eternity, Passing Thoughts and Last Writes. (April 8, 1981) ...
TWO Britons currently engaged in the public relations field in Hawaii would appear to have much in common. David McNeil, president of Pacific Public Relations, is a former British paratroop officer and a graduate of the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. David Wilson, head of PR for the Hyatt Kuilima, is a former Royal Navy officer and a graduate of the Royal Naval Academy, Dartmouth. Besides being named David, both are 35 and the coincidence doesn't end there. Both hail from the county of Cheshire in the north of England but didn't meet until they arrived in Hawaii, and both are attached to local girls of Japanese descent in the communications field. Wilson is married to KHON newscaster Carolyn Tanaka, and McNeil is engaged to Marsha Kitagawa, PR coordinator for Theo H. Davies. And both are no doubt hoping they don't get summoned to visit the Falkland Islands. (April 6, 1982) ...
AN item called Prince Harry's Navy Bean soup was the special today at Canlis' for the first time, and it will be on subsequent Thursdays. Be advised it's named not for the son of Prince Charles and Diana, but for Harry Newhart, the International Market Place honcho. He has a standing order at Canlis' to call him whenever bean soup is on special, so pal Richard Daggett wrote the restaurant and suggested it be named Prince Harry's -- he even had table tents made up to that effect. Done and done. You now know where you can find Newhart at lunchtime on Thursdays. (April 11, 1985) ...
Dave Donnelly has been writing on happenings
in Hawaii for the Star-Bulletin since 1968.
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