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Hawaii Dave Donnelly |
Communications is a
street that goes both waysSOME 30 junior high girls from 20 local private and public schools gathered at Sacred Hearts Academy for a summit on how to become financially independent in the future. Communications was the theme and many of Hawaii's communications pros were on hand to network with the girls. CEO Kitty Lagareta told them the best in her field can bill $250 per hour. She was probably anticipating what her first question might be when she threw the floor open for discussion, but had to have been taken aback by the first question: "Ms. Lagareta, can you tell us how you got interested in skateboarding." Duh! ...
AT Lion Coffee, staffers are calling their president "Diamond Jim." Last week honcho Jim Wayman gave out a half-carat diamond pendant to William Price of Waipahu, first winner in the Lion "Big Fat $20,000 Diamond Giveaway." Ken Russell of Kailua gets the second one this week. Both said they were just buying their usual supply of Lion Coffee, unaware of the giveaway. Three more will win diamond pendants between now and Sept. 15, and there'll also be a one-carat diamond giveaway. The winning magenta-colored stickers are inside random Lion Coffee packages in stores ...
The silent minority
THERE was much joy and merriment at the Honolulu Liquor Commission last week when attorney Wayne Luke made an appearance on behalf of clients. Unfortunately, Luke had a bad case of laryngitis and could hardly be heard. This rare calamity prompted Commissioner Dennis Enomoto to address Liquor Commission Chairman John Spierling. "Mr. Chairman," he began solemnly, "there is nothing funnier than an attorney who loses his voice." Laughter ensued between the commissioners and the audience, and even Luke joined in, quietly ...FORMER Ernie Chang star piano student Virginia Lum, who's gone on to graduate from Juilliard and appear at Carneigie Hall and beyond, returns to do a benefit concert for the Palolo Chinese Home at Orvis Auditorium tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. For information, see the facing page ...
Get on Bard
HAVING missed "Macbeth" by being out of town, I did manage to take in the Hawaii Shakespeare Company's performance of "Henry IV, Part 1." Though at times it seemed like a rehearsal with some people in costume, some sort of in costume and others in street dress, the poetry of Shakespeare shone through it all. I was particularly thrilled that Jeremy Pippen played Prince Hal, a key role. Now 24 and a UH theater grad, Pippen appeared as the young Patrick Dennis in "Mame" at Army Community Theater when he was but 12. I had cast him in the role, his first on stage, and he was immediately bitten by the theater bug. He's now saving to attend grad school, a far cry from the young boy soprano I first "discovered." ... Final show in the Shakespeare festival is "Twelfth Night" which has performances Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Call Windward Theater's Paliku Theater for tickets ...
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Dave Donnelly has been writing on happenings in Hawaii for the Star-Bulletin since 1968. The Week That Was runs Sundays and recalls items from Dave's 30 years of columns. Contact Dave by e-mail: ddonnelly@starbulletin.com
