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Hawaii Dave Donnelly |
1969: Chorus of musical
guests aboard the LurlineSHARING Sarah Vaughan's stateroom aboard the Lurline is her 8-year-old daughter, Deborah ... Another singer aboard the Lurline is wowing passengers, too: Melveen Leed, who performs in the Marine Veranda with her husband, Berne Hal-Mann, and group. (Sept. 3, 1969) ...
Alice Beppu, wife of state House Speaker Tadao Beppu, tells of seeing a familiar face in London. "Don't I know you?" she asked. "You may," the man replied. "I'm Dennis O'Connor." He's a state representative, too ... By the way, Mrs. Joan Hayes (the abortion law crusader) is moving into the 8th Representative District, currently represented by O'Connor and Republican Buddy Soares. Mrs. Hayes couldn't run for the Legislature in 1970 because of our state's ridiculous residency law, but she won't face that problem in 1972. (Aug. 1, 1971) ...
NEVER mind what's happening between the Greeks and the Turks in Europe; here they're getting together just fine. In fact, they're teaming up for "A Night in the Mediterranean" on Sept. 20 at La Pietra, featuring ethnic folk dancing and native foods from both countries. And Henry Kissinger has nothing to do with it! (Sept. 2, 1975) ...
LET'S hear it for the KHVH announcer who, in referring to the late Francis Ii Brown last week, called him "Francis Two Brown." ... The Comedy Corner on Cooke Street is dark tonight, and it'll be Dark for the next six nights as Johnny Dark is the featured performer. (Aug. 31, 1980) ... Jon Canas, who was head of sales and marketing for Sheraton in the Pacific a few years ago, has been named president of the Dunfey Hotels Corp., the firm he joined when he left Hawaii. Dunfey, which operates 21 hotels (including the Berkshire Place in New York, the Parker House in Boston and the Shoreham in Washington), is owned by Aer Lingus, the national airline of Ireland. (Sept. 2, 1980) ...
BOSTON Symphony conductor Seiji Ozawa spent all last week in Honolulu, playing tennis with the local symphony's principal violist, Bob Karol, who used to perform under Ozawa with the Boston Symphony. Karol admits his game is about on a par with Ozawa's -- both terrible. (Aug. 31, 1981) ...
AFTER deciding to leave politics following a year in the mayor's office, Sharon Clark took off for a vacation in the Canadian woods. While she's far away from Hawaii, Clark found a trace of the islands even there. Her first morning in Canada, she awoke to the strains of "Beautiful Kahana." Seems Clark's hosts found an album entitled "Music from the Majestic Islands" by the Honolulu Symphony conducted by George Barati, and they decided it would be an ideal type of wake-up call. (Sept. 4, 1984) ...
NICE to see UH Rainbows' main man Al Noga picked by Sports Illustrated for its "Best and Brightest" team. Included was a photo of the Samoan Sackman wearing a lavalava, as snapped by our own Tim Ryan -- the picture, not the lavalava ... Best headline pun I've seen recently was in a story U.S. News & World Report ran on Kuwait. It was headlined, "Between Iraq and a Hard Place." (Sept. 1, 1987) ...
AFTER dining at the new Ilikai Yacht Club Tuesday night, Pat Morita made his way to the lounge and asked entertainer Tony Chardo if he'd sing "Come Back to Sorrento." Chardo obliged and then accompanied Morita while the mentor of the Karate Kid did his personal rendition of "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" -- eat your heart out, Tony Bennett. (Sept. 2, 1988) ...
IT was "roll out the barrel" time at Waialae Country Club the other night. Joe Anthony, who renovates old whiskey barrels, puts wheels on them and turns them into planters, had donated a barrel to the Waialae "member-guest" event. It was won by Raynette Kaspar, of All Star Travel, and a good thing, too. Raynette's husband, John, was having such a good time that when the party was over, he climbed into the barrel and Raynette wheeled him out of the place. Anthony, incidentally, calls his new firm Just Barrely. (Sept. 6, 1990) ...
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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
