[Found under: “Some Place to Go: The Popular Star Theater”]
The Act That Pleases
MAJOR KEALAKAI AND
PRINCESS ULUWEHI
and Their
Hear those Hawaiian guitars and eukaleles, 1916.
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Category Archives: Hula
Singers from Hawaiia, 1920.
SIX OF HAWAII’S FINEST MUSICIANS COMING HERE FROM ISLANDS TO PRESERVE MUSICAL IDEALS OF NATIVE LAND
Hand-Picked Company of Native Musicians in the Islands Chosen for Long Tour in United States and Canada During Present Summer—Sailed May 19th from Honolulu with Mildred Leo Clemens
Mildred Leo Clemone and Her Native Hawaiians of the Famous Waikiki Beach, April, 1920
Six of the finest native musicians in all the Hawaiian Islands sailed from Honolulu on May 19th on the steamship “Maui,” to fill their first American engagement. They will appear on the Colt Alber Premier circuit in Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio. Continue reading
Spreading Hawaiian music and dance in America and Canada, 1920.
WILL ADVERTISE HAWAII THROUGHOUT STATES
Mildred Lee Clemens and her company of Hawaiian musicians and dancers who will sail with her on the S. S. Maui, May 19, and appear on the Colt-Alber Chautauqua Premier Circuit of the Atlantis coast and Canada, beginning June 10.
Different coverage of Ioane Ukeke performance, 1880.
[Found under: “BRIEF MENTION.”]
One of those delightful and chaste performances known as the “Hula” was presented to a dense and admiring audience at the Chinese Theatre on Saturday last. The illustrious reviver of this heathen dance, Mr. Ioane Ukeke, Continue reading
Ioane Ukeke competes against the Chinese, 1880
COMPETITION OF HAWAIIAN ENTERTAINMENTS
AND
Chinese Entertainments from China!
TO BE UNVEILED
THIS SATURDAY EVENING,
AT THE
CHINESE THEATER (HALE KEAKA PAKE).
IOANE UKEKE will put up Hawaiian Theatrics against the Chinese Thespians, and he will perform these mele with the intent he will prevail with those entertainments, they being the ones below:
Hula Paipu,
Hula Kalaau,
Hula Kui, Continue reading
Response to “uneducated Haole in the art of Hula,” 1971.
Readers Forum
Hula Festival
Editor, The Tribune-Herald:
The obviously sincere, and marvelously “uneducated Haole in the art of Hula” who took me to task (Readers Forum 5/9) should spend a little time in research and study before he seeks to comment on anything connected with the Hawaiian culture. However:
1—I did sincerely regret the time necessary to tune my guitar; my 3-year old had, apparently, been ‘helping’ me tune just prior to our performance; Continue reading
Lanakila Brandt, 1971.
Lanakila
BRANDT
Family
NOW
REGISTERING
HULA
STUDENTS
AGE 6
And Up
3
EXPERT
INSTRUCTORS
KEALAKEKUA
STUDIOS
Telephone
323-3125
(Hawaii Tribune-Herald, 5/23/1971, p. 36)
Hawaii Tribune-Herald, 5th Year, Number 21, Orchid Isle, p. 10. May 23, 1971.
The empty gourd sounds the loudest, 1971.
Readers Forum
Hula Contest Judging
Editor, The Tribune-Herald:
This is the first time I have written a letter to the editor of any newspaper.
Just couldn’t resist Mr. Lanakila Brandt’s invitation in his letter to you about a Hula Contest, seeking a rebuttal or an augmentive comment.
Have neither to offer, but do have a comment:
How could he or anyone question the integrity of the judges made up of Masters of the Hula, such as Mrs. Lokalia Montgomery and Miss Iolani Luahine. Continue reading
Commentary in response to the first Merrie Monarch Hula Competition, 1971.
Hula Contest
By LANAKILA’ BRANDT
I am writing as chief instructor of the Lanakila’ Brandt Dancers, a participating halau hula in the recent Miss Hula Hawaii Contest and its companion Group Competition, conducted as an adjunct to the 1971 Merry Monarch Festival.
I wish, first of all, to congratulate hula festival coordinator George Naope and his Committee for giving life to a most fervent wish often expressed over the years by the writer and many other hula people: Mahalo a-nui loa e ka Haku ame ke Komike! Continue reading
Rules established for Merrie Monarch Hula Competition, 1971.
For MM Festival
Miss Hula Hawaii Contest Scheduled
The Merry Monarch Festival Committee will conduct a special contest this year for Miss Hula Hawaii, coordinator George Naope has announced.
Contestants, he said, should be between the ages of 18 and 25 and unmarried. Continue reading
