NO RAIN CHECKS FOR AWVS ALOHA PARTY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68-00046R000200260014-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 20, 2014
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: August 13, 1955
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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AN1:)RCIIID LEI?Mrs. lase h Forti'rigton, left, delegate from Hawaii, is given
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waii, 'Barbara Vienra, rs. C. Ruxton Love, National President
441ooks..on. Mrs.- Farrington later in the evening was presented a
troVle AWVS'ID, M:is:Love..,?ktar Staff photo.
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Aloha Part
' Checks for
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BY ELEM.& t
. y,,eye., nochecks
? hinged out for Jast_ night's
Atherlealt..WomenITOlUntary
? Servic'es-benefit party held at
i v;aiian, Scotch and Germ
.611.0ton-Park -H0tel:;: , '
Ne4re : sold for. the,4,-Hawaiian I.
,a)me.'Esix. hundied.' tickets product of the islands, Joined
? Alfred Apaka during the even-
evening cif entertalpment, with Proceeds from the eve .nt 1 ing's entertainment. He., sang
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stfveral hundred ? persons 'bray-
ing...Hurricane..Connie-rains to il mrs, Bennington Muffiey, the while she danced a ?hula. X..; .
D. C. chairman said. willfW Earlier at the cocktail party,
get ,,th .the .btift supper , party
? towards carrying on the pre's- given by the Hawaiian Stat$'
and dance thatEilsO, featured
.ent. AWVSOrIt. with vetera Society and Mrs. Farrington
special entertainersgike Apaka,
the famous HaWaltan singer, and. the handicapped. ,. . in the Continental Room, Miss'.
Last night's party was the
Ha-
and. Haleloke, the . dancer. Hawaii and three young Ha-
first big function the D. C.
They were sent to the AWVS waiian boys studying here,
unit has had since its reactive- Walter Heen, Charles Peter
benefit by Henry J. Kaiser. tion last June. It had dis-
-Actually, the . party ,could and Wendell Crockett, staged
banded in the spring of..10
celebration the Shi an impromptu bit of enter-
well have been A The ballroom of e er tainment for the guests. She
for the 57th anniversary of the ton-Park was -turned inta.Caft. danud with Bill Charman.
Islands' annexation . to the exotic' flower ?lover's solarium. and they rang "Lovely :Hula
United States as the dates Three hundred-pounds of ? Ha- Hands?.
coincided. During the evening waiian flowers l'.'arrived early
A little bit of Hawaiian lore
il Mrs. Joseph R. Farrington, the
delegate from Hawaii, was yesterday via plane, at the re- was woven into the 'evening's
quest' :-:of . Mrs. Farrington.
presented with a citation by entertainment. T:11,o s e?-t who
Torcqpnger, Jed ginger flow-
hadn't been ta -the Islands
Mrs. C. Ruxton Love, national
ers. birdrof paradise and hele-f
president of the organization, found out 'that the formal
conia were some of, the ?floweri-,
who flew down for the AWVS o dress of the HvOn women
used' ?.:t i ? " tyte ballroom is called a "holout.' The long,
party. Mrs. Farrington, an ?tt-:. al'oiesent ..
honorary member of the shapely dress with a train
AWVS board, was cited for 'ner Isal If?22-year-old (some are 10 yards long),
B. .67. lIa'b ,JEi-fa, a pretty Miss Hawaii told us, is pat-
Interest and active part in the
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. Young Hula, Dancer
Bill Charinan; one ?of the
finest exponents of Hawaiian
ritualisVc dancing, currently
statione
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Riling Field with
?ze, .in?intfoducing
nnor`lrifflier dance
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twaiian
Itlinsers
' Ellen
eet-0.S.E.
ience in
grbi, `nagd .that
Haole"
music with"' Err ?
Youngest of th..4-04?
was,f
Free of 723 .a.,e
ivhb charmed)) sf,..
her little
"Seated atZi
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with Mrs. Fit ?. I
William Ze9n.. a na
officer ofi?A'WVS,- who
finwn down :Mid NIT" Yoto
' 134 at the; p'arty;...Miss
E'vans. Mr.:anciMrs.? Kenn
laandon (Mit.. Landon is: ith
'author of "Anna and ehe Cifl
of Siam"), Mr Charles "
1 and. _ rs.
? i ?
of th guests Who'
,? the driving rain, Mrs.
?W. Harrison Davis, Jr.,- of
1508 LynlYkok drive in Be-
thesda, said she wouldn't have
missed theievening, sincOhe
had a ?tilliian dress she
wanted to ?wear. . Others nos-
talgic for the music and en-
tertainment of the islands
wouldn't Jet .least
of all a hurricane;:tstop.,7them
from attending' thei party.
It was aloha tithe ' in D. C.
last night with the carnation
and crepe 'paper ? fels.i an au-
thentic -Samoan?knife-dance
by -Ronnie .Sua;...lio...leaves
shortly for.,HawalMitil music
and dances &All' islands, and
plenty in the group who at
tended the party, lunging to
back to see those little gr
shacks thp snno"'"rnbniinrit
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