The Honolulu Advertiser from Honolulu, Hawaii • 39

HONOLULU ADVERTISER Wednesday, April 27, 19S6 D7 Isle Musiemman Kui lee Takes Five at Queen's If i re Spring Sole Prices on 1 competition-proved Rambler American! 1. Winner of the Acceleration Test, Class VI. Pure Oil performance Trials. 2. Winner, Mobil Economy Run; Class with 23.8 mpg.

3. Winner of Honolulu's crown for big values. Advertiser Photo by T. Umeda Kui: "I decided it was time for a rest." delivered in Honolulu INCLUDES DEALER HANDLING "I think the lump on his neck has been there for eight years, but he first found out about the cancer on Maui last year. He was tricked into going to the hospital.

A friend was afraid to go and asked Kui to go along. So Kui ended up on the table." Charlie Chang and the three girls and Ellie Lee all stared solemnly at the wall across the lawn. "A high percentage die from it," Mrs. Frodsham said. "A doctor told me 75 per cent go within eight years.

"But Kui, he suffers great pain and never talks about it. He refuses to admit it to himself. That's what keeps him going." HURRY! ONLY 5 MORE DAYS $195 DOWN $5950 per month New Macadamia By DAVID BUTWIN If Kui Lee is dying, he will not admit it even to himself. For more than a year he has known about a dangerous cancerous condition in his lymph glands. Last Saturday he woke up feeling so much pain he checked into Queen's Hospital for an examination.

Yet there he was yesterday afternoon, sitting on his hospital bed surrounded by lovely girls, talking about high-rise apartment buildings, sex and almost every other topic but his own worsening health. Kui would only say, "I have been working too hard. I decided it was time for a rest." His doctor had the same explanation. "He mainly needed a rest. He should be out by this weekend and back to work." Kuiokalani Lee, 32, an accomplished surfer, singer, songwriter, musician and dancer, performs with a group called the Kanakas at the Queen's Surf.

He has written more than 60 songs, among them the widely-circulated love ballad "I'll Remember You," "Lahainalu-na" and "Two by Two." A few years ago he was making $67.50 a week backing up Don Ho and checking indentification cards at the door of Honey's in Waikiki. Today, his group grosses $3,000 weekly and his illness not withstanding, he stands at the threshold of success. Kui sat yoga-style on his hospital bed yesterday in a little room decorated with a half-dozen vases of flowers, a guitar and three pretty girls sitting in chairs. There was also a young man who said his name was Charlie Chang. Two of the girls had large, unblinking blue eyes; the third was a more intense person named Suzanne who wants to be an actress.

It was strange to find Kui Lee cooped up in a hospital room on a day when he should have been surfing or rehearsing at Queen's Surf, but predictably he was surrounded by people. Kui was talking about his new place on Black Point Road and reminiscing about the old one in the Waikiki Jungle, where Liliuokalani Estate plans to develop a park-resort complex. "They're going to build one of those high-rise, neuter-type, sterile, not male, not female structures," he said, and turning to Charlie Chang added: "Asexual, you know?" Kui let out a sustained giggle. Charlie Chang nodded uncertainly and lit a cigaret. "No mo' ashtray someplace?" he asked, trying to change the subject.

Kui, who was wearing only a pair of bright floral print pa-jama bottoms, looked down at the tray of food before him. He took a hunk of spinach in his hands and ate it, then some rice. Starting out from nowhere, Kui said, "I understand why people have crap games, why Jayne Mansfield is on a poster It's groovy. It's okay. That's why Hawaii is the only place.

It is the first place in Jie world where all ideas can function under one language." Eharlie Chang's face lit up. "No have to be black, or white or Japanese or anything," he said. 2'Right," said Kui, picking on some rice. was asked what kind of treatment he was getting at the. hospital, and answered: "They just better take care of mor I may fall apart one of these days.

And that better norhappen." The door swung open and in walked two of Kui's sisters. Mrs. Lei Frodsham handed Kui a book called "The Seeret Science at Work," gave him a tender pinch and sat down on the bed. Miss Ellie Lee sat on the other side. Kui picked up a bowl of soup from his tray and drank it.

Mrs. Frodsham reached across him and took a jelly roll. "That's one thing the Hawaiian knows how to do is eat," said Kui who is part-Hawaiian. "Everywhere he goes, he knows how to make plenty. "It might not be the best food in the world, but it will go a long way and make his stomach full." Ellie Lee got up and did a brief skit about an objectionable neighbor, rolling her eyes and waving her arms dramatically.

Kui laughed for a long time and then explained: "The three of us (including his two sisters) have done more together than you'll find in any man's life. We've done more living in 14 or 15 years it's unbelievable. We've seen every depravity, every illness, every good thing, the three of us." A woman in a white uniform pushed open the door and asked Kui and his visitors to leave while she cleaned the room. Kui told her to "come back by 'n by," but she shooed every one out. The scene shifted to a nearby lanai, looking out on a lawn, some trees and a back wall of the hospital.

Sunshine was everywhere. Leaning back in a lounging chair, Kui was silent for a while. Then he said, "A tree grows so beautiful, you know?" He talked on for a few minutes until a nurse called him back to his room. His sister, Mrs. Frodsham, lingered on the lanai with the others.

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