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Choirs oh the Neighbor Isles week. It offers a typical program, with traditional and popular numbers on one side and liturgical pieces on the other. It is all fresh and real, and the continuity narration is informative without talking too much. This department has also received the new Martin Denny album, "Primitiva," featuring the characteristic sounds of this group. It is no more primitive than a Salvador Dali painting, but it is persuasive, and we warrant that if you play it in the privacy of your boudoir, you will find yourself dancing your own secret idea of the exotic.

members with comfortable savoir-faire in its director, a man of wide-ranging cultivation and background. Their program undertakes the startling novelty of offering several pieces of serious church music, and achieving a core of genuine musical value along with the inevitable "Little Grass Shack" and "Little Brown GaL" RECORDINGS Several of the Neighbor Island groups have made recordings, the most recent and important of which is the new St. Catherine's LP, "Aloha Oe Malia," which has been released just this Detail from a Siamese painting, "Vessandon Giving Away Horses," now on display at the Academy of Arts. The exhibit of Thai art, including 55 paintings on loan from the Thompson collection in Bangkok and being circulated by the Smithsonian Insti-tution, runs until October 22. Academy Photo.

By AUSTIN FARICY The tradition of Hawaiian entertainment has long been amateur in the true sense done freely and for the love of it. It is a testimony to the depth and genuineness of the tradition that even in Waiki-ki, where it has perforce become professional, some feeling of aloha still survives. But we recently had the good fortune to be present at performances by three Neighbor Island groups the Haili Choir at the Hawaiian Village in Hilo, St. Catherine's Choir and the Kapaa Mormon Choir at the Coco Palms on Kauai. The Haili Choir has the ease and assurance of long experience in the grand manner.

They can be perfunctory and slovenly some of their numbers were but even if they are forgetting the movements, or singing" with an ugly tone, there is an energy and a conviction to their performance that, sweeps you along with them. An important ingredient in the style of the Haili Choir is that they have not. emasculated it, and the men's dancing and singing is the backbone of their program. The Kapaa Mormon Choir confines its dancing to its womenfolk, but in Geraldine Nahau they have an ample dancer of a robust and earthy quality. Their singing is direct, and unaffected and joyous.

St. Catherine's Choir combines irresistible appeal in the youth and charm of its ARTS N.S.A.L. Award Concert BOOKS THE UGLY AMERICAN By William Lederer and -Eugeie Burdick W. W. Norton, New York William Lederer, special assistant to the commander of the military forces of the Pacific area, and Eugene Burdick, a political science professor at the University of California, joined pens to deliver a well-deserved blow.

The blow is aimed at a man who, to a very large degree, shapes the destiny of this country and its position in the hearts and minds of other nations: The American governmental representative abroad. Although this book is a work of fiction, it is based on facts; and the facts are responsible for the so-called In order to encourage aspiring musicians and singers, an "Annual Award Concert" will be presented by the Hawaii Chapter of the National Society of Arts Print Show The annual exhibition of the Honolulu Print Makers will be held from November 6-30 at the Academy of Arts. The deadline for show entries is October 31, with all Isle artists invited to submit prints in any media, or one-color drawings to the Jury of Selection. Cash awards will be made in both the print and drawing divisions. The Honolulu Print Makers also present the annual "Gift Print" an outstanding work by an active member -whose identity is disclosed on the opening night of the show to all Associate Members of the organization.

Artists interested in submitting work for the annual show may secure further information on entry requirements at the Beretania Street entrance desk at the Academy of Arts. Reviewed by IRENE KIRK anti-A i a sentiment with which anyone who had lived abroad is very familiar. In' the first story, "Lucky, Lucky Lou Number One," the authors present a vivid and tragic, for this country, portrayal of an American ambassador stationed in South East Asia. Back in America, Lucky Lou lost a political election, but he was not disturbed. He knew that the party "owed him something." When, two days later, he was offered an ambassadorship in Sarkhan his main consideration in accepting the post was "an entertainment allowance of $15,000 and you can buy liquor tax-free." Lucky 's Soviet counterpart, described in the story as Lucky Number Two, not only spoke and wrote Sar-khanuese, but had to go through two years of extensive studies before the Soviet government saw fit to send him there.

There was also Joe Bing, a government public relations man, who lived and worked under the assumption that the most important thing in the world was to be well liked. Bing had everyone call him Joe and gave big parties every month. To these parties came only other Americans. Finally Joe got his face on the pages of Life magazine, but to the Asians he remained only a "loud mouth" who rode in a red convertible. There are, of course, other Americans who represent this nation overseas.

There is Gilbert Mac White and Father Finian, described as intelligent, dedicated, able men who almost have to work on their own or resign from the pressure from above. This book is not only timely, it's overdue. It not only took knowledge of the facts and sincerity to write "The Ugly American," it took a great deal of courage and the kind, of patriotism which-dares to criticise. The authors are to. be and Letters.

Several Isle musicians and singers, who will be selected at auditions next February 21, will be given an opportunity to appear in professional concert, for a cash award, at a music and art soiree planned for March 20. Entries for the audition close January 31. Full particulars and entry blanks may be obtained by phoning Mrs. A. E.

Min-vielle society project chairman, at 75-491. Mrs. Minvielle has urged interested applicants to begin their preparations now. on-Jury Show Receiving Dates Entries for the forthcoming exhibition by the Association of Honolulu Artists will be received at the City Hall next Friday, 1 to 4 p.m., and next Saturday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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Among the exhibits currently being shown at The Gallery in the Hawaiian Village Hotel is Helen Gilbert's oil, "Natokurua." The painting, as well as work by Martha Alexander, Jean Boone Hope Dennis and Esther Nowell, is part of the Studio Four show which will be on display until October 15. -Star-Bulletin Photo. THE SATURDAY STAR-BULLETIN HONOLULU, T.H.. OCTOBER 4, 1958.