Honolulu Star-Bulletin from Honolulu, Hawaii • 51

AlOHA EDEN March 29, 1 972 Honolulu Sf C-1 3 FOR YOUR LEISURE Hawaii Style LIFE Vi NIGHT ZTHtSMi IPOYOU BELIEVE IN LOVE I TiKfSf'STS" DUNAGfN'S' PEOPLE DENNIS THE MENACE T'm the only Hawaiian in the neighborhood and I Lown the land. It's all fee simple." Danny Kaleikini could not conceal his pride as he walked about his spacious home located in an exclusive area of the Diamond Head district. A new Mercedes was parked in the garage next to another late-model car. His children, Keikilani, 12, and Dan-Jacques, 8, were shooting a game of pool on the large patio near the swimming pool. Danny has a right to be proud.

Few people born and raised in Papakolea have achieved his success. In a few weeks he fvill be celebrating his fifth anniversary as the star and producer of the Kahala Hilton's Hala Terrace show. NflH-FICTOM By Ben Wood A boyhood-friend, Wesley Park, encouraged Danny to make a career of entertainment. Park today is KaleikinVs business manager. "Wes is a fantastic organizer, but more important he's a trusted friend," Kaleikini said.

"He organized me when I went to the Kahala Hilton. We had no contract then. The basic plan was to keep it Hawaiian. Wes made me study and learn Hawaiiana, so I could perform for real, from the heart. "We also planned to keep the show simple.

But I think the most important key to our show's success is the timing, the pacing. We keep it flowing evenly all the time. It never lags." (After seeing the show for the umpteenth time this week I must agree with him. Not only does it flow rapidly and smoothly, but there is always, something special going. on.

to hold the audience's attention.) It might be Sala doing a flaming knife dance on the beachfront, perhaps the lovely voices of Yvonne Perry or Nalani Olds, or the swaying of the beautifully costumed dancers. But it is Danny, with his songs, linguistics and nice-guy personality, who makes it all go. "I enjoy performing," Kaleikini said. "I mean that sincerely. I get the biggest kick out of watching a mali-hini crack a smile.

I enjoy making them happy." Danny showers, praise on his musical director, Jimmy Kaopuiki. Jimmy was with Danny when he made his move from the Hilton Village to the Kahala Hilton. "Jimmy's my backbone for keeping Hawaiian. He's a walking Hawaiian encyclopedia. And Barney Isaacs, our steel guitarist, he's the best in the Islands." The other two musicians are Led Kaapana and Dennis Pavao.

Both have fine voices. The hula dancers are Sally Crowell, Joan Albao and Leialoha Kai. "I've got to give credit to my wife, Jackie, who has been behind me and supported me all these years," Kaleikini said. "Not only has she been a good wife but she has also been a good friend. I got involved in many things but my wife has always been at my side.

"And I want to thank all the people who have supported us over the years." I Kaleikini is host for the "Danny Kaleikini Theater" on KHON-TV, runs the prosperous chain of Bikini Shops with his wife, and is the host for the "Hawaii Calls' radio program. Next-month a "Danny Kaleikini Golf Tournament" will be held at the Maui's Royal Kaanapali course, another high point in the 33-year-old entertainer's career. In addition to his heavy entertainment and business -schedule, Danny finds time to perform at charitable functions. He is this year's Easter Seal chairman and will be the graduation speaker at his old high school, Roosevelt, and at Campbell High School as well. The turning point in Kaleikini9s life came when he moved from the Hilton Hawaiian Village to the Kahala Hilton.

the years he has had the best-drawing Hawaiian show in the Islands. Danny is a far more serious person than the happy-go-lucky singer of five years ago. He knows how far ho has come and he is not about to jeopardize his position. "We've been very fortunate that the crowd has held up," he said. "We felt that where the local people went, the tourists would follow and it worked out that way.

We have a good following of both locals and tourists. "Entertaining is a business Not like before when you'd sing, get 20 bucks and go suck 'um up. I started out playing drums in a dance hall, Sweet's Ballroom, when I was a freshman at the University. "I never thought I'd be in show business. My ambition was to be a policeman or fireman, maybe work for the City and County." 1973 Orbnrfa SrtCfli "Margaret! Dennis is lookin' "He caught a big, eveyvvjere for yal" hairy spider!" BEETLE BAILEY ffTIT-W "77 DOES 10VE STORY" I WlNNIE-THE- rfWCf I fUVE ANY RABBITS 7 POOM SAW RABBIT.

Vfcllnfr. rp -IN IT? nTT If i I REX MORGAN (i a CAN'T UNDERSTAND THE CHANCE THAT CAME OVER ALEX AFTER THE I KNOW HE HAD TO GO SEE THE UNIVERSITY PRESIPENTAND ITSEEMS LIKE RIGHT AFTER THAT HWLD IT BE I'LL STOP AT TOO MUCH FOR YOU HIS HOUSE THIS TO PROP BY AND SEE EVENING" ANP Hm, DR. MORGAN I WON'T TELL' X'M WORRIED BUTT HIM VOUASKEP DON'T WANT HIM TO I ME TO DO SO KNOW I SUGGESTED --jj I NO, PR. MORGAN S- IW SDRE H't HAVE YOU TOLD LAUCH AT VIE IFT 4 PROFESSOR GRANT PIP BUT CAN'T THAT YOU'RE IN LOVE STAND THE THOUGHT WITH HIMiSUZY V' THAT I AUGHT NOT, KV. HI.W CHANGE WROTE fr- CHANGE WROTE 1 I ME THIS LETTER I i APARTMENT 3-G ANP THE NOT THAT THEY'LL ALL KNOW HIM, MISS MASEE-BUTI'P BE TEMPTED MAN'S EX WELL, THIS SHOULP BE INTERESTING, FRED I'LL STANP AT THE DEPLANING GATE ANP ASK EVERY MALE OVER THIRT WHETHER HE KNOWS ByROM TO SAY YES TO A PRETTY GIRL LIKE NOW THAT'S SORT OF STUPID I PECTING TO BE MET YOU! ASKEP MR.

FROST FOR A PFJSCRIP- REMINP ME TO By MR. FROST TION OF'THE MAN WE RE TO MEET-BUT 1 PiPN'T ASK FOR HIS NAME. FROST WE MAY NOT HAVE ROOM TO TAKE THFM ALL BACK NEVER LET BYRON FROST CHANGE LMOU-SINE SERVICES, IN THE fRcU! YOU'VE MADE MY EVENING (Demon, you won't believe this, but it is snowing outside, as I write this. Just thought you'd like to know.) There are also conventions, the current one being the pulp and paper convention. "This is national paper week," a nice man advised me in the elevator yesterday, and I assured him I was doing my part in using it up.

He smiled. This is not as rare as you might think. Old Manhattan hasn't become as much of a jungle as it has been reported to be. I approached it warily, fearing that muggers were lurking about so thickly they had to work shifts, and first impressions enforced the feeling. The subway cars were completely covered inside with little messages sprayed on with paint cans (Artu-ro, 126; Jesus Saves; Dotty and Dan that sort of thing), giving the look of an asylum that had been taken over by the inmates.

(The New York Times, whose writers all live in another state, and never ride the subways, finds this amusing, I might add, but then the Times finds a lot of strange things amusing.) And, of course, everybody has his own mugger story. But when you take a second look you notice that the police are both alert, and numerous and young, which is a certain sign of age and you start to relax, and enjoy. And what there is to enjoy! Madison Square Garden is sold out every night, and at Lincoln Center the other night, Joan Sutherland and Beverly Sills, two of the three greatest singers in the world, were appearing next door to each other, both to absolute sellouts. William Chapman, who sang in our "Aida" in Honolulu a few weeks ago, is starring in "Mefistofole" at the City Opera, too, and sounding splendid. (Still snowing outside.

It's 38, and don't ask, "what's a One of the best shows in town, however, is watching the relief rolls swell. There currently are 1.2 million people about one of every seven people on welfare in this city, and it was discovered the other day that some 50,000 aren't even citizens. Thousands more were getting double checks, thanks to a generous computer, and a man in charge said it was better for some to get two than take a chance on one getting" none, a viewpoint that depends on wiiere you are viewing from. And then there was the lady who put her dog on welfare. This did not surprise anybody here, but what she found strange was the fact that the dog got twc not-one, TWO registered letters from the city wondering why he hadn't come down to get his money.

The next letter probably wrould have offered the dog home delivery service. Pyzzl Crossvor by Samuel K. Fliegner (Dear Demon Executive Editor: Here am in the Big Town, where the weather is gruesome-normal for this time of year but the stage is great. And Fm fulfilling a lifelong ambition a week at the Waldorf, or is that the title of a movie on the late late show?) NEW YORK Us old China travelers have to stick together. So there, in the lobby, was Mrs.

Nixon, whose China visit wound up at the Waldorf as did mine, thanks to -Ed Hastings, out there in Honolulu. Ed used to run the Waldorf before he went to Hawaii for a short visit and never left sound familiar? and before that he was in the China-Burma-India theatre in the big war, daddy. As was I. We call it the C-B-I, and we stick together, so when Ed found out I was coming to New York for a spell, he fixed me up at his old hostelry. "After all99 Ed said, "you saved my life during the war in the old C-B-I.

Didn 9t you V9 I said the only life I saved was that of a drunken friend of mine, who was going down for the third time in a plate of sweet and sour pork when I pulled him out. "Well, you would have if you could, I'm sure," Ed said, and who's to say he isn't right. Which put me in the same lobby with Mrs. Nixon, and just a few floors from the suite that all Presidents have stayed in since Herbert Hoover, who opened the hotel in 1931, and died in it. Mrs.

Douglas MacArthur lives here now, as did her husband until his death, and almost every head of state you can name except Castro has stayed here. (The hotel keeps the flags of more than 100 nations handy, just in case the chief drops in. What happens if two heads of state arrive at the same time? Well, there was the time that King Faisal had the suite, and he was ill and couldn't be moved, and Queen Elizabeth II was coming, so they had to give her another suite, but otherwise, it hasn't happened. The suite, by the way, has four bedrooms and four baths, and you can rent it yourself for about $350 a day, if you will promise to make way for the President ifhecomes. I asked Mrs.

Lola Preiss, who is a fascinating person and the PR gal for the Waldorf, if the hotel had ever had Cuba's Castro. "No," she said, "but he had a banquet in the Astor Hotel ballroom when I was the PR gal there. Black tie and fatigues. The fatigues looked a little odd in that huge gilt ball room at the Astor, and so did the habit he and his aides had of combing their hair every time they passed a mirror." The Astor ballroom had a fire, shortly after, and the room was carefully restored to all its pre-blaze gilt and splendor just in time to be torn down with the rest of the building. (A new one of those indistinguishable glass houses you have to wonder how the architects have the guts to take the money has gone up in its place, now.) But back to the Waldorf, which isn't all Presidential suites, by the way.

I was amazed to learn that it is one of the three largest hotels in New York (1,900 rooms-more than any in Hawaii), and the rates are about the same as any other big hotel. 3 4 '5 5 7 18 19 110 111 112 113 Y7 19 20" 22; I I a 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 7s' 37 mmtmi nH aB -HH 33 39 40 41 42 43 44 r' 45 45 47 i 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 jb6 58 59 60 61 62 63 I 64 65 66 67 ,68 69 70 71 ACROSS 1 Endure 5 Long-leggeci bird 10 Spring 14 Resound 15 French pupil '16 Gem 17 Temporary 19 Angel gear 20 Embark 21 Angry 23 Russian negative 25 Hence 26 Overcame 30 Satirical 34 Despise 35 in the neck 37 Useless: si. 38 G.l. 39 Everlasting 42 Three match 43 River into the Baltic 45 Lower the bowsprit 46 Desert haven 48 Withdraw 50 Pioneer in radio 52 Vegetable fuel 54 Pause 55 Theater curtain material 59 Ruff mates 26 domo 27 Residence 28 Bedding item 29 Ventured 31 Slipknot 32 fatuus: (will-o'-the wisp) 33 Shore 36 Deduce 40 Dissertation 41 Relax 44 Maturing agent 47 Apollo's sister 49 Legal word 51 Mel or Jose 53 Sonic 55 Sour 56 Fa to miJdhng 57 Liver secretion 58 Detachable button 60 Subdivision of Argo 61 Camelot lady 62 Asterisk 65 Summer in Paris 63 Piece of-change 64 Confinement 66 -of Wight 67 Fry lightly 68 Hip bones 69 Performer 70 Church official 71 Lotus tree i DOWN 1 Fewer 2 Soreness 3 Whisky measure 4 Ontario metropolis 5 Confusion 6 Heavyweight challenger 7 Hindu god 8 Occasion 9 Asian giant 10 Author of "The Vantage Point" 1 1 Javanese tree 12 Gender 13 Trudge 18 Furnace pilot light 22 Continent: abbr. 24 Wigwam Solution to Yesterday's Puzzle 32972 1972 by Chicago News Synd.

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