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Daily News from New York, New York • 709

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Daily Newsi
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New York, New York
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709
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jUJ By DANTON WALKER Qjf 7 5 Ts-, ISM I we said 100.000 the number of Norman aluminum combination 100 ALUllflUM COMBINATION SCREEN AND STORM WINDOWS storms and screens bought last year by satisfied home owners! Manu and Teva doing a Polynetian dance routine in new enow at Hotel Lexington's Hawaiian Room where South Sea island type of entertainment hat been featured for almost 20 year. The Hawaiian Room HERE'S WHY Norman "Dining1 Out in Any Language" is the title of a new I sold thousands of i i Bantam, book compiled by Myra Waldo, with an assist from Fan-American orld Airways, the purpose of which is to tell you what to order andi I IN Mi I how to order it in foreign restau became conductor and introduced (1) PRICE that's hard to beat! more hula dancers Momikai and Tutasi Wilson. Momikai stayed (2) QUALITY that's hard to hast! on nine years, is now a disc jockey in Dayton, Ohio. (3) SERVICE that's hard WINDOWS rants. Miss Waldo recently paid a visit to Moscow, where she taught the Soviets how to prepare an American Thanksgiving dinner.

"The air travel trails blazed by Pan-American have brought famous foreign restaurants within the reach of everyone some of them less than a day away!" the foreword says. But Miss Waldo's book could be just as useful in New York City, where we have even mora foreign restaurants that can be reached by taxicab. In addition to their flowery native names, most Polynesian have the namet inherited from the American forebear who moved in with the missionaries, so Momikai of the pays her income tax under the signature of Mary Jane Hare. Napua married guitarist Sam Koki and is still playing nite club UP TO No fewer than 30 foreign coun dates on the West Coast. Mapa tries five now behind the Iron Curtain are represented here by wana got homesick for the Islands and at last report was a traffic cop in Honolulu.

Pualani restaurants, nearly all of which married an accountant of the Hotel Lexington staff and is now a happy housewife in Washing have interesting background and personalities. Around the Corner You don't have to fly the At INSTALLATION ton, D. C. Pattern Unchanged 4 REASONS why IIORMAII sells for SO LITTLE I.We sell to you! 2 No middleman in-'voWed! 3 Low -overhead means low prices! 4 Only one low markup! lantic to get the best French food, nor do you have to span the Pa INCLUDED! Mclntyre and Kinney alter nated at the room between road cific to sample Polynesian dishes you can find them right around the corner, on Lexington at tours and during the war years i Hal Aloma and Johnny conducted. In 1952, Mclntyre passed away and his guitar player, Sam Makia, took over and remained until 1955.

The names changed but the pattern remained 3 DAYS ONLY Sunday, Monday, Tuesday the same the Hawaiian Room, which is actually better known in Honolulu or San Francisco than it is in New York. No cafe cavalcade of Manhattan would be complete without a mention of it. Six months before the market crash of 1929, the new Lexington Hotel opened, at a cost of 000. New Yorkers had temporarily lost their taste for festive living, so for three years a large dine-and-dance room in the basement went unused. In 1932, Charles Rochester opened the Last September, Restaurant Associates took over management of all the Hotel Lexington res taurants, with Jerome Brody, 34 and Joseph Baum, 35, as directors of operations, and equallv youth NO GASH DOWN ful Alan Lewis as manager of the Hawaiian Room.

We also handle complete fine ALUMINUM COMBINATION DOORS Lewis, son of a Rockland Up to 5 Yrs. to Pay 1st P'ment Sept. Count N. innkeeper, (with personal experience at Boca Raton, the Koney etc. in rlorula) Silver Grill there, featuring such bandleaders as Ozzie Nelson, Little Jack Little, Artie Shaw, Bob Crosby and Carl Ravel (now Carl Ravazza).

Three Hula Dancers Its popularity began to wane had fallen in love with Hawaii during the war and paid several return visits, so he was a natural to manage the room. Tony Cabot was called in to revamp the floor shows, which now change every after five years, bo Rochester decided to experiment for a few few months but still feature Hawaiian, Tahitian and Samoan months with all-Hawaiian enter singers and dancers, alternating with American dance music. tainment, in a cafe decorated with South Sea motifs. -In 1937, the Phone Today 12-6, Monday 3-8 or Any Day 8-6 FOR FREE HOME DEMONSTRATION Though the Hawaiian Room Hawaiian Room opened with Andy chimf chefs, Fred Rupprmcht and Albert Stochll are Swiss, Iona as bandleader and Ray Kin riey as feature singer, but no floor show. In 1938, Kinney returned to the menu now features a tar greater variety of Polynesian new: KEARNY NEWARK ELIZABETH HACKENSACK not to be confused with specialties than aver JERSEY: KE 3-6818-9 MA EL HU JO Hawaii, and brought back with him a trio of lovely hula dancers Napua, Mapawana and Pualani; before.

NEW YORK: BROOKLYN ES 3-1361 QUEENS OL 6-5154 NASSAU LY 9-1007-8-9 BRONX TA 3-4225 STATEN IS Gl 7-8010 150 Denton Lynbrook, L. I. LYnbrook 9-1007-8 9 The title of the current floor also a singing comedienne called Hilo Hattie, whose specialty was JERSEY CITY. 3- 1341 4- 0006 4-5782 9-3568 4- 9100 3-0093 5- 8888 9-1212 J. show is "Hawaii Calling!" and J-A PASSAIC 8c PATERSON PR "The Cockeyed Mayor of Kauna The show was an instan ASBURY PARK Alan Lewis' motto is He says it means "Hello!" "Good-by!" "Glad to see you!" Or exDandinsr a bit "if you can't MORRISTOWN DOVER JE taneous success, and with very little variation went on for years.

431 Kearny Kearny, go to the Islands, let the Islands In 1939, Lani Mclntyre, formerly a member of Iona's band, come to you..

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