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Hawaiian dance and singing instructor. In 1929, at the same address as his Bell Tone Studio, Mossman opened Hale Hoonaauao Hawaii, or "Hawaiian House of Learning" with an initial staff of four instructors to perpetuate the Hawaiian language and arts. Eventually, the school put together
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According to news coverage at the opening, rather than hotels and tourists shops, what existed in
Waikiki in that era were run-down shacks, remnants of the monarchy era. Lalani Hawaiian Village lasted for two decades, and has been acknowledged as the forerunner of the Waikiki tourism boom that
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Men and women of Hawaii, 1954; a biographical encyclopedia of persons of notable achievement, an historical account of the peoples who have distinguished themselves through personal success and through public
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described the production as ".. the dynamic enthusiasm of George
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