Post #704650 by creativenative on Wed, Jan 15, 2014 12:02 AM

Right on TikiTacky. I was going to add on this list of note worthy acts of national attention in regards to pre-1940 Pacific Island issues in America.

Pacific works of great writers:
Herman Melville (1841-48)
Mark Twain (1866)
Jules Verne (1868-73)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1888-92)
Jack London (1907-09,15 & 16)
All traveled the Pacific first hand but Verne
Gauguin (1891-1903)
Traveling Hula Hula shows (since 1850)
Hula Hula Peep shows (Mutoscopes) (1890-1910)
Hula shows in World fairs & Exhibitions, carnivals, vaudeville, VIP (1893-1939)
Documentaries/Shorts/Travelogues/Silents (1898-1929)
Birds of Paradise (1912) hits big on Broadway then off Broadway
The popular Ukulele (1915-present)
Hawaiian sheet music (Honolulu & Tin Pan Alley) (1911-1964)
and the new 78 disc recordings of Hawaiian Music
Toots Paka quasi hula dancer Vaudeville Headliner (1916)
The Pineapple & Sugar Industries and their commercial art in ads
National win a trip to Hawaii sweepstakes
Duke Kahanamoku Surfing (1902-1968)
Artists Charles Bartlett, John Kelly & Arman Manookian (late 20s)

Start of the Golden Years:
Massie trials (1931)
Don the Beachcomber (1934-)
Oscar winning Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Hawaii Calls radio (1935-75)
Pan Am Clipper (1935-45)
Lexington Hotel NYC Hawaiian Room (1937-66) other nightclubs
Trader Vic’s (1937-)
“Sweet Leilani” sung by Bing Cosby wins Oscar for best song (1938)
Art Deco Artists Gill, Macintosh & Savage (1930s)
Golden Gate International Exposition Hawaiian Exhibit (1939)
New York Worlds Fair Hawaiian Exhibit (1939)
Georgia O'Keeffe in Hawaii (1939)

For Nomeus:
The Donn Beach info is from a rare interview about his life, only found in the Hawaii State Archives and in the UH Library in a low access security section, which I have clearance.

South Seas Cinema is the film & TV genre of productions set in the Oceania or the Pacific Islands of Polynesian, Micronesia and Melanesian. See southseascinema.org for more information or check out this thread on the subject. http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=44887&forum=1&9