Post #795569 by Otto on Sat, Jun 8, 2019 4:28 PM

Phillip
the Mossman family will be giving a seminar presentation about this at Tiki Oasis 2019

Here is the preliminary info that Randy Avon gave me:

showcasing Lalani Hawaiian Village, and our Hawai’i relatives including Don Ho, Sterling Mossman, Former Justice and OHA Board member Boyd Mossman, first Cousin, Kimo Kahoano, and of course the “Face of Hawaii”, our mom Pualani Mossman.

They will see a dozen different full page ads (Life/Look/National Geographic and more of my Mom when she was the Original poster girl for the Matson Line, Featured Star at The Hawaiian Room at the Lexington Hotel in NYC, Broadway Star who appeared in Walter Winchell’s column dozens of times, the star of the first color movie made in Hawaii, her image used by GAP in two clothing lines, Co-Chair of the Hawaii Statehood Committee, Honored by the Royal Hawaiian as their solo hula dancer of the Century at their 50th Anniversary, was the motivation for the song written by Alex Anderson in 1940 (Lovely Hula Hands) and Honored by the Hawaii Legislature at the Millennium as “The Face of Hawaii” of the Century. (There’s more as your attendees will see in person). ?

My Sister and her husband just finished a full presentation with a movie production company that is interested in doing a movie on our Mom.

On 2011-09-15 11:35, Phillip Roberts wrote:
aloha,

On 2011-09-15 08:27, Swanky wrote:
In short, George Mossman started what may have been the first luau for the tourists in Hawaii in 1934. He also taught hula and chant and brought all the oldest natives he could together to form what might be thought to be the first Polynesian Cultural Center.

Lalani Village is what Swanky is talking about here. Located about where the Park Shore hotel, it closed before WWII.

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