Says “Tut-tut!”
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Tahitian Dancers: Waikiki Says “Tut-tut!”
QUESTION of the month: What’s the world coming to?
The Americans in Hawaii, re ports a Tahitian complainant, have clamped down hard on Tahitian dancers at Honolulu and Waikiki hotels, dancehalls and similar establishments.
Since when, the correspondent wants to know, has Hawaii spurned the hula? (But he concedes that there are varying degrees of hula).
At all events, he says, the dictum has gone forth that Tahitian dances at Honolulu must be well within the bounds of propriety—“and not too shaky and houm-boum.”
Furthermore, it is alleged that a Tahitian dancer at Waikiki has been warned that “unless she refrain from too much wiggling round about her waist she will be told to go home.”