Word: liliuokalani
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Years ago John Dominis, a shipmaster who made a fortune in the Pacific trade, built himself a fine white colonial mansion in what is now the centre of Honolulu. His half-white son married Liliuokalani, last Hawaiian monarch. John Dominis' house became Iolani Palace and his daughter-in-law lived in it long after she was deposed. When she died, a great fat wahine, in 1917, the territorial Government bought Iolani Palace as a Governor's mansion. It still stands, enlarged but little changed. There on March 1, "Judge" Poindexter was sworn in as Governor by his friend Justice Banks...
Making Pagliacci will not rank with the past feats of Maestro Gallo, who once said of Pavlova "I bought her outright," and who persuaded the deposed Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii to go to one of his shows though she had not been out of her palace for 22 years. However, it is a courageous piece of pioneering and reveals a fact many producers had guessed but none had proved: grand opera is never likely to be successful cinema...
...Central West Virginia & Southern R. R. of West Virginia; at Chestnut Hill, Pa. Died. Charles James McCarthy, 68, onetime (1918-21) Governor of Hawaii; at Honolulu; of cancer of the throat. In 1890 he became a member of the monarchical House of Nobles, was a staunch supporter of Queen Liliuokalani (deposed 1887). Died. Benjamin Franklin Yoakum, 70, longtime railroader, director of Seaboard Air Line, director and onetime President of St. Louis & San Francisco R. R.; in Manhattan; of heart failure. He was largely responsible for the irrigation, transportation and agricultural development of the Texas Gulf coast and lower Rio Grande...
...Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii, stood by to administer the oath of office. Governor Judd delivered his Inaugural address to the mixed crowds waiting outside. That evening a dinner for 250 was served in the Governor's mansion, out of which the last and deposed Hawaiian queen, Liliuokalani, was removed in 1917. Governor Judd planned as his first work of office, a month's inspection tour of the Islands...
...canning factory in the world- the James D. Dole's Hawaiian Pineapple Co. Mr. Dole is perhaps the richest resident of Hawaii and its most ardent publicist. Another famed Dole, the late Sanford Ballard (TIME, June 21, 1926), was responsible for stirring up the revolution which ousted Queen Liliuokalani, was the first and only President of Hawaii (1894-1900), was a leader in getting the U. S. to annex the islands...