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MARRIED. George Abbott, 96, legendary Broadway author-director (On Your Toes); and Joy Moana Valderrama...
ENGAGED. George Abbott, 96, venerable Broadway author and director who contributed to yet another hit this year, the Tony Award-winning revival of On Your Toes; and Joy Moana Valderrama, 52, Philadelphia furrier. The wedding, planned for later this month, will be his third, her first...
...Traditional family New Year's fetes and a summertime harvest celebration called O ban are alive and well, even among the young. Numerous picnics held by members of various kens (groups of families tracing their lineage to specific prefectures in Japan) are common in Honolulu's Ala Moana park...
...described in this admirable biography as the archetype of the artist-adventurer: a steel-hewed Irishman who spent the first half of his life exploring the Arctic, a Blake-like visionary who spent the second half inventing the documentary film and producing its early masterworks-Nanook of the North, Moana, Louisiana Story...
Nanook bombed in the U.S. but ran for six months in London and Paris, and in 1923 Paramount's Jesse Lasky gave Flaherty $250,000 to make a similar picture about village life in Samoa. Photographically speaking, Moana was the most beautiful movie made until that time-but beauty cut no ice with Paramount. Chopped in half, the film was billboarded as THE LOVE-LIFE OF A SOUTH SEA SIREN. For the next seven years the moneymen hid when they saw Flaherty coming...