HULA HULA DENOUNCED BY KANAKA PRINCESS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17863, 3 June 1926, Page 4

HULA HULA DENOUNCED BY KANAKA PRINCESS.

DISILLUSIONS AMERICA ABOUT “ WIGGLEY DANCE.” (Special to the “Star.”) SAN FRANCISCO, April 24. “ It’s all very nice, but it's not Hawaiian. If the hula hula started in Hawaii, then the Charleston originated in Lapland.” Thus was another fond illusion smashed upon the coco by Mis* Juliet Marquise, princess of the blood royal in the old Kanaka line, daughter of an American father, and fiery defender of genuine native lore. Miss Marquise arrived aboard the Oceanic liner Sonoma from her home in Honolulu. " Where that dance came from I don't know. Possibly from Afghanistan, possibly from a burlesque show in Toledo, Ohio. What I do know is that it haft crowded out all of the. old tribal ceremonials until the real native dancers are almost extinct.” Hardened sailors standing nearby wept salt tears at this denunciation of a cherished institution. Many a time they had plunked down six bits for a little private exhibition of the “ real thing” in hulas, and now it was all a fake. One sailor thought, a moment and then spat mournfully across the taffrail. “ Wal, I s’pose they’U be telling us the steel guitar was first used in Lithuania and the surf board was developed by Swiss mountaineers, but who the invented that Hawaiian haircut ? ”