Honolulu Star-Bulletin from Honolulu, Hawaii • 68

0-12 Honolulu Stor -Bulletin Friday, June 18, 1976 Kenney, Noa Stage Compelling Story By Pierre Bowman, Entertainment Editor so that it is clear at the beginning that there is a capability for the purest form of performing beauty. Star-Bulletin Review two U.S. senators from Hawaii, a canoe-paddling song, "America the Beautiful" with Hawaiian and English lyrics and "Hawaii Aloha." The material is not disastrously bad. It simply is no match for the coherent part of the act, and diminishes the total impact of the evening. There also is a problem with too much volume over the speaker system throughout the evening.

The show is presented every night at 9 except Sundays In a very pleasant dinner setting under the Halekulani's hau trees next to the beach. Complete dinners range from $9.50 to $12.75, and there also is a $4 cover charge. values, the western mores doom the marriage between sister and brother. She "dies of a broken heart and he goes to his kingdom of loneliness." Noa dances, a haunting sad smile on her face, and Kenney sings, reverting to a chant form that ties the business to its beginnings. And the 45 minutes are up.

The audience has witnessed an impossibly fine, beautiful act. For the rest of the act-the next IS minutes Kenney and Noa present a mishmash of material: songs about Kauai, some business about Columbia the Gem of the Ocean and Hawaii the pearl of the Pacific, a novelty number about Ed Kenney and Bev Noa, Ha-waii'i most masterful entertainment duet, are now presenting a new, hour-long show at the Haleku-lani Hotel, and the first 45 minutes represent what is perhaps the best work they've ever done together in joint career of enormous artistic achievement. To call their current work a sup-perclub act is both inaccurate and insulting. It is a fully-plotted theater piece, telling a compelling story with bold, swift strokes. At first, it's Kenney, showing off his fine baritone, and then Bev is on the stage, performing "Lovely Hula Hands." Both are showing the audience their artistic perfection, creating the rare kind of delight usually experienced only when adults are able to stand back, unobserved, and watch the fleeting moments of kids in harmony.

Then the pair create the cross-cultural pulling on the boy and girl, the collision of ancient Hawaii and the values of the western world. With the Kenney-Noa touch, the business is carried off with wit and elegance. Eventually, the two are married, and Kenney is provided an opportunity to do a set of songs for backyard luaus that even makes the waiters move in rhythm to his music. Finally, in the final clash of the Island. "First was the water, the salt with the fresh, undulating, swelling" until the hand of the island reaches for love and aloha." Noa floats off the stage, not pausing for applause after she creates the Islands with her dancing, and Kenney launches the plot.

It's the story of the man who became Kamehameha III and his love for his sister first as a sister, then as a woman, then as his wife, and finally as his heartbreak. Together, Kenney and Noa create a story that is utterly touching in its tenderness and passion. They become children for a while, playing games together, Then they are on to the business of their piece. Ed chants, Bev dances. Together, they tell the story of the creation of Pringle: A Newfangled Wonder 'k ture, balanced understanding of both the happiness and hassles associated with mobility.

Highlighting the LP is a breathtaking version of Willie Bennett's "White Line," masterfully arranged to project the full emotional impact of the lyrics, and featuring Emmylou Harris on vocal harmony. But while that tune conveys human sadness, he follows it with "Sao Francisco," singing ing about the location and the effect of getting there. It's a tasty album, easy to listen to, and remarkably seasoned for one with so little previous musical experience. Good soundtrack albums are few and far between. Why? Usually because the music it features cannot be fully appreciated unless one has seen the show or movie it's taken from.

Not so with the soundtrack from LIPSTICK (Atlantic SD-18178). The reason can be given in two words: Michel Polnareff. Although widely-known in France, Polnareff recently gained American attention with a strong solo album. And now he shows that he can write music for a movie that is fully able to stand on its own merits. No, I never saw the movie.

But the four tracks on this album are so well constructed there's no need to. It's enjoyable as it is, a lovely tapestry of electronic synthesizer Pop Beat DonWeller Peter Pringle? Sounds like a snack eaten with Portuguese sausage. Or the name of another sleazy glitter-rock band. But far from it Pringle is a Canadian songwriter, singer, actor and pianist whose only previous American musical experience has been to pen songs for Mary Travers and Anne Murray. His first solo LP, PETER PRINGLE (Warner Bros.

BS-2243), released last month without any promotional fanfare, is an impressive debut and a clear indication of his substantial writing and singing talents. Produced by Brian Ahern (who did such an outstanding job assembling Emmylou Harris' first album), the record is completely wrapped around the theme of traveling. It's a tough subject to apprach lyrically with any kind of balance, since traveling itself seems to have contradictory effects upon people. There's the thrill of freedom, of adventure and change one feels from leaving one's home. And of course there's the boredom, the tedium and miserable loneliness associated with constant movement.

Although moving is a recurrent theme in popular music, most artists tend to stick to one perspective of another. It's to Pringle's credit that he understands the polar reactions to traveling and, in the songs he writes and sings, demonstrates a ma IS "good morning San Francisco, looks like it's another foggy day" as if to praise and damn the Golden Gate City simultaneously. Each song seems to elicit a different reaction to being on the road and to the more notable stops along the way. "Please Don't Sell Nova Scotia," "New York City," and "Takin' the Freeway" are three other strong tracks, each with a different feel- ADULT MOVIES ENTERTAINMENT '5 THEATRES STAITS TODAY ONE WEEK ONLY .1 DANISH L. A.

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Unlike the first season, in which there were 26 weeks of first-run episodes and 13 weeks of reruns, season No. 2 will serve up 39 weeks of new shows followed by a 13-week repeat cycle, Lear said. He said actress Louise Lasser, .37, the deadpan star of the show, and all the other regulars on this season's episodes will be back next fall with some new characters introduced to ease their workload. Any lingering complaints from stations about the occassionally controversial subject matter of this season's shows? "No," Lear promptly replied. "I think it has passed over that precipice into an area it seems to us of total ing it on a syndicated, non-network basis.

There'd been some question whether his saga of life in Fern-wood, Ohio, would return, as the five-show-a-week series had run its first season in the red $1.2 million worth of red, by one estimate. But Lear, in town this week on business, said the stations buying a second MH, MH season have been so willing to "escalate" the fees they formerly paid for the show that the fiscal outlook is rosy indeed. He said 45 stations already have signed up for a second "Hart-man" season and that another 45 are nogotiat-. ing to buy, all of them stations that carried the series this season. "And there are new stations coming in, so we think more than 100 stations will be showing the program next fall," he added.

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