Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-03-03
Famous Woman Writer Aston
ished That Pacific Festive
Week So Little Known

Havaii will get some valuable ad-
Yertising when Dorothy Dix gets back
TO New York again. The famous
newspaper woman--her real name is.
Mrs. George Gilmer-who is here for
a month at the Moana Hotel, brings
the startling information that she
had never heard OF the Carnival and
she is so angry to think she had not
that she proposes TO enlighten others
who know as little as she did about
the great event. .'' -.
IF IL had not been for the fact
that | have been in the newspaper
game practically OF my life, with the
last several years spent in New York
City and chasing around the East on
special assignments, | should have
thought nothing of missing the in
formation about the Carnival" she
says, "but I can truthfully say / had
never heard of il and stumbled in
here Just at the right time quite by
accident on my way to Japan"
Compares With Mardi Gras
Mrs. Gilmer lived for many years
in New Orleans, doing features for
the Picayune; and there she wit
messed many magnificent parades and
pageantS upon which hundreds OF
thousands of dollars were spent in
the world famous Mardi Gras, and
therefore her sincere praise of the
local pageants and her expression of
wonder and delight that so much
could be done so well in such short
time with so little at hand is more
than a passing word of flattery. The
writer is collecting notes and a mass
of Carnival pictures which she says
are excellent representations TO carry
away with her, and some time soon
she win write true story or set
of stories for some prominent nation
al publication, putting in the force,
the color, the originality and the
splendor of the Pacific's gala week
that will make thousands who read
the article wonder why they have
passed this entertainment by so long.
East Should Be Told
IF there were some way to pre-
sent the truth to the East about your
Carnival" says the writer, so the
people could imagine it as it really
is, Honolulu would not be able to
feed the crowds that would come.
HERE are wealthy people in the East
without number who have never been
to Hawaii and have never thought of
coming who would not lose another
minute If they had the proper in
centive to come. There is plenty OF
information scattered around about
Hawaii in railway and steamship fold
ers and hotel pamphlets but this one
usually does not find or see until the
trip to Hawaii has actually been de-
cided upon. Stories about this won
derful land which people will run
onto by chance is the publicity that
counts.
Has Won Her Laurels
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilmer have COM
Portable cottage at the Moana Hotel
and are collecting Hawaiian songs,
curios, names and facts galore. Mrs.
Gilmer has been with the Hearst
papers for Is years and only recently
resigned to sign with the Wheeler
Syndicate that she may have a
clearer field to do magazine work on
the side. For years she covered
most of the sensational stories in the
United States for Hearst, besides do
ing her regular Dorothy Dix" fea-
ture.
AS a woman writer for women,
Dorothy Dix" probably receives more
| letters from her readers than any
other author in the United States,
and with her pen exerts tremendous
influence which would work wonders
\ for Hawaii once il were turned loose