around to talking about TV and my work and finally told them about myself. This almost floored them but the evening really got interesting after that and none of us felt like breaking it off in the wee hours but we did. On the way back to the hotel he asked me if I would be willing to tape a TV session for him and in addition to have luncheon with a group of his young and progressive fellow ministers on my return from Kauai. I agreed to both.

The next day I took off for Kauai--finally--. I have never seen such rain as came down that morning. My friend could hardly see the road to drive me to the airport and the plane was an hour late taking off. But we did make it and finally landed on Kauai. I was walking along toward the baggage area and past the men from the various touring services. One was calling out passenger names--Jones, White, "Bruce"! I turned to him and said I was Virginia Bruce. (For traveling, lectures, credit cards etc. I use the name Bruce instead of Prince) He had my name on the list for Coco Palms Hotel where I was to stay. Then he remembered me from last year much to my surprise. He handled my 4 motor trips between hotels and air- port while I was there and gave me a financial break on each of them. Each time it was, "honey", "dear" or "darlin'" and he was very selicitous. You can all imagine that this kind of attention annoyed me-- you can imagine that if you want to, but you'd be nuts. Naturally I loved it. Anyway he got me to Coco Palms.

I stayed there about 8 days and enjoyed it great- ly. They have a nice library and I read the history of the islands, dipped briefly into the anthropology of the original Hawaiians, and other things. I took a Hula lesson by myself--just the teacher and I-- and she said I did very well. It is an interesting challenge to learn to use the muscles, bones, and joints of your body in entirely new ways, not just the hula motions themselves, but in an attempt to loosen up, be more flexible and move with grace which

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