The Virgin of Waikiki: A Torrid Tragedy of the Tropics

Donald Benson Blanding (1894-1957) was an American journalist, speaker, author, and poet who sentimentalized warm climates and was sometimes described as "poet laureate of Hawaii." His less sentimental 1926 illustrated poem, The Virgin of Waikiki, is funny little tale of a old maid who paints herself up and goes out on the beach to find a man.