Richard Palmer Kaleioku Smart (â€") was a musical theatre actor and
singer who became owner of the largest private ranch in Hawaii.Richard
Palmer Kaleioku Smart was born May , , in Honolulu. In the family
traveled to Europe, where his mother gave birth to a sister Elizabeth
Ella Smart in Paris. By this time World War I was starting, so they
hurriedly traveled back to New York City, where the sister died. His
mother (born Annie Thelma Kahiluonapuaapiilani Parker) died shortly
after this in San Francisco on November , , from tuberculosis. A year
later, his father Henry Gaillard Smart (son of a Virginia clergyman)
died in November , just after contesting the will. He was raised by
his part-Hawaiian maternal grandmother, born Elizabeth Jane Lanakila
Dowsett, by then remarried to Frederick Knight in San Francisco,
usually called "Aunt Tootsie". Although he had many cousins, he became
the sole owner of the Parker Ranch on Hawaiʻi Island, founded by his
th generation ancestor John Palmer Parker (â€"). The ranch was managed
by Alfred Wellington Carter from to , then A.W.'s son Hartwell
Carter. Already one of the largest owned by a single person (the King
Ranch was owned by a corporation), the Carters expanded the operation
further through the th century. The ranch had over , acres (, ha) of
land and , head of Hereford cattle. Smart was sent to Los Gatos High
School and become interested in theater.Smart became a nightclub
singer and performed in plays and musicals from â€". Director Joshua
Logan hired him for the Broadway theatre production of Two for the
Show in . and he performed in The Merry Widow. Smart married actress
Patricia Havens-Monteagle from Burlingame, California July , who
lived in Beverly Hills, California. Known as Pat Monteagle, she
appeared un-credited in the movie The Great Ziegfeld, but was more
well known as a socialite. The family moved to Honolulu later in , but
then lived in California after the Attack on Pearl Harbor. About ,
acres (, ha) of the ranch were leased to the United States Marines for
use as Camp Tarawa. The second and fifth divisions trained there. He
was divorced in .After the war he appeared under the name Dick Smart.
In and , he starred in the Broadway production of Bloomer Girl with
Nanette Fabray and All for Love in . Over nearly years, Smart
performed on Broadway and in cabarets in the U.S. and abroad. He
headlined such clubs as the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles, the Monte
Carlo in New York and Le Lido in Paris. After A.W. Carter died in ,
Smart took a more active role in the ranch.
singer who became owner of the largest private ranch in Hawaii.Richard
Palmer Kaleioku Smart was born May , , in Honolulu. In the family
traveled to Europe, where his mother gave birth to a sister Elizabeth
Ella Smart in Paris. By this time World War I was starting, so they
hurriedly traveled back to New York City, where the sister died. His
mother (born Annie Thelma Kahiluonapuaapiilani Parker) died shortly
after this in San Francisco on November , , from tuberculosis. A year
later, his father Henry Gaillard Smart (son of a Virginia clergyman)
died in November , just after contesting the will. He was raised by
his part-Hawaiian maternal grandmother, born Elizabeth Jane Lanakila
Dowsett, by then remarried to Frederick Knight in San Francisco,
usually called "Aunt Tootsie". Although he had many cousins, he became
the sole owner of the Parker Ranch on Hawaiʻi Island, founded by his
th generation ancestor John Palmer Parker (â€"). The ranch was managed
by Alfred Wellington Carter from to , then A.W.'s son Hartwell
Carter. Already one of the largest owned by a single person (the King
Ranch was owned by a corporation), the Carters expanded the operation
further through the th century. The ranch had over , acres (, ha) of
land and , head of Hereford cattle. Smart was sent to Los Gatos High
School and become interested in theater.Smart became a nightclub
singer and performed in plays and musicals from â€". Director Joshua
Logan hired him for the Broadway theatre production of Two for the
Show in . and he performed in The Merry Widow. Smart married actress
Patricia Havens-Monteagle from Burlingame, California July , who
lived in Beverly Hills, California. Known as Pat Monteagle, she
appeared un-credited in the movie The Great Ziegfeld, but was more
well known as a socialite. The family moved to Honolulu later in , but
then lived in California after the Attack on Pearl Harbor. About ,
acres (, ha) of the ranch were leased to the United States Marines for
use as Camp Tarawa. The second and fifth divisions trained there. He
was divorced in .After the war he appeared under the name Dick Smart.
In and , he starred in the Broadway production of Bloomer Girl with
Nanette Fabray and All for Love in . Over nearly years, Smart
performed on Broadway and in cabarets in the U.S. and abroad. He
headlined such clubs as the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles, the Monte
Carlo in New York and Le Lido in Paris. After A.W. Carter died in ,
Smart took a more active role in the ranch.
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