Word: bali
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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CANNIBAL QUEST-Gordon Sinclair-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Canadian journalist on the loose in Mandalay, Bali, Baluchistan...
...Bali, the sleepy Dutch East Indian island which has become a Utopia for jaded Occidentals, was one of the last ports of call for Composer Henry Eichheim, a great traveler since he stopped playing the violin in the Boston Symphony. Composer Eichheim was mightily impressed with the subtle variations the Balinese weave around their five-tone scale. His own Bali, a recording of these impressions, was played in Philadelphia by Leopold Stokowski to whom it was dedicated. A magnificent orchestration, replete with Balinese gongs and percussives, gave it true exotic coloring...
...Walter Winchell. "Well, it was a nice moonlight night," stammered the hoofer. "... I remember we got to talking about Havelock Ellis and after that everything is blank." Meanwhile Leslie Adams as a too-stout George V leered, "I'll tell you what, Davy. We'll go to Bali-the Island of Bali-and stir up some good will there." Stiffly London papers reminded their readers that in Great Britain no member of the Royal Family, living or dead, can be portrayed on the stage. When London's News Chronicle telephoned Producer Harris in Philadelphia he snapped, "What...
Much has happened to Maurice Sterne since the barroom brawl of 1895: He studied under the late great Thomas Eakins. Lived and painted in Germany, France, Italy, Egypt, India. Spent two years in Bali 20 years ago (and produced the best paintings yet to appear from that overpainted paradise). Married and divorced the late D. H. Lawrence's friend Mabel Dodge. Made an artist of importance of his lawyer, banker, publisher friend Edward Bruce. Became the unofficial lord of the little Italian hilltown of Anticoli. In Anticoli he lives in a 48-room castle, spends most of his time...
...little heroine Dasnee is charming, but with the other female actors she finds it hard to keep from laughing at the melodramatic faces she is asked to make by her good friend André Roosevelt. The male actors are quite serious. The story is practically impossible in modern Bali. The Balinese code allows a girl to be as promiscuous before marriage as she likes...