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...Just how many years I hesitate to say on one hearing, but my impression is that they outclass "Allegro's" songs by several leagues and run well ahead of "Carousel's." "Oklahoma!" probably has them beat on sheer quantity, but there was nothing in "Oklahoma!" quite so lovely as "Bali Hai," and nothing quite so boisterously whacky as "A Hundred And One Pounds of Fun," which contains, among other phrases of equal distinction, one that goes like this: "Where she is narrow she's as narrow as an arrow, and she's broad where a broad should be broad." There...
...been brought up a Catholic? "Ah, every time, every time." But Bali's true religion was simply Dali-and painting...
From Beer to Bali. The porch at Provincetown was the end of a long, winding trail. Born in Russia, Sterne came to the U.S. at eleven, earned his living as a Third Avenue bartender. The proprietor gave him his first painting commission: a picture of a cool, foamy stein of beer, labeled "5 Cents." In his off-hours, Sterne went to art school. He studied anatomy under Thomas Eakins, won a traveling scholarship which took him back to Europe...
Sterne had his first big show in Berlin, spent a year in a Greek monastery, moved on to India, Burma, Java, and finally Bali. He had never heard of Bali, went there only because he happend to miss the boat to Borneo. But Bali held Sterne for two years, and he can still remember much of it in detail simply by closing his eyes. At first Sterne felt no desire to paint there ("It was art"), but the paintings he brought back with him helped to make Bali a dreamer's byword across the U.S. He feels sure that...
From here on, says Patrick, Holiday will travel first class, pay its authors well. Its first dreamboat assignment recently went to Funnyman S. J. Perelman (Keep It Crisp), now en route to Bali with Artist Albert Hirschfeld. Title of their series: Westward Ha! or, Around the World in Eighty Cliches...