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Just eastward from Java, across a narrow strait, lay the gentle island of Bali. Sturdy, handsome Balinese men and their bare-breasted women labored in the rice fields, or consulted flowers, or did nothing -with patience and thoroughness and devotion to the important business of being alive. War and the Jap were very near, and everyone knew it, but Java and Bali, to the last, clung to the forms of colonial pleasantry, to the ways and the life that were now like a passing dream...
...Bali Down. The dream faded fast. At Java's western tip, beyond the Sunda Strait, the Japanese clinched their hold on southern Sumatra, its oil, its tin, and its vantage for assault on Java. To the east, Japanese planes performed their usual preparatory ritual: bombs on Dutch and Portuguese Timor, more bombs on oft-bombed Surabaya's naval base; bombs on Bali; and, to the rear, where Australia juts toward Java, bomb after heavy bomb on the tiny, tinny port of Darwin...
...Java became more acute as the Japanese, against stubborn resistance, poured more men and planes into southern Sumatra and crushed the last Dutch resistance at Macassar, on Colobes Island just northeast of Java. The Nipponese also resumed bombing assaults on Soerabaja, Allied naval base on Java, and on Bali and Timor, east of Java...
...presented at the Institute of Geographical Exploration at 2 Divinity Avenue tomorrow at 8 P.M. The movie, which will be open to the public with no admission charge, will include scenes of native life and scenery in the Dutch East Indies Islands of Java, Sumatra, Niaf, the Celebes, and Bali. Featured also will be Balinese dance music and music by gamelan bands, with a dialogue by Andre Lavarre, and associate of Burton Holmes...
...Most sophisticated and euphonious of the Fahnestock records are those from Bali, reproducing the gamelan (gong) orchestras of the Balinese temples. Balinese gongsters, whose instruments range in timbre from trumpetlike brass gongs to tinkly wooden ones, play complicated rondo-like pieces, entirely without notation; a player remembers his notes by silently reciting a long poem. The Balinese scales correspond roughly to the Western; one of them has notes named ding, dong, deng, dung, dang. The Dutch Governor of Bali discovered a scale not previously identified, and the Fahnestocks recorded it in the singsong of an eight-year-old boy reciting...