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Bartók, a precise, percussive pianist, was to play pieces with titles like From the Diary of a Fly, Syncopation, From the Island of Bali, from his Mikrokosmos, which was published last week...
...Passenger to Bali (by Ellis St. Joseph) is a symbolical melodrama. It concerns a scoundrelly demagogue, "a dictator in search of a country" (Walter Huston), who gets on a tramp steamer and then can't be got off, since not even the scurviest hellholes of Asia will let him land. He gets the crew rum-soaked and rebellious, but the captain, though driven desperate, is too law-abiding to toss his vicious passenger overboard. Finally, as the ship starts sinking, the captain shoots...
...Hays Office has definitely begun to unbend, gentlemen, and it is high time someone broke forth with a few congratulatory huzzahs. "Honeymoon in Bali," the latest case in point, has Madeleine Carroll; it has faint glimmers of Bali; and it has a script that sometimes scintillates. Of course, it does have Fred MacMurray, too; and it is burdened with a plot; but such things seem to be inevitable. Only when the Message becomes too obvious does the pace sag; Miss Carroll, it seems, has planned her whole life with the mathematical precision of an M. I. T. graduate, and must...
...Bangka. Coffee, tea, tobacco, sugar, rice are the more ordinary products; but copra as a basis for facial creams, lizard skins for shoes and handbags, Sumatra wrappers for cigars, cinchona bark for quinine, sandalwood and teakwood, ebony and macassar oil, and even the bare-breasted women of Bali, tourist paradise, do their full share in making this Netherlands overseas a going concern...
Climax of the evening came when the temple-dancers forgot about the temple, and swung out in a lowbrow song & dance from modern Bali, accompanying themselves with corny, Hawaiian-style music on a steel guitar and a couple of mandolins. Though purists complained it was not according to the Sanskrit, the bronze-skinned Balinese broke down and grinned, swayed like jamming jitterbugs, wailed a torch song or two, and showed that East is meeting West as fast as the flicker of an exported Hollywood movie...