Word: balis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slumping Harem. The ocean bred its gay as well as its devil dogs. One of the gayest, Alexander Hare, a rich English trader, settled on one of the beautiful atolls of the Cocos-Keeling Islands in 1827 with a slave harem of 117 beauties from Malaya, Java, Bali and points east. A former partner and prior claimant, John Clunies-Ross, a Scot, soon showed up with his family and a crew of predatory bachelors. To keep them out of what he called his "flower garden," the latter-day Solomon ladled out rum to Ross's men, penned his women...
...Island of Bali...
...seems that the idylls of memory and legend are no longer to be found. Beautiful Bali is torn by revolution, Shanghai is a pit of poverty where sin is sold in the marketplace and loses its flavor, and New York still races to its grave...
...rest of The King and I ripples shimmeringly along. The Rodgers score-which eschews exotic Bali-Hijinks-is thoroughly pleasant, with the gaiety of I Whistle a Happy Tune, the lilt of Getting to Know You, the marchlike verve of The Royal Siamese Children, which introduces to Anna and the audience a long procession of beguiling youngsters. Jo Mielziner's sets are gracefully evocative, Irene Sharaff's costumes steadily gorgeous. There is a delightful Jerome Robbins ballet-a daintily menacing Siamese version, all stylized and symbolic, of Uncle Tom's Cabin...
Last week the youthful Sultan of Jogjakarta, vice premier of Indonesia's present central government, paid a flying visit to Bali, conferred with local army authorities and civil officials. Said the Sultan: "I promise immediate action...