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...loved. He enjoyed great feasts of good food and was a connoisseur of cockfights. He kept four official wives and some 40 concubines. Before dying, he ordered for himself a Karye Pitra-Yadnje Palebon first class, the most festive form of cremation ceremony practiced by the Hindus of Bali. Though President Sukarno of Indonesia (who is part Balinese himself) deplored the celebration as an extravagance out of keeping with his nation's austere, eight-year development plan, the people of Gianjar seemed to pay little heed. When their old Rajah died at 68 last December, they mourned him publicly...
...months elapsed before the mere planning of the rajah's cremation began-a reasonably brief period, since in Bali, bodies of the dead have been known to lie in state for as long as 20 years before burning. No expense was spared, lest Ide Anak Agung Ngurah Agung's dissatisfied-spirit return to haunt his family. The final cremation budget: $110,000. This included the price of a trip to far off Singapore by the rajah's eldest son; tinsel, gilded paper and assorted, brightly colored gewgaws required for the crematory tower were not available in import...
Last week the gum was sticking again. After eight years (since The Road to Bali), Hope, Crosby and Lamour were back in action-on The Road to Hong Kong, which is about to be shot on location in London. Arriving for work, Teapot Dome Crosby poured himself a cuppa, resulting in a rare publicity shot: Crosby minus toupee. The tea provided a needed bracer against the role of a Do-It-Yourself Space Kit salesman shot into orbit with his colleague, Hope, by a mad scientist (Robert Morley) who is trying to conquer space. Dorothy Lamour will remain pretty much...
...when Chopin wintered there with piano and Mistress George Sand, Majorca was a Mediterranean Bali Ha'i far off the beaten tourist track. Since then, thanks to cut-rate package vacations and a climate even kindlier than Spain's Costa Brava, the island has become a kind of Costa Coney (436,000 visitors last year), where the local patois in peak season is more Cockney than Catalan...
This dismay is understandable. The main island and nearby Moorea-James Michener's Bali Ha'i-comprise the classical setting of the unspoiled Polynesian dream: dazzling beaches, translucent water, rich landscapes with green-yellow vanilla patches. Living up to legend, the people are warm, easygoing, unobsessed with the failures of yesterday or the portents of tomorrow. (Though the women are shapely, they are not all beautiful; and most wear conventional clothing-more or less...