Word: baumes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Victor von Plessan), a sympathetic record of Balinese ritual, is much more fully clothed than its popular predecessor of six years ago, Goona-Goona. Its exotic climax, a witch-exorcising trance dance, gives pictorial point to the recent reporting of Caricaturist Miguel Covarrubias (Island of Bali) and Novelist Vicki Baum (Tale of Bali). Produced before either book was written, Wajan has been held up by years of litigation following the suicide in Germany of Jewish Dr. Dalsheim (The Wedding of Palo, The Head Hunters of Borneo), in the early days of the Hitler regime...
Unlimited men to rate in the finals are John P. Armstrong '40 a pioneer and Lewis of Lowell House. The former hacked his way to a victory over redheaded Clarence H. Baum 1G.B. of Kirkland. Lewis managed to reap a victory from Tudor Gardiner '40, who has wrestled in one match for the Varsity...
Thanks to the tradition founded by Gauguin, Tahiti was for several generations the most famed South Sea island. Now it is Bali. Six weeks ago, Miguel Covarrubias' handsome travel book, Island of Bali (TIME, Nov. 22), did Bali up brown; last week Vicki Baum's latest novel added a few trimmings...
...Vicki Baum insists that she has jumped on no Bali band wagon. As long ago as 1916, her foreword says, photographs of the island so fascinated her that they became her favorite smelling salts against "war, revolution, inflation. , . . ." Nineteen years later a sight of the real thing outdid her dreams. And then an old Dutch colonizer died and left her a trunkful of manuscripts, among them an "interminable" novel built around the final conquest of Bali by the Dutch in 1904-06. Her long novel is "a free paraphrase" of this lengthy legacy...
...Dutch land an army. In his last stand the prince deliberately leads 2,000 men, women and children in a mass suicide against the Dutch guns. The men, armed only with swords, go down like tenpins. The women kill their children, then themselves. This invincible heroism, says Author Baum, taught the Dutch to rule the conquered Balinese with a loose rein. One thing the prudish Dutchmen did insist on: that the satiny brown-skinned Balinese women cover their beautiful breasts...