Word: dyak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old dancer in a Malay theatre. Her father did not want her to act in cinema but since she was under contract to the local theatre, his objections made no difference. They discovered also a handsome young native named Ahmang, part Portuguese, part Dyak. Son of a Malay chief who earns a living by making pins out of the gold he pans at the mouth of a river near Samarang, Ahmang was too proud to take a salary for acting, so the Wings reimbursed his parent. The Wings' camera shows Ahmang and Sai-Yu dog-paddling about...
...they stopped at Timbuctoo, spent two months with the French Foreign Legion in Morocco, visited Petra, Bagdad, India's Taj Mahal, claimed the first airplane photograph of Mt. Everest (Halliburton publishes a blurry picture which he says was taken at 18,000 ft.), were entertained by Dyak headhunters. For vicarious thrills of thoroughly professional daring, The Flying Carpet can safely be recommended to ladies' social circles...