Word: malays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...love at third sight; they went back to England, properly chaperoned, to get married. Rawboned Violet was no less characterful than Talbot, and even on this first trip they had stormy times. But she never tried to domesticate him. Soon after marriage they went off to Burma and the Malay Archipelago to find new types of orchid. When the Great War came, Talbot, too old for active service, got a coast guard job cruising off Ireland; they bought a house and settled there. After the War Talbot went off on another expedition by himself, to Africa, and was taken...
...away by an itinerant tinker, was brought up in ignorance of his birth. His new position enabled Stephen to marry well, prosper mightily in business. But he was haunted by his memories, superstitiously felt that his luck was too good to last. At length he fled secretly to the Malay archipelago. There he met an Englishwoman with a past as plaguey as his own and shared an island with her for three idyllic months. She swam out to the sharks when he asked her to share his hut. Heartbroken, Stephen returned to England to discover that his daughter had unknowingly...
Samarang (Bennie F. Zeldman) is a thin slice of life among the Malay pearl divers, made by Ward Wing and his wife. Lori Bara, sister of Theda Bara. When they went to Samarang, the Wings were fortunate enough to find, first of all, a native girl too poor to have her teeth covered with gold. She was Sai-Yu, a 17-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...
Full-bearded Baptist John Everett Clough (1836-1910) scorned religion until he was 22, then went to India and built up social and evangelistic organizations which lasted because their roots were native. Presbyterian Dr. James Curtis Hepburn (1815-1911), slight and shrivelled, mastered Malay and Chinese, was for 33 years a surgeon, oculist, translator, healer and teacher throughout the Orient. Methodist Bishop James Mills Thoburn went to India, was joined by his sister Isabella (1840-1901) who founded Lucknow Women's College (India's first for females), held her first class of seven while a sturdy boy with...
Goona-Goona (Independent) is the first cinema taken in the island of Bali in the Malay Archipelago. Producer André Roosevelt (distant cousin) and his son-in-law Armand Denis privately showed a first version three years ago in Manhattan. They have revised and cut it, added a new beginning. They still deserve credit as the discoverers of Bali, despite Charles Trego's lovelier Isle of Paradise (TIME, Sept. 12). Goona-Goona was shown at the French Colonial Exposition in Paris, rushed out of storage following the success of Isle of Paradise...