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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That Pitcairn Island (a British possession) has come to be one of the most famed dots on the world map is largely due to two writers, Charles Bernard Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, who live in Tahiti with their native wives and dusky children. In Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea and Pitcairn's Island, U. S. Authors Nordhoff and Hall effectively told the whole story of the Bounty and its tangled sequel (TIME, Aug. 20 et ante...
...week engagement, the longest outside New York. Then The Green Pastures looped about through the Midwest, swung out across the prairies and over the Rockies to Seattle, down the West Coast through San Francisco and Los Angeles, wound up its first touring season in Denver in July 1932 (see map). Next season the tour began in Boston, Mass., hopped from town to town in the Middle Atlantic States and closed in Easton, Pa. Producer Stebbins, worried lest Southern audiences might resent a Negro's impersonation of the Deity, invited a group of Southern editors, led by Clark Howell...
...South America, teaching at Yale between expeditions. In 1915 the American Geographical Society called him to Manhattan as its director. The yarn-swappers of the Explorers' Club came to know him as a vigorous organizer who raised $350,000 to finish a large-scale map of Hispanic America. In 1931 he was elected president of the International Geographical Union...
This-week the Fine Arts presents "The Merry Monarch," a whimsical tale of the mythical Kingdom of Trypheme. Not charted on any map and thus unknown to the rest of the world, this little island carries on an idyllic existence which is perhaps best represented in the person of its ruler, Emil Jannings. He has 366 wives, one for each day in the year. In sumptuous palaces and on a sizeable yacht, beloved by all his subjects, beset by no problems of state, this merry monarch lives for pleasure alone...
UNROLLING THE MAP-Leonard Outhwaite-Reynal & Hitchcock ($3.75)- Brief history of exploration (2750 B.C.-1935 A.D.), graphically illustrated with 56 maps...