Word: samoa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mahatma Eilshemius ceased to shout his scorn of every other painter in the world, his disdain of every art gallery that does not recognize the importance of his work. But he stopped painting in 1920. A few have suspected that he realized then that his pictures of Samoa, his ruins by moonlight, his strange nude ladies bathing in improbable streams were as far as he could go. Last week he grew suddenly frank with his press agent. "I won't paint again," said Louis Eilshemius, "I'm just a comedian...
...81st, celebrated by proxy in Manhattan by Mrs. Anne Ide Cockran, relict of Congressman William Bourke Cockran. For 40 years Mrs. Cockran has had full & undisputed right to Author Stevenson's birthday (Nov. 13). Reason: In 1891 her father, General Henry C. Ide, U. S. Land Commissioner in Samoa, told his friend Stevenson that small Daughter Annie always felt grieved because she had no real birthday: hers fell on Dec. 25. Straightway kind Author Stevenson drew up, signed and had witnessed a deed: ". . . In consideration that Miss Annie L. Ide . . . was born out of all reason on Christmas...
...naval base at Balboa, C. Z., whence the gunboat Sacramento was despatched to Cocos Island with medical supplies, a powerful searchlight, equipment for a hazardous search of the island's trackless interior. From Cocos Island the Fleischmann yacht is bound for the Galapagos, Marquezas, Tahiti, Rarotonga, Samoa, Suva, Solomon Islands, New Britain, New Guinea, Timor, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Manila, Bangkok (and a visit to King Prajadhipok), and west via the Arabian Sea and the Suez Canal. In some of the islands Julius Fleischmann will act as a special representative of the U. S. Department of Commerce, drumming up trade...
...Honolulu, Hawaii last week, William Slocum Barstow, electrical engineer, president and director of Barstow, Tyng & Co., Inc., announced that he and his wife had created a $200,000 foundation for the education of natives of U. S. Samoa. Established in memory of their son Frederic Duclos Barstow, Vermont fox-rancher who visited Samoa three times and became interested in its educational conditions before dying at 35 in Honolulu last May, the fund will be administered by five U. S.-Hawaiians, who once every five years will send an investigator to Samoa to report on the state of education there...
...five of the seven islands of U. S. Samoa there are 21 public schools, a teaching staff (mostly native) of 54, an enrolment of 2,118. The native treasury appropriated $18,886 for the schools in 1931; the U. S. Government gives nothing. Eight schools have modern buildings, 13 exist in native '"fales" (huts). Equipment is poor; there are few desks; children must buy their own books...