Word: tahiti
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collaborated with Director Robert J. Flaherty (Nanook of the North, Moana) on the story of Tabu. He built himself a house on Bora Bora, 300 miles from Tahiti in the Society Islands, and spent three months selecting natives for his cast. Six months ago he returned to Hollywood. Last fortnight he was killed when his car ran off the road some miles north of Santa Barbara, rolled down a 30-ft. embankment and landed on him at the bottom...
...Farge invention, opalescent glass (for which he was made an officer of the French Legion of Honor), a substance that gave the effect of light through the bottom of a soap dish. His best friend was Henry ("The Education of") Adams. With him he made a voyage to Tahiti, lived on the island at the same time as that morose genius Paul Gauguin, whom the two U. S. elegants successfully avoided...
...Priestley, author of "Angel Pavement," is going to Tahiti by way of New York to write his next novel...
...Embarkation of first tourist trip ($2,500 & up) to the Antarctic; from London. Tour: to the Bay of Whales via Galapagos, Auckland & Tahiti, on the 6,000-ton Stella Polaris, with sight-seeing inland by airplane. Famed tourist: Lady Shackleton, widow of the late polar explorer (see SCIENCE...
...10?Embarkation of first tourist trip ($2,500 & up) to the Antarctic; from London. Tour: to Bay of Whales via Galapagos, Auckland & Tahiti, on a 6,000-ton yacht, with sightseeing inland by airplane...