Word: tahiti
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...autobiography. Week before publication was to start he blurbed: "The world knows me as a hero, but I am a night bird. . . . Life for me begins when daylight fades and bright lights glitter in the bars and clubs from here to Honolulu. ... I cried when I left my Tahiti sweetheart. . . . Amy [Johnson Mollison, who lately divorced him] has been wonderful to me, but we are poles apart." From England, Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew to Dinan, Brittany, then drove a hired auto to the coast. When no power boat met him he paddled a quarter of a mile...
...Gauguin scraped together enough money to take him to Tahiti. Before he left he wrote a loving letter to Mette, said they would be married again when he came back. His Parisian mistress, who was about to have a baby, was sorry to see him go. In Tahiti Gauguin found himself. He lived like a native, worked like a man whose days were numbered. In a letter to Mette he said: "You are right; I am an artist. There is nothing stupid about you I am a great artist and I know it." He returned to France after two years...
...badly broken. His Javanese mistress decamped with his money. In towering disgust Gauguin auctioned off his pictures, went back to the South Seas for good & all. Night before he left he spent with a casual prostitute. Her good-by present was the syphilis that killed him. By now even Tahiti disgusted him-the corrupted natives, the venal officials, the whites who stood him drinks to laugh at his diatribes. He left Tahiti for the Marquesas. Though his disease was growing on him fast he would not go to the hospital, lived alone in a native hut, drank more & more...
Seeking passage home to Tahiti after obtaining medical treatment for his ten-year-old son Conrad, Author James Norman Hall (Mutiny on the Bounty) was stranded in San Francisco by the shipping strike. Gloomed he: "This civilization can't last because it just doesn't make sense...
...true story of the mutiny on H. M. S. Bounty in 1780. This resulted in the amazing trilogy, Mutiny on the Bountry. Mon Against the Sea, and Pitcairn's Island. For movie rights to Mutiny and Pitcairn's Island they received a total of . They had gone to Tahiti to escape a dollar civilization, but they wanted $60,000 for , their last book, and got it. It costs only vell to live in Tahiti, this sum being the price of a fishing license but their movies made so much money for Hollywood that they had to keep from being exploited...