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Died. Pola Gauguin, 77, last survivor of the impassioned postimpressionist's five legitimate children (at least one illegitimate child still lives in Tahiti), better known for a Maugham-correcting biography of his defecting pere (My Father, Paul Gauguin) than for his Scandinavian art criticism, architecture and painting; of a heart attack; in Copenhagen...
...photograph produced in your May 19 issue of Emile Gauguin is a startling contrast to the slim young man, the Tahitian son of Paul Gauguin, whom I sketched in Tahiti upon my return from the Gambier Archipelago in 1929. My book, Manga Reva, The Forgotten Islands, is the story of that six months I spent in the Gambier Archipelago. The drawing is in the collection...
Such pleasures serve to ease Tahiti's few discomforts. There are only 275 rooms for tourists on the island, though promoters are doing their best to put up 200 more before the big tide washes in this summer. Most popular place is the Hotel Tahiti (18 suites with bath, $20 a day, without meals), and it is plainly not yet the Tahiti Hilton. Most hotels feature an awesome variety of roaches, flies and hairy spiders...
...invasion of the popa'a (white man), even in the pre-jet phase, has already caused changes. M-G-M has been shooting a movie in Tahiti for months (TIME, Feb. 10); and while in native lingo Hollywood is still the term for jail, it is also beginning to mean cash. The influx of money has created the desire for more, and youngsters who were once content with innocent native life are looking around for new ways to earn more money. The pull for tips is growing. Even the dancing and feasting sometimes lose their improvised quality and become...
...Tahiti conservatives believe that for quite a while their paradise will remain relatively intact, and they secretly hope that the cost of jet fares will discourage a lot of people from taking advantage of all that Tahiti has to offer...