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Back to Dinner Jackets. Michener writes with genuine affection for the island natives and their simple, relaxed culture. But he warns paradise-hunters and dreamy would-be beachcombers that the cost of heaven-on-earth comes high. Said a Tahiti businessman: "We want the rich tourists, not cheapies who have a high time on five bucks a day." Michener's own estimate: "You can get by in almost any part of Polynesia for only 50% more than you pay in Illinois. In Tahiti, of course, the cost is twice as much...
Pagan Love Song (MGM) casts Esther Williams adrift in the shallows of a musicomedy set in Tahiti (and filmed on Hawaiian locations). Esther plays a well-to-do Tahitian half-caste who meets, loses and finally gets a plantation heir (Howard Keel) newly arrived from Ohio. In the full flush of health, she glows in almost every tint of the Technicolor spectrum, swims not only on the water and under it but also (in a dream sequence) in the sky. In lieu of comedy, Actress Williams and Singer Keel laugh with unconvincing gaiety on the flimsiest excuse. The score consists...
...Cook and his men did turn up their share of marvels. Europeans were amazed when they read such things as Cook's anthropological notes on Tahiti: "One amusement or custom ... I must mention, though I confess I do not expect to be believed . . . More than one half of the better sort of the inhabitants have entered into a resolution of enjoying free liberty in love . . . The men will very readily offer the young women to strangers, even their own daughters, and think it very strange if you refuse them ..." The news of islands where sex and sin seemed...
...have long known about the multiple readership of copies of TIME, and the following communication from Pacific Edition Subscriber Clifford Kruse in Papeete, Tahiti, helps confirm...
Shortly after the first World War, Dr. Walter Johnstone Williams, dentist and British consul in Papeete, Tahiti, acquired the atoll of Tetiaroa . . . Dr. Williams was the only dentist in Papeete for years, and he did quite a business-considering the Polynesians' love for "glitter-work" in their mouths . The royal Pomare family fell in debt to Dr. Williams for gold fillings . . . so they gave him Tetiaroa to clear up the bill...