Word: tahiti
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...Crocker has never been tied to his desk by his duties, though he has not played polo since the 1933 bank moratorium. Now 42, stocky, stoutish, convivial, he romps through his work, has plenty of time for such fun as golf, tennis, visits to Pebble Beach, the snowy Sierras, Tahiti. His home is a 103-acre chunk of his father's original estate equipped with an Italian villa, swimming pool, squash courts, garage with a Cadillac and two Oldsmobiles. Son Crocker also goes in for civic virtue, helped establish the San Francisco Museum of Art, for a while helped...
...personable, mercurial Irishman, Errol Flynn plays a swashbuckling role without swashbuckling. Last June he married Lily Damita, whom he calls "Sweets." When he finished school in Belfast, where his father is a biology professor, Errol Flynn got bit parts on the London stage, later went to Tahiti, bought a boat, fished for pearls, prospected for gold in New Guinea. Back in London he got stage parts in Othello, Another Language, The Constant Nymph. Tall (6 ft. 2 in.), brawny (180 lb.), he boxed on England's 1928 Olympic team...
...polish and direction, the picture lacks all three. There are intervals when the two hours which it lasts seem as interminable as Bligh's voyage in the open boat must have seemed to its occupants. The narrative, which skips the saga of Pitcairn's Island entirely for Tahiti love interest, still contains enough material for at least three films. These faults are indigenous to the historic material used. The picture has few others. It is superbly photographed by Arthur Edeson. Franchot Tone as Byam, Clark Gable as Christian and Dudley Digges as the ship's doctor perform...
...showing the Emperor of Japan walking off with the Nobel Peace Prize, Vanity Fair also showed J. P. Morgan making a stump speech against Capitalism, Admiral Byrd wintering in tropical Tahiti, William Randolph Hearst as Ambassador to Soviet Russia and Huey Long in a friar's robe entering a monastery. To crack this page of mirth wide open it was captioned "NOT ON YOUR TINTYPE. Five highly unlikely historical situations by one who is sick of the same old headlines...
...crew of H. M. S. Bounty mutinied in mid-Pacific, put Captain William Bligh and 18 loyal men into an open boat, sailed to Tahiti. Instead of starving or drowning, Captain Bligh and his sailors made a voyage of 4,000 miles back to England, sent a frigate to punish the mutineers. When the frigate reached Tahiti, only a few of the mutineers were there to be hanged. The rest had sailed the Bounty to Pitcairn Island where they had beached and burned her and where their descendants still live...