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...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...
Until last March grizzle-chinned, wrin-kle-browed Henri Matisse had never felt it necessary to visit the U. S. Even then he did not stay long but rushed abruptly across the country on his way to Tahiti. He returned three weeks ago to perform his duties in Pittsburgh and have fun in a Manhattan round of dinners, receptions, studio teas. Reporters, hostesses found him silent behind his whiskers, only occasionally willing to act the oracle. "I do not like Tahiti," said he. "I am not a Gauguin,* I could never paint there. New York-that is different, I should...
...judge cannot show, are exhibiting in Pittsburgh. *Paul Gauguin, morose Post-Impressionist painter of the 1890's, grew disgusted with modern civilization, sold all his European paintings for 9,860 francs ($1,972) deserted his wife and children and went to spend the rest of his life in Tahiti, the "Terrestrial Paradise.'' There, still subject to acute melancholia, he went completely native, painted serene pictures of statuesque Maoris on canvas salvaged from flour bags, wrote Noa Noa, an autobiographical account; died in poverty on the island of Dominica in the Marquesas...