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Both were 30. After the War they settled in Tahiti, married (Author Nordhoff to a native Tahitian) and have lived there ever since. No glorified beachcombers, they have worked hard & seriously, have produced between them a dozen books, three of them collaborations...
...telephone directory. William Dursley has three traveling companions: a retired naval officer who is curt and frosty; a bouncing, beaming Lancashireman named Ramsbottom; a U. S. girl of the type who "lets one down." He is bothered by a mysterious South American named Garsuvin, by a chorus of wiggling Tahitian girls, by a Hollywood cinema producer, by a London tycoon who takes William Dursley on a tour of speakeasies and to a bicycle race. William Dursley falls in love twice: first with the U. S. girl who presently runs off with a cinema troupe in Tahiti, then with an English...
...garish Tahitian fantasies of Paul Gauguin. He found the soft woods and streams of Brittany an exhausted subject. He lived, painted and died in the South Seas, where sunlight bursts like bombshells on labyrinthine foliage, showers lustrous patterns on voluptuous dark flesh...
Composed entirely of accepted modernist leaders, the exhibition proved that the freakishness of cubism, vorticism, other truculent cults, is quite defunct. There was little that was crude, nothing that was incoherent. Gaugin's bizarre self-portrait seemed to link his face with his own favorite Tahitian fruits; the sardonic humor of the piece was queer but clear. He displayed also a serene Breton landscape, a lovely canvas which could cause no retching among the most conservative. Forain's aphrodisiac The Charleston showed two vibrant white dancers, several paunchy satyr-spectators, was a triumph of contemporary comment. Picasso's The Mother...
...Lovaina was only one fourth Tahitian, all the remainder of her racial inheritance being American: but she was all Tahitian in her traits, her simplicity, her devoting to her traits, her simplicity, her devotion to her friends, her catching folly s it flew, and here pride in a new possession...