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Booloo (Paramount) is a Malay word presumed to mean "fur and feathers." For authentic fur-&-feather footage, Cinemad-venturer Clyde Elliott (Bring 'Em Back Alive) toted his cameras to Northern Malaya. Paramount sheared away most of what he brought back, brushed up a Booloo of its own, a crude hocus-pocus about a white tiger, worshiped by Sakai tribesmen and kept in good fur on a diet of maidens...
...very high motives, the author admits that after she was seduced she was wildly promiscuous until she bore an illegitimate son, became a streetwalker after he died. Most interesting but cloudiest part of To beg I am ashamed tells of her brief marriage, which took her to Malaya, where her husband worked for a rubber company. Since he knew of her past, she thought the marriage was hopeless from the start, nevertheless made a desperate effort to become respectable, was frustrated by her former clients, her mother's malicious disclosures, her husband's sullenness and doubt...
Particularly interesting to de Terra is the likelihood of an ancient bridge that may have existed between Malaya and the Asiatic continent which would shed light further on early human migrations between India and Java...
...rubber company standing to profit most by bigger quotas is U. S. Rubber Co., which gets one quarter of its annual needs from its own plantations. Since its acres are in Sumatra (Dutch) and Malaya (British), U. S. Rubber has to submit with good grace to all of the I. R. R. C.'s schemes. No. 1 manufacturer in the industry-Goodyear-gets only 10% of its supply from Goodyear-owned plantations. Firestone's Liberian acres furnish only 5% of the company's requirements and Goodrich owns no plantations...
...avoided the entertainments of the voyage, preferring to go to bed early and get up at dawn, read Conrad, study Malaya, brood upon the remarkable changes since his first trip East 27 years before, and talk with the captain about the lore of the lands they passed. Passing Aden he thought of Rimbaud's tragic fate, and of how strange it was that the Frenchman should be the favorite poet of "a man so immaculate in thought, word and deed as Mr. Anthony Eden." Passing Ethiopia he thought of Conrad, who wrote a chapter of Almayer's Folly...