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...clerk-farmer-teacher who signed on the Acushnet ("Pequod") at New Bedford one winter day in 1840. Other travelers' accounts (which he shrewdly disparaged) furnished the main basis for the "unvarnished truth" of his South Seas experiences-captivity by Typee tribesmen, cannibalism, "care-killing damsels," Queen Moana's erotic tattooing, the many other wonders which took mid-Victorian readers' breath away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lies-cu/n-Art | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Elephant Boy (London Films) is an adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's Toomai of the Elephants, filmed by famed Director Robert Flaherty (Nanook of the North, Moana, Man of Arari). With his grizzled father, his father's elephant Kala Nag, an English white hunter and a group of seasoned Indian mahouts, picayune Toomai goes on a hunt for wild elephants. When a tiger kills his father, Kala Nag is given to another mahout. When the mahout mistreats him, Kala Nag runs amok. Disgusted with this situation, Toomai and Kala Nag run away from camp. A searching party finds them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 12, 1937 | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

Elephant Boy (London Films) is an adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's Toomai of the Elephants, filmed by famed Director Robert Flaherty (Nanook of the North, Moana, Man of Arari). With his grizzled father, his father's elephant Kala Nag, an English white hunter and a group of seasoned Indian mahouts, picayune Toomai goes on a hunt for wild elephants. When a tiger kills his father, Kala Nag is given to another mahout. When the mahout mistreats him, Kala Nag runs amok. Disgusted with this situation, Toomai and Kala Nag run away from camp. A searching party finds them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 12, 1937 | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

Married- William Bateman Leeds, 34, son & namesake of the late tin-plate tycoon; and Olive Hamilton, 23, onetime Atlantic City telephone operator; aboard Mr. Leeds's yacht Moana, off Miami. Since 1930, when he rescued her from, drowning at Atlantic City, N. J., they have been constant companions. His first wife was Russian Princess Xenia Romanov. Married. Mrs. Henry Symes Lehr, 64, author last year of a sensational biography of her dead husband, "King Lehr" and the Gilded Age; and John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford, Baron Decies, 70; in Paris. Divorced. Crooner Rudy Vall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 1, 1936 | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

...Aran (Gaumont-British). Director Robert J. Flaherty (Moana of the South Seas, Nanook of the North) is the cinema's No. 1 specialist in elemental-struggle-for-existence sagas. When he heard that the Aran Islands, off the Galway coast of Ireland, were so barren that the inhabitants had to gather soil in baskets to grow potatoes in crevices of rock, he went to England's Gainsborough Pictures Ltd. for financial backing. Man of Aran is the result of his two-year sojourn on Inishmore, largest of the three islands. Decorated with a musical score based on Irish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Man of Aran | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

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