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...most successful was made by the famous mutineers from the British warship Bounty, who settled down on Pitcairn Island in 1790 with some Tahitian women. The offspring of six mutineers and about a dozen women were examined in 1825 and found to be notably taller than either Englishmen or Tahitians. Some of them were strong enough to lift 600 Ibs. They were so fertile (an average of 9.1 children per family in the third generation) that they soon overcrowded the island. Other isolated racial crossings (which were not adversely affected by social disapproval) turned out almost as well...
Willy was a cynical 34 when he married 20-year-old Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. She was the daughter of a Zouave father and . an octoroon mother, and to Willy she seemed as pure & simple as "any little Tahitian before the missionaries got there." After hearing her recount stories of her childhood, Willy realized that she was also a literary gold mine. He locked her in a room, gave her pen & paper, and commanded her to write...
When Adventurer Thor (Kon-Tiki) Heyerdahl and his comrades visited Papeete, Mrs. Arlette Reasin, a Tahitian planter's wife, welcomed them with a hula, later sued Heyerdahl for $150,000 because he included pictures of the dance, without permission, in his book's movie version. Last week a Los Angeles judge dismissed the suit, decreeing that Mrs. Reasin's artistic efforts were "in effect, a gift...
...wife of a Tahitian planter who had entertained Voyager Thor Heyerdahl and friends at a hula party in Papeete decided that the dance was strictly a private affair, never meant for public eyes. Since Heyerdahl filmed it, then used a few seconds of the shot in his movie Kon-Tiki, she sued...
Pagan Love Song (MGM) casts Esther Williams adrift in the shallows of a musicomedy set in Tahiti (and filmed on Hawaiian locations). Esther plays a well-to-do Tahitian half-caste who meets, loses and finally gets a plantation heir (Howard Keel) newly arrived from Ohio. In the full flush of health, she glows in almost every tint of the Technicolor spectrum, swims not only on the water and under it but also (in a dream sequence) in the sky. In lieu of comedy, Actress Williams and Singer Keel laugh with unconvincing gaiety on the flimsiest excuse. The score consists...