TAHITI: Symbol in the Surf

Returned to Hollywood last week from a South Sea cruise on the steamer Monterey, slim, honey blonde Joan Fontaine told how she had seen, without knowing it, an appropriately serene "revolution" on the languorous French island of Tahiti.

When the Monterey docked at Samoa en route to Tahiti, she said, a middle-aged English-looking Frenchman named General Richard Edmond Maurice Edouard Brunot came aboard with Mme. Brunot and the General's aide, one Captain Frataux. On the trip to Tahiti, Joan Fontaine found that the Captain was as gallant as French officers are supposed to...

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