“Tahiti Conscious”
p. 42 · Read in the full issue
New Films and Books Create Interest in America
From Our Own Correspondent.
Papeete, July 9.
OWING to the activities of moving picture companies, the publication of several new and popular books on Tahiti, and other factors, Tahiti is now enjoy ing considerable free publicity in America which it is hoped will result in an in creasing number of tourists.
Quite a Tahitian vogue appears to have set in in more than one prominent resort.
Tahitian loin cloth materials of dazzling hues and exotic design are all the rage on fashionable beaches. An old resident of Tahiti, Mr. Jasper Moore, recently opened a Tahitian night club in San Francisco, employing the popular man ager of the Tahiti Yacht Club, Mr. Alex Sturgeos, to manage it for him.
Tahiti’s exotic perfumes, sold under the trade name of “Tiki,” are also meeting with an unusually large demand, and the same may be said for woven mats and other native goods characteristic of French Oceania.