← Back –   Chapter 22C   – Next → FROM BALI TO THAILAND(Friendship with the Painter) I have to admit, as I mentioned before, I was a bit disappointed. I found not an eccentric South Sea island painter with a mad look in
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← Back –   Chapter 22B   – Next → FROM BALI TO THAILAND(Further Trouble with Models , New Thai Wife) Hua Hin, being a coastal town, was blessed with lovely sea breezes. Theo was often seen sitting on the beach behind his easel-with
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← Back –   Chapter 22A   – Next → FROM BALI TO THAILAND Prince Sandith Rangsit was one of Theo’s friends who came regularly to Bali. Over the years they became the best of friends, like brothers, and they had no secrets they
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← Back –   Chapter 21B   – Next → SUKARNO COMES TO BALI(Hard Times Ahead, Lost Treasures) Back to Rubic. Like many young Balinese girls who showed talent, she had begun dancing as soon as she could walk. Even before she reached her
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← Back –   Chapter 21A   – Next → SUKARNO COMES TO BALI Luckily for the painters living on Bali, Sukarno was a great lover of the arts and he was known to surround himself with painters and artists. Theo had the good
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← Back –   Chapter 20   – Next → UNDER THE RISING SUN Another arrival in Sabah after an arduous journey through Java was Theo’s good friend Ernst Schlager. We can only imagine Theo’s surprise when Schlager showed up at his doorstep in
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← Back –   Chapter 19   – Next → THE JAPANESE INVASION After the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the Japanese invasion of Southeast Asia was swift. Japan had no fear of European interference. Germany had conquered France and Holland,
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← Back –   Chapter 18   – Next → THE ORDEAL OF WALTER SPIES Bali can capture the emotions and the hearts of anyone who visits the island, be it only for a few days. There was a saying that Theo learned on
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← Back –   CH17   – Next → UNDER THE SPELL Ubud was an art colony and as such it did not appeal to Theo. He had always steered dear of groups. But he did have many friends there and went often to
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← Back –   CH16   – Next → AN ARTIST IN PARADISE Theo knew no one on Bali when he arrived, and he had no letters of introduction; but a name he had heard before he arrived; and a man he wanted to
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