Int, Relief Committee Tops List with Big Donation Thursday February 16, at 5.30, should prove of great interest to Shanghai residents, since the islands of Celebes, Bali, and Java can easily be visited from here by round-trip steamer journeys lasting from five to six weeks. interesting will be the motion pictures shown of the highly elaborate and picturesque scenes in the beautiful Isle of Bali of a ceremonial cremation of the dead. People from all over the world to Bali one of the last unspoiled paradises on the globe, but it is only by great good fortune that they are able to witness one of these ceremonies.
The film, kindly lent by the well known shipping firm, ihe Java-China-Japan Line, shows a journey from Europe via Suez to the Netherlands Indies, the first port of call in these tropical islands being Sabang in Sumatra. From there the traveller is taken to Batavia in Java, whence he visits various places in the interior of this island, being shown some of the remarkable volcanic scenery that characterizes it, as well as scenes illustrating the lives and activities of its people.
The film ends up with a visit to Bali, where an entirely different Culture and religion prevail, the Javanese all being Mohammedans, while the Balinese are adherents to Hinduism. This is shown in their remarkably beautiful temples in which stone carvings of the Hindu deities and scenes in the Hindu epic, the Ramayana, abound,
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