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Show JAZZ REPLACES MURMUR OF SOUTH SEA WAVES PAPEBTB. Tahiti. Jan. 3. Those who brave tho long voyages to Die South sea In the hope of escaping the extravagances of civilization arc llkelv to meet with bitter disillusionment before they have been In the Island-, many hours. The hectic atmosphero of the metropolitan met-ropolitan danee hall has been wafted j across the long miles of blue sea to' these isolated shores 'ind Broadway 1 flaunts brazenly through the shadows of the coi oanut groves. The gramophone gramo-phone has come to Tahiti and has been 1 acquired by every native who eoul 1 find the wherewithal. And now the' peaceful silences, broken heretofore only by the sound of the distant booming boom-ing ' tlAJ!f on Ojm barrier r. . r ..h i the soft cadeacs or nat've singing, are shattered by th sonorous blare r.i the latest jazz or the screech of th-reigning th-reigning favorite on the Vaudeville circuit. |