Bali's leading dancer slain

Bali's leading dancer slain.

Bali's most famous dancer, twenty-eight years old

Sam-Pih has been murdered on that one-time paradise Isle,

letters from Indonesia reported today.

Sam-Pih headed the noted Balinese dancing troupe

which scored successes in london and the United States in nineteen fifty-two.

Impressario John Coast of London,

who brought the Balinese dancers and a gamelan orchestra

to the outside world for the first time in a generation,

for the first time, impressario John Coast of...

received news Sam-Pih had been strangled

and his body found floating in the Lauh river

which flows by his village of Sayan in southeast Bali.