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...from Waif. Louis is from New Orleans where, as he puts it, "jazz and I got bora together" (in 1900). When he was 13 he fired his mother's .38 revolver at a New Year's Eve celebration and was sent to a Negro waifs' home. There he learned to play the cornet, and soon was leading an orphans' band through the streets to raise funds for the orphanage (he still sends his old horns to them). In Storyville, New Orleans' red light district, where he hung out, he learned the tricks...
Last week, directly after Foreign Minister Bidault's speech, the Government took another step toward the new Union. Upon some 20,000 creamy, copra-gathering South Sea Islanders, inhabitants of French Raïatea, Tahaa, Huahine, Bora-Bora, Maupiti, Mopelia, Rurutu and Rimatara, it bestowed French citizenship...
Team. Of the two men, bullnecked Congressman La Guardia was the more vital and forceful insurrectionist. Bora in Manhattan 49 years ago, the son of an Italian musician, he spent most of his early life at Whipple Barracks, Prescott, Ariz., where his father was Army bandmaster. Graduated from New York University in 1910, he turned to politics, was first elected to Congress in 1916. Instead of warming his seat during the War he became a major in the Army, was sent to Italy in command of U. S. aviation forces, flew bombing planes over the Austrian lines. Later he returned...
There is no dialog in Tabu. The story is told entirely by pictures, helped by infrequent and skilful subtitles, accompanied by Composer Hugo Reisenfeld's synchronized "musical setting." Three of the five actors are natives of Bora Bora, one of two Southern Pacific Islands where Director Fred W. Murnau spent 18 months making Tabu. Best shot: Matahi coasting down a waterfall...
...collaborated with Director Robert J. Flaherty (Nanook of the North, Moana) on the story of Tabu. He built himself a house on Bora Bora, 300 miles from Tahiti in the Society Islands, and spent three months selecting natives for his cast. Six months ago he returned to Hollywood. Last fortnight he was killed when his car ran off the road some miles north of Santa Barbara, rolled down a 30-ft. embankment and landed on him at the bottom...