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Half of Western Samoa's foodstuffs were gone: banana, breadfruit and cocoa trees, all flattened by a 100-m.p.h. hurricane. It was the worst since 1889, when another keening, killing wind sank three American and three German warships in Apia roadstead...
Nanook bombed in the U.S. but ran for six months in London and Paris, and in 1923 Paramount's Jesse Lasky gave Flaherty $250,000 to make a similar picture about village life in Samoa. Photographically speaking, Moana was the most beautiful movie made until that time-but beauty cut no ice with Paramount. Chopped in half, the film was billboarded as THE LOVE-LIFE OF A SOUTH SEA SIREN. For the next seven years the moneymen hid when they saw Flaherty coming...
...behold the stars On the waving banner; They are a sign that Samoa Is able to lead...
...National Anthem of Western Samoa...
Adult Education. "Our aim," says Lee, "is an education system that will allow a Samoan student to compete on equal terms in mainland colleges." As a dividend, the new schools, designed in Samoa's traditional open-sided fale style, are becoming nighttime community centers with television programs to combat adult illiteracy and improve public health, farming and self-government. And with 275 million children in the world getting no formal instruction, the ETV project in American Samoa has drawn the attention of education officials from half a dozen nations in Asia and Africa...