Sudanese Film Star
A DUSKY PRINCESS. LONDON, Dec. 26. A dusky film star came to London this week straight from her native fcudan. She is Princess Kouka, daughter of a sheik in Ed Fasha, a Sudanese village. Princess lvouka told through an interpreter how she was “discovered" when her father was visited by the producer of the new Paul Robeson film “Salt,” who was looking for locations. In a West End hotel she made a colourful figure. Her scarlet widepleated skirt was surmounted by a blue coatee trimmed with silver wire. She wore Cin. wide gold earrings, gold jewelled bangles and a deep gold filigree collar. Her nails were a fashionable scarlet, and she wore mascara and lipstick. Kouka explained that this transformation happened to her in Paris, where she stayed on the way to England. ‘ ‘ They spent a whole day to get this effect," she said. "I did not like it." Kouka got her first ideas about acting from seeing a few films in Cairo. She said that King Kong is her favourite screen character.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 19, 23 January 1937, Page 14 (Supplement)
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176Sudanese Film Star Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 19, 23 January 1937, Page 14 (Supplement)
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