AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 114, 25 November 1938, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

STORY OF LAST BUCCANEER The word “buccaneer'’ didn’t come from “bringing home the bacon”, but it almost did! 'The word comes from “boucanier”, a name given in the early, seventeenth century to a, colony of I reebootors, escaped criminals, lio’er-dn-wells. and thieves who settled-in the West Indies when they were driven from other places, and made a living by selling “boucan,’’ a smoked' bam, to seamen who happened to pass their island. It wasn’t long holme the, “boucaniers” were chased off the island by the Spanish, and they put to sea as nations, all over the world. I bey later made their headquarters in Madagascar, and. in time, the word, “houca.nier” became “Buccaneer”. Tile last of the buccaneers was the amazing Jean Lafitte, who made lus headquarters in Barataria, not far from New Orleans, in 1.8013. Strange a,« it may seem, Lafitte and his men were largely responsible for the defeat- of the British at New Orleans in 1814 when they assisted General Jackson in that battle. it is in this event, and the romance of Lafitte, which inspired the Oeil B. DeAlillo epic. Paramount's “The Buccaneer,” which opens Saturday at the Do Luxe Theatre, with Frederic March in the title role supported by Franciska Gaal, Akim lamirolf, Alaigot Grahame. and a east, of o'er a thousand others*