SECOND FEATURE.
i "Tabu" — the word from which the '■ picture at the Grand Theatre gets | its title, is a word of sacret connotaI tion in the Polynesian language, according to Robert J. Flaherty, co-di-ector of the film, which was entirely photgraphed in the island of Bora i Bora in the Society Islands of the South Pacific. "Tabu" means "sacred," "untouchable," "beyond the reaeh of ordinary humans." In this picture, Reri, the beautiful native heroine, is declared "tabu" by the chieftain of 1 her tribe. Thus her lover is prevented from continuing to woo her, and the dramatic phase of the story be- ' gins.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 330, 17 September 1932, Page 3
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