NEW DRAMA OF ISLAND LIFE
The famous old church at Tahiti, where the first missionaries preached to the natives, is the setting one of the dramatic episodes in “The Pagan,” Ramon Novarro’s latest production, coming to the Regent Theatre shortly. Filmed in its entirety in the South Seas, the play is a vivid drama of Island life, with Renee Adoree, Dorothy Janis, and others of note in the It was directed by W. S. Van Dyke, creator of “White Shadows in the South Seas,” and is a sound-synchron-ised film, with singing sequences which introduce Novarro’s voice to the screen.
The barber’s sissors and Colleen Moore’s dark, chestnut-coloured hair were strangers to one another for some months before the start of the filming of “Love Never Dies,” First National’s aerial production. As Jea.nnine. a quaint, pert little French girl, Miss Moore appears with curls that reach her shoulders.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 706, 4 July 1929, Page 15
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147NEW DRAMA OF ISLAND LIFE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 706, 4 July 1929, Page 15
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