FROM THE SOUTH SEAS
NATIVES FEATURED IN TALKIE Over half a hundred Alalayans, Javanese, Sumatrans, Hawaiians and Samoans were recently assembled in Hollywood and shipped in a body to one of the tiny islands off the coast of Southern California. The natives will be used in many of the thrilling sequences in Nancy Carroll’s next starring picture for Paramount, “Flesh of Eve,” which was adapted from Joseph Conrad’s famous story, “Victory.” “Flesh of Eve,” which has Java as its locale, will be filmed entirely on location to obtain proper atmospheric effects. The land scenes will be made on a tropical island in the mid-Pacific, to which the entire company has been transported. The sequences “on the high seas will be filmed on a specially charted schooner.
The supporting cast for “Flesh of Eve” has been choserw with extreme care to ensure truthful portrayals of Conrad’s immortal characters. Richard Arlen has been assigned to the leading Warner Oland, Gustave von besrffertitz, George Kotsonaros and Evelyn Selbie play prominent parts in the production.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 857, 28 December 1929, Page 16
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171FROM THE SOUTH SEAS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 857, 28 December 1929, Page 16
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