Douglas Fairbanks In

Tahiti.

Making a South Seas Film.

From Our Own Correspondent.

PAPEETE, March 24.

Douglas Fairbanks, and the other important people in the new South Sea picture to be filmed in Tahiti, arrived here on the s.s. “Ma kura,” at the end of February and pro ceeded immediately to the residence of the late Mr. Murnau, which Mr. Fair banks has leased for several months.

A few days later the yacht “In vader” came into port with the re mainder of the company and equip ment, which included several monkeys and parrots, to be used in the film. The monkeys have been removed to the Murnau house, as they will have to act in the film with Mr. Fairbanks, and it is necessary for him to establish friendly relations with them by daily contact, so that he will be able to con trol them in the picture.

The Company has established a studio here and are taking advantage of every bright day “shooting” on various locations about the Island, Every morning and evening, now, one can see big Buicks dashing through town, loaded with the pick of our local young ladies clothed in grass skirts and armed with ukeleles and pea nuts. These are all future movie stars, bent on crashing Hollywood and the Follies, as did our fair Anna, better known as Rere, the star of Murnau’s picture “Tabu.” Since her rise to Broadway fame, almost anything is likely to happen.

One very amusing result of the movie business in Tahiti is the sudden enorm ous increase in the Tahitian vocabu lary. “O Kay,” “Hamaneggs,” “Let’s go,” “Off the lot,”, and other equally intelligent and highly technical terms are now being used with quite a pro fessional air by our local boys and girls.

In another hundred years a learned paper could be written about this, for some Polynesian Museum.