Film Star At Suva
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From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, December 2.
ON her way to Sydney on the Monterey to make an Australian “talkie” film, Miss Helen Twelvetrees, the Hollywood actress, called at Suva on November 26.
After the civic reception she sampled kava in a wooden bowl with chieftains, who sat cross-legged on a mat-covered floor.
Natives of Tamavua, a village near Suva, were overjoyed when Miss Twelvetrees visited the thickly-thatched bures, and joked with the native children. Her bril liant auburn hair won immediate approval.
Nothing the Fijian admires more than red hair, and the men and women take endless pains to achieve coppery curls with the help of lime.
Crowds of Europeans were eager to catch a glimpse of the star, for residents, as well as natives, are inveterate picture-goers.
For the large Hindu population there is a special Indian theatre in Suva, at which films made in India in the native language are screened regularly.