Under Way

"Blue Lagoon" Soon Under Way

From Our Own Correspondent

Suva, Dec. 22.

MISS JEAN SIMMONS, the young English actress who will star in the film version of “The Blue Lagoon,” part of which is to be made in Fiji, ar rived at Nadi by plane from Sydney yesterday.

As she came direct from Sydney, a non-infected area, Miss Simmons, who is only 18, escaped being clapped into quarantine the fate of all persons under 19 who come from New Zealand or Brisbane during current infantile paralysis outbreaks in those places.

Most of the members of the Individual Films unit have now assembled in Suva, but the director, Mr. Frank Launder, is still in Sydney looking for a young player to cope with the role of Dick Les trange as a boy.

Mr. Donald Huston, who will play the same character grown up, is expected in Fiji this week.

Every detail of the remote beach in the Yasawas Group which was selected for the exteriors, will be reproduced in the London studios for subsequent work on the film. Plaster casts will be taken of the palms on the selected Yasawas beach for reproduction.

Stars In Car Accident

Suva, Dec. 30.

DISASTER nearly befell the “Blue Lagoon” location unit of Individual Pictures (part of the J. Arthur Rank film organisation) to-day when the star, Miss Jean Simmons, and the leading man, Mr. Donald Huston, were on an afternoon drive in a hired car.

About seven miles from Suva, in the Nasinu district, the car, driven by Mr.

Huston, got out of control and capsized.

Neither Miss Simmons nor Mr. Huston was injured although the car was badly damaged.