"Blue Lagoon" Film
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Unit Leaves Fiji
From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, March 16.
THE “Blue Lagoon” film production unit left Nadi Airport last evening for London by way of the United States.
Most of the unit will be in London in five days’ time, but Miss Jean Simmons, the star, will make a short stay in Holly wood, to be feted on orthodox lines.
The unit achieved 90 per cent, of its objective, despite bad weather.
A slightly sour note appears in the “Fiji Times” with the news that film publicity in London has announced that during her stay at the Yasawa Group.
Miss Simmons was made “a Princess of Yasawas.”
What happened, was that last month Miss Simmons celebrated her 19th birth day on location, had a birthday party, to which the people of a nearby village were invited. Tney formally presented gifts and that was that.
Previously an inquiry had been made in Suva as to whether there were any honorary Fijian distinction which could be bestowed on the young actress, an in quiry which did not get very far.