Another Talkie Show For
p. 47 · Read in the full issue
Mangaia
From Our Mangaia Correspondent THE popularity of the talking picture in the Cook Islands is incontestable, and this isolated isle of ours sighed for many years for a show before Mr. Dick Brown of Rarotonga (one of the well known Browns of Cl, originally a Mangaia family) decided to establish one on the island of his birth. Now, Mr. W. P.
Browne, also of Rarotonga (no relation) has sent over a rival talkie outfit, which has been set-up in an open-air theatre erected by Punga Kareros, of Kaumata Village at the upper end of the beach.
What “talkies” will do to our children’s English, and to their conceptions of the white man’s world, remains to be seen. In Rarotonga, the exploits of Superman, comic-strip hero who, without aid of machinery, flies through the air with the greatest of ease, are regarded as genuine—how could the camera tell a lie?