On the Pacific Movie-Front

TN shooting a scene for “His Maj * esty O’Keefe” off Naitonitoni beach, Viti Levu, Warner Brothers had an expensive Technicolour cam era submerged for some minutes. A replacement had to be flown down from Hollywood.

The accident occurred in mid-

August when shooting a scene aboard a large double canoe. In returning ashore through the surf the canoe was capsized.

In W. Samoa the filming of “Mr.

Morgan” is under way, with a num ber of local people featuring in the scenes as with the Fiji film.

Luckiest of the locals is 21-year old part-Samoan Moira MacDonald

who plays a leading part as Ti with Gary Cooper, who, in the f is her father.

Other locals taking part are E Kruse, Mrs. Kathleen Newick, B McEwen (of the Education Dep ment), and many others in le roles.

In addition to Gary Cooper, leads are played by English a Barry Jones as the missionary C bett, American actress Rob Haynes as Maeva, mother of Tii and John Hudson as an Ameri air pilot who falls in love with Tu Local people in the more imp ant speaking roles are earning fi £5 to £7 per day. Altogether Samoa is expected to reap $5OO, from the film. Gary Cooper’s sh is a mere $250,000.

The technicians and princi stars are living in Apia and tn daily 27 miles across the island the filming location at Safata on south coast of Upolu Island.

The new Port Moresby wh will have reinforced concrete de* ing instead of timber. It is i pected that this will cost no m than Australian hardwood. There enough cement on hand to d( the wharf without any delay: tons of cement will be needed a 100 tons of reinforcing.