“GOING NATIVE”

Evening Star, Issue 23038, 17 August 1938, Page 15

“GOING NATIVE”

NEW MILLAND AND LAMOUR RELEASE Acting in a South Sea island picture is no work for a “ softy,” as Dorothy Lamour and Ray Milland will testify. Even before the grand climax of the film, when an earthquake rocks a subterranean temple, was reached, Dor* othy and Ray, who play native heroine and stranded airman in Paramount’s technicolour production, ‘ Her Jungle Love,’ coming oa Friday to the Empire. endured plenty of physical punishment. Miss Lamour had to, walk barefooted over rocky . rough ground, and was constantly being badly burnt by the hot desert sun while on location. Milland, who plays the part of a transpacific flyer forced down by a typhoon, had to undergo a thorough drenching more than six times while the tempest scenes were' being shot, and if that were not enough water for him, both he and Miss Lamour enact a thrilling under-water ‘‘ kiss ” scene. Each day brought a new ordeal, and before they were through with the film, the duo “swore off ” native’ pictures for a long while. Three new songs, written by one ol Hollywood’s best-known teams, will he heard for the first time in the new release. They are ‘ Jungle Love.' ‘ Coffee and Kisses,* and ‘ Lovelight in the Starlight,’ from the pens of Ralnh Freed and Frederick Hollander, who wrote the recent hit, ' Moonlight and Shadows,’ introduced_ by Miss Lamour and Milland in their ‘Jungle Princess.’ In addition to the new popular tunes, genuine native melodies and chants, gathered from Samoa and other sub-tropical isles, form the musical background of ‘Her Jungle Love.t Cinder the direction of Boris Morros, old South Seas love songs and _ battle chants were adapted for inclusion m the picture, and furnish a realistie background for this story of love on a remote South Pacific jsjsudt