Bird of Paradise, The
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Bird of Paradise, The (1912), a play by Richard Walton
Tully. [Daly's Theatre, 112 perf.] On a languid Hawaiian island, a promising young American scientist, Paul Wilson ( Lewis S. Stone), falls in love with a beautiful if superstitious native princess, Luana ( Laurette
Taylor). They marry, but the marriage destroys all of Wilson's drive and ambition. Neither an attempt by fellow Americans to foment a revolution that would make Luana queen nor a move back to civilization seems to help. When Mt. Kilauea, long dormant, suddenly begins to rumble, Luana reads it as a sign that the gods are angry with her and demand a human sacrifice. To appease the gods and to give her husband a chance to fulfill his early promise, she throws herself into the crater. Although the play opened in New York to largely favorable notices, the producer Oliver
Morosco's disagreements with several theatre owners cut short its Broadway run. On the road, however, its several companies turned it into one of the biggest moneymakers of its era. In 1930 it was made into an unsuccessful operetta,
Luana.
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Bird of Paradise, The
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
Bird of Paradise, The (1912), a play by Richard Walton Tully . [Daly's Theatre, 112 perf.] On a languid Hawaiian island, a promising...
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birds of paradise
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology
birds of paradise See PARADISAEIDAE .
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