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Show Living in the same kind of thatched huts that serve as domiciles in their far-off far-off mid-Pacitic home, garbed in the smme mesger habiliments which characterize their daily existence on their native heath, and participating nightly in th weird, uncanny dances and incantations winch are a part of their tribal ritual, 300 South Sea Islanders are encamped on the 1,'JOO-acre ranch of the I'niversal Film Manufacturing Company near Unl-j versa I City. The baud of brown-skinned aemi-viT-ages will be turned over to the Panama Pacific Exposition at the end of ciht month and will be a feature of ;ie world's fair to be held in San Francisco in 1015. In the meantime the film ":n-panr, ":n-panr, which will utilise the danders for niotion picture pnrpous, i under $25,-000 $25,-000 bond to insure iheir safe return to the Island from which they were brought to the Pniterl States. I The importing of the Islander is 5n I keeping with the policy of realism now in vogue in motion picture production. They were brought to the United States on a specially chartered ship from tie- island of Totopoto, In the Mardueaas group of the Society Island, which are under Frem h domination. The first picture pic-ture in which the slanders will tjq used IS "Lucfllf jOTC, the C:rl of M vst ,-r .' ' tie of the KPtlings of the "Ln'cifle" series se-ries of pictures is in the South Sa Islands. |