The natives of West Africa's Gold Coast love the cinema. Especially do they love films with an African setting in which big Paul Robeson is supported by a small black cherub named Bob Papafio. The son of Big Papafio, an itinerant pugilist who fought himself out in England, Bob was discovered by Actor Robeson and given his first part in Sanders of the River. But Bob Papafio will make no more films for a while. Last week TIME'S resident correspondent in Liberia, Henry B. Cole, told why.
"When the Germans started the blitz in London," reported Correspondent Cole, "a bomb...
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