Luana. One proverb of show-business says that first-rate plays become second-rate musicomedies.— Oldtime theatregoers who remember that lush melodrama The Bird of Paradise—in which Lenore Ulric, Laurette Taylor, Lewis Stone, Guy Bates Post once took part—did not find Arthur Hammerstein's florid musical adaptation, Luana, as successful entertainment as its progenitor. Tediously faithful to the original plot in which a princess of the Sandwich Islands marries a young U. S. doctor, only to lose him and destroy herself in a volcano as a sacrifice to her...
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