Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1918)

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Savagery's Last Stronghold Stormed by the Camera ' V1 ' **^JB Pictures ta\en by ]ac\ London's globemate — 8,ooo miles from Frisco! Martin Johnson of Kansas and his courageous little wife, cruised 50,000 miles into the South Pacific, and returned with 50,000 feet of motion picture film and a memorybox of adventures to last a lifetime of storytelling. Johnson, at one time Jack London's traveling companion, outfitted a sailing vessel at Samoa, sailed into one of the few remaining places that the camera had never been before. Perhaps the most thrilling part of the Johnsons' adventures regards th»ir capture by the "Big Numbers" savage tribe, Cannibals who had never before seen white skins. The two attribute their escape to the arrival of a British warship. Above is shown Koonacara Coombarawa, chief of the Solomon Islands, a superb physical specimen, and who finally condescended to be hospitable. There are some queer customs in the world. The circle at the right shows one of the queerest. This is in the Leuaun ewa Lagoon; where the oldest relative must linger at the grave of the head of the family for a period varying from six months to ten years, and never leave. Food is brought to him. Through various photographic sources we have learned that the Hawaiian princesses reigning on the beach at Waikiki are not necessarily Venusian. And here again our ideals are shattered ! Above Mrs. Johnson is shown with the Queen of the Island of Malaita. Yes — they are seated on the throne. Frequently Mr. Johnson was forced to have his guard of native soldiers stand with guns pointed to keep the treacherous savages from turning on him while he was at his camera. The picture below shows three of the most ferocious specimens of savages. They are expert boatsmen as well as fighters. The Island in background is where the Johnsons lived for six months of their sojcurn in the Solomons.