{"product_id":"irrevocablement-la-direction-du-theatre-moderne-presentera-pour-kt5a6twf","title":"Irrevocablement! La Direction du Theatre Moderne Presentera pour la Derniere fois Charles Boyer \u0026 Gaby Morlay dans: LE BONHEUR! ce soir jeudi 21 Avril 1938.","description":"\u003cp\u003eA wonderful piece of social history and very rare.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis early cinema poster is in printed in both French and Tahitian. The film \u003cem\u003eLe Bonheur\u003c\/em\u003e (Happiness) was first released in 1934. The plot concerns an anarchist cartoonist, played by Charles Boyer, who shoots Gaby Morlay’s film star on aesthetic and political grounds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Theatre Moderne was owned by Tony Bambridge (1895-1964) and was the first cinema on Papeete. Bambridge was not only the proprietor of the cinema, but collaboted in a number of films including \u003cem\u003eWhite Shadows\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTabu\u003c\/em\u003e, and the first version of \u003cem\u003eMutiny on the Bounty\u003c\/em\u003e released in 1935. A stalwart of the Tahitian community, he was a member of the privy council, ran a successful import-export business and in 1930 he began showing films at the leper colony in Orofora.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“New Cinema in Tahiti” in \u003cem\u003ePacific Islands Monthly\u003c\/em\u003e, Vol. XIV, No. 3 (18 October, 1943), p.36.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Maggs Bros.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47767087218845,"sku":"259863","price":950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0669\/0045\/9677\/files\/259863_01_0df3229b-7946-47fa-94a4-941d9df1c1b6.jpg?v=1774670472","url":"https:\/\/store.maggs.com\/products\/irrevocablement-la-direction-du-theatre-moderne-presentera-pour-kt5a6twf","provider":"Maggs Bros.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}