The Bird of Paradise (play)

A notice for an Oliver Morosco production
of The Bird of Paradise, 1916

The Bird of Paradise is a melodramatic American play of 1912 set in Hawaii, the best known work of Richard Walton Tully.

The play has been credited with creating an image of Hawaii as a land where native girls “dance the hula, play ukuleles, live in grass huts, and worship volcano gods”.[1]

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