"TARZAN OF THE APES,"

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9654, 10 July 1919, Page 6

"TARZAN OF THE APES,"

Young Gordon Griffiths, who impersonates the hoy Tarzan in Edgar Rice Burroughs' celebrated picture, "Tarzan of the Apes,".'at His Majesty's Theatre next Wednesday and Thursday is said to give a wonderful performance. He ;runs naked through the jungle, makes ■amazing, leaps from, tree to tree with, remarkable accuracy and puts up a fine fight with a gorilla.. It is quite affecting where he first sees his handsome face and lissome body in ti pool, of water, and compares them.; with, the ape at his side.. As .a study expressing, latent instinct and a rapid stride in mental evolution, it is fine. Elmo Lincoln, probably the finest specimen q£ physical manhood in the picture business takes up. Tarzan's evolution when he attains the, age of 20 years-and much of the success of the play is due to 'his physical and artistic abilities.. Hestrangles a massive Zulu, stampedes a herd of elephants, kills 1 a lion in fair fight in full view of the audience,, and ,\et depicts his mental evolution, with, delicately subtle art. His awakening to the natural instincts, of human love created by the femininity of the. English maid* the first he bas ever known or ever seen, is wonderfully well done and an excellent prelude- to the fascinfrljing. romance which-, follows. The r.'o-x plan is "at the Bristol, prices 2s id, 2,s Id, and Is Id. No- extra charge for reserves.