"TARZAN OF THE APES."

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9656, 12 July 1919, Page 3

"TARZAN OF THE APES."

A rare treat, it is claimed, is in store of theatre-goers in the picturisation of Edgar Rice Burrough's famous book "Tarzan of the Apes/' which is to be screened at His Majesty's Theatre on Wednesday and Thursday. Apart from the fact that a noble day. Apart from the fact that a noble genealogical tree is provided for Tarzan and that his unscrupulous relatives in England scheme to sever his branch, a drama in itself, there are a hundred exciiting incidents and episodes in the wilds of Africa, where Tarzan.'s daily companions are lions, tigers, leopards, elephants, crocodiles, gorillas, apes and the innumerable other beasts indigeneous to the jungle. The story opens in England, where a i young nobleman and his wife embark 'for-West Africa on a mission connected with the slave trade. It is in the spacious days of Queen' Victoria. A mutiny on board results in the two passengers being landed as castaways. They build a hut, in which Tarzan was born. Fi'vor claims the mother, and after tho lather has been mauled by a leopard, a crowd of giant apes finish him- off, and one of their number, recently ! bereft of its own offspring, seizes the white baby, and carries it to her ooudi in the trees. The box plan is now on view at the Bristol, where scats may be reserved without extra charge. Prices 2s. 7d, 2s Id, and Is Id.