"TARZAN ESCAPES."

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 117, 19 May 1937, Page 6

"TARZAN ESCAPES."

St. James Theatre on Friday.

Crashing through adventures in the jungles, Tarzan and his mate, as enacted by Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan, bring to the St. James Theatre next Friday another breathtaking adventure romance. This is Metro - Goldwyn • Mayer's "Tarzan Escapes," packed with thrills, telling the story of a human, deceit directed against a primitive man of the jungle, and of the treachery of civilised man against the jungle fnend of wild beasts who has never . known the tricks of his "enlightened" brothers. "Tarzan Escapes" takes the Edgar Rice Bur^ roughs character into the country of giant vampire bats; its thrills include a battle between an army of elephants and savage warriors, the routing of lions by an elephant stampede; a dash through a crocodile-infested river, and other exciting details surrounding .the primitive love story of the series. In the new story.Tarzan is betrayed and captured by, the Inan who pretends friendship. and 'who plans to exhibit him as a wild man.- His faithful mate, played by Miss O'Sullivan,,. and his Jungle friends aid in a sensational escape. Weismuller as Tarzan swings across wild gorges, on strange vine bridges, and swims perilous rivers. Miss O'Sullivan is her charming character as in former Tarzan pictures, and Benita Hume, British actress, plays the heroine's sister. John Buckler enacts the animal collector. William Henry plays Miss O'Sullivan's cousin who remains loyal.

E. Johnston and Co., auctioneers, will sell household furnishings at their mart, -8 Willeston Street, tomorrow, at 1.30 p.m. ' ,