JUNGLE ADVENTURE DRAMA

Evening Star, Issue 22193, 22 November 1935, Page 7

JUNGLE ADVENTURE DRAMA

TftRZAH FILM FOR GREEN ISLAND ‘ Tarzan and His Mate,’ new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture featuring Johnny Weismuller and Maureen 1 O’Sullivan will he screened at the Green Island Cinema to-morrow. Efforts to surpass all previous jungle pictures made necessary the' creation of a hundred aero area packed densely with trees and undergrowth into which African animals of all kinds were released. Beasts that are shown in action include a herd of more than 20 elephants, more than 50 lions, a man-killing rhinoceros, chimpanzees, monkeys, wunderbeeste, gazelles, hippopotami, boa constrictors, and hundreds of other specimens of rare jungle life. Two of the biggest climaxes

of the picture show a herd of maddened elephants charging a safari of natives and white men, and later an attack'd? lions upon the camp. Wild animal men and a crew of 1,000 production men were recruited from all parts of the country to assist the studio in obtaining the scenes... The new story: continues the adventures of Tarzan, played by Weissmuller, when a safari ’ of white men attempt to raid tha “ elephants’ burial ground,” of millions of dollars worth of ivory. .Tajzan’s attempts to protect the sacred jungla hoard get ' him into breath-taking hazards that far surpass the thrills of ‘Tarzan the Ape Man.’