KIPLING CLASSIC FILMED

Evening Star, Issue 22893, 26 February 1938, Page 10

KIPLING CLASSIC FILMED

• ELEPHANT BOY ' AT MAYFAIR Sddom have such beautiful photography, interesting “shots” of Nature in its wildest form, and dramatic incident been combined in one film as in Flaherty and Korda’s unique production, ‘ Elephant Boy,’ which is now showing at the Mayfair. Kipling’s immortal hero of the jungle becomes reality, and not even Kipling could cavil at the selection of the boy who filled the part so well, and his friend, the giant elephant Kala Nag. The story opens in a jungle village. Peterson Sahib, who is employed by the Government to trap wild elephants, is about to set out on a great drive in the wild country to the north. Toomai’s overwhelming ambition is to be an elephant hunter, and he sees his chance when Peterson Sahib selects his father’s elephant Kala Nag to go on the hunt. Then Toomai’s father is killed by a tiger. Toomai is to be sent home, but Kala Nag, enraged by the maltreatment of another hunter, runs amok, injuring 'that hunter and breaking dorvn half of the camp. Peterson is about to shoot Kala Nag, when, in one of the most dramatic incidents of the film, the small boy stands in the way of the charging beast, stops it, and pacifies it. Odd clues, a sensational automobile wreck staged by a criminal, the roaring offices of a -great daily newspaper, figure in the latest newspaper-detective romance of the screen, ‘ Sinner Take All,’ which is the second film. The story deals with a series of mystery murders, solved by a newspaperman enlisted hy a menaced millionaire and his daughter. Its locale is New York, and its scenes range from penthouses and night clubs to police stations and underworld haunts. (Bruce Cabot plays his first leading man role after a succession of “ heavy ” characterisations, and proves himself an admirable selection for the part. Margaret Lindsay as the heroine is as talented an actress as she is lovely to look at.