OSA'S PLACE WAS IN THE JUNGLE

Evening Star, Issue 23657, 17 August 1940, Page 5

OSA'S PLACE WAS IN THE JUNGLE

Woman’s place, for Osa Johnson, has been anywhere but in the home. She has carved a career for a woman in a man’s world, to become the greatest explorer her sex has ever known. Of the past 20 years, she has spent only three amid the comforts of civilisation. Yet, this chic, attractive, dark-eyed young woman is not without the average feminine instinct to make a home, however humble and temporary, wherever she finds herself, whether in the fever-infested Malayan jungles, the African Congo, the mountain fastnesses of Tibet and India, or the wikis of the Australian bush. Each of those climes, in some makeshift shelter, bears evidence of the domestic traits of Osa Johnson, as shown in ‘1 Married Adventure,’ the Columbia production just completed, which presents the highlights of her six trips round the world and far more journeys into the unknown. Osa is the wife and fellow adventurer of the late Martin Johnson. Next to shelter, food is the first consideration of th;e African wayfarer, and Osa, fond of the fresh vegetables on which she was reared in her native Kansas, invariably started a garden the very day her safari came to rest for a while. The African sun assured a speedy harvest—except on the occasion when an elephant stampede got the garden first. For meat and fish she invariably did her own “ shopping,” as she is an ox-

pert ' rifle shot, and has invariably caught 2001 bof fish a day. The fish was needed in quantities for the black boys who comprised the party. Ordinary, every-day living is glimpsed in several scenes in ‘ J. Married Adventure,’ but, because of the setting, unexpected drama and thrills lurk just around the corner. The film teems with action which is twice as gripping because it really happened. Scenic beauties, hairbreadth escapes from death, mortal combats between beasts of prey and other elements, combine to make the picture an interesting experience.