UNREHEARSED SCENE

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 October 1929, Page 5

UNREHEARSED SCENE

■ ■ IN VASION OF CROCODILES. Unexpected realism has attended the efforts of a group of American film players, who, on location on the banks of the Nile near Murchison Falls, are tracing the adventures of “Trader Horn,” for they came near to providing a substantial meal for a school of crocodiles, stales a message to the New York “Tribune” from Nairobi, Kenya Colony. They are members of a company sent out by Metro-Goldwyn to film the romantic pages of the Gold Coast sage’s The company which is making the film is under the direction of Vandyke, and the scene of their; operations is about 60 miles from the source of the Nile. Haying pitched camp at the base of fl. canyon, the company proceeded to “shoot” the required scenes. Delays on account of rainy weather were inevitable, while a particularly heavy storm, occompanied by a cloudburst, kept all members of the party in camp. Unnoticed by them, a large quantity of water gathered in the canyon behind them. This was considerably swollen by the cloudburst, with the result that it suddenly washed though the gorge and poured down on the camp. Tents, personal belongings, cameras, films, and expensive sound reproducing apparatus were swept away into the river, which was alsjp littered with the company’s food supplies. This attracted a score of crocodiles to the spot, where they enjoyed an unexpected feast. It was, in fact, because of the large quantity of food the reptiles were able to consume that they postponed visitiim the sodden camp itself. The radio also having been destroyed, the party were isolated, and except for the prearranged visit of the river boat they had chartered, their position might have become most dangerous.