LION WITH FACE “POWDERED”
WOMAN’S JUNGLE RUSE. An amusing story of an encounter with a lion was told by Mrs Johnson when she arrived at Croydon Aerodrome recently, w’th her husband, Mi’ Martin Johnson, the American film producer, aftei- an aerial expedition for eighteen months in Kenya, Tanganyika and Abyssinia, filming big game and savage tribes. Mi’s Johnson said: “In Tanganyika I awoke one morning to find a dozen lions around my ’plaxie. I put my head through the! door, but hurriedly withdrew it as a lion came up to me. “I grabbed a bag of flour and threw it in the lion’s face. Its whitened appearance caused the other lions to turn tail and flee.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 September 1934, Page 8
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