AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1932, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

• 4VKRYBODYB PICTURES.

v “TRADER HORN.” “Trader Horn” will be shown at the Princess Theatre again this evening. Love in -the midst of the cradle of savagery; a romance amid the perils of the primeval jungle ; spectacle; thrills .<■ wild animals in their primitive state; If a girl as savage as the beasts themselves urged to civilisation through Jove of a man from the outer world—these are some of the outstanding elements unfolded in “Trader Horn.” The story is that of the famous book 4 of the old African adventurer and fdnied in the heart of Africa’s jungles in ■ the" greatest motion picture expedition of all time, the Metro-Goldwyn-Ma.ver . production. Its drama would make it a powerful "thing in itself. For the ; first time one actually hears the voices of the jungle for the “Trader Horn” expenditure carried with it the first and only sound recording apparatus ever to be taken into the Dark Continent. One sees a zebra worsting a lion in a death battle, a fight between leopards and a pack of hyenas, the thundering charge of rhinoceros, hairbreadth escapes from crocodiles—and one victory for one of the great repr. tiles. There is a gorgeous romance of the boy from Peru and the golden-haired “'sun goddess” of the savage tribes. Harry Carey, as “Trader Horn,” utters the author’s homely philosophies i and..gives a splendid dramatic perform- • ance. Edwina Booth, as the girl is <t -remarkable actress, and Duncan Ren&aido: jprtays the romantic Peru boy. . Nb wonder men, women and children the world over, no less than in Australasia, h"av& made a gala screen occasion of “Trader Horn”! It appeals irresistibly to all classes and ages. Such a mighty breadth of panoramic romance and drama, has never before been produced for the screen