A THRILLING EXPERIENCE.

Mataura Ensign, 23 July 1914, Page 7

A THRILLING EXPERIENCE.

Actors for motion picture dramas aYe called on to face death in awful form, m the .pursuit of their profession. In! a drama entitled, "In tire Coils of a Python," Mr 'S. Badnbridgej an- American. actor, liad a. terrible sxperience. |Mr Bainbridge was the'villain. A't the ok®3 of a particularly, nicked day this character tried to elude justice on horseback. A large python that had not been fed for a, week 'was- caged and carried to the centre of the road down which Mr Ba'inhridge .was to ride. The cage was opened, and) the pytliom gjowly crawled to liberty. A few moments ilater the actor .galloped' up, "did a fall from .horse," as the picture directory phrase, and prostrated himself before the hungry snake. , The python immediately began to squeeze him, 'and 1 the pain was so great that Mr Bainbridge shouted for asisdtance._ The snake was shot and killed, hut it took four men ihalf an hour to 4 free the actor from; the coils of the .reptile.