Tivoli

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7247, 29 August 1933, Page 3

Tivoli

“BRING- ’EM BACK ALIVE” When the EEO-Radio offices in New York were preparing their publicity material on Frank Buck’s great animal picture, “Bring ’Em Back Alive,” which is at the Tivoli Theatre to-night, Mr Buck was asked for a list of the animals he has brought back to America. This, they thought, is a fine way to identify Mr Buck to each community where the picture plays. Certain limitations, however, prevented him supplying the complete census of his “assisted immigration’’ of zoological prizes. “Animals die when they have lived'their years out,’’ said he, "and this makes it all the more difficult to specify where they might be now. For instance, I supplied practically the entire zoological collection for the San Diego zoo when it first started. That was in 1923 or 1924, and they have continually added specimens; and birds' and animals have died -off, so that now I haven’t an accurate idea of what animals there were brought back by me, except that two full-grown female tigers are still on the job. Many of the animals which I brought back, and which arc in zoos and circuses over the country, were sold to them by intermediate dealers. At Dallas I stocked the entire zoo. I do know, though, that among the animals , which 1 brought back, and which arc still there, are elephants, a pail of tigers, a couple of leopards and a Malayan tapir. They have also bred some of the original stock that I brought back, so that I am the grandpa, by proxy, of a dozen orang-outangs.” The screening for Wednesday and Thursday will be "Call Her Savage,” starring Clara Bow, Monroe Owsley, Gilbert Roland, Thelma, Todd and Estelle Taylor. A matinee will be held to-morrow afternoon,