“Booloo”

Northern Advocate, 30 January 1939, Page 2

“ Booloo”

Into the steaming Malay jungle goes Captain Robert Rogers, young English adventurer and son of a- famous explorer. He is determined to capture a strange white tiger and so redeem the honour Of his deceased father, ridiculed by his colleagues for writing about the beast. Young Rogers leaves his beautiful fiancee, Kate Jaye, behind him in London . . . Around his jungle camp, Rogers and native assistants hunt and lay traps. They capture leopards, elephants, snakes and monkeys—but no white tiger. When natives report that “Booloo” is stalking about in the region, the Englishman feigns disinterest knowing Sakai tribesmen will kill any white man who seeks the tiger, whom they worship as a god. The elated Rogers is telling his friends back in London about reports of the white tiger, by means of a short wave radio, when his set goes dead! Rogers looks outside to see his guides killed by poisoned darts. The Sakai are on the warpath. Escaping into the jungle, Rogers comes upon a fearful sight, Sakai natives have begun their ancient rite, by which they sacrifice a maiden to the white tiger to appease the jungle god. After a weii'd dance, the medicine men tie the chosen maiden in a trap and go away, leaving her to her fate. Rogers releases the girl, takes her away, and waits for the arrival of “Booloo!” The awaited animal leaps into the trap, clawing Rogers as he cuts. his wdy olit of the cage. The wounded man crawls into the jungle, aided by the thankful native girl. The next morning the natives thinking that their god has been appeased, come t 6 release “Booloo” from the trap. Seeing that the girl has escaped, they search the jungle and capture Rogers—just as he shoots “Booloo.” Enraged at the murder of their deity, I,he natives bind Rogers to a tree, torturing him by blowing poisoned darts all around him. The girl, fleeing, meets a British rescue party and directs them to the settlement. They arrive at the moment when the native chief is about to hurl the fatal dart. With the body of the white tiger as visual proof of his father’s truthfulness, Rogers returns to London the hero of science—and of Kate.