"TARZAN FINDS A SON"

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 27 January 1940, Page 4

"TARZAN FINDS A SON"

FOURTH OF FILMS BASED ON EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS' CHARACTERS

Thrills, drama and romance, told amid the jungles of Africa, are enthralling audiences wherever “Tarzan Finds a Son” reuniting Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’Sullivan has been playing. A new character comes to the screen in the fourth of the storie§ based on the Edgar Rice Bur-

[ mounted on elephants with Weissmul- ■ ler at the head, routj the savages in i a dramatic climax. The cavalry charge, rescue of the ; baby from a charging rhinoceros, > amazing underwater swimming by s Weissmuller and young Sheffield, and ■ dramatic sequences in the jungle tree

roughs characters in a ‘Tarzan, Junior,” played by John Sheffield, amazing five-year-old athlete who played the boy in “On Borrowed Time” on the New York stage. The new story deals with the finding of a baby, only survivor of a plane wreck in the jungle. Tarzan and his mate raise the boy. A safari arrives searching for plane survivors because of a legacy in England, and the boy becomes the centre of a plot to conceal his claim. Tarzan refuses to surrender the boy in any event, and Jane tricks him, feeling that the boy should return for his birthright. This leads to capture of the party by savages. A wild ride of a chimpanzee cavalry

house are high points in the adventure romance. Star animal actors include Cheeta, the famous Tarzan chimpanzee, Queen, Tarzan’s elephant friend, and Baby . Bee, smallest baby elephant in the United States. The players include lan Hunter, Henry Stephenson, Frieda Inescort, Henry Wilcoxon, Laraine Day and Morton Lowry. Hundreds of “natives” appear in bizarre ceremonies and the sequence in the great torture hall'

into which the herd of elephants crashes. Authentic native chants in Swahili lend a bizarre charm to the fantastic rites of the voodoo worshippers.