“DARKEST AFRICAL

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19944, 31 October 1934, Page 14

“DARKEST AFRIC AL

REALISTIC DRAMA /V* Jr • *V.‘: ’ X ! The quiet grounds of Littleton Park; at Shepperton-on-Thames. have been transformed into an African village. Warrior chieftains from the CToo and, Mendi tribes. Zulus and Angoligns are the inhabitants. The ghost of Edgar Wallace haunts' J the village, for the polyglot, camming ‘ ity are completing the filn/’vemoa of • his book. “Sanders of the River.’£ Shis is a record of a coiresjbndent’s Impressions aS lie approffc j|d this corner of darkest Africa. £ An incessant beating <sf ton\-tams .*» 1 drew me on. Blood-curdling, cries and « | weird shrieks came i!Y increasing ' vigour. Through the brushwood wa c 4 seen an appalling tragedy, being er acted. Outside a native chiefs hait was a white man tied to a stake. him. led by a witch doctyn* in full re- / galia. danced 400 armed wtrriors in a wild frenzy. Suddenly a gigantic headsmaii leapt out and plunged his spear .into the white man’s heart. Very vealifMc indeed. y* London Flm Productions ieajfjtisu the country for the cast. Negroes . were selected from all walks 6f iue—ship’s firemen, fitters, motor mechanics, a professional boxer, and a clairvoyant. Leslie Banks plays Sanders. Paul Robeson is a native chief, and Nina May McKinney his wife.