AMAZING PICTURE IS SHOWING AT LIBERTY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19268, 3 January 1931, Page 15

AMAZING PICTURE IS SHOWING AT LIBERTY.

Here a.t last is the supreme story of the African wilderness, where adventure stalks the travel lei* on every side. It is told in motion pictures which are so strange and startling as to be wellnigh incredible, yet never once can their genuineness be doubted. It took Martin and Oso Johnson four years to gather all the material which makes up “Simba,” as their pictorial story is entitled, after the Swahili name for the King of Beasts. “Simba” will be presented at the Liberty Theatre to-day. It is a drama of desperate realities, picturing indisputably wild beasts of jungle and veldt, and the wild savages of Africa in the lives they live and the deaths they die. The story itself is not a staged or movie production; it is Africa as nature made it. The cameras take one there, afoot, alongside and into the thick of it, the high excitement of a river crossing amid hundreds of hungry crocodiles, encounters with giant rhinoeeri, and fighting the ever-attack-ing hippopotami, and the greatest natural scene it was ever privileged a human eye and camera to record—the mad elephant stampede in the burning jungle. A lion hunt is the big feature of the story. It is a genuine thrill. Natives go in pursuit of the beasts with spears. The lions fight back to the death, and the cameras have recorded every incident, event to the mauling of a native. “Simba” is a picture that should not be missed. It has thrills that are real, not of the Hollywood variety: and, mors than that, it is a picture the like of which may not be seen for 3 r ears and perhaps never again. The second feature on the Liberty programme is “Troopers Three,” a ridiculously funny all-talking comedv depicting the trials and tribulations of three cavalry recruits who are always falling off their horses and falling in love with the other fellow’s girl and getting into endless trouble. It is provocative of much mirth and merriment. During the holidays the box plans will be at the Liberty Theatre.