THE REGENT.

Wairarapa Age, 8 April 1933, Page 2

THE REGENT.

“BRING ’EM BACK .ALIVE” SHOWING TO-DAY. “Bring ’Em Back Alive,” which comes to the Regent Theatre to- ' day, when it will be shown at matinee and evening performances, is an unusually fine motion picture of savage jungle beasts in action in their native habitat. It depicts graphically the adventures of Frank Buck, in fetching the largest and most ferocious wild beasts of the jungle to the zoos of the world. The picture shows, among other events a stalking, preying frothing female tiger cut a tiny baby elephant off from its mother. The baby pachyderm is no higher from the ground than a medium sized police dog. Frank Buck is there with a long barrelled rifle. A careful, easy, welltimed shot brings the tiger down. And then a wild chase to capture the baby elephant with his bare hands. Again, a little black honey-bear ambles into camp. It is so young its eyes are still unopened. Buck places it in a rough-hewn cabin built six feet off the ground. Dinnertime, and a hungry cub, missing its mother, lifts the latch purely by accident. By instinct it rolls off to the jungle. Then comes the villain of the piece—a long, lithe, forked-tongued snake coiled in the sun —ear and sense alive with hungry hope. And there’s the little bear. Innocent, ambling, trusting. The forked tongue leaps out —-the coiled body uncoils—dinnertime for Mr. Snake. Lights out for Mr. Bear? But no. Kindly providence, in the guise of Frank Buck’s native boy, momentarily stops the snake and a little black honey-bear comes back home. The more- dynamic portions of “Bring ’Em Back Alive,” an RKO-Radio picture, .show actual combats between tigers and pythons, crocodiles, panther and water buffalo. Clyde El Elliott directed this production in the Malay jungles for the Van Beuron Corporation. 'Seats may be reserved at Perry’s ’phone 2496.