AMUSEMENTS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 637, 24 January 1914, Page 5

AMUSEMENTS.

EMPRESS PICTURES. "African Hunt."—Secured at cost of 25.000 dollars. A bewildering realistic screening of big game hunting in the jungle w'lds of Darkest Africa, depicting thousands of wild, ferocious beasts of the vast continent in their native haunts and lairs, including lion?, tigers, elephants, rhinoceri, hvennas. giraffes, casselles, zebras, camels, monkeys jackals, vongon', crva, wart hog, eland, reed buck, bush buck, ostriches. The wonderful waterhole in the desert, tbeaiimal's well, is the only water within a radius of 80 miles, and the wild animals, embracing nearly every species in Africa, as they came to quench their thirst, wore kinemtogrnphed by Mr Rainey's expert. To secure this wonderful picture, Mr Memmant, the photugrapher, lived for Bix weeks among the branches of a tree boside a pool. The result of his labours has been acknowledged to be the greatest addition to scientific knowledge of the last decade. Ono of the most realistic and exciting spectacles ever screened is the fierce battle between the lion and the dogs, the closest picture ever taken of a wild animal in his native haunt. The hunting dogs tree a cheetah, then climb to the topmost branches and force the cheetah to jump into the pack of fighting dogs below. The picture will be graphically described by Mr Kenneth Carlisle, the brilliant reconteur and literary representative of the expedition, who comos direct from London to tour New Zealand with the pictures.