ROYAL PICTURES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2077, 13 January 1920, Page 2

ROYAL PICTURES.

AI the .Royal to-night the programme screened last night will, be" repealed. To-morrow night the great superfeature, “Tamm of the Apes”- will he screened. Perhaps it is because of our Simian ancestry that/we arc usually so intereste,d in tliepnonkey. if veil at the zoo, where one may sea a serpent calmly sunning itself, a hear hugging the rocks for want ofsometiiing more yielding, or a lion roaring harmlessly from hi l - cake, Ihe crowd hovers longest about the monkey’s quarters.* There B a similar allractioii in “Tarzan of. the Apes,’’ (he moving picture adapted from Edgar Ride Burrough’s book, which-'is to he presented at the Royal to-morrow (Wednesday), for one night only. It is a play of the jungle in which apes- have conspicuous parts. They work and light, and I’rßk about the trees, and like the animals of ancient myths, steal a. human baby and bring him to man'hood. The hoy’s adventures with them, and his gradual realisation that he is not- one of 1 hem. form the subject of (he story. From the beginning of the picture animals of many sorts, lions, leopards, alliga-i tors, elephants, boa constrictors, and birds almost as varied, are constantly appearing. And there is net the look of the lame menagerie aboutthem.