MAORILAND PICTURES.

Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 1 September 1919, Page 3

MAORILAND PICTURES.

“TARZAN OF THE APES.’-’ A rare treat, it is claimed, is in store for theatregoers in the picturisation of Edgar Rice Burrough’s famous book, “Tarzan of the Apes,” which is to bo screened to-morrow night at the Otaki Theatre. Apart from the fact that a noble genealogical tree is provided for Tarzan and that his unscrupulous relatives in England scheme to sever his branch, a drama in itself, there are a hundred exciting incidents and episodes in the wilds of Africa where Tarzan’s daily companions are lions, tigers, leopards, elephants, crocodiles, gorillas, apes and the innumerable other beasts indigenous to the jungle. The story opens in England, where a young nobleman and his wife embark for West Africa on a mission connected with the slave trade. A mutiny on board results in the two passengers being landed as castaways. They build a hut, in which Tarzan is born. Fever claims the mother, and after the father has been mauled by a leopard a crowd of giant apes finish him ffl*, and cue of their number, recently bereft of its own offspring. seizes the white baby and carries it te her couch in the trees. A delightful romance is deftly interwoven, and altogether the production is said to be distinctly unique and entirely different from anything previously conceived in screen history.