GRAND THEATRE
DOUBLE FEATURE. TO-NIGHT No cowboy togs are worn by George O'Brien in his latest Fox picture, "A Holy Terror," now being screened at the Grand Theatre. He portrays the role of a handsome young society man, but most of the action takes place in a Western background, affording him further opportunities for displaying his slcill at riding, playing polo, flying an aeroplane, handling a gun and making love. The most thrilling moment in "Simba," the big game hunting motion picture made in Africa by Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson, which is being showing at the Grand Theatre, is that which shows the naked blacks of the Lumbwa tribe, armed only with spears and shields, attacking and killing full grown lions. It seems ineredible fhat the king of beasts could be slaki by such simple weapons, but the camera shows exactly how it is done, and the scene keeps spectators on the edges of their seats. As Martin Johnson, who photographed the battle, tells it, he, with his wife, Osa, and their safari, had treked down into Tanganyika on the trail of lions. This, says Johnson, is the most wonderful big game tract in the world.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 64, 6 November 1931, Page 5
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197GRAND THEATRE Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 64, 6 November 1931, Page 5
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