MAJESTIC THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 532, 16 May 1933, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE

i % TO-DAY ^LND TO-NIGH.T. An unusual motion picture of jungle savage beasts in action is due for its first showing in this town. It is "Bring 'Em Back live," visualising the adventures of Frank Buck in fietching the largest and most f erocious wild beasts from the jungle to the zoos of the world. The picture shows, among other events, &. stalkjng, preying frothing female tiger cut a baby elephant off from its motber. Th'e baby pachyderm is no higher from the ground than a medium sized police dog. Still whimpering forj its mothers' milk, it senses danger. Its miniature trunk trumpets an S.O.S. for mama. The. tiger, relentless, tireless, intent on the kill, lopes along. The wee ele- | phant runs this way and that. It I turns . . . it scampers to the brush wild witjh terror, while thje J tiger enemy trails it with drooling K tongue and bared fangs. ... But Frank Buck is there with a long barrelled rifle. A careful, easy,, well-timed shot brings the tiger down. And then a wild chase to capture th'e baby elephant with his bare hands. The more dynamic portions of "Bring 'Em Back Alive," RKO -Radio picture, shows actual combats between tigerg and pythons, crocodiles, panther and water buffalo. Clyde E. Elliott directed this production in the - Malay jungles for the Van , Beuren Corp'oration.