MAJESTIC THEATRE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 549, 5 June 1933, Page 3

MAJESTIC THEATRE

TOi-NIGHT. "Tarzan, the Ape Man," Edgar Rice Burrough's widely-read African ad- • venture novel, h'as been brought to the sereen under the direetion of W. S. Van Dyke, of "Trader Horn" fame, and will he shown to-night at th'e Majestic Theatre.

Because the hero of this story is a White man who h'as been brought up in the jungle and lives like the apes in the tree-tops, making his way by swinging through them from limb to limb, difiiculty was encou'ntered in finding someone of sufficient athletic prowess to fill the exacfing role. The problem v/as solved when Johnny Weiss muller, world's ehampion swimmer and one of the finest j examples of masculine phyisques, was ] cast as Tarzan. Neil Hamilton and C. Aubrey Smith, as leaders of an Eng- | lish safari' seeking ivory wealth, 1 Maureen O'Sullivan as Smith's daughScene from "Tarzan, the Ape Man" ter, Doris Lloyd, Forrester Harvey and Ivory Williams fill the remaining principal roles. Jungle thrills outdoing even those of the sensational "Trader Horn" are promised in the daring trek of AfricaN in search of the curious "Elephant's Burial Ground" in the eourse of which the adventureers meet with terrlfying obstacles. The wits of the white man are matched against those of beasts and savage pygmies with the ! P'rimitive winning out in th'e end, while screen romanee of a new order is entailed in the curious love affair of the Ape Man and English girl. What are" reported to be some of the film's most hair-raising episodes include an attack of lions by night upon the safari camp; the crossing of a river filled with hippop otama;- a fight hetween Tarzan and a bull-ape; the rescue of a trapped elephant and the subsequent efforts of the grateful beast to aid his. rescuers. There is also an amazing episode in which the heroine is carried through the trees hy a herd of apes; the capture of the safari by the pygmy tribe; their subsequent escape from death in a gorilla pit and the spectaeular charge of a huge herd of elephants through the pygmy vi'llage, leaving devastation and terror in its walce.