JUNGLE DRAMA
BIG PARAMOUNT PICTURE In the jungles of Northern Siam, tigers are believed to be the guardians of departed spirits. The spirits travel about in tigers, according to superstition. As a result, hundreds of natives aro killed each year because they’re afraid to kill the beasts. Often they attack domestic animals on the edge of a village and lie in wait for unwary men. Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack discovered this soon after theiy arrival in Siam for the purpose of producing “Chang,” Paramount’s jungle melodrama and one of the 100 per cent, group. In their film venture, encounters with the wildest animals were frequent and at times it became necessary to shoot in self-preservation. Before shooting, Mr. Cooper would make a speech to his retainers beginning: “On my shoulders be it . . .” Even this assumption of responsibility did not entirely remove their fears. After each killing the natives dismembered the animals, carefully removed their whiskers, which they use as charms and boiled the bones for medicine. No native family is considered safe without a receptacle containing essence of tiger bones.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 188, 29 October 1927, Page 16
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183JUNGLE DRAMA Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 188, 29 October 1927, Page 16
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