SUPERSTITIOUS NATIVES
REFUSE TO KILL TIGERS Many of the thrills in “Chang,” Paramount’s Wonder Picture, are provided by tigers. In going to the Nan Country on the North-east of Siam, Merian Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, the two men who produced “Chang,” were surprised that the natives would not kill tigers. They were superstitious but Anally were persuaded by -ooper and Schoedsack, that the killing of tigers would make the villages safer. Some idea of the pre..-1-.ice of maneating tigers may be gained from the statements of Dr. Hugh Taylor, the oldest missionary in the Nan district, that between 300 and 400 peop l had been killed by tigers in the past five years. Mr. Cooper quotes the missionary as saying that from one village of 100 inhabitants 20 had been lost in one year. It was in such a country that the drama of “Chang” was Aimed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 312, 24 March 1928, Page 16
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