PIGMY MAN AT THE SHOW

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 518, 22 November 1928, Page 15

PIGMY MAN AT THE SHOW

UNCOUTH AND WONDERFUL This week the show gives the opportunity to the people of Auckland of seeing the most wonderful exhibit of any showman. Saba Duta, the strong, healthy, happy little pigmy from Central Africa is interesting in himself, with his quaint leopard skin dress and his deeptoned chant in the only language (the basic Bantu African tongue) which he has learned except his own. Saba’s own tongue is a weird cacaphony of clicks and gutturals, more like radio statics than anything lingual ever heard in ..ew Zealand. He walks up and down with the free stride of the open spaces, brandishing his ridiculous weapons. Sava is one of the forest inhabitants who have given more anxiety to ex>lorers of the wild than any of the stalwart, warlike races of the Daric Continent. A harp-like twang from the surrounding gloom, a tingling puncture with one of those ridiculous looking poisoned arrows, and the adventurer in the dim aisles of the Congo forests is doomed to the lingering death of agony. , . have succeeded in bringing one of these little people out of his own territorv, to train him not to offend the decencies of a mixed white audience, and to keep him contented and m health in surroundings far from congenial to him, is a triumph of showmVisitors at the Auckland Jubilee Show to-morrow and on Saturday should not miss seeing this pigmy.

“BRASS KNUCKLES” AT EDENDALE “Brass Knuckles,” now at the Eden is melodrama, human, rough and mirthful. It recounts the rugged adventures of Zac Harrison, a tenement vouth, a structural iron worker bv trade, whom we see first in prison, where he has been placed wrongfully. Ho incurs the enmity of an inmate, who bides his time to get even. After Zac is again a part of the big city, working at his trade, and caring for a motherless waif, the enemy bobs up, causing complications which for the time break up the little, home and put both child and protector in institutions. Monte Blue is at his best as the hero of this story of hard fists and kindly hearts, and Betty Bronson plays the waif, June, with whimsical charm. An exciting Tom Mix story, “Horseman of the Plains,” is on the same programme.