AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, 3 September 1919, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

“TARZAN OF THE APES.” A rare treat, it is claimed, is in store for theatregoerg in the pieturisation of Edgar Rice Burrough’s famous book “Tarzan of the Apes” which is to be screened for two nights only, Friday and Saturday next, at The Kings. Apart from the fact that a noble genealogical tree is provided for Tarzan and that -his unscrupulous relatives in England scheme to sever his branch, :1 drama in itself, there are a hundred excitizzg; incidents and episodes in the wilds of ‘Africa where Tarzan’s daily companions are lions, tigers, leopards, elephants, crocodile, gorillas apes and the innumerable other boasts indigenous to the jungle The story Opens in-England, where a young nobleman and his wife embark for West Africa on a mission connected with the slave trade. It is in the spacious days of Queen Victoria. A" mutiny on board results in the two passengers being landed as castaways. They build a hut. in which Tarzan is born. Fever claims the niother, and after the father has been mauled by a leopard. a crowd of giant apes finish him off, and one of their number, recently he. reft of its own offspring,-seizes the white baby, and carries it to her couch in the trees. A delightful romance is deftly interwoven and altogether the production is said to be aigtinctly unique and entirely different from anything DI‘OViOIISIY conceived in screen -history.