AMUSEMENTS

Taihape Daily Times, 4 September 1919, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

“TARZAN OF THE APES.” A rare treat, "it is claimed, is in store for theatregoeirs in the picturisation of Edgar Rice Burrough’s famous book f‘Tarzan of the Apes” which is to be screened for two-nights only, Friday and Saturday next, at ‘The Kingfs. Apart from the fact that a noble genealogical tree is provided for Tarzan and that his unscrupulous relatives in England scheme totsever his branch, a zclrama in itself, there are a hundred exciting ineidents._;an.d episodes in the wilds . of. 'Afr'icaj= W,-here: Tarzan’s daily companions are lions-, tigers, leopards, elephants, crocodile, gorillas apes and the innumerable other beasts 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 mother, and after the father has been mauled by a leopard. a crowd of giant. apes finish him off, and one of their number, recently bereft 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 distinctly u-niquenand entirely different from anything previously conceived in screen history. '