REGENT THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 44, 22 February 1939, Page 9

REGENT THEATRE

•TRADER HORN.” Mighty drama of a primeval world ot atavism rampant in almost unknown spots of the glome; thundering adventure, strange rites of a savage people in the jungles—these are the background for an everlasting story of devotion, love and romance, in “Trader Horn,” Metro - GoldwynMayer's gigantic lilmisation of the famous book, to commence a return season to-day at the Regent Theatre. To describe “Trader Horn” staggers the imagination. There is drama that grips the heart in the play—and drama equally as gripping in the savage death dance ot the wild Isorgi a ceremony thousands of years old in the pathless jungle that the picture brings, with sound and all, to the screen. The weird chants, the tom-toms, the swaying painted black bodies in strange cadence—lt is never to be forgotten. Wild animals light to the death; one sees a zebra worst a lion in a death struggle; leopards routed by a pack of hyenas; the deadly charge ot the ferocious rhinoceros; hair-bradth escapes from gigantic crocodiles. Harry Carey gives a magnificent performance in the role of Trader Horn, the guardian of Peru, his friend’s son, and of the golden-haired Nina T. "White Goddess” in a temple ot a savage tribe. Duncan Renaldo plays the role of Peru convincingly and Edwina Booth is beautiful as well as dramatic in the heroine's role. Oboe Golden and others are in the cast, not to forget Mutia, giant native, who enacts Renchero with all the skill of a trained screen actor.