ELEPHANT WALK
(Paramount) LEPHANT WALK is the palatial home of a millionaire tea-planter (Peter Finch) in the highlands of Cey-
lon. It is so-called because Pete’s popan autocrat, now deceased-built it slap across an immemorial elephant track, on purpose to annoy the beasts. Elephants, of course, have a most persistent ancestral memory and every so often they try to barge through from the back-kitchen to the front parlour en route for somewhere else, and have to be chased off by an army of native beaters, This quaint custom, and such other quaint customs as bicycle polo played in the front hall by the local sahibs. prove too much for the nerves of a young wife fresh from the London suburbs. She is about’ to elope with the estate superintendent when a cholera epidemic shows her where duty lies. As if that. wasn’t enough, the stampeding elephants finally do amble through from the back-kitchen to the front parlour, and effectively wreck the joint. Husband and wife are hurled into one another’s arms and the curtain falls on a happy shambles. So much for the price of tea. Right now, I'd settle cheerfully for a cup of cocoa and the relative tranquillity of the suburbs.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 795, 15 October 1954, Page 21
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203ELEPHANT WALK New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 795, 15 October 1954, Page 21
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