Curious Tale Of A Lost Jungle

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 36, 17 February 1939, Page 14

Curious Tale Of A Lost Jungle

[*The Lost Jungte."* Action Picturés. Directed by David Howard a Armand Schacfer. With Clyde Cecilia Parker. Release date indefi™™ nite.J NCE upon a time-quite some time ago, in faetthere was a film producer who decided he would make a wild animal picture, but he wanted it to be different from other wild animal pictures. So he engaged the services ‘of Clyde Beatty, who earns more money than any: other wild animal trainer in captivity, and he called him Clyde Baty, and got him te make his pets-lions, tigers, bears and other assorted beasts-do their circus act all together in front of the movie cameras. And that was n

quite sensational, because lions, tigers, bears and other assorted beasts aren’t usually on the best of terms when gathered in the same place. However, the praducer of this picture decided it wasn’t quite different enough from other animal pictures having them all: together like that in a circus, so he invented @ lost jungle. And he sent an explorer named Livingstone and the girl whom Baty was in love with when he wasn’t thinking about his animals, to look fer this lost jungle in a sailing-shkip. -* (Continued on opposite page.)

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By Sea And Air THEN, by way of a change from . Wild animals, there was a storm at sea, and the ship was wrecked on the shores of a lost island in the Pacific, where, by a fortunate coincidence, the iost jungle was situated. When Baty heard about this, he secured a seat in a dirigible which was going out to look for the lost explorers in the lost jungle. However, the producer of this film, having heard about the -Akron’ disaster, decided there had better be a storm in which the dirigible would crash. Se it broke in half, and part went to the bottom of the sea, but another part, in which Baty had his seat, kept sailing straight on until it, too, by another fortunate coincidence, came to earth in the middie of the lost jungle. In The Cradle THIS lost jungle was infested by lions, tigers, bears, zebras, and other wild beasties, ali living together and disobeying the laws of zoology;. but that was quite in order because it was explained that the lost jungle was really the cradle of civilisation, where the

Continents of Asia and Africa had once been joined, with a complete disregard for geography, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. A Busy Day MEANWHILE, half the shipwrecked crew on the island had been gobbled up by wild animals and the rest were ripe for mutiny; but the explorer named Livingstone, with true scientific zeal, insisted on going out to look for a lost city in the midst of the lost jungle. Having unearthed a buried treasure of precious stones, he got himself seared to death by the sole surviving inhabitant of the lost city, who resided, for some} peculiar reason, at the bottom of a pool filled with crocodiles. , So, what with one thing and another, Clyde Baty had quite a busy day when he began to take control of the situation. He found the jewels, he lassoed lions and tied up tigers, he settled the mutiny and the hash of the villain who was causing trouble, and then he proposed to the girl and brought ’em all back alive. And that, without comment, is the story of "The Lost Jungle" which stars, in addition to the incredible Clyde Beatty, a plump Cecilia Parker and a lion named Sam. .