The weekly Iberian., 1914-08-29
COL. ROOSEVELT
PRAISES "MOVlES'
OF WILD BEASTS
ByZjt.

pictures and the man who TOOK
them. There are The animated
photographs of animal life al
over the world Cherry kearton
gathered them in the wilds, armed
with his fourteen pound biograph-
ic outfit.
Colonel Roosevelt. III lntr0duc'
ing Mr.. Kearton who lectures III
front Of the screen while the plc'
lures are being run off, colnpl :
mented the photographer upon his
daring and also upon his choice OF
subjects. The Colonel also talk d
about how much such pictures as
these must mean TO posterl Y,
and declared that whatever MT.
KeartOn showed on the screen was
absolutely genuine.
The pictures, which are beng
brought forward under the dlrec'
tion Of Adolph Zukor, will be
shown at the Playhouse this after
noon at $3.50 O'clock and at o.heT
matinees to be announced lateI
Many of these pictures were not
taken without risk of life an0
limb. for with the heavy camera
attached TO his back, Mr. krarton
swung suspended in midalr Over
the cliffs, taking moving pictures
of the sea fowl on their nests.
But adventures more daring than
those at home tempted Mr. kear-
ton and be made a trip into Rrlt.
ish East Africa for the purpose OF
recording the lives of the African
animals and BIRDS. On this trip
Mr.. KeartOn met with the expedl
ton under Colonel Roosevelt, and
a strong friendship sprang up be-
tween them.
His first expedition to Africa
lasted six months. In 1910 Mr.
Kearton left England with the
Buffalo Jones expedition TO record
the efforts and success Of the
American cowboys IN lassoing and
tying up big game Few who
have seen these thrilling and ex'
citing pictures of roping the larg
est antelope, lioness and a rhin
ocerOs were aware Of the name Oi
the daring photographer, who
lodging about OF foot, rlsked biz
life to bring these thrilling scenes
with all their movement and dra
matte value before the public, and
it was while he was in Africa on
this occasion that Mr.. keartOn
also took the most remarkable Sc
ries of animated photographs OF
that warrior race, the Masal,
hunting and killing lions as their
ancestors had done before them
for a thousand years, armed only
with spear and shield
On the screen Mr.. Kearton's au
dience sees little band of sa
wages attack at top speed the SO
called king Of beasts, and Kill, nm
aided by the white hunter or the
high-power rifle, four of the grea,
ANIMALS in honorable and open
fight. There is a little fox terrier
dog that helped them, but that is
Mr.. Kearton's story, to tell as be
shows the pictures.
Other remarkable films were Sc
cured Oh this same trip; hippopO
tami baskiDg on submerged rocks
or wallowing and plunging in the
swift flowing African rivers. Gro
codile and water turtle, and, out
on the veldt. rhlD0ceros, giraffe,
and rushing herds of zebra, wild
beast, eland, konkoni. and the les
ser antelope. And the life of the
natives, with their war dances and
their marches of triumph after
successful hunting Mr. KeartoD
has also recorded.
But Africa alone has not been
his field. La Borneo be has pene
trated into the jungle and taking
moving pictures of the oraDg ou
tang, Swinging seventy feet high
amid the trailing rOtan vines. In
India he has made twenty days.
trip Oh an elephants back and has
brought away with him films of
surr assing lnteIest-wild elephant
feeding amid the lily pads; mon
keys scuttling abont amoog the
branches Cf the trees; bats as
large as bantams, and pythou
swarming its length along a tree,
trunk by the river bal,k.
Mr.. Kearton took a , ictu:e of a
tiger on foot from heh nd scree /,
of leaves. and of tbs tiger there
is also tragic story, told by the
daring photographers But it is
not alwas the big game that has
attracted him while in the wllds
of the jungle. The intimate life
of birds and reptiles, and even in
sects, he has ceugh : daucing
bird aud vnlturt; chameleons of
new species; ants and bees, and
even catcrpillaf during its meta
m0rphosis into the chrysalis. -
New York Journa Sept. Is, 1918.
Elks' Theatre, Tresday, Sept. 5