Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-03-31

TARzAN' COMING
Latest Story of Famous
Jungle Man Here
Friday

The Revenge of Tarzan," which
comes to the Rylander theater Fri
day, is the screen version of the ia.
nous story, THE Return of Tar.
zan," by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Ii
is produced by the Numa Pictures
Corporation and is distributed by
Goldwyn. This second screen story
of Tarzan, the ape man, one of the
most picturesque fiction PERSONAL
ties conceived, depicts his thrilling
experiences among civilized peoples.
and his eventual return to his Jungle
home.
The story opens with Tarzan
aboard a France bound steamer.
Hardly has the ship left her pier
when Tarzan, watching a card game,
exposes a couple of card cheats who
are trying to humiliate the Count de
Coude, in the hope that they can OBJ
tain from him, by blackmail, some
valuable papers in his possession, as
a member of the French diplomatic
service. One of them, Rokoff, the
Countess de Coude's brother, is an
agent of the Russian government.
Resenting his interference the two
conspire to revenge themselves upon
the indifferent Tarzan, who is a will
ing victim of their plots. Arrived in
Paris, he is drawn into a duel with
the Count de Coude through Rokoff's
efforts to compromise him with the
Countess.
Still DESTROYS of getting rid Of
Tarzan. who, he realizes is a formid.
n -
him into a house on one of the dark
Paris streets where are a band of
Apaches hired to kill him, but the
mighty apeman overpOwers them and
escapes.
Soon after this, Tarzan accepts "A
diplomatic position and leaves for
Algiers, where again he encounters
Rokoff and his accomplice, who are
aligned with the very man Tarzan
has been sent to track After nu
merous handsto hand fights Tarzan
Is finally made captive, bound to q
tree in an oasis and left to be killed
by desert beasts. A dancing girl
| who had tried to help him escape,
unbinds him just in time for him to
grapple with huge lion, which he
] 1iIlclllS Nils WIFI Ills DdIt lldIluS.
Receiving instructions to go t.
| Cape Town, he boards steamer for
! South Africa and again comes upon
! the Russian and his ally, who, deter.
mined to get rid of their enemy for
/ good, toss him overheard one night
as he stands unsuspectingly by thu
rail, Tarzan, after floating and swim
ming for hours, is finally cast upor
the African shore, to the very jungle
in which he. had lived and been
brought up by the ape.
Meantime, Jane Porter, the girl
| Tarzan loves, who, with her father
and her fiance is cruising on the
private. yacht of Lord bennington,
arrives in Cape Town, and there
meets the villain .Rokoff, travelling
under an assumed name, and an old
school mate, Hazel Strong, who had
been on the same ship. When the
party leaves Cape Town. they all go
as guests of Lord bennington on his
yacht. A ship fire sends everyone
to the life-boats, and Jane finds her
self in the boat with her fiance and
Rokoff, without provisions and sep
arated from the others. After DAYS
Of drifting under the torrid sun the
boat finally reaches the African
coast. Then begins a series of ad,
ventures that end with Tarzan's res.
cue from a ferocious lion of the girl
he loves-and who, he finds to his
great happiness, really loves him.