Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-04-29 | Page 4 | Kinema Has African Film That's Different and More Entertaining

Has African Film That's Different And More Entertaining Not ot only is Hunting Big Game in Africa with Gun and Camera now at the different In many mallY respects from all other pictures of ot oti this kind but It Is proclaimed by I in many i to be more r tl thrilling It proved r v very popular yesterday on the opening openIng opening open open- ing da day When H. H A. A Snow was In the course of ot his miles of wandering wandering wan wan- dering through h Africa with gun and camera he he achieved a u a-u unique coup coupIn In obtaining permission S to P photograph photograph photo photo- f ot II graph a the DeBeers diamond d mines In South Africa and this remarkable record will be flashed on the s screen In addition to the big game episodes Hunting Big Game In Africa with Gun and Camera is an unequivocal hit presenting more than fifty distinct distinct distinct dis dis- species of f animal lifo life to the screen with countless thrills provided provided provided pro pro- vided In the slaying of dangerous beasts DIAMOND MINES ALSO SHOWN snO Snow and his party part Including camera men went down to the 1300 foot toot level of the DeBeers mines where they obtained unique footage showing whence hence the tho sparkling sparkling gems come It was only through great I Influence that Snow obtained the privilege of entering the the the- electrically electrical electrical- ly ly charged barbed wire Inclosure wherein the mines are located No other camera party had ever been Within the compound where lies wealth Untold E NEVER LEAVE VE MINES IINES When a native enters the employ of the DeBeers mines he Is under contract for three years of ot service during all of which time he Is not permitted to leave i ti the ee mine In inclosure in- in closure For sixty days prior to the completion of ot his contract heis he heIs heIs Is under the most careful survell- survell ance and is rigidly examined by physicians to see that by no chance he had gained possession of ot a stray gem Cases have been known of ot natives cutting incisions ns Into arm armor armor armor or leg muscles and Imbedding uncut uncut un- un cut stones In their bodies Others have have- endeavored to smuggle out stolen diamonds in their nasal passages passages passages pas pas- sages and in the inner recesses of the ear cavIty Snow and his party were royally royalty entertained Ined by th the superintendent of the mines during the the two weeks passed at what is perhaps the earths earth's richest treasure sure house II IC I was t their last tou touch of civilization and Its comforts for tor more than twenty months month for they then then I I plu plunged ged Into the Jungles and the unmeasured plains of Africa in search of ot bl big game Theirs was no pleasure Jaunt for they trudged hand to fn n han hand 1 with death dally ex exposed exposed exposed ex- ex posed to the of ot wild animals reptiles virulent Insect bites and the feared unconquered scourge of ot Africa the deadly tsetse fly whose sting lulls to a sleep that knows no waking MYSTERY LA LAND D DROUGHT BROUGHT TO LIGHT From out of the depths of tile the Jungles of the Dark Continent that lend land of which So BO much lies shrouded shroud shroud- ed in mystery has come H H. A. A Snow bearing to civilization a a. cine cane matte matic record of the thrills thrill the drama the pathos the comedy the beautiful of a aast vast ast domain where 1 beasts of the wild reign supreme COUNTLESS SS A ANIMALS S FILMED To give the total number of ot wild I creatures cr in the film would be im impossible impossible Im- Im possible owing to the density of ot some of the herds hers and colonies Asfor As Asfor for example early in the first r reel el I more than a million Jackass penguins pen pen- penguins guins Is passing are s shown among gasS as some the Oe ex expedition deserted deserted pen pen-I t Islands off off the coast of ot South Africa A notable difference between the wild lId animals animals' shown animals shown In the Snow film mm and their domesticated relatives relatives relatives rela rela- tives occasionally shown In zoos Is that wild animals are from 60 to per cent larger than those in la captivity LARGEST LION A AND D ELEPHANT KILLED lULLED Records show that Mr Snow killed tile the biggest lion Hon and most I monstrous monstrous' elephant In the annals of ot hunting In the Dark Continent Inthe In Inthe Inthe the course of t the pictures the bunter hunter hun bun ter faces lions leopards a hippos a charging r Y c and and maddened elephants of ot animals unfamiliar unfamiliar unfamiliar un un- un- un familiar to man dot the film