Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-09-03 | Page 3 | 'Congorilla' Opens Doors to Fierce Jungles Life

Congo rilla Opens Doors to to Fierce Jungles Life a spin tingling spine tingling a-tingling adventure ad ad- venture picture taken takers entirely In Africa by the famous explorers am and lecturers Mr and Mrs Martin Johnson Johnson John John- son son opened Friday at the Paramount theater Its authenticity J Is unchallengeable and therefore the sensational sensational sensa sensa- spectacles which the picture boasts arc are doubly thrilling and im im- im- im Drama and romance of a fantastic and yet dreadfully realistic type constantly shocks and amazes the Audience The door back-door of civil civili is battered down and beyond i ione it one sees sights that few human eyes have witnessed The Johnson safari set out not to hunt or kill th the tho huge man-like man gorillas from which the picture gets its title but to depict their habits habit and haunts in sound pictures Such a feat has never been successfully accomplished until this picture and the results are arc giving fans at the Paramount some of the seasons season's greatest thrills Unprecedented pictorial beauty enhances enhances en en- the film fUm A striking view of remote Lake Albert where lI literally rally billions of flamingos are arc seen and heard is shown Murchison falls one of Africa's most splendid scenic spots is also glimpsed Some of the most unusual sequences in the tho picture are devoted to revelations of the life am and habits of little known pygmy tribes who inhabit the Itura tura forest The Johnsons spent seven months among these little people and after winning their confidence took intimate pic pie tures turcs of their strange tribal ceremonies ceremonies ceremonies cere cere- monies including their unique marriage marriage mar mar- rites But it iUs is with adventures of the expedition expedition ex ex- among the huge beasts of Africa that the picture is principally concerned crocodiles b by the thousands hippopotami lions giraffes gi gi- gi herds of zebras antelopes and finally th the ferocious gorillas play aCtive ac at aC- aC live tive parts in the unfolding story is decidedly different a a picture that took two years ol or arduous and dangerous work to pro pro- duce The new program is rounded out by an Andy Clyde CIde comedy His Royal Shyness a Paramount pictorial pic plc- tonal subject and Paramount sou id news