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Show "TRADEER HORN" COMES TO THE TALKING SCREEN "Trader Horn," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's sensational filmization of the famous book of African adventure, will open Sunday at the Victory Theatre, as the biggest undertaking in the filming- of adventure films in history. With a mortorized safari of a hundred trucks and autos, the troupe pressed into jungles in Africa never before traversed by white men. They carried the first and only sound recording apparatus ever brought to Africa's jungles,- and filmed film-ed and recorded the drama, with wild beasts ,savage native dances and ceremonies and other details right on the ground. They covered British East Africa, the Belgian Congo, and invaded the dreaded Murchison Falls "sleeping sickness country, m the 25,000-nnle location trip. The story, as adapted from the famous book by Alfred Aloysius Horn and Ethelreda Lewis, deals with the trader and his protege, Peru, who promises a woman missionary to find the "White Goddess" of the savage lsorgi, whom she believes to be her daughter, lost in a native raid as a baby. The dramatic highlights of the picture pic-ture include the chase of the dread juju priests of the Isorgi, the barbaric barbar-ic dance of the blood-thirsty tribesmen tribes-men to doom the white traders, Horn's promise to the missionary and her dramatic death, his sacrifice to save the lives and loves of the two young people, the, conflict between himself and Peru over the love of the girl ,the death of Mutia, and Horn's terrific feat of swiging through the snapping jaws of huge crocodiles in the escape sequence. |