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Show FARM OF THE APES AT THE ORPHEUM THEATER - t"ne of the most absorbing moving picture shows that has come to a local ll;i house is "Tarzan of the Apes" which opened B four-day run at the Orpheum last night. Woven into the icenea la a Btorj unusual and wlerd and which is said to be founded on fact. It deals with a family of the Rrlf-lafa Rrlf-lafa peerage. Tarzan, who was bom In the African jungles, was taken by a ft male ape whose own offspring had died, leaving her disconsolate, and nursed by her through the tender daj "i babyhood. Tarzan's mother died at !" birth and bis father, stricken with fever, died almost the same day Several Sev-eral ape entered Uieir lonely cabin as the father knelt ove.r the dead form nf th( infant Tarzan's mother and took tho child from the crude cradle. Tarsan whs the ron of Lord and Ladj Grej toke who had started for Africa In the last years of the last century on a secret mission for Queen Victoria and wtre the victims of a drunken and murderous sailing crew which had killed" the captain of the el and would have killed the nobleman noble-man and his wife had it not been fori 1 on' oi the I rew, a simple fellow whom thej had befriended. Instead of death they were put ashore on the African coast in one of the wildest sections of the dark continent. And there, in th lonely cabin they had built in the heart of ih- jungle, with wild beasts constantly lurking near them, the child was born and the father and mother I died. And from that point on the story shows the wonderful feats of strength nnd daring of the boy and man. At ten years of age. Tarsan finds his way into the cabin in which be was born but is not yei aware that be is not th' legitimate offspring of the apes with l whom he has lived so long as he can ; remember. When hf native tribes of blacks finally form their settlement near the scene, Tarzan flrsi learns Lo ' w;mt clothes. When Tarzan see? two blacks leave j their breech cloths oh the bank of a I stream, he steals one of them and thus dons his first clothing, and learns his , first lesson in vanity. As he approaches approach-es manhood and his strength increns- - he i- able to seize the most feroc lOUl beasts 01 Uh- Juncl and slaughter them with his hands. Wild beastg in their native haunts are shown in the picture, which is noi only wonderful from a scenic stand point, but the stor is of the gripping kind. The audience filled the Orpheum from the time ihe first show opened until in o'clock and large part of ih time standing room was at a premium. A larger audience gtood in the foyer of the theater waiting for admission as is usually the case of the theater wining for admission as is usually hf case on the opening night of tho vaudeville performances. And it can bes aid that those who saw the picture were surely not dls-1 appointed in the entertainment offered. |