Cinema: The New Pictures May 28, 1923

Trailing African Wild Animals. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson are the latest tripod nimrods to return to Broadway with the pelts and carcasses (in celluloid) of giraffes and jungle tigers. In the classic English of a recent advertisement they bring the " mighty monarchs of the murky morass, pinioned and pictured."

Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have gone one step beyond any of their predecessors in photographing snakes, leopards, zebras and lions in private life. It's getting to the point in Africa where no zebra can take a drink without...

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