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THE. LUCKNO.W SENTINEL,LUCKNOW, ONTARIO
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WEDNIESDAY, • JAN 20th, 2.960. .
'.[ Smiley.
Went :to 'see a Taraza . movie(
with the . kids:''tlie dither night. • 1
locked forward to the evening." I
adn't seers' Tarazan in •action for
nigh onto 30 years..
• Wetll, sir, tt Was- like going
back tor.' 'tee :an: 014 'sweetheart
,alter ` 0':.years, and finding the
ti *slim, . pretty wench turned, into a
(gross, , gap-toothed'•- old. •.bat in' a
soiled
"blouse*.
oti't mind telling you, I
carne •ougof that ,theatre shocked;
bewildered sat%d 'disillusioned, No
experience iii-. r'ecent. years has
'so • 4e�xpli it13' 'confirmed . •my
creeping. suspicion that the World
is gbinl' ft's „the hogs
fil¢wt I as, not, .so naive as to
seeing the saline
a;fzan r •as the one of : my child-
11o6d, or "that' titerstory would* not'
he' jazzed „up :a bit for the' hard-
eyed little holligans Who haunt
the movie,' to -day: But
- this Tarzan 'was no ' more like
the one: I:- watched in' my salad.
()apt ,,.than.,; Marilyn.. Monroe is:
like . Mickey - Rooney.
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Tartan'was• an influence, of 'al-
.most overwhelming dimensions,
when h.. was n kid. We .read all
the, Tartan books., Every. Satur-,
day afternoon at the matinee, we
• saw' ;'two reelsof a Tartan" serial;
that left Sus;t rnp•.with. a itenient
and, fe r,�, as ,dux 'hero: struggled
inthe coils ' of an .,anacpnda, ,or
went tu n+biirig' b'ver a sriile-nigh
cliff `a as' tl'i'e -."'episode ' ended::: • But
we didn't ''worry all week: until
.next Saturday. We knew •,iie'd
beat ''the . rap.. '
n
dreamed ,.about him.: I• suf-
. Tired innumerable `contusions
and Sprains trying' to swing
through' the' trees the way he
swung :through' the trees .of ' the
jungle the.:privacy, .of The
Sa>atl#pi I praetised , calling, the
apes as ':he . did. Before. going,
::to
'sleep; at night; I fought my ; way
silently but indomitably, through
hordes sof ' black' ` warriors, with
nothing'but my knife 'and a' last-
Mute ' assist from • Tantor. the
Elephant
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My Tarzan ~ was a mature man,
with craggy features,: wearing
a
shaggy animal's skin, his straight
• black hair falling almost to his
'shoulders... The Tarzan in this
,: movie , the ' other night was :a"
baby -faced pretty -boy wearing :a
tailored leopard -skin; and he had
OItL on his carefully -curled hair.
My Tarzan swung through the
jungle, from, tree to tree, in
great, swooping arcs that' • _ had,
your heart in your throat with
envy. This jerk the • other, night
made only one swing on a vine,
a little hop of about fourteen
'feet,
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crack the neck ' of. an owly gor-
illa. This ;beach. athletic. the
other night ,beach
anything
but people, and he shot at them
with arrows, from behind a tree,
if you ,can 'believe it. I blushed
for hint.
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My Tartan was a simple, proud
man. He couldn't even speak En-
fish. When hewas with :the girl,
she'd tr y to teach him. The
words. would be; flashed' on the
screen. She'd say: "Me Jane, You
Tarzan, and- he'd repeat. "Mc
Jane. You. Tarzana' And she'd
giggle prettily and say: "No. Me
Jane. You Tarzan." And he'd
finally get it. .
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'.But he really wasn't interested
in girls,'and atthat time, neither
were we kids. We'd scuffle . and
grab each 'others, hats and horse
around, until the "love" part was.
over, and our hero was 'back in
action, Churning a ross the river
with the. crocodiles snapping at
his heels,, and us' . sitting on the
edge of; our seats, . teeth. and .fists
•elenched, pulling up Our heels in
syn pathy.. ,u
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This locker -room bum, the oth
er''night was simple enough but
asn t proud. He had about
as . much dignity as Elvis. Instead
of striding, through the jungle ::as
though he owned it, he skulked
•around'''.like; a. juvenile .delin-
quent 'looking for . an old man 'to
beat up ;
But what got me was the plot.
In the old Tarzan films,' animals
were killed, •but only in self
defence, or for food . In this epic
We saw the ,other night, there
were rip less than five horrible.
deaths, all, people: One got an.
arrow through the heart. A beau-•'
tiful •t girl was impaled on stakes.
in a pit. Another fellow •4was
pushed •.down a' mine shaft.: A
fourth; •.wasshoved over a cliff
and landed flat on' his ;back on' a
rock. Even young. Kiln, case-
hardened by many a Saturday
afternoon, of .cowboys and .In-
dians cutting ' each other down,
flinched at the sight of a..rnan:
_stumbling into quicksand and
sinking, screaming horribly, ,out
of sight.'
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In my ' day, the movie -makers
didn't have to rig up trouble like
that for Tarzan's enemies: He
took care ' of it himself. There
he'd be, tied to a stake, the na-
tive warriors dancing around.
him, shaking torches in his face.
Old , Tarz would just rare back,
beltow his ape call, and in a few
minutes,' hundreds of his brother
apes', would pour', over thea pali-
sades and chase theblack fel-
. while a horde :of his ele
phant friends trompled down the
whole Watusi village.
Maybe I'm just getting. cranky
and old. ,But` when savagery and
vigorous violence' , area replaced
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by sadism. and . psychopaths, I
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caught up to Tarzan, .and finish-
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