Celluloid : the film to-day (1931)

TRADER HORN 203 missionary who travels up and down the country in search of her daughter Nina, who was stolen by the natives when still a child. Mrs. Trend, looking young and radiant, has just heard that a white girl, whom she supposes to be her daughter, is being held as a fetish by a particularly fierce and warlike tribe, the Isorgi, who are to be found above the Murchison Falls. Gallantly the Trader offers the wandering widow his escort, which she politely but firmly refuses; she agrees, however, to allow him to follow upon her trail. A few days later they discover her dead body floating at the foot of the falls, " which no white man has ever seen before." In accordance with their plan, Horn and Peru, with their safari headed by the giant negro gunbearer Renchero, push on into the country of the Isorgi, passing on the way through a veritable Zoological Gardens of wild beasts. Having shot an odd rhinoceros or two, and given us to understand by now that young Peru is the quintessence of fatuosity, the adventurers are suddenly surrounded by hordes of shrieking Isorgi. They are taken before the chief, and Trader Horn attempts to win his good favour by means of a musical-box. This leaves the Isorgi mentally cold, and the white men and Renchero are thrown into a grass hut. To their surprise (and this is the main high-spot of the picture) they are paid a visit by the white " goddess," the fetish of the tribe, who stands before them in all a woman's glory. Peru, brave lad, thinking that she can be induced to save fellow white people, lays a hand on her, but she, stung to the quick or core, lashes him across the face with her whip not