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YOU'LL FALL IN LOVE... ...
A kitten is cute; so is a lion cub. It is as easy to fall in love with one as with another. But the kitten and the cub grow older, and the relationships change. . . This is one reason for the fantastic international appeal of Joy Adamson’s book, ‘‘Born Free,'’ the story of how she and her husband brought up a lion cub named Elsa, and kept her as a member of the household until she had achieved maturity. Elsa was a part of the Adamson family; they loved her and, unquestionably, she loved them.
The story of Elsa is told in the motion picture, ‘‘Born Free.’’ Joy Adamson and her husband, George, a Kenya game warden, are portrayed by Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers, themselves a husband-wife acting team of international stature. To play the roles, Miss McKenna and Trav
ers also had to learn to live with lions, to romp with them. . .and to love them.
THEY DID!
LOA HAD fl HAPPY, NORMAL CHILDHOOD
WIT eR ‘PARENTS IN THe JUNGLE
1. Forced to kill a lioness in self-defense, George Adamson, Kenya game warden, brings home to his wife Joy three helpless female cubs. . .and then spends sleepless days. and nights with her trying to find a formula that will keep them alive. Finally, the cubs accept food, licking it from Joy's finger.
2. Elsa, weakest and smallest of the trio, becomes Joy's favorite, a devoted companion Y Pp
when she goes for walks or settles down to paint; an alert and watchful guardian who saves her from an unsuspected cobra. . .and a mischiefmaker of the highest disorder. be
Adamsons are forced to fence in their home, to keep out Elsa and her sisters.
3. As the cubs grow bigger, they also become more troublesome. Joy and George are warned by the District Commissioner (above) that African lions, though goodnatured in infancy, may become man-eaters. Elsa and her sisters are a potential menace; they must be sent to a European zoo. ;
4. Joy pleads for more time with Elsa; the others may be sent off, but Elsa was born free and must remain free. Now full-grown, Elsa accompanies the Adamsons on a brief ‘‘holiday’’ trip, from Kenya to the Indian Ocean where she swims and frolics in the sand like a carefree teen ager.