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another. "Africa" has an exciting, desperate, thrill- 

 ing connotation. Africa is better material today 

 than ever before. This star value of Africa has 

 been building for many years. It began too long 

 ago to remember. It got its first relatively recent 

 impetus from Paul du Chaillu. Then the tremend- 

 ously dramatic Livingstone-Stanley story contrib- 

 uted. And there has been a steady increase since, 

 with the journeys of Roosevelt, Rainey, Carl Akeley 

 and countless others. Africa is today better screen 

 material than ever before. 



