| This is what happens when a hotel is unwittingly built on a traditional path used by elephants to reach some wild mango trees. The Mufwe Lodge is in Zambia's Luangwa National Park. About a dozen elephants make this trek through the hotel lobby about twice a day for three weeks and then sporadically for another four or so. Let's see Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge top this. |
Monday, October 06, 2008
The Mufwe Lodge #1 (From Richard Reynolds)
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For the record, it's correctly spelled "Mfuwe."
A current example of proof that nature prevails. We remember ELEPHANT WALK (MGM,1954), wherein plantation owner Peter Finch's cruel father deliberately built his jungle mansion over a herd's migratory path. Peter weds the unsuspecting book-store clerk Elizabeth Taylor and takes her directly into the angry determination of the herd. In the end, the elephants win and the mansion is laid waste. It proves the old saw, "You can drive Mother Nature out by force, but God help you when she returns."
Parley Baer and I were discussing ELEPHANT WALK with Ms. Taylor, and Mabel Stark was standing there, taking great umbrage, loudly proclaiming Mae West the only woman star of any animal picture. Mabel had doubled Ms. West in arena shots for I'M NO ANGEL, in 1933. The two had numerous photos taken together, and West later said, "If I could trade places with any woman, it would be with this tiger trainer, Mabel Stark." For Mabel that was that. Poor Elizabeth's star turn with elephants was summarily dismissed.
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