Cinema Hunt

For pleasure primarily, but also to supply the American Museum of National History with habitat groups of African fauna and to make a cinematic volume on natural history, George (Kodaks) Eastman of Rochester, N. Y., sailed last week from Manhattan for Mombasa and the African interior, accompanied by technicians of the Museum, armed with a battery of his cinema cameras in several sizes. He expected to be joined in France by that indefatigable pair of sportsman-explorers, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Ethan Akeley.* At quarrying with a camera, Mr. Eastman is no novice. For years his humane-hunting grounds have been the Far West and Canada. Other comrades on this trip: Audley D. Stewart, able Rochester medico, Daniel B. Pomeroy, genial New York banker (cousin of the late Henry Pomeroy Davison).

* The present, the second Mrs. Akeley, was Miss Mary Lee Jobe, stalwart mountain climber (for whom was named Jobe Mountain in the Canadian Rockies). She married Explorer Akeley in October, 1924, he being 60, she 38 (TIME, Oct. 27, 1924, MILESTONES). This will be her first trip to Africa; she will shoot only with a camera.

The first Mrs. Akeley was Delia J. Denning of Beaver Dam, Wis. She accompanied Mr. Akeley to Africa in 1905, three years after their marriage; again in 1909, when they met Theodore Roosevelt's safari. She learned to shoot expertly, killed the biggest elephants both trips. On the second trip, she saved her husband's life on the "elephant-infested" slopes of Mt. Kenya where he had been gored by a bull pachyderm, abandoned by his blacks. In 1923 Explorer Akeley went again to Africa. She did not accompany him but obtained a divorce in Chicago, charging cruelty. Then she went to Africa alone, crossed it from east to west with only native porters for company, bagging big game for the Brooklyn Museum. This summer she too will be in Africa again, a quiet, gray-haired woman of slight physique serving science in African jungles. By day, on the march, she wears pith helmet, riding breeches, puttees; in the evening, has her boudoir tent pitched, changes to a silk negligee.