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EXPEDITION TO "LOST WORLD.” SCIENTISTS TO INVESTIGATE THE UNKNOWN.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, JUNE 13th, 1931.
SOUL." NORMA IN "A FREE
What Other Stars are Doing.
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Far from the last outposts of civilization, the great cliff's
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vast plateau in southern Venezuela which is to be ex plored by scientists,
Here you see the actual seene an which Conan Doyle based his Inn- tastic story, "The Lard Won kl." The chill's actually turned back several exploring parties, until the sloping ledge shown here I bas bern was disenyered.
the only means of reaching the
summit of the plateau,
DENTIFR exploration is about to push back one of the last frontiers of the unknown.
The world as many places to which: modern man has not penetrat it, lus most of the blank spots on The map, even than in the polar regions, are fairly vertain sur. to contain me startling prises. Hossa ver, abneh any sort of die every ma, he made in the vast regisit the partrated the sun
Norma Shearer and Leslie foward in a scene from "A Free Soul."
that she story beratse, strangely Happy in the thought has turned out three stond pletites the title tells all, is another unters There is, however, without a single "teg." Norma taining drama. Shearer recently left for Europeony factor not suggested by the with her husband, Irving Thalere. { Ute, That is the nittrder of days ai But, when the star returns from this travelling salesmen by his her varaling somebody will have tej formier sweetheart. figure out a new
emracterization
Evelyn Brent is given featured The only for her. She has furen the galling and dererves it.
First fent we have. Tu lind with her page! litte led Kiri long ethangh
In "ivormance N that she played such a rushe
there wasn't But when slær gets new" then in "Strangers May Kiss" enough of it.
started the girl does some acting, and now in "A Free Soul,"
Norma "efiekend" beatifully in The high light of the production is the first wo in and will
it th go over well fargely because the piture itself shot, is excellent. But a fourth one of The same mature might very easily pence to be a bonangrang.
probably when Evelyn is confronted by May Third, Curke, wife of the man whom she $1 is 1401 exceptionally difficult seene due to its length bat it held the audience throughout at the preview we caught.
Here is the base camp of a previous expedition organized by the American Museum of Natural History. It was loent- ed near the mountain of Buida, in Venezuela, on the western end of the huge platenu which was first explored in 1929. The Interior of the platenu now is to be explored in the must comprehensive survey ever attempted in South America.
af te un cursor of the department of mam-; jaris, really an bland
been tains sufroitatied in wool areas OE omfogy at the Mirim, kad
ties of swampy jungle. will be explored. chosen to bead The pariy, his companions will be George H. From the rentre qutward. "We in 11. Tule, an assistant curator, who tend to fly up the Crime Fiver," already has explorest at both ends Tale explained, and the south-
cludes Lion Barrymore, Balle retting Burst cemprehensive at the unknowite area in Venezuela, ward over the Caroni river, one of Pontoons are to he its trilateris, Little Tefl to Explore.
mer by th sriepliñe survey ever attempted h
single expeditiot: info South America.
Splendid direction na the part of Young Frank Albertson, who has Clarence Brown and an excellent been giving a pretty good neunt must make "A Free Soul what it of himself recently, turns in an
It with is. No star can go very far wrong other good performance. with a sporting vast which in my to watch that kid because he's Constation somewhere. Howard, James Gleason and Clark Cummings also proves quite an as- Noima. Imavever. isn't set to the Alm. These four plus "We will be going into one of iced on the plance, but landing | Gable,
really the star. Thl sition Carl Miller, who was shot, are the the major explored regions left wheels will be carried in case oper
Barryne. primripat characters. It is around just in the world talas," Tale declared, country appears that will allow us rightfully becomes t Venezuela,
who put and orally wraps up the them that the story revolves. The southern
others, while good in their north of the Brazilian frontier, as “a reginu rich in animal and plant to establish our base rang in the
The tristewa territory. 1: Hope and walk away with it.
norrly form a background. an elevated plateau casting life alot which we know practi rentre of
ouare calls nothing. In fart, except for Other camps will las made to the
It's too bad they can't start using roughly of CLEAR 14 CHK)
The story is 121 OF # girl
real bullets in motion pictures. miles. The interior not only is at a part of Now Guiana and a section cast and southwest."
May Find Golt!. Central damn, this is virtually:
brought up by her wealthy father That, in ou2 selafely unknown naisilized ma
opinion, would
n largy.
entry.
Will the expolition Aud
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paris.
to du just about as she pleases and about the quickest and simplest ins go doing gets herself in a perk | means of putting an end to all the of trouble by falling for a gangster, killings we have witnessed on the is a serven during the part six months. a client of her father who prominent attorney.
The affair Do away with a few of the gangster ends by, the girl's Bane killing types and the rime films which the pubester and the girl pulling have been flooding the market her father out of a drunken orgy would have to vanish. in gledend her suitor,
but it contrasta to sharply with the only country left undonebed by
A few mes aeroplane thing of practical value? Grolo. the impenetrable tropical juwlands" svienee. surroundiny that it is believed Hights, covering in hours what pew. [pits are practically erlain that
be discovers, it to offer an alumst entirely different siously has taken months to tra- gold will
iverse, and exploration, in its all-remmon throughout the surround climate aus environment.
in large ventaresome sense, with he over for ing region, though not May Find Anything.
unities. And state diamonds There may be found, great mis all time,"
At the eastern edge of the terri- ready are being mined in the eral wealth, nukewn peopdé ani animals, stranye Totanical won, tory which is to be mapped and x- Guiana highlands, the party will t
Clara Bow in "Rick in." ders, volcans, lakes, perhaps even 1-bered? lies Mt. Roraima, the gaint disappointed if precious stops are
Barrymore is outstanding in his
"Kick " Clara Row's Intest inhabitable plateau de famous by Conan, det foun ? la the mountains. Tertile and
in the 400 miles or highlands portrayal of Miss Shearer's father." Doyle in his story vidled "The Lost
Lestirsin offering, is the third pleture The expedition itseff, costing, World, Only a few naturalists lying between the two previously the prominent attorney,
killed. employing lever have resched even the base explored regions, hotarists esport Howard is pool as usual but we we have seen in a week in which
part of more persons were $20prin and
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** Jimmy And we're getting pretty tired of three aeroplanes, is said in be com- of- He shoe cliffs which guard to find sour Gom different kinds would to have reen bis
of than a built parable nk to the Byrd Antareti Roraima, and many were turned of plants, many
unknown To svirner,
Gleason does his part by furnish much bloodshed. enterprise in equipment and thors hark betore a sloping lege finally completely
ing
And hearty laughs. oughness of preparation. In fact, was discovered by which the pla. Certain forms of great interest are
#newcom to the knowe to exist there, such as the Clark Calde. it will have two velerans of the feat Top could be reached,
(largest pitcher plants in the world, moren. is a perfect gangster la Antaretie vantare in ire party of
The American Museum sent an- number of flesh-rating plants, ¦ we're afraid he will die mut simul- 12 or 14 men Capt. Ashley C. Me..
taneously with gangster firmus. Kinley, famums aerial photograph expedition thege in 1928, it found forns with p-shaped instas. er, and George A. Thorne, Jr., who rany of the histore forms of land fires with lenses 15 foot long will art as chief pilot.
as frank Hue abril by Doyle, but, and only an inch wide. This, in, will be the first joint at did beinir Bark data which prev expedition of The American Ma- od that the upland stretching to
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The Baming-haired stur-gives her usual performance, excellent in! come spots and just ordinary in others. Regis Toomey
plays
Clarn's ex-conviet. husband who is determined to go straight. Leslie Travelling Rasbands." Travelling Busbands," which Fenton is good as Miss Bow's dope:
fiend brother, And James Morry Strange Animals.
don't need any explanation as to
who mer showed promise of birk Naturalists do not expect to find
of animal life, even the Fribal names of the high-ame of the screen's lending actors, of Natural History, the the eastward was one of the most prehistoric forms
land savages are known. George dies very well in the sandl part he Amercian Reographical Society of promising fields and least know bat some of the "modern" mam-
Tate believes, from his conversa has before getting killed. Others New York, and the New York Bus spots on the globe toulay. On the mals, insects and reptiles may be
tions with eastern and western who play their parts well are Paul
Gibson, tanical Garden. Each is to send western end of the isolated plateau sa changed by climate and environ-
Juliette experiented explorers who can stands the mountain of Deida, un- ment as to be almost ant.cognize tives, that this "blind spot" of an-Hurst, Wyom
thropology contains a peaceful, in- Compton and Donald Crisp. make field stadies in five or six explored by man until the Amert ahle,
The main feature of the film as There, to, will be found of 1920
pray- dustrious race of Indians, perhaps months which without aeroplanes, can Museum expedition radio and other modern advans reached it after a long mal daurer, tically the only primitive peoples | of a degree of civilization for at- we see it is the authentic expise left in the world who are unspoiled | vanved from their primitive neigh-jof how tough pollen make it for Lagos wonid require a period of ous frek.
Jan "ex-con" to go straight. several yours, Harold B. Anthony, This time, however, the high by contact with civilization. Not | bors of the river countries.
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San Xavier Mission, near Tuc-, At that time. Spunish rococo son, Arizona, with its great white art was in its full glory and the Meurish-like dome and old Spanish partres seem to have been able to towers, is one of the largest, most command the best of artists. In complete and most elaborately spite of two destructions by hos- south-tile Indians, the mission of Sun decorated missions of the
Xavier was twice rebuilt, cach west.
elaborate The mission was founded nearly time larger and more 250 years ago by Father Francisco than before.
The mave and transepts of the Kino, who set forth from Mexico City and journeyed northward, with principal chapel are a study in cross and rsary, establishing polychromatic effects, every colour missions a day's journey (about 10 of the rainbow being represented le reached San the paintings and mural deco- miles) apart. Xavier In 1867.
ration upon walls and ceiling.
THIS "ARTIFICIAL, HE ROAMED SOUTH DAKOTA MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO IS Here we have a life-sized reproduction of the head of a Titanothere, LIFE"? This is a micro. a monster that roamed the White river bad lands of South Dakota scopie photo of Dr. George something like 3,000,000-or perhaps I was more like 30,000,000 W. Crile's "auto-synthetic -years ago. Beside the great hond is B. II. Colbert of the Ameri- cell" which sets much like
can Museum of Natural History.
living cell,
EVER WONDER WHAT THE "FOURTH DIMEN- SION" LOOKS LIKE? Well, here it is a model devised by Dr. Paul A. Heyl of the U. S. Bureau of One dimension is line, two dimensiona is a plano surface, three dimensions in a cube-and four
is what you see heret
Standards.
THE "ELECTRIC EYE" AT WORK-This odd-looking device, is the Invention of engineers at the Westinghouse research inborutories in East Pittsburgh. It is called a photo-electric yeast cake sartor; yeust cakes are passed through it and by meana of a light-sensitive cell the machine picks out and ejects any packages that chance to have escaped labels. Shown with it la R. H. Maxwell, Westinghouse expert.