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THAT VIKING AMUNDSEN

T

EN

By

Ronald Walker

years ago

to-

alr.

His record was unique, and well could he say at the age of 54, "I have.

nished."

ilke Frobisher had searched for een- Turies), first to reach the South Pole, day a tall, sturdily and was joint leader of the Grai built man

with the crossing of the North Polar basin by

of a lean, strong face Norseman, rose in his chair at a luncheon in Oslo, and said, "Right away. I am ready to go and save them." So Roald Amundsen, most of the brilliant explorer Arctic and Antarctic, set out on his last journey.

Twn days before the Italian **** jairship Norge Nobile, command. ed by Umberto Nobile, crashed on the ice while returning from the North Pole to Spitzbergen. Nobile and the main part of the crew were marooned on an ice

YOUNG At Kowloon livspital, an 28th May, 19:38 In Anne, wife of

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t Younk. daughter, Elunefloe, sheltering in a red tent sal- vaged from the wreckage of the ship's main cabin.

INTERLO

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, MAY 27

1938

CRUCIAL STAGE IN CAMPAIGN

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Yet, when the news of the disaster to Nobile's airship was flushed to thei world, Amundsen was first to volun- ' Iper.

He flew into the North. He did nut return First cume anxiety for his safety. The people of Norway, 101 whom he was a here, as of the world, who admired him, could not belleve that he had dared for the last Ume and lost. Most confident of all o previou29 FX- were companiona Petitions. They were confident that So the world Amundsen was safe. waited.

Weeks went by Expeditions in search of him were hampered by the

fact that the route Amundsen tookį

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

tay barred bruto pudenda, Tan

"I'm quithin this life of beggin' nickela fur coffee-can I have 85 cents to buy a pere olator of my own?"

SAMUEL COLDWYN

was not definitely known. He said says you

East

he intended Dying to North Land, the

west part of the Spitz-

bergen groan,

Cumme

Λ 1 August

Northern trowler, off the

Fast news nishing

DI

cast of Norway, picked up a flout

was identified as part which Amundsen's machine. Examination showed that it appeared to have been!

SINCE Anundset and Nubile torn from the wing of the plane with

own together Over Norge two The North Pole in the years before, a bilter quarrel had But, when broken out between them Amundsen heard the appeal for help at that luncheon table, he forget all personal differences and was ready to go al teet.

He set off from Trosee un June 18 in a Latham seaplane, piloted by a Frenchman, Captain Guilbaud, and

Amundsen, the man who had so

often failed gloriously and succeed ed magnificently, journeyed into the fruzen North for the last time. The regions of snow and ice which he had sored for years claimed him. He has never been heard of since.

WAX found

terrife force, suggesting a crash on the lee. But hopes that Amundsen! and his companions were not killed

... were raised by the fact that the float and been repaired with a strip of copper, and there were signs of effls having been made to fasten

at more firmly to the wing.

Less

must get

for Your Money

Cinema

19

This

what Mr. Samuel Goldwyn, greatest showman in the film industry, told Seton Margrave in one of the most candid interviews he has ever given

GOLDWYN: MR.

do no wake up and realise that the bubble burst.

S. M: And all this because Alms are being made?

n

100

Mr. Goldwyn: Too many and too bad. The public is suffering from Aim indigestion. In two-feature pro- grammes, people rightly complain of having to slt through a bad picture CECOND ICWA came 1wo

think the salaries so as to see a good one. They com- months later. Another fish- ing vessel off the Halten fishing paid in the film world are out-pluin still more if they have to sit S. M: Bul British cinemas favour banks found a petrol

tank with a rageous. They should be cut through two bad pictures. brass plate lettered, "Hydro-nvion down at least by half. Nearly

two-feature Latham

proprammes. Mr. Goldwyn: I think these pro- grammes are a calamity, Look at it their Cinemas change ther this WHY.

programmes in many cases twice a expects to be supplied with four week. Each of these picture-houses films a week-208 a year.

This herole story without an end-every player in pictures is over- ing took another strange

twist in paid. 1931. After the Graf Zeppelin made |

The studo

tastic.

workers

Can

It is not too much to say that the next few days of warfare along the Lunghai Railway, inaccompanied by a crew of four. Honan, Anhwei, Shansi and Shantung, will probably disclose the fate of Hankow and perhaps determine the whole future of The Chinese plan of resistance. There can be very little question

The irony is that the news that he its Polar flight, the Russian meteoro- wages every time, and the great per- but that a really crucial period was missing arrived on the day logist, Moltschanoff, developed sotne sonalities whe draw people to the he had taken. One picture cinemas are worth thele salaries-1}} has arrived. That does not Nobile, the inan be set out to hell, ims

taken over the southern part of the half-dozen of them--but apart

Cinemas, naturally, compete with menn that a sweeping victory Swedish airinen, Captain Lundborg.

and rescued by the

Novaya Zemlya showed an aeroplane from this salaries generally are inn-

each other. You may have three or by one side or the other will

on a patch of half-melted snow,

Agula speculation on the fate of

Seton Margrave: But have you four in the same neighbourhood all programmes. have any decisive effect; for the

Amundsen. Was it hic machine? not paid some of those fantastle looking for different

Thus, before we know where we are, campaign has developed into

Final examination of the enlarged salaries yourself?

Mr.

have: but not we find we have to make 000 or 800 In consequence every photograph machine such proportions that only u series of major actions can have announced that his

of the machine is too great for any studio rushes to turn out as used by Amundsen.

After that nothing. Still, there one person to fight. The demand for pletures nx possible, regardless any great influence upon the completed. He had spent nearly 30

arr many to-day who believe that he really fine artists is so heavy that all quality.

S. M: But many people in Britain outcome. Japan unquestionably years exploring the Arette and An-

It would not be sorts of people who should never have may yet be alive. the first time he disappeared into the been neur à studio are hired to make like to go to the cinema twice a week at thorough beating [L Taierehwang, but the defeat did North-West Passage

He was the first man to make the Icy waters for years at a time; but on pictures.

You can pay as much as you like

Mr. Goldwyn: Maybe, but let me by ship (the these other occasions he had anor for ability, if you can find it. But tell you that in the United States at- not materially weaken the elusive channel for which seamen panised expedition

nowadays things are so crazy in the tendances have fallen by 20 per cent., food supplies.

film world that a fellow who can and they are still falling. Japanese offensive strength.

The discovery in 1930 of the re-write n letter thinks he is an author.

No, we must stop handing out films China undoubtedly suffered 11

mains of Andree and his companions So salories go up and up and picture to the cinemas like army rations

two at a time for a showing of only of three or

six days, regardless quality.

took

.

turctic.

ROALD AMUNDSEN Was 56 shown was proved that the mushing more than would help but not mean yea

life work was

and abundant

severe blow at Hsuchow, and yet I railways and the advantages on White Island, off North East Land, costs rise out of all reason.

not

to

these

to

undoubtedly

they

give

be would

an in

after a lapse of 33 years showed that party had lived there for a con- the party siderable time.

of

tions.

Fortunes Lost S.

от тоге.

fnany

of

Big films are taken off to make room for bad ones. The policy of the cinemas must be changed, First-

S. M: Then you favour single- feature programmes?

the defensive power of Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's armies has army,

a position to carry on A proTM If any man knew how to support

M: Many fortunes have Taken Off Too Soon been very much depleted.

been lost in British filma. China still has men and arms to tracted struggle. The steadily life in those regions of eternal snow

and ice, it was Roald Amundsen.

should be increasing length of the

Mr. Goldwyn: Not a quarter of He made

his Polur exploration

NEW pictures fight a dozen Hsuchow battles.

shown to the public im- He spent his whole for the number that have been lost in

run for S Nevertheless, the Japanese drive Japanese lines makes the inva-te's work.

His reward for scienti- American productions, although the mediately, and should lune on It. der more and more vulnerable ne services to the world was that he same extravagance can be seen in long as people want to see them. Is bringing the invaders peril-

London as in Hollywood. Picture How often do you hear people say- the guerilla tactics now in went bankrupt in 1925. ously near the seat of Govern-

And it is certain Four months after he disappeared people have lived in a grand way in ing they have missed some line film because it was on view for only a into the Arctic to rescue Nobile, it gorgeous huntes. ment at Hankow. Chengchow is such favour.

before the armies that

They have amassed great wealth, few days? was announced that all his creditors looked upon as a key-point in

Marshal Chiang retreat upon would be paid in full. The sale of but it will disappear In smoke if they the system of Hankow's outer

Fitty-one medals were sold for £650, defences. If it falla Hankow is Hankow, a blow, or a series of his medals helped to pay the debtors. blows, will be struck at the and the purchaser, Mr. Conrad Lan-

5. M: By how much, then, would not directly menaced, but the

tember, versity. road has been cleared by the Japanese in the hope of paralys-saard, presented them to Osio Uni- northern waters lill the end of Sep-class pictures must get long runs.

Roald Amundsen was no stunt mer- you cut down the number of pictures ing the advance.

After the way it whs eslimated Japanese of one more obstruc-

that Amundsen was worth £55,000. chant. He prepared himself for his produced?

Mr. Goldwyn: If we made only a work of exploration as few men ever IL appears that Marshal The Norwegian Government paid

third of the number now being pro- tion.

duced we should still be making too Chiang himself is close to the £20,000, but it was not sufficient to prepare themselves for their job.

many. The scrumble after quantity It appears to be the Chinese front lines now. It is reported cover expenses of his Polar expedi-

is crazy. shel Amundsen

that the most strategy

lengthen the that he has been in Chengchow

intimillating and tragic episodes of Japanese fighting line as much for some days, and Chengchow his career were when friends bought,

1872, he was re-is one of the immediate objec-and presented him with,

as a youth by Nansen's as possible. Latterly the

near Oslo. To his lawyer before triumphat return from the ficat cross-cinema has never been so prosperous treating armies have been leav-tives of the Japanese.

starting out on his last journey Being of Greenland. Amundsen, ins when single-feature programmes were the rule. I think the ideal tended for medicine, threw ing strong forces inside the

A little study of the map of sald. "Make me a free man."

Thus does the world treat a man and began his training. As a lad of cinema fare is a feature film, o news the probable who spends his life in its service and 15 he went to sen before the mast; reel, a short. Japanese lines of action. These,

a short interest picture, and a it must be presumed, were deli-operations shows

line of Japanese attack from the does not trouble to snatch its riches spent a year seat hunting in the

Let us make fewer films. Let There is a story about that house. Arctic, a year of navigation training, them be shown for a longer time, and berately dropped to employ

present positions and the im- Amundsen lived alane in it for some a year of training on skis in the

1. have single-feature pro.. against un

doing his w guerilla tactics

housework, mountains, during which he did not let portance of Chengchow as the years,

washing and cooling. In the summer sleep one night under a root, two games. enemy whose mechanical power

railway and the Lunghai line, enlled. Amundsen opened the door Belgica with de Gerinchic, and finally Let The Public Rebel to China's that they make any Once at Chengchow General and said, "I am sorry I can entertain one year's theoretic studies on mug-

M: And do you propose to attempt at holding permanent Doihara will make for Hankow no guests. There is no one except netisin at Oslo University.

Ils first exploit was the North-|

begin this revolution? "We know," they replied. "That West Passage and relocation of the Mr. Goldwyn: The public should positions not only costly but by way of the railroad. There myself in the house,"

come. You need position of the Magnetic North Pole begin it. The public who pay for dangerous. For although the is little doubt of that. And why we have

essence of the help

and

company. Here we are." to prove its continual movement. He pietures should demand the best wo accomplished both objects, and Jean produce. I am glad to see poo- strong points may hold, the while the

Amundsen was a real patriót. He took three years in 30-year-old | ple already rebelling against bad flanks more than often cave in, Japanese campaign is speed, and They stayed.

the capture of Hankow, which,

pictures. I hope they will rebel a lot and the troops in the centre are they hope, will be a sovere shock loved his country; worked for it. He herring boat....

once said, "There are so many who

Just before I left Hollywood I in danger of complete isolution.to Chinese, morale, it is China's have asked me what has always spur-

on these journeys. It d

heard of a cinema offering a seven- But now, scattering powerful obvious intention to make fulfil- red me

this," and unfurled the Nor

houra show with n free lunch thrown flog.

Boy, In PORN at Borge, Smaalenene.

a house thrilled

it over

and gun strength are so superior Junction of the Peiping-Hankow of 1928 some of his old companions years in the Antaretle as mate of the

Did Roald Amundsen crush to a

Mr. Goldwyn: Most certainly. The

more,

forcen over a vast territory. Iment of these plans as difficult an he note of irony enters the swift death amid the ice? Did the in. That Just makes the cinema A

Agoin

never attempting to hold a line as possible, and prolong the or a town against heavy bom-ight, realising that the strain taie. Amundsen flew into the North party survive and eke out its meagre of continued conflict is relative- a bankrupt, penniless. When he dis- Provisions hoping against hope for bardment, the Chinese are show-by greater upon her enemy's appeared to rescue an ally, thousands rescue?, Con he still be alive some- ing the benefit of their long and than upon her own tortured of pounds poured from every country where in those frozen fastness? bitter experience. Even lacking resources.

laughing-stock to the rest of the en- tertolament world.

1

I say, by all means let the public rebel. Let the pubile rebel so much for his rescue, and all to no avall. The Arctic holds its secrets jealous-that the entire aim industry will bo Ice breakers continued to search the 17

forced back to sunity,