CRYSTAL PALACE TALKIES.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20037, 19 September 1930, Page 5

CRYSTAL PALACE TALKIES.

"WITH BYRD AT THE SOUTH POLE." Tho official motion picturo of Kear-Admlral Byrd's 1029-1800 South Polar Expedition will bo presented at Crystal Palace Tboatro next week. The picture is made a talkie film through tho simple expedient of an announcer following the course of the picture, and describing tho greut story from beginning to end. Opening with tributes from the KearAdrniral to Scott, Amundsen, and Shackleton, it enda with Byrd's feverish race against time in tho, closing days at the base, and the rush from the Bay of Whales before the Antarctic winter set iu. The whole thrilling atory of this latest conquest of the Polo is told in the most vivid manner; one actually travels with Byrd in his big Fokker over the Pole, looking down with him on the bottom of the world. The marooning and rescuo of Professor Gould's geological party in the Rookefellcr Mountains; the discovery of new land, the daily life of thoso forty-two wen at "Little America." Pictures liko this are so much more enthralling than any story that man could write. It is a story of tremendous patience, heroism, and selfsacrifice. It is not only the record of a great undertaking, but it is also the story of those voluntary exiles who lived a lifetime In those twenty months they spent "With Byrd at the South Pole." Tho box plans are now open at Tho Bristol Piano Company.

"FOLLIES OF 1930." Tha picture s.t the Crystal ]\ilaco Theatre this weak, "Follies of 1930," is not in all respects like a stage revue, but providos a welcome addition to the present entertainment fare. It is notable in that it has a plot; further, tho action possesses the merit o£ quick movement.