THE ANTAECTIC

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 129, 2 June 1928, Page 19

THE ANTAECTIC

SHACKLETON NOT FORGOTTEN (From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, 18th April. Antarctic films do not pall because there are no now ones coming along. Commauder F. A. Worsley, who is lecturing at the' Polytechnic, and showing the pictured history of Sir Ernest Shackelton's; Antarctic Expedition of 1914-10, still has a clear fieldi and his audience at the opening night on Monday displayed just as much interest in the epic of the South as if it were a story of a more modern date. Commander Worsley has b.een doing a great deal of lecturing in various parts of Great Britain, but this' is the first time for a number of years that he has shown his film in a West End.hall. The programme is well arranged. The lecture itself is preceded by a most attractive dance of the ice fairies, who evolve out of an iceberg. Then Commander Worsley, in his breezy style, tells the story of the expedition up to the time when the Endurance succumbed to the stupendous forces of the ice, It is a pleasantly unassuming narrative, and the heroism of the men and the lecturer himself have to be left to the imagination But Commander Worsley is unstinting in his praise of the late Sir Ernest Shackleton and his marvellous solicitude for the welfare of his men. After the brief lecture the film speaks for itself. Later the lecturer tells the thrilling story of the voyage in the small boat'from Elephant Island to South Georgia, and the climb over the ice-covered mountains to the whaling station at Stromness. The final section of the programme is. more modern, and illustrates bird life, the life of the sea elephant, and the whaling industry in the waters about South Georgia. I