LOWELL THOMAS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18077, 27 October 1920, Page 6

LOWELL THOMAS

• 9' Williamson (Ltd.) announce that what is claimed to be the most phenomenally successful entertainment of the last London season will be seen in Dunedin at Ilis Majesty's Theatre for a short season commencing Wednesday next, and what is most important of all, it will be shown here identically as it was presented in london. The title of this entertainment is "With the Anzacs in Palestine, and With Lawrence in Arabia," and is presented by Mr Lowell Thomas, the famous American world traveller, explorer, journalist, and raconteur. It was proclaimed by the London newspapers "as the greatest triumph in the history of the combined speaking! stage and motion-picture screen." New Zealanders who were in London last year! will rccall the great crowds that flocked' daily to the Royal Opera House. Covent Garden, and Royal Albert Hall, to hear Mr Lowell Thomas's American tribute to British valour, and to see his gorgeously coloured and thrilling pictures of the Palestine and Arabian campaigns. It is said this entertainment' is neither a lecture nor a kinema show, it is claimed to be something entirely new, for which the term "travelogue" has been coined. According to the London Times and the Daily Mail over ono million people came to hear and see Mr > Lowell Thomas's dramatic, thrill.ng, and delightfully humorous travelogue on the 20ih Century Crusade, which freed the Holy Land, and on the war in "The Land of the Arabian Nights." Among those who attended were the Royal Families of Britain, Norway, Spain, and Arabia; Mr Lloyd George and all the members of his Cabinet, as well as members of both Houses of Parliament. Sir Edmund and Lady Allenby came, as well as nearly all of the great generals and statesmen of tjie. British Empire, in addition to such notables as Venezelos (Prime Minister of Greece), and Emir Feisal (King of Syria), the Arohbishop of Canterbury, the Chief Jewish Rabbi of London, Rudyard Kipling, Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith, Sir Arthur Pinero, and many thousands of others. In all. nearly two million people are said to have heard Mr Thomas in the British Isles, America, and Australia. Mr Lowell Thomas, in addition to being a great speaker and world traveller, is one of the editors of Asia Magazine, the American magazine of the Orient, and also one of the editors of the Strand Magazine in England. He is author of the recent thrilling series of articles in the Strand on Colonel Thomas Lawrence, the mysterious 26-years-old Oxford archaeologist, who led the wild Bedouin army in driving tho Turks from Holy and Forbidden Arabia. The box plan/ will open at the_ Bristol on Monday morning. The Dunedin season is for four nights only, with a special schools' matinee on Saturday, November 6.