BRYD’S ANTARCTIC JOURNEY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 219, 15 September 1928, Page 15 (Supplement)

BRYD’S ANTARCTIC JOURNEY

Commander Richard E. Byrd next winter on his flight across the South Pole will be accompanied by two Paramount cameramen. It has been arranged that no will remain at the base of operations, while the other will make the actual trip to the pole. A complete film record of the expedition will be released exclusively by Paramount. The Byrd expedition will have two specially constructed ships, three airplanes, 55 men, 100 dogs and several portable houses which will be anchored in solid ice against fierce storms and high winds. e The explorers will spend weeks in establishing their base on the Bay of Whales far south of the Antarctic Circle. They will erect radio masts and a powerful station to keep them in communication with the outside world. The Paramount motion picture record of Byrd’s journey will, when completed, be screened in theatres throughout New Zealand. They call him “the world’s greatest entertainer.” It doesn’t seem exaggerated. There he stood in that stuemloiis auditorium, telling stories, laughing, kidding, dominant, authoritative, magnetic and irrepressible, whilst the audience howled, yelled, and screamed. The audience was as interesting as the show. It was one hundred per cent, engrossed, and one sees that so seldom nowadays. And Jolson did everything. There is no other come dian in the world that I’ve ever seen—anywhere—who can compare with 'his priceless actor.” “The Jazz Singer,’’ a Warner Master Picture special, will , shortly be released in New Zealand.