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Show IIG PICTURES OF THE ITICTIC REGION. Moving pictures, which are said to do the most remarkable ever taken, ,ill be shown at the Utah Chautauqua issembly In Ogden next week, the pictures of the Sir Douglas Mawson Antarctic expedition. The lecture on rhursday evening will be by Dr. "W. A. Hunsberger, who gives a detailed account ac-count of the expedition. Twelve remarkable features of these movies are given by the Boston Transcript as showing them as the most wonderful travel pictures, as follows: fol-lows: These pictures -were taken 10,000 miles from America and 2000 miles from the nearest human habitation iu fl 1HUU UCIC1 Ubivit lU. U) Lit. Ot of man. The birds and animals photographed photograph-ed cannot be seen at any zoo in the world; Deep sea creatures never before seen even by scientists were brought from a depth of three miles below the surface of the sea; A perfect picture was secured of a roaring blizzard in the windiest spot on earth Adelle Land, Antarctic where the wind, attained a velocity of 216 miles per hour and where the average velocity for twenty-seven months was 50 miles per hour. The largest Icebergs ever seen were photographed. The tragic story of the 1000-mile sledging Journey is unsurpassed In the hUtory of exploration. No other travel picture contains such screamingly funny scenes. There Is many a good laugh in every one of the sis reels. The penguin i& tor humorous than tho monkey and a million of these were found In one rookery and photographed. photo-graphed. The penguin is the origi- o nator of the famous Charlie Chaplin walk The scenes are constantly shifting each succeeding ono more startling than the last-Photographically, last-Photographically, the pictures are the most perfect ever taken on a similar simi-lar expedition. In all, 20,000 feet were taken and the G000 feet shown on the screen are but the choicest parts. The expedition was the largest in the history of exploration. It was composed of sixty-six university graduates. grad-uates. It covered a period of twenty-seven twenty-seven months and cost $300,000. For real movie thrills the Mawson pictures would be hard to beat and best of all they are not fictitious but true. oo |