New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 2, 1928, Page 16

NO FAITH IN NEW TALKING MOVES Frobman Says They Won't Re~‘ place Legitimate Bridgeport, Aug. ® — Daniel Frohman, veteran theatrical produ er, believes “the new talking movie will never tak gitimate stage.” Mr. Frohman was an overnight visitor to Bridgeport, staying here with a nephew on a return tour of three weeks through Canada “The “talkies’ can never fully reproduce the the actor as it is the legitimate stage,” he s “There is something that is abso- lutely intangible, but has str 1o prevent the abolishment of gitimate stage, and that something 1s the thing that makes u notice the one actor on the stage above all others, even perhaps the leader. Why, all of us have been to shows where the personality counts. Leading man or woman holds a very Limited amount of interest for success- id and we have found one perhaps in | the back with no lines to speak and | yet he holds our his personality. “It is personzlity that the stage can produce and that is what the screen cannot show except in very small quantities and in many cases it is not the personality we know the screen actor has when we speak face to face with him.” Mr. Frohman believes the talking movies will weed out many of the actors and actresses now most prom- inent in the movies, due to their lack of proper voice expression. “While 1 do not believe the talkies will be competitor in an artistic sense,” he said, “the remarkably low prices for the type of entertainment will guar- antee its success.” attention by BYRD FAS NEW BOAT New York, Aug. 2 (P—Command- er Richard E. 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Telephone hot days, the place of the le- | The ship will | CALIFORNIA'S FOREST FIRES UNDER CONTROL Blaze in Tahoe Basin Only One Giv- ing Fire Fighters Any l | Trouble, San Ira for a blaze on t roperty ot the Crown Willumette Paper company hasin, Calitornia’s for- <lieved under control r thousands 1 buildings in a 36 ove valuable tin north of ' swopt burned down build- paper company's 10,000 wind died erday, comprising the camp No. 4. and cords of pulp woo down sufficicntly men to check th A tire in the | try near Paxton In the Mouterey district two fires smouldering. One, near James- had burned over 2,500 acres, the other, on Mill Creek near City, had hurned over 2,000 d. fames, cather river coun- swept over 300 burg, while in the Potter district of Mendocino county was brought under control as was a 15,000 acre blaze in Mad: county 12,000 acres fire as SPANISH PLANE 15 FORGED T0 LAND Comes Down Near Cadiz Due to Motor Trouble 2 Port of Huelva, Spain, Aug. (UP)—Riding the surt at the little port in La Rabida, from where Christopher Columbus started on the voyage that resulted in discov- ery of America, the damaged sea- plane Numancia waited today to start on a more modern method to reach that same America. The plane, piloted by Com- mandant Ramon Iranco, was forced 1o land at La Rabida terday morning after having started from Cadiz on the first part of an around jthe world flight, Engine Trouble Occurs Engine trouble developing in the first hour of the flight from Cadiz —a flight that was to have its first terminus at Horta Azores—was be- | lieved responsible for the forced | landing at La Rabida. Commandant I'ranco and his three companions—Captain Ruiz De Alda, Captain - Emilio Gallarza and Mechanic Pablo Rada re- mained in seclusion after the land- ing. They indicated they desired to start again for the Azores as soon as was possible. Start Was Poor The start of the Numancia — a four motored Dornier-Wal plane— vesterday was not good. The ma- chine had difficulty in taking off | with its heavy load but once in the air it seemed to he functioning per- fectly, its four motors roaring | noisily. | The craft carried a radio and ex- pected to report regular prosaic messages but these were not forth- coming. Then it was learned that a land- ing had been made at La Rabida. | about 50 miles northwest of Cadiz. | It was considered likely that Franco had reached a point over Portugal when trouble developed and that he had returned to La Rabida, a port | he knew well as he started his suc- | cessful flight to South America from | there in 1926, The Classified Ads will gzet what you want, when vou want it, and at a price you ean pay. cool off ‘CANADA DRY Beg. U 5. Pat. Of1. The (Champagne of Gizger eAles Distributed By Miner, Read & Tullock { 4 | tion's members and equipment EW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, A STURDY BARQUE SAMSON WILL LEAD WAY ON BYRD’S LONG JOURNEY TO ANTARCTIC expexdition command | ship for Byrd. the fifth forthcom- into (Editor's note: This i of a series of stories on ing expeditions of exploration the Antarctic.) New York, Aug. 2. (B—The best | equipped polar expedition that ever | set out for one of the uttermost | ends of the earth has been assem- | v Comm. Richard E. Byrd for | scientific exploration of the arctic continent. | Three years of prepavation fov | the first attempt to fly airplanes on blustery, frigid Antarctica are | behind him, and the party is all | but ready for the word to weigh | anchor. Tons of suppli nough | to last more than two years—have | been tucked away into the wooden | barque Samson, which is scheduled to sail from Hoboken, N. J., on Au- gust 15 with most of the expedi- | An- | other vessel, am whaler, leaves about a month later with the rest | of the varty, including the leader. The first leg of the journey s 8,000 miles to Dunedin, New Zea- land. K'rom that port the explorers | will proceed across 2,800 miles of | southern ocean to the Bay of Whales on the Ross Sea ice barrier of Antarctica, where the permanent base will be established. It was trom this point, too, that Amund- If Your Car Had A Head Instea of An Engine—You Couldn’t r on the 10.200-mile voyage to the edge of Antarcti | 1eet | towered se in the Antarctic. Cap.t sen set out on his trip to the pole. With good luck, the expedition should reach its goal late in Decem- | ber or varly in January, but the | time of al will depend upon | the reception given to the .\(md)‘ little Samson by the south polar ce pack. Ice movements vary so much from year to year that it is impossible to predict sailing condi- tions, and adventurcrs into these waters can only hope for a fairly | clear pussage | At best, however, the trip through | the ice is none too casy, «even the beginning of the Antarctic s | mer, for nowhere in the world an there larger bergs than off Antarc- tica's coast. Some of these ice mountains, which tumble into the sea from the margin of the conti- nental icecap, two and three miles long and scveral hundred high. One of the largest on record was an cight mile berg that 500 feet above the water- | line. It was reported many years 150, | Ieaching the wall of ice that is called the Ross Sea Barrier, the Sumson will be at journey's end Her passenzers. equipment and sup- | plies will be transferred to the top | of the ice cliff and when tie Ani- arctic night descends she will | are | primarily -~y | be in the van as the Byrd Frederick C. steam back to civilzation or her return the Tk if she remained through the tun ing scason. the barque the polar n No member of the ambitious program ts that the B pe laid out for be two years. turther delay tinent, due tior in the ock the Sa trip. Once on the ty will e ing care to ma hen the avia | men and other about their ta branches of the expedition in ence—can st will be neee vantage of the mer, which high tempergti land. One ng down of alonz the line Commander Mel and on her subsequent journeys as supply t yrd accomplished in less than nearly There in to unfavorable condi- 1501 e ablish its base ¢ ble and homelike for the long stay. to the is the interests of rt ary sh brings long d ire of the first labors will be the of d Keep It Away from — WINKLE'S WATER And what a beautiful job you get PRICES: $l 50 TOURING CAR $l .75 2 PASSENGER ¢ $2 .00 SEDAN WE KNOW 20 YEARS OF CLEANING LEADING CAR DEALERS EMPLOY OUR SERVICE = WINKLES Experts $5., COMMERCIAL STREET AUTO LAUNDRY J GUST 2, 1928, ey hille (inset) will to await follow- ice miglkt crush expedition ex- and his men can still con- may be a leaving the K ice on which may her return barricr, the par- wp, ta it snug, comtorta scientist pecialists in order that all scientitic wo being undertaken sci- 4 without delay. It to take full ad- ort Antarctic sum- s if not | big white radio will set to the series of sub bases the flight which | plans o attempt {a 400 mile stretch, or half the dis- | | tance from the | the: jmost of their work. !hazardcus as well as the most spec- ! must be able to carry a !in men, fuel and cquipment through | ,itself, for a forced landing from the barrier to the South Pole. These supply depots will be estab- lished at intervals of 100 miles over main camp to the 2eographical bottom of the world. They are intended as emergency caches. to serve the polar fliers with food and spare equipment in the event that bad weather or other unforeseen contingencies force the big plane ‘down on its fiight over the high plateau. | Dog teams will be used in placing . havens, and also for estab- lishing scientific stations at various points on the ice barrier and in | King Edward VII Land, where the | expedition’s scientists plan to do" | Although Commander Byrd em- phasizes that the aerial voyage to | the poie will pe only a part of the | work he has planned, it is the most | tacular of his projects. The south- | ernmost spot on the globe lies at | an altitude of more than 10,000 fect, | nearly at the top of the great south polar plateau. The plane chosen for this trip heavy load | varificd air. Whether the leader | and the two men whom he plans to | take with him on the dash can land | the ship at the pole is prohlemati- | cal. Even if they should do so without mishap, the task of taking | off again would probably be giater. | Not the least dangerous part of | the polar hop will be the stretch } hetween the last base and the pole | in this | zone might prove scrious. Were the | plane to descend and were the av- | iators unable to coax her off the | ground, they woull have to tramp | are extra. $5.75 to $7. generator. runs from $3.50 to cost per mile. Interior Cleaning Vacuum Cleaning Motor Cleaning High Pressure Spring Oiling Lack to the Dbase or wait where they had landed untl assistance, summoned by the plane’s radio, ar- rived. COOLIDGE 70 SEE HINNESOTA MINES | Also Sees Largest Pine Lumber Mill in World Hibbing. Minn., Aug. » (A — The nation's chief source of iron ore supply—the iron ranges of northern Minnesota—were on display today tor President Coolidge, who had se- lected this occasion 1o venture from his summer headquarters for the second time since coming to this | part of the country for his vacation. | A picture of industrial activity awaited the presidential visit. sees Huge Bowls Huge bowls sunk into the resembling stadia of giants earth with rails, engines and tiny cars on cach | tier of scats; steam shovels picking up with apparent ease tons of “red dirt,” placing them in cars and go- ing back for more, making still more and deeper te figures of men, appearing on the other side of the bowl like ants crawling in and out of a sand pile—all of this| and more could be seen from the observation platforms, built es- pecially for the president at the edge of the large open pit mines $5. | near here. | Largest in World | The first on the president's pro- |gram was the Hull-Rust-Mahoning {mine, the largest open pit iron mine {in the world-and the mine which! now is operating where the old vil-| lage of Hibbing was located. 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