El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-05-06
PICTURES MADE
IN FRIGID ZONE
Wonders of Bird and Ami
NAL Life Near the South
Pole Are Shown.

| Wonderful pictures Of the antarctic
| and fun and song filled in the 1orp-
est evenings entertainment the chan
tauquans have yet had. on Friday
night
The pictures we're movies and
stills" made Of the Sir Douglas Nav
son expedition to study animal. bird
and sea life in the antarctic regions.
and FL Pasoans learned some things
Of newly explored country that few
people in the country have vet had n
chance to learn. The pictures are the
only ones Of the kind ever made Of a
region so far south Cor north) and
show the wonders of life in a region
where IS degrees below zero is not
considered very cold; where the seals.
instead of ordinary coats Of fur, wear
heavy coats Of thick hair: where birds.
instead of making nests Of feathers
and sticks, make them of pebbles and
stones; where. instead of flying, the
birds walk like Charlie Chaplin and
the wind blows so hard that a man
has difficulty walking down a noun
tainside against it.
Expedition Pictures.
The pictures began with the depart
ure of the expedition from Australia
and carried it on to within a short
distance of the south pole, showing
the ship grinding through ice flOes.
passing beneath icebergs that lowered
hundreds Of feet above the vessel,
anchOring In icebOund harbors. land
ing supplies upon islands Of Ice. etc.
The men were shown digging ice for
water, living in their winter huts,
taking observations in gales blowing
over 100 miles an hour, playing with
the penEuinS and other wonderful
birds of the frigid south. riding seals.
drawing sleds, training dogs, climbing
ice glaciers, exploring ice caves. etc.
Pictures showed the bird and auimal
life on the surface and the life beneath
the sea, where thousands Of new spec-
linens were discovered and photo
graphed for the benefit of the scien-
tific world. The lecture and the pic
lures occupied an hour and a half and
the spectators sat through It all with
deep interest, although an hours en-
tertainment by the Edwin Weeks
company had been given prior to the
pictures.
The Weeks Company.
Mr. Weeks and wife and Miss Olive
Woodward Of Chicago. make up the
Weeks company, which replaced the
Riner sisters on the program. one of
the Misses Riner being too i'll for them
to fill their engagement
Mr.. Weeks tells Funny stories. sings
In several different voices in imitation
Of grand opera stars, and, with his
W ne uDtH Il BldN4tL ana q nuluDtE
Of song medleys Miss Woodward
plays the violin splendidIy and Was
several times encOred by the audience.
Saturday morning at 10 o'clock the
grand pageant of children OF the junior
chautauqua took place under the su-
pervision Of Miss NJ Inez Bristol, at
Waterloo Ia It was the concluding
feature Of the King Arthur's court
ceremonies which have been held by
the children every morning during the
week. A picnic was held for the chill
dren after the pageant
J. NJ Erickson delivered his closing
lecture, Pep and Pot Luck"
Lectures and music will make up the
program for this afternoon and this
evening. The Sequoia male quartet
will give two concerts, one in the al
ternOOn and one I'm the evening
Wood Briggs, with stories Of the
south, followed the quartet in the af-
ternoon
Following the popular concert Of the
Sequoia male quartet this evening,
Sylvester A. Long, president of the In
Lyceum association, viii
lecture. Mr.. Long is known as Amer
ica's premier chautauqua lecturer. Mr.
Long will lecture on Hungry People"
The chautauqua closes Sunday night
with a concert by the Kaffir boys
choir. In the afternoon Robert Par
ker Miles will lecture on "Tallow
Dips"