The Alaska daily empire., 1917-06-28
SUDDEN CREETS MANY OF OLD TIME FRIENDS Former Alaskan Has Been on Tour of the East
 a TopIiner in His
 Picture Tours. PROMINENT ASSOCIATES Will Take Pictures of the North in Natural
 CoIorS To Show
 the Country.
PROMINENT ASSOCIATES

hC Fiolt oi lCl. iLColiaiu 1uS den to Alaska and Yukon is a home coming for him, and affords his many friends in the North an Op- portunity to greet him for the first time since he has made his name famous from ocean to ocean as a lecturer and entertainer.
 After spending years in the North with his headquarters in the South arn Yukon region with headquarters It Whitehorse and Kluane, about five years ago, Dr. Sugden conceived the idea of featuring on the North with pictures. He went to the out route to the Chsana. His success IS a route boomer was indifferent and finally fell with the collapse of he Chisana stampede.
 However, he acquired a taste for the work and returned to the North and secured motion pictures of the whole country from Southeastern Alaska. over the White Pass and down the Yukon, including the Daw- son and Fairbanks sections, etc. Seward Peninsula and the Pacific Coast regions to the Westward. With .hese pictures his success began. He was given a fine reception through out California. especially in Los An geles and San Diego Then he went East, and the California successes were improved upon. He showed his pictures and lectured in the very best theatres in all of the leading cities, was guest of honor in leading clubs of the country, and gained a reputation as a lecturer and public speaker on Alaskan and other topics hat attracted the attention of James B. Pond manager of the Pond Lyc- cum Bureau of New York, establish ed by Major Pond in 1872 and famed most famous lecturers of the United States. MT. Pond, who is in Juneau with MT. Sugden. is son of Major Pond, the founder of the bureau. Became Famous
 'I regard Dr. Sugden as one of
 
 country" said James B. Pond, man. ager of Ponds Lyceum Bureau. He has demonstrated that he can hold the attention of the public by tn, ee successful years in the best theatres and before the best clubs in the country. If l had not the utmost con fidence in him as lecturer and the Prizma photography in natural colors would not be here. for there is much to keep me busy elsewhere " Sugden Big Feature
 Dr. Sugden was the feature at the Rialto Theatre in New York for sixteen days, making six and seven lectures a day. In Boston he ap- peared at Fremont Temple Theatre, and at Washington he filled two en- agreements of week or more each i at Belasco's Theatre.
 His reception by the press and public was spontaneous and enthus- iastic. The Herald, Telegram, Tele- graph and other papers of New York, the American, News and other Chi cago papers, the Boston papers and dramatic papers in all of those and other cities featured his lectures. The Pittsburgh papers not only ex- .olled his pictures. but described him as an orator and happy after dinner speaker. The Burlington Hawkeye, made famous by Bob Burdette, said he should be suppressed, because De- | fore he had half finished his lecture | the audience wanted to leave for | Alaska
 | Dr. Sugden met President Wilson and Secretary of the Interior Lane at Washington, and they were great | ly interested in his lecture and pie lures. They encouraged him to con tinue the work of educating the people on Alaska.
 The Canadian government was much interested and warm in it's en couragement.
 Much Expected From New Picturea Dr. Sugden and MT. Pond, who has charge of his bookings, expect sr, at things from the new Prizma n,ctures that will be taken for Dr. l s1uBucu. 1ucy VIII pOiIidy thO ~ ' eA in natural colors. The pictures will be taken by c. Winter, of New York who had charge of the photograph ing of Griffiths' famous production of "The Birth of NatiOn." and re garded as one of the greatest motion picture photographers of the world Dr. Sugden will collect later data for his lectures during the northern trip, which will cover all of South eastern Alaska, the Atlin. Yukon. In terior Alaska. government railroad Anchorage, Seward. Valdez. Cordova and other regions of Alaska.
 An exhibition of the Prizma pic lures in natural colors was given al the Palace Theatre yesterday after noon. The scenes presented were California and Washington State landscapes. and the coloring was SC I true to nature that an auditor could easily imagine that he was looking tl~~n,.uh a car windOW nr an aDQr