Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-10
NORTH POLE
CELEBRATED
Third Anniversary Arrives
With Explorer Planning
New Trips.
BY Radio to The Star and the New yOrl

BY Radio to The Star Star and the New York
LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica. May
9-Today is the anniversary of Comdr.
Byrd's flight over the North Pole in
1926. 1t was just past midnight the
morning of May 9 when ne took off
down the snow-clad slope at Kings Bay,
Spitzbcrgen, with Floyd Bennett and
turned the nose Of his ship northward
over the polar ice. Sixteen and a
half hours later he was lowering again
over the little settlement with his crew
waving ecstatically, while Capt. Roald
Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth and
the Norwegians and Italians waiting
for their flight tuInbled out of the mess
hall to greet him.
That flight has never been duplicated.
It still remains the only flight of a
heavier-than-air ship over the North
Pole and the successful pioneer flight in
the north polar regions.
Even at that time Comdr. Byrd had
in mind the plans for his transatlantic
fight, which he carried out in the
America, and the present Antarctic ex-
petition.
Today he has all unusually successful
season of preliminary work behind him
and is preparing for next year not only
to reach the South Pole but also to
exploree the more important virgin ter
ritory to the East.
Little Thcatcr" Amuses.
Our own little theater opened up
here last night. We have our little the
alter moving always upward and on
ward striving for expression. There are
no crsmping traditions to limit lis.
We have originated what might be
called the Polar School of Art in which
we cast off sitting conventions and go
back to the primitive. What could be
more gayly realistic than dropping a
handful Of snow down some ones back?
There is about 1t sort OF rollicking
simplicity.
Train Select Audience.
Having O rather select audience, we
are able to train it, which is q great
advantage. They are probably the most
intelligent group of things on this whole
continent, now that the penguins are
gone. Their minds leap ahead to the
ultimate, the inevitable, so that when,
in a fervor of emotion, ones lines end
as it we're in the air, from the audience
spontaneously there bursts the cry of
''raSpberries." which Is their gentle way
Of showing pleasure.
The atmosphere of our little family
invariably reflects the unity with which
they react. Let some one forget to close
the door Cthere being slight difference
of 100 degrees of temperature between
in here and out there) and there comes
the yell, "Close that door," followed by
words chosen carefully for emphasis,
meticulouS care in the use of language
being something upon which we insist.
"TOts" With Boards.
A school scene was selected for the
first performance because of its sug-
gestion of refreshing innocence in this
decadent civilization Of seals and PEN
gums. The little tots were dressed
daintily in canvas, which covered most
of their figures. although an arm which
had avoided washing, as children's arms
sometimes do, here and there escaped
concealment. They are well-ted chill
dren and quite muscular, and their pre-
cocious development was indicated by
beard or two, or perhaps a species of
horsehair, which adorned their pink
checks.
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