LOWELL THOMAS TRAVELOGUE

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 18, 16 October 1920, Page 4

LOWELL THOMAS TRAVELOGUE

It is claimed that, as a pictorial, record of one of the most notable drives of the great world, war; the historio films which Lowell Thomas brought back from the Holy Land, and which are to bo displayed for the first time ill Wellington at the Grand Opera House to-night, can hardly be surpassed, Mr. Thomas is touring New Zealand under J. C. Williamson's direction. The pictures themselves are said to be enough to compel the keenest interest, and Mr. Thomas's ability as a raconteur is said to make them entrancing in their, graphic portrayal of the progressive steps of the notable campaign of Field-Mar- • shal Allenby and the Anzacs in Palestine. Some conception of their appealing character may.be gathered from some of the scenes unfolded. Across the Mediterranean to Malta and Leypt. From Cairo to Palestine by battleplane, living across the Suez Canal, bixty thousand camels. With the Apac Light Horse and the Imperial Camel Corps in the Desert. Driving the Turks, frorn jkersheba. The ancient Philistine city of Gaza. Allenby's crusaders fighting the "later rains:" Three thousand feet , above the Plains of Philistia. Yebnah and the battle of Mugali Hill. Modern Jewish colonies. "The Army of Allah" advancing on Jerusalem. Climbing into the clouds'abovo the Plain of Sharon. Plunging 7000 feet toward Bethlehem in spinning nose dive. The capture of Nebi Sawmill. The faU of Jerusalem. The surrender of the Holy City to the Anzacs. Entry of General Allenby, the deliverer. Palace of the former German Kaiser. Historio scenes of British leaders on the summit of the Mount of Olives. Down the _ Nile, into the Heart of Africa. Following kitchener's trail across the Nubian Desert, Khartoum, the gateway of the jungle. The Holy Kaaba. Shereef Hussein, and the fall of Mecca. The gathering of the Bedouins. "Shereef". Lawrence, the uncrowned King of Arabia, and his Arabian Knights. The fall of Akaba. Mt. Sinai. With the Eoyal Flying Corps in the land of Omar and Fatima. By airplane across the Judean Hills. A flight over the Dead Sea. The Valley of the Jordan from the clouds. Triumphant twentieth century orusaders sweeping back the Turks on the Plnins of Sharon, where the Moslem hordes of Saladin vanquished the flower of chivalry. Driving the Sultan's armies from Haifa, Acre, Tvre and Sidon. British cavalry crossing the Judean Hills. The collapse of the Ottomans and the restoration of the Caliphate. Thomas Lawrence, archaeologist. The capture of Aleppo and the downfall of the Ottoman Empire. Mesopotamia, Syria. Arabia, <md the Holv Land at last freed after fom hundred years of oppression. The pictures will be shown for seven nights, with matinees on Wednesday and Saturday. The box plans will be at the Bristol until noon to-day, and day sale tickets are obtainable at Ned Perry's.