ROSS SMITH FLIGHT

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 16 December 1920, Page 2

ROSS SMITH FLIGHT

The Lyric management announces having secured a screening of Ross Smith flight from England to Australia, which will be shown here next Wednesday evening. MrGeo. Dean will lecture with this remarkable picture.

The entertainment is crammed so full of novel sidelights on countries over which the airmen passed, and the ■pectatora' attention is completely enchained from the very start. Truly can Sir Keith Smith say : "No product of British workmanship has served man better than the Vimy." This is especially borne home as the flers are shown in their passage over the Southern Alps, with the Vimy aeroplane covered with snow and ice, or, by striking contrast, aa they pilot their way across the plains of Central India. Fresh interest is lent to places of Biblical record as the machine is seen in the clouds above the Garden of Eden on it, way to Basra, and over Jericho to the Sea of Galilee, and on to Damascus. Then the audience is brought along the Persian Gulf to Karachi, to Rangoon and Bangkok, through the Dutch Indies, with Timor as the starting place for the final lap of 300 miles to Darwin. Beautiful views are shown of their exciting experiences at all these different points. Not the least attractive •ection of the pictures is devoted to the progress of the Vimy from Darwin down th« coast to Sydney and Melbourne. Education and entertainment has rarely been so agreeably combined.