Columbia To Find Lost Atlantis

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 31, 13 January 1939, Page 15

Columbia To Find Lost Atlantis

OR 23 centuries scientists, adventurers and innumerable authors have tried to solve the mystery of the ancient legend first brought to light in the writing of Plato, that back in the dim ages, a continent, known as Atlantis, on which lived people of a high civilisation, was engulfed and sunk in the Atlantic. Now, "The Lost Atlantis" is being produced as a huge spectacle of, drama, horror.and fantasy by Trem Garr j;and Fred Jackman (of "Lost World’ fame), for Golumbia. International in interest, the continent sunk by a cataclysm 12,000 years ago has created learned societies throughout the world devoted to its historical study; and more than 2000 books In many fanguages have been published on the subject. The screen drama of the lost continent will deal with the struggle and eventual triumph of man in penetrating the world’s last frontier, the mysterious unknown land beneath the seas with its legendary pre-historic monsters.