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Kivalina of the Ice Lands was filmed by one Earl Rossman in a two-year expedition to the Arctic. Eskimos are the actors. Here are reindeer without the Santa Claus; an eskimaid eski-mobiling behind some dogs through a 50-below zero blizzard; a full color reproduction of the aurora borealis. It might have been written with an ice-pick on the bleak wall of an igloo, but its impression of tiny men spinning their confused webs against the icy gulfs of immeasurable space registers effectively...
...collection shows the primitive customs of the people. The clothing is made entirely of horsehide or reindeer hide, with the fur left out. All the household utensils are made of wood or pottery. The wooden jugs, of which there are a large number, are finely carved and are very good pieces of workmanship. Even the dishes on which the food was served are made of wood...
...just now announced from Nome that a new expedition is about to set out for Wrangel Island. This one will be headed by Carl Lomen, head of the reindeer industry of Alaska, to whom Stefansson is reported to have disposed of his interests. Lomen will bring back news of the second party left on the island...
Ango then accepts the captaincy of a tramp steamer and, accompanied by his daughter, goes to Southampton, its port of departure. While there, he visits the room in the Reindeer Hotel, where he said goodby to Blacky I twenty years before. He plays the old music box, which she was so fond of, and pays old George five pounds, the result of a bet that Ango would never return to Southampton. A few minutes after he leaves the hotel, the audience hears the steamship whistle and knows that Waverly Ango is aboard, atoning for his past indiscretions by sailing straighter...
...government in investigating salt lakes, coal mines, gold deposits, Dr. Ossendowski was obliged to make long trips into the Kalunda and Bateni steppes, into the Altai Mountains, to the convict island of Sakhalin, into the extraordinary Ussurian country where the tropical tiger roams in the same forest as the reindeer and the northern goose and the Indian flamingo rise from the same lake. During these travels he watched the Tatars taming their wild horses, he saw the two eyes of a man-eating tiger peering at him through the jungle grass; an escaped murderer whom he befriended showed...