Count Byron De Prorok

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COUNT BYRON DE PROROK
Presents
Two New and Exclusive Film Narratives

Magnificent 16mm and 35mm motion pictures available for both productions


THE AFRICAN DRAMA
(From Sheba to Selassie)

Exclusive Story and Motion Pictures of the African World, Where History is Being Made, and of the leaders Who Are Making It.



IN THE LAND OF SHEBA
(And On To Cleopatra's Lost Emerald Mines)

A Thrilling Journey to the Last Home of Mystery: The Queen of Sheba's Savage, Southern Arabia.



Concert and Lecture Management
HORNER-MOYER, INC., 3005 Harrison, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI




Removing Relics from a Buried Tomb in Ophir Mountains of Western Abyssinia



Gebel Moya, Scene of Britain's rout of Italy, in Libya






Count de Prorok, (foreground) in Libya, with two of the New Colonel Lawrences of Libya, Norman Hillier and William B. K. Shaw


Count de Prorok has ever been haunted by old tales and legends.  To him the lost Atlantis, the gold of Ophir, King Solomon's Gold Mines, the lost Temple of Jupiter Ammon, the site of Dido's Carthage, tales of the Queen of Sheba, of Tin Hinan, the legendary queen of the Tuaregs, were not merely catch phrases—they were things to find out, to explore.


Has Adventurous Life of Exploration
For 20 years this youngest of our outstanding explorers and archaeologists has been on his romantic quest for lost worlds—worlds that are as much lost to today's knowledge as to today's civilization.  He has taken a wisp of a myth, brought science to it, and of the marriage produced fascinating fact.

He has headed expeditions, under the auspices of several governments, to the lost civilizations of three continents, by special planes, desert trucks, camel caravans and divers' equipment.  He has explored dead cities half buried by the desert sands, and even under the depths of the sea.  He has traced lost civilizations from the Red Sea to the Atlantic and from Carthage to Timbuctoo.  Most of the nations of Europe have honored him with decorations for his achievements.


A de Prorok Expedition among the Lost Lancandon Indians.  Last remnants of the Mayas




COUNT BYRON DE PROROK
Noted Archaeologist   Explorer   Author
Romantic Discoverer of Lost Worlds

FROM WHO'S WHO
DE PROROK, Count Byron, F.R.G.S., Director, Franco-American Archaeological Researches in North Africa; b.  Mexico City, 6 Oct., 1896; Educ.  University of Geneva.  Norton Memorial Lecturer of the Archaeological Institute of America, 1923; Director, excavations of Carthage, 1920–25; excavations of Utica, 1926; discovered tomb of Queen Tin-Hinan, Hoggar, Central Sahara, 1926; explored submarine ruins off Isle of Djerba, Tunisia, 1925; Prehistoric expeditions, Sahara, Fayum (Egypt), Siwa (Libyan Desert), 1926–28; expedition to Western Sahara, Rio del Oro, Mauritania, 1929; French Government Concession at le Munstier Dordogne, 1926–30; expedition to Southern Tripolitania and Fezzan, 1931; expedition to Mexico and Guatemala, 1932–33; Director, Prorok-Jouvenal Expedition to Ethiopia, 1933–34; Prorok-Stanley Red Cross Expedition to Ethiopia War, (M. Y. Trenora).  1935; exploration of Libya and Yemen.  1936; expeditions to Land of Sheba, Southern Arabia, 1937–40; Prehistoric Research Headquarters, Chauteau de Mercues.  Lot; Grand Officer of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre; Officier de l'Instruction Publique; Officer d'Academie; Officer de Nichal Iftigar, Tunisia; Algeria, etc; Knight of the Crown of Italy; Commander of the Order of the Star of Ethiopia; Member of Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland; Member of International Anthropological Institute; Hon. Corr. American, French and Egyptian Geographical Societies; Hon. Member of the Societe des Americanistes. Publications: Fouilles a Carthage, 1921; Excavations of Carthage, Royal Geographic Journal, February 1924; The Temple of Tanit, Carthage, 1925; Digging for Lost African Gods, 1926; Ancient Trade Routes of the Sahara (American Geographical Journal), 1926; Prehistoric Discoveries in Libyan Desert (Institute d'Egypt), 1928; Prehistoric Researches in the Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian and Libyan Sahara; Mysteries of the Great Sahara; No Man's Africa, 1929; The Sahara in Antisuity, 1930; In Quest of Lost Worlds, 1936; Dead Men Do Tell Tales, (From Sheba to Selassie), 1941.  Recreations: President, Axenstein Golf Club (Swiss), hunting, mountain climbing; address Chateau de Tancarville, France; Adventurers Club, New York.


Count de Prorok with the New Colonel Lawrences of Libya—Hillier, Shaw, Johnston, etc., exploring a Libyan Temple



Count De Prorok's Firsts
FIRST to use moving pictures to record archaeological discoveries, 1920.

FIRST to use aeroplanes for archaeological exploration.  (Discovery of lost cities in the Sahara, Arabia and Southern Mexico).

FIRST to discover and explore an ancient submerged city under the sea.  (Tipasa, 1926).

FIRST to cross the Libyan and Tripolitan Saharas with specially designed motor trucks.

FIRST to discover relics of Hannibal, (Carthage), Alexander the Great, (Oasis of Jupiter Ammon), of Cleopatra (Ammonia), King Solomon's Mines, (Ethiopia).

FIRST to make scientific Atlantean link between the Mayas of Central America and the Ancient Libyans of the Atlas and Northwest Africa.

FIRST to excavate the lost Kingdom of Sheba.



A Dynamic Speaker
These two magnificent film productions are enhanced by Count de Prorok's amazing stories, told in a dramatic style, teeming with thrilling adventures and experiences, humor and anecdotes.  His Winning and gracious personality win him friends wherever he appears.




Count de Prorok, about to start on one of his North African Expeditions, receives a farewell blessing from his good friend, the late General Italo Balbo.  Photo taken in front of Governor Balbo's Palace in Tripoli




The Field of the Present African Drama
From 1936 to 1940, Count de Prorok was delving into those very regions in Africa, where the titantic struggle for Empire has been taking place—out where New Rome has been battling Britain for domination of the African world.  Thus his new motion picture presentation of the African drama is one of the most timely of present-day lectures.

Through his films he will show Libya, Abyssinia, Somaliland, Egypt, Aden, Arabia—towns, villages, countries where history is being made.  And pictures of those great leaders who are well-known to him: Selassie, Graziani, Weygand, Wavell, Major Glubb, Major Bagnold, Norman Hillier, (the new Colonel Lawrence of Libya), Mussolini, and of General Balbo who was his friend and about whose mysterious end he has something to say.



In the Land of Sheba
He has trailed the Queen of Sheba across Africa, Ethiopia and finally into Arabia, and in his second new film presentation he presents a thrilling adventurous journey to the last home of mystery—the Queen of Sheba's savage southern Arabia, through the deserts of Yemen, Sheba and Oman, and on to Cleopatra's lost Emerald Mines.  Long-buried desert cities—great treasure tombs—unknown lands filled with romantic histories and the relics of Sheba and Cleopatra—ancient caravan trails, gold trails, slave trails—time-worn ruins and abandoned harbors, all pass in review upon his screen.


The Flying Archaeologists, on a de Prorok Expedition to Yucatan, Guatemala and Peru






Count de Prorok on the ancient caravan trail that the Queen of Sheba took to visit King Solomon, 950 B. C.




Acclaim from Foreign Notables and Scientists
The explorations of Mr. de Prorok in Western Ethiopia throws new light on the locality of famous ancient mines of Solomon.  His pictures of our martyred land are unique.  All good wishes on his forthcoming tour of America.—Emperor Haile Selassie, Bath, England.

The first archaeological expedition to Italian Libya.  The first films of the lost Kingdoms of the Sahara, and the mighty remains of ancient Rome in Africa.  My sincere and grateful congratulations and good wishes for your coming tour of American.—Italo Balbo, Governor of Tripolitania, Libya.

Ancient Libya pictured and described by Mr. de Prorok has decided me to visit Jupiter Ammon next year.  The lecture was a real treat.—H. M. King Fuad, Royal Egyptian Geographical Society, Cairo, Egypt.

The finest pictures on archaeology, exploration and timely topic combined, I have ever seen.—Arthur R. Hinks, Director, Royal Geographical Society, London.

Everybody was delighted with your most interesting lecture and with the remarkably fine films which accompanied it … Our best wishes go with you in your further work of exploration.—W.  Addis Miller, Secretary, The Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh.



A Partial List of Engagements Previously Filled During His Lecture Tours in the United States, Canada and Europe:

The National Geographic Society, Washington
The Archaeological Society of Washington (11 times)
Carnegie Hall, New York
American Geographical Society, New York
Town Hall, New York
The Explorers Club, New York
The Adventurers Club, New York
The Circumnavigators Club, New York
The Dutch Treat Club, New York
Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn
Bushnell Memorial Hall, Hartford, Conn.
Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Conn.
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Chicago Rotary Club, Chicago, Ill.
South Shore Country Club, Chicago, Ill.
Culver Military Academy, Culver, Ind.
Rolla School of Mines, Rolla, Mo.
Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wis.
Colorado Museum of Natural History, Denver, Colo.
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Columbia University, New York
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind.
University of Toronto
McGill University, Montreal
Oxford University, England
Cambridge University, England
The French Academy
The Sorbonne
Royal Geographical Society, London
And all other European Geographical Societies
Etc., Etc., Etc.



In His Films Count De Prorok Will Show:
(Subject to Changes That May Seem Advisable)


The African Drama

1.
The Drama of Libya.  The new British Colonel Lawrences of Northern Africa.  With Balbo, Graziani, de Bono, de Gaulle's Free French, Weygand, Wavell, Mussolini.  In Libya, Tunisia and the Sahara.
2.
Lost Dead Cities of Libya: Jupiter Ammon, Ghirza, Ghadames and the historic new ones: Sidi Barrani, Tobruk, Mouzourk; the land of Cleopatra's lost Emerald Mines.
3.
The quest for King Solomon's Mines.  Three years of Ethiopia.  Haile Selassie.  The war.  The last slave caravans.  Prisoner of Ghogoli.  With Fire and Sword in the Sudan.
4.
The expedition to the lost Biblical Land of Ophir.  From Sheba to Selassie.  Cleopatra's Summer Palace at Mersa Mattruh.  Red Sea Adventure.  The revenge of the natives.
5.
Inside story of the battle of empires in Africa.  The lost Legion.  Marshall Balbo's death.  Devastation, Desolation, Damnation.  The Last Crusade.



In the Land of Sheba

1.
The Golden Tombs of Africa.  Human sacrifices.  Among the mummies.  Explorations in the Land of Dido, Hannibal, Alexander, Cleopatra and Sheba.  The Curse Stone of Carthage.
2.
The Legend of Atlantis.  First exploration of dead cities under the sea.  With heroic Greeks.  Submarine drama.  We find sunken Tipasa.
3.
The Poison Trail.  The flying Archaeologists.  Lost in the jungle.  The American Nile.  The search for the tomb of Guatemoc, last Emperor of the Aztecs.  The Maya Pygmies.
4.
From the land of the Amazons to the lost Empire of Sheba.  The caravans of death.  The last great unexplored archaeological lost world in the Arabian Garden of Eden.
5.
Where women rule!  The expedition to search for the Eve of the Sahara.  Queen Tin Hinan.  The mysterious people of the veil.  The Forbidden City of the Desert.  The Treasure Tomb.  Battle with the Fanatics.  Death comes to the explorers.  Drama of the sands.




Count de Prorok's party excavating in the last home of mystery, Oman, in forbidden Southern Arabia





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