Robert Friers

              ROBERT FRIERS

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FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT FOR BOOTH NEWSPAPERS




PRESENTS HIS MOTION PICTURE ADVENTURES IN 
LATIN AMERICA




LECTURE MANAGEMENT



MIDWEST & PACIFIC COAST H. M. McFADDEN BISMARCK HOTEL, CHICAGO FRANKLIN 5122




EASTERN STATES CHARLES S. PEARSON 522 FIFTH AVE., NEW YORK MURRAY HILL 2-0634




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R
OBERT FRIERS has already seen enough action for a half-dozen lifetimes, wandering all over the world as a vagabond reporter, photographer and adventurer.  Starting out alone at the age of twelve, he had hiked over every main highway on this continent by the time he reached eighteen.  Today he has been in thirty-eight countries.




Twice he has walked all the way to the Panama Canal and once to Alaska.  In 1939 he hitch-hiked around the world.  At an early age his love of travel and adventure led him to become interested in the great Pan-American Highway.  To further his knowledge in this field, he enrolled in the University of Michigan and after finishing did graduate work in Latin American History.




During the past three years he has been foreign correspondent for Booth Newspapers, sold pictures to such publications as Life and Look, had his own radio program, and produced several newsreels.  Over a hundred audiences acclaimed his unusual lecture programs last season.



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CENTRAL AMERICA ON FOOT



Adventures on a hitch-hiking trip through Southern Mexico and the 
banana republics
 of Central America.  To citizen.  At considerable risk he secured pictures of Jap spy ships and would-be air bases for bombing the the Panama Canal Zone over what will be the most vital military road on earth.  Rides with trucks, horses, Canal.  Posing sometimes as a German, Bob got remarkable reactions.  Full of adventure and surprises with an autos, burros, motorcycles, dugouts, bicycles, and airplanes give Bob down-to-earth contacts with the average occasional explosion of political dynamite.  (illustrated with 16 mm motion pictures in natural color.)





WHEELS OVER THE ANDES



A solo motor expedition across South America from the Caribbean to the Pacific.  Thirty-six hundred miles exporting field on earth.  later attacked by Nazi submarines.  Treacherous roads over the Andes, shimmering over the great Simon Bolivar Highway through Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador.  Bob picked up fifty-one mountain lakes, and snow capped peaks on the Equator.  Monkeyshines with hitch-hiker Chico who furnished native hitch-hikers and found what they really think of us and of the world in general.  See the biggest oil laughs and trouble galore.  (Illustrated with 16 mm motion pictures in natural color.)





OUR PAN-AMERICAN HIGHWAY



Here is the newest movie on the great highway link to South America.  It shows the efforts of our government application.  New trends, new ideals, and new hope for the United Nations south of the Rio Grande.  An up-to-to complete the final gaps.  See the changes made by war in the countries of our fighting Latin allies.  Increased the minute program on what this all means to us in war time and in the peace to come.  Exciting adventures production in rubber, coffee, sugar, and other tropical products.  Our 
good neighbor policy
 and its practical through the worst jungle country in the world.  (Illustrated with 16 mm motion pictures in natural color.)



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ADVENTURES ACROSS ASIA
 Three months before graduating from college, Bob's room-mate bet him $5 that he couldn't thumb his way around the world.  Bob reached Europe on an Irish freighter, was chased into Asia by the war and there had his most thrilling adventures.  He rode a camel over the desert, went broke in Bagdad, shot it out with bandits at Babylon, bathed in the pool of the Taj Mahal.  After visiting the Himalayas, Bob left the Tibetian border and came down the Burma Road.  The British objected to his driving a munitions truck and deported him to Singapore.  There he signed on a U. S. freighter and returned after a year's trip to win his bet.  Here is a most unusual glimpse into the lives and thoughts of the Asiatics.  (This lecture is NOT illustrated.)


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Robert Friers, the fastest rising young platform star in America, brings an entirely new type of program to you.  His dramatic presentation, scholarly background, and unsurpassed color motion pictures will give you a treat long to be remembered.  Says Dr.  William Rainey Bennett, Director of the Elgin Forum:  
I believe Robert Friers to be the logical successor to Richard Halliburton.



TYPICAL ENGAGEMENTS



PITTSBURGH UNIVERSITY CLUB


OMAHA AD-SELL LEAGUE


MILWAUKEE MUSEUM


UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON


OKLAHOMA CITY DINNER CLUB


RICHMOND WOMANS CLUB


CHICAGO ADVENTURERS CLUB


DETROIT ATHLETIC CLUB


CHICAGO SOUTH SHORE C. C.


ST. LOUIS TOWN HALL


SOUTH BEND PROGRESS CLUB


CENTRAL MICHIGAN COLLEGE


ROCKFORD WOMANS CLUB


INDIANAPOLIS PROPYLAEUM


CHICAGO SINAI CLUB


TOLEDO KIWANIS


MILWAUKEE CITY CLUB


EVANSVILLE TRAVEL SERIES


MICH.  STATE KIWANIS CONV.


CHICAGO NO.  PARK COLLEGE


SPRINGFIELD LUNCHEON CLUB


ALL INDIA RADIO, CALCUTTA


BRITISH BROADCASTING CO.





★ COLORADO MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY



Robert Friers was excellent.  He is a good speaker and has a good story to tell.  It makes a pleasing lecture for almost any type of audience.  I was surprised at the excellence of his color film.  Very rarely do travellers secure such good exposures.




Dr. A. M. Bailey, Director





★ ST. LOUIS TRAVEL & ADVENTURE SERIES



Robert Friers makes his story both real and interesting and his pictures are unusually good.  He has appeared here twice now and we'll want him back again next year.




Roy G. Smith, Chairman





★ UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN



This was one of the year's best programs.  Robert Friers has made a definite contribution toward a better understanding of Latin America.  His color motion pictures are superb.




Prof. E. A. Mercado, Director




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Engagement Already Arranged For Third Successive Season