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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tomorrow evening at 8.30 o'clock in Brattle Hall Bradfor Washburn '33, who spent last summer in Chamonix filming a complete ascent of Mont Blanc, will give an illustrated lecture based on the work of the summer, showing colored slides as well as the film showing the complete climb from his Chamonix hotel to the summit of Europe's highest mountain peak. The lecture, which is under the auspices of the Christ Church, will be given for the benefit of the church charity fund...
Washburn's film, the first ever to be made, shows the way in which hardy mountaineers attain the summit of this lofty mountain, the upper ridges of which are almost continually swept by furious storms, which render the peak virtually inaccessible during more than four-fifths of the year. Washburn, along with W. C. Everett '33, camped out at altitudes of 10,000, 12,900, and 15,000 feet on one occasion struggling through snow up to their waists at an altitude of 14,000 feet, where the thin air is a great cause of weakness...
Besides being treasurer of the Harvard Mountaineering Club, Washburn also belong to the Harvard Travellers Club and to the Explorers Club, with headquarters in New York. The film to be shown tomorrow evening represents the work of many days on the mountain, as only with the best of clear weather is it possible to make motion pictures...
Died. Lya de Putti, 32, high-born Hungarian stage and film actress (Variety, The Heart Thief, Made In France); of pneumonia after an operation to remove a chicken bone from her throat; in Manhattan...
...educational value of the movies is rapidly becoming a platitude and as such should be properly left to the Times Magazine section for digestive study of a Sunday morning. The showing of a film such as the French movie "Le Million" at the Geography Building however, justiflies comment. Here amid pleasant surroundings and conveniently within reach one can supplement a University education with something decidedly easier on the eyes than the swarming pages of Robinson on Western Europe...