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Members of the skiing squad and alumni met the Dartmouth team in an informal slalom event during Christmas vacation. Although conditions were fast and icy, the times were excellent for the course. Richard Durrance, Dartmouth Olympic skier, took first place with a time of 34 seconds. Colin Maclaurin '38, captain of the Harvard team, has the best time for the Crimson entrants...
Slalom (H. R. Sokal, Vienna) is the first full-length skiing picture with a plot to be shown in the U. S. It takes its name from the skier's term for a downhill race around obstacles. Slalom's plot runs downhill all the way, is inconsequential except as a frame for the finest skiing and skiing photography the cinema has yet displayed...
...Hans Schneeberger, who shot the remarkable White Hell of Pitz Palu (TIME Oct. 13 1930). To catch the skiing antics of the chief characters of Slalom, he rode along beside them with his camera mounted on his skis, thus avoiding that flaw of most skiing cinemas in which the skier flashes past and is gone. Not only did Cameraman Schneeberger get some of the world's best pictures of skiing, but he managed to frame them in the rugged beauty of the high Alps. Many an Alpine skier will recognize the peaks and slopes of Castor and Pollux. Good...
Cost of the Sun Valley development was about that of one of Producer Goldwyn's colossal spectacles-$1,000,000. When the skiing boom started, Union Pacific's Chair-man William Averell Harriman dispatched Count Felix Schaffgotsch, expert Austrian skier, on a 5,000 mi. trip to find the best skiing terrain on Union Pacific's extensive Rocky Mountain routes. Sun Valley-then a nameless dent in a State previously famed mainly for potatoes and Senator Borah- was Count Schaffgotsch's choice. Among its natural advantages: slopes free from timber, surrounding peaks...
...Madison Square Garden, accustomed to the endless transformations of this chameleon edifice, stood aghast as they watched it become something it had never been before : a snowy mountain top. From the centre of the arena floor to the top of the gallery-so close to the roof a skier had to crouch so as not to bump his head- stretched a 152-ft, 45-degree ski slide, covered with artificial snow. Set in the white pavilion of the arena floor were two miniature skating ponds. It was New York's first wintersports show, patterned on wintersports shows in Boston...