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This evening in Jordan Hall a concert of music for the violoncello by Jean Bedetti, first cellist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and accomplished soloist. His program comprises Tscherepnine's "Rhapsodie Georgienne", Boulanger's Piece in C-sharp Minor and Cassado's "Olle mi Tierra...
Lieutenant Colonel Charles Wellington Furlong, noted as an explorer, artist, soldier, and author, will talk on "Chile and exploring through Tierra del Fuego" this evening at 7.30 in the Living Room of the Union. The talk will be illustrated both by slides and by motion pictures of the country and its people. Professor A B Hart will introduce the speaker...
Among other adventures, he was in 1907-8 the first American to cross through the heart of Tierra del Fuego. On this trip through this desolate stormy country to the tip of Cape Horn, Colonel Furlong discovered the most primitive people in the world, who, he says, are still living in the Stone Age. He visited the southern most town in the world and also several Indian tribes which still retained some very curious customs...
Colonel Furlong's other activities include art-studies at Paris, ethnological research, and an enviable war record, ending in a high position with the Peace Commission. His trips of exploration have taken him all over the world. Child and the Tierra del Fuego, however, are reported to have been his chief interests...
...writer, Mr. Furlong has contributed many articles on North African and South American topics to magazines. In 1907 he was sent by Harper's Magazine to South America in charge of an exploring expedition which was the first scientific party to penetrate the heart of Tierra-del-Fuego. Mr. Furlong's best-known book is "The Gateway to the Sahara," which was published...