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...town tryouts go, it was way, way out. By coastal steamer, narrow-gauge railway and bus, Comedian Bert Lahr, 66, and a Broadway cast trekked up to Dawson City in the Yukon-4,700 miles from the Great White Way-for an eight-week run of Foxy, a Gold Rush version of Ben Jonson's Volpone. The musical comedy, timed to premiere with the beginning of Dawson City's Gold Rush Festival, launched the event with a splash. At the Palace Grand Theater, where Douglas Fairbanks Sr. once played to Klondike sourdoughs, British Comedienne Bea Lillie officially opened...
...Harvard Mountaineering Club will hear a lecture by Dr. Walter A. Wood of the Arctic Institute of North America Wednesday not yesterday as reported. Dr. Wood will also show a movie of climbing activities in the St. Elias Range in the Canadian Yukon. The movie, which will be shown at 8 p.m. in the Map Room of the Faculty Club, is open to the public...
...Harvard Mountaineering Club tonight will hear a lecture by Dr. Walter A. Wood of the Arctic Institute of North America. Dr. Wood will also show a movie of climbing activities in the St. Elias Range in the Canadian Yukon. The Club is considering a trip to the Range next summer. The movie, which will be shown at 8 p.m. in the Map Room of the Faculty Club, is open to the public...
Describing the successful ascent of Albert W. Nickerson '62 and Leif-Norman Patterson, a graduate student at M.I.T., Everett said that "the work was physically and mentally straining, but no one ever complained about the scenery." Located in the Yukon, Mount Logan, almost 20,000 feet high, is the second highest mountain in North America...
...Mountaineering Club will present a public lecture tonight on tales of mountain climbing in the Canadian Yukon. The lecture will be in the Map Room of the Faculty Club at 8 p.m., immediately after the winter dinner. The slide-talk will tell of the intrepid third ascent of the East Ridge of Mt. Logan, the second highest mountain in North America. Everyone interested in learning the details of this unusually difficult climb is urged to attend...