Spring Programs 



for Adults 



ON PEOPLE AND PLACES 

 AROUND THE WORLD 



A.n opportunity to see the world 

 through the experienced eyes of well- 

 known adventurer-photographers is pro- 

 vided once again this spring when the 

 Museum presents its 121st season of free 

 illustrated lectures on people and places 

 around the globe. Programs are given 

 on Saturday afternoons during March 

 and April at 2:30 p.m. in the James 

 Simpson Theatre. Reserved seats for 

 Members will be held until 2 :25 p.m. 



March 7 — American Indian Dances 



A "live" performance by 

 The Laubins 

 A dramatic staging of authentic In- 

 dian dances, performed "in person" by 

 Reginald and Gladys Laubin, provides 

 an unusual change of pace for the open- 

 ing of the Museum's spring lecture series. 

 The Laubins have spent much of their 

 lives with Indians, and "it is no won- 

 der," The New York Times reports, "that 

 the Indians themselves are warm in their 

 praise, for certainly no one of their own 

 people has come before the white man 

 with so eloquent and winning a presen- 

 tation . . . the costumes are gorgeous, 

 making Scheherazade seem downright 

 drab." 



March 14 — The New World 

 Rediscovered 



Laurel Reynolds 



In retracing the steps of some of the 

 great explorers of the New World — Co- 

 lumbus, Ponce de Leon, Cabrillo, and 

 Cortez — Laurel Reynolds has rediscov- 

 ered some wilderness regions remarkably 

 unchanged from the way they must have 

 looked to 15th and 16th century adven- 

 turers. Off remote shores whales con- 



tinue to leap and dive and wood ibis 

 battle for survival in their last remaining 

 grove of virgin cypress. Mrs. Reynolds 

 arrives by yacht — instead of sailing ves- 

 sel — in the landing places that opened 

 up the New World, and with her motion 

 picture camera succeeds in re-capturing 

 history. 



March 21 — Bali, Java, and Sumatra 



Phil Walker 



Indonesia's exotic islands provide a 

 brilliant succession of new experiences 

 for the Western visitor, from exploring a 

 "live" volcano to being caught in a bi- 

 cycle traffic jam. Among the scenes 

 Walker has recorded are a visit to a 

 Sultan's palace, monkeys climbing co- 

 coanut palms to pluck nuts for their 

 masters, a strange "trance" dance per- 

 formed by Javanese soldiers, a talk with 

 President Sukarno, a fish fry on Paradise 

 Island, and the festivals of music and 

 dancing for which Bali is renowned. 



March 28 — The Last Cannibals: 

 Expedition to New Guinea 



Jens Bjerre 

 The dark cults and rituals of primitive 

 life are made vivid and comprehensible 

 in this film of an area that is to this day 

 largely unexplored by civilized man. 

 Bjerre took his expeditionary party into 

 territory that appears only as blank 

 spaces on maps of the island, in order to 

 observe and record the mode of life of 

 warlike cannibal tribes living a Stone 

 Age existence in the 20th century. 



April 4 — The Holy Lands 



Charles Forbes Taylor 

 In the wake of aroused current inter- 



From the March 21st film-lecture 

 on "Bali, Java, and Sumatra." 



est in the Holy Land, this non-sectarian 

 film-documentary focuses on the places 

 where Jesus lived and taught, as well as 

 those that form the background of Bib- 

 lical history: Damascus, the route of 

 Moses as he led the children of Israel 

 up the River Jordan through the desert 

 of the Hashemite Kingdom, Bethlehem, 

 Herod's Castle, the Sea of Galilee, Ja- 

 cob's Well, Jerusalem, Pilate's palace, 

 and Calvary. 



April 11— Valley of the Rhine 



Clifford J. Kamen 



Only 820 miles long, the Rhine none- 

 theless is a river of amazing variation as 

 it rushes its way through Alpine gorges 

 to the sea. Flowing through the Euro- 

 pean countryside, the Rhine passes the 

 tiny principality of Liechtenstein, cas- 

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