to Shanghai Heralding the expected return of better weather and an increased humpers of tourists, the s. President Coolidge, of the Dollar Line, arrived In Shanghai on Monday afternoon with the largest passenger list a ship has had so far this year. Many well-known people were on board the ner when she moored at the buoys, heading the list being the celebrated screen comedian, Mr. Charles Chaplin, and big crowds were waiting to greet. him.
Among others on board was Mz, James L. Clark, who is associated with the American Museum of Natural History, and is one of the pioneers among sculptors 10 turn his talent to the collecting field. Accompanied by Mrs, Clark, he is going. Into Indo-China with Major Max Fleischman, on the Fleisehman-Clark expedition.' 'They are to investigate a new paci country that has recently' been opened in Indo-China, said Mr. Clark. No-one else has gone into this new country for the express purpose of collecting animals and birds for a museum. While there has been a good deal of work done in India and Burma, he said, Indo-China was comparatively "unknown. He und Major Fleischman will start from Saigon and expect to be gone about seven or eight weeks. They will take with them a number of native skinner, who will do the bulk of the work. Photographs will be taken of many of the specimens.
Mr. Clark related that on one occasion he made a trip through Central Asia from, India to China, travelling on camels, in carts, and.'on _horseback. That was in 1926-7, and was purely reconnaissance work. He hopes. to make the same (rip once again and actually make collections. "He told of how he got into the collect-Ing fold. Ag a sculptor, he had been hired to'work for the American, 'Museum. Mr. Carl Akely, the famous, naturalist, had seen that' Mr. Clark's. ability asia sculptor would be admir~ able for field expeditions, as it would enable him to study animals in their natural habitat. This led to Mr.
Clark taking up the work as his occupation, and it has led him all over the world to find specimens to! take back to the Museum, Another passenger on board the ship was Mr. Walter Long, a Hollywood lin director, who has come here on a brief pleasure trip. Among the pictures he. ceted are Whom The ye Before the latter film with Miss Carole Lombard. He thinks his next picture when he returns to America will be "The Phantom of the Opera. He makes two pictures a year, he said, and then goes travelling.
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