Carveth Wells, F. R. G. S.

              1922

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The New Illustrated Lecture by
CARVETH WELLS, F.R.G.S.
On his recently completed Expedition to Arctic Lapland in conjunction with the American Museum and the Swedish Government


Lapland; the Top of Europe
Beautifully Illustrated with Exquisitely Colored Lantern Slides and Motion Pictures; chiefly made by Mr. Wells himself

CARVETH WELLS, F.R.G.S., without a doubt the most entertaining lecturer on the platform today and who has earned for himself the title, The Man Who Makes Facts Fascinating, has added a new and unusual lecture to his already attractive repertoire.  This new lecture, Lapland, The Top of Europe, is the result of his expedition this summer to the Arctic Circle, where he lived, travelled with and photographed those little known Nomad peoples, the Lapps.  He brings back a unique story, photographs that have never been seen before and motion pictures that add greatly to the novelty of this new lecture-entertainment.

The expedition was organized by Mr. Wells, at the invitation of the Swedishi Government, and was sposored by the American Museum of Natural History, New York, who appointed Dr. Clyde Fisher, Curator of Visual Education, to accompany the expedition as its representative.  Mr. Wells also carried with him the flag of the Explorers' Club, presented to him at a farewell meeting by General Greeley, dean of Arctic Explores.  This flag has been given only to expeditions of note and one of them was carried by Admiral Peary to the Pole.

The object of the Expedition was to secure Motion Pictures and Photographs portraying not only the life of the Lapps during the summer migration of the Reindeer, but also pictures of animals, birds and flowers of Arctic Lapland.  Owing to the religious objections of the Lapps to being photographed, it would have been impossible to secure motion pictures without the cooperation of the Swedish Government; but the Department of the Interior appointed their Inspector of Nomads to accompany Mr. Wells, and with his assistance, pictures have been made that are absolutely unique.

Extremely little is known of the Lapps; they are one of the mysteries of ethnology and anthropology.  Their origin is unknown and their classification in the study of the human race is still undecided and the subject of debate.

Mr. Wells penetrated far into the wildest mountain regions of Lapland and is the first Englishman ever to have made such a journey.  He travelled from the Baltic to the Atlantic, crossing the high mountains into Norway with Lapps as guides.  He is the first Englishman to have climbed Mt. Akka, on the summit of which he planted the flag of the Explorers' Club.

In addition to Lapland itself, Mr. Wells will show bits of delightful Sweden en route to his objective.  Visby, the famous walled city of the island of Gottland, was visited, and also Hamerby, the home of Linneaus.

An excellent photographic record was made.  Two motion picture cameras, an Akeley and an Ica, were used, as well as several still cameras.  The slides are of great beauty and interest, and have been exquisitely colored.  They show the Arctic in unusual garb—a summerland without even an Eskimo.

It is needless to say that Mr. Wells found many things of quaint interest in the way that he does wherever he goes.  He has a gift for seeing things in an original way, and of using his oddities to create a background of entertainment while he is presenting facts of scientific standing.  No one has ever been so successful in this happy combination as he in the whole history of lecturing, and of him has also been coined the phrase, presenting an article by him in ASIA, Truth is stranger than Traprock.  Those who have heard Mr. Wells lecture on his experiences in the Jungles of Malay know this delightful gift.  He has applied it to Lapland The fish that climbs trees in Malay has a companion in the Arctic lemming; the singing worms and the pigmy deer will also have entertaining counterparts.  Carveth Wells cannot be dull if he tries; his lectures are after all the very best entertainments ever club could wish for, and yet they are scientifically sound if anyone cares to check up the facts after he has finished laughing.

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A FEW OF
Mr. Wells' Engagements
Scientific and Literary Societies

Chatauqua, N. Y.
American Museum of Natural History, N. Y.
University Museum, Pa.
Cleveland Museum of Art
Brooklyn Institute
Agassiz Museum, Harvard
Mass. Inst. of Technology
Buffalo Society of Natural Science
Carnegie Music Hall, Pittsburgh
American Geographical Society
Chicago Geographical Society
Philadelphia Geographical Soc.
Columbia University, N. Y.
Cleveland Engineering Society
Boston Engineering Society
Oregon Engineering Society
Pennsylvania Engineering Soc.
American Society of Civil Engineers, Phila.
Knife and Fork Club, South Bend
The Boston Round Table
Oregon Audubon Society
Lancaster Travel Club
City Club of Milwaukee
Lampson Lyceum, Yale
St. Louis Community Forum
Contemporary Club, Bridgeport



MEN'S CLUBS

Explorer's Club of New York
Detroit Athletic Club
Harvard Club of Boston
Yale Club, New York City
Yale Alumni of Cleveland
Algonquin Club of Boston
The Buffalo Club
Buffalo University Club
Chicago University Club
Worcester Club, Worcester
The Brooks Club, New Bedford
Westmoreland Club, Wilkes-Barre
Cleveland Advertising Club
Pittsburgh Credit Men's Assn.
The Union Club of Cleveland
Cleveland Industrial Assn.
Milton Club, Milton, Mass.
Episcopalian Club of Mass.
Apawamis Club, Rye, N. Y.
Whitehall Club, New York City
Crescent Club, Brooklyn
Rotary Clubs in Many Cities



WOMEN'S CLUBS

Boston City Club
Pittsburgh City Club
Cleveland City Club
The Emery Bag of Brookline
Cleveland College Club
Reading College Club
Cambridge, Mass.
Laconia, N. H.
Waltham, Mass.
Radcliffe College Endowment Fund in Many Places



BOYS' SCHOOLS

St. George's School, Newport
Brown and Nichols, Cambridge
Middlesex School
Milton Academy
University School, Cleveland
Worcester Academy
Williston Academy
Phillips-Exeter
Moses Brown School, Providence



GIRLS' SCHOOLS

The Brimmer School, Boston
The Choate School, Boston
The Windsor School, Brookline
The Chamberlayne School
The Garland School, Boston
Hathaway Brown, Cleveland



APPRECIATIONS
Doctor Arthur E. Bestor, President of Chautauqua Institution, N. Y., and Mr. Charles D. Atkins, Director of the Brooklyn Institute have kindly permitted their names to be used as references in regard to the lectures of Carveth Wells.


WESTMORELAND CLUB, WILKES-BARRE,
The lecture of Mr. Carveth Wells at the Westmoreland Club was a great success.  It is very gratifying to inform you that we entertain the same opinion as you set forth in your highly eulogistic letter of recommendation.  His novel method of presenting facts, which at times almost led one to think that he was testing the credulity of his audience, together with his fine sense of humor, gave us great delight.  He told his interesting story in an unusually interesting way.  Many considered it the best travel lecture that every they heard.  We expect to invite him to be with us next season.—A. C. Campbell, President.



AN APPRECIATION FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
I wish to write you of the very warm appreciation of your delightful 'Jungle Tales.'  You held our large audience of children at eager attention and we all of us enjoyed every minute.



OHIO FISH AND GAME ASSOCIATION
On behalf of the Association allow me to thank you for the splendid lecture delivered at our meeting.  It was greatly enjoyed by every one of the large audience present.



THE WOMEN'S CITY CLUB OF BOSTON
40 Beacon Street
Let me express to you the very genuine interest which the members manifested in your subject, and you will be interested to know that so great was the enthusiasm that many inquiries have been made as to when and where members may hear you again.—Marguerite Hopkins, President.




CARVETH WELLS TELLS WONDERS OF TROPICS
PITTSBURG SUN   October 27, 1922

SINGING WORMS AND CROCODILE TOOTH PICKERS DESCRIBED

Fish that climb trees and gaze at passersby, earth worms that come out of the ground in the twilight and croon lullabys, flying foxes by the thousands, full-grown deer which one could put in the pocket, tiny birds which pick the teeth of the crocodile while he lies lazily on the river bank, snakes that can swallow a cow, jungle dwarfs, toads as big as your head which grunt and laugh a hoarse Ha!  Ha!  — in fact, a thousand creatures of pre-Volstead days—were described last night by Carveth Wells, Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society, in a lecture on the Malay Peninsula, at Carnegie Music Hall.

For nine months Wells did not see the sky, so dense was the jungle in which he lived while surveying a railroad for the British Government.  After six years of life in a country where the temperature in the shade never varied more than 2 degrees from 80, mean temperature, and went as high as 160 in the sun Wells was invalided to Northern climes.  His lecture last night was impersonal, graphic, thrilling, educational and amusing.

At the close of his lecture, during which many pictures were shown on a screen, he dressed several girls and boys from the audience in the Malayan fashion.

The lecture was given under the auspices of the Civic Club of Allegheny County.



GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA
The lecture entitled My Six Years in the Jungle of Malay, by Carveth Wells, was very well received by the members of our Society, the vivid description of this wild country and humorous anecdotes of the life and occupations of the natives making a strong appeal to the audience.  The illustration of the costumes of the country by dressing up a number of people in the beautiful silken fabrics brought from Malay made a picture very pleasantly to be remembered by those who attended the lecture.—Paul J. Sartain, Secretary.



CHELSEA TEACHERS' CLUB
Your lecture as given before the Chelsea Teachers' Club and friends was highly satisfactory interesting and entertaining.  You certainly know how to hold the attention of your audience.  The pictures are excellent, and the presentation of your family in Malaysian costume was a fitting climax to a most delightful evening.—Adelaide Pierce President.



FROM THE PORTLAND OREGONIAN
Carveth Wells, who about two years ago delivered seventy-five lectures in this city within three months, gave his seventy-sixth lecture in Portland yesterday before an audience of seven hundred children.



THE WARREN, OHIO, TRIBUNE
Carveth Wells, noted explorer and lecturer, delivered his second address before the Teachers' United Institute this morning.  He won the enthusiastic admiration of his audience in his first address on My Six Years in the Jungle of Malay.

The morning lectures on How I Talk to Children, and Arctic, Desert, and Jungle, were a charming and picturesque presentation of most unusual experiences.



YALE CLUB, NEW YORK CITY
I think it is fair to say that no entertainment given at the Yale Club this season has aroused greater interest than the lecture of Carveth Wells.  I have already recommended him to a number of other clubs, and have answered several inquiries in regard to him.—Charles E. Merrill, Jr.



APAWAMIS CLUB, RYE, N. Y.
I am pleased to state that we had a good attendance and Mr. Wells was very enthusiastically received.  He is a good talker and has a keen sense of humor.  His slides are very excellent, and altogether we were very much pleased with the lecture.—W. J. Tingue.



WHAT BOSTON SAID

Carveth Wells' lecture, with thrilling pictures, delighted hundreds of boys, girls and adults that nearly filled the Exeter Street Theatre.—
Boston Evening Transcript.