Twenty-Nine Harvard Crews Parade Charles for Cameramen as Lowell Eight Rows in Derbies and Whiskers--Sound Recorded

Twenty-nine Harvard crews and a Lowell House eight paraded on the Charles last Saturday before a large battery of cameras. This unusual display was made by the Harvard oarsmen in answer to numerous requests by sound moving picture concerns and Boston photographers.

The shells began leaving the Newell and Weld boathouses at 2.15 o'clock and paddled downstream to the Western Avenue Bridge where they took up their positions. By 2.45 o'clock the last dormitory crews had fallen into the rear ranks of the Freshman eights. Just as the signal to proceed up the river was given, the Lowell House eight emerged from behind the masonry of the Western Avenue Bridge arrived in uniform striped jersies, derbies, and beards. Its paraphernalia had been lowered from the bridge by an accomplice who employed a Phillips Brooks House clothing drive bag for the purpose. After the first flurry of indignation among the crews and coaches had subsided the unusual aggregation was permitted to take its place among the other eights.

The procession of crews was led by the three boats of the University squad. The other shells rowed in the following order Class, 150 pound University, House, Freshman, 150 pound Freshman, dormitory. After the cameramen, who were stationed on the Weld and Newell floats and balconies, had photographed the whole procession, the University and 150-pound crews made a few exhibition racing starts and the Lowell House oarsmen posed for special pictures with and without derbies. The cox wain of the latter eight were a plug hat.

Newsreels of the display will be given in several metropolitan theatres but as the motion picture exchanges were closed ever the week-end it could not be ascertained when and where the sound films will be shown first.