Python Eight Feet Long Arriving From Bronx Zoo, Features Film Foundation Picture--Poses With Museum Director

Ordinary snakes were not sufficient to lend local color to the movie the University Film Foundation was planning to take of Dr. Thomas Barbour '06, director of the University Museum. So an eight foot python which has been loaned to the Museum by the Bronx Zoo will be requested to post with the director.

The snake arrived in Cambridge this morning. Accustomed to tropical climes and a specially heated apartment in New York, he could hardly have been expected to endure the rigors of a baggage car, so Pullman accommodations were provided in the form of a suitcase carried by one of the employees of the Film Foundation.

Their arrival at South Station was preceded by a throng of reporters, anxious to interview the unusual arrival. The snake, however, was not put on exhibition for fear of the cold, but was rushed immediately to the Museum. There he will be carefully entertained as is the custom with visiting snakes.

Dr. Barbour is probably the greatest authority on serpents in the world. He can handle the poisonous varieties with ease, as he demonstrated last Spring before the meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs in Philadelphia. So the Film Foundation, which is attempting to obtain a true picture of college life, took advantage of the coming of the snake to get Dr. Barbour in a characteristic pose.

Exactly the same idea of accuracy prevails in the other movies the Foundation has been taking Roscoe Pound, dean of the Law School, for example, has been photographed pointing out the features of Langdell Hall to a group of visiting professors, while Dr. G. R. Minot '08, professor of Medicine, who has discovered a new cure for anemis, will be filmed among his cultures and his animals.