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excellence of those first programmes — The Student of Prague, Faust, Bed and Sofa — would have been able to preserve the life of the young Society but for its transference at the first meeting of the next term from the barren Hall into a comfortable cinema. The Electra Palace had been newly equipped for sound and the Society soon celebrated its removal by showing talkies. A memorable evening was one of the hottest of the summer of 1 93 1 on which Hallelujah was shown.
Since then it has been the Society's policy to procure the latest continental productions as soon as they become available, and to vary them with an occasional outstanding film of the silent period. Turksib, Earth, The Ghost that Never Returns, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Caligari, and The Italian Straw Hat fairly represent our programmes in the silent class; and Quick Millions, Princess a Vos Ordres, The Murder of Karamazov, En Natt, and Maedchen in Uniform in the other.
The Society does not interest itself very deeply in the theoretical side of the cinema. In fact, the only speaker who has so far visited us is Anthony Asquith, who at the second meeting gave us some of his ideas on the use of sound.
Last term, the officers were fortunate in bringing off a unique coup by showing Paris Mediterranee almost the moment it was landed in this country. Certainly they can claim to be the first to put the film through an English projector. With this as their final bow, Mr. Greene and Mr. Gibson put an end to the first and most encouraging stage of the Society's life by resigning their respective offices of President and Secretary, and thus give us leave to sign ourselves in their place.
B. H. de C. Ireland. A. D. Woozley.
The Film Society, London, has decided to extend the rate of subscription, hitherto available only to film technicians employed at a salary not exceeding £10, to all students of accredited educational institutions who are over sixteen years of age. The new rate is 15s., including tax. Events on the continent have complicated the work of selecting the films to be shown this season, but among the films from which a final selection will be made are: The Deserter, Ivan, Komsomol, Twenty-Six Commissars, An American Tragedy, Blackshirts, La Maternelle, Anna and Elizabeth, S.A. — Mann Brand. Application for membership should be made to Miss J. M. Harvey, 56 Manchester Street, London, W. 1 .
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