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NUMBER TWO. " Long" weeks spent in Greenland making Y, as a screen epic for X, risking death from cold, from drowning in the icy water, from being crushed by falls of ice . . . and back to civilization with a fourinch beard and a health record you would envy . . . That's Gibson Gowland. Three days in England in the comparative luxury and guaranteed comforts of civilized London and — ah-tish-oo ! That's Gibson Gowland ! ! !"
NUMBER THREE. " Z, feminine interest in X's latest horror screen play, claims she can live as happily on twenty-five dollars a week as she can on twenty-five hundred."
NUMBER FOUR. Off-set, we are told, the stars wear eccentric clothes — " floppy, sometimes sloppy pants!" " Mr. X is seldom without an admittedly garish ' Lido Shirt ' of eccentric red-and-white stripes, and if there is an undershirt beneath it, or if there isn't, what of it?"
NUMBER FIVE. " Clyde Beatty, King of animal trainers, says wildest beasts respect man's superior brain. And will show it in X's latest Screen Sensation." O. B.
Film-Studio Zurich. (Schipfe 57, Zurich).
A new association has just been founded at Zurich, with the name of Film-Studio Zurich, and its aim is to present independent, artistic and avantgarde films. The annual subscription is five Swiss francs which gives the right to a reduction of fifty centimes on the ordinary prices of tickets at representations arranged bv the society.
The same group have also created Le Groupement Cinematographique Franco-Suisse, in order to encourage the projection at Zurich of the most characteristic of the new French films. This will fill a gap, for at present French films are shown at Zurich only at somewhat rare intervals. For this the subscription is three Swiss francs which gives a reduction of twenty per cent, on the usual ticket prices.
The activity of these two newT organisations must be of great help to the students of cinema at Zurich, and we hope that their efforts will be rewarded with success.
Genossenschaft Fihndienst. (21, Erlacherstrasse, Berne).
At last we have a Swiss firm of film production, and one which has begun its career, full of excellent resolutions. Where publicity has usually been confined to the incomparable pictorial qualities of Switzerland, this firm stresses the need for realism and something of the native poetry as well. Les Grenadiers du Bon Dieu, the first film the Gefi have made, was filmed in the Loetschental, with the help of only one professional actor, and with the people of the neighbourhood. We hope to comment further on this film when it has been shown. Freddy Chevalley.