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films such as A Nous La Liberte, Shiraz, Storm over Asia, Zwei Herzen and The Road to Life to mention but five. Its field has enlarged, however, and each unusual innovation seems to follow the last in logical sequence.
On the walls leading to the lounge are hung each fortnight the paintings, lithographs or photographs of some worthy artist. These may be the work of a young person who shows decided promise or the canvasses of such a one as Ernst DeNagy, court painter to the Emperor of Hungary. Whatever is hung, Mr. Kraska, the theatre's manager, is the sole judge. His selection of exhibitions has always been highly endorsed as worth-while from one view point or another. He has made his little gallerv not the place of " cranks " but rather one which receives the serious attention of notable critics.
After the gallery came a further " tie-ing " up of the arts, with the Monday Night Salons which add a pleasant interlude in the programme and which intensify the feeling of intimacy. At these Salons there have appeared many famous artists : Hans Weiner, Vlasta Maslova, the only one whom Pavlova authorized to dance her Swan. Einur Hanson, who attracted the attention of Dr. Koussevitzky with his European concerts, has played the violin on several memorable occasions since he joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra. And, while the stage of the Fine Arts is not a try-out place for amateurs, Manager Kraska never overlooks those who show promise.
The latest innovation which Mr. Kraska has but recentlv drawn from his bottomless bag of things unique is the language classes. This has brought the little theatre more than ever under the international eye for it is the only one in the world to conduct such classes.
There were plenty of reasons which seemed to point the way to such a development but it remained for a plan to be evolved which should heighten the interest in the films, make the classes pleasant and keep the entire scheme consistent with other regular offerings at the theatre. It might have daunted another but . . . already several successful classes have been held and attendance is fast reaching those fabulous " dizzy heights." The purpose is, of course, to acquaint the non-speaking element, and to refresh the memories of those who have studied, with the most common phrases and idioms of the language as spoken by natives. The purpose, too, is to give one that feeling of satisfaction attendant on pronouncing accuratelv and knowing colloquial meanings of the most frequent expressions.
The programme, as it has been put into use every Thursday evening, is this : at seven o'clock, for one half hour before the showing of the foreign presentation, an instructor from the Berlitz School of Languages, a native of the particular countrv which is represented in the feature film, instructs the audience in a friendly fashion, in the most common idioms and words used in the film to follow. For another half hour after the picture this same teacher answers questions which have been written in the language and handed to him and he carries on a sprightly conversation with the now eager audience. This putting of one's newly acquired accent into immediate use
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