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genius of poetry which, he said, “must work out its own salvation in a man : it cannot be matured bv law
and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness itself”. And so back to the conviction that the Flaherty picture gives such true delights on all levels, technical, intellectual and aesthetic,
precisely because the eye and mind behind its making is that of a poet rather than that of a technician. In the words of Franfois Mauriac in another context, Flaherty spent himself “to give an apparent order to the disorder of life, to impose on it a significance which it is possible it does not possess”.
Catholic Stage Guild
At a general meeting held at Charing Cross Hotel on July 29th, the Constitutions of the Catholic Stage Guild were presented and accepted subject to minor terminological modifications.
The acting Committee was voted into office until the Annual General Meeting, to be held in the spring. Of this Committee, Mr. Ted Kavanagh remains Chairman and Father J. O’Hear, Chaplain.
Meetings will be held monthly at Corpus Christ Church, Maiden Lane, London, W.C., at 5 p.m. each First Frida}'. The meetings will consist of Benediction followed by social intercourse. A Special General Meeting will be held on Sunday, October 21st,
at 3-30 p.m., at Corpus Christi Church, Maiden Lane, and afterwards at the Charing Cross Hotel.
The programme until the end of this year is, therefore, as follows :
Friday, September 7th, 5 p.m.
Friday, October 5th, 5 p.m.
Friday, November 2nd, 5 p.m.
Friday, December 7th, 5 p.m.
Film personnel are welcome as part of the Catholic Stage Guild whether they be clapper boys, directors, script-writer or film stars. This is a Catholic Guild and all who are professionally connected with the stage and allied arts should be members.
Practical Help jor the C.F.I.
“Although television is hitting the cinema very hard, the latter is still far and away the most densely attended of all amusements and has a tremendous influence for good or evil. We should, therefore, be careful about the films we visit. That is why I urge you so strongly to buy Focus every month. There you will find an expert and unbiased review of all the major films and many of the minor ones. Sixpence a month is a very small premium to pay to be insured against wasting your money and time on a worthless film, or (what is far more important) on an immoral one. Furthermore, when a film is on the whole worth seeing, but has certain bad points, these points are emphasised so that you may avoid the great danger of being seduced by the
emotional atmosphere into unreflective acceptance of the -bad with the good. I myself have preserved every copy of Focus from the first issue as Catholic Film News in 1940.’
(Fr. W. A. Pritchard in St. Gertrude’s Parochial Newsletter.)
PUBLIC DEMAND
We have been asked by a number of readers to revert to our practice of giving a list of films reviewed with their evaluation. In future issues we shall do this.
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