Jan 1937

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223 B. J. Eastwood, a suave inspector, perhaps concealed the iron hand a little too completely under the velvet glove, though this was possibly in itself a menace to garrulous wives. M. S. Douglas provided a welcome anti-climax in the form of the conventional stage policeman. The scenery and lighting was, as usual, excellently carried out by Schofield.

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17. Films. „ 24. Wallace Cunningham, the Versatile Entertainer. „ 31. Films. Nov. 7. Rev. Chancellor F. Harrison on " York Minster." „ 14. The Osiris Players, " Hamlet." „ 21. Edward Broadhead, " Living Literature." „ 28. G. 0. Walters, " Flight in the Stratosphere." Dec. 5. Chung Loo, " Chinese Mysteries." „ 12. Films. Last term saw the formation of a new society, " The Saturday Society," so called because its meetings are held on Saturday evenings. This was formed to provide members with a variety of entertainments throughout the term. The membership fees enable the Society to be self-supporting. Short accounts of the evenings follow. OCTOBER 17th. A series of short films was shown dealing with educational topics. After two films, portraying the beauties of Canterbury and Ludlow, two interesting items followed. The first of these was " The building of a big liner," and the other, " Propeller making." The former showed the various stages of construction in a large vessel from the laying down of the keel to the fitting of her luxurious appointments. The latter film threw considerable light on a comparatively unknown trade of which most of the work has to be done by hand. OCTOBER 24th. The entertainment was provided by Mr. Wallace Cunningham, who truly lived up to his name of the versatile entertainer. After giving us some war songs and musichall turns of twenty years ago he proceeded to give us a demonstration of his whistling powers. By whistling he reproduced the effects and noises of a piccolo so well that it was hard to believe he was not playing one. The " piece de resistance " followed, when he became a ventriloquist, and his talks with his hidden Yorkshire friend, Joe, were in themselves funny, and were more so because Joe refused


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