The second meeting of the term was held on 11th of February, when Mr. A. E. Bell, the District Drainage Officer, addressed the Club on "The Drainage of Agricultural Land". Mr. Bell outlined several methods of drainage, stating in what circumstances they were used. On the 18th of February Mr. F. M. Baldwin, who is Secretary of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society, and Chairman of the Club's Advisory Committee, talked to the Club on "The Yorkshire Agricultural Society". He first outlined the Society's history and then gave a description of the "back stage work" that takes place before the Great Yorkshire Show. Mr. J. V. Charlton, the North Riding Machinery Officer, visited the Club on 25th of February, when he talked on "Farm Mechanisation". He outlined the history of the binder and combine harvester, and then the economic advantages and disadvantages of farm mechanisation. The last meeting of term was held on 11 th of March. In this meeting Miss B. K. Davidson spoke to the Club on "Chick Rearing, and the General Management of Chickens". This is the first time a lady has addressed the Club. Miss Davidson outlined the rearing of chickens from day-olds to when they were ready to lay. She also outlined the housing conditions of the chickens, and showed a model of the Askham Bryan Brooder. E.W.P.
THE FILM SOCIETY Theatre addicts make much of the reaction between audience and players and vice-versa. I am going to claim that there can be audience reaction to a cinema performance—without, of course, the vice-versa in this instance. I understand that it was a very old lady who, on seeing the film "Mutiny on the Bounty" for a second time, declared that Charles Laughton was nothing like so good the second time as he had been the first. However, I do declare that when an audience, particularly a large one, yields itself one hundred per cent to the enjoyment of a film, it adds something extra to the enjoyment of each individual in that audience. I have had this experience markedly, on only three occasions : once in the Academy Cinema in London where you get a specialised audience to see specialised films : again at the showing of "A Queen is Crowned", when a York audience was sufficiently moved to stand like ramrods through two verses of the National Anthem although normally the first roll of the drums is enough to send them dashing for the exits like demented things : and the third time was at our own showing of that simple and charming film "Never take No for an Answer"; so I propose to say no more in 33
