film was in colour, and although technically below Western standards it succeeded in giving a surprisingly frank and convincing picture of Moscow life. On 15th February the Reverend Alex McGovern came to give the Society a talk on his recent visit to Russia. Although he was only in Russia for a week, the speaker managed to recount many amusing and interesting experiences, though unfortunately time did not allow him to continue for as long as everyone would have liked. It was decided that, since music has played, and continues to play, such a large part in Russian life, the Society should get to know something about it, and so Mr. Waine was invited to give us a talk on Russian music. The meeting took place on Monday, 29th February. Mr. Waine played records of a great variety of works by numerous composers, and once again we found that we were rather short of time. The last meeting of the term took place on Sunday, 20th March, when the film 'The Kuban Cossacks' was shown. This was a Russian film in black and white with Russian dialogue and English subtitles, a comedy about the exploits of two rival collective farms at an agricultural fair. The sound was better than that of the previous film, and there was some excellent photography in it. We should like to thank D. A. Taylor for operating the projector on both occasions. In addition to these events, two small groups of enthusiasts have been meeting fairly regularly to sing Russian songs and study a oneact play. The results of these activities will, we hope, be in evidence next term. Thus we can look back with considerable satisfaction on our first session. Not the least of our achievements, moreover, is the fact that as a Society we are completely self-supporting; the books even show a minute credit balance. H.L.S.
THE DRAMA GROUP This group was formed immediately after Christmas with the specific intention of training actors for the first School play to be presented in the new Big Hall next December. Unfortunately there has been a lapse in the School's dramatic tradition during the past two years, firstly because the Science Exhibition took precedence over a School production as the major event of 1958-59, and secondly because Big Hall itself has been out of action since last summer during building operations. Nevertheless there has been encouraging evidence of dramatic enthusiasm and talent in the productions staged by School House and Queen's in the gym; and there were no less than ninety-five boys who elected to join the above group at its first meeting. As the number of plays offering ninety-five parts is severely limited (though we did toy with the idea of 'The Fall of the Bastille' or even 'The October Revolution'), it is perhaps not surprising that a
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