the story, too, whose unthinking and almost casual betrayal of the secret of their joint pet might, by contrast, emphasise the deeper feelings in which the older boy was involved. In any debate on whether film-making can ever be an art I am content to let my case for the proposition rest on this film. All else this term has seemed trivial to some extent by comparison. "Ivanhoe" was a reasonably well-produced medieval version of cops and robbers. Technicolor did at least reflect the bright colours in which the people of those days delighted. In "Captain's Paradise", Alec Guinness dwelt amusingly on the lighter side of a sailor having a wife in at least two ports. Finally, Buster Keaton in "The Navigator" must have convinced the youth of the 1950s that cinematic humour did not begin with the talkies. Mr. Waine, who from our earliest days has properly insisted that our interval music should be of a high standard, very kindly provided a live accompaniment to this film and in the interval was professionally served with what I am assured was the appropriate refreshment. Last season we gratefully acknowledged a new projector provided by the School : now Mr. Crews has conjured up from somewhere a bigger and better screen, on which, incidentally, he personally has expended a vast amount of thought and work. There is ground for believing that he likes doing this kind of thing, but that does not detract from the Society's indebtedness to him. F•J•W.
THE YOUNG FARMERS' CLUB Leader: K. G. COULTHARD, ESQ. Committee: M. L. BYWATER (Chairman), C. B. M. GREGORY (Vice-Chairman), R. R. BALDWIN (Secretary), T. M. JENKINSON (Treasurer), R. W. PEACOCK (Librarian), W. I. MACDONALD.
On Thursday, 11th October, Mr. Wilmott came from Askham Bryan to give a talk on "Horticulture". Mr. Wilmott defined horticulture as the cultivation of plants, especially glass crops, fruit, hops, root crops, and ornamental plants. Overseas this was extended to rubber and tea planting. The glasshouses in Britain were devoted mainly to tomatoes in the summer and chrysanthemums and lettuce in winter. Kent was the main fruit growing area in England, growing mainly cherries and hops. Fruit growing, however, was not profitable until fruit diseases and pests were overcome, the most profitable work being with ornamental and pot plants. If anyone wished to take up horticulture as a career, Reading and Nottingham Universities each have a four-year course, but Mr. Wilmott said a person must be a real enthusiast and if possible should have some capital. On 25th October Mr. Shippam, also from Askham Bryan, gave a short lecture on "Farm Mechanisation". The British farmer was 36
