YES, I SAID NEW QUARTERS - WITH AIR!

They are located at 2 East 23rd Street, Room 318, the quarters of the Radio Writers Guild in the Bartholdi Building. The building is right off Broadway where it meets Fifth Avenue at 23rd Street, between a Cushmans' emporium and a hot-dog centre. This location is easily reached by 5th Avenue bus, Lexington Avenue bus and subway, Madison Avenue bus, etc. If there is any question, ring me at any time. The offices look over Madison Square Park for hand holders' interests.

To inaugurate our cool summer quarters - if members find this room more congenial we will continue to screen here - we will screen the delightful satire of the old South –

Released March 31, 1924. Based on the stage play Magnolia by Booth Tarkington. Scenario by Walter Woods. Directed by James Cruze (see notes for July 8). Produced by Adolph and Jesse L. Lasky. A Paramount Picture.

I find this film to be a perfectly enchanting comedy much ahead of its time. Cruze has made a delightful, tongue-in-cheek satire from the Tarkington original, imbuing the tale with much Mark Twain humor. The performances are brilliant; those who recall the delicious derriere dramatics of Miss Haver in What Price Glory? will be amused by her performance of a wistful Southern belle. Torrence contributes a fine performance equal to his Captain Hook in Peter Pan. Perhaps I am inclined to overrate this work, but I unhesitatingly rank it with rare screen comedies (i.e., Carné's Drôle de Drame, inanely titled Bizarre Bizarre here, Wellman's Roxie Hart, Hamer's Kind Hearts and Coronets).

A two-reel version of THE KID

Released by First National, February 6 1921. The original version runs 6 reels. Written and directed by Charles Chaplin, assisted by Chuck Reisner. Photographed by Rollie Totheroh.

It would be redundant to say anything about this famous film; I refer you to Ted's notes in his factual biography. This print, although cut, still retains the Chaplin magic minus those annoying Italian titles we have to suffer through at the Museum.

This is a one-reel documentary film released in May 1941 in England, and never before shown in this country, directed by the greatest wartime documentary genius Humphrey Jennings, for the Crown Film Unit. The film consists of montage of England accompanied by words from the greatest English poets spoken by Laurence Olivier.

Also - the first of a series of films, most of them commercially shown at one time or another here, reflecting the English scene (or as Gavin Lambert put it, Jennings' Britain) as depicted by the late great documentary man, Humphrey Jennings: LISTEN TO BRITAIN. Notable for its brilliant use of sound, it was produced by Ian Dalrymple for the Crown Film Unit, and released in April 1942.

COMING SOON: HERMAN WEINBERG'S Favorite movie - THE GARDEN OF EDEN -

Don't fail to miss this scintillating sizzler of babes, boose and bordellos.