LYCEUM CLUB

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21879, 15 August 1934, Page 4

LYCEUM CLUB

A TRAVEL EVENING The Arts and Crofts Circle of the Lyceum Club spent a very enjoyable "travel" evening given by Mrs. trnnk Winstone. A cinema film depicted some of the most romantic scenery of the south coast of England and the quaint old-world villages of the Cotswold country. The wooded glades and winding lanes, the green hedges and small cultivated areas, the old thatched cottages with their well-tended gardens, and the beautiful manor houses were typically English, and were in striking contrast to the second part of the programme. Starting at Hamburg, with its huge warehouses and its enormous shipping trade, pictures were shown of all the great cities of the Continent, with many of their historic buildings and places of special interest. Views of Paris, Berlin, Budapest and Rome were shown, but perhaps the most interesting were those of Venice, with its characteristic scenes 011 the Grand Canal. The pictures were interspersed with descriptive and personal notes of the scenes, which rendered them doubly interesting and two hours were all too short for those beautiful films. Ihe president, Mrs. W. H. Parkcs, thanked Mrs Winstone for a most interesting evening and also Mr. Tompkinson, who so ably manipulated the projector.