The Old Society Reconstituted:
Mr. Juan Mencarini the New President After having, in the words of cne speaker, "kept on breaking Shanghai Photographic Society was up" for the last 35 years, the
revived at an enthusiastic gathering in the Royal Asiatic Society's Hall on Tuesday. Mr. Juan Men-caring, the veteran local amateur, was elected to the chair, supported by Mr. G. F. Jones.
Mr. Jones mentioned that there (had recently been efforts to get the society going again, but until now nothing definite had been done, owing to lack of numerical support.
Mr. Mencarini, in urging members to take an active interest in doings of the society, recalled that it was formed 35 years ago. In those days members were enthusiastic. He remembered ons meeting at which 90 people were present. Members. met at least ence a week, at meetings that were not only entertaining, but instructive. Amateur photography amounted to much more than pusning the button. They ought take an interest in photography. There was now a-new angle to the hobby—colour photography, which was most entrancing. Why should not they, as a society, make colour photography one of the attractions of Shanghai. He referred appre-datively to an article in the "North-China Daily News" on the Subject of their society.
Mr. T. Toledano, who said he thought he was the senior amateur in Shanghai excepting, of course, the chairman, gave a few of the
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