With the auditorium of the home of the Royal Asiatic Society at 20 Museum Road, nearly filled to capacity, Mr. Richard S. R. Hubert displayed a motion picture, entitled:
Trip Through the Netherlands Indies" at yesterday afternoon's meeting of the Society.
Mr. Arthur Carle de Sowerby, the president of the Society, made a few introductory remarks on the country that the audience was about to see, whilst a vast variety of objects d'art originating from the Indies and Bali, were displayed on a large table just below the screen.
The picture itself dealt with all phases of life in the exotic tropical country, considerable time having been devoted to the filming of the cremation ceremony and the native conces-
It was particularly pleasant to notice a large number of school-children amongst those in the auditorium.
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