The prospectus of the Church Pictorial Movement, La.—which is to take the cinema, under ceclesiastical direction, to the small towns and villages of the countryside—has been issued. It invites subscriptions for £100,000" in £1 shares at par. These shares will be entitled to a cumulative dividend of 7 per cent., 50 per cent. of the surplus profits being first distributed among Church charities and institutions.
Capt. J. W. Barber, who originate ed and carried through the touring cinema scheme which was engaged by the Government during the war, has been chosen managing director, with Sir H. Trustram Eve chairman.
A consultative committee is to be appointed, to which Diocesan Bishops will be invited to send representatives, and others possessing special knowledge will also be asked to join. The Archbishop of York, the Bishop of Bristol (in whose diocese the movement originated), and other well-known Church leaders, have commended the movement, and already invitations have been received from 14 Bishops to exhibit in their diocese.
For the first time a French railway passenger train has been drawn by an engine heated by mazout—crude petroleum residue. This happened on the Orleans line rd' between Paris and Tours recently.
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