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SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1930.

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DUKE ON SCOUTING. ·

In his presidential address at the

In return for the visit of the annual meeting of the Nottingham Canton Boy Scout Contingent some

saire Boy Scouts, the Duke of Port- time ago,

the 16th Hong Kong citizen it was essential that a boy land said that to become a good (Catholic Cathedral) Group of should be taught Individual respon. Boy Scout left last night for Can-sibility for the development of his ton.

character and his career, and responsibility to the community of which he was a member.

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were the same points, only under other names, which figured as the

The party consisted of over 50 Rovers, Scouts and Cubs together with their Group Chaplain, Rev. Fr. E. Teruzzi and Scoutmaster aim of Scouting. D. W. Luke. They will stay at the Catholic Cathedral at Canton. Elaborate entertainment hae been arranged by the Canton Boy of the human race. Scout Association.

This visit will be a good means

of renewing friendship and good feeling between the two move- ments...

The party will stay in Canton for 6 days and will be returning on Thursday next.

ROYAL VISIT TO TRAINING CAMP.

He referred to Lord Baden-

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pires to be little more than a film. "The Woodpigoon Patrol" AS- ed diary of the experiences of a party of Scouts who go on a week's "hike" as a tonic against the slack-

BOY SCOUTS-OWN FILM. Woodpigeon Patrol" shows a party Association is showing in the St. of Boy Scouts hiking through the James's Picture Theatro on Satur At the St. James's

-Romney Marshes; a subject which day morning, they engaged the Picture I should have thought would have services of British Instructional Theatre recently, an audience of Interested all boys, most parents Films, and the result is a success film critics and supporters of the and a good many sisters, but apin composition and photography Scout Movement was very favour-parently they prefer expensive that would hardly have ably impressed by the new Scout

cocottes in night-cluba.

been achieved with entirely amateur film, The Woodpigeon Patrol,"

Among other good things, this effort. which was then shown for the frattures of the English countryside, Alm contains many delightful pic- time. The film déplets an ordinary Patrol of Boy Scouts on a week's hike. No situations arise which might not happen within the ex- Scouts. All the actors are ordin- perionce of an average patrol of

Through these familiar but de ary Boy Scouts who, with no train-licious scenes, wander a Patrol of ing in the work, devoted their

Boy Scouts, shown as neither bet- Easter holidays to the task.

ter nor worse than boys usually The 'scene is laid in Kent and

are, sometimes delightful and Gilwell Park, Epping Forest.

The film was taken by the British

Instructional Films and directed by Mr. Ralph Smart of that Com- pany, the Scout Adviser being Dr.

pictures of quiet serenity, of Ittle old churches, sleepy farm-houses, and coastguard stations, of sheep and cows and hens. I should say Patrol." America would adore "Woodpigeon

sometimes very tiresome, but with the delightfulness on the whole pre- dominating.

When it is over you feel what a good institution the Boy Scouts are, and how agreeably and pro- fitably this particular patrol have been spending their time in the

Mr. Francis Birrell mentioned qure I do not know what more a do not know them already, I am the Alm in his broadcast film talk film can be expected to do and day, June 26. We are indebted to from the London Studio last Thurs- what.could be more popular. the British Broadcasting Corpors tion for permission to print his impressions:

If you have any condence in a word, I say you might do worse than drop a line to your Cinema; Hall, asking why you are not to be allowed to see "The Woodpigeon

that really is British industry, and Patrol." In doing this you would be supporting British Industry, not merely an imitation of some thing they do infinitely better in America, which is, I fear, what British films are only too apt to be. The Woodpireon Patrol de a.Pro Patria film, and is blessedly silent

MOUNTAINS FOR SCOUTING. Mr. Stanley Rodwell, who has much you would like to visit the F. R. Lucas. The cameraman was Romney Marshes, and how very The chief surveyor of the British-achieved. exceptional results Romney Marshes yourself, if you Arctic Air Route Expedition which despite much bad weather. salled in Shackleton's old ship, the "Quest," recently, la Rover Scout A. Stephenson of the 2nd Norwich Group,

His will be a piece of real Scouting. The expedition has been organised by the Royal Geographi cal Society and the Government, in Prince and Princess Damrong of route from England to America.

the hope of establishing an air Siam palda visit to Gilwell Park, The members of the party of the Boy Scouts Training Camp in fourteen will be left in Greenland Epping Forest. They inspected for a year. Scoutmasters from all parts of Great Britain who were training there, and the boys' camping, fields where hundreds of Boy Scouts, chiefly from the Fast End of Lou don, were in camp

Boy Scout, and Girl Guide Move

The world membership of the There are some thirty thousandments has now reached 2,770,000 Scouts in Slam where the Move 1,970,000 Scouts and 800,000 ment was personally founded by Guides. So announced the Chief the late King Each summer a Scout, Lord Baden-Powell, last Aumber of Blamere Scoutmasters month The Boy Scouts are in go through the course of training creasing at the rate of over at Gilwell Park

100,000 year

THREE MILLION STRONG.

"I should like to say a few words

It is entirely English, you will about a film which I have been shown privately, and which, though probably have no opportunity of seeing at all, because the exhibi tors, who govern our pleasures, have decided that it is not intereat ing that fe to say, It does not in terest them or their wives or their pigeon Patrol," and is delightfully daughters. It is called "The Wood directed and photographed by two young, Britons, Mr. Ralph Smart and Mr. Stanley Rowell

will not enter into great detail about a film you will very likely never be allowed to see, but I will, confine myself to saying that "The

The following criticism of the sim appeared in the "Daily News and Chronicle" on Thursday: laat, June 20

They take the films seriously in the Boy Scout Movement.

new pleture which the Boy Bronts For The Woodpigeon Patrol" a

Patrol; but the boys are charac ness which has crept into the terised neatly, and some artistic groupings would not shame of the Mr. Frank Borzage himself.

The scenes in rural Kent are de lightful.

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fight between two of the boys and a rescue from drowning.

By the way of thrills there ie a

This picture was directed by Ralph Smart who is not yet 21 and is on the British Instructional Staff, and the cameraman WAH Stanley Radwell, now with Mr. Anthony Asquith on the Gallipoli Allm "Tell England."

All the actors are "Boy Scouts."

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK,

Politeness is like an air

cushion. There may be nothing in it, but it eases the jolts wonderfully.

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION

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