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• Now at the Dominion Museum: New displays of English period furniture bequeathed by the late Mrs. Elgar. Arranged in three bays, the first being approximately William and Mary, the second Early Eighteenth Century, the third Late Eighteenth Century. Most of the characteristic pieces making up the contents of drawing-rooms are included, namely, sideboards, occasional tables, period chairs, distinctive wall mirrors and floor covarings in keeping with the furnishings. It is intended to construct a reproduction of walls and ceiling in order to give a better representation of the period atmosphere.

  In the section of Foreign Ethnology, special attention has been given to the Arts of South and Central Pacific peoples and there is an attractive assortment of material from Hawaii, Eastern Polynesia, the Cook Islands, Fiji, Melanesia proper and the Far East.

• December—Alexander Turnbull Library: An exhibition dealing with events of the year "49" through the centuries; and an especial display of noteworthy items in the Library's collections.

• Early 1950—Gallery of Helen Hitching: Frances Hodgkins Exhibition; to be followed by an exhibition of paintings by Douglas MacDiarmid at a later date.

• Feruary 22nd, 25th and March 4th: Leo Cherniavsky's Violin Recitals in Wellington.

• March—Unity Theatre (Inc.): "The Government Inspector," by Gogol, produced by Nola Millar.

• March—J. C. Williamson Theatres Ltd.: Beginning of New Zealand tour by the pianist Pnina Salzman.

• Early in 1950—Season of Wellington Film Society (Inc.): Edwardian Newsreel; Menelmontant; Brief Encounter.

• The British Council has organised an Exhibition of Town and Country Planning in Great Britain. This will be open in Auckland about the 1st March and will later be shown in the main towns throughout New Zealand.

• The French Legation advises that an exhibition of French art, posters, publications, etc., will be held at the French Maid.

• The French Maid Coffee House will also be exhibiting work by the following, over a period: Avondale Technical College, R. N. Field, Elise Meurant, Helen Hitchings.

• The National Art Gallery will later be showing, after the Academy Exhibition, paintings by the early New Zealand artist. Captain R. A. Oliver; and in 1950, Canadian water-colours. The High Commissioner for Canada advises that these forty-seven paintings are sent for tour of New Zealand by the Trustees of the National Gallery of Canada in co-operation with the Canadia n Society of Painters in Water Colour.

• By courtesy of Messrs. Amalgamated Theatres Ltd., Kerridge-Odeon, and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (N.Z.) Ltd., the following films are brought to the notice of ur readers as being of possible interest. Where these have not been already released in Wellington, the approximate date of screening; in this city is given. "Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill," by Sir Hugh Walpole; a British production (December). "Bonnie Prince Charlie," produced by Sir Alexander Korda in Technicolor (January). "Quartet," embracing four short stories by Somerset Maugham ("The Facts of Life," "The Alien Com," "The Kite," "The Colonel's Lady), a J. Arthur Rank release (January). "Prince of Foxes," by Samuel Shellabarger, produced entirely in Italy by 20th Century-Fox (late January). "The Passionate Friends," by H. G. Wells, a J. Arthur Rank release late February). "This History of Mr. Polly," by H. G. Wells (March). "Pinky," by Cid Ricketts Sumner, 20th Century-Fox film of a negro girl "passing" as white (end of March. "The Fountainhead," by Ayn Rand (Auckland release, approx. 24th February). "Flamingo Road," a political drama (Wellington, approx. 24th February). "Charge of the Light Brigade," re-issue (Wellington, approx. 17th March).