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Show tnnts are In danger of disappearing or of being absorbed In other groups, or to advise travelers visiting such places on the way to make a film record of scientific value. One must not expect too much from the idea, attractive as it is, of sending out special spe-cial expeditions in search of. suitable material. The committee's resources will no doubt be small, and It might vitiate the scientific value of the pictures pic-tures taken If they had to pay for them themselves by sale for popular exhibition. But there Is sound work to be done on less exacting lines. One might add the suggestion that It Is not only the manners of vanishing peoples which should be recorded but the many vanishing customs of peoples peo-ples whose survival depends on their adapting themselves to new ways of life Manchester (Eng.) Guardian. FILM'S VALUE, IN RECORD OF LIFE, IS BEYOND PRICE When a race or tribe dies out, the record of its habits often dies with It. There may be left buildings or pottery or drawings, If not writings, from which archeologists can piece together some picture of what these lost peoples were like in their daily life. But the picture is incomplete, perhaps fragmentary. The lost races remain remote and unreal. The archeologist is now to find a new ally in the film or, rather, archeologists arche-ologists in days to come will find themselves served by films made In our time of peoples who are now disappearing dis-appearing and who will soon be beyond be-yond record. The congress of anthropologists an-thropologists which has just been meeting in London has decided to set up a permanent committee to supervise super-vise the "film documentation" of races which are in danger of dying out. The committee will have two main duties. First, it will try to bring together what materials of the kind already exist often, as they say, "in the most unlikely places, news reels, tropical films, etc.," as a sort of central cen-tral film reference library. The second duty is to send out expeditions to places where the native Inhahi- Chew for Beauty, Models Advised " Rythmic chewing, combined with exercises of the head and neck, was revealed recently at New York to 2,000 models, members of the Models' Guild, as the newest beauty formula. The advice came from a well-known specialist In response to a request from the guild for information regarding re-garding the system. A dozen exercises are included in the complete routine. The Instructions Instruc-tions for the one illustrated : "Start with chewing gum one or two sticks. After a few seconds, begin the exercise by tossing the head from side to side. Then open your mouth as wide as you can. Close It gradually, and all the while endeavor to chew your gum." This exercise is designed to tone the muscles of the chin and lower Jaw. Others promote a fine neckline neck-line and beautiful cheeks. |