TWO HARVARD MEN REACH FINALS OF FILM CONTEST

The films taken of Roger Follansbee '30, and H. A. Lewis Jr. '28, have been chosen, by the judges of the film contest being conducted by the First National Pictures and College Humor to enter the finals along with 38 others. Of the pictures taken in most of the large colleges and universities in the country 300 were selected and sent on to Hollywood where this semifinal selection has been completed. On May 23 the final ten will be chosen from these 40 by the executives of the First National Pictures in conjunction with important newspaper syndicate men from magazine and motion picture papers.

Ten to Be Chosen

The ten men chosen in these finals will be given an eight week try-out in the First National movie school at Burbank, California. Those who prove themselves valuable will be given five-year contracts with the film corporation with a salary of $75 a week for the first six months, which will be gradually increased so that during the last year of the contact they will each be receiving at least $750 a week.

When the final ten are picked by the judges the winners will be notified and a date will be set on which these men will make the journey to the coast for their training in the First National movie school.

John McCormick, who has been managing this campaign, has stated that the contest has met with as great a success as he had hoped and that this new innovation may mark a new era in the history of moving pictures.