VICARIOUS BEER

The Germanic Department decided yesterday to show a German moving picture this month, to be the first of a series, providing the necessary funds can be raised. As the CRIMSON pointed out in an editorial a few weeks ago, this step is a logical and desirable one. There is no reason why the warm reception given the French films should not be duplicated.

The student studying German will find these films an excellent and agreeable method of absorbing the language as it is spoken, naturally and colloquially, not dismembered into the artificial jargon of class-room instruction. That there is a very real interest in such pictures is satisfyingly shown by the collegiate attendance at the Fine Arts Theatre, where "Der Kongress Tanzt," "Der Grosse Tenor," "Kameradschaft," and "Der Hauptmann vonKoepnick," have played. If these or like films are shown at the Germanic Museum with admission free, a good response may certainly be expected. At the German movies, as at the French, there will be large, enthusiastic, and variegated audiences; the necessary offstage color will be provided by a number of pretty, puzzled debutante faces, tense in their struggles with the German passive.