Comedy Marks Start Of Film Society Show

Four examples of early American motion picture comedy will be shown tonight at the first session of the Harvard Film Society's current season. Works of Hal Roach, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, and Edwin S. Porter are planned for the performance at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall.

The list of six programs for the coming year includes, in addition to American comedy, German expressionist pictures, realistic movies of the German director Pabst and the Russian Pudovkin. French satire, and modern documentary films.

First to run off this evening will be "Dream of a Rarebit Fiend," one of the earliest examples of screen comedy. It was directed in 1906 by Edwin S. Porter.

"High and Dizzy," one of Hal Roach's first attempts, stars Harold Lloyd and his spirited slap-stick. The dead-pan humor of Buster Keaton is the main attraction of the evening's newest film, "The Navigator" produced in 1924. Charlie Chaplin's "A Night at the Show" is the climaz of this set of silent pictures.