Compilation film of a number of Arts and Letters Club members and guests. The film begins with the club crest, "Cover of the Lamps", 1932. The personalities shown are: Sir William Mulock, Postmaster General of Canada; Hector Charlesworth, the first Commissioner of the Canadian Radio Commission; Ben A. Gould, a relative of the wealthy American Gould family; author and playwright Merrill Denison in the club library; guest Archie Belaney (Grey Owl); banker, actor and musician Carl Pemberton; medical doctor and amateur musician Charles Wagner; war correspondent Lacey Amey; Director of Education Peter Sandiford; merchant and haberdasher Ernest F. Ely, who sang in the club choir; Harold Gully of the Silverwood Dairy Company, an amateur actor; dentist Bill Amey; Judge Frank Denton; club librarian Rufus Hathaway; musician and choir director Don Linden; mining company official and director of the ROM, J.B. O'Brien; Sidney Watson of the Nelson and Company publishers; art patron and Canada Packers president J. S. McLean; stock broker and amateur painter R.A. Daly; Art Gallery of Toronto curator E. B. Greig; actor and Eaton's book department head John Greer, critic Arthur Duncan; Carl Pemberton again; Ford Motor Company advertising executive Carleton Dyer; lawyer and amateur painter Frank Erickson-Brown; actor and hydro engineer Brendan Mulholland; scientist and chemical engineer Harry Mills, who is also the brother-in-law of Gus Bridle; landscape architect and founder of Sheridan Nurseries Howard Dunnington-Grubb; General Charley Mitchell; a war film from Italy, from Charley Mitchell; Superior Court Judge Norman MacDonnell; three church leaders called The Three Graces (Canon F.J. Moore of the Anglican Church, and father of Mavor Moore; the Reverend J.R.P. Slater of Old St. Andrews Presbyterian Church; and the Right Reverend Richard Robert, Moderator of the United Church of Canada); Art Gallery Treasurer D.H. MacDougall; Floyd Chalmers, benefactor and patron of the arts, at Canoe Lake, 1932; Professor David Keys of the University of Toronto; Taylor Statten, educator at Pickering College and youth counsellor; Professor Michael McKenzie of the University of Toronto; Harry Tedman, club secretary and advertising executive with J.J. Gibbons; Professor Malcolm Wallace of the University of Toronto; chartered accountants Ralph and Robert Dilworth of Clarkson, Gordon, Dilworth; Canada Packers Vice-President Norman McLean at Canoe Lake; Reverend Harold Young, Pastor of Avenue Road United Church; Professor William Blatz, child psychologist, and Taylor Statten, youth counsellor; Dr. A.H. "Bert" Rolph, radiologist at Sick Children's Hospital, and Graham Matthews, at Rolph Garden, possibly in Weston; Emilio Goggio, a professor of Italian at the University of Toronto; guest Sir Charles G.D. Roberts, author and poet; club housemother Mrs. Bessie Webster; guest Major Yates-Brown; Hugh Ayres, Canadian manager of Macmillan and Company; Guy Mitchell, head of interior decorating for Simpson's; Gilbert Bagnani; engineer Frank Loring, father of Frances Loring; theosophist and writer Albert E. Smythe, the father of Conn Smythe; Geoff Hatton, club jester and actor with D'Oyly Carte; a group at the Taylor Statten Camp; architect Jules Wegman; naturalist Jack Miner; Harry (no first name given on list supplied by the club]; dentist Arnold Mason and an unnamed person; poet and journalist Lewis Milligan; actor Basil Morgan, the brother of Ernest; George R. Young of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; Wellesley Hospital radiologist Harold Tovell, father of Vincent Tovell, and a guest; H.L. Rous, art collector and President of Rous and Mann; youth guide and counsellor Taylor Statten; M.O. "Mel" Hammond, photographer, writer and editor of The Globe; tailor and club choir member Jimmy Manson; Imperial Oil President Victor Ross; Pickering College Headmaster Joe McCulley; guest Richard Haliburton, the noted traveler and writer; impresario Daniel Frohman; Napier Moore; W.W. Alexander, etcher; William Tyrrell; Sid Howard, newspaperman; Newton McTavish;, author; John Robbins, author; Barker Fairley, Professor of German; Pelham Edgar, Professor of English; Fergus Kyle, newspaper artist; and Sid Howard. ~The footage also shows: ; etcher and amateur actor Billy Alexander; William Tyrell, founder of the Tyrell Bookstore; journalist Sid Howard, son of A.H. Howard; author and editor Newton McTavish; Upper Canada College educator, nicknamed Mr. Chips, William Mowbray; author and Victoria College Professor of English John Robbins; painter, translator and University College Professor of German Barker Fairley; newspaper artist Fergus Kyle and newspaper writer Sid Howard.
