Compilation film of the Arts and Letters Club members in the 1930s - a visual "who's who" of prominent figures in the artistic, scientific, and business worlds of this period. Shown in their professional milieu, over ninety men present themselves to the camera. Their film portraits are preceded by the club crest by J.E.H. MacDonald and Cover of the Lambs (1932) by Scott Carter. The people shown are: Harvey Robb (dentist, musician and organist at the Royal York Hotel); cellist Paul Hahn; Toronto Symphony Orchestra concert master Eli Spivak; vocal teacher Carl Hunter; Ruthven MacDonald (a bass/baritone with the Adanac Quartet); guest William Primrose (renowned violinist); Frank McKelcan of National Trust and first vice-president; George Lambert (voice teacher at the Conservatory and cantor in the club choir); Charles Wagner (a medical doctor and amateur musician); musician and choir director Donald Linden; pianist and conductor Reginald Stewart; Dr. H.A. Fricker (conductor of the Mendelssohn Choir, Metropolitan Church); Mathias Turton (piano teacher at the Conservatory); voice coach George Lambert (as Indian); guest Edward Johnson (singer and manager of the Metropolitan Opera, New York, with accompanist on right); Joseph Sheard, Carl Pemberton and Horace Corner of the Charles Wagner Quartet; Norman Wilkes (piano teacher at the Toronto Conservatory); Donald Heins (Ottawa orchestra conductor); ethnologist Marius Barbeau; musician Ernest MacMillan; singer J. Campbell McInnes (Italian consul); tenor Percy Hollingshead; MacMillan, Boris Hambourg, Reginald Stewart, Geza de Kresz, lunching with President Barry Cleveland; guest and musician Ossip Gabrilowitz; Edwin Franko Goldman Band, including Paul Whiteman; Dr. H.A. Fricker (organist, conductor, Mendelssohn Choir); Danish pianist Viggo Kihl (a member of the Conservatory); Boris and Clement Hambourg (members of the Hambourg Conservatory); Reginald Stewart conducting; J. Murray Gibbon (head of public relations for the Canadian Pacific Railway); Toronto Symphony Orchestra violinist Harold Sumberg; pianists Reginald Godden and Scott Malcolm; guest Reginald Warenwath (American baritone); Russian violinist Alexander Chuhaldin; Dr. Frederick Banting with co-workers in his laboratory; Dr. Bill Holman (bacteriologist with the Banting Institute); Dr. Bill Robinson (chief pathologist of the Banting Institute and the Toronto General Hospital), Oskar Klotz (pathologist and son of the Chief Dominion Astronomer); yellow fever compound in a hospital in Nigeria; Dr. Roscoe Graham (chief surgeon of the Toronto General Hospital); Dr. Davidson Black (paleontologist and finder of the skull of Peking Man); Group of Seven painter Lawren Harris at Canoe Lake; etcher and engraver Walter J. Phillips; painter J.E. Sampson of Sampson-Matthews; Adele Statten (wife of Harry Ebbs); Tom Greene (painter of portrait of Bliss Carman); painter and commercial artist Tom Mitchell; etcher and painter Owen Staples; A.H. Robson (art director at Grip and at Rous and Mann, showin in his home); W.W. Billy Alexander (engraver and etcher with Alexander and Cable Co.); Jimmy McCallum and Curtis Williamson at the Studio Building; etcher W.W. Alexander; Fergus Kyle (creator of newspaper and magazine illustrations); artist Tom McLean; painter Sid Hallam; artist Ted Dinsmore; Barker Fairley (head of the Department of German, University of Toronto); Bryant Fryer (cartoonist and maker of animated movies); Peter Haworth (painter, and art teacher, at C.A.G. Matthews); Richard Van Valkenberg (head of the Eaton Art Gallery); artists Gordon Davies and Will Ogilvie; scene painter Billy Drake; painter Lawren Harris at Canoe Lake; guest Christopher Morley (Dominion Drama Festival adjudicator, with a group of club members); guest Rockwell Kent (American painter and illustrator); sculptor Ted Watson; architect and etcher Sam Maw; woodcarver and furniture maker Jack Ridpath; Kenneth Forbes, painter of a portrait of G. Howard Ferguson; painter Archie Barnes and an unnamed person; John Pearson (architect of Parliament Buildinggs); C.B. Barry Cleveland, architect, and Jack Miner, naturalist; Parliament buidings; Murray Brown, architect; two men and Allan Geroge, architect; Tom Pomphrey, sculptor; Herbert Moore, architect; Sir Raymond Unwin, U.K. Town Planner; W.L. Somerville, architect; Cecil King, architect; Water Moorhouse, architect on sailboat; William Rae, architect; J.P. Hynes, architect, and an unknown architect.~Also shown are: John Pearson (architect of the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa); Barry Cleveland (architect, Darling, Pearson and Cleveland); an unidentified person; a group of Club members including architect Jules Wegman and naturalist Jack Miner; the Parliament Buildings; unnamed person; architect Murray Brown; architect Alan George; unnanmed person; Tom Pomphrey, sculptor of the City Hall cenotaph; unnamed person; architect Herbert Moore; guest Sir Raymond Unwin (English town planner); unnamed person; architect W.L. Sommerville; architect Cecil King; architect Walter Moorehouse; unnamed person; architects William Rae and J.P. Hynes and an unnamed architect.
