1000 SEE NEWMAN EXHIBITION

`C.H.' Reporter
OVER a thousand people visited
the Cardinal Newman Exhibition which was held in the Bromptun Oratory Hall, London, October 22-26. by the London circle of the Newman Association.
This response from the public was "a very pleasant surprise," said one of the organisers. "If we had known earlier that such enthusiasm existed, we could have booked the hall for a longer period. All who visited the exhibition seemed delighted with it."
There were capacity audiences for the evening talks on Newman given by the Abbot of Downside and the National Chaplain of the Newman Association (Fr. H. Keldany). On Saturday afternoon, and again on Sunday, when Mgr. H. Francis Davis (vice postulator of Cardinal Newman's beatification cause) illustrated a talk on Newman's, life with colourslides, it was a case of "standing room only" for all but the earliest visitors.
The exhibition cost £300 to put on; £64 was received in donations through advertising in the Catholic Press and a collection box in the London Newman centre. With about £100 raised from the admission tickets (2s.), a substantial subsidy from the Newman London circle's funds was necessary, "but it was worth it," said one of the organisers.
Most of the actual mounting of the exhibition had been done by a group of new graduates in the London Newman circle. Messrs. Frank Turner, Ltd. (a Catholic firm of exhibition contractors) allowed a substantial reduction in their rates for loaning the exhibition screens and accessories, as did Messrs. Leather and Strong, who were responsible for all the electrical fittings, spotlights, etc.
Among the many exhibits which attracted attention was a reproduction of a leader published in "The Times" of August 12. 1890. after Newman's death. "We may be sure," the leader said, "that the memory of his [Newman's] pure and noble life, untouched by worldiness, unsavoured by any trace of fanaticism, will endure. and that whether Rome canonises him or not, he will be canonised in the thoughts of pious people of many creeds in England."