As was customary, the intermissions were filled up with songs and step dancing, and, after the final curtain, there was an auction of pies and candy. A dance "to the musical strains of the piano and violin" completed the evening's entertainment. The proceeds were used to re¬ plenish the coffers of the Mount Stewart Athletic Association. By 1920 silent movies had become a regular feature of the vill¬ age's entertainment. The films were shown in the Foresters' Hall from a machine which was obligingly cranked by various members of the community's youth. The "silents" and eventually the "talkies" were shown by Mr. Bruce Yeo of Montague, " Mr. Movies ," as far as Mount Stewart was concerned, until 1945. The "talkies" made their Island debut at the old Prince Edward Theatre in Charlottetown in January of 1930. "Quite a number" of Mount Stewart people were on hand for the event, and it was reported that "no one was sorry for his trip." Mr. Yeo transferred his weekly programme to the Legion Hall when it was opened in 1933. Mr. Reginald A. MacDonald began his association with the busi¬ ness early in 1940. He assumed full control in 1945 and was shortly joined by his brother, Colin, after the latter's discharge from the ser¬ vices. MacDonald Bros , possessed two projectors, and this eliminated the intermissions at twenty minute intervals which had previously been necessary for purposes of reloading the machine. The new MacDonald Bros . Theatre was opened on May 1, 1947, following the destruction of the Legion Hall by fire two months previously. It continued in operation, with three shows a week, until August, 1952 when the build¬ ing was sold to St. Andrew's Parish. January 15, 1920 marked the inauguration of the Mount Stewart Social Club which, for a number of years, sponsored a wide variety of entertainments ranging from lectures and debates to dances and pie socials. The club's reading room, located in the Foresters' Hall, was opened on December 28, 1922, and this was the village's first public library. "In the centre of the room," the Guardian reported, "there is a table running almost its entire length, and covered from end to end with the latest clean and up-to-date literature. Besides this, there is a nice bookcase well filled with books that have been generously do¬ nated by the people of the village." The library project eventually be¬ came the club's raison d'etre, and the events to finance it were well patronized. A branch of the P.E.I. Libraries was established in the village late in 1934. Housed in various locations, including the Legion Hall and the old Bourke store, it was established in its present com¬ modious quarters in 1964. Apart from the Confederation Centre Lib¬ rary in Charlottetown , it is the most heavily used branch in the entire system. Hockey had doubtless been in vogue in the viliage for many years prior to the announcement in the Guardian for January 14, 1926 that a new skating rink was being built "under the capable management of Mr. Fred Smith ." Such teams as the "Bear-Cats," the "All-Stars," and the "Royals" were active during the thirties, and the "Royals" came very close to winning the Island Intermediate Championship in 1940. Success in this respect came to the "Seagulls," the present team, in 1964 and again in 1973 and 1974. Team members at the time of the second Centennial victory were Harry Crane , Frank MacAree , David MacCan- nell, Bobby MacCannell , Brian MacDonald , Graham Sheppard , Brenton Coffin , Bernie MacDonald , David MacEachern , Allan Jay , Robert Mur- —106—