Józef Czechowicz, poet, newspaperman, and a Lublin native, was also a regular of the theatre and cinema in Jezuicka. A cinephile, he occasionally wrote film reviews. Thanks to this sideline of his we know that the Lublin screen “talked” in early May 1932:
The pleasant Adria cinema has recently changed into a sound cinema. The first sound film this season was All Quiet on the Western Front [(dir. Lewis Milestone, 1930)]. The film, whose first screening drew crowds, intertwines tragedy and humour in a strangely harmonious fashion, creating an important vision of life through its simplicity. As for myself, I confess I stayed in Adria for two screenings, so as not to miss a single thing from this brilliant spectacle.
