Moving Picture Age (Jan-Dec 1921)

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"Neighborhood Night" Comes Every Friday at Simpson Simpson Methodist Church in Minneapolis keeps its children off the street through its Friday movie night. This is only about half of the crowd. Many evenings over 900 people attend. At times 200 children and some parents are waiting at 7:00 when the doors are opened a half hour before beginning the program. Another special show is given after school in the afternoon for the smaller children, as the church is not large enough to hold all at one show. Children, unattended, are seated on the main floor. How they are kept quiet is only one element of the well planned organization which takes care of these meetings. The work of the several committees is described in the article beginning on the opposite page Illustrating Chapter III, "How Our Church Uses Moving Pictures.