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GRAMMAR ON THE SCREEN The object of the edui;alio;uiI film Mr. '^'oun and Miss Pronoun of Grammar Row is to show the logical relation of the parts of speech to one another. Mr. Grammar, a little old schoolmaster in professional blacks, with cocked hat. spectacles and cane, conducts Dorothy, a little girl out of sorts with her textbook, to Grammar Row, in order that she may "'see how the Parts of Speech live when they are at home." She sees Common Noun trying to rent a sentence of Mr. Grammar, and unable to do this until he has found his \ erb—what he is, has or does. She sees Pronoun, who can take the place of a noun, manifesting an interest in 'T'HIS scene shows Miss Pronoun at the gate with Miss Adjective at her side. The charm of these two little girls would make the most restless boys in the class eager to learn the rules of grammar. Common Noun's affairs, and rebuked therefor by the Rela- tives. The story unfolds in strict accordance with the laws brought in by the Rules, Mr. Grarmnar's Policemen. Com- mon Noun rents a complex sentence to accommodate his Relative Who, forever referring to her antecedents. Adjectives limit and qualify other nouns; Adverbs modify Verbs; Prepositions, the messenger boys, seek their objects; Conjunctions, the carpenters, make proper connections. CCEXE irum .Miss Alice Ward Uailc.v's iiuvcl pcd.L^'ugical film "Mr. Noun and Miss Pronoun." The signs shown in this illustration in- dicate the uniq r- yet accurate manner in which this difficult subject is visualized on tl c motion picture screen. Grammar Row illuminated by an idea becomes a paragraph, and the Interjections exclaim. Many other things happen, so many that the spectator has to watch out to catch them all, and Dorothv awaking from her dream rushes for her textbook to help explain the performance. There are sixty-five children in the cast and they range from three years to thirteen years of age. They are public school children of Minneapolis, and Mrs. Alice Ward RaiU'v. wlio trained them and wrote the scenario, was a public school teacher in that city. Her work with backward children taught her, she says, this and other "short cuts" in educational methods. BAD CONDITIONS IN N. Y. MOVIE THEATERS National Motion Picture League Makes Public Reports and Recommendations of School Principals Charges that many of the neighborhood motion picture theaters of New York City exert an unfavorable influence on children are contained in a series of reports by public school principals, made public by the National Motion Picture League, of which Dr. William L. Ettinger, superin- tendent of schools, is second vice-president. Although the ichool principals were practically unanimous in condem- ing present conditions they declared that they were in no way hostile to motion pictures and theaters as such. One of them stated that she considered "the moving picture the greatest evil today for our boys and girls,'' but added that "it could easily be made one of the greatest moral means ior them." A common complaint was laxity in observance of the law forbidding the admission of children to theaters unless accompanied by their parents or guardians. Some pro- prietors were declared to "wink" at the law for the sake of financial gain. Others were said to have "professional guardians" in their pay to take children seeking admission into the theater and leave them there. Another variety was said to be the "voluntary guardian," a well meaning per- son who, through misguided sympathy for a child or group of children, passed them into the theater. A third and more sinister variety was stated to be the vicious habitue of the theater who buys the tickets for young girls and sits with them in the darkened recesses of the theater. A number of the principals found theaters unclean and poorly ventilated. Complaints also were made of the prac- tice in some theaters of permitting boys and girls to sit together in the darkened galleries without adequate super- vision. It was recommended that the galleries be open to men and boys only. Complaint was made of the sensational character of the playbills in front of some theaters. The serial was con- demned by some of the principals, both on the ground of its usual sensationalism and because it was said to form the motion picture habit, which in some cases had led boys and girls to steal to get money to see the various episodes. Suggestions looking to improvement of conditions were made by many of the principals. The common opinion was that some arrangement should be made whereby special showings of films suitable for children might be scheduled and arrangements made for the attendance of the children of particular schools in a body or by as many as cared to attend. In making the reports public Mrs. Adele F. Woodard, president of the league, asked for help to remedy the con- ditions of which complaint was made. BERTILLON SYSTEM ON THE SCREEN The Paramount Magazine of March 21, covers the method of using the Bertillon system in identifying criminals by finger prints, which was planned by Inspector Faurot, who also is the chief participant in the sketch. The picture shows the system in actual operation when a lawbreaker is apprehended, taken to Police Headquarters and held for trial, through evidence furnished by the telltale marks of his fingers. 12