The educational screen (c1922-c1956])

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Tin-: Educational Screen other hand, a recent best seller which many libraries did not buy was reported to be wholly innocu- ous and unusually picturesque in the screen version. Miss Lulu Bett furnishes an in- teresting instance of a novel that lias been dramatized for the stage and the screen; in each case with a different ending. All three versions wire unusually well presented, though both the stage versions sac- rificed for the conventionally happy ending, the more subtle psycholog- ical point that was made in the story. Not every one who asks for a book has actually seen it in the movies, many have heard others tell about it, and some have merely seen it advertised. So strong is the glamor of the cinema, that "if vou can see it in the movies it must be good" and that is a sufficient rec- ommendation. It is by taking ad- vantage of this belief that many a librarian has kept a display rack of books in constant circulation by the sign, "These books have appeared in the movies." There are other ways of advertise ing. Attractive pictures large enough to post, that represent scenes or characters in the story make effective posters. Better yet are "stills" of the movies, when they are obtainable, and these pictures are a successful form of co-opera- tion between the library and the theatre. Books of travel, advertised by striking pictures, will often at- tract attention if they are displayed when a good geographical or travel (Concludedon page 330) Theatre Architecture J. E. McAfee University of Oklahoma IX the whole range of American art, there is no more notable develop- ment than that in the construction and decoration of motion picture the- atres. To be sure, we are still floun- dering in the period of the garish and bizarre, but it is something to have emerged from the era of the wood- shed and the pig-sty. This is not guile- lessly to assert that numbers of the- atres are not still kept like pig-pens. But that is usually because institutions generally are ordered after that fash- ion in the particular communities still so backward. The janitor of the movie theatre is usually, in such a case, also the custodian of the city hall and sexton of the churches, or is his blood brother. Rarely is the theatre less sightly than other property used in common, and it is often setting the! pace for the entire community in comeliness and neatness, not to speak of more exalted artistic virtues.. The history of American art in other fields promises that we shall V