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actors, and one of them stood above Napoleon, long an idol of boyhood. The heroes on the screen, let it be remembered, always defend the weak, defeat the villains, and triumph in the end through the exercise of many virtues.
Children are kept out of dangerous streets by motion pictures. That is a fact. And it is a fact that has some amusing corollaries as well.
This experience was met with recently by an exhibitor in a town in the Middle West. He said that he was standing in the lobby of his theatre on a recent Monday night when a woman approached the box office with two small children.
" This is a [Monday night and an off night ", she said to the ticket seller. " Can't I get these children in free ? "
The ticket seller estimated the crowd and decided that the woman could.
So the woman thanked him and went over to the door of the theatre. There she said, " Now Mary, you and Johnny go in and find a seat and I will come back for you at 1 1 o'clock. "
Mothers like that who make check rooms of the movies for their children are almost beyond consideration.
The motion picture in turning to the " classics " for its story material has told so entertainingly the stories involved that hundreds and thousands of people have been sent to their books to find out if such a story is really written there. To the surprise and surely the joy of these aroused minds, the classics have been revealed in entirely new lights. For the first time people have begun to look on them as real books and to realize that just because the dust of a few centuries have gathered on the covers there is no reason why the contents shouldn't be fresh and palatable. Once convinced that the term « classic » is complimentary and not an opprobrium, the reader is admitted to a new realm of reading through which he may browse with infinite relish for the rest of his days.
The habitual reading of fine books has come heretofore from the intellectual, if not from the social or financial, aristocracy ; but within the past decade the habit of reading has reached through the upper strata and has become a universal necessity where formerly it was a luxury.
This growing intimacy between the motion pictures and the book has met with general although not universal approval. There have been those who feared that many people would " take their reading out in looking," but those same people no doubt feared that the phonograph would mean the abolition of orchestra and that the free library would spell the doom of booksellers.
The New Jersey Library Association tells graphically the story of the increase in reading due to films. Productions for the screen, it was said, suggest new lines of thought, stimulate interest in new nations, and bring
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