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working people. Some of the children said they wanted to become actors or detectives, and one boy wanted to be an apache, but the latter was probably not answering seriously.
We may mention two more answers : a boy of sixteen declared that the cinema « confirmed the ancient world », and another boy of eighteen remarked, with pitiless philosophy, that the cinema helped him to « judge the intelligence or stupidity of his comrades ».
14th. Question. What is it that attracts you to the cinema ?
This question was put to 729 boys of from 10 to 18 years of age ; and 498 answers were received, which may be tabulated as follows :
Posters 263
Advertisements 85
Programmes 50
Desire for amusement 49
Films and actors 27
Handbills 24
Total 498
It is abvious that several of these categories might be amalgamated, and that we should not place too much importance on the distinction made by the children between « advertisements » « programmes » and « handbills ». But, as Mile Jung remarks, it is undoubtedly true that posters are far and away ahead of all other types of advertisement.
None the less, Mile Jung found some answers of children declaring that posters aroused no desire in them to go to the cinema. It may be added, also, that a certain number of children are attracted to the cinema by the accounts of their little friends.
15th. Question. What do you think of the cinema during the war ?
This question, like the preceding one, was put only to the students in boarding schools, high schools and commercial schools ; and the majority of the children interrogated were boys. Some of
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