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In opposition to impassioned lovers of the drama, we have the contrary type : the serious children, with cold, reserved natures. These children condemn the drama, or approve of it only with certain reservations. Here are some of their criticisms :
The greater number of dramas are not suited for young people and heat their imagination by exciting and unnatural scenes; their effects on feeble minds are entirely evil. Dramas are lies ; some dramas are even rather ridiculous. The setting is different, but at bottom they are all alike ; there are, however, sensational dramas and reconstructions of books which might be interesting.
In the police dramas we see persons pull out their revolvers and knives at every moment, « the people do nothing but fire pistols at themselves or their enemies ».
There are dramas with a bad moral which might lead us astray. There are others which are stupid ; police dramas which have neither beginning nor end.
It is bad for the nerves, the dramas frighten us and make us dream at night. The grand dramas are absurd, where one sees death in all its detail. Some of the dramas, however, are so so. They are not always true to life, but they are interesting all the same. It is nice to see a comical scene after a drama.
Travel.
The following is one of the answers giving a reason for the preference for travel films :
« Travel films are very instructive, they help us to know faroff countries and foreign customs, they illustrate and complete our school lessons. We see beautiful countries before our eyes, and think that we are really there ».
All the children, however, are not of the same opinion. Here is what one of the boys thinks : « Journeys are boring. Under the pretext of geography, they show you nothing but cascades. Very amusing ! » One of the boarding-school pupils who does not like travel either, says he has enough of it in the lectures.
Inthe course of the tabulation, states Mile Aellig, we have noticed that dramas and travel tend each to exclude the other. Impassioned
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