Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1921-Jan 1922)

Tke Little Picture Tkeater in trie Desert (( on tinned from page 45 ) huge family Bible, and Banyan's "Pilgrim's Progress." Gradually the Layeook homestead acquired almost a modern, tho rather a cosmopolitan, aspect. I could easily have traced their mental progress by their home, even had it not been manifested in many other ways, for a man's home reflects his mind, just as a mirror reflects his face. The Layeook home had always been clean and neat, but oh, how painfully plain. Just so their minds. But as their minds broadened and deepened, great changes were made in their house and yard. Paths lined with river stone began to appear, and rose bushes were planted in the little nooks. Inside the house, great changes were wrought. Things that had always been "good enough," gave way for things that were better. More taste was shown in the arrangement of chairs and tables. The whole atmosphere of the place was softened, gladdened, until, upon entering, one felt a sense of comfort and relaxation instead of that awful feeling of having one's nerves drawn over powdered glass as of old. To eat a meal there was now a great pleasure, instead of a chance piece of business. To spend an evening in their "settin' room" was no longer a makeshift for the want of something better to do. Those evenings — what glorious events they were. Sometimes they were spent in silence, each of us deep in a book. Sometimes they were spent in lively discussion, with now and then Bob's wife, Mary, looking over the top of a volume of Mark Twain to admonish one or the other of us not to get "het up." Politics and history liecame Bob's favorite subjects. As to history, that of France and Rome seemed to inter est him most. As to politics, he was far from conservative. And to think that a dingy, dirty, di theater revolutionized their lives ami mine! To think that moving pictures could arouse instincts, talents, abilities — call them what you will — that had always been dormant. Yet perhaps it is not so wonderful after all. Who can look thru a telescope at Saturn, with its curious rings, or Alars, with its strange canals, without being filled with wonder and an intense desire to know more? As a telescope brings distant planets close to earth, just so do moving pictures bring foreign countries close to home. The man is, indeed, hopeless who can see the Roman Colosseum and not ask a question. Moving pictures of a high standard are the greatest educators, entertainers, uplifters, that ever penetrated into back country places. While they may not affect all people as they affected Bob Layeook and his wife, Mary, yet they must have some effect on all. As it was and still is with Bob Laycook and his wife, so must it be, to some extent at least, with the other patrons of the New Star Theater of La Punta. 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