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A character in the drama, "The Penalty," supposed to represent, a prosperous business man of average tastes, on being remonstrated with by his wife because he preferred the Photoshow, at ten cents, to grand opera at $5, defends himself by saying: "Well, if they were selling champagne at ten cents a bottle, I'd want to drink it just the same. ' '
The analogy is good. If it cost $5 to see a Photoshow, how the rich would fall over themselves to get the best seats ! Most of us enjoy most that which costs most. We estimate the worth of a thing, not by the enjoyment it gives us, but by the money it costs us.
Motion Pictures have a few unrelenting enemies, who can see nothing good in them, and everything bad. They seek, not to amend, but to destroy. I wonder if they remember the days of the dime novel, of the poolrooms, of the barrooms, of the gambling resorts, of the cheap melodramas, of the low resorts, which used to attract our young men. If they abolish the Photoshow, what will they put in its place ?
If history and physical geography are to be taught to the school children, and if they must learn of the great heroes of the past, and of different nations, their customs and habits, and of the great battles, there are two ways of doing it : First, make them read printed descriptions, which are seldom interesting, and which are, therefore, soon forgotten ; second, by picturing these things so that they become living realities. The child learns thru the eye. What words can convey a real conception of a battle to the child-mind ? What types can picture Caesar, Columbus, Cromwell, Napoleon, Lincoln ? Illustrated stories of the past, and of the men that made the past, are necessary, and such illustrations as are usually found in the books are hardly sufficient to awaken interest. But when these things and personages are shown in Motion Pictures, at once the child is interested, and, once interested, the pictures and facts cling to the memory.
There is no reason, upon being told at the Photoshow to take a back seat, to take affront.
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