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Reel Life
13
Conscience
"They Have Taken All My Jewels"
Broncho
Shortsighted Managers
The managers of moving picture shows who persist in presenting exhibitions condemned by public opinion for their indecency are acting with blind disregard of their own best interests. Their business has been enormously profitable. The public appetite for the "movies" has been insatiable. Only the shows of the lower class have hitherto been suspect and they have been objectionable, since the system of inspection was instituted, chiefly because of the insanitary condition of some of the exhibition rooms, the lax management, and the danger of panic in case of a fire alarm. Against the centrally situated shows such complaints have not been made, and they have been supported by all classes of the community.
Who does not enjoy a good show of moving pictures? The moving wild animals in their native haunts, the pictures of great parades and festivals, the historical shows, have given delight to countless thousands and have provided a new and appreciable factor in the public education. Now their fair name is endangered by the unsightly and revolting spectacles presented for profit under the pretense of uplifting the public morals. The shortsightedness of the film makers and the managers who lend their houses to such exhibitions is not open to argument.
The moving picture trade has had a blow, and only prompt and intelligent action can relieve it. The substitution for pictures the police have suppressed of others scarcely less objectionable is not a safe way out of the difficulty. The drama has been injured in the past by the same foolish methods, and much of the "bad business" now complained of by theatrical managers is undoubtedly due to the fact, as Mr. De Wolf Hopper lately expressed it, that decent people seeking theatrical entertainment no longer ask "Where shall we go?" but "Where can we go?"
Miitoal Weekly Mo, ■S'l
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Apologies
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