RETROGRADE PICTURES
(To the Editor.) Sir, —With your permission I beg to protest against the ■ retrogressive effect of the majority of tho-picture shows in this City. The Dominion is making strenuous attempts to educate and civilise its youthful population by day, and these picture, shows are a3 strenuously competing to catch tho sixpences at night by means of films depicting morbid sentimentality, murder, robbery, and Yankee vulgarity. The sort, of thing displayed might ho expected in 'Arizona'or the quarters of Les Apaches, but not' under the TJr.ion Jack for the misguidance of young Englishmen and Englishwomen. The sconor tho authorities rigorously censor these productions tho better. I am no "wowser," and give the shows credit. for not' producing indecencies, and for occasionally . screening beautiful scenery aifd educational pictures, such as "Quo Vadis?" and Panama, but the murder and sud-den-death turns so greatly predominate ; that it is high time the law took a hand in the game.—l am, etc., "BRITISH."March 19, 1914.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2012, 20 March 1914, Page 9
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161RETROGRADE PICTURES Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2012, 20 March 1914, Page 9
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