PICTURE SHOWS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3041, 30 March 1917, Page 6

PICTURE SHOWS

Sir,—.As a picture employee, I would! like the chance of replying to Lynx T*o. 1. I enclose my. card, and suggest that Lynx* No. 1 comes out "front his anonymous shelter-shed, and I will then do likewise. It is fairlyobvious that some stronger motive) than a desire for replacing amusements Dy morality lectures is behind.an attack of this kind. We know that several ivery powerful and lucrative Businesses are seriously affected by the picture industry. Even if a picture' drama does not contain 95 per cent, ofi ''instructive matter, the sixpence spent on it may well be better employed! than in saying "Shluck." .' "Lynx No. 1" has a faculty, which: sliould enable him to make"'easy money, and plenty of' it, without bothering; to toil in a picture showr He knows the effect a picture has on people's mincfci These are his words: "As to the effecis on the audience of this kind of-.thing there is no "doubt whatever. in mjf mind." To know what other peoples are .thinking is a faculty as rare .'sis , itis invaluable, and I can suggest sev-i' eral very lucrative positions that "Lyni. No. 1" can get straightaway if he can, "deliver the goods." . v .' ',•' ingenious moralist is, "41 IvTafrieir Man." Would ho be'agreev' able to a censorship of all drapers-V liquor, and other, trade advertisements', as well as pictures? . Is he also agrees able to censorship of all plays, operas, jlcjvues, ballets, comic songs, ballad! cbucerts, novels, post-cards, jam-jar; labels, cigarettes pictures, and Criminal Court reports? Has he been up> to the' Art Gallery, or doesn't he allow his children to go? How much would he leave of "Romeo and Juliet" or 'tha Old Testament? I would'like also ta know whether he has' considered tho advisability of keeping his childreis. home from pioture plays'which look .t<v he-adult fare. The children will be> able to see more spice in any panto-, mime or other stage production in one night than in the pictures in six months, and I would like to have hisj views on this aspeot of his amnsemenfi, suppression campaign:—l am, etc., ' . TIGER NO. NlNE,'.''