THE LIBERTIES OF PICTURE THEATRE PATRONS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3070, 4 May 1917, Page 6

THE LIBERTIES OF PICTURE THEATRE PATRONS

Sir, —As a regular patron of picture shows, I was pleased to see;that the Minister who is the guardian of our liberties, as picture-goers has shown sorno backbone. I have been going for years to see the various dramas, aud confess I have seldom seen anything to wliich 1 could tako real objection. What I could- not understand about the requests, made to the Minister 'was the one which asked that any religious or public body should have the right to stop our seeing a picture. ■ .There nro so many great evils, .such as the social evil, and the drink traffic and its many ramifications, which the religious bodies concerned might well take in hand before attacking the people's amusements. I hope that.'the folks whq have been moving in, this matter of the pictures will accept a mother's advice, and sot about earnestly . gotting_ stricter measures passed to deal with the big evils that I have mentioned, and leave the picture .shows, the finest adversaries of the bars and other bad eon-gregating-places, severely alone. Tam writing this letter to let Mr. Russell know that •be has the hearty support of the. majority of right-thinking men and women in the fair attitude bo has taken up.—l am, etc., HOUSEWIFE.