Growing Pains

NZ Truth, Issue 1150, 15 December 1927, Page 6

Growing Pains

CCREBN criticism, however, severe, is a good thing for all concerned. The moving picture business to-day is like a lanky adolescent who has all too suddenly grown up. It is full of faults, and its growing pains should jmake it amenable to sage counsel. Possibly some of its critics ary not sincere. It is considered the "thing" in some supposedly superior quarters to allude patronizingly to motion pictures as a very useful pastime for the "herdy" what?, but hardly worthy the notice of asthetic souls.

Public opinion, . however, is worth heeding; and where movies are concerned, it is a sound censor and a sympathetic adviser. Admitting the faults of the films —they are mostly on the surface—it is well to realize their virtues. First of all they have a wonderful variety. If one picture does not meet your approval, you can figuratively give it a miss in baulk and go to another show. Embarrassment of riches, rather than poverty of choice, faces the person seeking film entertainment.

In .all the arguments advanced for and against motion pictures, the public has within its grasp, control of any situation.

The little glass window through which passes the entertainment seeker's money is . the indicator which tells the tale.

A public nauseated with trashy exhibitions which should never have been will stay away from the theatr.e —

So all is well at the moment in the motion picture business and only growing pains are apparent.