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Show THE MOVING-PICTURE SHOW. jA t The nicklcodeon has achieved tfn amazing popularity, derived largely from the indigentJottstUdbm sec an automobile at the door or a person per-son in evening dress among the audience. au-dience. Being essentially an amusement amuse-ment of the poor, it naturally attracts at-tracts the agitated attention of those who believe, on general principles, that the morals and 'taste of the lowly always need looking after. They would uplift and purify the picture pic-ture show until it possesses those educational, ethical and aesthetic values va-lues which arc so conspicuous in the dramatic entertainments that are pa- tronized by thewell-to-do and cultured. cul-tured. . To the question, rife in several cities, ci-ties, what to do with the nickel thea-trcsfthc thea-trcsfthc proper answer iis very sim-plc-o wit, give them better ventila-tionJI ventila-tionJI In the main the shows arc perfectly per-fectly moral now. Almost always jtljc villian dies in an exemplary and fcpainful manner. Generally, also, they arc in good taste. The standard may not be the highest but it is as healthy as that of the boy who desired that only the "fightingest parts" of the Bible be read to him. There's seldom anything the matter mat-ter with anybody's taste until somebody some-body else begins to tinker with it. Bad taste is almost always a laboriously labor-iously acquired and carefully cultivated culti-vated possession. The critics mean, simply, that the pictures arc not what they would choose the chances being, be-ing, about as the ratio of the numbers, num-bers, that what the tcritics chose would be no better in any essential value. The Post. |