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Show LEAGUE MATINEE SEASON TO OPEN NEXT SATURDAY Initial Entertainment Under Auspices of Local Organization Is Arranged; Programmes to Continue All Winter. THE first hoys' find girls' matinoe of the seiion innlor the auspices of the Home ami School league will be given next Saturday at H:30 in the mavuing at the Paramount-Empress theater. These matinees mati-nees will be continued each Saturday during the winter. Bulletins have beeji posted in the city schools and the movement move-ment lias the co-operation of the board of education. Through the courtesy of the librnrv bo;ird and the librarian bulletins bul-letins announcing the programmes will be posted in the children's room at. the public librarv. . The .first subject, is ''The Knights of the Square 'table,'' an Edison-Con-.quest picture. A 'Oiuedy cartoon, a scenic picture and a Ditniar zoo picture will complete the programme. Representatives of the Relief society and the City Federation of Clubs have been invited to serve on the committee. commit-tee. A publicity committee will be appointed ap-pointed from one of the schools. It is t he object of the league to interest mothers in the movement. The motion picture committee follows: Committee Named. Mrs. .John Malick, chairman; Mrs. George M. Bacon, Mrs. John Z. Brown, Mrs. A. E. Bucker, Mrs. E. M. Cohen, Mrs. H. .1. Havward, Miss Florence Knox. Mrs. William Reid, Mrs. Oliver Ralston, Mrs. V. M. Stookey, Mrs. K. W. Senior, Mrs. William Storey, Jr., chairman: chaperons, Mrs. Anna Young, Rev. .1. II. Dennis, chairman films; It. .1. .Stearns. J. H. Coombs, chairman programmes.' The motion picture committee of the league, of which Mrs. John Maliok is chairman, has affiliated with the Affiliated Af-filiated Committees lor Better Films of . Xew York City. This is an organization organiza-tion national in character, including many committees scattered throughout the country having a similar object. The work of the Affiliated Committees Commit-tees for Better Films has grown very rapidly since its organization was announced an-nounced by the National Committee for Better Pi 1ms in January. Since thnt time scores of commitrees scattered throughout the different parts of the country and representing manv organisations, organi-sations, have applied for affiliation. : Among the places represented are: San i Diego, Cab; ; Lowell, Mass.; Atlanta, Ga.; Seattle, Wash. ; Cleveland -Cincinnati, Ohio; Louisville, Ky.; Denver. Colo.; Dallas, Texas, and cities in smaller communities in every state except ex-cept Florida, JV3w Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Ne-vada, Idaho, Montana and Wisconsin. There are upwards of other communities commu-nities in correspondence with the national na-tional committee preliminary to af-f af-f liatiou. Women Are Diligent. For some time progressive women in different parts of the couutry have rec; ognized that the motion picture presents pre-sents a situation which affects parents. Children are prone to visit motion picture pic-ture theaters where films not suited to them are exhibited. This question has never been raised by the spoken drama to the extent which the motion picture raises it, because of the price of admission. ad-mission. It is the same instinct which causes youngsters to seek a mea.ns of getting in to see a circus performance that has given magnitude to the situation situa-tion raised by the motion picture show. A child may be able to obtain 5 or 10 cents, but not an amount sufficient to take him into a theater where the spoken drama is presented. ' Although the specific needs of "the young people have not been recognized in all cases, an effort has been made to discover some way of meeting the situation. Women of vision in many places have decided that the best method is that of special performances of selected films for the young people. peo-ple. Ln the motion picture they have recognized a legitimate form of entertainment, enter-tainment, having great value as a recreation rec-reation and as an instructional force. Experience in making such performances perform-ances successful, however, has been lacking except in a few cases. Jn these cases success has usually been due primarily pri-marily to the wsdom and persistence of a few women who understood the desires de-sires of children and attempted to meet these with entertaining, amusing, thrilling thrill-ing and inspiring dramatic films. Uniting Their Forces. This movement for the use of selected select-ed films has become known as the better bet-ter films movement. In order to organize or-ganize it some months ago the National Board of Eeview of Motion Pictures, New York, formed the National Com-' mittee on Films for Young People, recently re-cently renamed the National Committee Commit-tee for Better Films, in order that the name might 'better express its aims. Through the presentation of addresses in different parts of the country and the preparation of literature and lists of selected films which would be of help to those who are undertaking to meet the situation in their own communities, com-munities, this committee has been stimulating stim-ulating the development of the movement. move-ment. Having determined what kind of films were wanted, the next step was that of organizing in various localities successful performances of such films. Here and there local committees of the Women's Federation and other organizations or-ganizations had been formed to conduct con-duct special performances. Some of them were meeting with success, while others were making little headway. Many women were anxious to do something, some-thing, but having little or no acquaintance acquain-tance with the film business, did not know how to go about it. The national na-tional committee felt that some bond j should be established between them i which would enable these committees to , co-operate in making special pert' or- : mances successful. It was therefore i decided to fornvthe affiliated committees commit-tees for better films. Value of Movement. The organization is intended to serve as a medium of communication between those who have information of value j and those who need it. The vast ma- ! jority of those working toward the i exhibition of selected films feel that the plan is particularly adapted to spe- j cial performances, especially in the ' neighborhood houses, for the family group. Some communities have already taken up this idea and are working ft out. That the motion picture theater is a social influence is recognized. The head of the household who takes his family to the motion picture theater can do so at a cost no more than that of spending an evening in the saloon, and he feels better the next morning. It is of tremendous value to the coun-j try that there is a kind of entertainment entertain-ment which costs little open to those who are obliged to dwell in uninviting -and crowded shelters. Miss Marv Gray Peck, of the motion picture survey sur-vey committee of the General Federation Federa-tion of Women's Clubs, has said that the motion picture will save the country coun-try from revolution because it gives to : the tired worker and those dependent upon him an opportunity to step out for a little while into another world Their minds in their moments of respite from toil ace thus given an opportunity for recreation and for forgetting for-getting the miseries of existence. The motion picture is the first great art which has been brought to the door of the working man. Tho other arrs have been confined in their ministration to certain social groups. |