Show Henry McLemore Throwing my sheep sheep dog about J e and whistling to my great greatt I set off across the moors ot t tot favorite dayI ay to my y favorite motion theater heart was happy and the thein cents in my r pocket j. j jingled ed met y tune une ith U 10 long n g j ng-ing ng ging I tides to to- y fd the BI- BI u. u stopping d and and then r. r a atch my s and lreA prof the e 1 small ln alS that l r always per i f n girons g the irons McLemore Dove the Bijou because it Is doble table feature movie It of- of i- i ithe 4 the biggest moneys money's worth c ce Manhattan was sold for fori i For a 8 very small on oA fee a 8 man can come close spending spending ding a 8 vacation at the It opens early in the theand theor U the time felI fel- fel or ing and by a 8 all of its attractiOns seen has I osha and a he he needs a 8 shave a and a apere are aure meal There is no such pere ure re Stair jg g as a stranger at the Bijou patrons are thrown a for so long a time that now by u depart they know the tine they Y another as well as brothers tt lit was as a surprise and a dis- dis to me when on ardis ar- ar Ion et at the Bijou t today day I dis dis- discovered covered that it had abandoned do double ble features and was limit- limit hg its show to a 8 single picture a a. cartoon and a I- I travelogue The girl behind the ticket window explained that the change in policy was due to the request of Mr Lowell Mellett chief of the office of war information In Information Information In- In formation bureau of motion pic pic- tures Mr Mellett the girl said has asked that double features feature be eliminated He feels that for Americans to sit three four and even more hours in a movie house hinders the war effort So we are cooperating I bought my ticket anyway but as I was walking home after after af af- af- af ter a fleeting two hours in the movies I could not help but wonder if Mr Mellett had not made a mistake in attacking the double feature The double feature program has many advantages For one thing it guarantees that one of the two pictures will be good This is because one of the pictures pictures pic plc- tures on the double bill is so awful that the other is sure to stand out as a masterpiece The No 2 feature or companion piece is always dreadful Nine times out of ten it deals with one of these subjects 1 A mad doctor who dissatisfied dissatisfied dissatisfied dis dis- dis- dis satisfied with his contract at M G M has discovered a 8 liquid tHat will reduce the human race to a bunch of blithering idiots A major portion of the scenes in the picture show the mad doctor working with his test tubes In a cobwebbed labora labora- tory 2 The workings Inner-workings of cattle rustlers and how they are foiled in moving a 8 herd of blooded longhorns through a canyon by the two-fisted two two- two gun efforts of an honest cowboy cowboy cowboy cow cow- boy and his lady love There Is always much guitar playing In these pictures and songs that tell how cowboys cowboy like to be buried buried buried bur bur- in the desert alongside their horse and favorite musical in instrument in- in strument 3 Backstage of a Broadway Broadway Broadway Broad Broad- way musical with a cast that couldn't dance its way off a 8 ahot ahot hot stove 4 The workings of international international international inter inter- national spies and how they are finally trapped by an Irish flatfoot flatfoot flat flat- foot a woman reporter and a natured good-natured drunk who turns out to be an F FBI B I man with a 8 taste for gin 5 A A. picture re in which there is a long shot of papers rolling off the presses leaves being torn violently off a 8 calendar to show the passing of time police police police po po- po- po lice cars careening down a dim street with all sirens going full blast and a 8 comic maid who jumps every time a a. window is closed dosed or a 8 door is shut Americans American will miss these pictures And if Mr Mellett is successful successful successful success success- ful in eliminating double features features features fea fea- tures he will undoubtedly move toward the elimination of the half a 8 h hundred d other cinema that make up the program No Mr Mellett leave the movies alone To go into a 8 movie at and get out at midnight all worn out and with the eyes and head hurting isas is isas isas as much a part of American life as stuffing ballot boxes Distributed by Syndicate Inc |