Show 7“' 7: V- - ' V ' ! v' V - 7 777 - - iv‘ - v-- '7 ' - V -- x y - 'V - 7 :v'7 ' 7v -- '7’777--- 7 v 777' V -- r-r-“- t 7777 M :V v y i r ’ V: - - ' - 77- - 7 w-''-- - - 7" V' 7 7''- ti-v-- - V -- - - vv -- r 77V ’Y 7 ''''7? - - - '- - ' - : ' - : r - t - ' 1 - s 7V 1 r " ‘ ? -- - - - - - ‘V 1' ' - - - Besiosltalllk” f' ’ - 7- 'i ' IFnlmm vy r Childhood Real-- - Firsit of a — By LOUELL A O PARSONS OMEN'S clubs from coast to coast have taken up 'the cudgel in defense of childhood They plead for 'less sentimental drivel fewer sensational sex' pictures and more appropriate films ' for little children Not a day passes Without some earnest appeal from mothers or f industrious women's clubs "Can't 'you for us?” isTthe cry "Our children love moving pictures buV there-arpitifully few proper subjects for them to see” The Fox Film Company has anticipated this need of films for children and will next month release “Jack and the Beanstalk” a picture of children by children and for children ‘Jack and the Beanstalk” is only the begin- -' ning of a series of motion pictures that this company has planned to launch The development of the idea of films for- children has been -- 7 worked along normal lines "One of the first things that was discovered in the making of Jack and the Beanstalk was' that it lent itself to all degrees of spectacular beauty” writes a Fox representative "There was the necessity of creating a whole-corn- munity of children There was a castle to be occupied by a terrible giant and there were :' armies of picturesque youngsters to be 'organ- ' tfi1 izcd and royal courts to be formed It was'de-cide- d at once to let loose the floodgates and to give to this picture all that' mind and money and energy could produce A whole year was consumed in places that soon took on the appearance of a fairy land Six hundred thousand dollars was expended : arid 1300 children and their 'elders were marshaled to' make real a story that had hitherto lived only in the imagination and on the printed page’ ' And then a miracle happened for one of the 'has feft the children alone on the together and Francis and Virginia are most famous of human stories became real It Nurse ' left with a nurse who does the most lawn and Francis proposes was' found that there was a Jack who seemed to natural thing in the world — reads them y that they seek the Giant in the enchanted have :been bom' just to' enact this on the films the stoiy of "Jack and the Beanstalk” forest" S He had charm and intelligence and he gave up Then a wonderful idea comes to the his other life to become the rescuer of a princess and the Bean- -' boy He is quite sure tliat all that is stalk1' necessary to find the enchanted forest Golden Hen which search way off in ' beauty and most remarkable of all after is to go look for it He has his own it right down to' Texas the giant whose real home is" the top of a beanstalk was found little automobile so why not search everyday- reality castle Every timev the owner commanded '"Lay ! this He is terrible in his eight feet six and his teeth are built for consuming first for it ? He conspires with his little JackMS just of children! The out little lovely youngsters sprang army j)i the ground a healthy normal boy who- in modern life is known as Francis and’ Virginia and they start off along the road with their dog to find the place in and the royal court was gathered from all the most beautiful children in his beautiful little neighbor is called Virginia On the occasion when we the woodside that is the entrance to the enchanted forest Then follows ir rI thew orld There js ji £2' : -- - ‘ ' e ’ - A " -- y S t ! - : ‘ ( v to-Virgi- nia i - ith - — r v ( ' ir t a - 4 r — — — — 4 |