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Show MOVING PICTURE SHOWS. Rev. Francis J. Finn, S. J., the well-known well-known writer of stories for boys, speaking recently of moving pictures shows, said: "Many thousand persons attend the moving picture shows each day, and in view of this enormous attendance attend-ance these shows are bound to have an effect on the lives of our people. "The moving picture is a good thing for the average man or woman. All classes of people have begun transferring their patronage from the vaudeville shows to the five-cent the atre, and as there is less vulgarity and suggestiveness in a month of moving picture shows than in one ordinary or-dinary vaudeville performance the change is undoubtedly for the better. "Could we only do away with the excess of sentimehtalism and the over-emphasis, at times, of the cen-sual, cen-sual, this newest form of amusement, with its tremendous possibilities, would be -jlmost perfect. Accordingly Father Finn set to work to prove his faith in well-directed effort by installing a -moving picture pic-ture show in St.'Xaviar parish school, Cincinnati. Father Finn says that a healthy moral moving picture show will elevate the tone of every moving picture show in his home city. It would be useless, to deny the tremendous possibilities of the moving mov-ing picture show, bereft of all scandals, scan-dals, sensuality, passion, etc. Since the moving picture is here and here to stay, if it is to become an established estab-lished feature of life in every city and town of the Union, it would seem that the idea adopted by Father Finn presents the best solution of a vexing vex-ing problem which is earnestly attracting at-tracting the attention of the clergj-and clergj-and the civil authorities everywhere, so many of. the moving picture shows being vile, immoral or calculated to rouse the worst passions of the human hu-man heart. |