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Show NEW 80URCE OF EXTRAVAGANCE For a long whllo tho automobllo has had heaped upon It all tho male dictions ot thoso who decry extravagance extrav-agance But a now competitor has appeared the motion picture. It Is said that Into the motion picture places of exhibition there goes dally in tho form of payments for admissions, admis-sions, not loss than $1,000,000 or $3C5-000,000 $3C5-000,000 a year and that ovor $500,-000,000 $500,-000,000 is Invested in the business. How nccurato these' figures may be, wo do not know. That tho sum of money so spent and Invested nro en ormous, no ono can doubt. i Tho automobllo Is, of course, a holder offender, taking one's money In largo sums outright. Tho motion pic-turo pic-turo Is a slower steadier and moro Insidious assailant of ono's purso children nro largo patrons of the motion picture entertainments, they nro being lod away from habits of thrift at a. tlmo whon such habits should bo forming. It Is a phaso of our times of which tho humorist and satirist should not loso flight, that this pocullar form of extravnganco Is itself to bo turnod Into a preaching placo for thrift and wo shall all soon bo spending our monoy at tho box ofllco to bo shown a motion plcturo story exhibiting tho virtues of thrift. HrokorB' Magazlno. |