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Show Here Is What the Public Really Pays Money to See in the Movies By MISS AGNES SMITH, in Picture Play Magazine. Here, all kidding and talk of art aside, is what the public really pays money to see: Mother love, cabaret scenes, lively fighting, swell clothes, cute kids (a!su dogs and cats), sex stuff, "Hearts and Flowers" love stories, thrills and melodrama (if well done), orgies and other glimpses of high life, society stuff, especially if about married life among the rich; flappers and jazz and old home stuff. Kids, of course, are only for the delight of sentimentalists. But in the dark of the theaters there are more sentimentalists than we suspect. Society stuff has the same sort of appeal. It is only human nature to gloat over the sins of those who have too much money to spend. WTe like to mingle envy and disapproval. To learn that the rich have troubles and failings fills us with a sense of delight. If you will look over the list of box-office points you will find that au appeal to the intellect is conspicuously lacking. There is no iniellectum appeal in pictures. A picture may be intelligently produced and it ma7 be made by intelligent men. But in the last analysis it cannot be considered consid-ered an intellectual art If this is a fault, at least the motion picture errs in distinguished company with music, painting and sculpture, all of which arU appeal to our primitive sentiments and to our innate sense of beautj, |