LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11933, 27 January 1936, Page 3

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

CINEMAS IN TAI'KANGA. Sir, —I suppose I am like many others, and don’t go to a picture house simply to kill an evening, but Ido like to see a good picture. Unfortunately these in Tauranga are fe'.v, and far between, but what is still worse, whenveer there is a good picture showing, you seem to be compelled, unless you go at half time, to sit through the most appalling stuff I have ever seen. Take last week’s picture “Love Me Forever’’ as an example, the rest of the programme, with the exception of our old friend “Mickey Mouse,” was simply awful. It was not only tiresome and monotonous, but not in the least amusing, and sometimes simply vulgar. Then to speed the parting guest, we were treated to hear Grace Moore’s theme song “Love Me Forever,” but siuio by some man which to me sounded more like "crooning.” 1 suppose they were afraid we might leave with too pleasant an impression that we had seen a picture that was worth while.

I know all the old arguments that all tastes have to be catered for, and that picture houses have to take a certain amount of rubbish, but in those days when travel pictures, nature studies, musical, and even short American pictures, which only pretend to make you laugh, can be got, there is no excuse for so consistently putting on a class of stuff which I venture to say appeals to no one.

H. B. McKERROW, Hotel Roslyn, Tauranga.