CHILDREN'S PICTURES.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19819, 6 January 1930, Page 8

CHILDREN'S PICTURES.

AUCKLAND PROPOSAL. 1 [THE PB.BSS DpwUl ■•nrlc*.] | AUCKLAND, January 4. 1 The Governor-General ana th* ],si»*i Alice Fergusson have l>c«n for »<><,«j time past interested in the schema tot children's pirturoa. ! Some months ago «l win I>o J"""**! bered through her Excellency's ofttaij matinees for children win' arranged «| the principal metropolitan wsaUtlj Owing to the advent of the talkie* «4j the consequent upheaval in the pMM- 1 world, it «m not poaatble to conti*M% the manner originally intend.-ii awl Dtt scheme was abandoned. Now that ft* first difficulties of the talkie* havtlttft surmounted, the heads of the bjfjjt ture companies have been able to fNt time and thought to the new sebum Messrs Henry Jlaywimi, T. *,. O'Brien, and Hcuuinont Smith, dirMkkj of the Fuller, Haywnrd, TtaMU O'Brien, and Williamson Films oft* j panics, have decided to r» operate, Ml j it is anticipated now Hint lb* ft, 5 .lames Theatre lias tuni"d talkie tl*i| Sir Benjamin and Mr .John Fuller *8 also associate fhemselvna with Society in the movement. The sthtj panics have derided upon a wktWJ whereby tbey will arrange a sjw«fi« screening at an early e\ emng «fflWto: once a week in one or other of i*T Queen street theatres. Ah th* neMß : ' is a co-opcr:itive one the errcruiaf WaV. be sometimes >n one t heal re and *W* ■ times in another, as enrh rtnii|iany ttfe it has a specially attractive piHwr*. *: very small fraction of film infinitesimal part of all that mnw 1B& < the country is specially nsnlsM* f«; young children so that these stne*»Sff. will be of special interest to thow i* tween the ages of perhaps lea to #* < teen. As a suitable film i.« pioruiable, lis companies at a Inter date w iil !**■* arrange matinees also <>i» ihe«< US* Details have been com eyed to tt*&_ Excellencies, who have en presieo (W*. pleasure in knowing that tli« srftfflW is to be actually in njiirafnin they leave the ]>otnini<>u.