PICTURE SHOWS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1230, 12 September 1911, Page 4

PICTURE SHOWS.

A HANGIORA CRUSADE. The Rangiora Borongli Council has entered upon a crusade against "pictures of an undesirable character" being shown in "the picture entertainments tnroughout this Dominion." A letter from that local body, read at the meeting of the l'etono Borough Council last evening, instanced certain objectionable features of picture programmes which bad come under the notico of the council. Melodramas, having for their motifs a murder. a suicide, or marital infidelity, had, it was stated, conic under the notice of the Rangiora councillors, who had determined upon a campaign of purification. Councillor List, in moving that the cooperation of the lVtone Council be extended to the Eangiora body in the latter's crusade, remarked that the influence of the modern picture show was actively responsible for the growth of utterly vicious ideas in the minds of youngsters. ick Turpin," and similar "hcroee" of the past, appeared to have made a deep impression upon the youth of l'etone. Councillor Lodder observed that tlio boys could get all tho "pirate" ideas and buccaneer exploits from cheap literature long before the coming of the kineniatograpli. Besides, he said,i the law already had seen to the general principle of strict supervision ou tho part of the police. Councillor i'ipnr thought that tho council should qualify its support with an expression of sympathy with the Rangiora Council in its agitation. ITo himself had never seen anything objectionable in what lie had seen at picture entertainments. After-further discussion, it was agreed that the Hangiora Council should lia'vo the sympathetic encouragement of tho l'etono Borough Council in its efforts to rid picture programmes of such objectionable features as might call for adverse comment in tho future*-