PICTURE SHOWS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 89, 17 April 1911, Page 7

PICTURE SHOWS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — Surely picture shows are deteriorating when the proprietors of a theatre put on such films as tho murder of Gaspard de Coligny. I may bo wrong, but I have always looked upon picture shows as being a pleasant and educational form of amusement, and particularly interesting to little children, but tho film of the massacre of the French admiral was too horribly realistic to be amusing, and I felt sorry for the children who had such fare put before them as entertain- | ment. The stabbing in oold blood of the old admiral, tho throwing of the body into the street — the effect of which was made moro sickening by a "stage" thud — and the final scene depicting the morning after the massaero of the Protestants, showing the bodies lying around, produced a sickly feeling to most of the audience, and there was an audible sigh of relief Avhen the film ran out. Surely this sort of thing is not what tho public want? If it is, it is a pity. I heard several say this film was the most revolting picture they had seen, and never want to see another like it. Good clean films are enjoyable, but many of the so-called dramas are hardly fit subjects to put before the eyes of little children. — I am, etc., H.R.