NOISE IN PICTURE THEATRES.

Evening Star, Issue 22414, 11 August 1936, Page 7

NOISE IN PICTURE THEATRES.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Is it not time that a restriction was put on the noise that is made in picture theatres during an afternoon’s performance? Some friends and I attended a theatre on Saturday afternoon, and the noise, both before and while the pictures were being screened was a disgrace. They say children are better trained now than they were a few years ago, but if Saturday’s noise was a sample of the decency and behaviour they are taught, I say it is a disgrace. If a young child cries the person in charge is asked to take it outside, yet ou several! occasions on Saturday the noise was terrific and nobody tried to quell it. Ignorance is very much to the front. Adults do not go to the pictures on a Saturday afternoon to listen to a hoard of Indian calls and fights among children; they go to enjoy themselves. I was struck on the face twice with darts made from photographs, and hit several times with pellets of paper shot from elastic bands. Cannot it be made clear to children that while waiting for the pictures to start they must behave themselves or be put out ? The noise can be lessened very much if the right people arc put in the job. One lady usher cannot do it, so let half a dozen men be put on and let them take the name and ■‘school a child attends and report to the head master. —I am, etc., Disgusted. August 10.