HOSTILITY TO CINEMA

Taranaki Daily News, 7 January 1927, Page 5

HOSTILITY TO CINEMA

HEADMASTER’S CONDEMNATION. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. London, Jan. 5. “Tho commercial cinema depends on the ability to attract the largest possible number of silly people in their silliest moments. I would not like to bo a shareholder in Hollywood on the Day, of Judgment,” said Mr. R. F. Cholmley in his presidential address to the Headmasters’ Association. “The chief victims of the industry are, the immature mir.de of western children and the minds of some immature and some dangerously precocious of the inferior races. “The cinema is typical of everything deserving our most vigilant hostility as protectors of the young. Any business, except educational, of exploiting children, is at best liable to lower the standard in order to extend the market, and at tho worst is an enemy of the human race. I believe it can be defeated, as education is improving.”