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DIARY OF LOCAL WHAT CHILDREN LIKE
EVENTS.
TODAY.
April 1)
John Ambulanse Flag Day. Lammert's Sale of "Roselin oceries, Sales Room, 10 30 n.m. Humphroga Estate & Finance Co., Mooting, Hong Kong Hotel, 11.30
Yacht Club closing cruise and. Rowing Interport.
Cricket:-First, Division: Indlan R.C... Kowloon: Second Division: Kowloon v. IRC
Charity Football Matches, Club ground, 3 p.m. and 4,30 p.m.
Charity Concert In Aid of Shang- Thai Relief Fund, St. Pauli College,
-8.p.m.
BOYS
AT THE CINEMA.
Adventure, far and Crooks
CIRLS
Romance and Love Stories
Haig
BORED BY "ADULTS ONLY" FILMS.
Remarkable facts dealing with the visits of London schoolchildren to cinemas, their preferences among the different classes of Blms, and the moral and physical effects on them are disclosed in a report published by the L.C.C.
The report, by Dr. F. E. Span gor, the Council's chief in
inspector, is based on an inquiry among
Annual Ball of Craigongower 41,280 children, between 3 and 34 Cricket Club.
Central Theatre: "Seed:" King's Theatre : "Confessions of Co-ed.""
Queen's Theatre: "Alibi."" World Theatre; ***White Shadows"
Stur Theatre: "Say It With Songs."
Too Dances at King's Restaurant and Hong Kong Hotel Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, Repulse Bay Hotel. Peninsula Hotel and King's Restaurant.
uropean Mails --Iowarda Europe
Buer (Hossa) burope via Sues (Suwa Maru); Europe vin Suez (Antenor); Out- Ward: Europa vin Suez (Kashima Maru) 930 a.m.; Europe vic. Suer (Burdwan) 10.30 a.m.; Europe via Siberia (Cange) & p.00..
SUNDAY,
(April 3.) First Sunday After Easter.. Low, Sunday.
Farewal Servico, Bishop of Vio toria at St. John's Cathedral, 11.
a.m.
Cricket: Volunteers United Services (Navy ground) 11 a.m.
Queen's Theatri: "The Secret
Six.
King'a. Susie."
Theatre: Sunshine
Central Theatre: "Seed.", World Theatro: "The Heroins "
(Chinese film)
Star Theatre: "Men of the North."
Ten. Danecs at King's Restaurant: and Repulse Bay Hotel.
years of age, in all parts of Lon- don. Its principal points are:
Attendance. Out of every hundred children:.
Nine go to the cinema, twice a week:
Thirty go once a week; Forty-eight go at irregular in- tervals and
Thirteen never go,
Of the children under five, 63 in
every hundred-go-to the cinema, thirty weekly, and seven twigs a week. The commonest time la Saturday afternoon, when specia! children's performances are given
But many children attend or“. 'dinary" performances, and it de quite common for them to sce A films, licensed for adults only.
UP TO 58, 91, FOR A SEAT.
Payment. Most children pay from 30 or 4d to sd or ad for ad-
mission.
But children from an Eastend, school go not infrequently, usual ly cinemas, paying from. 2d to
33.9d.:
The income of the parent does not greatly affect the percentage, of attendance.
Preferences. The children's pre- ferences are given as follows:
1. Cowboy Films.-Populär at all ages, but more popular with boys than girls, and with younger
than older children.
2. "War and Adventure.-Very
3.Mystery "Dotrutive," or "Brook" Films-Very popular with boys, and popular, but to a less extent, among girls,"
4. Comedy or Farac:--Not very popular with children of 11-14, though they like the comic ele ment in detective or adventure Als
BOYS DISLIKE ROMANCE
Topical, Nature, Traval, Animal Filma-Seldom high in the order of preference, and some- times are definitely placed last. Such films are relatively unpo" pular..
where, as in the commer sial picture house, they are shown aide by side.. with sensation or ad venture.
6. Romance" or Love A Stories Definitely disliked by the boys, but frequently placed high in the order of preference by girls from 1 to 14.
7Talkies. Preferred to sijent Alms, and English talkien to American talkies-
"* EVIL NEVER“ PAYS.”? ..
Moral Effect.There is no need for serious alarm," says the report. ""The film is no worse than the old
time blood,' universally read by the boys only a few years ago, and no more falsely sentimental than many of the feminine equivalents of the blood: Evil, on the films, never pays
"The morally questionable elt, ment in films for adults only is ignored by children, who are bored by it.
"The ono distinct evil is the fear and bad dreams caused by fims depicting acts of violence.":
The cinema, it is declared, can lio. an effective instrument for enlarg ing the children's experience, and for giving clearcut knowledge of certain kinds. Notwithstanding the
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those between 8 and 10 War phrases, the general effect of the
with girls, but adventure almi are child is slight. popular,
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