The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-14
SCHOOL KIDDIES
GWEN LESSONS
BY THE MOVIES
First Experiment In Big Edu-
cational Project Proves
Success
1,500 CHILDREN IN
WASHINGTON THEATER
Plan Will Be Continued Every
Saturday Morning For Sew
eral Weeks

| Fifteen hundred children. from the
fourth to. eighth grades inclusive
from four city schools. stamped
whistled. clapped their hands and
laughed In childish giee In the Wash
ington theater, Saturday morning, al
the frst of series OF free education
al moving picture exhibitions to be
given for the school children Of De
troit, under the auspices Of the moral
welfare committee OF the Political
and Civic league.
Several reels Of pictures, one de
picting various types OF animals not
Indigenous to the United States, two
travel themes, one Of scenes In the
European theater Of war, and one on
Safety First" were shown. Almost
all we're explained by speakers as
they were exhibited. the explanatory
matter being given by DR.. Charles e
/ Chadsey, superintendent Of public
schools; Prof. Walker, Of Cass Tech
meal high school, and Louis Rosen
berg, a former consul In Spain.
Mayor Marx arrived near the close
OF the entertainment and delivered q
short address to the children.
Saturdays exhibition, which was In
the nature Of test of the educational
value of the moving picture, was more
than a success, according to leaders
! In the league. Pictures are barred
from the local schools because of the
state law against the exhibition OF
films on the second floors Of any
structure.
Charles B, Warren, president Of the
Board OF Commerce; Judge Hubert
of the juvenile court: Ira w. Jayne
OF the Children's Aid society; Judge
| Connolly, of the recorders court, and
James Couzens, of the Ford Motor
| Co.. are to appear on some OF the
following programs.
Mrs Robert Beattie obtained auto
mobiles to bring pupils from the
! school for crippled children to thf
exhibition, and they were carried from
the machines to their places in the
theater by volunteers from the De
troit College OF Law Machines we're
furnished by Mrs. A. o. Dunk, Mrs
Frederick .Stearns, Mrs. A. T. Nal
comson, Mrs. George McMann, w. 8
Pocock, C.. j. Netting. Judge Jeffries
Ira w Jayne, DR.. Robert Beattie, ant
others.
Eleven OF the Campfire Girls of the
First Presbyterian church, in charge
of Mrs Grayson, acted as ushers. A
J. Gillingham donated the educational
films which were used In the exhibit
ton.
II think this is splendid idea,
said Dr. Chadsey, when asked wha1
he thought Of the plan. "One needs
only to look at those youngsters ou'
there. many Of whom have never beer
inside theater In their lives, Il
know that it's q success. We NIGH
have such exhibitions In our schools
/ IL II we're not for the state law pro
hibiting Il. II seems foolish, too, be
cause the law Is designed for FIRE pro
lection and they wont allow us u
show them In the schools because
OF the diflculty OF egress IN case o.
FIRE. but they'll allow persons to si
In the second and third galleries In
a place like this"
The use OF the theater is given free
by the management
The exhibitions viii be q regular
Saturday morning event for the nex
eight weeks at least An effort will
be made to reach the pupils of al
schools In the city by that time.