Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-09-14
DAY
MOVIE WORKERS
INSPECT FILMS
Leaders in Move for Weekly
Treat for Youngsters See
First Offering

The first step in HonoIulu's latest
endeavor for the ehildren--to enhance
their educational advantages by pro-
yiding better molten pictures-is this
afternoon when a few interested lead
ers will be guests CT C.. A. ,Pedrick at
the Liberty tneater TO criticize a run
OF Of the program which he proposes
to offer at 80 Friday afternoon as
the initial program for children.
There may be a few bumps in Ka-
lakaua avenue and some persistent
wrinkles in the city administration,
but when ii comes to children, Homo
lniu takes a second to none and jumps
at any chance to better their environ
ments or living conditions. Started
only two weeks ago the movement
which has not yet been named, but
which might well bear the title Bet
ter Movies for Children, has attract
ed members of the smart set to its
standard as well as literary people
and educational leaders with any num-.
Der of anxious mothers in its wake.
This afternoon marks the first real
accomplishment OF their efforts.
Mrs. =. j. Lindeman, Originator
The new scheme for the children
was started by Mrs. F, ]. Lindeman,
and many more have taken up the
cause to carry along the good work.
Among these has been Mrs. F. r. Day,
who says of the movement that it is
simply plan TO inculcate in oil chill
dren desire for the higher, cleaner
and more instructive kinds Of motion
pictures This she says must be done
gradually, as many children have ac-
quired a fondness for some OF the
lowest forms OF screen plays that will
be hard to undermine.
The Liberty theater viii cooperate
with the women in their endeayor, &C
cording to Manager Pedrick, trying to
give the women what they want To-
allow free censorship he has invited
them to see the pictures this afternoon
and to freely criticize his offering.
"The women have fine idea" Ped
rick says, "and believe it can be made
a mental as well as a financial sue
cess If properly encouraged. know
that there are hundreds Of children
in Honolulu today whose parents win
not allow them to go to the picture
shows for fear of corrupting or con-
torting their young minds. don't
blame them especially and I am sure
that the movie going crowds will
grow larger instead Of smaller when
we consistently show here the kind of
pictures the women want."
Mrs. Day Going to Mainland
Friday afternoons from 2::30 to 4:30
have been set aside for the children
for the next few weeks to try ont the
new plan, and during that time Ped
rick expects to show several pictures
Of an instructive and Clearly nature. |
Mrs Day is working with him in this
matter, and when she goes East next |
week for six-month visit, one of her |
main interests will be obtaining names |
Of suitable pictures for children and
Pedrick and the local peo
pie of them.
The tentative program to be shown
at the Liberty this afternoon is the
Pathe Weekly news, Is minutes of |
the popular animated cartoons, Par
amount trayelog Of South America, a
Sunny Jim" comedy and three-reel
drama.
Admission to the Friday afternoon
shows will be fixed at 10 and Is cents,
but workers in the new movement in.
tend to arrange many ways whereby
boys and girls who cannot afford tick.
cts may earn them.
A partial list of those most interest
I'd in the Children's Day program who
ire expected to be present at the Lib
srty this afternoon, besides Mrs. Lin.
leman and Mrs. Day, are Mesdames
:. Montague Cooke, Jr., Clifford Kim
,all, Albert Horner, F. F. Hedemann,
William Ault, z. d. Kilbourne, Clar
,nce Cooke, Thomas Church, w. ].
Forbes, Georg Rodiek, Archibald
Young, Robert Levers, Carl Du Roi,
Theodore Richards, William Single
lurst, E. A. Mott-Smith. w. r. Far.
'ington, A. C. Alexander, A. ]. Camp
,eH, Frederick w. Klebahn, Miss Nora
swanzy, Miss Harriet Hatch and many
'thers "<E