Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-02-13
ASSERTS PARENTS SHOULD CONTROL
 THEIR CHILDREN
Miss Rose I:apley, Moving Picture Star, Talks Com
 mon Sense to Pine Bluff.

Apparently unaware that one of Pine Bluffs favorite indoor and out door sports is passing the buck" Miss Rose Tapley, widely known mov- ing picture star, yesterday urged the women of Pine Bluff to patronize only good and decent picture show per- formances, to remain away from vampire" and other such plays. and to demonstrate that they have con- trol over their own children, by keep Ing the children away from plays that were written for adults and mature persons
 i Miss Tapley made 9 short talk at the Best theatre during the after noon, and there was fair crov q present. She made a talk ais. to q gathering Of club women, in the parlors Of the Hotel Pines. ani; On each occasion her remarks were heard with evident interest and close attention. She made virtually the same address. at coth places. | Miss Tapely indicated plainly, and said in so many words, that the pro- ducing companies will produce just such plays as the public demands. If decent pictures are financially unsuc- cessful. and the "namby- pamby" and vampire" plays bring profits, neces- sarily these latter classes will be pro- duced in greater number. In movie plays as in other things, what the people want, they will get she said.
 In this connection, Mss Tapley urged that if q woman had attended a vampire" play, and should meet woman friend, she should not say ''My dear, t was perfectly awful, ter rible. You ought to see it." because such criticism invariably will mean q packed house. Rather, urged the speaker, should the woman tell her seeing, not worth the admission price.
 Touching on the idea that because and so regularly, the class of plays should be "tempered' to suit their inn mature minds. Miss Tapley said the great majority of pictures are not written for children to see.
 Shakespeare did not write his poems or his plays for children" she said. "But doubtless quite a number of children have read them. Yet who would urge that Shakespeare's works be forbidden? Careful parents see to 1t that the children do not have op- portunity to read such works, and careful parents will see to it that their children do not get to see mov- ing picture plays intended only for mature minds"
 Miss Tapley expressed the opinion that parents are too negligent these days as to The whereabouts and habits of their children, and indicate their own inability to control their chil- dren, by trying to have moving pie ture producers and exhibitors change their entire plan of operations. She gave the inference that Friday even- ings and Saturdays gave the chil- dren ample opportunitJ to see movie shows, and that the children should be attending school york or other erch matters the other days of the week
 of you mothers and fathers will 600 that vour children attend the moving picture shows Friday even ings and Saturdays. you will find tha, the picture show managers will pre- sent the sort of shows the children should witness, shows to which you will have no objection, yet shows which the children will enjoy and which will be instructive to them"
 Local picture show managers last night indicated that they We're in full agreement with the remarks of Miss Tapley. who. though making tour Of the country in behalf of one par ticular producing company. said that she is speaking for all the producers. as we'll she hoped, as for all the local exhibitors.