The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1922-03-03
Children Tell Why
They Prefer Higher
Class of Pictures

From more than a hundred essay:
on the subject of What is my fav
orite picture and why | like it best
the editor of Maui News has been
called upon TO select three prize win
ners and ten other writer's whose eff
forts were worth consolation prizes
OF a Tree ticket to the movies. The
task was not an easy one for eight
or ten of the essays were almost
equally meritorious. Some had not
sent in their names with their articles
and some showed a manifest helping
at hon or from teachers.
The prizes offered were a months
attendance at their favorite theatre
free, two weeks freed attendance, one
week free attendance and a free ad-
mission to each of the next ten.
Prize Winners Selected
First prize goes to Peter Sequeira,
aged Is. of St. Anthony's School. He
prefers Paramount pictures because
he says they show the best and the
cleverest of screen actors and actress
es, enumerating several of them, and
he regards the plays of higher class
than other offerings and enumerates
a number of titles in support of his
assertion. The productions he con-
siders to be full of action and pep.
Second prize goes to Edgar Luke,
also of st. Anthony's, aged IA, be-
cause of the superior literary quality
of work though he selects one parti-
cular picture play, THE Girl From
Gods Country" instead of a type of
plays as was designed when the offer
was made. But he gives an excellent
criticism of the play which has won
his favor.
Third prize goes to Samuel zee of
Waikiki Public School who prefers
Pathe News, presents unanswerable
arguments in support of that prefer
ence and ends his essay with a well
drawn map of the world, the news of
which his favorite pictures
The other prizes, each a free ticket,
go to Tadayoishi Hirotsu. Violet
Thompson, Andrew Wilson, Apo
Wong, All Yen Lee, James T. Hirotsu,
Taichi Kondo, Solomon Kaumeheiwa,
Edythe Chun, Edward Wilson, Seichi
Y~atushiro.
Paramount Most Popular
Paramount pictures nave the call
among the young folk, the essays
show, with the Pathe and other news
weeklies next, then comedies and
then Fox pictures with not a child eX-
pressing a fondness for the serials.
They like the Paramounts because
of the merit of the actors and actress
es and the character of the plays.
The young Chinese-Americans go
strongly for the news weeklies which
ran the Paramounts a close race for
first in preference.
The sentiment common with grown
ups is seen in the children, Follow
the Crowd" where the largest at
tendance is, there must be the best,
and several support their preference
for Paramounts because the largest
attendances are on such nights. Others
condemn serials because many per
sons leave the theater when they are
produced. A few naively told of their
liking for comedies and one was a
Charlie Chaplin enthusiast.
Replies Contain Surprises
One cannot but see the effect of
what parents or teachers have said
about pictures of various classes and
wonder whether children have in some
instances been absolutely candid or
have based their essays on what has
been instilled in them at home or in
school. Several condemn serials as
trough" and vulgar and tending to
make children think of crime and
initiate criminals. If their views are
all their own, the average grown up
has not given the youngsters the
credit for thought, observation and
high sentiments displayed.