The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-05-19
MARY, NORMA AND
/. CONSTANCE ARE
VOTED FAvOR|TESe
High School Students Make
Out Lists of Players They
Like the Best.
RARY PICKFORD, Norma Tall
M madge and Constance Talk
q - made are among high school

n H AIRY PlCkFORD, Norma Tala
M madge and Constance Tall
made are among high school
students the most popular motion piO-
ture actresses in the United Statess
according to a report just made pubs
lie by Clarence Arthur Perry, ohairS
man of the national committee fog
better films of New York City.
It is interesting to note that for the
first time in the history of the stage
or screen two sisters-Norma ana
Constance TaImadge share the
heights of popular favor. This dis
closes the fact that Constance Is the
best-hked actress classed as a come
dienne in motion pictures.
The late Wallace Reid was the fa+
vorite actor, according to the vote Of
both sexes, followed by Rudolph ValS
entino and Douglas Fairbanks With
the boys. Douglas Fairbanks stood
first: Charlie Chaplin was seventh on
the list and led all screen comedians
closely followed by Harold Lloyd. With
the girls. Richard Barthelmess ran
next to Rudolph Valentino and Wal%
lace Reid, and ahead of Douglas Fair
banks.
These preferences are based upon
the returns to questionable which
was filed out by 1900 boys ana
20 900 girls in the high schools Of
seventy-six cities and towns. All
sections Of the country from Mains
to California and from Minnesota tn
Texas are represented, the large cities
as we'll as the towns and villages.
The QUESTIONABLE. submitted IN
May. 1922, which has taken a full
year TO tabulate. covered the tastes
and habits Of young people respecting
attendance at movies more completely
than has heretofore been attempted,
and altogether the study is the most
comprehensive of its kind that has
ever been brought to a successful
conclusion. It has been made posi-
BILE by the cooperative efforts Of the
national committee for better films.
the Russell Sage Foundation and As
ISOLATION First National Pictures, Inc.
Returns Also Show
Average Movie Attendance
The returns show that high school
boys attend the movies on an aver
age Of 124 times a week while the
girls go l .06 times Among the boys
SO per cent and of the girls IS per
cent do not attend oftener than twice
a week, and those who go oftener
than four times a week reach only
twenty-six ont of I 900 boys and only
nine out of the same number Of girls.
Both sexes attend slightly more often
in the second year Of school life than
they did the first, but their attend
ance falls off progressively in the
third and fourth years.
As to the kinds of pictures liked
the bows uniformly preferred the west
ern and frontier. comedy and detective
types of photoplay, while the girlsA
with equal decisiveness, stated a prefV
erence for love stories, comedies and
society life Both put tragedies and
serials at the bottom. The boys give
fourth and fifth places in their appre-
cation to love stories and society life
lust where the girls rank the from
tier and detective screen plays
As the young people grow older
there is an interesting change in
their tastes. The boys show an In
creasing interest in love stories and
an almost equal growth in their hk-
ing for society life. while the lure OF
the frontier and the detective films
gradually abates. The girls interest
in love stories and society life like
wise increases with the years, but
not to the same degree. Both sexes
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