The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-28
MAKING PICTURES FOR BROADWAY
AND MAIN STREET

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reception of the motion picture, Little
Women" by the public, "a Tribute to HoI-
Ivwood" This is proving to be one OF the
most popular pictures ever filmed and as a
drawing card throughout the country i
stands at the top. 1t is said that 100000
persons saw the picture at Radio City
Music Halllin New York during the three
weeks thespicture was exhibited there and
that it has attracted the largest crowds
everl seen at the picture shows in many
cities of the country. Presented at the
Carolina Theatre in HenderSonville Mon
day and Tuesday of this week, Little
Women" was seen by the largest crowds
that have visited this house during the Fall
and Winter. In fact, according to Manager
Buchanan, the attendance at the Carolina
for the two days was almost double the
attendance at the exhibition of any other
picture during that period.
The editorial comment of The Christian
Science Monitor on Little Women" sums
up the ,pubhcs reception and opinion Ct
the picture as 1OIlOWS:
Once in . while there dawns upon the horizon
of flmdom a motion picture of real excellence. It
is like an oasis in the desert of mediocrity. L.
numbers among its audiences not only the regular
'niove2-fan, but those well who unattracted
by,the, general run of the Hollywood product Such
a film is Little Women whose popularity is writ
ten in long, waiting lines, and in steadily mounting
box office. receipts.
Yet the producers have been saying that the
public wants sex dramas, murders and mysteries,
and gangStar stories. The we-known story of the
March family by Louisa May Alcott is built upon
none of these themes and yet it promises to be
enc of the biggest film successes of the year. 1t is
the only picture that boast of a run of three
weeks at Radio City Music Hall In Boston it has
broken all records for box office receipts and length
of showing for a single film at the theatre where
it i being, shown.
There are thousands who patronize the movies"
regularly because they give inexpensive form OF
Observation-Disclosures to 60 They accept the
picture which is handed out to them as a matter
of course. It's subject is of minor Importance, ard
the same may be said of the opinion of its audi
ence so far as it indicates any real manifestation
of pablo opinion or taste. But there are many
other thousands who do not visit moving picture
theaters unless offered something worth while, and
when these added to the regular attendance,
then has the public indicated what really likes
By Little Women" we are well reminded of a
period Of simpler living toward which we have been
forced to turn again, and also to be considered j.;
the fact that this film will present to foreign audi
ences more representative picture of American
life than is portrayed in the usual. superficial
movie For nation truly to understand an
other its customs and it's people must be accurate
~ interpreted, and the motion picture can do much
IN this direction, little Films which depict the
underworld crime the frothy glitter of night
life, all of which compose such small part of the
real America, certainly are not striking the right
keynote Little Women" with it's simple home
ly theme, should do much to correct these misrep-
RESERVATIONS,
And surely the American public, in it's enthusi-
astie reception of this wholesome picture, has de-
eisively cast its vote for deal in films
La the words of Manager Buchanan of
the Carolina, Little Women" is Main
Street picture which has been as we'll re-
ceiyed on'Broadway as in the smaller cities
and towns of the country His views of the
picture business for the past several years
may be summed up in the statement that
the producers have been making pictures
for Broadway instead of Main Street, the
latter street being the typical small town
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