Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-09-15
ADULTS ARE WORRY
FOR MOVIE N|ATR0N
Official Under New Law
Finds Oldsters More
Trouble Than Children

New York, Sept. Is (AP)-Children
are easy to control; it's the adults
who are rambunctious in movie thea
tres, finds Mrs Eleanor Beale, New
FORKS first licensed movie matron"
"The boys will fight a little bit, Of
course, and the girls will giggle," she
said 'fbut that's nothing compared to
arguing with older people about why
they can't sit in the section reserved
for the children. We spend half our
time trying to explain the law to
adults and even then they go away
mad believing we have taken unfair
advantage of them.
The twenty-year-old ordinance pro-
hibiting children from entering New
York movie theaters unaccOmpanied
by adults was changed few weeks
ago to provide for special children's
sections in each movie theatre.
All children, under 16, unless on the
hand of a parent, are required to sit
in this section on the ground floor,
and are watched over by a licensed
matron who is solely responsible for
their conduct collectively and individ-
ually.
IL
a transatlantic liner, has been on her
new job two weeks now, and has seen
each of six movies six times. She used
to be quite a movie fan herself, but
now finds her cinema appreciation
slightly benumbed and is torn be-
tween desires to look at the pictures
and to look away in order to avoid
seeing the hero enfold the heroine
for the upteenth time.
But she's kept pretty busy usually,
she says, and lots of times will be
spared viewing film by trying 70
keep the boys clutching fingers off
the girls pigtails and the adults from
Pumping down in the verboten Sec
ton
would you believe it," she says,
there are patrons of our theatre who
have been coming regularly every aft
ernoOn for years and sitting in the
same seat. The bill is changed only
three times week, but that doesn't
seem to make any difference They
just seem to come because they like
to sit in the theatre
One of them Mrs. Beales refers to
as Pop" and the other as Uncle
Jake" and it was quite job getting
them to give up their accustomed
seats to the children. Every once in
a while when Mrs. Beales isn't look
ing, she says, they will sneak over
into the old seats and scrunch down
pretending they're children. Then
Mrs. Beales has to dislodge them, lee
ture them, and shoe them eff to the
grown-up side.
Then again there are some adults
who just love to hear the gay squeals
of little children during the tense mo-
ments of the film. These persons,
Mrs. Beales says, are mostly women
and want to sit in or near the chill
dren's sections just to enjoy the whist
les and stampings as the sheriff rides
off the stage coach bandits.
But all in all it's working out all
right. Mrs. Beales says, and the
adults are becoming educated to the
new system as we'll as could be ex-
pected. The only serious complaint
so far was from woman who Mrs
Beales accused of being under 49,
and told to get on over into the chill
dren's section.
The woman did all right, protesting,
but the next day brought around her
marriage certificate and her child's
birth certificate. Mrs. Beales lets
her sit on the grownup side now.
Movie preferences of children
haven't changed much since she was
a girl, Mrs. Beales finds The boys
still like "cop and robber" or west
ern films and the girls seem to en-
JOY little heart interest with their