ABSTRACT
Anything new is bound to be ridiculed by a certain section of the populace. Scoffers of this description declare that the cinematograph is only a passing phase, like roller-skating and ping-pong. As yet the cinematograph is in its infancy, and yet it has attracted at least eighty per cent, of pleasure-seeking people the world over. I should not like to say that every town is so infatuated with it as one I heard of in America, merely a hamlet of some twelve hundred inhabitants, which supports no less than four moving picture theatres, each holding three hundred people, and all four have the “House Full” boards up every night!
