| A Waukee school annual would be complete without
some mention made of our moving picture venture. In May of last year we
purchased a modern moving picture machine and almost continuously since,
on Saturday evenings, have given moving picture entertainments in the
gymnasium of the school. From a financial standpoint it has been a
success. The equipment has not only been paid for from the proceeds, but
it has added materially to our fund for playground equipment. Then it
has furnished clean entertainment for the community, for nothing of
questionable character has been permitted to appear on the screen. Book
reviews have been given from time to time to co-ordinate with the work
of the English classes. Among the above are: "A Tale of Two Cities,"
"Freckles," "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm," "Huckleberry Finn," "Les
Miserables," "Anne of Green Gables," "Little Women," "Evangeline." In
addition to these many of the finest pictures obtainable at any price
have been shown, including those by the following well-known moving
picture stars: Wallace Reid, Douglas Fairbanks, Chas. Ray, Mary Miles
Minter, Mary Pickford, George Beban, Wm. Farnum, Marie Osburn, Wanda
Hawley, Alice Brady, Constance Binney, June Caprice, Frank Keenan and
others. |
