Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1918 — Cinemas in Strange Places. [ARTICLE]

Cinemas in Strange Places.

In Moravia, the capital of the negro republic of Liberia, there is a cinema in the house of representatives. The pictures are shown on two evenings a week, and they are invariably attended by the president, whose presidential chair is set aside for him as a free seat. The “picture” craze has reached thef Arctic regions, for at Haparanza, ‘'a little township in the extreme north of Sweden, and just on the Arctic circle, there is a handsome little cinema, patronized by Laplanders. It is frequently snowed up and unable to open. The South Sea islands, another Inaccessible part of the globe, have likewise succumbed bo the lure of the “movies.” In the island of Tahiti there are no fewer than three cinemas. The South Sea islander will sell his shirt or his girdle for the price of a ticket for the “pictures.”