It Will Still Be the Same

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 13, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 2.

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It Will Still Be the Same

It Will Still Be the Same.—A short time ago we passed a café with a beautiful enticing front, but with a notorious reputation. Its malodor was such that in these liberal days it was forced by the authorities to close. Now the same proprietor and operator builds in the same place a theater and advertises it as a good, moral, unobjectionable family theater. Now what right has any one to expect that the theater will be better than the café? Yet, like other playhouses of its class, it will probably be patronized by respectable people who will let their children attend its moving-picture shows and afternoon matinees. But the same spirit will be there that was in the café.