Many an adult New Yorker remembers when he used to stand on tiptoe so as to look tall when buying tickets to the movies, lie to suspicious doormen who asked: "Are you over 16?" New York City fortnight ago lifted the ban which prohibited children under 16 from entering cinemansions unless accompanied by adults. Last week theatre-owners there were busy arranging machinery to comply with a new law whereby most peewees can hereafter attend cinemansions without subterfuge.
Originally designed to keep minors out of saloons, and extended to cinema theatres when these were...