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expressed regret at the Italian decision, which he con- sidered the wrong principle on which to proceed. And doubtless he would also regard anything in the nature of retaliation
The growing prevalence of wholly unsound in principle. highway robbery and of bag-
snatching, often accompanied by
acts of violence to the victim, Genie Ruggles presents a serious problem, for,
as
by its very nature, this type of It has lately been rumoured, crime is practically removed that the prospects for one more from the preventive side of of Britain's exports are looking police work. Without the fullest up. The market abroad for co-operation of the public, which genuine old English butlers has experience suggests is demand-become "very firm.' Even if ing more of the average Chinese bids be high, there must be a than his limited sense of duty doubt as to whether supply will will allow, the police are virtually come forward to meet demand helpless in their efforts to com- For Ruggles is usually averse to bat it. The snatch-thief chooses travel. As an Admirable Crich- the time and place, and it is ton he can, of course, rise to any usually at a point where he can occasion; but nevertheless, he is quickly lose himself in a warren well aware that, strictly speak- of streets and lanes unless hue-ing, he is not adaptable. It is, and-cry is swift upon his heels. one may surmise, precisely the That, however, is but one side trait that enhances his value as of the problem. For all the dif- an export.
ficulties that oppose the police in He throws back the tent-flap their efforts to meet it, bag-to announce that "dinner is snatching is among the most served" in the desert, with an hazardous of crimes. Only the air an air not..native to the most desperate of men resort to wide open spaces, but redolent of it. And they are usually the Town, and the Shires. An air? amateurs, desperate in every A whole atmosphere to charm sense of the term. Few, if any, those whose hearts incline, for hardened criminals turn to whatever reason, toward the snatching as a profession
English scene. To them Ruggles
It has its origins, in fact, al- is a dignified genie evoking the most wholly in economic hard-distant setting with a single ship and distress, just as do gesture.
most other of the misdemeanours
that have resulted in the last
few years in such an over- All In Colour crowding of Hong Kong's pri- sons that many sentenced men Mr. Sam Goldwyn, the film are released before their time, to magnate, recently announced make room for newcomers. that henceforth United Artists, With many of those who come whose activities he controls, will accused before our Magistrates, make all their films in colour. to be sent to prison more often Mr. Goldwyn is credited with than not, it is difficult to avoid a making the move at this moment strong feeling of sympathy-partly in order to anticipate the Under present conditions, unfor- onward march of television. A tunately, no alternative to gaol public that has feasted on films appears to offer itself. In spite of in colour will, he thinks, find for because of which, the under-black-and-white television dull by lying circumstances are worthy comparison. What is certain is of study. A system which tends that every development of the to create criminals surely stands film towards naturalistic repro- itself condemned.
Mission Schools
duction and the presentation of objects in the round will doubtless soon be added to colour takes it farther from the hope of developing as a separate art The existence of & strong form. It was the silent film Italian Mission in Hong Kong that in the hands of its great lends more than ordinary inter-directors proved itself much est to the result of the British more than moving pictures. But. Government's efforts to bring if the day comes when the film about a change in Italian policy can, copy nature accurately its in the Abyssinian. mission field. devices will seemmere intru- British missions having long sions. Having learned to repro- maintained scholastic institutions duce faultlessly, it may well find in Ethiopia were recently order-itself compelled to đó nothing
leave and have been for- else
ed