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THE CHILD AND THE CINEMA.
SOME ASTONISHING REACTIONS.
PUNISHMENT FOR "ROOD" PICTURES.
the subject of more attention, per- haps, than any other proniem of modern fc.
And the Birming- ham Cinema Inquiry Committee, after a year's investigation, claim to have found the answer.
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HORSE KEPT IN BIG SWEEP RACE. Misplaced zeal and the faith of racehorse recently placed an owner antable-boy in the capabilities of a in an awkward predicament.
TELEGRAP ́§.~ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1931.
WOMAN'S OCEAN LOVE DRAMA,
LINER SHOOTING
AFTER
DANCE.
An ocean love drama in bellaved to be the explanation of the shoot- Montilla, ul Euxin skull; 38,Drikliosacrarding to the bookmakers' lists wounded in her cabin in the motor ing of Miss Phoebe Sorel, a well. The horse was Rivalry, which to-da American who What are the reactions to the or who were personally known to
Luf, vul which only those with tickets, had only a 100-to-1 chance of winner Asturias on its arrival off Was found cinema of the rising generation?
n'ar the Manchester November Cherbourg from South America. This absorbing question has been very, were anmuted,
Jandicap The owner in Mr. R. Mr. C. B. Carryer, of Leicester, Clifford, of the Dower House. New.tween life and death in n South- Miss Sorel, who in 35, lies he who provided, sad tone by in a ind employed by Captain is in Park-lane, Donglaston, Long had been camed Ducative less phe Macnee, the trainer, of Lambourn. Island, New
buy, Berkshire, and the stable ampton nursing home. Her homo Bulls fets that spey ought to have, are voice in the noche.j's man.ge-
York. She is a fre Berkshire. ment. -
quent visitor to London. Mr. Clifford had given instruc-
A friend of hers,
who Mra. Herbert proposed the first out of the November Handicap and her father being Greek and her of the resolutions
Lon that Rivalry was to be struck
F "Mies Sore! tu te ugenua, when urged
born in Paris, Bould do presemed in a muen niere Laut the UCCOUNTA
run in the Farewell landicap at mother French. While atil decated and comprehensive
the same Manchester meeting beyoun girl he became and that the expenditure on each
gattte, why he considered his mare designer in Par'e, and afterward
adrest had an excellent chance of winning activity of the y
went to New York, where she mada given separately and fully dad hances of getting even a place in
atter res.
he thought In fortune.
Farewell Party.
Was
This Committee, which formed to collect suficient evi- dence to lay before the Home Secretary with a view to persuad- ing him that some drastic change in the fim censorship was desir ablo, have come to the conclusion after a year's deliberations that the cinema is an instrument of
incalculable · `and irreparable
harm."
They base their opinion upon replies to a questionnaire. These have been received from schools in every part of Birmingham. Quite apart from the. somewhat ninem.. ing construction which the Com. mittee place upon the results, the replies are interesting without humour.
and
SA
"We fultat pics or more
Heroert,
mation," said Mrs.
site reserred to different items in the acelled Wine and
to her rather extraordinary,
Bank Overdraft.
Q
the big race were 1,000 to 1.
Stable-boy's Letter.
Asturias with her, stated in the
Was
"When not travelling on busi- nesa, she lives th New York, and has a wide circle of friends an. client:"
The stable-boy, however, p parently thought differently, Cor,
Anoter fellow-passenger anid: o Mr. Cifford d-clares, he wrot
"When it was suggested, as wo o a number of holder of Rivalry neared Cherbourg, that we soul.i "I wonder if you have this item, interest on bank over-rting that he thought it had
noticed tickets in the Irish Sweepstakes n
have
farewell dance, Miss Sorel draft, £150, she said. "A con- chance of winning the big race if
why among the first to agree.
"The party went dighilly, not, siderable sum of money, and you only Mr. Clifford would let it run. After the dance Mirs Sorel wake
cuta do a great deal with it. Was it necessary for the society, with a stable-boy wrote
One of the persons to whom the troubled, and asked to see a mi- about the deck, apparently a little of money, to go to a flinton, who
was Mr. Roland Lual friend. As it was then 12.30 bank had borrow money?"
with four other a.m., she was advised to wait une i A vore: Disgruerfil.
m'ners of Conisbrough, near Don the morning to see him. enster, holds a Rivalry ticket. Another item quoted by Mrs. his letter to Mr. Hinton the stable-about half an hour later one of Herbert was, "Fing day, cost of
"She returned to her cabin, and £160. supples, EzO0;
boy says, referring to the horse: the crew heard moans, anotet realised,
He knoc
To the question, "Why do you like going to the cinema? the replies must be a little disheartening to the managements. "Something to do in wet weather."
"His change from the street."
"Be- cause you can sit up late," are a few examples,
A Vain Search?
354
The solution whereupon Lady Cory moved un-
earried,ļa One NJE gentleman of oder caing for the runes of tar stands out above the rest. He neciety to In added to "so as to confines his reason to twn words, give the body of memicors more in- "For benaty." He does not ade itence in the work of the society. whether he finds it.
with the object of adding to s
defery and energy."
Whatever indications of depra- vity the Committee may find in! the replies of the children, the film industry should at least find, same food for thought.
"
suggested
One rule which she was "tuat in the annual report a detailed account of any campaign of propagandha dene by the society dusantara hould be given. maining towas
ind
country
"Actresses," declares une young- Ater, do not wear enough clothes,"
lae visited, asid what terms of The moral tone, of the young of
ruelty were worked again-1 aft Birmingham seins to be high.
used by the lecturers in dif think that men or women who put, ferent places," the "rond" pictares ought to be f Her
Persoon
for suggesting this put in prison," adds another. This rule, said Lady Cory, Was that she condemnation of "rood" pictures had had many letters from men. finds a prominent place in the re-r and keen animal lovers asking plies
why nothing was done in the way Suggestions for the improve"atrocities," and concerning
of propaganda against slag-hunting ment of the "pictures" range from forming a
per- animals. the plea (almost a prayer), " 1 be cheaper to go in," to "If the as was another. proposed by Mrs. This resolution was also carried, bit of bad was knocked out it Philip Scott. would make no difference to money when a resolution for the annual which urged that, as the people would covie just the meeting was rejected by the council same." Other suggestions in- clude. "More nows."
being inadmissible on "Leave out grounds a copy of the legal opinion legal murders," and "More Comica."
should be forwarded to the proposer of the resolution.
A cry from the heart, which one feels has many echoes, comes from a boy aged twelve. "Don't let them talk the American language." Another vain secker for beauty.
Leading Questions,
A great deal of the report is devoted to the effact which, chil- dren Bay, various types of film
114
21 YEARS AGO.
SOME EXTRACTS FROM THE "TELEGRAPH" FILES.
The following extracts are from
have apen them. One feels that the Hongkong Telegraph for the they would be rather more valu-week enited Decoralier 31st, 1910. able if the questions had been less
of the "lending" variety.
Da
the pictures keep you from sleep ing afterwards?" for instance, has obviously Inspired the kind of an- many children considered they were expected to make.
swer
Many of them seem to have 'gane out of their way to describe the horrors of sleepless nights follow- Ing a visit to the cinema. Never- theless, through them all runs an honest attempt to describe the
nervous excitement aroused in young minds by films of "horror,"
An interesting question was. "What have you learned from the pictures?" Many claim to have
and was 19. 10.3/16d.
The rate of the dollar en dc
*
tary of a former Governor, was Lieut. A. Machado, private accre. appointed Governor of Macao,
appointed
Sir Henry May was Governor of Fiji.
The death occurred at
Captain Warrack, of the China sea of Navigation Company,
Mr. A. F. Churchill was appoint- ed First Assistant Director of the PW.D.
Mr. CHFord says he would her run in the big race if he had sound offer to do so. U would Recept £50. running expenses and
#ARZIATENGINES JETH; EXPSENETE POZUBJEKTKOSA EZKERIZELAIATZALENTINOAMERICA
"TELEGRAPH" ART SUCTLEMENT.
Varied Pictured on
There will be a variri alis play Lopital HexMeS
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ini
Amongal spoiling events covers will we tac Fang
LIES, 1.12 Letts tournament AL Cd the nockey matta bre tween Hongkong ladies and the R.A.M.C.. the Tootball mater between Hongkong and Canton Chinese teams, and the Rugby game between Kowioun and the Hermes.
The funeral of the late P. C. Moree will be Hustrated. whilst other pictures will in- clude group taken at the R.A.0.C. enildren's
concert
party and the German Christ- mas play.
Several other photographs will go to make up an attrac- tive issue.
10 per cent. of the prize money In a sweep ticket.
Will you maku him an offer?
it would mean your paying £50 to have a chance of winding one of the big prizes less 10 per cent., but otherwise he will not run.
police, but Mr. Clifford disclosed Mr. Hinton regarded the letter as a "fake", and showed it to the that the stable-boy, “in an excess of 2eal," had apparently written to a number of ticket holders.
wer, looked inside. Then he saw ed at her door, and getting no a^2- her on the floor, with a p'stof bo side ber. Bui nobody heard te shooting,"
Detectives' Watch. When the Finer reached South- ampton Mss Soref was rushed to a nursing home.
Detectives are waiting at the nursing home in the hope that she will be able to make a statemen but t ge or she has murmurel only ncoherent words at intervals.
Mies Sorela cabin
has been ocke | and sealed, and her per unal property, including valuable ewellery, has been examined in an attempt to trace her relatives,
Bet-Sergt. Hill, of Southamp tou, has taken statements from temera and members of the "rew, including an officer who is said to have been friendly with Miss Sorel
THE TRAMCAR. PHILOSOPHER.
(Continued Iram Poge 6)
often interesting, and his expres- Biop of them always entertaining. Back to Eden
came
Some time ago I happened to hourd a tramear at an hour when few people were homeward bound, and had the top deck all to myself. The conductor whistling the "Last Rose of Sum- upstairs her, with variations of his own. He stood beside me while I fumblert ticket without for coppers, and handed ine my a word. But he seemed loath to leave, and I sensed
hat he was sizing me up.
confidential way as if nil the world Suddenly he leaned over me in a might be listening and must not overhear.
"I've been thinking things," he
think of them. said with a self-conscious smile, and I'd like to know what you Take Adain and Eve,
now. Their sin was having entidren before the world
endly for them. There wasn't food SULLY for them, or clothes, nor shelter. "It was my very definite inten-You see what I mean, sir? run the mare in the tian," said Atr. Clifford, "not to November Handicap.
£5,000 if Mare Won. "Then I received a cable from Australia from a holder out there saying that I was aweep ticket
learned much of value, as un-SINO-JAPANESE CLASH. on to £5.000 if the mare won the big
doubtedly they have.
History,
of other
what is going on in the world, cus- toms, and the scenery lunde, about "desserts and adven- turious people," Others claim to have
learned American slang how
the rich live, how to be "chivalrus;" how to shoot from the pocket: how to "strangel," and how to kies. Such are among the pearls of learning passed on to
them from the screen.
Shades of Ovid!
One young man has discovered how to love
and murder peonie
at the same time," while one child
ARMOURED TRAIN FIRED UPON.
Peking, Dec. 23.
race. This was followed by a visit
from a Landon man who had also a Rivalry ticket, and he told me about the stable-boy's letter.
"I told him that I knew nothing Local headquarters state that dur. about that letter, and certainly had ing the night the Japanese fired on
not made the suggestion contained a Chinese armoured train at Tien-it. The man pointed out that chuantan, ten miles westward of very great difference to him and the is the mare ran it would make a Yingkow
The Chinese returned the fire,agreed to let her take her chance.
other ticket holders, and eventually and fighting was still proceeding Rivalry ran and failed to get # timtplace.
this afternoon.
Headquarters point out trains, bence this cannot be classe bund.ts do not possess armoured
Reuter
of twelve sums up his whole ex- the suppression of banditry.
perience in the words, "Nothing
Operations Conclude.
at all except the art of love."
Out the vast weight of evi- dence which may well be used against the cinema as a result of the Committee's notivities, ono
Tokyo, Dec. 23. Press despatches report that the effect of the screen upon the young majority of the Japanese troops, of Birmingham stands out, chalieng-after three days' operations against ing the support of all parents and bandito, have returned to the South guardians. "Pictures," writes the Manchuria Railway zone.-Reuter. author, aged oleven, "affects chil- dren in a good way,
It teaches them to be quiet when anybody is talking."**
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HERR HITLER HURT.
NARROW ESCAPE IN MOTOR COLLISION.
Berlin, Dec. 20. narrowly escaped death when he The Nazi leader, Herr Hitler, was involved in a motor car accl dent in which his car crashed into a atationary car.
Mr. James Magee, known in the
Herr Hitlor was thrown into the For that much credit the Indus- the Service," has retired after 40 sustained many cuts and bruises.---. Port of London as the "father of windscreen, broke a fluger and try should be profoundly thankful. years as a Customs officer.
Routers Special Service.
"I see what you're getting at," I said. "Survival of the fittest." "Something like that, sir. Well, that's one of the things. Now take evolution-.
notice a woman had come upstairs "Ha'penny ticket, please!" In-
tete-a-late. and impatiently interrupted our
A Dreamer.
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NINE MURDERED BY MANIAC.
MOTORIST SHOOTS ALL HE MEETS.
Durban, Nov. 26. Two Europeana and seven natives were murdered in cold blood near
on the point of capturing him the town of Bethlehem to-day by a man who, when the police wote niter a motor-car coase, hiB
turned wenpon on himself and com-
mitted suicide.
Penny, ma'am, if you, please.
not ly Glasgow now! evolution. If
"Well an I was saying, air, about Darby, a
The first victim was Mr. J. E. you take
traveller and feed it and its descendants for his car while on the road from
Commercial a horse from Durban, who was stopped in thousand years on one kind of Bethlehem to ass, and take another, and feed it town of Reitz by a stranger, whe the neighbouring and 18 Geseendants for a thousand asked him for
ears you're not going to have two iden of evolution, sir.
a Hift. The man horses. You're going to have two and shot Mr. Darby dend with a thereupon climbed into the car quite different animals. That's my sporting rifle.
"Then take Cleopatra and the the seat beside him, the murderer With the body of his victim or Babylonians excuse me, air, I must go down now."
drove the car in the direction of Bethlehem. On the way he shot five natives, all of whom he killed. Just before he reached the town he turned back in the direction of Reltz and shot Mr. Prinsloo, an aged European of sixty years who was planting trees along the road- He gave a pleased laugh. "Oh, side, as well as two more natives. It isn't so much theories. al," ho By this time the police were said. "but I often, think things on the track of the murderer, and hot
language to write a book, what his motor car, hut, rather than be if that man could master the they managed to overhaul him in astern chase ensued. Eventually
wealth of interest it would contain! captured alive, the assassin turned Few selentials, I know, would coun-h's shot-gun on himself and blew ferance his opinions, but here wo his brains out. have a dreamor, not a materiallat, and his philosophy is as sound as any of Aristotle's fantastic para
.B. D.. K.
1 got off the car shortly after wards. As I waited for it to atop I remarked to my friend the con ductor, "These are very interest- ing theories of
yours.
doxes..
Natal Commercial Travellers Ag- Mr. Darby was Chairman of the Rociation, and Vice-President of South African Commercial Travellers' Association.
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