THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 7, 1941.
TEACHER
NOT
VILLAINS WHO ARE
IMMORAL MORE DANGEROUS
The character of a vil- lage schoolmaster who had been accused of "im- moral conduct” was vin- dicated at Carmarthen County Court.
THAN GANGSTERS
(By A REPORTER)
A NEW VILLAIN has crashed the films. His
whiskers are as long and pointed as any old-time Evan Edgar Pugh, headmaster screen star, his features sharp and sinister, his marthenshire, was awarded 100 morals worse than any gangster's, and his agile damages and costs against Jolin] anties would rival a Fairbanks.
offwinduad Council School, Car-
David Junkus, formerly of Duad! Atill, Cwmeliad, now
Ca
Mrustry
of Labour trainee at Bristol for
bel and lander
Mr Pugh also cita.ned on the junction agamit die temutant t
Talent-spotters to have chosen the new villain are the Ministries of Agriculture and Food, for the star is the-R.A.T.
The film shows this destructive ang relentless fellow at work eating your four, e. 1710.
Teks du
ram hom writing on pabl, hot perading dispare perins. defamatory work
Jenkins did not appt E . The Judge, commenting
Jente Jenka
Court
had sent to the "Dedendant ba defence of the most serious allega tions which we made ter period of years against the plan 10
Hin letter does not heate
a spirit of repentance.“
"Demoralising"
M. Jenkin Jones, for Mr Pugh, sad the label was runtamed letter which Jenkom write to Am; President of th› Board of Educa trum headed "Cwinduad Comm! School, Grave impropriety.
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The letter, said Mr. Jones, re- ferred to the "unsatisfactory con- diten existing in the school." and alleged that the standard of edu- cation was very low.
The letter went on
"Serious references have been
made by villagers and others regarding the head-teacher rub
bing his face on the faces of
like all eventualy his
war against rate
Ghostly Army
ih will de, td by the her. Bit in Uus film.
you d baf And the hero besa- the inflende ste Mr Dalton destroying in the rat-calebing ¦ the veinant of the City, you hear D. Kon ante ut there bu telling you how you can do the 1n Gat ons tan fend
that hur heen A.:
WORKLESS
IN THEATRE BLACK-OUT
;"
He describes how to rais death- dealing potions, how you must hange the bait, because the cun- ring rat becomes sta-picious when he sens the dead bodies of his re-
Lotives. He tells you how to "ral-
Preol Your homIC.
Famous West End ac-jelsewhere tors, whose pre-war carn- ings were as much as
£1,000 a week, are now | touring the provinces for £10 a week, and less on a profit-sharing basis.
Cats Hunt
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Released by The Bell Syn@leste, ine 1
When the mentally sketchy girl-friend's beau asked if she could be satisfied with ten thousand
a year, she wanted to know if he meant men or money.
BACK TO THE BLITZ PLEA
Nurses are patients in a glorious old mansion set amid some of Surrey's finest countryside.
Meanwhile, thanks to the m's fortunes of his worst enemy (affer N !)alter), thu hái treate - mg to run amok. Since the blitz- They are recuperating in this kreg. London has been haunted house lent by its owners after Fby a ghostly army thousands of working tirelessly through Lon-
homeless cats, their homes bomb-don's air blitz. Let them owners dead or moved
Many of them have been wounded, but this rest away from war,
worry and work is fitting them once again to meet cheerfully all that Goering's murderers can send. Conditions are ideal for a quick round the recovery. They walk tennis, or just sit and rest. beautiful grounds and garden, play
Typical of the girls are three who are
aching to be back at work after
a fortnight's only rest. They were bombed twice In one night; all were injured, but they are nearly better now and they want to get back to their patients.
"The starving cat ceases to be a good ratter," said an official of Our Dumb Friends' League.
"Cats." went on the officin!.
"hunt for sport and not for food, and the city's best rafters are warchouse cats en pay-roll. are thousands of these
girls of from eleven to fourteen years of age. I have heard it
This is one of the sequels to the There said that he has even touched! the clothes of a girl, and a father Blitz-Black-out of London's thea.homeless cats, which are apt to
treland. told mc the head-teacher had kissed his daughter.
become a menace and spread dis- case themselves. We wish to make a strong appeal to people to give
In the London area only three theatres are open and they are ́a temporary home to any strays only giving matinee performances,
One of the largest cinema cir- cuits in the Metropolitan area is dispensing with almost its entire, staff and may close down more
houses.
"Many things the master says to the children are so stupid and cormon that they cannot but have
effect a most demoralising
Or ther young minds.
I cannot send my child to such a school."
Mr. Jones added that in an in- terview, with the Directer of Edu- cation for the county. Jenkins alleged that the head-teacher was The total number of actors, le- Immoral in his conduct, and sub- ohnicians, and attendants mitted that Mr. Pugh's immorality employed in the theatrical and had a detrimental effect on the cinema world is estanated at boys of the school, and that 25,000, through him the girls were hav- ing a bad time.
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One Trade Union is paying out £1,800 weekly in relief.
An approach to the Govern- "No Truth in ft"
ment may result from meetings now taking place between the Mr. Pugh said he had been
three Trade Unions concerned -- head-master of the school for: nineteen years. He was married Equity, N.A.T.E., and the Variety
and lived with his wife and child- rén.
m their neighbourhood until we can deal with them or find them
nother home,"
One of them was in her office, about to start on her reports, when the blitz came.
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