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World Copyright

By allongement with ball, Harold

JUST ARE THE

POLICE COURTS?

N the ante-rooms of shillings

London's

in the case of

From his seat in the Press box, JOHN CLARKE police fines what is likely to

watches closely and ob- jectively the day-to-day administration of justice in London. He says: "Each magistrate appears to work to

highly pattern of punishment individual as a hair style." Is this true also of our police courts in Hongkong?

courts, as the courts be their fate when they open for business in

are tried.

The morning, there exists a kind of uneasy cameraderie between the police and their

prisoners.

For within there is a range ties to meet

limits set

of penal. each crime; and each magistrate ap- Cigarettes are fumblingly pears to work to a kind of of punishment" exchanged, and when it "pattern are tugged at urgently by which, within those limits, those waiting in the wings is us highly individual

dock his hair style. before

appearing in

and witness-box.

are

12,000 CASES

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And in these dragging. nervous minutes. the police

plagued with one IN the last two and a half years above all others. have listened to upwards of mute?" 12,000 cases being tried by some "Who's the beak,

What is the magistrates.

question

anxious tones.

If the answer

experience"

to this

the

as

а

im- 1wo recent Where the penalty is Take one or

that argument is instances. First, two cases heard prisonment, in the same week in different less casy to apply. If the punish- ment fits the crime in the one courts.

case, can it be said to do so in

In one case, a driver's mate, the other, in the instances I have aged 22, pleaded guilty to steal- cited? ing articles valued at 15s. from an unattended car.

the young which

It is that seeming anomalies in question is fairly given, the dispensation of justice occur

with disconcerting frequency the prisoners can, if they have experience of

often it seems not Tuo

crime courts, fairly assess within a week or two the cuse of prison tences, to within

to gravity of the in decides the punishment, but one

magistrate's

conception of the sen- gravity of that crime upon one 2 few particular morning.

were

the

THEY MAKE

FUSS OVER A SCREEN KISS

By Ronald Roper

London, Jan. 17. HERE has been quite a bit of unnecessary fuss over & screen kiss--claimed to be the "frankest ever" in a British picture and one which must have slipped past censors who might, of course, have been So enthralled that they forgot to look at thetr stop-watches.

the screen. Wherever it is shown the triumph of the Royal cou- ple's progress will become self- evident in pictorial retrospect

The grandeur of Canadian scenery is equally well captured, end ि fatrylike sleigh ride through a snow - mantled forest seems almost too idyllic to be true. informalities-- including Prezident Truman's famous "Thank you, dear," as the Prin- cess leavea a platform full of celebrities in Washington--serve admirably to humanise the re- The kiss is that given by cord, while a fittingly emotional 22-year-old French-Arabian notes stark in a farewell scene film discovery Kerima to Newfoundlanders sing Auld Lang Syne on a galr-swept quay Trevor Howard in the long- to the outline of the Royal liner awaited Carol Reed produc. homeward bound,

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tion, "An Outcast of the Islands," Whatever super- WHEN we were on the brink siren value this embrace of educational cuts a little while ago one of the arguments may have for impres-

Lion

ExC.

sionable patrons in well-in favoin was that British educa- suthorities are no longer upholstered seats, the star content to teach the Three Ba herself lost no opportunity but have steadily expanded them in 500. At least two of the many of deglamourising it with a

"fringe" subject-ballet dancing torrent of pidgin but and theatre management-have matter-of-fact English as evidently survived the Hora soon as she flew in to Lon- bungh although Govern don from Puris for the ment subsidies permit tuition to be given at extremely low rates. premiere.

But few will deny that it is "It is just a job of work," a healthy sign that plenty of she said. "Carol Reed, young women in full-time jobs

A are anxious to

prove Tyrone directing, said he wants love scene of passion, so I Guthrie wrong in his view that ballet is on the wane In this play what he wants. When country. Carol say 'Sad,' I am sad; when he say 'Happy' I am happy; 'Kiss,' I kiss!

The big sapphire ring admit that they haven't much my engagement finger? Oh, chance of making career of it. few may become instructresses thems themselves, most will

get parts in pantomimes or as dancers in other producticus, but all find pleasure in keeping slin and Faceful in an enjoyable manner.

it must not fool you. I have

boy-friends.

no

Perhaps,

one day, I fall in love....

#

to

These girls from factories and offices in the London area are keen members of an LC.C. ballet instruction class. They frankly

Costs are kept to a minimum.

Most expensive item is generall

ly silk tights (£3 to £4), black ones can be had for 125, and are

worn for prac- usually tice, Shoes and other necessities range from £1 down to a few had shings and the taxpayer Carol helps to keep fees to us little as

AND

ND a pair of large, wist

ful eyes beneath even darker brows take ΕΠΙ slightly troubled look as # jewelled hand comes up finger the Southern Cross ce around her neck. It taken no less than a Reed edict to remove family heirloom from

while on the set. She even bathes with it on.

"It is a fetish," she plains with a quick smile. "I wear it from when I am Reven."

wearer

this 10s, for tuktion spread

its

ex-

year,

over

The latest LCC. venture--ita

theatre management course is just advertised. Backed by the Arts Council, it offers lectures by experts scie of them well- known in Stage circles -- on theatre publicity, accountancy,

taxation, control of bars, printing and company law.

Inevitably there are opinions about this latest Carol creation. Some crilles reckon that the Alm is all technique and ifttle story; others that the strong meat of Conrad's ruthless, moving drama, diction

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HERE are great expectations of the Covent Garden pro- of "Wozzeck," opera Kon-

set in the East Indies, has been with a Freudian theme

into the ceived by Buchner, who died at successfully brought

menu with sufficient lighter fare 24 before Freud was born. It to make a wide appeal. The film was first performed in Berlin in was shot mainly in Borneo and 1925, and the man who conduc

ted then, Erich Kleiber, is com- Ceylon, though some scenes are

to London. authentic Javanese.

Most people will agree that Reed

too

leed has not been

Pre-

ing to

This is the one opere we en- thusiasts have been asking to

which

The differences lay in the pat-occupied with creating the power- see here," says Scott Goddard,

a man story

tory and once we have seen it we ful atmosphere of a terns of punishments fixed con-

to give full weight to Conrad's shall have to find another stick otherwise in

to beat Covent In the other a 20-year-old ap- sciously or the prisoners ask in cager, abiding impression left by this prentice-litter was charged with minds of the different magis- often fine prose. For his prin- War

cipals he is well served not only Garden at their own game."

It is claimed for Buchner that stealing 95lb of gun-metal valued trates, they clearly did not lie

by Kerima and Trevor Howard but by Ralph Richardson and he raises what might otherwise at £8, from his employers. He, in the actual crimes.

Dess for the story of a sordid too, entered a guilty plea.

Magistrates are human beings. Robert Morley.

murder from the level of the I have frequently been filled

gutter to that of the surgery. It two with pleasure at the ward is "ROYAL JOURN the is alleged against Alban Berg, Canadian National Film the composer, that his music humanity displayed pensed from

But the bench.

Board's official record of Princess stops short of that "expression Elizabeth's Canadian-USA tour, of the inexpressible" which the being human, they exhibit from

is welcomed there as one of the performance of fozzecić 'de- time to time human weaknesses. I cannot recall A single instance of magisterial bias against a prisoner as an in- dividual, however unattractive a character the prisoner may have But I know magis- possessed. trates to whom certain categories of crime appear to be particul- arly repugnant and who may be relied upon to come down more heavily than their colleagues on the bench, whose anathemas lie elsewhere in the charge-sheet.

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two each of these Against

men there previous convictions.

The man who stole £8 worth of gun-metal from his employers was fined £10, with an alterna- tive of 42 days' imprisonment if he could not raise the money,

The man who stole 15s. worth of goods

from the car of a stranger was sentenced to six months and not given the alter- hative of paying a cash price for

hls crime.

Had these

cases been tried, each in the other court, would the penalties imposed have been the same? One can only wonder.

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Again because they hear so many cases, such endless repeti- tion

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similarity to others, such a highly individual matter, tend to get lost sight of.

On succeeding days two wo- men, one aged. 68, the other 38, atole goods to the same value...

£9 138. 7d-from London stores. Both were brought to court both pleaded guilty.

IS IT JUSTICE?

100,

ĢIXTRANEOUS matters.

may have a bearing upon the The frat was fined £3; the punishments Imposat.

I have £10. and Jenown

quite second was fined

magistrales,

lenient mood ordered to pay three guineas evidently in a

(and'

fortunate

costs.

for

how

whan by prisoners

for.

beer

in such a roplidentur

On one particular day, two chance they encounter a magis- put right. shoplifters who each had one trate previous conviction

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