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DEATHS

SEDICK-Ts Aysha Husvin Sedick pamed away peacefully at St. Saulx liaspitz this "morning. May 26, 1965. Funeral will take place at the Mohammedan Ceme- dary at 5.30 p.m. today.

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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1955.

Summer Theatres Bring

'Bit Of Broadway'

To Every Corner Of America

New York, May 25. As Broadway's theatres begin slipping into their hot weather siesta, playwrights and players are ready to begin their annual switch from glamour in the big town to paycheques in the small ones.

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Starting next month, they will start showing up in the scores of summer theatres blossoming in the spring countryside from coast coast. Openings are sche- duled as early as June I and most will run through the month of August.

Spotted in nearly every state in the Union, as the accompanying map shows, there will be about 80 loca- tions playing straight dramas and about 50 playing musicals.

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FLOCATIONS OF SUMMER THEATRES REGISTERED WITH ACTORS EQUITY

AS OF MID-MAY-

AP Newsres

Robert

West

Penal

Experiment

For Girls

Paris, May 25.

A group of Protestant Deaconesses in Paris are making a success of a method of treating delinquent girls as if they were in a working girls' hostel.

The deaconesses, members of the world- wide Federation of Protestant Deaconesses with an international office in Amsterdam, are carrying" out their penal experiment in a comfortable home called "The Beehive" in the crowded East End of Paris. Their method is to give the girls more and more responsibility as they progress in the home from detention to semi-freedom, including freedom to have boy friends.

Their ambition is for the girls gists of conäning a girl to her. to regard the Beehive, as a room. or depriving her of pri- "home from home," whilst stik vileges, such as Sunday outings. keeping contact with the earlier

Grachually, the

newcorders

home surroundings to which they

DeLeo- must eventually retra adapt themselves, the property adapted, it is hoped, to nesses say. They lose their [All an honest place there again. initial hostility and attitudes springing from a background of The Beehive, with its own

or parentai and

immorality, theft. gardens

sports Beide

neglect. situated in spacious

grounds with e hospital, a Chapel and a maternity clinic, all run by 33 Deaconesses of the French AG- sociation of Dopconesses, helped by students from their nursing school and outside doctors,

hive.

THREE YEARS

WAS

ANOTHER LOVE

One of these attitudes summed up by a recent new- comer, Louise, who is now a happy, co-operative member of the Bechive. Louise told a Deaconess bluntly: "I don't give The Beehive is run by seven love. It is another sort of love

a hakpenny

for your spiritual One of the notable.

sisters and novices. With the war While the girls help of a psychologist and lay win down to a "sable life," tures of this year's pro-

setting grumme is the growth of

the teachers, these work on the re- An example of how small In Virginia Director

On the

Cqast The mixture of programmes in

introducing habilitation of between 40 and they attend classes the "package shows" headed

noted excmplied towns can make a success of a Porterfield's

Barter Aquashow in Seattle alternates 45 girls aged between 14 and 21 them to such subjects as science, summer theatre is by famous performers and in the Central City Opera House summer theatre is the

English. Salt Theatre at Abingdon begins a water shows four nights a week time. Each girl spends ancient history and

in stage high Creek Theatre in Hinsdale, I, 18-week season in June. This is with three nights of such stage about three years in the Bee They also attend courses offering a single drama or in Colorado. On a

"Annie Get Your

domestic science and child care. Mountains this which begins a 14-week season the playhouse where the guest musicals as musical. They will tour from the Rocky

take on June 6. Hinsdale has a po Broadway stars receive, as part Gun." Professional stars

The A girl sent to the Beehive by one summer theatre to an noted summer theatre will raise

the curtains in July to present the pulation of only 7,336 yet

acre of Virginia land.

sidents compose

of the the juvenile justice authorities, reading seasons

and such stars

casts.

a social welfare service or even but no religious instruction two the resident com- don in four Gilbert and Sullivan has presented

In several places summer

starts her given unless they ask for it Judith Anderson, Ethel Waters operas.. Following this bow to

In California actress Dorothy by her own family, panies in each place.

the past, the Central City rest- and Charles Coburn, The secret theatres are being operated by

several other re-education by joining one of Sometimes Catholic girls have Promoters will be eyeing dent company will perform four of its success is that it presents university drama groups, such McGuire and

now two families" of 12 or 13 girls become. Protestants, the Deaco the Broadway stars who are

resses say. Others have been only top

as the drama festival at stars in proven pro- the summer receipts to see modern plays through August.

Buch "family" occuples

known to enter a Convent on ductions and is only 25 miles University of Utah where pro- confined by Hollywood will give stage DE SCHOLL'S "Foot Comfort Ser-whether this will be the

fessional stars are supported by chores

floor of a building and each gleaving the Beehive. Elitch Garters in Denver be from Chicago's loop.

has her own simply furnished Horike gravkies the expert atten- season such assembly line!

Manteo, N.C., will again pre- gins its 64th season as a sum-

Texas larly widespread

On Sundays, the girls on your feet deserve - by London- "package"" take over com; mer theatre in late June. The sert, from July 1 to September/ent actors amisite particu-| formances at La Jolla a

with curtaine and where she taken ori visits to stims. pletely from the old-fashion- plan is to extend this summer 14, the historic "Lost Colony" where the University of Texas, Pasadena veteran producer Gil-room which the can decorate

Southern Methodist University, more Brown will continue to can keep her personal treasures theatres and cinemas in parties" a year-long dramatic spectacle which re- ed summer theatre where a programme into

season with touring companies, quires 90 actors. A similar sum- Texas Christian University, Bay-stage theatrical epics with both such as books and phonographs. of six or seven, In the summer,

In is the outdoor lor University, and the Univer. stars and beginners.

they are taken on picnics. single company produces

playing Broadway hits, filling in mer attraction at times between performances drama about

Seminole Indians sity of Houston operate footlight Sacramento the music Circus

opens in June, programmes, in Safety Harbor, Fla. of the resident company.

A

on June 1st. For enrolmen call at other, replacing for a week D'Oyly Carte Opera Co. of Lon- past summers the theatre the lary, a Virginia ham and an leading roles, but Seattle Tе-|

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-GANIZ BUSHMILLER.

ONLY THIS NOTE.

Mandrake I have gone to Bald Mountsit Hord

JOHNNY HAZARD

GINGERLY EASING HIMSELF OVER THE ROOF, SNAP REACHES THE JUTTING FLAGPOLE ~ [177EN

NANCY---WHAT HAPPENED?

as

in

WHY WOULD SHE GOTHERE?

NO REASON-- UNLESS ALEENA --DID SOMETHING --TO TAKE HER THERE!

1 WAS SITTING ON THE CAR---

¡AND, LIKE A TRAPEZE ARTIST, DANGLES

SIXTY FEET IN THE AIR!!"""

theatre near

mast

San Diego.

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

LOTHAR PACK OUR BAGS AND ORDER PLANE TICKETS AT ONCE! WE'RE GOING TO BALD MOUNTAIN.

By Mik

By Ernie Bushmiller

AND SUDDENLY THE

HOOD CAME". UP"

By Frank Robbins

VERY WELL, GEN-GEFALLEN. IT WILL BE DONE! I'LL DRIVE TO THE AIRPORT IMMEDIATELY AND

C CHARTER A PLANE!.

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Two Deaconesses Look after

each family. Punishment

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TALK

ABOUT

MAGIC!

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Admiral

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BLACK MAGIC

ASSORTED

CHOCOLATES

this situation

for a

San Miguel

girls attend Bible-

prayers,

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After this stage, a girl is pro- moted

to the vital section of the Deaconesses' rehabilitation 01 Home experiment the Semi-Freedom.“ An average of qualify for a year eight girls

the move into this phase, which

"progressive and

concentrates on readaptation to freedom” professional training.

DISCIPLINE RELAXED

Here, the discipline is re- laxed,

The girls go out every day, to follow courses in short- - hand, dressmaking and other subjects. After work, they can retire to their rooms or chart in the gully decorated CORATION sitting room.

On Sundays, they are tree bo easted

go out alone to theatres

cinemas, jain Girl Guide groups, visit their families and go out with boy friends.

a

The Deaconesses regard steady boy friend as a “stabilis.. ing influence" on the girls, pro- vided that he has offered miniorum guarantee from moral point of view" by intro- and |ducing her to his family

calling on the Deaconesses.

Eventually, a girl is regard-

ed as Bt to leave the Bechive and return to normal life. Be- tween eight and fen girls

'graduate" every year.

Tall, energetic Pastor Gustave Lagny

who is director of the Deaconesses' Association

01

France, says that roughly three quarters of the girls passing through the Beehive are success- social

fully rehabilitated from 2 point of view,

The Pastor who studied theology at Cambridge Univer- sity, England, before World War II, says that most of the girls marry and have children, Many retizm to visiz their "old school”. with their children.

RETURN

Girls who find the pace of outside life too trying are allow- ed to return to the Beehive for a short stay to: "get away, from it all" And even the few fat- lures may eventually return..

to the Deaconesses' - care,

for they have evangelists dealing with kayner · women prisoners and

Prostitutes,

The delinquent children pass- ing through the Beehive are only

szpall

part of some 3,000

A

girls arrested every year inx France for delinquency, 25 to 30 per cent of them for theft and 60 to 70 per cent for prostitue

But the sisters claim that they are at least showing a success- ful way to nedabilitate minors and keep them front prime. Pasto Lagartiles re- sakhat he French Justice

gard the Beehive as one of the "most successful" of the many organisations in France which deal with " juvenile delinquents, ****China Meil Special."