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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, · 1955,
Interesting News Stories From All Parts Of The
The Ladies, form A Club From Vichy: Restorative From Spain: To Talk About A Mascu-
line Sport-Bullfighting.
Report
Once Famous For its Waters, Vichy Now Turns To The Culinary Arts.
Scotland Yard Thinks
From Paris: An Thumination From London: The Teddy Boy Crate
On Children.
For every him
For every her..
THE ROMAN LOOK IS OUSTING. THE
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May Be Over Soon.
EDWARDIAN STYLE
Teddy Boy Craze Over?
London.
Scotland Yard has just gained an unexpected but welcome ally in its efforts to keep the Teddy Boy craze from erupting Into juvenile delinquency. The ally is: fashion.
Zoot Suit Counterpart
The Teddy Boys are youths between 14 and 19 who for the past two years have been dressing in their own version of the glossy style of Edwardian Eng- lunch long jackets with velvet collars, drain-pipe trousers and black, string ties. They are as
London and
In some tough areas of London
the Teddy Boy outst
often with gold-plated watch chain across flamboyant vest, served as a sort of uniform knitting
into boys
gangs which by browling in dance halls and mavle houses gave them bad name everywhere.
well-behaved
us youth
A
or
Derision from adults gave some of the lads a defensive, per- secution complex. They be came quick-tempered, carried knives, strips of bicycle chain blackjacks. There were sinbbings among themselves and at least one Teddy Boy died in a gang fight. Teddy Boys figured in crimes against adults up to manslaughter,
The youth of Britain is gener-
ully
oes these days. Juvenile de- Iaqueney
has been decreasing Psychologists' Warning since it hit a postwar peak in 1050 portly because of re- creational campaigns spon- sored by police and private organisations to channel energy into harm- youthful less pursuits.
Persecution Complex
The Duke of Edinburgh has been a lender in this activity through the National Playing Fields Association which he heads. But the
Boy sTaze whole
distinctive in other big cities ns zoot suits used to threatened the be in New York.
Kramme,
Teddy
FRENCH PSYCHIATRISTS REPORT:
pro-
Gangster Films Do Not Encourage Violence In Children'
Parls.
Gangster movies do not encourage violence in the normal child or adolescent, four French psychiatrists reported recently,
Afr
intensive
Huryer,
making an
The psychiatrists reported it study of the effect of movies on was only at the mental age of children from the ages of six to ton that a child was able to grasp 18, Doctors G.
S. the sequences of a lm and only Lebovici, t. Brelagu ind N. at 12 that he could understand Rebollard published their re- the meaning of a movie as u sults in the current issue of the whole. French Medical Magazine.
Children under the
ten
savants
enjoy called
(ums,
what They reported children can "elementary comedy of the pic- And the learn the techniques of thieves In-tho-face variety"
Laurel and Hardy and gangste from films but they baste type cannot be influenced to commit
Charlic Chaplin's pathetic crimes by what they see on the
tramp does nothing to a chaid верест.
audience, the experts claimed. It 2 only in their teens that young poople start to see the humour in the famous comedian's films. The psychiatrists also found, surprisingly enough that animated
cartoons find a more receptive audience at the 12- year-old mental jevel for younger children do not parti- cularly enjoy them.
Understanding At 12 Only if the child is unbalanced or on the
becoming way to
crime delinquent will he use techniques learned from movies.
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Girls Sentimental
Children view movica very subjectively. A 16-year-old girl from an alcoholic homo hated to see any scenes of drunkenness, the doctors found. Another child cried during court-room scenes; she associated the scene and father's with her mother's
Enjoy
divorce.
Girls, on the whole, sentimental Aims which boys And dull though, as might be expected, the boys enjoy blood- and-thunder western,
atories and adventures.
crime
Scotland Yord did not move
against Teddy Boys on such because psychologists cau- Aloned that It had its good points. Although girls were attracted by the flashy costurnes, one authority, the Rov. Douglas Griffiths, said "on the whole sex predomin- aries less in these gang" be- cause it has to compete with the love of dressing-up. Police had no desire to
tamper with Anything
might that help cut down sex crimes, in- creasing serlously in Britain as elsewhere. But they were
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forced to consider some ne- tion
cinemas and dance halls began to bar the Teddy Boys on the ground that trouble
to seemed around them
centre
It was while this problem was under review that the new ally appeared from the direc- don of Italy.
It
World
YOU'VE TRIED OUR FAMOUS CURE
Vichy Says:
13.
Now Try HSPITAL
Our Cuisine"
Vichy.
For most Frenchmen to- day Vichy is associated with "taking the cure"
or with
grim memorics of World War Il when it was the capital of unoccupied France.
But Deputy Mayor Robert Raymond would like to put th stop to that.
What Dr Raymond wants is to turn Vichy into one of the very things persons flock her from all parts of world to avoid
a gastronomie paradise
Almost since Julius Caesar's Roman troop refreshed then- selves
Ita health-giving sulphurous springs Vichy has been a Mocca for the man who spends 11 months of the year over-eating and wants to spend the 12th It
month avoiding the consequences, an
the three-button suit with short jacket and diagonal Inpels, worn for the past few years by Italian dandies. costa about Jintr of Edwardian outfit which often ate up more than a
month's salary. Due to its lower cost and sleek style "the Roman Look" appears to be ousting the Edwardian style in some
Areas,
it tho
May Break Up Police cautiously believe
without .possible that
"uniform" and adult scorn to bind them together the Edwardian gangs may dinally break up.--United Press.
SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith
Galbraith
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T. M. Br... Put Of, Cir. 1969 by NEA Berylen, Ina. -
"No, sir, I still say not guilty! You'd be surprised at some
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COUPLE WILL DRIVE
TO THE ARCTIC
IN THREE-WHEELER
London.
Mrs Dorothy Tindal-Carill-Worsley leaves Britain next week on what she considers to be the most exciting The paychiatrista concluded
With her husband, an Air Commodore, movies could have a profound drive of her life. effect on children who attend she is going to the Arctic in a midget three-wheeler car them often but they are incap with a 197 cc. two-stroke motorcycle engine, able of leading the normal well- balanced child into brutality,--United Press,
crime or
GREEKS GÓ |
TO BELGIUM FOR WORK
Athens,
Both are Monte Carlo rally ↑ through France, Belgium, drivers. They are making the Holland and Denmark to the Arctic trip ns a chango from ferry which carries them over fast cars and to see more of | the sea to Norway. the countryside. ?
make
The long mountain range By land, sea and air they will stretching all the way to Narvik:
the 23-day, 3,300-mile round trip to Narvik, Northern from Oslo is a terrifle testing Norway.
ground for normal cars-but
Air Commodore Tindal-Carill- Their car is believed to be Worsley is superbly confident the first three-wheeler to visit
that the midget will
Mr Andrea Stratos, the Greek the Arello Circle and the first through with flying colours.
Minister of Labour, has an nounced that, following an op- plication made by the Belginn Federation of Coal-Mine Owners, I has been decided to send to Belgium 4,000 or 1,000 Greek non-specialised workers to be employed in Belgian coal mines.
Duration of the contract. is one year, with extension for a second your at the workers' re- quest.
Transport will be made avail- ablo.by the mine owners con- |cerned for groups of at least 20
men at a time, KONA
It is planned, eventually,
to
normi worlcers, et mto of′ 400-
to go by the route they plan by air to Culols and then. up
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The proper procedure is to come to Vichy and spend about 20 days soothing the inner man" with endless draughts from its sparkling refreshing free-flowing springs.
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"Now this is ridiculous," says Dr Raymond, "for Vichy is not benefiting properly from its fattic.
"It a man comes here for the cure, why shouldn't be bring his family with him-and why force them to take the cure, too."
To remedy this atuation Dr Raymond has encouraged fabulous cooling at Vichy. At a local restaurant recently he was served a meal that would have gladdened the heart of any French gastronomie. United
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Young Bulls For The Matadoras
Barcelona.
The first all woman's bull- fight club has been established
at Barcelona, so that ladies can get together andi discuss bullfighting without any males intruding.
Women are frowned upon in the rings
In Spain 09 cx- hibitionists detracting from
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of the
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