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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS.

TO-DAY.

(November 19.) Cricket-Shanghai. Kowloon Cricket Club.

Interport Crickot Dinner, Hong

Kong Hotel.

Golf:-First Round of Railway

Cup.

A.D.C. Presents "Dear Brutus,' Theatre Royal,

Institute.

Concert at Holma Nay Strangers

Queen's Theatre :

May Kiss".

World Theatre:

Emperor Chin

Lung travelling Kinng Num.' episode 9 (Chinese film).

Star Theatre: "Lord Byron of Broadway,"

King's Theatre: "The Brat." Central Theatre: "Ladies of Leisure!

Ten Dance at Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances af Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel.

Plowat 41,2-and-140-m

Is the Cinema a Good

Place for Children

THERE ARE GOOD AND BEAUTIFUL

FILMS-CHILDREN SHOULD NOT BE

ALLOWED TO see the other KIND.

THE OTHER SIDE. TO-MORROW WE GIVE THE REPLY OF MR. WILCOX, THE BRITISH FILM PRODUCER, TO MR. MACKENZIE.

$

There is now u progress an agi- tion. The fact that "some imagin Fation about fihas unsuitable forary bandit in the wild and woolly children. No doubt thero ace west had had his hold-ups recorded hundreds of films unsuitable for in minnge and exzerable print was children. Index. I would go sob lieved to be the enspiration of.

Europo Mail: Inward: far as to say that only one film in every boy who stole a plum from a Surope TELE Suez (Corfa). two hundred is fit for children. It grnongroour's' stall, and thers were Outward; Europë vin Siberia (Em-is sanely a miateke, however, to tow magistrates who did not blamė press of Asia) 6 p.m. /

Tides:High at 3.10 and 7.10; attack the cinemas because they the habit of reading "penny drend- usually provide an entertainment fuls for the crowded state of the unfit for children. I am old-fash- | reformatories. ioned enough to believe that very few novels are fit for children. But if an unsuitable aovel is pub-

FRIDAY.

(November 20.)

B.E. Old Comrades Association Pinney, Hotel Cecil, 8 p.m.

The Danger.

"Penny dreadfuls" may still ex-

Hockey Radio Sports Clublished, and children read it, thest for all I know, or the equiva

Central British Association,

United Services Recreation Club Tennis.

AD.C. Presents Dear Brutus,"

Theatre Royal.

Queen'a

May Kiss."

Theatre: "Strangers

World Theatre: Emperor Chin Lung travelling Kiang Nam," episode 9 (Chinese Gim).

Star Theatre:Lord Byron of Broadway."

King's Theatre:The Brat" Central Theatre i "Ladies of Lainuro."

The Schneider Trio at Helena May Institute, 9.30 p.in.

Ten Dances at King's Restaurant, Lane, Crawford's and Hong Kong "Hole!; Dinner Dances at Peninsult

Hotel and Hong Kong Hotel.

European Mail-Outward: Europe in Siberin (Corfu) 1.30

Tides:-High at 4.16 and 7.32; how at 12.

SATURDAY, (November 21.) lawn Bowls, Closing day at. Tai.

koo.

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fault is neither with the novelist nor with the publisher, or with the hookseller, but with the morally lazy parents and guardians who allow child en te rend such novel.

Something to Blame. There is only one way" to keep children uncontaminated by the cinema, and that is to forbid them to enter the cinema except on Holi- days, whou a special programme should be presented. A compara lively short while ago I could have ventured to put forward such an argument is the columns of a daily newspaper and fel perfectly sure that no child would read my out. rageous, remarka, because a compa- ratively short while ago even news. papers were considered imsuitable

for children to read. I feel less secure now days against childish indignant fourteen-year-old corres

buke to me in these columas.

lent of them in the prices that rule to-day, but compared with the films that children are accustomed to visit they must seem a dull as tracts. Yet we may deplore less the inspiration to evil deeds which the films provide than the stulffy, ing effect they must have upon any kind of action at aḥ. -

If I found that a visit to a cinema had induwed a boy to paka his father's dress-suit, to exchange his mother's silver thimble for an ounce to sweets, to blackmail his sister's young man out of half-a- crown, and to eat what was left of

the tinned tongue in the family lardar, I should believe, while de precating the particular forms this boy had chosen to express his energy, that the cinema could exert a positive influence for good upen the growing boy.

Unfortunately what the cinema actually does-is to absorb this sup-

Cricket-First Division: Hong Kong C.C. a. Royal Artillery (pondent to administer a public roarious energy in the contempla- Indian R.C. Civil Service (L.S Kowlom Cricket Club .. Craigen gower (E.). Second Division: Civil, Service Indina R.C. (L.), Police

Hong Kong CC (L.), Craiger Hover. Kowloon C.C. (F.)..

Wah Football: Lai

Cup: Civilians. Navy (Kowloon F.C.),

4 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: Strangers May Kiss."

tion of fatile shadow-shows. The The English enjoy finding some-danger to this amusement-gorged. thing in the world of entertainment (world of to-day is the encourage- which they can blame for the de-mont which such facile amusement pravity of their children, because offers to the leading of a passiva and unadventurous existence. Puritanism has had a morbid at-

Games have "mencood every · demo- traction for the English ever since they found on its economic value. cracy in history long before man In the days of our youth, the was onslaved by the machines he World Theatre: "Emperor Chin depravity of the growing boy was invented presumably in the hope of Lung travelling Kiang Nam,"attributed to his habit of reading creating for himself in extended episode 9 (Chinese film),"

what were called "penny dreadfreedom. Children always have an The adven-gasier time of it under democracy, Stop Theatre: "Lord Byron of fuis" "penny bloods. Broadway."?

tures of Deadwood Dick were con-because the mind of the public as sidered by magistrates and school-a whole is itself childish. Ameri- "Ladies of masters to be corrupting the whole can children, for instance, were

moral fibre of the younger genera-

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