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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19,

1938.

Children Call Romance

Films

As a result of a questionnaire con-| ducted among thousands of elemen- tary schoolchlidren, the Hon. Miss E. Plumer presented a report at Lam- beth Palace recently to a conference of the Cinema Christion Counell~- und these were her conclusions:

Romance is regarded on silly and Bloppy, and most children aro de- finitely bored by love stories;

Villains Childrens' rense of right is strongly developed, and they feel that right must triumph; the death of a villain in gangster films is not looked upon us being in any way

Silly

Poison

Pen

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Acquittal

A woman of 55 years was acquitted of a charge of "polson pen" letter- writing at Salisbury Assizes recently.

She was discharged

A hand-writing expert, in evidence, but a way of that

on anonymous post- tidying up the world to make room cards, although disguised, tallied for better people to live in it. with that on documents written by (Mrs. Ada Smith, of "Horrife" Alms do frighten chit-the woman dren and nro the cause of night Westmorland Road, Bath) and with and other psychological specimens of her writing which sho

dreams effects;

Juvenile crime and films-there is no connection between them, except when children steal money to pay for admission.

gave the police.

Mrs. Smith denied any knowledge of the postcards. She had herself, she declared, been the victim of poison pen letters whlieving at Chippenham,

HELPED POLICE

Death-If there are no close-ups! Mr. Justice Lawrence, after analys- or prolonged scenes of violence no harm seems to come to them by this ing the evidence of the handwriting "laste of aggressive living by proxy." expert, usked the jury: "How would you like your freedom to be at stake

Mrs.

The system of matinees for chil-upon such evidence on that? dren was now being generally intro- Smith gave the police every facility. duced, although out of 5,000 cinemas Could anything be more inconsistent more consistent with in the country not more than eight) with her per cent, ran Saturday matinees for her children, the report atated.

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It had been alleged that Mrs. Smith sent postcards with grossly

It was estimated, however, that offensive or indecent wording to four about 700,000 children attended these women at Chippenham, among them matinres at ages ranging from Avea sister-in-law and a former next- to 13. Experience showed that the door neighbour.

length of programme suitable children should not exceed hours, made up of-

A feature film-60 minutes; a comedy or cartoon recl-20 min- ules; one carefully chosen inter- est Alm-15 minutes; and serial-20 minutes.

one

for

League Steno Swift

Paris. Fastest shorthand-writers at this year's national shorthand champion- were Mlle. ships held in France Germaine Gabriel of Paris, and Mile. works for tho Jullette Cas, who

Dr. Doris Odlum said that some girls spent much of their leisure and League of Nations in Geneva. Both spare money un dressing and making attained speeds of 250

up like Greta Garbo.

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Police discovery of a "dangerous drug" in a recess

at a girl dancer's flat was described at Bow Street re- cently.

Freda Roberts, 26-year-old dance hostess, of Phoenix House, Charing Cross Road, and Patrick John Henry (20), copy writer, of Chiltern Court, Baker Street, were charged with being con- cerned together in the unauthorised possession of 461⁄2 grains of Indian hemp.

Roberis, who was sald to have, brown substance was Indian hemp. previously been on the stage engaged He described it as a "very danger-

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the police the contents velope were his to save Miss Roberts from getting into trouble.

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Detective-Sergeant Arthur Dyke said that in a brown box in a recess at Roberts' flat he found an envelope containing a brown substance and also a small box with the burnt end of a cigarette in it.

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Mr. Woolfo (defending) Henry thought he was doing a manly thing in attempting to shield Hoberts. He was not a drug addict and had He asked Roberts what the en-never had anything to do with drugs. Mr. Woolfe said there was no sug- velope contained and Henry at once sait: "It is mine." He told them gestion that Roberts was trafficking both he believed the brown sub-in Indian hemp. She had been suf stance was Indian hemp and Roberta fering from remarked: "Is it?"

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