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LOVE-IS-A-WONDERFUL-THING DEPARTMENT

GUILTY MOTHERS' GET A WARNING

By Anne Edwards

HE broken love stories Then Helen has a baby which

of two girls are to be les because it was abnormal at birth. used in Britain to warn parents of the poten-

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dial dangers of not telling 2 Sally falls in love with

boy of her own age-just young people "the facts of 18. They to from moonlight

life."

They have been

kissing

dancing to moonlight and Sally dude she is going to made have a baby, The young peoply He steals a diamond operation,

into a film which has been panic,

backed by the National ring to pay for an

and Sally nearly dies.

Baby Welfare Council and

the British Social Hygiene Counell. They expect their into 75-minute film to go

the ordinary programme of cinemas

country.

throughout the

Scare tactics

Parents

THE SEQUENCE

First the tuner, then the rude, tu the ear-selected by the film-. maker to show a potentialip dangerous sequence.

her child bad an Illegitimate baby she "would never hold up her head again" that Sally nearly kills benelt by having ant operation.

DOES

OES the Alm answer its own

question, "Should

The reare tacties do not stop The Tell It does.

con- there,

either. For it is not telling Mother's fault, indirectly. sequences of

Parents will then be invited parents referring

Also that and her grandchild was born with

vaguely to

to pay to see aul hear a stern "vertain marital mutters" reprimand for being; too shy or those things" are realistic and a handicap. to stupid to talk.

F

The film, "Should Parents Tell?", makes its point

with: there two love perles with happy endings.

un-

1

"The manager says he'll be my Valentine if I drop that left-wing-bolshie shop steward, and the shop steward says he'll be my Valentine if I drop that right. wing-capitalist beast of a manager."

(London-Express_Serules),

ed from the start.

grim.

The fault of this obviously It is because Mother belleves sincere picture is that it makes

to so frmly that it is better fell to little than too much" Mother the villain of the piece that Helen's marriage is wreck- throughout, but it never at any time Sukkesto what Mother should fell, or how. Unless diagrams intro- (with that duced half-way through

Kynaeco- commentary by a logist) are supposed to show how the telling should be done.

tell:

with n

Helen falls in love with the It i because Mother young man next door. They Saily that she is too young to some candid marry. But because Helen is to think about such things" love affair ignorant the

E marriage a Sally has failure from the first. They Bob

It is because other remarks quarrel and he gues uff to spend the right with someone else. in Sally's hearing that If

SHAKESPEARE AND

THE

HIS is not just another William Shakespeare Here, for nystery. cnee, we hear Shakespeare's words spoken by own mouth, Shakespeare's

in writing in taken down Shakespeare's

own pre- and signed by Shakespeare's own hund.

sence,

IBY

"LOST" DOWRY

RICHARD SINGER

nolden period of his career as a dismatist."

for leasure." and to infer that,

It is reasonable to imigr

knowledge of

For we now

of

1

cver

he

But digrams of this sort la ayoting Tirl-in-love-pro-ak-x£». mote from reality as diagrams of a measles having macaples,

Kerin

nre from

The problem

is one

THE real difficultly

which this Alm dodges. The explaining

probirin is Hot in "the facts of life"--for that can be done by hauling over little manual,

any

As I see it, the problem is to explain in cold blow something which does not happen in cold

to be paid." And countried that he had lend his when father-in-law 407 which had concludes: The plaintiff was dwelling with the defendant to never been repoid,

Mountjoy wore he had paid his house and they had a blood, and to give a 16-year-old

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some sort of code of her that will not desert ber at the end at her first moonlight drive.

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conferences Inaay Betolt had themselves £3 for an account

JA with brewery about the marriage which after- incurred

was consuminated and he had never warda Stephen swore poetry and is owed any rooney

to anyone at solemnised," effects, decided upou an on any time for beer,

To this deposition the witness with experiment

The critics, However, the film is a step in If we may rely on the critics, precedented

As to the suggested legacy, signed his name.

for once in agreement, declare the right direction-if only it was durmur thou wonderful their "tur-boarder," the poet.

cover now from the Mountjoy quaintly but must un-

not only to be small one. For It does years that William Shakespeare

concern v." wrote Henry "Much Ado Jips William Shakespeare reasonably rejoined that he had this specimen

the three points which About Nothing." "AS

Like Limmelf that he was engaged by never made such a premise, for gennine, but to be the best

the two councils lacking it. For the first time we meet welfth Night," "Hamlets Mrs Mountjoy as a kit the "could not yet know how the all extant signatures.

time bless

Seeing that the snature is to Julie Chesar." "Fruits and matchmaker to urge the hoped- Lord would by that

First, it to a story about our Shakespeare face

ta WOO her him with worldly goods." "Macbeth" "Measure for bridegroom

abbreviated at the last letter face in real life. The aloof, Cren

daughter, Mary. " and "Othello."

19 hard to very ordinary, very nice family, AL Jength

Belott undecipherable, i Stephen

people their

of and it is among these state mythical figure disappears,

We know from him that it caliest upon William Shakespeare enderland

of the miserable and the natural inhabitant Shatespeare was honouring his mother's rennet was complied for a

what doption o11

I certitude.

that, most tragedies occur. of this ordinary world takes Londary landlord when he tart with; as one biographer has put knew from the Mountjoy of the

the same "Mountjoy" Or the it: "The author of Romeo and eight-year-old promises. his place.

Second, it gives factual in- French Herakt in Henry V. For

For Juliet, as we might expect, did

The 1

rrerived

formation on a subject of which Detractors have held that Christopher Mountjoy were the not fail in his efforia" For verr

1oo many girls are ignoraut, William Shakespeare was a mes of the owner of the bou shortly afterwards, in November, peremptory summons to attend

corner of Silver and Tent, Stepen and 4.1 the

Mary were the Court af Westminster to give

his However, it Sunkwell Streets, Cripplente,

evidence on Gath the bar or Bekatt corroborated litigious man.

to Shake- Et uther inducements had original summas was not one of his own at the first door married in St Olave's Church.

be vi: wed today the evidence of Shakespeare. A the disputes which took the William Shakespeare rented and beca held out to the proposed are may

bridegroom, inchading the pro- among there records found in maid who had been in

service of the Mountjoys in the Bard into the witness-hox empied two rooms when resi

In Jomlon during

mice by Mountjoy of a dowry the Record Office in the year

Silver Street house had fallend about the in June, 1612. He was an

for his daughter of £50 (about 1910.

with the dramatist mutters in question. important witness for the plaintiff in a strange claim for an unpaid. dowry. brought in the old Equit v

!!!

years.

ttare

Court of Requests at West- re care of Stoplin Beloft minster lay a young man I vore Christopher Mountjoy against his own father-in-Funke fealites, Christopher law.

French

Mountlay WIL Torucunt, probably drott the Massacre

of St Bartholomew in 1572.

He was a tire-maker (that is, a nunu freturer

of fobionable ladies' bend-dreves and why), and he

carried on his business at home.

Mountjas and

wife his

qult contemporary records of the evidence were dircuverezi in an almost perfect state of pre-only one child, a young daughter rervation by an American pre- fessor of English in the Record Ofice in London 300 years later.

Wien synty

of

The signature on the deposition,

Eith

uf

THER

witnesses called

She knew, as she put it, that Mountjoy ld send and per- made one William Shakespeare. that lay in the house, to per- sunde the plalu to the said. marrione"

This lats and other witnesses deposed to the promise of the dowry and the other benefits; the others were also well acquaintert with the part taken Shakespeare in inducing by Stephen to marry Mary.

a

The Court of Requests very the somewhat wisely referred his unpleasant family dispute to of the reverend ai grave elders the French Protestant Church, of te which both parties belonged, with a direction that the decision of that body was to be made a fal decree of the Court.

1500

Food Australian The distinguished witness was Goney). Beloll insisted that the called upon to remember some- ancient happening; he had father-in-law had also under what

anth turtled £20 was certainly taken supply

of his :ome foods and circumspect in worth of household Won an Mary Mary name

in addition to provide by will answers. Turning over the old

record expert at her father's trade.

Stephen Belatt was the son of for a lorry to Mary of 1200 parchurnt

evidence, we read that; another French Huguenot; and in (about £A1,600).

"William Shakespeare to elolt, the The professor says he and his 1598 he had been apprenHeed to

As, according

upon Avon in the wife had to turn over a millim Mountjoy and lived and worked promises to supply

the dowry Steaford goods har not County of Warwickshire gentle or more files in the record office at his master's premises until the and household

man of the age of 48 or there before being rewarded by the articles expired in 1004.

been fulfiled in all the interven-

sworn and examined priceless and of 20 documents

in years, he brought his action units

The Church authorities re- relating to this one cause, include

against Christopher Mountjoy in deposeth and sayell...that he

parties plaintiff proved Mountjoy for his dis ing the original deposition on Aut by then, apparently, the the Court of Requests to recover knoweth the oath of William Shakespeare Mountjoys had comerived

the the amounts claimed eight years and defendant and bath known cipated life, which he serins to les now remem- have developed since his wife's to Mary them both as To

which

marriage desire that the former apprentice after his himself,

and found in The

of ten death in 1805, Lereth for

space signature is appended.

and their daughter Mary should Mountjoy.

favour of Stephen Belott. years or thereabouts".... The

extra become inan and wife, disenvery is an

We are told that Christopher ordinarily interesting addition

And the witness said: "The to the all-too-mengre biography

defendant promised to give to Mountjoy scorning the Anding, portient continued his profligate career; the complainant

Willi Mary his history does not tell us whether marriage

the on-in-law ever recovered daughter but what certain por- tion be remembereth not, nor any part of his judgment.

of the poet.

his

UNIT

By then the young man hat become a proficient traderman

St

were

is probable that Stephen Intriguing allegations Belott made a shy or reluctant made by son-in-law and father- one Another huitor.

It may be that Mr and in-law against Mrs Mount Joy had "Caudle Mountjoy sald that he had lent

talks

In their £0 to Stephen Belolt to make For the old parchment record bedroom

up his fars to Spain in 1004: supplies Shakespeare's London daughter's future; It may be that

mother, having address in 1001-1007,

rome Stephen holly denied this, and

"the the

health

And third, it offers hope and hai for people who thought there was no way out.

But can the truth in this film survive the fiction of other Alms in the same programinie.

-(London Express Service}

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