PICTURES AND MORALS.
That they should not enter a picture theatre for twelve months was one of the conditions under which six boys were, placed on probation after being fined for theft at Sutton Coldfield. near Birmingham. The chairman of the bench said the town had been made notorious as harbouring a, den of young thieves. A petition was presented, signed by all the clergy and ministers of the district, for closer supervision of the pictures shown in picture houses They suggested that no picture be shown which lepresented violence and wrongdoing. They rlso objected to some of the posteis, and thought that the attendance of chikhen under 12 at the second p«!ionnitnvo iti Uie sveuiog thould be for-
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 74, 28 March 1914, Page 13
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