ANGRY PRODUCER

Evening Star, Issue 21823, 12 September 1934, Page 9

ANGRY PRODUCER

PRESS CRITIC ASSAULTED HEAVY FINE IMPOSED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. ADELAIDE, September 11. Miss Patricia Hackett was fined £2O in the Police Court to-day, with costs (£4 4s), for unlawfully assaulting a journalist, Sidney Frederick Downer, the victim of the ink episode. The President of the Legislative Council to-day read a letter received from Miss Hackett, expressing sincere regret to that Chamber for her behaviour.

Miss Patricia Hackett, daughter of Lady Moulden, figured in a real life drama at Parliament House. Objecting to newspaper criticism of her theatrical production, 1 Caprice,’ she went to Parliament House in search of the ‘ Advertiser’s ’ reporter-critic and threw a bottle of ink at him. The bottle inflicted » gash on the reporter’s forehead and the ink spilled down his clothes. , “ Now I think we are quits, she ejaculated. “ Ink for ink.’ The reporter picked up the bottle and remarked: “Your ink, I think,” to which Miss Hackett replied; “I think you had most of it.” Miss Hackett, who is a prominent society girl and also a barrister and solicitor, produces plays in her own theatre.