THROAT CUT FOR DARE
MODERN YOUTHS’ FOLUES "MISCHIEF FOR IDLE HANDS” [BY CABLE —PBESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Recd. May 9, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 8. “I am too horrified to discuss details of the scene. All I can say is that the man is not dead yet,” declared Ernest Thesiger, the well known actor, who in the course of a crushing indictment of modern youth, recounted how at a cocktail party, a young man suddenly exclaimed: “If you dare me, I’ll cut my throat.” Another young fellow dared him and he did it..
“On another occasion,” added Mr Thesiger, “a girl of my acquaintance rushed up to me and said, “what do do you think, the day before yesterday I married a millionaire.” Before I had time to congratulate her, she added “and I hate him.”
“Some people have nothing but praise for our young people, but it seems to me that they have gone adrift since the war. The reason they do these mad terrible things is because they have nothing •to do and are bored,” added Mr Thesiger.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 May 1931, Page 7
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