“KEEPERS OF YOUTH.”
RIDLEY’S PLAY IN LONDON ‘Tveepers of youth,” a play written by Arnold Ridley, the author of “The Ghost Train” and “The Wrecker,” both of which have been produced in Palmerston North, recently provided London with a first-class success de scandal. Tire play hotly and bitterly attacks the educational system ut private schools.
Two Australian parents sell up their interests in Australia to take their boy to this English school. He is expelled for an innocent attachment, involving no more than breaking bounds and falling in love with a shop girl whom lie takes to tire pictures.
The parents are heartbroken at having to withdraw their son, but they do not realise the scandal with which the sportsmaster, who bullied the Australian bo3 T , is concerned. He is involved in an affair with a pretty young assistant-matron who exposes him to the headmaster, but the bullying s]x>rtsmaster, knowing something about his past, blackmails the headmaster. One master, at this stage embarks upon an hysterical tirade against hppocrisy, and demands to know by what moral right he and his kind are the keepers of youth.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 161, 8 June 1929, Page 6
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