MODERN YOUNG PEOPLE.
RESULTS OF BOREDOM. LONDON'. May 8. Mr. Ernest Tliesiger, a well-known actor, in tlie course of a crushing indictment of modern youth, recounted how at a cocktail party a young man suddenly exclaimed: "If you daro me, I will cut my throat." Another young fellow dared him and he did it. Ho was not yet dead, however. '* Some people have nothing but praise for our young people, but it seems to me that they have gone adrift since the war. Tho reaHon they do these mad, terrible things is because they have nothing to do and are bored."-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20869, 11 May 1931, Page 9
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