PARIS COURTS FORBID RESERVED SEATS AT TRIALS
PARIS, March 31. The French Minister of the Interior is taken steps to prevent what he
terms the transformation of the criminal courts into cinema theatres by the public who Hock to gloat over the proceedings and applaud or hiss as their sympathies guide them.
No cards of admission will be issued in future, and those who desire to be present will have to line up in a queue irrespective of their name and position, and take their chances of gaining admission. The new decree is directed principally against society women and actresses
who, by means of influential friends, had scats reserved for them at all senational trials, and flocked to the courts in furs and jewels as though they were attending a first night at the opera. The Minister denounces their conduct as “indecent” and “a mockery to justice.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17854, 24 May 1926, Page 3
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