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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1987, 18 February 1914, Page 3

A Frenchwoman, who was captured by Moors in May last, was 'assigned to the captive harem of a fierce brigand. A baby was bom two months after her capture, and the other women of the harem threatened to gouge out the eyes of tlio captive and-her child. Tlie tivo first chiefs with who-m tho woman was associated wens killed, and she was then accused of having an "evil eye." Finally tho chief, out of pity, returned her to Spaniards. During 1913, the British Board of Film Censors, dealing with the -world's output, examined 7,028,931 feet of films covering 7-186 subjects. Of this number 68C1 were passed for universal -exhibition. The reasons for rejection of otters included chiolty. to ■ animals, indecorous dancing, impropriety of conduct, and dress, "executions, operations, materialisation of Christ,'and tho Almighty,, foreign customs abhorrent to British Weft's, painful insanity scenes, mqrbid death scenes, and incentives.to crime.'. 'J'iie musical world is eMaptiiml.witli a- symplionietta composed by' Eiivieh Karngold, a-sixteen-year-old Viennese, He is haded by critics as a "Ricl.w.nl Strauss in knivfcers."