"ONLY A BIT OF A SCREEN"
A LADY'S DRESS AND A LIBEL ACTION. By Telegraph—PreM Association—Copjrisht "Times" and Sydney "Sun" Serviced. London, May 21. Miss Violet Schmitz has obtained a verdict in tho King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice for £500 against tho publishers of the journal "Modern Lifo" for an undefended libel referring to Miss Sclunitz's dress at tho Dance Club '.'at :.Brighton. .The paper said that tho dross's "absoluto transparency left littlo to imagination; fit was only a bit of.a screen. Tho nioro modestly-minded guests held ' their breath." ■■_;■; Miss Schmitz gave evidence that the dress had been made by- her usual dressmaker under her mother's superintendence.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2156, 23 May 1914, Page 5
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111"ONLY A BIT OF A SCREEN" Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2156, 23 May 1914, Page 5
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