NEWS AND NOTES.
A SINISTER “RACKET.” ‘■‘Kidnapping hitherto, with its two thousand recent victims, has been a compliment usually reserved by racketeers each for the> other. Ihe outt.igc m a fa in if y so fragrant in its tender romance and iso admirable in its simple restraints as the Lindberghs is, lowever. no act, of ir+er-criminal courtesy, but a declaration of civil war against the community. Like Japans picnic at Chapei, it is a breach of the recognised pacts of peace.’’—The New York correspondent of "Truth.
MAN ON THE SCREEN. “The cinema,” said Mr (1. K. Chetornian in a recent speech, "lias broken up man. It puts part of him before its audiences. His eyes may b<> there on the screen. His nose may be there, and he may be proud of it. His legs may be there, and he may agitato them elegantly or coinieal’y. But he is not there. Probably he is grateful to be at Hollywood -smoking n cigar after dinner. Now, by modern necromancy, the cinema is striving to put the man together again. It has already sent bis voice after him in a separate parcel. In a little wh 1* it will, no doubt, send the smell of h's cigar and of ill Is hair oil.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 May 1932, Page 6
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211NEWS AND NOTES. Hokitika Guardian, 21 May 1932, Page 6
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