GRAND THEATRE
TO-NIGHT The disgraceful conditions which surround schoolboys who are sent to
pnvate schools staffed by unqualified 'masters, at economical fees, are frankly and realistically revealed in the British International picture, "Keepers of Youth," which will be be presented at the Grand Theatre to-night. In this striking film Brentley School is the setting for a story which tells of a young man, who, fresh from the varsity, has chosen the honoured calling of teaching in preference to pioneering on a farm in Canada. He is soon disillusioned for he finds his fellow masters a set of ill-mannered failures, even the headmaster having been "sent down" from his college. The second master is a toady; the junior master a plodding graduate of correspondence courses; the classics master a tired old man, while the sports mpster a bully who intimidates the head by his knowledge of the past. Such are the "keepers of youth." Justice is the motto of the school, but it is soon revealed that no such thing exists at Brentley. A boy is expelled for an innocent offence and yet the a'ttempted seduction of the assistant matron, Millicent, by the villainous sports master is hushed up. In disgust the young master departs for Canada taking Millicent with him.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 232, 23 May 1932, Page 3
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210GRAND THEATRE Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 232, 23 May 1932, Page 3
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