"Phe Butler and the Maid" an Imported Cinema Six hundred fect of motion-picture lin, composing a foreign production entitled "The Butler and the Maid," was confiscated by the Settlement Police on June 4 on the ground of obscenity.
'The seizure was made by Del, Sub-Insp. V. 8. Bebenin and Chinese detectives, who raided the office of the Cinema Arts Corporation, 131 Museum Road, and arrested' the manager, A. Seyd, 40 years of age, 2 Russian," He was brought, before the First Special District Court charged with offending public morals by "ying (0 sell the film, believed that other similar' Alms have been sold in Shanghai recently.
"The Butler and the Maid" is on standard size lin and it is estimated that it would take nearly ten minutes to show it in ils entirety. The authtities are trying to trace its source and (o discover how it was introduced into Chins Tumrers workers of the Da Chung, Dyeing Work, 10 Pacshing Road, Chapel, wore taken to hospital June 8, suspected of suffering {rom food poisoning. The Da Chung Dyeing Works employed scores of workmen. On. the night in ques: Yon, the workers" took. salted crabs purchased by the cook at supper and, soon after the meal thirteen of them complained of abdominal pains and had to be taken to the hospital. Except for one, ho ever, none were found to be in a serious condition. The Chapei police has taken the cook to the Police Bureau for questioning. essays which have been written on the subject.
One of the best of the latter, written bya member of the "North-China Herald" editorial staff, appeared in a Christmas issue of this journal' a few years back. In this story, a lady gave birth to triplets while the ship was tacking back and forth about the 180th Meridian owing foa storm.
The tale supposed that a legacy hod been toft to the eldest, child, and the question the Court had to decide was. which was the eldest. the child born first or the child Which, according to the calendar, was born "on the previous day?" A problem which Solomon himself would have found difficulty" answering.
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