A case of unusual interest has been before the law courts this week, with no Jess careful and august an institution than the BBC, sued for stander, A year ago the BBC. engaged a police talk on "How 1 keep house" was one of a series" designed Jdefeat the accusation that the B.B.C. has no ears but for the highbrows. Inher talk the Indy said that her /"interoven stove" would not work properly, so her husband took it out snd put in bricks instead. There an Interoven Stove Ca,, Ltd., and they brought an action against the B.BC. alleging that after this talk their sales dropped by 50 per cent.
'There was some argument over the 'Company's figures. But the interesting point of the case way the contention of plaintiffs' counsel that the BBC. are responsible for every word spoken from their microphones.
Fortunately for the Judge, he was lable to evade this alarming' propasltion by dwelling" on the fact that "interoven" denotes a certain type of trove, not necessarily the product of tone "manufacturer; and that the Policeman's wife's stove had not been manufactured by plaintiffs, So he found for the BBC.
But without pretending to be a lawyer, one can see a good deal in plaintiffs' contention, Asis well Known, the BBC. require every talk to be written out, and the INS.
carefully read by them before being delivered, and—as I know—frequently edited, That seems to throw the responsibility on. them. They certainly accepted it in the celebrated case of the mule hall Jeomedian's song "And the pig got up jand slowly walked away"—which the BBC." incontinently withdrew /when some of their Rechabite listen-Jers complained that the song made light of the snares of "fermented liquor.
Order of Poor Clare A few days ago the Roman Catholic Bishop of Nottingham ceremony ously locked the door of the con vent at Bulwell upon eight nuns who wil never, in all human probability, see the world again. Six others a Jcompanied them who have yet some weeks to serve before, arrayed brides, they: are married to the JChurch, in the adjoining church of JOur Lady of Succour, aftes which they too will disappear from. the outer life. The 14 nuns belong to the Order of Poor Clare. Dressed in coarse habits and sackloth they Jheard Mass in public for the Inst time. "Then the Bishop, having blessed the convent and sprinkled holy water upon it, locked them in, and handed the key to the Abbess through the grille which is the Sisfers' only means of communicating with relatives and friends. The ceremony has never before happen fed at Nottingham since the Reforma tion and very seldom in all England,
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