£2,000 Damages Lord Hewart Says Libel "Gross Outrage"
London, Mar. 24
Little, Miss Shirley Temple, the American child film actress, was awarded damages in the sum of £2,000 in settlement of a libel suit against the British magazine, "Night and Day," here yesterday.
The magazine had published an article in which the film "Wee Willie Winkle" was adversely criticized, the author having made the assertion that no mother could take her child to see such a film.
In approving the terms the of out-of-court settlement, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Hewart, declared that the libel was a "gross outrage," and the counsel for defence stated that it was "one of the most horrible libels that one could imagine about a child only nine years old."
The Twentieth Century Fox Company, which sued jointly with the child film actress, was awarded £1,000, and its English subsidiary £500.
The counsel for defence intimated that the money received in the damages will be turned over to charity.—Trans-Ocean.
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