Evening Despatch from Birmingham, West Midlands, England • 11

I A COURT-MARTIAL ON ARMY INSTRUCTOR THE NEW EVENING DESPATCH THURSDAY 28 MAY 1936 LIKE A RAILWAY PLAZA CINEMA DUDLEY Opening to-day Thursday May 28th DIVORCE CHIVALRY BISHOPS ON WEAKNESSES ATTITUDE RENEE HOUSTON CASE THREE STUDENTS FOR TRIAL "NOT PLEAS PAPERS THAT VANISHED AFTER EXAM GUARDS NCO I DENIES SUBSTITUTION ANONYMOUS LETTER fZf rv- THREE students of Edinburgh University pleaded not guilty at Edinburgh Sheriff Court to-day to charges in connection with "the alleged kidnapping of Miss Renee Houston from the Empire Theatre Edinburgh The students were John Roderick Mackay Johnston and Kenneth Brauer medical students and Walter Edward Scott an art student The trial was fixed for 16 July The charge stated that in pursuance of illegal purposes for securing custody of Miss Houston and forcibly detaining her until an amount of £25 should be made as a contribution to the Edinburgh Charities Week they did while acting in concert with various other persons known on 28 April assault Miss Houston forcibly remove her in a motor-car strike her in the face with their fists and forcibly detain her and put her into a state of There was a further charge of assaulting a stage doorkeeper by securing his arms with rope and preventing him from giving warning and also of assaulting a male performer and male dresser New traffic islands are being constructed at the Aston end of Corporation-street Birmingham in front of the new central fire station attitude of the Church to divorced persons was discussed when the Upper House of the Convocation of Canterbury continued in London to-day its consideration of resolutions submitted in the report of the joint committee of the Convocations of Canterbury and York on and The Bishop of Chichester (Dr Bell) moved a resolution giving a Bishop discretion where he was satisfied that a divorced persons second legal marriage was morally preferable to any other course to give directions that the husband and wife might be admitted to Holy Communion The Bishop of Winchester (Dr Garbett) moved an amendment that the Primate be asked to appoint a joint committee to consider and report upon the conditions under which such persons might be admitted to Holy Communion MEANNESS OF is said that you cannot to-day distinguish between the innocent and the remarked the Bishop It is true that in certain small circles with a perverted chivalry it is sometimes expected that the man even though innocent should take all the blame I find it difficult to know which to condemn more the weakness of the man who adopts such a course or the meanness of the woman who expects him to adopt There was very real danger to-day he added of adultery being regarded as a very light matter and jt would be a disaster if through their resolutions was considered that the Church was weakening on this matter Dr Garbett altered his amendment to one requesting the appointment of a Committee of the House (instead of a Joint Committee) and at the request of the Bishop of Coventry (Dr Haigh) included for consideration the question of admission to baptism as well as Holy Communion In this altered form the amendment was carried WOMAN WINS PREMIER AWARD AT BIRMINGHAM SHOW There are many unique feature about it not least of which is the shapa of the auditorium which is virtually like that of an egg The side walls converge towards the proscenium and the back wall is curved a process which according to the latest thought gives the most perfect acoustics Entering from the Castle Hill one is immediately impressed by the dignified and tasteful decorative scheme of tho entrance hall with it beautiful coloured floor Ascending well designed staircase one reaches tha large entrance foyer and then through another set of doors into the balcony foyer proper a well shaped room designed for the comfort of patrons waiting on busy nights The balcony itself is one of tha largest of its kind for it will seat well over six hundred people Great care has been taken throughout the whole einema not only to ensure the comfort of patrons in the matter of but special precaution lias also been taken to make sure that the occupant of every seat has a clear and uninterrupted view of the screen The beautiful and pleasing decorative effect obtained with fibrpus plaster and painting is singularly striking arid its charm is emphasised by the clever concealed lighting WIDE ENTERTAINMENT EXPERIENCE Mr Maurice Kennedy who is the manager of the cinema is one of the youngest managers in the business but in spite of his lack of years he brings to the post a wide and capable experience in the entertainment world hag toured the whole country as manager for repertory musical comedy and revue productions and for some years has acted as assistant manager for his father Mr Benjamin eldest son Mr Kennedy is the licensee of the cinema and will be responsible for the Aim hookings He has been general manager for his father for many years and patrons can rest assured that with his vast experience of all types of entertainments the choice of films which will appeal to Black Country audiences is in safe hands Messrs Clements Bros (Displays) Ltd who were responsible for the designing and supplying of the display frames for this theatre are well-known in the cinema trade for the originality of their designs It has always been their policy never to manufacture standard display frames but to design each set of frames in accordance with the colour scheme and architecture of the particular einema for which they are intended This no doubt has had a great deal to do with their rise to fame In addition they supply many of thd beautifully hand-painted lobby displays and posters seen in theatres throughout the country Messrs Clements have extensive an up-to-date studios at Bromsgrove from which displays have been dispatched to such distant places ps Jaffa Palestine Mauritius and the West Indies JOYOUSLY different from ordinary cinemas is the keynote of newest and most up-to-date palace of entertainment The Plaza Cinema which opens to-day And behind its erecting lies a remarkable story of the romantic rise of its proprietor Mr Benjamin Kennedy one of the most prominent figures in the Midland entertainment world Benjamin Kennedy was one of the young men with initiative and foresight who saw the possibilities before those first very crude moving pictures and he did not hestitate to take the plunge Braving all the and they were legion he bought a bioscope and travelling from town to town hiring halls wherever he went tie gave the Midlanders their first experience of the invention which was destined to play so important a part in modern life He had the of being the first permanent picture house proprietor in Birmingham for it was he who opened the Kings Hall in Corporation-street From then his interest spread throughout the whole of the Black Country and it was not long before lie had brought permanent picture houses into being in Dudley Tipton Darlaston Wednesbury Oldbury Smethwick Cannock Bearwood Hanley Wordsley and Saltley -ASSET TO THE TOWN But his interest in entertainment has not been confined entirely to cinemas He has had a marked influence too upon Music Halls within the Black Country and the surrounding area Over twenty years ago he was touring with the noted Comics and practically twenty years ago he took over Dudley Opera House and so became permanently responsible for lie Music Hall entertainment of the town He still controls the Opera House and his other enterprises include the Gaiety Birmingham the Plaza West Bromwich and the West Erormvich The new Plaza is perhaps the most ambitious of his many excursions into the entertainment world for it is a super-cinema in every sense df the word Not only is its striking design an asset to the town but it provides for the cinema-goers of the area a standard of luxury and comfort which has hitherto been confined to the largest cities Jt has been designed by the well-known Birmingham architect Mr Hurley Robinson FRIBA and replaces a much smaller cinema of the same name which formerly occupied a portion of the site Mr Robinson's task was by no means an easy one for the site rendered planning rather difficult The many obstacles which were presented were cleverly overcome however and the result is a magnificent cinema which many much larger towns would be proud to possess WOMAN took premier award at the Alpine Garden Midland Show which opened at the Botanical Gardens Edgbaston to-day She is Miss I) Hopton of Hagley Court Barestree Hereford and her exhibit Calceolaria Darwinii was awarded first prize and a Farrer Memorial Medal as the best plant exhibited by an amateur this being the first time a woman had won a Farrer Memorial medal at the Birmingham show The winning plant comes from Patagonia For the first time too this year a Farrer Memorial medal has been awarded to a trade exhibitor in Birmingham It has been won by Hughes of Wythall for the best trade exhibit in the show He has also won a silver medal Silver medals were also awarded to Brookside Nurseries Oxford Alpine Nurseries Ltd West Moors near Wim borne Dorset Mr Kibble Bardsey Yorkshire the Chez Nous Nurseries BOY TRESPASSERS Danger of Playing On Railway Sidings The danger or children playing on railway sidings was stressed by the chairman (Mr Jackson) at Wednes-bury Juvenile Court to-day when three boys aged 10 11 and 16 appeared for trespassing on the LMS Railway sidings at Wednesbury A detective employed by the company said he saw the three boys with some other children going on to the sidings On several occasions he saw them go across the metals and also swing on a derrick They played about for about half-an-hour and when witness approached them they ran away but he caught them The cases were dismissed and the parents each ordered to pay 4s costs Newick Suesex and Messrs Bowles and Skarratt A NEW SECTION A special silver medal was awarded to Capt Henry Leschallas of Prest-bury Gloucester for a non-competitive entry of outstanding merit consisting of a choice variety of Alpine plants The Hon Treasurer of the Society Dr Giuseppi of Felixstowe carried off a number of prizes He Miss Hopton and Mrs Dyson Perrins of Malvern were all awarded several firsts seconds and thirds In the class for personally collected plants (three pans) Dr Giuseppi and Miss Hopton took first and second prizes respectively A new section in this show was for juniors persons who had not won more than seven first prizes at any of the shows The first prize and a special prize in this class was won by Burbridge Plants from Persia Spain the Caucasus and the Himalayas were among the many exhibits to be seen There were considerably more entries at this show than last year though the number of exhibitors remained about the same The show continues to-morrow (PICTURE ON PAGE 9) SHORT WEIGHT BREAD A Coventry baker Henry Box of 110 Berkeley-road was fined £3 at Coventry to-day on three summonses for selling bread which was underweight on 27 -April The average deficiency it was alleged was one ounce in each loaf ALLEGATIONS that a Guards NCO substituted examination answers which he had written himself for answers worked out by candidates who were his pupils were made at a Court Martial at Windsor to-day Sergt (Sergt Instructor) Christopher William Herbert Reeve of the Army Educational Corps attached to the 1st Battalion of the Coldstream Guards pleaded not guilty at a general court-martial at Yfictoria Barracks to eight charges One of the witness said he understood that the matter had been brought to a head by an anonymous letter Sat in Barracks Major Osmond (prosecuting) said that the examinations for the first-first-class certificate of education were held at Victoria Barracks on 14 15 and 16 October An examination in mathematics A took place between the hours of 930 am and 1230 ipm on Tuesday 15 October and an examination map reading on the following morning the candidates from the 1st Battalion of the Coldstream said Major Osmond were Sergt Drury and Sergt Sutter Sergeant-Instructor Reeve was in charge of the candidates from these barracks and had prepared them for examination He was present at the commencement Qf the examinations on each morning the end of each of these examinations the work of the candidates which is done on Army Book Four was collected and sealed in enevoleps in the examination room in the presence of the supervisor officer who will tell you he took the envelopes thus sealed down to the orderly room for dispatch in the usual way to the War Office- Examiners Discovery In March of this year it was discovered that scripts marked by the examiners which purported to he scripts submitted by these two noncommissioned officers were not in their handwriting The two men will tell you that the two papers shown to them as marked by the examiners were not the ones worked by them It was perfectly clear that there had been a substitution of papers Somebody worked two sets of papers and somebody worked two sets of map-reading papers and caused these scripts to be inserted in the batch of papers that went to the War Office and somehow or other caused the papers submitted by these two candidates to be abstracted and not sent The question who did fit? The prosecution alleged that it was the accused who wrote these scripts and further allege that having written them lie caused them to be substituted for scripts done and submitted by Sergt Drury and Sergt Suter In regard to the first allegation you will hear that when the matter was first brought to the notice of the accused he was shown these papers that came back from the War Office he said that although they were good forgeries they were certainly not in his handwriting and he had not written Document Burnt Major Osmond said that the books were submitted to a well-known expert' in hand-writing together with three specimens of known and admitted handwriting of the accused The expert would say that he came to the conclusion that the hooks and those specimens had been written by the same person There is reason to believe that the original documents in this case were destroyed by fire somehow or Major Osmond added At any rate they have been lost or destroyed by fire and cannot be produced before you to-day before they had been destroyed the expert had made his investigation and had taken photographs of substantial portions of these The transformation of Mrs South ARM IN MACHINE Birmingham Boy Who Had Been at Work Only 3 Weeks too sunny tempered full of life and the children simply adore her And all because now she enjoys PLAZA CINEMA CASTLE HILL DUDLEY Bobby if you stop that noise smack you Daisy clear up all that mess at once The children looked miserable and Mrs heart smote her She was always being unreasonable with them nowadays but how could she help it Those splitting headaches of hers were enough to make anyone A 14-year-old Birmingham boy who had only been at work three weeks was taken to the General Hospita to-day after his arm had been caught in a machine he wras working at the Dawes Cycle Factory Wharf-road Tvseley He was Edwin John Bailey of 65 Lily-road South Yardley who was later transferred to the Dudley-roac Hospital and detained He had a frac 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