GERMANY: Horses, Crocodiles

Into a Berlin courtroom there strode, last week, a prisoner named Schwarz, who scowled upon the presiding Judge and slumped heavily into a chair, his jaw jutting.

The Court was informed that Herr Schwarz' occupation was that of a cinema director specializing in "Wild West" productions. He had been arraigned upon charges preferred by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Witnesses testified that director Schwarz had recently been at work upon a sequence in which two horses were supposed to be stampeded over the...

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