Foreign News: Pure for Children

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Packing a dingy theatre by putting up the sign FOR MEN ONLY or FOR WOMEN ONLY is an old trick. Last week a new change was rung when the Mayor of Santiago signed a decree authorizing the expenditure of public money to build a theatre FOR CHILDREN ONLY.

Said Mayor Enrique Balmaceda Toro, short and stout: "It is the duty of society in general to guard children from unwholesome impressions. Love shown in the plays at our Children's Theatre will be pure. Affection will be found only in the form of parental regard and...

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