Education: Athenian Riot

In Athens, Ga. (pop. 18,192) there are two cinema houses, both under the same management. The Strand charges 25¢ admission. The Palace, more popular, scales its price from 25¢ to 40¢, depending on the day of the week. To University of Georgia's 2,700 students that jack-up in the Palace price on busy nights is a major grievance. Around dinner tables one evening last fortnight passed word to meet at the theatre. After dinner groups of students, more boisterous than usual, began to gather outside the Palace and across the street at Costa's...

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