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February 1942
FILM INDIA
sound caused by the sudden parting of lips and the lady, in a moment of ecstasy saying, "Oh darling! It is wonderful."
•'It is foolish, not wonderful", shouted the elderly man by my side.
I don't know what upset this peaceful old man. Either he could not bear this audacious act of youth or this daringly romantic incident brcught to his memory the recollections of his own adventurous youth and made him jealous.
These remarks, made in the presence of his lady love, were enough to provoke the young man. A petty squabble ensued and it might have taken a serious turn had not some people intervened in time. However, my show was spciled. the elderly person's peace was spoiled and the young couple's romance was spoiled. And all this through lack of good manners.
THE SMOKING CHIMNEYS
The greatest nuisance in a cinema hall is the presence of indiscriminate smokers. Now smoking may be a necessity with them. It may be the indispensable quality of modern gentleman. Or it may even be the hall-mark of an aristocratic society. Yet by no code of good manners, one
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is justified in filling an entertainment hall with smoke specially when all the doors, windows and ventilators are closed.
And this is not all. It is an every day experience in almost all the theatres to see a person smoking a cigarette and puffing out the smoke indiscriminately. This smoke may
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get into your nose and make you sneeze, may choke your breath or even bring tears in your eyes but the audacious smoker remains unconcerned and keeps on smoking heroically. Sometimes, it has been seen that even protests fail to bring the desired change in the attitude of a smcker. Here is a story told by a friend.
During the course of a cinema show, an educated youth kept on smoking cheroots incessantly and throwing out the smoke right into the face of his neighbour. The neighbour was a non-smoker but he suffered patiently as long as he could. When he c. uld not bear it any more, he very politely requested the smoker to puff out the smoke in some other direction. The youth ignored this legitimate request. The man protested. And in reply, the young smoker took out the remnant of his admission ticket and showing it to the man, said. "I have bought this ticket." A worse example of insolence could not be given.
THE PURDAH LADY
To bring people who do not know how to behave, in places of public entertainment is also not good as sometimes it leads to very undesir
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