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That is some straight up devilry right there.

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A reproduction of a newspaper clipping. It reads:

MRS. VIOLA DESMOND

Takes Action

Mrs. Viola Desmond, 32-year-old Negro Halifax beautician, arrested and fined $20 and costs by Magistrate Rod G. MacKay, of this town. for sitting downstairs in the Roseland Theatre while holding an upstairs ticket.

Mrs. Desmond was fined for defrauding the Federal Government of one cent, the difference in the Amusement tax on an upstairs ticket of two cents and a downstairs ticket of three cents.

Counsel for Mrs. Desmond, F. W. Bisset of Halifax, has served a writ against Henry MacNeil. manager of the theatre, charging false arrest. false imprisonment, assault and malicious persecution.

E. M. Macdonald, K.C., of New Glasgow, is acting, for Mr. MacNeil. Mrs. Desmond, the former Viola Davis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Davis, of Halifax, is well known throughout the
Province. She is a graduate of the Halifax High School, and is also a graduate in Beauty Culture from a leading Beauty College in New York. She is a niece of John Davis, Civil Service employee (Post Office Division). Halifax.

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