CENSOR AT WORK. I .ONI 10 X, Jan ‘2O. 3Cr T. I s . O’Connor (I’resideiit ol the British film consul's) has issued a defence of Llic-ir notion in excising from an Oliver Twi t film a portion in which .Eight instructs Oliver in pocket-pick-ing. O’Connor says when he took up the censorship lie laid down the principle that no lilin .showing the actual method of crime would ho passed. ’I he excision was very small, the pocket picking not being entirely eliminatd. hut not elaborated. The owners of tiki film declared the material olfect on the film was negligible. Commenting on the criticism that everything Dickens wrote was fit for the screen. Mr O’Connor asks would a realistic rcpriisentation of Nancy’s murder he suitable. BOOK BANNED. LON'DON. Jn.u 2s).
The London police have banned Mar•guerite’s book “La Gnrconnc, declaring it is indecent.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1923, Page 3
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142Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1923, Page 3
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