GROWING EVIL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 113, 5 January 1932, Page 2

GROWING EVIL

SECRET SHOWilNGS ABROAD OF OBTECTTONABLE FILMS. Objectionahle films shown to secret audiences in various parts of the country are the subject of remarkable revelations which have just heen made public in England. The films are shown almost daily in London and in large towns in the provinces. Big sums are charged for admission. These disclosures are made by Mr. Cecil Bishop, formerly of the C.I.D., in his new hook, "Women and Crime." The difficulty of putting a stop to these shows, he says, is due to the subtlety with which arrangements are made. "A room, a large shed, or a cellar is hired for a day. The films are taken to the appoin(ed place in time to prepare the camera. The visitors arrive by arrangement five minutes before the show is due to start. "Within half an hour of the conelusion of the, programme films and

amera have been secreted in some hiding place three or four miles from the place where they were used. "Next day they are taken to some other place and exhib:ted again." Mr. Bishop states that some time ago he was approaehed by a well known London solicitor in connectio-n with the case of a boy of twenty-one who had been blackmailed bv two men he had met at an indecent film show. He accompanied the solicitor to a cellar in the West End at an address which had been given to the lad. "There were eight people present," he says. "Three of these were American, one was a Frenchman, and the rest were Englishwomen. "Each visitor paid a fee of five pounds, and the film lasted about forty-five minutes. It was without exception the most -disgusting exhibition that I have ever seen. We failed to catch the scoundrels who were blackmailing the lad."