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“DAMAGED GOODS” A film version of Briex’s famous play, “Damaged Goods,” is to be presented at the National Theatre next Thursday. According to the regulation imposed by the censor, this picture may be shown to segregated audiences composed exclusively of women or men, no individual under 10 years of age being admitted. The picture is described by an Australian critic as follows:—“The story teaches a lesson in its candid revelation of the effects that red plague make in a community, and how also by prudery and ‘the conspiracy of silence’ studiously ignorant people can encourage this dread disease. The author carries his message to a very high point, but the delicate situations are said to be so weaved into the dramatic story that the intelligent mind is not distressed, but rather is refreshed. For those who have not read the book it may be said that the entire construction of the story is well laid, and although there are many extraordinary incidents in the course of the play, the sensationalism is merely the sincerity of the moral lesson afmed at.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 195, 7 November 1927, Page 14
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181NATIONAL Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 195, 7 November 1927, Page 14
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