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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 196, 8 November 1927, Page 15

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“DAMAGED GOODS” Both the play and the book “Damaged Goods” are said to suffer by comparison with the film version of this remarkable work by Eugene Brieux. Whereas the play and the book were constructed on the higher scientific plane, the screen story lias permitted of a more deliberate revelation of the facts, driving home, as it does, a more forcible and lasting lesson than all the sermonising and literary efforts fcould hope to accomplish; for this reason alone it is said that the picture as a propaganda medium further demonstrates the effective use that the motion picture can be put to to benefit all sections of humanity. Brieux has painted with a bold brush; dispensing with veneer, the producer has determined that his "audience shall see every stroke as the master hand has painted his storv. This fine film, which is to be shown at the National Theatre from Thursday next, is a direct anwser to the scentific problem surrounding the world’s greatest scourge. Parents are specially asked to see the film so that they may be armed with a weapon so to speak to protect their children by inculcating in them when opportunity offers the means by which they can avoid this and other dreaded evils that so often strew the path of life of the young. By order of the New Zealand film censor, mixed audiences are prohibited. and it has therefoi been decided that women only will be admitted to the dress circle and men only to the stalls. / The has made another proviso. that no individual under the age of 16 jeais is to be admitted*** ~~ ' "