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“DAMAGED GOODS” I “.Damaged Goods,” which has been . attracting large audiences to the National Theatre, will be shown there i for the last time to-night. A critic in j the Sydney “Times” writes: “ 'Dam- i aged Goods* is, of course, a pictorial version of Eugene Brieux’s great work. It is both drama and sermon —the ; drama of the world’s thousands whose happiness is wrecked by ignorance, j quackery, and hypocrisy—a sermon against those who would stop the spread of knowledge. It has been a j much-discussed play, and in the I screened edition the straightforward tone of the original has been kept, j while made even more #/pressivc hy ; actual clinical scenes. The effect of the picture on most people at the ; Australian Picture Palace last week ' was assuredly to make them see that . society has varnished facts long enough
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 203, 16 November 1927, Page 15
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141NATIONAL Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 203, 16 November 1927, Page 15
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