“VICTIM OF INTOLERANCE”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 397, 4 July 1928, Page 1

“VICTIM OF INTOLERANCE”

FILM PRODUCER’S CLAIM marriage scene banned Mr. Rudall Hayward, producer ? f th « film, “The Bush Cinderella,” that “not understood” feeling to-day. Yesterday, the Rev. Lawson Marsh, minister of the Devonport Presbyterian Church, forbade the snooting” at his church of a mar™a9e scene between Mr. Cecil Scott and Miss Dale Austen, prinC| pals in the production. The minister, when the party arrived °n location,” refused to allow a picture to be taken in the church or church grounds because he felt that Carriage was a sacred thing, and fakes * therefore, were not permissible. Hayward, in an explanation to o Sun to-day said he had no intenll°n of trevesting the marriage cere®°ny - He had not intended even shooting’’ a scene in the church. All an ted of Mr. Marsh was permisa °n to film the “bride” and “bridegroom coming out of the church doors 0 their waiting motor-car. PRODUCER’S SACRED IDEAS E'en motion picture people,” he have ideas on the sanctity of riage, and I am sure neither Mr. c °tt or Miss Austen would consent to a PPear in a disrespectful scene.” therft J? ayv> ard went on to deny that in any idea of a publicity stunt Even the church scene, been . e ann ouncement had not ln The Sun, there would still the cn« een ? lar &e crowd there to see centihfiff et J> avin & hurt religious susl ?S' Af Said Hayward, “but Mr - Marsh’s parishioners am V bl ave be en a little more tolerB ntish p ic turS» ne 13 CrylnS ° Ut f ° r