SORDIDNESS IN FILMS
AMERICAN TALKIES AND ACCENT CHURCHES AND PROBLEMS Why do Americans show, in motion pictures, the vilest side of home problems? This question was asked by the Rev. W. E. Lush, retiring president of the Council of Christian Congregations, at the annual meeting last evening. Mr. Lush foresaw that the council could well engage itself in many public questions in the coming year. Motion pictures dealing with sordid subjects, talking films with the American accent, and picture posters which often were worse than the films themselves, were among the points requiring serious consideration, he said. “What does not pass the censor in New Zealand must be very bad,” Mr. Lush said. “I cannot understand why Americans want to show us the inferior side of its social life. Thfe United States could do better.” , Mr. Lush also predicted that the gambling problem would have to be tackled again. He could not associate gambling with sport. He appealed for closer co-operation among the churches as a movement in establishing united feeling. His views were shared by the new president, the Rev. E*., Drake.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 770, 17 September 1929, Page 16
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