OUR FILM REVIEWS.
Sir-I should like to support "G.M." against the dull moral and etymological puritanism of L. D. Austin and "C’rect Card." To hold that films should not be reviewed because some deal with risqué situations is hard on those puritans who occasionally visit the cinema and who depend on reviews to tell them what is and what is not objectionable by their standards. But those of us who are mentally adult know that "bright farcical entertainment" has depended on risqué situations from Aristophanes to Hollywood, and we are content to enjoy what has amused every generation to date. I rejoice further in the continued enrichment of English by the powerful American vernacular. English is an anglo-saxon-norman-latin hybrid which is now on its way to becoming a world language. The virility that fits our language for so great a destiny is proved by its continued capacity to produce new offspring. In brief, "G.M." is good-and English
can take it!
H.
W.
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 116, 12 September 1941, Page 4
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163OUR FILM REVIEWS. New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 116, 12 September 1941, Page 4
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