TRASH THAT ESCAPES THE CENSOR

Radio Record, 20 May 1938, Page 34

TRASH THAT ESCAPES THE CENSOR

()F all bad novels, those are most detestable which may be calied the "sugared sex books." = Then theme is "‘bodily union" and their detail is entirely unimportant. Theis slither past the censor only because, as literature, they are su trashy that no one with intelligence can be bothered to read them. No buuned D. H, Lawrence work ever carried one-hundredth part the dose of mischief! which these literary pills possess. For these are sold in open market and swallowed without unde: standing by a thousand million readers -readers who are drugged to believe that love is "bee-utiful" and who ge searching in their own lives for a ‘"‘fulfilment™ that is htumanty impossible and in day Case, outside of novelist trash, would be far foo sugary sweet to be tolerable, The French, who are realists and wise men, condemn most English romantic stories as immoral because they build false values. And 2 book like Norma Lorimer’s "Where fgnorance is Bliss." Which the dust cover proclaims as the "daring story of three lovers," is comInonplace proof that the French are right. There is nothing that econld noi be read aloud in sy early Vietorian drawing-room-the fornication jis al! done With fig-lenves-but if ever a book in cumulative effect justified banning this does, One last word. Curious people who are led by vituperntive reviews to expect a spiey tale will be horribly disappointed here, There isn’t even any Salt. Indeed the best comment on the book is its own--vhere ignorance — is bliss... "Where Ignorance is Bliss.’ by Norma Lorimer. (THoatehinson and Co., E.td.. London). Our copy from the publishers,