MOTION PICTURES AND DECENCY.
Your correspondent "Yuan Mee" draws attention to the indecent matters introduced into screen comedies, although why he should specially select comedies is somewhat of ® mystery. I have found that the saving grace of humour alleviates much. Most thoughtful people will agree that the more pernicious harm is being done by the serious presentation of vice as a natural indulgence, and ' n particular by the organised attack on the sanctity of the home. The glorification of the n/iitrimonial triangle showing the hero in roll of a smug adulterer is surely a I' oo! , education for the young. Memoirs of the clergy and others have from time to time drawn attention to posters shov'jug generon» proportions of ladies' lower limbs instead _o gcing into the theatres and finding where tie rial evil lies. When there i; evidence of * organised attack on that typically Bow* institution, "the home," I think it is higi t:m> seriously-minded people beg.in tO'SitUF . and take notice. " *•!*'»
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Auckland Star, Issue 17, 21 January 1932, Page 6
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