"SEX THEIR COD."

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 54, 5 March 1937, Page 7

"SEX THEIR COD."

Theatre Celebrity Shocked by Modern Plays. FILMS ALSO CASTIGATED. LONDON. ICl.iuhix L' 7. " I'liev :i ppcar 111 11,' I\ c imnlr >c\ | licit" Jloil and haxc reduced l..>t )i C, M | an,! , \ tn I lie miasma <if the |iiifn|\-." Miles Mhmil r, f >r<mi|in-111. I,mi.lon I'l",v w rijil't. m• tin", |>rik 11■ •I■ r ninl lilin diri'ct nr. 111 u ~ criticise- Ihe A nieriea n | iei 11 ill l in hi* hook, •'ld My Si hi In Confidence." which will !„• |nil>li.-ln-<1 I■ v I'hlier ami I'ahei, Ltd. I Hill flall kI y klii trkcillie \x riles, "«t many cm rent plays ami film-, winch,' largely fnmi a sense of profcssii .nn I duty, 1 make a point of seeing. In the |iaxt few niin 11 lis I ha x c seen li\e successful jilays anil many unsuccessful ones. "Of the fixe that, Were successful, only one |ir o x eil to lie I lie kind of show to which I would liax e liked to take a young gill, yet in each case the stalls were era mined liy men and women of the upper classes, apparently eager addicts to the charms of pornographv and moral putrefaction." Mr. Marnier mills that British producers recently liaxe proxeil that it clean picture was not necessarily dull. Discussing the I nited States, he writes: Some say that the American people are decadent. If so, they are the first people in history to heeonie decadent liefiue heroniing civilised."