'DAMAGED GOODS'

Evening Star, Issue 19772, 24 January 1928, Page 4

'DAMAGED GOODS'

ii : A SOCIOLOGICAL FILM Both the play and the book, ‘ Damaged Goods,’ are said to suffer by comparison with the film version of this remarkable work by Eugene Brieux. Whereas the play and the hook were constructed on the higher scientific plane, the screen story lias permitted of a more deliberate revelation of the facts, driving home, as it does, a more forcible and lasting lesson than all the sermonising and literary efforts could hope to accomplish; for this reason alone it is said that the picture as a propaganda medium further demonstrates the'effective use that the motion picture can be put to to benefit all sections of humanity. Brieux has painted with a bold brush, dispensing with veneer, and the producer has determined that his audience shall see every stroke as the master hand has painted his story. This line film, which is to be shown at the Queen’s Theatre on Friday next, is a direct answer to the scientific problem surrounding the world’s greatest scourge. Parents are especially asked to see the film, so that they may be armed with a weapon, so to speak, to protect their children by inculcating in them when opportunity offers the means by which they can avoid this and other dreaded evils that so often lie in the path of life of the young. By order of the New Zealand film censor mixed audiences are prohibited, and it has therefore been decided that women only will he admitted to the dress circle and men only to the stalls. The censor has made another proviso—viz., that no individual under the age of sixteen years is to ho admitted.