'DAMAGED GOODS'

Evening Star, Issue 19773, 25 January 1928, Page 5

'DAMAGED GOODS '

INITIAL SCREENING ON FRIDAY As a result of the world's recent great upheaval leading scientists, both in the war zone and out of it, have, fjy their attempts to combat a certain disease, educated the public mind to regard the important subject dealt with in the play ‘ Damaged Goods,’ which was staged in New Zealand some years ago, in a serious and straightforward way.

Eugene Brienx’s novel was banned in New Zealand some years back by the authorities, but it is quite safe to assume that, with the experience that the war has brought, the novel would now be gladly received, not only by the medical faculty, but by those hroaclvisioned workers who have come out in the open and insisted upon the scourge being attacked and stemmed.

It is said that in the treatment of the film production of ‘ Damaged Goods,’ which opens at the Queen’s Theatre on Friday, any crude detail occurring in the book or play has been eliminated. Parents are especially asked to see the film, so that they may bo 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 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 be 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 be admitted.