'DAMAGED GOODS'

Evening Star, Issue 19774, 26 January 1928, Page 4

'DAMAGED GOODS'

DRAMA OF SIN CONSEOUENOES ‘Damaged Goods,’ which is to be shown at the Queen’s Theatre to-mor-row, is not merely a picture of sensational happenings, as may be generally supposed by the average citizen; it is an artistic treatment of a serious subject that does not permit of any dramatic or literary license. Eugene Brieux’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 broadvisioned workers who have come out in the open and insisted upon the scourge being attacked and stemmed. It is said that in jhe treatment of the film production of ‘ Damaged Goods,’ which opens at the Queen’s Theatre to-morrow, any crude detail occurring in the book or - play has been eliminated. 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 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.