PALACE THEATRE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10475, 4 January 1928, Page 6

PALACE THEATRE

“DAADAGED GOODS

Comjtnencing 10-mght at the Palace for a short season, the picturisacion of Eugene Brieux’s celebrated sociological work will lie presente'd. Even it Eugene Brieux had never accomplished anything elpe in his brilliant literary life, “Damaged Goods.” Ins wonderful, work written to enlighten the world; on the dangers of "thai. dread disease called Red Plague bv many, would easily establish ”a meirnwial in/ recognition of the good his outspoken story has effected in an quarters of rhe globe where the work has been read, the play, heard, or the remarkable screen version seen. The author’s message strikes home verv hard, and. proves conclusively that the clays of prudery and hypocrisy are numbered when such a vital question has to be settled for the well-being of humanity. The prurientminded who hope that in ‘Damaged Goods.” they will find somethin" °to their taste, will .be disappointed? The film may he said to be better than the book and better than the play • the whole subject is delicately, handled throughout, can never be said to make any appeal to immorality, and points the way to reform—to the removal'of ignorance and . hypocrisy, which to so large an extent- are responsible for the existence of one of tlie greatest social scourges of today.