PALACE THEATRE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10476, 5 January 1928, Page 6

PALACE THEATRE

‘DAAIAGED GOODS.”

Both the play and the book, “Damaged Goods, " are said to sullcr by comparison with the film version oi this work by Eugene rJricux. Whereas the play and! the book wore constructed on the higher scientific plane cho screen story has permitted of a more deliberate revelation of the clie facts, driving, home, as it does, ,i more forcible and lasting lesson chan all the sermonising and literary efforts could hope to accomplish : tor this reason alone ir. is saict that the picture as a propaganda medium further demonstrates the oriective use to which tut! motion pic.ure can be put t.> bcnc..t a.i s. ct ous of humanity. Brieux lias painted with a hold brush; dispensing with veneer, the producer has determined that his audience shall see every stroke as the master hand has painted his story. This film, was screened to a capacity house at the Palace last night and will be shown at the matinee to-day and again to-night. It is a direct • mstvor to the, scieutifi y problem surrounding the world’s greatest scourge. The management states that parents are specially asked to see the film so that they may bo armed to protect their children by inculcating in them when opportunity offers the means by which they" can rtvo'd this and other dreaded evils that so often-strew the path of life of the young. By order of the New Zealand' film censor, mixed audiences are prohibited, and it, lias 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 16 years is to lie admitted.