OBECTIONABLE FILMS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 11 October 1922, Page 5

OBECTIONABLE FILMS

ARCHBISHOP'S DENUNCIATION Preaching at St. Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne, on September 24th, to a large congregation, which included the Governor-General, Archbishop Lees made a strong protest against' the introduction in a Melbourne picture theatre of a film in which a notorious American film star appears once more. Dr. Lees said that if he stood alone as a representative of Christ in'the city, lie would protest ■against this thing. The presentation of a film embracing as its chief attraction a man who was a “lustful brute” and “a moral leper” to all decent people was an affront to the women of Melbourne, and ah act of callous indifference to purity of life which should he resented by the Christian conscience of the na-, tion. Ho was surprised that the huge advertisements relating to the x’eturn of this man to the picture, theatre programmes were tolerated by the community. The public should be protected,, and steps taken In secure that the film was withdrawn. It was said in the ad 1 vertisements that the man’s return was welcome in his own country. He doubted it.