British Censor Cuts French Production
QUEEN VICTORIA'S COURT The British film censor seems to have been a little concerned over "The Court Waltzes," the French film produced by Gunther Stapenhorst, and directed by Ludwig Berger, according to a British writer.-. * The film is a fantasy about two rival composers, Josef Lanner and Johann Strauss, and how both find themsehes continuing their quarrel in London when Queen Victoria imports musicians to teach her court the waltz. A few small cuts were made. It was considered undignified, for instance, that wo should see the Queen kissing Prince Albert and immediately announcing her engagement. It is understood that objection was also taken to a farcical court scene where English judges, in the round caps worn by the French judiciary, join in the singing of a waltz attributed to both composers. Eventually it was passed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22819, 28 August 1937, Page 16 (Supplement)
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