NURSE CAVELL FILM

Southland Times, Issue 20417, 21 February 1928, Page 7

NURSE CAVELL FILM

SCREENING OF “DAWN” MR BERNARD SHAW’S VIEWS “A WORTHY WORK OF ART’’ (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) London, February 19. Mr Bernard Shaw, after seeing the Nurse Cavell film “Dawn,” stated: “It is irresistible, and the only question to be considered is whether it is a worthy work of art. Take my word, it is. There is a movingly impressive reincarnation of the heroine by our greatest tragic actress whose dignity keeps the whole story on the highest plane. The producer has not betrayed a single stroke of bitterness or rancour and the film can be shown in Germany without provoking a single German to tell us that people living in glass houses ought not to throw stones. I hope ‘Dawn’ can take its lesson to the ends of the earth.”—A. and N.Z. ATTITUDE IN AMERICA. Washington, February 17. The State Department may act to prevent the showing of the British cinema picture “Dawn,” against which the Americans of German descent have complained. It is stated that the New York Department has no supervision over cinemas, and could merely suggest to the exhibitors that the picture was considered to be offensive.— A. and N.Z.