your own country” is a saying that is interpreted in an unusual way by the American George Jean Nathan, who criticises both the entertainment and the daily life of the United States.- In a new book. “Land of the Pilgrim’s Pride,” he writes; “Three-quarters of the fiction and plays and a recognisable share of the motion pictures (for all we hear of censorship) presently view loose sex morals either lightly or romantically: gone almost entirely is the former uncompromising tragic approach to the subject. The wages of sin is no longer death, but a happy. ending.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 236, 24 December 1927, Page 20
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