CRIME AND FILMS
UNDESIRABLE NOTORIETY. DISAPPROVAL OF THE TRADE. London, May 14. The Daily Mail, in a leading article, welcomes the Cinematograph Exhibitors’ Association’s strong disapproval of undesirables appearing in films. “This will be endorsed by the public, which does not want the cinematograph cheapened by the appearance on the screen of persons like the Notorious Mrs. Hayley Morriss,” says the paper. “It would, indeed, be retrogression to allow people to act for the films merely because they have become notorious in the criminal courts.”
Hayley Morriss, a wealthy land-own-er, was sentenced in 1925 to two years’ imprisonment, and fined £lOOO, for a seriee of grave offences against young girls at his Sussex mansion. His wife, who had been his housekeeper (then M deline Roberts) and whom he married while awaiting trial, was sentenced to nine months’ gaol for aiding and abetting him. -
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Taranaki Daily News, 31 May 1927, Page 9
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