No Explanation Received by Company.
(Received December 5. 2.30 p.m.) LONDON. December 4. The Gaumont British Company has not received official advice of the banning of the film “ Evensong ” in Australia, but assumes that the rejection is due to the same principles on which Beverly Nichols’s book was criticised. Mr Nichols himself is abroad. The Gaumont British Companystates that the film is quite unlike Mr Nichols’s novel. It shows an opera star in the flush of her glory. It is not a bitter pen picture of a faded opera star, such as was portrayed in the book. The newspapers attribute the banning of “ Evensong ” to the allegation that the book is a cruel picture of Dame Nellie Melba.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20480, 5 December 1934, Page 7
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118No Explanation Received by Company. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20480, 5 December 1934, Page 7
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