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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1384, 2 November 1916, Page 34

No play of recent years has aroused such a storm of comment, nor achieved such wide-reaching effects, as Brieux’s tragic drama, “Damaged Goods”. It is therefore not surprising that mention in the newspapers of the possibility of the J. C. Williamson management staging this piay Las sent a wave of interest and d.scussion spread.ng far and wide. Dealing as it does with a question that is being dealt with throughout Australia at the present time, the production of “Damaged Goods,” it is considered officially would have enormous results. Brieux’s great sociological play derives its name from the fundamental idea of the drama —the manage cf the physically unfit to the physically fit, and the “damaged children” which result. The Archbishop of Canterbury recently expressed the idea in tnis poetic phrase :—- “ ‘Damaged Goods’ is but the broken torch of lifehanded down by parental unfitness. Damaged Goods’ reminds one of the bargain counter, the cheap sale, and the remnant-seeker. Shame cn society that it has carried on such a shoddy and shady busines.”