Word: edith
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...violently protested cinema drama Dawn, originally intended to portray the life & execution of Edith Cavell (TIME, March 12), had its premiere without incident at Brussels, Belgium, last week, in a version from which incidents concerning Nurse Cavell had been virtually excluded. As revamped, Dawn is concerned chiefly with a lengthy contrast between the lives of Wilhelm II and Woodrow Wilson...
...correspondents who questioned him about the British Board of Film Censors of which he has been chairman for 11 years (see COMMONWEALTH) he said: "First of all we tolerate no propaganda. . . . Secondly, we recently ruled against the Edith Cavell picture Dawn because it was too warlike. I am told it cost ?35,000. It's not the war spirit that we want to foster but the spirit of peace. Thirdly, there is our attitude toward religious films. I may say that we would not have passed The King of Kings. The producer, probably surmising as much, did not submit...
From South Africa to Fleet Street the Empire was piquantly all of a twitter, last week, over Dawn, the furiously contested cinemastory of the life & execution of Edith Cavell (TIME, Feb. 20). At the nub of controversy jutted the fact that Great Britain has been "muddling through" without a legal system of film censorship. Therefore, last week, the interplay of moral suasion was untrammeled and magnificently British. Some felt, and some did not, that to project the story of Nurse Cavell once more upon the world would be to revive War mentality at its worst and embitter Anglo-German relations...
...Germans" and roundly flayed by peppery Brigadier-General John Hartman Morgan who served as Vice-Chairman of the Lord Bryce Commission which, during the War, investigated and exaggerated "German atrocities." Flinging the defunct Commission's hat once more into the ring, General Morgan rehearsed the "judicial murder" of Edith Cavell and seemed to think it could not receive too much film publicity...
...Cramer, Chairman, and Betty B. Siegel; E. L. Fisher and Harriet Sussman; Leo Huberman and Alice Rosenberg; George Hurwitz and Ruth Green; S. S. Korzenik and Edith Freedman; Milton C. Lack and Beatrice Lourie...