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...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...
...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...
...Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, matriarchal Mrs. Florence Prag Kahn of California-all of the House. The fourth lady of the House...
History dramatized seems to present a different situation, as in the case of the motion picture "Dawn", a British production. The German Government has successfully protested against the release, which deals with the death of Edith Cavell, as an objectionable theme and a misrepresentation. Whether or not the portrayal is incorrect is beside the point, for the reports of the Germans themselves fail to concur. But the fact remains that the subject was banned from England as unfit for reproduction on the screen, since it might be provocative of feeling not in accord with a spirit of pacification...