Cinema: The New Pictures: May 25, 1931

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Seed (Universal). In a sentimental effort to set forth the disadvantages which may result from having too many children. Author Charles Oilman Norris wrote in Seed the story of how bothersome progeny caused an ambitious writer to leave his wife, take up with a lady who had less exaggerated views on domesticity. Birth control is not a precept which the cinema is encouraged to advertise, but the producers of Seed found an easy way to escape the apparent necessity for doing so. By making his five children a very minor reason for...

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