Cinema: Brigitte at the Bar

Lush French Cinemactress Brigitte Bardot displays her charms so bountifully in And God Created Woman—a story of a woman indiscriminately seeking a bed-mate—that customers are packing into highbrow art theaters around the nation to give her some lowbrow ogling. But when Brigitte went on display in Philadelphia, she stopped the show. "Dirt for dirt's sake," cried District Attorney Victor H. "Blanc. Last week the D.A.'s office confiscated the film from two theaters and charged the owners with violating an anti-obscenity film provision in the state's criminal code.

Quick support for Brigitte's right to...