Foreign News: Cinema

L'Onorevole Mussolini, ofttimes quick to wrath and action, acted both hastily and wrathfully last week, dismissed at fell blow his entire Italian Board of Cinema Censorship.

The Board, either stupid or non-vigilant, had passed a U. S. film which showed a Hollywood Naples, murky and depraved. Mussolini's Italy, Mussolini's Naples had been grossly, falsely represented, insulted! Away with the Board!

To the première of the film, Street Angel, were invited Rome's most scintillant critics, most potent cinema tycoons. When an unsalubrious and perhaps unrecognizable Naples flickered before their eyes, they whistled and...

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