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...Correspondents who had meanwhile viewed a pre-showing of Dawn reported that, as displayed to them, the execution of Nurse Cavell was not thrown on the screen at all, but was simply to be inferred from the agonized expression on the face of the German priest who administered last rites...
...Austen's plea against Dawn was shortly described as "a lullaby to please the 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...
...remote Witwaters Rand, South Africa, the local Deputy Commissioner of Police was so stirred by despatches from London that he issued an order banning Dawn, although the film had not yet had its first public showing in England. During the week the London County Council prevented what had been billed as: "Monster First Showing Of Dawn Before 10,000 Representative Citizens At Albert Hall...
Long since, the Board banned Dawn as "inexpedient," thus drawing from the London Times a pompous twitter: "What is the nature of the inexpedience? . . . The adjective 'political' instantly suggests itself, and a political censorship, in whatever discreet feathers it be dressed is, in England at least, a remarkably ugly bird...
...Manhattan, the office of theatrical producer Arch Selwyn triumphantly announced that Producer Selwyn in London recently had acquired the U. S. rights to Dawn...