The Archive · 1937

Chinese Film Censors Now Less Severe

is generally gratifying to the: foreign and Chinese cinema public of Shanghai and other ports that the censors in Nanking have relinquished cir firm view regarding non~ essential details of imported ims. Tt noted that those in charge have dealt, kindly with "Theodora Goes Bl) wita, Columbia film, wherein. it had been suggested that disrespect to China had been shown—the valet in this picture was characterized as a Japanese, having 'a Japanese name "Toki," according to the Hollywood script, which accompanied the film for censoring.

The censors looked askance at the character and inferred that he was Chinese. Upon the local Columbia office having deleted the portion of the film in which Toki appears, Nan-Tooked favourably" on' this the ban, with which they originally had penalized the production, "Theodora Goes Wila," featuring Irene Dunne in a smart comedy, accordingly has been Booked for the Metropol Theatre to-

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