Anything Depicting Horrors of War Forbidden Tokyo, Oct, 9, A new and more severe code for the censorship of foreign films has been formally adopted in Japan following a fifteen day trial period, During the period, two Hollywood reductions were extensively pruned a third, "The King Steps Out," starring Miss Grace Moore, the singer, was banned, 'The' showing of one film, "The Princess Comes Across," was made conditional on the producers agree Ing to eliminate from it in all parts of the world a section showing 9 Japanese detective, which was considered to indicate racial tempt.
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The code has been devised by the director of the police bureau, who was appointed head censor by the Home Ofice in September.
Application of the code now rests with a group of censors who view a picture and pass, purify or reject it only after "group judgment." This, it is pointed out, "eliminates the possibility of a private arrangement between a film importer. and susceptible individual' censor Reuter,
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