Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-12-02
AGAINST THE llvlNG PICTURES,
a vicoaous ricnr NOW on IN snw
,uitiN cry.


Their Quite and The Lonaon ieui-
pire Ana,r rhcIr ,cxampic.
New York. Doc LII New York is
to 80 through such controversy as
the recent one IN London with refers
cncc to the licensing of the Empire Mu-
sic hall. a highly interesting Time may
be looked for And It looks Just now
~ Il some such experience might DO IN
store, Lady Henry somersct aud oth-
era succeeded few weeks ngo IN inak-
lng good deal OF stir In London. as
everybody who reads the newspapers
thoroughly knows, and now here ia
Lady Henry Somerset ready to be a
leader or counsellor or whatever Else
may be most needed to be in New
York. That In 20 say. she Is not aetual-
~ and literally here, hrcnusc she went
10 Boston yesterday, but shc VIII no
doubt come back. and thcn the work
/ some sort of wurk--Nill begin.
IL " understood that tilr nrss evil
4 10 DO attacked, robukcn. ovcrthrowh.
cruaheds ont and utterly driven nom
existence " livlug pictures, some cons
l dcnhatutN remarks have bpen made
/ about living pictures long are this,
! but they were never very loud NJ very
| general, There was only little half
/ hearted tlulSmg about them, ana no,h-
] ing was ever done about them AZ all.
I That nothing WAS ever done probably
surprises the managers OF The livlng
! pictures aa much aH anybody When
/ they We're iirat ncen IN u New York
/ theater. something less than a year
/ ago, Il was the genoral opinion hat
they would be stopped by The police
| within week. But they were not
stopped within a week, and they were
NOT stopped at all, ANA since then they
have been going on regularly ana
sometimes IN aH many an four thea
ters and music halls at once.
Now, at last there HeOmH TO he an
actual movement la the mpttor Miss
Frances T., Willard W the rial head or
T. Something lms already been done
IN Chicago ami also litlV IN WnNhine-
tun Lady Hcuty Somerset IL quoted
an saying that while she does not iu-
tend to meddlc personally In unalrt
outside her own country. she ieelh
sure that the women here, az whom
Miss willard n the leader, VIII aoon
begin reform. thnt they ARE much IN
oarntst, and that the movement ~ 70
be made distinctly by the women Of
tho Womcn'H chriAtlan Temperance un-
Ion The attack made on tho living
pictures IN London In the paper Of
/ WHICH Nilt ~ INV tNlANi Nfit MnUA A'Nls
Aho says 90 The affair Of the Empire
liconac Shr regards She nude living
pictures az highly Immoral ana dungor-
aus Ia their influence. and she thinkH
thai tho women of New York have not
hitherto become sufficiently awakened
10 their mdeccncy and wlVktdneHn, She
does not know Just what VIII be done,
but predicts NJ, early attack 90 be
made upon them In some erectiYc
mNnncr.
frlps serious way In which London
toohl the question OF licensing or not H..
, cemfng thr Empire was so hrond ana
full ana deop ~ % he actually pmuH-
Ing at this distance According "a the
accounts published IN the rnFllsh pa
pern and telpRpphcd TO the American
ones, no question:. political, social or
oven International has shaken that
mlghtv city In years ms tlila ono did
whlio il lasted, The women who upset
the oiIicorH Of the Empire collected eyi-
dGnoc nH TO The character 1T the inuHic
hall and rs audiences, and laid u be-
fore the licensing committee Of uht
4 | fAulnu county council IL appeared
I thai the house was conducted well
, | enough ne theater, but the sort 81
, people who roHuttcd to II WAS highly
objectionable Liquors wera sold about
the auditorium, as they are W most
London music halls aud 4 WAS thought
4 that II this feature OF the place Wer,
a
, thureupnn become harmless.
The licnnHing committee tiereupon
the agitation being once thorough,
atnrtcd. refused 10 grant q license q
/. the Empire except on oondl'l9n tll,t ~
: llauora should be sold In the place
, The managers declared that II thcS
were 10 clnsa their bars they might a.
well close their hall altogether. nh the,
< could not hope TO yet crowds to conu
e when the people could not get drinks
1hey accordingly appealed TO the ful
county council which sustained IN
Z docision of the llcnnaipF committee
!. and the license was refused, except of
the terms already specified Tie tau
/. that was talked and the opinions on ny
!, ,oasibia nlden that were written on TIM
= nrrlalnn ana It's results prevented am
other sounds from being heard IN Lon
y Am for wcelta Tho war In China nns
the sickness OF the car became inHiH
nincanf, The question was dircuHsss
! rs " the worry existence OF the units'
l. JSinxdom depended on IL, instead o
=, TINT " the bars IN inc IihpH" Aiu9i
r "a" As was said al first, n this kind Q
: atlr IL to he stirred M IN New YORK
Z there are nne nsBnn-ntative time
Z coming. One circumstance, however
!. tnaIses n great excitement over ~
}; nueptIon OF living pictures somowiA
{. iaaa urobablr. Kew Workers. have sce'
V 40 many living pictures now, thc'
o. hnyc seen them 80 much, and they hay
. rren them 50 long that they arc y
I. longer e-gxrcpt sensation In themselves
r A large part OF the rcsulnr theater
, s,ocra even of those who liked then
= nsoet in the first place. are getting de
D; rldediy tired Of them, and some.
1. NOT All ~ The manaEers, are likely =
y abandon them n any sort OF vigoroa
t, attack IS made without any pfolonBe
Z atrugrle Thus. the women VINO hr
Al ansIoue 10 nut tho living picfurea I
yout may ind that they are aAsanlsln
M enemy who Is already dying na'
ural death.
.,,.,e tsny CASE.