The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-06
no PICTURES; NO
SUNDAY IHEATERS
BRITT-NELsoN PICTURE MANIAC
Err THREATENS THE LID.
Houseman Says HeWilAsk Injunction
Against Minneapolis Playhouses #
Exhibition Is stopped-Mayor Secs
No Cause for Ultimaturn, Having,
Yet, No Intention to Interfere.

Lou Houseman, tne sporting WIFI
rights for the Britt.NeIson tight NOV
ing pictures, now being exhibited at
Normanna hall, has addressed the fol-
lowing letter to L. N. Scott, manager Of
the Metropolitan operahouse; Theo-
dore L. Hays, manager of the Bijou
operahouse; "Ike" Spears, manager Of
the Lyceum theater, and William Singer,
manager Of the Dewey theater:
.tThis is to serve notice on you that
I shall attempt to give a performance
ing pictures next Sunday afternoon and
evening in the city Of Minneapolis, state
of Minnesota.
eff the municipality of the city Of
Minneapolis by it's chief of police, mayor
or c~onstabulary should intervene, pre-
vent, or prohibit such exhibition, as
under the law is their. Dounden duty, !
shall on the succeeding Monday, or as
soon thereafter as I can get a hearing
pray for an interlocutory Injunction re-
straining each and all of you from VIC.
lating the law against theatrical enter.
tainments on Sunday, on the 18th day
of January, A. D. 1906.
Had First Trouble Here.
II propose to find out why we cannot
exhibit these pictures Sunday when the
theaters give shows, some of them using
moving pictures in which such refined
subjects as safe-blowing and train-rob
81 ascribe the order OF the mayor las
Sunday preventing the showing Of tn,
pictures at, the Casino rink to the loca
theatrical managers. <
There are nine sets of these pict
ures and you can judge how widely they
have been exhibited when the aggre
gate receipts since last September art
$1,l00,000.' The pictures were show
at Convention hall, Kansas City, las
week to $4,000, and at Toledo to $l4,
900. In no city have we been estoppet
from showing them on Sunday, excep
in Minneapolis. .s..
, I understand he has said we canno
show the pictures at Normanna hal
=. Sunday. I'm not going to see hir
, either. If. I am not allowed to shoy
I'm going to find out why other place
of amusement are allowed to give Sur
day entertainments. It is simply a
, oversight that I have not included tn
Orpheum and Unique in my notice t
! the managers for I mean to. compt
them all to, close their doors on Sunda,
We close our engagement here sunda
duu L Sudl uOU SOdy W P4OoOCuCO VI
matter, but a citizen Of Minneapol
!, will be- secured to act FOR me. My a
torneys are Kickham and Scanlon, {
Chicago, who will have a Representative
here Monday "-.; ,s.#.- -" -
le Act Is Yet Unnecessary.
\ This is all the explanation Thu
. Houseman will give for his actlo
~ which is peculiar for this reason I
= | NF---o 1@~>- lr1 had M !
~ t%entions Of forbidding the showing
the pictures at Normanna halISunda
He said at noon;Gs& ~ aA@.' =
s. 81 ordered the police4-to, stop I'll
SSs exhibition last Sunday upon the col
plant Of workers inl Hope1chapel, wi
:. said it would be an annoyance to the
:. religious service to have a %performan
10 given in the rink nearly adjoining the
:. church. There has been no such CO..
50 plaint in regard to Normannae hall al
- no one has approached me on the su
~ iect so I have no intention OF Init
:: fering with the exhibition
II The theatrical managers dlsclalm a.
.. intention on their part to interfere Wi
-. the pictures. There are suspicious
:. the part Of some that Houseman m
80 have been i~nstigated by the Cast
10 rink management, which would ha
-. the theaters closed on Sunday becar
=. skating is not allowed at the rink, a
= by others that the Sunday closing ca
: paign committee of the Retail Liqrt
>. Dealers association is back Of t
- effort to close the theaters Sunday
order to make the Sunday closing mo
i. ment unpopular by extending it to
p clude places Of amusement, as well
saloons. 49,. r.
-: Houseman denies that he has BE-
%. Influenced by either Of these conside