The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-16
COUNCIL CENSORS
TO PASS ON BILLBOARD
PICTURES.
Theatrical Agents and Bill Posters Must
Go Before Committee
Every Week.

With a view to suppressing the dis
play of lewd or suggestive pictures, adj
ve~rtisements or bin posters IN the city
and exerting a strict censorship over
this phase of the morals of the city,
the advertising committee of Common
Council, recently created for this pur-
pose, will start a vigorous crusade
against the display of anything in the
poster or advertisement line that does
not measure up to the standard of
morality set by the Council censors.
No more will the picture of the gay
young 'loidyn warmly embracing an
elderly gentleman with a billiard ball
Uranium be seen by youngsters on their
way to school. n some of the sleep
ing beauties that nave stood for a
number of patent medicines in this
town win be things of the past.
Alderman Joseph A. Wright, chair
mar and Aldermen Mann and Lee are
the three crusaders, and they will meet
every Tuesday morning at IL o'clock,
and will sit in Judgment on all bill
board matter submitted by the theat-
rical managers and bill posters.
This was the sense of the meeting of
the advertising committee held in the
City Hall last night, which was at
tended, pursuant to invitation of the
committee, by several theatrical man
ayers of the city, although the man
ayers of the Newark, Snubert and
Proctor's theatres were not present.
Lee Ottolengui, manager of VALID
mann's; James H. Bucken, of Blaney's.
n George Jacobs, of the Columbia,
were there. however.
Tho pnatfar IF tiobto 41a rronar
length of a soubrette's skirt, the dis
play of daggers and guns and other
features of the theatrical poster pos
sibly detrimental to the morals of the
young did not enter into the discus
sion, the entire theme revolving around
the disposition of the proposition of q
censorship committee, which found an
outlet in the following resolution intro
duced by Alderman Mann and unani-
mously adopted:
"All advertising agents and bill
posters must submit advertising matter
before the advertising committee of the
Common Council in the City Hall every
Tuesday morning at II o'clock for in
spection.'
The clerk of the committee was in
structed, pursuant to the passage of
this resolution, to send a cop of it to
all theatrical managers and billposters
In the city, together with a copy of the
city ordinance relative to display adver-
Using.
The method of procedure of the adj
vertising committee, as censors of bill
board and other theatrical sheet adver-
Using. will be that on each Tuesday the
theatrical managers and billposters
will submit to the committee samples
of all advertising matter to be dis
played during the ensuing week. Chair
man Wright. armed with a circular
rubber stamp bearing the inscription
approved, advertising committee, City
Council" will proceed to stamp all of
the advertising matter approved by the
committee, and these stamped samples
will be the bill of lading for the theatre
cal managers and billposters TO pro-
coed to advertise shows along the
lines indicated by the rubber stamp.
Manager O%ttolengui, of Waldmann's
Theatre, raised the question of the
committee being present at the City
Hall when they were on hand TO pre-
sent samples of their theatrical adver-
Using. The question was answered by
Chairman Wright, who adjourned the
committee to meet at the City Hall
next Tuesday morning at IL o'clock.
Following the adjournment, Chairman
Wright said:
I'VE now have it in our power to
protect the morals of the young folks
of the city, and we intend to do it, We
invited the theatrical managers of the
city to meet with us so that we could
work in harmony. The absence of the
managers of Proctor's. the Shubert and
the Newark Theatre places them liable
if anything happens contrary to the
provisions of the ordinance, a copy OF
which. together with a copy Of the
resolution passed tonight for the cen
sorship by this committee of all theatre
cal advertising, will be sent to them
by the clerk"