The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-27
PASTORS SEE
P O 5 T E R
"EDITED"
Councilman Continue to
Eliminate Unde sir able
Scenes. Work Praised.

Several ministers were present this
morning at the meeting of the bill pos
ter committee of the Common Council
when that body took up the censorship
of the various show bills of the the
aires. The public moral purifiers caused
much weeping and crashing OF teeth
by rejecting all pictures depicting VIC
lent scenes or pictures that were too
close to nature"
Alderman Michael T. Mulin, chair
man of the committee. invited the Rev.
Morris Ferguson, general secretary OF
the New Jersey Sunday School Asso-
citation, to attend, and he was present,
in company with the Rev. John Nc
Donald, pastor of the Park Prcsby-
terrain Church, and both gentlemen
We're interested spectators of the work
of the dramatic critics. The clergymen
heartily commended the members OF
the committee for the good work done.
Fifteen posters we're rejected out Of
~nfty-seven submitted, and several 9TH
ers which showed revolvers or knives
were ordered to have the weapons COW
cred with pastors.
1.-The Outlaws Christmas was the
hardest hit, eight of the nineteen bills
bein grejected.
The Fighting Chance another lurid.
sensational hodge-podge that will be pre-
scented to the frequenters OF a local play
house next week shows a poster ad dc
plotting a young and an elderly woman
in a prison corridor. wrestling the keys
from a uniformed keeper and threatening
his life.
The Rice ard Barton Gsyety Company
submitted fifteen bills. and these four
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long protest from the representative OF
the company, who declared that ono of The
posters rejected had been passed IN
Springfield, Mass.
Twenty-three bills of another hurlesque
company were submitted and one rejected
by the censors. For the first time the
representatives Of the Newark Theatre
had all the theatre posters passed.
One representative who objected to hay-
ing his posters rejected demanded that
his paper" be returned to him as 1t worth
Mt least 81. Chairman Mullen informal
him that the ordinance provided that a
copy OF rejected posters he kept by tic
clerk of the committee, but when the
theatrical mar Insisted on the return or
his work OF art Alderman Mullen stated
that he would call a special nesting Of thu
committee for Thursday night to decide
the question, ard then added that there
was an ordinance being prepared that was
even stricter than the present one.
The Rev. DR.. Mcdowell declared that
the work OF the committee was doing
much good. but suggested that some stald
matron of the city with growing children
be called in to aid the committee.
II is rumored that the theatrical men
will institute proceedings to test the con-
s~titutionality of the ordinance, and that
they may ask the court for a stay 10 pre-
vent the Aldermanic committee from pass
ing on the posters.
TIT committee was assured by both min-
listers that the churches and the church
associations would back them in their
work, and may even go so far as to urge
that the plays themselves be produced DO
fore the committee before being put on the
stage, so that the committee could pass
on them.