The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-11-16
FLORENCE'S
LECTURE A Dis
NAL FAILURE
Its Appeal Does Not Find Response
Even With Those Of the Least
Refined Taste.

New YORK, NOV. 13.-When Max
Florence, formerly of Salt Lake, con.
cocted his nefarious scheme to make
money out of photographs surrepti
tiausly obtained of the interior of the
Temple at Salt Lake, he forgot to
weigh the character of the average
American citizen. The average Amer.
lean citizen views with repugnance
crime in its every aspect. The average
American citizen looks upon Flor
ence's escapade as actuated by a
criminal impulse, whether or not the
act itself was criminal. Viewing the
whole affair in this light, the same
average citizen is unwilling to become
party to the scheme whatever way
it turns. New York newspaper editors
have shut their doors upon Florence.
They will have nothing to do with him
or his pictures. All this is proved by
the reception the late moving picture
king of Salt Lake has met in his Ia
test effort to get his pictures before
the public.
Saturday in the Bijou theatre in
this city, at Thirteenth streets and
broadway, Max Florence and Gilbert
Boshard, opened an engagement at a
matinee, the entertainment" afford.
ed being lecture on the temple at
Salt Lake and related subjects, pic
lures being used to illustrate the lee.
ture. The show is advertised in way
that shocks even the least refined.
The chief poster in front of the thea.
tire depicts large bedstead filled
with women, all engaged in fighting.
II is much the same picture as the
one that was TO be seen several years
ago in Salt Lake, the circulation of
which was stimulated by, anti."Mor
mon" agitators, most revolving car.
toon. Florence and Bossard occupied
the lobby of the theatre before the
performance trying to induce patrons
to enter, much on the order of bark
ers before tented show. Florence
has motto banners in front of the
theatre. Some of them read as fol
lows
who controls the financial and po.
litical situation in many states, is a
danger to the civilization of modern
America"
Worse than white slave traffic!
Facts hard to get from followers OF
Prophet Joseph f. Smith"
Reputable papers like The World,
Herald, Times and American have re-
fused to mention Florence's show and
do not even carry his advertisements.
At Saturdays show, when the time
to begin arrived, there were only two
persons in the audience, one of whom
was The News correspondent The
unspeakable poster at the entrance
had failed to attract the great crowds
who has passed ii all day long During
the progress of the lecture, six other
persons entered the house, making an
audience OF eight, all told for the first
offering Of the unsavory entertain.
ment.
The photographs used to illustrate
the show were the ones which had
been published in The Deseret News
and several others which we're pro.
nounced fakes, some being drawn by
local newspapers cartoonists and 9th.
ers the infamous Jarman pictures. In
his lecture Bossard said that he
crawled through the underground tun,
nels to enter the building. The papers
ignore the show completely and nc
mention whatever, favorable or un
favorable, has been given II so far
Florence's plans are for tour after
the New York dates are filled. The
theatre rent paid by Florence
amounts to several hundred dollars
with practically an empty house 70,
his pains.
Bossard's lecture admittedly, wa.
written by New York ministers whC
have taken part for a number of year.
in anything and everything that seem
ed TO be anti-"Mormon" in its aspect
but Bossard's delivery was absolutel,
unintelligible and for Sundays show
he was supplanted by professional
lecturer who could speak English
The whole affair was a dismal fai
ure and it is expected that anothe
day VIII see the close of the show.
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