The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-17
MOVING PICTURES
 ID BE REGULATED Civic League Will Begin
 Campaign Soon PROHIBIT IMMORTALITY Wild West and Suggestive Pictures Will Be Barred-Ask That Lights
 Be Turned on Between
 the Plays
PROHIBIT IMMORTALITY

The Civic League of Birmingham has undertaken campaign to prohibit the exhibition of suggestlvely immoral, morbid or distressing and wild west ern hold up photoplays in the motion picture theatres of this city and will invite the cooperation of similar or ganizations of Atlanta and Memphis to petition the film supply firms to eliminate such pictures from this cir cult This was decided upon in the adoption of the report submitted by a special committee appointed to in- vestigate local picture show conditions at the regular meeting of the Civic League held yesterday afternoon al the city hall.
 The facts collected by the special committee disclosed that those man agers who have barred the cheap vaudeville and show only pictures and have substituted orchestra music for the electric piano. are making more returns on their investment than the proprietors or owners of the lower grade show and is considered by the committee one of the strongest ar guments yet advanced in behalf of the | higher type of this fofm of amuse- ment. The chairman, Mrs. Zac smith, also reported that at meeting re- 1 gently called the moving picture show
 managers of the city, Judge Murphy | of the juvenile court Censor Scudder
 Ryall and the Civic League represen-
 tatives were present, with the eXcep- ton of six managers.
 l The two managers answering the call | were k. Colley and H. M. Newsome, wlo | agreed with every plan suggested for the 1 improvement of their theatres, and they | themselves offered to turn the lights on
 between the film displays as a warning 10 persons who might patronize the piay- 1 houses for other purposes than merely to l see the picture. As the pictures Tur-
 nished the theatres in this city are or dered for a circuit of Atlanta, Memphis | and Birmingham, through headquarters 1 at Atlanta, the petition to the film con cern that all undesirable pictures be kept | of this circuit must be made at the | head southern office, and the Birmingham | Civic league has communicated with the | women of the other two cities, asking them to aid in this movement by signing circular letter that will be mailed to the picture supply house. This will be ] mailed as soon as the Memphis and At i lanta associations have replied to the Rir- mingham request.
 Mrs. C. P Orr. president, acted as 1 tudlI OI the HeSllnR, and the 1n- formal discussions of the various ques- tions arising were freely participated in by all those present Among the matters voted upon was the empower | ing of the president to purchase a ! quantity Of official stationery with the funds in the treasury.
 The committee named to take up the question of securing the granting of | transfers on school tickets to eliminate
 the violation of transferring of trans
 fers, now in practice by school chil- dren. reported that they had not taken any definite step as yet as st could not
 be decided as to what would be the
 best means of procedure to stop this.
 The committee was then instructed to lay the matter before President Ford of the Birmingham Railway, Light and
 Power company for any method he might proffer to enforce the city ordinance which covers the giving of street car transfers to persons who are not entitled to use them.
 Several other association topics were ! introduced and disposed of before the 1 adjournment of the session.