New-York tribune., 1911-11-29
Police Eject DiSturbers at First
Observation-Disclosures Rep
reSents the Mayor.
KISSES AND PLAUDITS MIX
Both Sides Invade City Hall, but
Gaynor Is Concerned Only in
Police Situation-Roose-
velt May Turn Critic.

night were sufficient 10 discourage any
spectators who might have contemplated
repeating the scenes with which The
Playboy of the Western World was
greeted on Monday night.
Six men were elected from the theatre
during the performance. None Of them
was arrested. The police said they had
been grOaning and disturbing the spec
tators in their vicinity with small noises.
and that was enough Kissing. pro-
lCnged and continued was noticeable at
various points during the play. and it
was plenty loud enough to be heard
above the noise Of handclapping by
which others tried to drown it out
Chief Magistrate McAdoo was there as
a representative of Mayor Gaynor, TO
censor the show My only task was to
see if the play was so immoral that it
would have to be stopped said the
chief magistrate, land my task was
easy" He chose TO say nothing more
definite, and left the inference that he
had no intention of reporting TO the
Mayor that the play should he stopped.
Lady Gregory. under whose auspices
the Irish Players are visiting America.
entertained a box party which included
Theodore Roosevelt. John Quinn, Robert
Temple Emmet, Finley Peter Dunno and
f. F. Flynn. Chief Magistrate McAdoo
also sat I'm this box, the lower right hand
one. and conversed animatedly with Lady
Gregory and Mr. Roosevelt
Roosevelt May Review 1t.
Mir. Roosevelt appeared to De pleased
with the play. and after it was over,
when he was asked for his comment
upon it, declared laughingly that ne
would save that for his own paper.
That portion of the play which was the
signal for the start of the rioting on
| Monday night-the situation in the first
act where Michael James, the innkeeper.
tells the self-confessed murderer TO stay
in the hotel with his daughter. while he
goes 10 a walSe-Went by last night with
only a moderate amount OF kissing.
There was applause also however, and
both plainclothesmen and house detec-
tives seemed to take it that the Kissing
was as legal as the handclapping.
II was some time after that, although
still in the first act, when the first ejec-
tion took place. \ man i'm the gallery
was sneezng with what tine police
| thought too great persistence.
The second act produced some lines
which called afresh to the minds Of the
spectators the situation described above,
which started in the first act, and that
vas productive of another round Of
Kisses mixed with applause. Two men in
the balcony, however. thought best to
show thcr disapproval at this point by
eroaning rather loudly. and the police
hurried them out. one OF them was
accompanied by his wife, and she fol-
! lowed him after the excitement had died
down.
/ IN the third act three men were ousted
/ from the gallery. That was near the end
OF the play, and they had started to
gfoan loudly al point where eten those
who had been Kissing were silent. There
seemed to be no particular reason at
that particular time for their signs OF
disapproval but they made disturb
ance and were elected quickly. One OF
| them told the patrolman who handled
him that he had come in to see the show
only To pass the time away. and that he
was a Hebrew clothing dealer from ST
Z Joseph Mo.
/ All the elections We're conducted quiet.
! ly and annoyed only those i'm the imme-
date vicinity There as no throwing
I OF eggs or vegetables as on Monday
night. and the management stated that
they believed their troubles along that
line were over.
Both Sides Appeal to Mayor.
Mayor Gaynor was appealed to yester-
day by both sides in the controversy
stirred up b. the riot In the Maxine FL
iiott Theatre on Monday night over "Tha
Plavboy of the Western World" but
gave no indication Of any intention 10
IL crfere in behalf ot either when the
delegations we're present Later tho
'-avor directed Chief Magistrate Nc
Adoo 20 attend the performance and re-
port 20 him.
First. committee Of four Irishmeu
who though members Of several of the
prominent Irish societies. made il clear
that they were acting solely on their
own initiative, called at the city Halt
jeremiah OLeary. one of the commit
toe said they had summed up their OBJ
lection to the Mayor in the statement
that the play was indecent.
1T portrays an Irish girl in the sitlIa-
tion of remaining In "A house all night
with man who is not her husband.
The suggestion there is an indecent one.
and is entirely foreign to the Irish char.
acter We quoted to the Mayor an opin-
ion which he rendered as 4 justice I'm a
divorce suit, in which he said that such
| Il situation was a presumption that the
law had been violated. Such por-
travail by a company supposed To be
a national institution conveys false
and degrading impression Of Irish char
acter. and on that ground We asked that
the license of the theatre be- revoked.
! .ie ,Npi.ine,.
James Flynn. the booking manager of
I'm. company of Irish Players. which is
directed by Lady Gregory, had an inter
view with the Mayor after the first com
,,itta. retired. lie offered 10 send q
hook Of the play to the Mayor. and asked
that no action be taken until The Mayor
looked into both sides of the affair
The MAYOR said the only phase of tho
,,,t,.r that concerned him was as 10
whether the police had Afforded proper