Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-26
PRODUCER QUITS
SLAVE" MOVIES
New York Raids Cause S. n.
London to Get Out of the
Film Shows.

! NEW YORK, Dec. 26.-Samuel II.
London, whose name until yesterday
appeared conspicuousiy in all signs
and advertising for the moving pic
ture play 1.-THE Inside OF the White
Slave Traffic.. as the producer, has
had himself completely eliminated
from all connection with the produc-
ton as result of the warfare the
police have waged against it, in which
two warrants were issued for his ar
rest, charging him with misde-
meanor in giving an indecent theat-
rical performance.
Mr.. London has resigned as presl-
dent of the Moral Feature Film Com
pany. Last Tuesday, when Mr.. Lon
don and five employees of the Park
Theatre were arraigned before Magis-
trate Murphy, Mr.. London approached
Deputy Police Commissioner New
burger, who engineered the police
raids against the films. and offered
to make any alterations he would
suggest.
you can't alter 1t to suit me at ALL
was Newburger's tart rejoinder. II
object to the whole thing"
After this Mr.. London lost heart
and yesterday came his withdrawal.
his discourage cement being completed
by the issuance Tuesday night of a
second warrant for his arrest and
the raid by the police on the produc-
ton at the Bijou Theatre in the face
of Justice Ford's injunction.
However, the exhibition looked like
a paying proposition yesterday, judg-
ing from the crowds that paid ad-
vanced holiday prices" for seats and
surged in and out of the two theatres
where the exhibition was going on,
despite the rain and the radical cuts
that have been made in the pictures.
About the only reel of the five in
the play to escape the axe was the
fifth, which the producers pride them
selves on as being the strongest from
a dramatic point of view, as well as
from the moral punch II contains,
In that final and crushing retribution
is brought, to the arch trafficker
The leading woman's character In
this reel is played by Mrs. William
Power, whose professional name is
Miss Marjorie Bonner. She represents
the blond girl in the drama who falls
into the clutches of George Fisher,
the cadet of the piece. After a strug-
gle with him, in which she hands
him an awful wallop" with a chair,
knocking him insensible, she Is res
Cutu ny llG Il GQtId oil OillCOtSs
Miss Bonner was asked last night
by reporter to give her opinion of
the moral value of the play. She was
seen at her home, in the Bronx, in
the midst of real life scene that
was as opposite as could be imagined
Of her reel life." With her husband
and her two children she was having
"just the jolliest kind of Christ
mas" as she said, about the family
tree. One of the youngsters was
astride of rocking-horse, while the
other was pounding a drum.
'I think the film play presents
very, very good object lesson for
young girls to warn them of their
dangers" she said. II don't see why
there should be all this fuss about 1t.
I know some have raised the objec-
ton that 1t might give pointers to
young men on how the traffic is car
ried on. Well / suppose 1t might to
those who have an inclination that
way, but think its warning to girls
is sufficiently terrible to offset that"