Arizona republican., 1913-01-07
CHIEF MOORE IN
 ROLE OF CRITIC
As Guest of Republican Head of Phoenix Police Will Review ''The Third Degree at the Elks' Thursday Night

Cut and dried criticisms of thraat- rlcal attractions are bound to pail uD- on the average reader. Whether they have attended the production or not the reader has come to expect in the papers of the following day glowing accounts of the merits of the play of the night before Fortunately this is not the policy of the Republican. It believes in telling the truth and it believes further that there are in stances where one man is competent to pass Judgment upon one play whose opinion would be worthless if directed Ut another show
 In order to assure the readers of the Republican of criticism of "The Third Degree based upon familiarity with the very incidents around which the plot of that play is based the Republican has induced Chief of Pc lice A. J. Moore, at the head of the Phoenix police department for many years, to attend the presentation of the famous policy play at the Elks Theatcr on Thursday night of this week and then tell the readers of this paper the next morning just what Were his impressions regarding the piece as threatrical production and as q delineatiOn of the methods of the police in some of the larger cities.
 Such a criticism. coming from one engaged in the business of detecting and expressing crime, cannot fail to have weight. It cannot be charged that such criticism would be tainted with bias or that faVoritism would 4 Moore will go to the show as the guest of the Republican. unhampered by instructions and unrestrained
 But why select q police chief to act as the critic of theatrical product ion? The Third Degree" is a strictly police play. The plot is built around youth, the son of a man who is a great social and financial power The father a prominent man in the smart set disOWns his son on dis covering he has married a girl whose father has gained much unpleasant notoriety in police annals of New York The girl, realizing her posi- tion. ha~ made gallant struggle to win the respect of the world through her fine character and natural abil- ity The young husband, disoWned by his father. scorncd and rebuffed on every hand by his friends. who as sert that he has made mistake and that his marriage is a mesalliance, re- sorts to drink and dissipation.
 The story deals with a crime which by reason of the quick, impulsive judgment of the police heads, re suits in fastening the guilt on an in- nocent man Finding they must make good their first suspicious, they bend every effort to the one end that of fastening the chain of guilt on their victim The method of the police department. together with the powerful influence of the press are vividly shown.
 For the first time on any stage the audience is treated to visual demonstration of the workings of the detective department of large city. As clearly and distinctly as were the workings of the powerful finance ana political bodies in The Lion and the Mouse" so are the nefariOus practices of the police discussed in The Third Degree" even in more vivid and in teresting manner. Chief Moore should have some very decided views on such a subject, and he will likely dlS- close them in the Republican after witnessing "The Third Degree at the Elks Theater, Thursday night.