The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1913-09-04
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Of UNDERWORLD
UNDER POLICE EYE
Seasoned Theatregoers lndorse
Critics Views and Com
plain to Waldo.
WHITE SLAVE" MORALS.
"The Lure" and 1.-THE Fight"
to Be POLITICALLY Seen"
by Heads of Police.
WHITE SLAVE" MORALS.

OOfnpAmrs feached PoNce Commto.
ssonsr waldo to-day against two plays
wheeh are staged nightly, one IN Max
h Nuiott's Theatre In West Thirty
01th street and the other In the Hud.
son Theatre In West rty.fourth
street, The Commissioner detailed First
Deputy Commissioner Mckay and Chief
Inspector schmituberge to visit these
theatres and witness and listen to the
cancellations Of brothels presented
there and recommend whether or not
Asy shall be suppressed.
the police" said one who complained
70 Commissioner Waldo. have closed
ths houses Of ill-fame in the Tenderloin
WITH the object Of protecting inexperi-
snced men from injury to their morals.
Shall New York allow lifelike represen-
tations Of these suppressed places to bs
shown on the stage before audiences of
women who form the great majority Of
the patrons Of our theatres?'
the Lure" at Maxine Elliott's Thea
ira ana The Fight at the Hudson
Theatre are the excuses for the stag
snG Of scenes laid In houses Of prostitu-
ton.
Bayard veiiier. the author Of Tho
rat" 10 an experienced dramatist.
IN his play he devotes an act to setting
fsrxh life IN . disorde:': - house. Little
y M TO the imagination. The ciev.
arusss Of the actors and the realism Of
the scenery make Mr.. Veiusrs ehort
me moro reprshensibie.
AUDIENCE oAoPeD At THE RAW
BRUTALITY.
Even q Sophisticated New YORK Al.
dance gaspsd at the raw brutality OF
H. sscond oct Of Bayard Vsillers play.
.The HiGht,'" writes Alan Dale. the
dan OF Nov YORK. dramatic critics In
to.aays American. For one again
there saw the red tinted horror Of the
aisorderiy house. the garish women.
the scared white SLAYER and the mall
bdorlAc patrons. But even this VIVID
osatfis that We may find At another thea
TIRE gave u halt a. the real significance
AZ the second acts situation forced H.
.e,f upon 10. The sray-haired father
wa At that place for purposes that
ware not allowed to remain unmen'
t,ened. Only, - no opened the door. to
disoover the young girl no was buying
v~s his own daughter. I remark fesbly
that II New York can stand for that
let EN- all come"
ITO be explicit" said tho y ina
Telegraph OF Aus Is. The Lure ID
the dramatisation Of . house OF wan.
tous. Persons who live in Chicago say
the scenes are laid In Carrie Watson'i
establishment. They recognise Paul
- Cadet - the prototype OF Sissy
Cohen and say that Jim MCGUIRE. the
.o,H<Scisn, fits I'll the requirement. Of
ioa,s Johnny without he limp. Thers
n no snouss Tor SUCH pictures Of Do.
os.xsty end thsy can bring no enjoy.
ment eposp4 - . diseased magma
don"
1vuy Dramatic critic IN New York
an~d with those quoted that the
6rothel scenes IN "The Lure" and "Tht
Tsht" ere tndsfsnstbls and are inter
,slatsd edsiy Tor purposes Of ssnsa'
~ and boz offioe attraotivsness.
To-days complaints to Commissions,
waAo ala not come from prudes or 70
FARMERS. They came from people whs
A. seasonsd theatregoers and not easil,
,odksd. The COMMISSIONS has assem-
MA all the criticisms OF the plays II
suestion and viii consider them In con
nection With the reports Of his invssti
Ostoe6
patrons Of Inc Now York theatre re
IN that many years ago Pillar NORM
. Nksnch actress Of rare skill. was com
nxs,ed b cease . performance that wa
= nanorama Of Biblical scenes In com
nansou with 'Tbe Lure" and 18th
Tisht." Some thirteen years ago Olg
Nethersois was raided by the police a
Wallacks Theatre. arrested and tried |
a court Of law for presenting "Sapho.
a MAY that compared with "The Lure
nor Tho Fight as soda fountain com
barss With tho back room Of the saloo
a The late Paddy the Pig" And
has not been long since the police sur
pressed Mrs. Warren's Profession"
pi,ce Of dramatic construction that
Sunday School whom placed alongsld
Tho Lure" and The Fight"
But times have changed. The maya
sInes, under the cover OF exposure O
the so.called white slave traffic. ar
deluging the homes Of the land wilt
pornography. There is money In II
And 1t Is natural that theatrical man
ayers should follow the lead to wealth
AMY NIGHT" SHOWED WAY n
THE UNDERWORLD.
New York's first taste OF the slim
knsde of the underwood In dramat
form was served up last season In
p,su called "Any Night" This enter
tainment In the form of play'et wa
first presented at Lambs Club gan
bA 10 an audience Of wise and bla'
: nan and was pronounced by th'm
NJ '.the limit" Quietly and skiirul
IN. play was pu, on the stage and
r>n without police Interference
Thsn came Damaged Goods a pla
Aaalinx with disease, which was pr
.-.>S undar tha cloak of hygiene pen