Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1914-11-18
WOMEN START AGITATION To RAISE
STANDARD Of PHOTO PLAYS HERE;
BOARD Of TRADE To TAKE UP WORK
Board Of Trade VIII Meet on
Friday Night on the Matter,
While the Wonan's Club is
to Probe the Pictures.

The Board of Trade has Joined the
movement in an effort to get more
refined motion pictures for the
patrons of this city. They will CO.
operate with the Womans Club in
their efforts to elevate the standards
of pictures shown in this city. At a
meeting of the Board of Censor Com
missioners at 4 o'clock this afternoon
at No. l school, a delegation from
the Woman's Club and Secretary
Hugh Lynch, of the trade board
will meet with the CEN
sor commissioners and discuss the
matter, which is considered of prime
Importance in protecting the morals
of the youth of Perth Amboy.
=, The Board of Trade will take up
the matter at a meeting of the direc-
tors Friday night, and plans will
probably be formed for carrying on
a definite campaign against the show
ing of certain type of pictures here.
President Joseph F. Walker, OF
the censor board, stated this morn
ing that the objections to a number
of the pictures shown at the local
theatres were the melodramatic,
heart-rending and suspense pictures
shown at some of the playhouses.
He .ated that tt infdelity portray
ed between man ind wife in many of
the "movie" plays shown here were
demoralizing to children.
Mrs. Jean Dubois is the chairman
of the committee from the Woman S
Club that is cooperating with the
Board of Censors and the Board of
Trade in an effort to improve the
standard of pictures shown in Perth
Amboy The remainder of the com
mittee consists of Mrs. Fred Cox and
Mrs Wilbur LaRoe, who are now
serving on the Board of Censors, Mrs.
and Mrs. A. w. Van Deusen This
committee will probably be enlarged
later.
William Brown, president of the
Royal Theatre Amusement Company,
which operates a motion picture
house In Smith street, stated this af-
ternoon that the concern is willing
to work with the Woman's Club, but
disapproved of local censorship Of
pictures. He said that he felt that
after a picture has been censured by
the National Board of Censors pic
ture houses should not be deferred
from putting them on. He said that
all pictures put on at the Royal are
passed by that national board, which
he declared was composed of parties
with vastly more experience in CEN
sor'ng pictures than local censor
bodies.
w. j. McI<enna, proprietor of the
Grand theatre in Smith street, de-
clared that he puts on no pictures
that would compromise the morals
of children, and that every picture
shown is passed by the national
board, which he considered sufficient
censorship. He stated that he con-
sidered burlesuue shows as more in
furious to morals than any picture
shown here.
N K. Miller, of the Ditmas theatre
said "All the pictures shown at the
Ditmas are passed by the National
Board of Censorship, but in many
cases we have withheld showing sub
jects passed by the national censor
ship as they pass pictures that |
would not allow on the screen I
don't think there is a picture shown
at the Ditmas or anv other picture
theatre in this city that will corrupt
the morals of any fair minded per-
son. Local censorship is all right.
but l believe that the committee
should consist of business men and
five are enough to accomplish results
I will be glad to discuss the matter
with any committee personally"