Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-13
DRAMA WHITE LIST
ANNOUNCES PLAYS
CATHOLICS FAVOR
Selections of Theatre Move
ment Supported by Arch
bishop Include Varied
Stage Themes.

Indorsed by Archbishop Prendergast,
the Philadelphia Centre Of the Catholic
Theatre Movement announces today It's
''white list" of plays.
The announcement is made in the Off
cial bulletin of the movement, conspicu-
Gus on the title page of which is letter
from the Archbishop calling attention to
the Importance OF the work. and urging
the Catholic societies of Philadelphia to
lend their cooperation.
The purpose of the compiling Of the
''white llst' which has been under way,
with the direction OF leading Catholic
clergy Of Philadelphia for some time, is
to advance the cause of clean theatrical
entertainment and to provide for the
Catholic laity a list of shows to which
they may go with assurance that they
will find entertainment worth while and
at the same time not offensive to the
finest desires of the leaders of the Roman
Catholic Church.
Archbishop Prendergast suggests, in his
letter, the publication of the list by the
Philadelphia centre will "give strength
and influence in our city for the purifca-
tion and uplift of the theatrical stage"
The white list" announced follows:
PLAYS FAVORED BY MOVEMENT.
Admirable Crichton, Alabama, Alias
Jimmy Valentine Along. Came Ruth,
The Amazons, Arms and the Man, The
Auctioneer Arizona
Barbara Frietche, The Bells, Behold
the Man, Ben Hur, Big Jim Garrity,
Brewsters Millions, Broadway Jones,
Broken Hearts, Brown of Harvard, Bunty
Pulls the Strings
Caste. The Cavalier. Classmates, The
College Widow, Confession, The County
Chairman, The Crisis, Cyrano de Ber-
gerac.
Daddy Longlegs, David Garrick, Diplo-
macy Dlsraeli, Duke of Killcrankie.
Everyman.
Father and the Boys, The Fortune
Hunter, The Five Frankforters. Freckles.
A Gentleman from Mississippi. The
Girl I Left Behind Me, The Girl of the
Golden West, The Ghost Breaker, The
Governors Lady, A Grand Army Man,
Gringoire, Grumpy.
He Comes Up Smiling, Held by the
Enemy. The House Next Door.
II Pays to Advertise.
Jack Straw, The Jilt Jim the Penman.
King Rene's Daughter.
L'Aiglon, The Legend of Leonora,
Liberty Hall. The Lion and the Mouse.
The Little Minister, The Littlest Rebel
The Lost Paradise.
Magic, The Man From Home. Masks
and Faces, Merely Mary Ann, A Message
From Mars, Mice and Men, The Middle
man. Mlestones, The Mollusc, Monsieur
Beaucaire, Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage
Patch, The Music Master
Nathan Hale, The New Henrietta.
officer 6G6. Old Homestead, The Only
Way Ours.
A Pair of Skies, A Pair of Spectacles,
Passing of the Third Floor Back, Peg
O. My Heart, Peter Pan, Pilates Daugh-
ter, Polly of the Circus, Pomander
Walk The Poor Little Rich Girl. Pot
ash and Perlmutter, Prince and Pauper,
La Princess Lointaine, The Private Sec
retaty, The Professors Love Story,
Pygmalion and Galatea.
Quality Street
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, The
Return of Peter Grimm, Richard Car
son, The Road to Yesterday, Les Ro-
manesques, Rose of the Rancho, Rose
mary, Rosedale. The Roundup, A Royal
Family. Rip Van Wrinkle,
Salomy Jane, The Scarlet Pimpernel,
School, Second in Command. Secret Serv-
ice, The Senator Keeps House, Sham.
Shameen Dhu, Shenandoah. The Shepherd
King, Sherlock Holmes, The Silver King,
Shore Acres, Soldiers of Fortune. Stop
Thief. The Story of the Rosary, Stron-
heart. Such Little Queen, Sweet Kitty
Bellairs.
The Things that Count The Third
Degree, Too Many Cooks, Tom Pinch.
The Trail of the Lonesome Pines. Tre-
lawney of the Wells, The Truth, The Two
Orphans, The Tyranny of Tears
Under Cover.
The Virglnlan.
The Warrens of Virginia, Way Down
East, What Every Woman Knows, When
Knighthood Was in Flower, The WILL The
Witching Hour, The Wolf of Gubbio.
In WORD of explanation to the list,
the ,committeel says: "It Is hoped the
present list, while obviously incomplete,
may serve as sort of sign post to tho
seasons attractions, and that 1t is COM
prehensive enough to set as a touchstone
by which other plays may be judged"