Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-12-04
Resolution Adopted Last Night
at Conference Of Committees
to be Acted On by Mayor to
Censor List Of Pictures.

There will be committee OF
representative citizens appointed to
censor the list of pictures that are to
be put on at the different theatres X
a resolution adopted at the confer
ence of committees from the Board
of Censor Commissioners, the Wom-
ans Club and the Board OF Trade,
lact night, is acted ON by Mayor
Garretson.
Managers Were Present.
Managers and proprietors of all
playhouses in the city we're invited
to the meeting last night, and a
representative from all except one
theatre was present. They agreed to
furnish a list of the pictures every
Saturday that are to be shown the
following week and allow 1t to be
censored by the proposed committee.
The Board OF Censor Commissioners
Is to be enlarged from its present
membership of less than fifteen mem
bers to sixty members SO that there
will be more persons on the commits
sion to visit the different theatres
and keep in touch with the pictures
ID Seing shown.
conference last night, which was
held in the rooms of the Board of
Trade, authorizes consultation
with Mayor Garretson in reference to
appointing a committee of as many
members as he sees fit and whom he
sees fit, whose duty 1t will be to
meet every Saturday and censor the
list of pictures furnished by the man
ayers that are to be put on the fol-
lowing week; also in reference to
enlarging the present Board OF Gen.
sor Coz nisstoners to include sixty
membs q whose duty 1t will be to
visit the different picture houses
and ascertain If any Objectionable
films are being shown.
N. K Miller, manager Of the
Ditmas theatre, and William Brown
one Of the proprietors Of the Royal
theatre, were the spokesman for the
four managers and proprietors OF
local playhouses who attended the
conference, and they declared for the
others that the management of the
different playhouses desired to CO.
operate with the committees from
the different organizations trying to
secure a better standard of pictures
for the city, and offered to furnish a
list of films on every Saturday OF
pictures scheduled for the coming
week, to be censored by committee
of citizens.
Mrs. Jean Dubois, chairman OF the
committee from the Woman's Club,
presented the clubs views and told
how the organization had tried to
cause the showing of cleaner pictures
In Perth Amboy, and the elimination
of certain classes of pictures dealing
with the neither side of life The
members Of the committee from the
Woman's Club made a plea for good,
wholesome pictures at the different
theatres, where large part of the
patronage Is composed of children.
N. K Miller and William Brown,
speaking for the managers and pro-
prietors, emphasized the fact that no
y theatre in the city shows pictures
that are not passed by the National
Board of Censors. They declared
that the theatres pay as much for
pictures as any other theatres in sur
rounding municipalities, and have as
high standard of films.
They contended that often the
managers do not see the pictures un-
til after they have been run once or
twice. They told how the films ar
rive at 1880 o'clock in the afternoon
and are put on at o'clock, so that
there is not time for a review OF
them They also brought out the
fact that always they had worked in
conjunction with the Board of Censor
Commissioners headed by Principal
Joseph F. Walker, and had never run
a picture or e zsart of picture to
which the board objected. They con-
tended further that 1t was almost
impossible for any set of individuals
to say what pictures were objection
. able after they had passed the Ma
tional Board Of Censors, because it
all depends on the viewpoint OF the
Individual. Mr.. Miller said that one
person would consider picture inde-
cent where another would consider It
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