The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1921-01-22
VICKSBURG MAYOR
PUTS BAN ON SHOW
Gags at Indecent Advertising Of show
Ministers and Civic League
Pleased.

or of any other year given in VickS-
burg unless they change the character
of their advertising greatly in the fu-
ture for Mayor Hayes has put the ban
on the show and it will not be given
heer as advertised Friday night.
This action was taken by Mayor
Hayes last evening, giving as his rea-
son the indecent character of the ad
vertising and he notified Manager Null
ligan last night that the show would
not be>allowed to appear here.
Manager Mulligan is perfectly salts
fed and states that he is perfectly will
ling to abide by Mayor Hayes decision.
just as he would have been if he had
rung down the curtain during the pro-
gress of the show, if anything happen
ed on the stage that His Honor and
the committee did not approve.
-he Ministers Association of the city
and the ladies of the Civic League are
highly pleased with the Mayors action,
which was taken entirely without their
solicitation, although committee from
the ladies was prepared to call on him
this morning.
MARCUS NEEDS A LESSON.
Mr.. Marcus needs a lesson" said
Mayor Hayes this morning, "and 1 de-
cided to teach him one. The show may
be perfectly clean. and nothing object
ionable in it, for 1 accept fully the
reviews Of the Memphis critics, but the
point I wish to make is that Marcus
has done everything possible in his
advertising to make people believe that
it is not clean.
mo matter what the show Is itself,
the advertising matter is indecent and
when I returned from New Orleans
last evening, and saw the manner in
which it was being advertised, I de-
cided to not let it show here and noti-
fled Manager Mulligan at once.
II accepted Mr.. Mulligan's invitation
to see the show and would have been
present with a committee to view it on
Friday night, but when I got home and
saw the character of the advertising
being used, I decided that it should not
be. shown here.
81 have had no communication re-
garding the show from anyone until
this morning, and my action had al
ready been taken then. deciding that I
did not need anyone to tell me that
indecently suggestive advertising was
or not. That was sufficient for me-"
Il am glad to see that Manager Null
ligan takes exactly the same view of
1t that do and he fully approves of
my action and has notified the mana
ser that Vicksburg does not want his
show.
Whether it will do Mr.. Marcus any
good in other places, I do not know but
if he wants to show here, he'll have to
use decent advertising.
CIVIC LEAGUE PLEASED.
I'VE are all delighted with the Nav
-oFs, action" said Mrs. H M. Bell. pres
ident Of the Civic League this morning
for 1t is in exact accordance with our
views as expressed when We saw the
advertising of the show
The Mayor was out of town but a
committee of the ladies was to call on
him this morning, in regard to the
shows appearance here On hearing
that he had forbidden it I rang him up
and was highly pleased to have his
confirmation of the report that he had
given notification that it would not be
given here.
1T may be that the show is no worse
than others that have been given here.
but the advertising was, and it was on
those grounds that we formed our
Judgment of the character of the
show"
Mrs. Bell, like Mayor Hayes, stated
that they had not the slightest desire
to censure Mr.. Mulligan or the news
papers in connection with the adver-
tising used by the show here but that
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would go straight to the promoter of
what they had every reason to believe
from his own published statements
was an indecent show.
There may be some sighs here from
the fact that the Marcus Peaches"
Will have to blush and bloom some
where else, but most of our citizens
VIII be pleased with the action taken
and glad to consider the whole incident
closed.-Vicksburg Post.