New-York tribune., 1921-11-15
Virgin
k Too Risque
For Broadway
a.,,,,orar and Disgrace TO
- slaxe. Magistrate McAdoo
Rules; Producer Woods
Held to Special Sessions
,,;stressed Rector's Wife
i. Also Saw 'Gel,iag Ger
' ,;es Garter at Request
of Minister in Brooklyn

NE Dcni-virgin,' ono OF Avery
....ases noppiest fsrces, is too
~ .s.. far Broadway. in the opinion
:. es,ss Magistrate McAdoe. Aftes
: .:aw testimony from its accusers
'.s.srdss, '. the Chief Mag:ssrste bound
geods. rredueer Of the play. In
40 Nail 10 await the action of Spe-
=, sessions OF the charge Of present
~ ~, ;mpure and inlmoras" drama.
sumner, secretary of the So
for the Suppression of Vice, was
s's,s 80 heen the principal witness at
m.srdav's hearing IN the chambers OF
srrs;ef Magistrate. The ground that
.ue srnnosed to cover. however. had
pa 80 thoroughly gone over in, the
.;,,arv. oesH Of Police Laeutenant Albert
ns:sr- ,sss.s sbas Sumner cohtented himself
I,.s ruls outlining the plot of the play as
be saw it.
Interesting. Says Rector's Wife
TINS it remained for Mrs. Herbert
f,oyer. wife of the rector of St. Ste
Jas Eciscopal Church, Brooklyn, who
ss witness for the prosecution, to
.sss the FIRE of Max D. Steuer's cross
cremation as attorney for Woods.
NJ Glover was visibIy aroused over
-saf she described as the indecency
i the play. which, she said, she had
sone 20 see in her capacity as mem
ssr Of the Society for the Betterment
af Public Shows.
linder direct examination by Assist
saf District Attorney Johnstone.S Mrs
Elever said she haj failed to find any
neral lesson in the performance, which,
She said. was distressing to one seeking
the good in present-day plays
Cross-uuestioning elected the infor-
nation that. as far as she could re-
member, Mrs. Glover had seen only two
ether plays this Getting Ger
tie's Garter" and Welcome Stranger"
She vent to see the former at the
suggestion ola Brooklyn minister, who
said he had heard complaints about it,
ard the latter of her own volition.
Were you asked to go and see
Lilies of the Field p" persisted
Steurer.
NE
@or Bluebeards Eighth Wife?''
1Ye5., but I haven't got around to
that yet
Illegal. Court Decides
Magistrate McAdoo, in sustaining the
:omplaint against "The Demi-Virgin, y
ieclared it to be deliberately. pains
akingly, and for the purpose of gain
oarsely indecent, 1agrantly and sug-
:estively immoral, impure in motive,
sord and action, repellently vulgar and
n every respect extensively Illegal
I I.,-x- n
own by the highest court of this state
0 Judge this play as it would appeal to
be intelligence of ordinary men and
ot experts or those connected In any
This play is an Intentional appeal
or the profit of the box Office, to the
ustfuI and licentious, to the morbidly
rotic, to the vulgar and disorderly
sinds.
Calls 1t an Outrage
III IS an outrage upon the decent
of theaters, producing
many excellent plays and comedies
herein; an insult to the theatrical
rofession. whose talents are prosti-
uted, presumably under compulsion, to
nact parts against their own sense
# decency, and professional pride
must revolt. Such plays as this and
Indecent exhibitions in general will
row more prevalent and audacious in
his city unless the law which covers
ueh cases is seriously enforced, and,
II conviction and sentence, an adequate
meted out by the court.
"As to how the machinery necessary
or an effective enforcement of the
aw is to be had, is matter not neces-
AIRY to discuss in this connection"