Show REELED IN COURT COURTS COURTis S SEEING is believing ng elsewhere than thanin thanin thanin in Missouri A precedent has been established by a Philadelphia court It may be bo taken for granted that hat tho the proverbial Philadelphia lawyer lawyer law law- yer was on one sido side or the other per per- imps one on either side And Anti it was all about a motion picture play After Alter tile the film had been heen passed by bythe bytho ho tho national board of censors the state board of 01 censors censoriously sat on onit onit ont it t then figuratively sat down on it Being thus barred from exhibiting tho the photo drama in Pennsylvania the Ule producers producers pro- pro lucers appealed to the courts and as asit asit ast it t was tile the first appeal from the tho edict of the tho censors under tho the present state laws aws the tho case was followed with interest interest in- in terest erest throughout the tb e country I Recognizing g that he had an unusual iSSUe before him tho the trial judge ordered ordered ordered or or- dered tho the reel brought into court Tho Tile room was darkened tim the dignitaries i ries and functionaries of the court and about spectators constituted the he audience when tho the reel was flashed on the curtain in its own orn d defense fe se and when Wilen the show was over oer the court decided decided de tie- that there was no reason why the tho rest of tho the people of Pennsylvania ania should not seo see tho the pictures too if so inclined i Solomon could hardly have done better under the tho sarno same circumstances |