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Show Indecent Posters. The activity of the police for the suppression sup-pression or indecent theatrical pe-.Uers ought to work a revolution In taste, whatever what-ever effect It may have on morals. It Is a common theatrical trick to put more on tho postern than appears on the tUngo. Them Is a eerUiln grade or melodrama which docs business on Its sensational posters nnd far more attention Is paid to the quality of their "printing" than to their performance. Some of the burlesquo shows suggest things on their poster which they would not dare to put upon their stages, because the police, would promptly close their theaters. The posters thus bocomn a fraud by arousing a curiosity curi-osity that the perfonpance fulls to gratify. grati-fy. If the pollen Hnd It easy to ki-p the performances within tho limits of decency they can us easily kaop tho posters up to the same standard. Thej-e are towns where theatrical companies are ii'it allowed al-lowed to post objectionable plclurox. not through any action of the authorities, hut because the local manager bellevo thr.t such billboards Injure his business aiid he Insists on inspecting tho "paper" which Is sent to his hou?e and rejecting that which will bring criticism on his theater. In the largo cities, wherf the grades of theatrical theatri-cal entertainment nre distributed, among a .grade acule'ol houses, the plan will not' work becaiiou tho people who object to the flamboyant melodrama of xoiiih billboard H or to tho Inducuncy of other do not at- RH tend the theater which tauch printing In H used to advertise. They 'havo no way of i H making their profsuiv flt at the box H office, and their only n-medy Is through thu police. A warning from thelntter ia mmmm to Urn sort of "paper" which will bo per- H mltted would be quite, us effective as thu p,ri.Mtl warnings us to tho quality of tm-l ' tertalnmcnt arc. Brooklyn Eaflo, f t iiH |