Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-02-04 | Page 9 | New Cleanup Plans for Broadway Are Being Considered

New Cleanup Plans For Bro Broadway dway Are re I Being ein Considered ere I I Iway's NEV NEW YO YORK Feb 4 AP ways way's cleanup committee to today labored over new planS plank to moderate New Y Yorks York's rk entertainment without the aid of outside Interference Pending the return of Mayor Walker from Havana a committee of nine th theatrical interests in- in Is' Is attempting to formulate a scheme that will be acceptable to i. i the city administration n nand and powerful power powerful power power- ful enough to satisfy an Increasing demand for modification of Broadway Broadway Broad Broad- way plays I 1 Governor Smith js supporting the demand for cleaner plays but it Is II understood ho- ho hois is not In favor of censorship A citizens or police 1 who would report stage stage- obscenity to authorities authorities' for prosecution prose prose- cuU cution n as a nuisance are among the governors governor's campaign suggestions say reports from Albany Bishop Manning Episcopal peaking at the dinner o of t the e et t t III n Church club of New York included risque stage productions in his indictment indictment in- in of a flew morality It It is time he said for us to tell the producers of filthy plays the sordid sex novelists the publishers publishers pub pub- lishers of Indecent magazines and the apostles of the called so-called new morality that theIr productions are area a sin against God and a crime against the life of our land and that we will find a way to put a curb on them Plays in New York would not be tolerated In England says J J. J M. M Kenworthy labor M. M P. P who Is visiting New New- NewYork York Drastic action by byL L a single citizen citizen- censor was urged by Cosmo Ham Ham- ilton playwright and author in an address before the Book and Play club He would have the censor be bean bean an amateur Mussolini a a gentleman gentleman gentle man who would whether a play was intelligent enough for I production I I