Show PRESS PARAGRAPHS Th The closing of ot indecent theatres b by Mayor MOr Gaynor of ot N Nw w York Tork awakens comment In the new newspapers pa rs News But If It Mayor 1 Gaynor starts In 5 seriously to censor or th drama In New York what hat Is going to be become become Le- Le come como of Broadway Buffalo Comm Commercial If It tho ma mayor mavor or continue J to use his executive power to put down what Is false also and nasty and elevate what Is Js good and true In dramatic entertainment he hEl will perform a great public service Mr He lie will al also o become a shining exam example In this respect to the chief magistrates of ot other cities Lockport Times Habitual reformers aro are apt to go so to extremes In their efforts to regulate the conduct of ot their fellow fellowmen fellowmen men and thus nullify what good they ac ac- ac- ac But Mayor Gaynor will h havethe have havethe ve the approval of ot all nil wholesome men and women In hIts crusade 8 against nasty and filthy theatrical performances Baltimore American Mayor Gaynor Ganor of ot New York after starting a a. cru crusade ad forthe for tor forthe th the protection of ot personal liberty Is now after alter tho suppression of ot Indecent plays Th The metropolis may not attain the millennium mil mu- but he evident evidently think It is possible to give It a good spring houseclean house- house clean cleaning in C. C Syracuse Po Post Standard t If It th the play which the mayor mavor has taken off oct Is worse than some oth others rs that Broadway audi audi- have have- chuckled over 0 the author has Indeed been clever Doubtless tho tle manager manager man man- ager Is getting out new sheets The Play Mayor l Gaynor Stop Stopped to be bo used just as soon as a new theatre can be had and to be used also let us admit to Our own shame In the provinces Baltimore News The salacious pieces that meet with favor Cavor In New York Tork aro am mostly patronized when at atall atall all all by the large element of transient amusement sl seekers kers and the native play play- going The Tho Intelligent and cultivated classes In N New Nw York give as little tittle countenance to these entertainments entertain ments as do the same people In Baltimore Balti more and other largo large cities Washington o Times If Zt tho the theatre mana management ment can con be made to know that it will be bo held responsible for the plays produced In Its house and that It will lose Jose Its license if It the It laws lawn of ot decency decent arc are violated there will willbe bo be an astonishing Improvement in the moral quality of or dramatic dramatic dramatic dra dra- matic productions Mayor Gaynor has hu applied the most effective c remedy Others may well follow tollow his example New York World In suppressing an indecent play and refusing to renew the license a of the tha theatre producing It ex except except ox- ox on the tho guarantee of ot a cleaner drama the mayor maor hl has made no attack on a free tree stage stase Those who conceive that ho has merely confuse confuso license with liberty Hi His action Is no more a censorship censor ship of tho drama droma than tho confiscation of ot Indecent pictures is a censorship of ot art or tho the seizure of ot Immoral literature a 8 censorship of ot the pre press s. s Boston Herald Here In Boston if It ItIs it itIs itis Is rumored that a new farce arcs or musical corned comedy Is raw the theatre is packed the first night but if t objectionable features atthe of at the performance are aro cut out cut out the public In Interest In In- terest dwindles Nor are these thue audiences 9 composed only of oC those that delight In garbage Thoy They are arc made m up of ot all classes 5 and conditions and some men mon and ond women women wom worn en of ot supposed breeding and culture reveling rev rev- cling eling In these farces and forming theatre parties to see ace them are arc tho first to protest pro pro- test against the tho Immorality of ot plays hy by Ibsen and ro Pitts burg Times' Times If It barring tho the door of New York theatres to pernicious cious dotis entertainment spreads the Infection the New ew York Incident Is la of ot concern con on cern corn to Cleveland and other cities Ho lie Is best armed who is ore ore- warned so that tho the first audacious exhibit Of ot stage tago pollution that com conies comes 9 this Wit way next fall Call under the guise of ot a 3 great erent New NewYork NewYork NewYork York success success' should be promptly sm smashed on tho the head by th the police Kill tho the evil thing thIne first and do the talking afterward afterwardS |