Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-04-08 | Page 3 | 'More Clothes,' is Stage Order

6 M Ht I IS Nudity Is Banned Under I r New Law Signed 1 by Smith YORK April 8 AP Wo AP-Wo- Wo mei men on the Bi Broadway stise stage and nd In night clubs must must put on clothes This decree was Issued by District District Dis DIs- Attorney Banton after the sil signing ning by Governor Smith of the Wales Vales padlock bill bIlI which provides places of or entertainment judged to toh h have ve violated the licensing regulations regulations regula regula- may be closed close for a year rear The law not atone alOne applies to nudity but also to any obscene Indecent Immoral or Impure drama play exhibition or entertainment and makes theatre owners and In IndivIdual Individual Individual In- In performers responsible for forthe forthe forthe the character Of entertainment Those in charge of ot some of the pl plays ys now before the public had better KO go o through F them h and cut out im- im their filthy lines e and ad scenes scene's warned the district attorney And women in right clubs clubs' he added had better put on clothes too j The district attorney expressed the belief that it gould be found that theatre e owners are the best kind of or censors That after all h he said is what is effective in keeping the stage clean Adoption of the new law the most drastic in the history of ot the Broadway Broadway Broadway Broad Broad- way stage follows months of or agitation agitation agitation agi agi- tation for or a cleanup of the stage First efforts were the formation of an unofficial play Jury by DisIc Distract District Dis Dis- tract Ic Attorney Canton Manton anton which passed c on on pr productions d ions When i n this this' I plan la failed the district attorney substituted sub sub- police pollee raids which recently resulted in 11 court convictions and Jail sentences for tor authors producers and found actors guilty Of ot producIng producing producing ing immoral plays The present law most of ot which was written by bythe bythe bythe the district attorney was described by him as one with teeth In It The Theatrical producers and managers managers managers mana mana- gers with one exception expressed disappointment of ot the signing of ot the bill The he exception was A A. L L. Erlanger Eranger who declared I have never known yn mown Governor Smith to be wrong and I have known him for toJ thirty years years