Show 1 CLERIC STRIKES hi ii OBSCENITY Theatre Man fan Interrupts In Church Meeting NEW YORK YORI Feb Fb H-en- H 14 ByTh The Associated press A Press Press-A A stage up clean up ma mass maas meeting in Cal Cal- Cal Calvary ary vary Baptist church hero here her Sunday was Interrupted momentarily by William A Brady theatrical pro pro- producer producer ducer who objected to remarks he considered derogatory to the th stage profession and to Will II Hays the movies The Interruption came while Roy nev Dr John Roach Straton was preaching on the th announced top top- topIc topic top topic ic How Jiow to Stop Indecency On the Stage Stag and Other Criminal Ob- Ob Obscenity Ob Obscenity to Referring to a 0 debate with Mr Ir Brady In Calvary church several years year ears ago Dr Straton said the th producer declared that Indecent plays plas play were produced bl- bl because be because cause the public wanted them RECOGNITION REFUSED That man Is here Mr Bra Brady y shouted rising from his seat scat In inho tho ho back of ot the th auditorium Ho He was unable to attract recognition frOm Dr straton and sat sM down without further attempts to In- In Interrupt interrupt In Interrupt the speaker After the th meeting Mr Brady Drady said ho he was aroused especially by y Dr Straton's reference to Mr Hays as an elder of the th Pre Pres- Pres church who has dealt a 0 ablow blow biow at the movement for decency decency decency cy by hy allowing himself to be betaken betaken taken from a place piece in the tho cabinet to lend a false front of respectability respectability ability to the th movies for tor an an- an annual annual an annual nual salary of DI QUESTION Mr rr Brady also said he object object- objected objected ed to the th clergyman's statement that In virtually every divorce In high social circles within the th ho past generation a woman of th the stage had figured as Dr Straton and Supreme Court Justices William Harmon Black and John Ford all 1111 of whom born spoke from the th Calvary pulpit advocated d the th enforcement of oC o exist exist- existing exist existing ing Ins Ins- laws Ins against obscenity as the best means of censorship Jut Jut- Jus Justice tice Uce Ford declared In favor ot of prosecuting publications publication as wIlas II as plays play and movies that violate decency |