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Show JEWTHEATStlGJiL MAN SUES FORD CHK'AGO. Feb. 2. The praecipe in a $5,000,000 damage suit against Henry Ford and his paper, The Dearborn Dear-born Independent, was filed In circuit court Tuesday by Morris Gest, theatrical theatri-cal producer, who alleged an urtlclo In The Independent on Jununry SI contained "libelous, slanderous and fsilso statements'" concerning Mr. Gest , and certain stage products he haa handled. The article mentioned In thel suit was said to huve attacked "Aphrodite" "Aphro-dite" and "MeOCn," in particular term-l Ing them the "most sulm-ious specta-, oles ever shown In America," The article which was alleged to! have bcon libelous was quoted In the1 praecipe. It asserted that the American Ameri-can stage was "under the Influence! and control of u group of former boot-; blacks, newsboys, ticket speculators, 1 prize ring habitues and bowery charattr ! ters." After saying "Mr. Gust stalks before his fellow Jews as tho most successful producer of th0 year," the quoted article ar-ticle declared that Mr. Gest was not a great producer, but a "great pan-derer pan-derer to a public whose taste ho has been no mean factor in debusing." Gest, It said, sold newspapers In Hoa-ton Hoa-ton und In 1906 was a member "of a notorious gang of ticket speculators who were the bane of tho public." Thero Is nothing In Gest's career to Indicate that he would ever contribute con-tribute anything to th theatre's best Interests," tbt. article said and also de. I lured that " the story of Morrin Gest Is tho last one In tho world to us. as a 'success story' of tho type of ImmJ-grant ImmJ-grant bOJ ivho became a great llieiUrl-tul llieiUrl-tul producer." ne |