The evening world. Newspaper, December 9, 1912, Page 6

emmy 'FVE MORE HELD | | FORLETING TTS | MOVE SHOWS Brooklyn Detectives Continue! Crusade Instituted by The Evening World. | AFTER PARENTS, TOO. | Manhattan Moving Picture Man Convicted for Depicting Crimes of Violence. | i] { i ! Detectives eent from Trrooktyn Head- quearters to-day to seo if moving pio- thre theatres were complying with the law, did not have to go far before they ‘found violations euch aa ‘The Evening } World has been pointing out and which | warranted the arrent of managers of at- Ttaches of four houses. | At tho Sterling Theatre, No. 1127 Twurth avenue, Brooklyn, the detectives, ‘Byron and Meyer, spent @ full half hour [before they were mure that the man who Lentere’ the door a dozen timos in that ‘period, leading a ohtld by the hand, was the same, They investigated, [found he was the manager and arrested [him. The specific charge was that he ladmitted twelve-year-old Charles Gott- jie Into the theatre after he had taxen ‘a mfokel from the boy’ hand and pur- chased @ ticket for him with ¢t Ettore Ziccione, proprietor of the l’as- Jume Theatre at No. 25 Columbia street, was arrest after the detectives had neon Hugo Barbine, six, his eight-year- old Orother Tullo and Rento Bardens, fifteen, all of No. 677 Hicks street, enter the glace, At the “Hippodrome,” No, £14 Fifth avenue, fourteen-year-okl Michael Mar- tino bought a ticket and was just taking ‘his eat Inside when the detectives ‘spotted hia pleasure by taking him away to the police station along with Charles 8, Stammerman, the manager. visit to @ moving picture house at . 08 Coleman street resulted in the {arrest of Nellie Spanose, eighte: jcashier, and John Curso, the prop , ‘The detectives said they saw Rooco Mandettone, fourteen years old, admit- ted to the theatre without question de- spite the law which probfbits the admit. tance of ohildren under sixteon when vunaccompanied by @ parent or an elder, {PRIGONERS HELO IN $600 BAIL , BY MAGISTRATE. | } Magtetrate Maguire in the Butler Street fcourt held the prisoners in $500 bail. ‘Charges of improper guardianship were jentered against the parents of the chy- idiren, who were ail brought to court. Philip Mera, proprietor of a moving jpleture theatre located at No, 10 East Fourteenth etreet, was arraigned before Magistrate Murphy in the Essex Market Court this morning charged with violat- ing section 27 of the City Ordinance. The seotion under which Mers was arrested reads that “No person shall Post, paste, print, maintain or display t of any show, play{ ny picture or cut tend. The Win Which includes ter's comfort. Brain and Nerves. upon any billboard, fence or structure, | | yupose to public view | Mt Breakfast Grape-Nuts ment I am supported by those who the country. “They are overcrowded, poorly ¥ tary. In May last the ing to represent the doing of a artminal ‘aot of tending to incite the mind to acts of immorality or erime.” The picture upon which Merz was convicted wna taken from the 014 drama “The Shadows of @ Great City,” whioh showed @ man shooting @ woman. Magistrate Murphy found Merz gullty and fined him 8%. Accorting to Assis- tant DistrictsAttorney Leslie Lockhart | in the Easex Market Court thie is the | first conviction of its kind aince moving | pletures have been exhibited In this city, Put on their guard by exporures in The Evening World regarding condi- tlons in the cheaper moving picture shows of the city, and activity of the Police in connection with persistent vio- lations of the Iaw forbidding children under sixteen years in such places un- less accompanted by parents or guard- fans, twelve east aide “movies” success- fully stood @ hurried inspection as to fire ordinance violations nat night, A uniformed Inapector of the Fire Preven tion Bureau dozen place find anything wrong. but was unable to He was not int sent of the Fire Prevention Bureau, under spectal orders from Fire Commiastoner Johnson, was instructed to look only for persons being allwed to stand up tn the backs of the houses and the alsies and then! determine if the “standees" were a menace to the safety of others in the theatres in case of fire or panic. ‘While this one Inspector sought vio- lations in the five-cent theatres of the east mide, the other forty-two men, working in squads of two, visited eighty-two places of amusement In the Greater City holding regular theatre licenses in Whioh entertainments were given last night. Five of the larger theatres—places in which vaudeville {s combined with motion pictures-—were found to be serl- ous violators of the fire protection lawa, it is said. Deputy Corporation Counsel Hyatt to-day began prepara- 6 of forty-three The inspector, out by Chief William Guerin, has the worst moving pictnre theatres in the United fated the subject all over in the civil law, to proceed against violators ordinance and recover a fine of $0, is said many theatres have willingly given up $0 when they could make $100 in an evening by the violation of ti tons to !sue summonses for the own-| ers of each of these places and each may be prosecuted under the penal ata tutes, Cheap ‘Movie’ Theatres Disgrace to New York, Fosdick Declares Conditions in moving picture theatres in Now York are a disgrace to the city and the people cannot afford to tolerate them, declared Raymond 3. day at the Twenty-third street ¥. Mm. ften distinctly uneaal- dmirable mi introduced im the Board of Aldermen with a view to regulating these C. a on ) wee evils, | PLACES WHERE SERIOUS VIOLA. TIONS ARE REPORTED, The five places in whioh serious vio- lations are reported to have been found | were The Lenox Theatre, One Man- area Brooklyn, Eleventh street and The Folly Theatre, Williamsburg. CHIEF GUERIN SAYS THERE WILL BE PROSECUTIONS, Chief Guerin announced the owners of these places would be prosecuted fon 1590 of the penal statutes, section provides: 4 public nnisance is @ orime against the order and economy of the State, and consists in unlaw- fully doing an act or omitting to perform a duty, which act or omis- sion in any way renders @ consider- Aaple number of persons inseoure in life or the use of property. It {8 contended there will be no dit- floulty in establishing conditions found ho five theatres mentioned conati- ted a nulsance in each case, this section the punishment for convic- tion may be @ fine of $000 for @ year's imprisonment, or both, Under Heretofore, when the department has 25 GENT “DANDERINE”. FOR FALLING prosecuted theatres for violation of the “etandee” rule tt has only been under which enables the city of tho it HAIR AND CANORUFF—GROWS HAIR Don’t pay 50 cents for worthless hair tonics—Use old, reliable, harmless ‘‘Danderine’’—Get results. ‘Thin, brittle, colorless and scraggy hair is mute evidence of a neglected sealp; of dandruff—that awful scurf. There is nothing so destructive to the hair as dandruff. lustre, its strength and its very life; eventually producing a feverishness and hing of the scalp, which, if not reme- died, causes the hair roots to shrink, and die—then the hair falls out ast. 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The hty-sizth Street Theatre, Eighty-sixth street, between Lez- ingtom avenne and Third avenue. Proctor's Fifth Avenue Theatre. ‘The Brooklyn Grand Opera House. All of the inspectiona were made dur- ing the hours of the evening perform- ances, Afterward the men reported to Chiet Guerin and Chief John P, Howe, head of the division of places of pub- lc amusement, at Fire Headquarters. Commenting on the investigation, Fire Commissioner Johnson to-day lsaued the following statement: ‘The one inspector in the cheaper eho: quarters in Bast Sixty-seventh street shortly after 7 o'clock. Taking Third avenue south as @ line of action, visited the following places: Nos. ‘Third avenue, No, #67 Third avenue, No. No. @ Third avenue, No. Row, No, & Chatham Square, No. ib Rowery, No. 16 Bowery, No. 20 Bowery, No, 10 Bowery, No. 6 Cr ‘ine street, No. 7% Catharine strest, No. 3) Rutgers street, Nos. 151-3 Monroe etreet. —e “MOVIES” AND PHONOGRAPH FOR COURT EVIDENCE. ROCHESTER, N. 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Cases of this sort are occurring dally, and it is about time that something was done to prevent them,” Haid Magistrate MoQuade in Men's Might Court, after he had held Menry Courcelles in $500 bail for the Court of Special Sessions. Courcelles was arrested on complaint of Joseph Agugn of No. 44 West Thirty- eighth street, who charged him with in- THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1912. in a pleture house at No. 617 Nint | avenue, Mrs, I George Johnson appeared against the prisoner, made the arrest, said it was all he could | do to protect the man from a mob of entered the theatre and took @ seat in| ‘man sulting his six-year-old daughter, Lena, | while she was sitting beside the father ot wife Special Om Dora, and the proprietor, When the man was arraigned his face was cut and Patrolman Ahearn, who men and women who were beating him. | According to Mrs. Roberts, Courcelles | the rear, A ehort time later Agugn, with his ittle girl and his three-year- | old boy, entered and sat next to Cour. | celles, ‘The little gin sat between her father and Courcelles, while the boy sat on.his father's lap. Mra. 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