POLICE RAIDS OF THEATRES.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 April 1927, Page 3

POLICE RAIDS OF THEATRES.

XH\Y YORK, Fcbunry 16. An ;itieinpt to cleanse the New i ork stage boonii Inst night, when squads of police arrested the producers of, and netor in the three pin,vs “The C'nptive” “Sex,’’ nnd “Tile Virgin Man” on charges of giving indecent performnnees. 'l'hev were taken to a night court nnd released on hail, re-arrest being threatened should the productions be carried on pending a judicial decision as to their lit lies for public exhibition. The warrants were served to the accompaniment of courtesies. .Mr (>ilber .Miller (who is well known in London), the producer of the “Captive,” was not at the theatre when the odicers arrived, Police-Lieutenant toy telephoned to him saying: “Please come down and be arrested.”' Mr Miller replied that he was extrenily busy, but presently consented tu present biinseif for arrest. ■£7I.XX) IX PIiKSK.XTS. OMXIf VA. Feb. 5. During the hearing of a police court case in which a Zurich dentist was sentenced to two months' imrpi.sunment on a bankruptcy charge it was disclosed that he '.had spent £7OOO on an actress whose hand he unsuccessfully sought in marriage. On one occasion when she rejected his propositi he flew into a lfage and threw an engagement ring valued at £2OO into a lake. A few days afterwards, howe'er, lie again appeared oil the scene with another costly ring obtained from a local jeweller. The two chief victims of his unfortunate romance are his brother, who advanced nearly £2(XK>, and a hospital nurse, whose hard-earned savings she imagined were being put into tin* dentist’s business.