TAKING A LOAM OF A CITY MAYOR.

Shannon News, 22 May 1923, Page 3

TAKING A LOAM OF A CITY MAYOR.

AN EXCITING NIGHT. interesting details are to hand of a stunt recently worked in New York; by certain enterpnsng .peopile, who started an agitation asking that the city he allowed to dispel its drabness for at least one night in the year—an evening ol care-tree abandonment to dispel drabness—an evening when all people of ail classes of your town can lay aside their worries, their business cares and play—play like children and everybody assuming a regular carnival spirit and seeking to have a gay time themselves as well as making everybody about them happy. A petition whs therefore presented to Mayor Hvlan, reading in part as follows: ‘We, the undersigned citizens of New York City, knowing your personal sympathy with 'and \Official interest in the welfare and happiness of the people, beg you to consider this, our petition. Conditions due .

world disturbances have so interfered with industry that many of us have been unable to provide ihe necessary funds for vacations or frequent- visits to places of amusement. We do 1 not seek the ponderous formality of fete, carnival, festival or Mardi Gras. We ask simply for a night when we all can play; a night such as the .'Reloving Italians have, and Called 1 plainly by them ‘One Exciting Night’—* night to enjoy life. We shall later present to Your Honour a petition bearing the signatures of tens .of thousands of persons. But we bon : that this* present petition may h ivo vour iminetliaie and generous considerate*, and that Your Honour miv see fit to proclaim for us a date on which all may celebrate our one exciting night.” New York City’s Mayor did not know that the foregoing petition was in the nature of an exploitation stunt, nor did any of the New (York .new spapers, all of which fell for it “ho ik, line and sinker” —to the extent that every paper gave much new’s space to the idea, and. several of them gave later editorial comment,, mostly ir favour of “One Exciting Night.” \ few days afterwards they woke up ■’ the fact that “One Exciting Night” was D. W. Griffiths’ latest, picture achievement. It its due in Shannon ( n Friday.;