Ban on Attendance or Printing of Advertisements, 'A: boycott against the Grand Theatre is being vigorously advocate ed by the Shanghai District Kuomintang and the Greater Shanghai Film Censorship Committee and the Chinese people have been warned not to attend this amusement hous Phe newspapers likewise are hidden to publish advertisements news items relating to the Gra Theatre. This action has been taken by the two concerned in connection with the recent seree ing of the Harold Loyd film, "Wel come Danger," because the management refused to allow themselves to be intimidated into taking "orders"
ied by the Tang-pa.
the Capitol Theatre directors have decided to accede to the orders of the Chinese authorities. In the course of an interview with our presentative, Mr. H. E, Booker, one of the directo that the film, "Welcome Danger," had been passed by the French and International Boards of Censors and the picture was screened for three days at the Capitol. On the third night, a letter" was handed to the management, saying that the District Kuomintang fed for the withdrawal of the picture, "I saw the picture on the following Sunday night Mr. Booker, "and I found it to be, parts, very offensive to the Chi se people, who were right in ing that these should be censored, Accordingly, I wrote to the District Kacwintang, on "babalt of management, apologizing for ing pictures which work-offensive of the Chinese people, because it is far from the policy of the theatre to offend anyone. In the meantime, four advertisements in the various Chinese papers were stopped. Later, we received a letter containing the three demands. My answer was 1. that "Welcome Danger" was not our property and no longer in our possession as it had been returned to the distributors; 2 That we would agree to films exhibited by the Capitol Theatre being censored by the Chinese Film Censorship Committee but we could not voice 1g|the sentiments of other theatres; and 3. That the Tang-pu should communicate directly with Harold Lloyd if they wanted an apology be~ cause we were not authorized to apologize on his behalf.
think," said Mr. Booker in conclusion, "personally, that the Chinese authorities should' be. entitled to censor pictures shown in Chin
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