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About The Klamath news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1923-1942 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1925)
frage Ten Sun jay, Aupwt, 1, 1925. DRAMAS OF THE OVER SEX TYPE Pastor Expelled for Wooing i I III tiMl tM.Tirtli' ifiiftf .x J . ..1. . . . y - m LONDON, Aug. 15. Great Brit-! in. following America's lead, U in j the preliminary throes ot a campaign , gainst over-sexed drama. Moralist who began the agitation against over-emphasis of sex in mod em plays are being backed up by managers of provincial theatres, j which means all theatres outside of: London, who say their audiences' like the old-fashioned article. In which Tlrtue emerges triumphant, If panting. In launching the campaign, the London public morality council, of . which the bishop of London is chair-1 man, called a special meeting, and : passed a resolution denouncing two j of what Is regarded as the worst ex amples of immoral plays, and calling on the official censor, the Lord Chamberlain, to suppress them. Bain, Somerset Maughan's grim story of the fall of a South Sea1 missionary, was one ot the plays. The other was Fallen Angels. which a young British playwright j Keel Coward, uses as a vehicle te! show two young married women in the process of getting soggily drunk while waiting for a lover to whom each had been mistress In turn he- fore their marriage. As far as dr..:ati merit goes, to .hare Coward's probable pride a. j JO EXPERIENCE QUAKE FOR YEARS their being coupled as horrible ex-j amples. Manghan's tells a story ' .- and points an obvious moral: Cow-: ard's aim frankly at a cynicisn. ' SAX whose youthfulness is unlntcnt'on !. MitvsI Anyway. the Lord Chamberlain .... declined to 'act. and the public nir- ". A . , , , seismologists with regard to quakes ality council followed up their res h mLBy ",e California therefore con- lutlon by drafting an appeal to S!a i-i": "!ac can !ook for onc st aay) ley Baldwin, the prime mlnii:?r. !0!time because of exisiting earth pres- "Seismologists are not In position OIL SWINDLER IS OETTINQ JUSTICE "CONVICTS HERE!" "TOM MIX HERE!" NEWSIES HAD 'EM COMING, GOING Georgia Ash, eiglitccn-year-old choir singer in a New Vork uburb, now faces the scorn of the village gossips. She tru voosd by Rev. Lv. Earl Shaftner, sheik-pastor, who was forced o leave the community by the irate villn:n'r. Hi- mnrricd. UW ANGB1.K8. A. .. C, Julian. picturesque million dollar oil promoter ol Texas and Califor nia was divested of cash and per- 'i nroocrtr totalling approxi mately lltfO.OOO by fedoral author ities tonight. internal revenue collector.! start ed confiscating the promoter1, wealth today to recover $T3.65 alleged back Income tat. According to proceedings Instituted by the government. JuHan b 10 port any Income since 1M. profits. It la claimed, totalled many millions of dollars. The "oil Ponal" begin negotia tions tonight to raise a bond of more than $1,000,000. If this bond Is furnished by August IS. or IS he can file a plea of abatement In Washington. D. C. and start pro-J ceedings for a compromise with the government en the amount of back tux to be paid, according to federal' officials. 'NORTHERN CALIFORNIA NOT LIKELY JOSE. Aug. 15 (United disturbance was so local that it Is -Northern California need "t neneveu tc- nave reucvea gen eral strain. The expectation of pass a bill in parliament, .replacing su"c- i to say when such an earthquake' A circulation covering the eltv i ic!ama Fa."a. ,n4 th ol Klamath thafa the KlamaHi ,. 1 20,000 MILES and . No Tire Trouble When you place COFFIELD TIRE PROTECTORS in a set of tires, you immediately double the mileage and eliminate at least 95 per cent of all tire troubles. COFFIELD TIRE PROTECTORS can be used over and over again in many sets of tires. The most amazing tire mileage records in America are being made with COFFIELD Protected Tires. yROTECTOpTS. X. U.S.PATENT y 1.181065 Thousands of ('(if field Hum all over the country have oil-tiilm-il from 'l),IHm to :io,OIH nibs from a set of tires. Sold pxcluNlvely liy J. G. McShann 11 III & Klmmitli Ave., I'lione KIIM 25 is the right price to pay for a good tooth paste LISTERINE TOOTH PASTE Large Tube 25 the official censorship with a liccn- S;:th is the opinion of Dr. B.iilyiwill occur. It might be tomorrow! . sing system for London, similar to 'Willis seismologist of Leland Stan-! and It might be 15 years from now." that-in provincial British cities, and ; ford university, a recent visitor! Vi. Willis bases his prediction of' in all parts of the United States, by here. Immunity for northern California which local authorities would control' Dr. Willis predicted in Santa Bar-! on the belief that the severe general tne staging of plays, and would be bara temblor, and is un authority earthquake of 1S57 relieved the! able to refuse or rescind licenses, jon earth pressure and strains. Strain from Monterey to Kort Yuma. In their petitm to Baldwin, the j "Seismologists expected a quake I Disastrous results of earthquakes public morality council cito state-j in southern California before the: can be minimized greatly by proper ments of the English Theatrical Santa Barbara disaster occurred. "J architectural construction, Dr. Willis Managers' association o show that' Willis said. "That Santa Barbara believes, provincial theatres aare lost S450,- 000 In recent months because their! audiences won't go to see sex plays. "Plays dealing with divorce, drunken women, domestic triangles, 'cocktail Connies,' 'cocaine carriers,' and flapper-apeing mothers do not appeal to provincial audiences," the petition declares. It adds that from the moral stand point, "such enisodes am iinnepoe sary for the stage and can easily demoralize or encourage to vicious hablu those whose minds are open to immoral influences, and by whose corruption the standard of obscenity is defined" "We are not prudes to whom all pleasure Is sinful, but people who like plays and resent the stage being monopolized by the unpleasant char acters of nnpleasant-minded play wrights," Howard M. Tyror. secre tary of the public morality council, explained to the United News. "I have been a theatregoer all my life. I like the theatre, and I should like my children to learn to like it. But I don't want them to like the type of play that today is representa tive ot the London stage. "It may be true, as some people say, that London's problem is sim ple compared to America's, but It Is bad enough. We hope to clean up the London stage sufficiently not to feel, after attending one of Its plays, that we could cleanse ourselves by bathing In a sewer." Ill Phone Johnny-on-the-Spot for Lumber 128 S A REAL. MANS JOB.', Building up character is a good job for a man or a firm. By supplying our patrons with first class lumber and high grade ser vice we have builded a business structure of which we are proud. Lakeside Lumber Co. Mrs. lliuiil C Hood, an employe of the business office of Iho Pacific Telephone A Telegraph company. haeTWded not to prosecute news boys of the Klamath l)ally News, on a charge ot obtaining money dnder false pretenses. Rather, she Is Incllix-d In blame her lethargy. Induced by early morn ing sleepluena. for a measure ol disappointment suffered at an early hour yesterday. Mrs. Hood was asleep, wiund asleep, when out of the great void came what O. Ilenry loved to call the clarion call of the press. Its luctuntly. for It waa yet iray, Mrs. Hood lent an ear. "Tom Mix hero!" waa what Mrs. Iliutil nndnrstood I ha newsboys to be telling their prospective patrons, j "Tom Mix here!" i'arvnthellcnlly let It here be said that the mere arrival In Klamath Falls of a few robbers, more or lest. Is to the feminine mind a matter of little Importance. But should , a motion picture hero, luiateeulately vestured, earning Mtl.Tl an hnur, and riding pony that eats with t' kulfe and fork well, should on. of those appear The lusty vi'ioes cuuUnued to enmo out of the dawn. And tty seem lo say: "Tom Mil hare! Tom Mix here!" (If course Mm. Iloiftl got the paper. And there, crying Itself from the front page, was the In formation on which the newsboys had based (heir rather unintelligible announcement. What liter really had been say. lug waa: "Copvlrts hnro!" Mrs. Hood Insist that virtually no profanity waa Used. I. A. 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