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Reigen’ Put Off
As Ingunction
Halts Sumner
Belasco Refuses Use of The¬
ater as Kahn Decides Not
to Attend Function That
Offends Group Sentiment
Will Read Play at Dinner
istrate in Suit Against
Leader of Vice Society
The play “Reigen,“ against which the
Soclety for the Suppression of Vice has
protested, will not be given at the
Belasco Theater to-morrow night, the
Green Room Club announced last night.
Instead, it will be read at the club’s
rooms to the guests at the dinner
which the Green Room Glub will tender
t Otto H. Kahn.
The change of plan, it is understood,
follows the refusal of Mr. Belasco,
which he confirmed last night, to allow
the production to take place in his
theater, It was also influenced by Mr
Kahn’s announced decision to attend
the dinner but not the performance in
order not “to participate in any func¬
tion that runs counter to the suscepti¬
bilities and the moral sentiments of any
Move Against Sumner
Meantime, the Green Room Club
took the aggressive yesterday against
John S. Sumner, secretary of the anti¬
vice society, whose denunciation of
Reigen' brought about the controversy.
It scored a point in its first move,
when it sent its attorney, Harry S.
Hechheimer, into Justice Mullan’s part
of the Supreme Court to request an in¬
junction against police interference
with the projected performance.
Justice Mullan granted an order, re¬
turnable Monday, directing Police Com¬
missioner Enright and Mr. Sumner to
show cause that day whgan in june¬
tion should not be issued restraining
them from interfering in any way with
the staging of“Reigen.'
In signing the order Justice Mullan
said that if the police see fit to inter¬
fere they do so on their own respon¬
sibility, and are subject to the same
penalties as any other citizens who
commit wrongful acts. He added that
at this time he would not pass on the
merits of the play.
Would Switch Libel Actien
The Green Room Club’s second move
against its principal opponent was less
successful. The club tried to switch
its effort to prosecute Mr. Sumner for
eriminal libel for statements he is
said to have written to Inspector
Boland about the play from Magistrate
Ryttenberg in West Side Court to the
District Attorney’s office.
When Magistrate Ryttenberg on
Thursday refused to hear the appeal
unless the club submitted an affidavit
with its charges Mr. Hechheimer wrote
to Acting District Attorney Pecora. He
said he was informed tha# Mr. Sumner
had called on Mr. Pecora’s office in
connection with the“Reigen“ produc¬
tion on the ground that it is, in hie
opinion, an indecent and improper
play.
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