A LESSON FROM GERMANY

Evening Star, Issue 16225, 21 September 1916, Page 8

A LESSON FROM GERMANY

, IMPROPER CINEMA PLACARDS. Much satisfaction is felt iu Berlin at tho action taken by the police and tj£’ chief military command of the Brandenburg Marl; against the methods employed by cmaim.-; and music halls in advertising their shows. The restrictions announced came into force on August 15. The most important of the new regulations are those dealing with the glaring pictorial representations of performances which found plastered all over the city on hoardings, in windows, on unoccupied houses, >u.;. These pictures generally represent “ crimes, deeds of violence, and other fearsome th:n;,s. i also scenes of an offensive immorality which i are used as lures.” The managers of cine-! mas and music halls are informed that the ! street advertising pillars are at their rih-: posal, and that their future advertisements ■ on these pillars are not to extend beyond i tho space which ordinary theatres find quite sufficient for their purpose. : No performances shall begin before 3 p.m. \ or last longer than 11 p.m., and all of them must first obtain the sanction of the police.: The police state that they are thoroughly alive to the evils threatening the young, and to the corrupting tendencies of the nuisance which they are now striving to abolish, and are relying on the cordial co-operation of the citizens to make their task easier.