Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1915 — LAFAYETTE SUNDAY SHOW IS PREVENTED BY POLICE. [ARTICLE]

LAFAYETTE SUNDAY SHOW IS PREVENTED BY POLICE.

Movie Theater; Planning Charity E.\e bibit ion; Stopped by Warning— Case to Be Fought. Lafayette, April I.—The Columbia Amusement Company, which controls two theaters in the city, lost in the first round In the fight' here today to give Sunday shows in Lafayette. Manager David Maurice of the Family Theater had advertised that pictures of the German war would be shown at his house and employed three attorneys to fight the case. Mayor Thomas Bauer threatened to send a squad' of police to the theater if the pictures were shown and the managenient, fearing trouble, did not attempt to show the pictures. Twenty-five per cent of the I mogey taken' in was to have been given to the German societies for .the relief of the Germans and Austrians in the war zone, and a great crowd assembled in front of the theater. The German citizens were;, greatly chargrined and incensed over ' the affair. President Luke H. Balfe of the Columbia Amusement * Company, says he will take the case to the highest court, maintaining that

the exbihition was being given for Cbaßjtable purposes and the city authorities had no right to interfere.