Theodore H. Hoffmann, national chairman of the Steuben Society of America, requested Mayor LaGuardia to prohibit the film, “Hitler’s Reign of Terror,” which opens here today at the Mayfair, Forty-seventh street and Broadway.
In a letter to the Mayor, Hoffmann said that the film “is ## a further attempt to inflame certain sections of our people against each other.” The note continued with, “You will recall that on March 2 we called your attention to the fact that internal antagonism was spreading to a disturbing degree in our city, that a widely advertised boycott of articles of German manufacture was extended to a concerted attack on everything German-American, and that as a matter of course retaliation would be preached.”
The film had its opening at the Majestic Theatre in Chicago last Monday but one hour after the first showing Mayor Kelly revoked the permit to show the picture. He later permitted it to be shown.
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