“The City Without Jews,” a German picture based on Hugo Bettauer’s story which was to have had its first American showing at the Fifth Avenue Playhouse, New York, this week, has been banned by the New York Board of Censors.
Michael Mindlin, managing director of the Playhouse, left for Albany for a conference with James Wingate, Censorship Commissioner. Mr. Mindlin declared he would take the case to the Court of Appeals.
The board returned a decision late Saturday morning rejecting the film.
Letters announcing the showing had been sent out to 9,000 subscribers.
“The City Without Jews” is adapted from a novel by a Christian, Hugo Bettauer, now in its fifty-eighth edition in Europe.
The film portrays an anti-Semitic uprising which leads to the expulsion of Jews from a city.
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