A. Clifford Shinkle, president of the Cincinnati Music Hall Association, has informed the anti-defamation commission of the B’nai Brith Constitutional Grand Lodge that at a special meeting of a quorum of association directors it was decided that the Freiburg Passion Play, sponsored by the Cincinnati Bible Students Association, could not be denied use of the hall, December 14th.
Shinkle pointed out that it would establish a precedent so that if later the Ku Klux Klan wanted to deny the use of the hall to Catholics or vice versa the Music Hall directors would be placed in an embarrassing position.
In 1927 largely through the efforts of a Jewish mayor, Murray Seasongood, the Music Hall Association received a deed from the city for the land on which the auditorium stands so that it could be used as collateral for a loan to improve the convention facilities of Music Hall.
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