“There is to be no more offensive racial reference or caricature in the theaters of the United States. An understanding to that effect has been reached by A.L. Erlanger and Lee Shubert, the respective heads of the rival booking offices, which are now working in harmony by agreement. Offensive racial reference is any reference in story, dialogue, joke, gag, or song that would be held offensive by the members of the race it was aimed at. For instance, Jewish people object, and rightly enough, to tales about members of their race starting fires to collect insurance, Irish folk do not like to hear
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