In re Mayer

Review of a determination of a committee of the Regents of the University of the State of New York affirming a rejection of a license for the motion picture “ Remous ” (“ Whirlpool ”) (second revised edition) by the Director of the Motion Picture Division of the Department of Education and disapproving the application for such license.

The committee found the picture indecent and immoral and that it would tend to corrupt morals. The petitioners say that the picture portrays the effect on the lives of a young married couple of an accident which cripples the husband and shows the drift of the…