Exhibitors Herald (Jun-Dec 1917)

Record Details:

Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

' ami AST0R. LENOX AND T1LDEN FOUNDATIONS Published Weekly by EDITORIAL and EXECUTIVE OEEICES EXHIBITORS HERALD CO. w South Dearborn S'reet. Chicago Publication OS/ice: 1114 Xorth Boul.. Oak Park Tel.. Harrison 7iv NEW YORK OFEICE 14S0 Broadway. Tel.. Bryant 5111 James Beecro/t, .Manager Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Oak Park, III., under the Act of March 3,' 1879 SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.50 YEARLY 237 All editorial copy and correspondence, and adz-ertising cofy should be addressed to the Chicago of/ice. Insertion in follozving issue cannot be guaranteed on adz-ertising copv not received prior to 6 p. m. an Tuesday o/ each zceek. Volume V JUNE 30, 191! Number 1 A CHANCE TO "THE coming convention of the Motion Pic* ture Exhibitors League of America imposes a greater responsibility than ever before upon the individual exhibitors throughout the United States. Whether or not the national league is rightly representative of the exhibitors of the country, it is a fact that this organization is commonly looked upon as the official association of those engaged in the business of exhibiting motion pictures. It need not be mentioned here that the affairs of the league are in a chaotic condition; that occasionally a charge of membership in the league seems to carry a sting with it. It is apparent to all that out of a year fraught with great possibilities for constructive effort the only achievement the president of the league can boast of is the starting of a trade paper, bringing to bear upon this enterprise the weight of his official position, yet gearing the project to the program of personal aggrandizement for himself and his associates. The official career of Mr. Ochs has been one of bitter disappointment for those who had CLEAN HOUSE hoped for better things from the exhibitors' organization. Everywhere, instead of encouraging conciliation and co-operation, he has created distrust, disorganization and confusion. With a view to strengthening his political machine in Chicago he yanked Joseph Hopp from the obscurity into which he had been forced and engineered a deal which made Mr. Hopp president of the Chicago organization. Mr. Hopp immediately upon his election took steps to crush out of the organization every one who dared oppose his will. Among those who incurred President Hopp's wrath are Maurice A. Choynski and Louis H. Frank, and this was a sad choice indeed, for every element of the industry knows that for years these two men have been the nucleus of exhibitor organization in the Middle West. Hopp, like the national president, whose servitor he is, instead of promoting organization has promoted disorganization. In Chicago the exhibitors who take an interest in the affairs of the league are now ajjout equally divided between the Hopp league and the new Theater Owners' Association. Free Pulpit— Free Press— FREE PICTURES 1 )M )NS