Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World (Oct-Dec 1928)

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34 EXHIBITORS HERALD and MOVING PICTURE WORLD October 6, 1928 Just a kid — that's why he's coming to America to act for the screen. Bobby Burns is his historical name; his age, merely four. Charles R. Rogers, producer of Ken Maynard's First National pictures, signed Bobby while in Europe recently. The lad has appeared in two German films. .fieSb, HOI iiuiv X vtxom <xan.._ a plan or solution. I volunteer to you personally or as president of the M P T 0 A the following: "The suggestion was made at Chicago that there be added to the film contracts 1 per cent of the rental 'for the financing of arbitration.' I distinctly remember that one or two of the gentlemen making that suggestion are not exhibitors but they receive salaries from exhibitor organizations and I can readily see why such a proposition would be interesting to them. I have never seen an exhibitor who would voluntarily place this charge upon himself. In fact, both individual and chain exhibitors have told me so." Pettijohn paid a compliment to the type of exhibitors serving on arbitration boards and added : "I ask you — what is the necessity to raise a fund to 'finance arbitration and save its integrity!' I suggest that until the members of these arbitration boards themselves suggest that they need financial assistance, this 'piece of unfinished business' remain unfinished." Yamins Answers Yamins then wrote Woodhull as follows : "I am in receipt of a copy of a letter sent to you by Mr. Pettijohn which I have read over very carefully and am hastening to give you my reaction to this letter. "To me the important question is not what Shoots Air Race While Phonograph Plays Tunes (Special to the Herald-World) CINCINNATI, O., Oct. 2.— Ralph Lembeck, Pathe News staff cameraman here, has shot a news event from the air with musical accompaniment. Lembeck, Hying with Fred Davis and Mrs. Davis, on assignment to cover the air racers as they passed over Columbus, took along a phonograph. As 'hey flew along, he played numerous popular tunes, including (as he grinned at the pilot) "It All Depends on You." Cochrane, Mr. Gabrit myself, wh> would be i plans that t The exhibit has submitte of a satisfa tor group b in accordant and our arr ing must be some plan. "I am not viding funBiechele to be no cor. whether or the funds tc and Mr. B< call this rr. members c present, an' their own there to ta that they v expenses. Say "Persona the proposi gross rece with him arbitrator til the me selves ask "An ag faith at < of the con terms of t be called, committee meeting b< M NEW salesmen test— if t' arc prom "Onc-A Above: An old German seaport, recreated out of a more leisurely day by UFA, for sequences in "Heimkehr" (Homecoming). This is an Erich Pommer production, in which Dita Parlo makes her debut as a star. Left: A warm reception for Sally O'Nei!. as she suddenly and tardily turns up to resume work in TirTnnyStahl's "Applause." Being merely the star thereof, she thus makes Director Eddie Cline very happy.