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

Wives of Delegates Honor Canada's War Dead (Special to the Herald-World) TORONTO, Oct. 23.— A tribute to Canada's war dead of unique signi£cance was paid during the M P T O A convention when the wives of delegates visited the City Hall and placed a wreath of remembrance at the base of the Cenotaph. The ceremony took place on the lawn in front of the municiple buildings in the presence of Acting Mayor John Gibbons and City Clerk James Somers, representing the City of Toronto. brilliantly as toastmaster, and acts from Loew's Uptown, Toronto, appeared. C. C. Pettijohn, chief counsel of the Film Boards of Trade, told the exhibitors that criticism of arbitration is fast dying out. Of censorship he declared: "The motion picture is cleaner than the printed book, cleaner than the speaking stage and as clean as the press, and yet the only form of human expression under censorship today is the motion picture." William Finlayson, Canadian minister of lands and forests, declared that the screen has been one of the effective means of reducing loss of lives and property by forest fire. N. L. Xathanson, head of Famous Players-Canadian, said $25,000,000 was invested in motion picture theatres in Toronto alone. Dr. Murdock McLeod of the Presbyterian church at Pinehurst, N. C, told the theatre owners that "a whole lot of that old prejudice between theatre and church is passing away rapidly." President Patenaude of the Quebec exhibitors' organization declared it the duty of exhibitors to study their own problems and defend the industry against attacks. Senator \Y. H. McGuire of the Dominion government was also at the speaker's table. Carl E. Milliken, secretary of the II P T O A, left with the exhibitors the message that every international boundary eventually will be swept away by the film. Thursday's session began With a constructive address on theatre insurance by A. F. Hancock, vice president of the Cosmopolitan Life Insurance Company. Hancock told how in a tieup with Sentry Safety Control, arrangements had been completed for a reduction of 10 per cent to be allowed in minimum insurance rate for theatres where this device has been installed. Col. J. A. Cooper, president of the Motion Picture Distributors and Exhibitors of Canada, addressed the convention on the music tax, and advocated that the American Society be required to file once a year its proposed schedule of charges, and secondly that an American Berne Convention be formed so that exhibitors can protect their rights. Following the election of officers, when Harry Marx told the exhibitors that "I think this convention has brought about an organization that will serve the industry in an excellent manner," it was the consensus of theatre owners that he expressed the sentiment of the entire convention. From the famous "Russ FaxTell" flying stories in The American Boy Magazine by THOMSON BURTIS rest of the two reels will stand their hair on end and make them ask when the next one will be shown. The "Russ Farrefl" series carries all the "come again" ura^gf the most gripping serial, yet each picture is a complete S^^with new angle to exploit. d" with the rest of You'd better "get air-minded America, and cash in on Farrell" ncftv. M£M3c? Of MOTlOf^ PfrTTVSE PftOESJCEkS : • = 4MEEICA. D>C. KILL H HAYS FTESDENT EDUCATIONAL FILM EXCHANGES, Inc.