Year book of motion pictures (1925)

Handy Brothers Music Co., Inc 165 West 47th St New York City Harms, T. B. Company 62 West 45th St New York City Harms, Inc 62 West 45th St New York City Harris, Charles K 7th Ave. and 47th St New York City Jacobs, Walter 8 Bosworth St Boston, Mass. Kendis, Brockman Music Co., Inc 145 West 45th St New York City Marks, Edward B., Music Co 223 West 46th St New York City McKinley Music Co 1658 Broadway New York City Mills. Jack, Inc 152 West 45th St New York City Mittenthal, Joe, Inc 1591 Broadway New York City Remick & Co., Jerome H 219 West 46th St New York City Richmond, Robbins, Inc 1658 Broadway New York City Ricordi, G. & Co., Inc 14 East 43rd St New York City Gene Rodemich Pub. Co 150 W. 46th St New York City Rossiter, Will Schirmer, G 3 East 43rd St New York City Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc 1567 Broadwav New York City Sherman, Clay & Co 56 West 45th St New York City Skidmore Music Co., Inc Stark & Cowan, Inc 234 West 46th St New York City Tama Publishing Co 1430 Broadway New York City Triangle Music Publishing Co 1658 Broadway New York City Van Alstyne & Curtis 1658 Broadway New York City Victoria Publishing Company Von Tilzer, Harry, Music Publishing Co 1658 Broadway New York City Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co 1571 Broadway New York City Witmark, M. & Sons 1560 Broadway New York City Exhibitors who do not desire to pay music tax should remember the following: 1st. Absolute instructions should be given to those in charge of the theater music as to just whose music should be made use of and that if there is any doubt the music should not be used until the facts are known. 2nd. Cue sheets and scores offered for sale or distributed should not be used by those who do not wish to pay the tax unless the statement is made and guaranteed that the music recommended is not subject to tax. Where scores are sold or rented a guarantee should go with each copy that all liability is assumed by the publisher should trouble arise. 3rd. Every theater man not wishing to pay the tax should see that his library of music contains only selections which are issued by those companies whose music is tax free and are non-members of the society. 4th. When those in charge of the music supply the music for the theater the theater owner should instruct and demand that non-taxable music only should be played, and when cues are supplied see to it that the musicians substitute non-taxabla music wherever taxable music is specified. The theater owner is liable if this is not done. Trouble and lawsuits may result from the use of music inadvertently used which is taxable, threefore too much care cannot be used. Spotters may be in the audience or other methods used for locating houses using taxable music. Some houses believe that the tax is so small that it is better to pay it than fight and go to the trouble of inspecting all music This is an open question to be settled by each theater owner individually or by the united action of the theater owners' organization. If the tax is to be fought it must be done by united action of theater interests. A warning should be given to every maker of cue-sheets and every maker of scores that he owes it to the theater to label every cue — stating whether or not it contains taxable music and if so each of the selections should be so labeled. National Catholic Welfare Conference 1312 Masaschusetts Ave., N. W., Washington, D. C. Charles A. McMahon, Director. The above-named bureau is one of the most active departments of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, an organization operated in Washington, D. C, under the supervision of archbishops and bishops representing the Catholic Hierarchy of the United States, organized principally for the purpose of co-ordinating the Catholic lay activity in matter of social welfare. The N. C. W. C. Motion Picture Bureau maintains a regular department in the N. C. W. C. Bulletin, official organ of the Welfare Conference, in which worth while pictures are reviewed for the information of several thousand rational, state, dioceson and local organizations affiliated with the National Council of Catholic Women and the National Council of Catholic Men. The bureau, through its director, furnishes a regular motion picture critique to the N. C. W. C. News Service, one of the departments of the Welfare Conference, which serves the entire Catholic press of the United States (approximately 100 daily and weekly newspapers), this in an effort to divert Catholic patronage toward the better class of motion picture offerings. The N. C. W. C. Bureau does not black list any motion picture. The director of the bureau, Mr. McMahon, is a member of the executive committee of th<. Committee on Public Relations cooperating with the Motion Picture Indus tiy, a member of the executive board of the Motion Picture Chamber of Commerce of America, Non-Theatrical, and a member of the national committee of the Society for Visual Education. The plan and policy of the N. C. W. C. Motion Picture Bureau are as follows: 1. To develop among the Catholic people of the United States a proper appreciation of the motion picture as an instrument of entertainment, recreation and education. 2. To work constructively with the members of the National Association of Motion Picture Producers and other film manufacturers for the further advancement of the screen, the elevation of the standards of motion picture production, and the development of the highest usefulness of the motion picture industry. 3. To direct the flow of Catholic patronage toward worth-while motion pictures. 4. To invoke public opinion, especially Catholic opinion, as the most effective kind of censorship in remedying the evils in motion picture production and exhibition. 5. To work for clean, truthful and inoffensive advertising and exploitation of motion pictures. 6. To encourage the presentation of motion pictures which appeal to the whole family and the exhibition at special matinees of films suitable for juvenile patronage only. 7. To promote the further use of motion pictures in Catholic parishes, schools, colleges and community circles as a force for education and for good citizenship. 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