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66 THe Billboard JULY ?, Ittt FIRST NATIONAL EXHIBITORS' CIRCUIT C ONVENES IN CHICAGO Three-Day Session Held at Congress Hotel, With PnOdeat SL U Rothairfd PteaUlitf—Mgr. J. D. WflHains Promises Sensa- tional Developmente Can Hal Wsfk "Vmi Um Lat" on Byix Ur :W rott. IBU M.-—sMM. mkltk VlU kllH ROTHAPFEL TO NEW ORLEANS THE DEEMSTER BEING SOLD mine of ChipHn with the d UNIVERSAL TO TEST ITS RIGHTS vlng been Inslltuled against the Universal Film re. Once Humlaton, tbe New York woman la«- for the flndlns of the body ot Ruth Crueer. the uniTerAoi company naa issued a statement to the press in which it an- plcture cDmpanlcs to compata with ncwBp&i;tera lit tha publicklion of nawa or photocraphB of people In tbe poblle UAt. Hie timelr, and tollowa: "Thli coropkDT la plMeS la s bafl. Him p> tha ilorl about Mrs. Or«c« Hnmlatatfk'aatt far allmilt taammm im. _. plBTlDg mov!ii# plctnrea of har ia onr 'AiitnwM W^Mx.' Whlt/i w*;win, oC coarse, answer In tlie propar tasal numcr turn Oie conrtn, stm wa do not feel that we abould ataad accnaed In tke meantime ot holding Mrs. Humlston. or any other vamaii up lo rldHmle and contempt, as she al- lecea In her complaint. "^'a common with all other appraelattva citizens »-e realize the Erest Bood that Mr*. Htunlston has accompUahed for the community in the Ruth Croger casc^ and It was because we believed her achievement wor- thy of national aa well aa local recognition that we took a movlus pic- ture of her while she was In a public street.In front of Cocclii's shop, •The yery tltle-of the picture ('The Woman Who Succeedefl Wbere the Police Failed') was but a refiecUon ot tlie praise that had been given her. W the nampapen—the same newspapers which had publlsbed pic- * ' ■— wltboat being saed for damans or being accused ataawt <g iiatoH>^ , ■ , a-Sot«^5aa.'lv'An-atf^suflAMs-lM«1lM_IaM of the . A wkola batlary oC smBatpa wn tmUd ■* mfllmMBB, as "As for the public, the fact that it applauded most visorously when Mrs. Uumlston's picture was Bashed upon the screen at the Broadway Theater night after night seema to prove that the people viewed it with the exact opposite of ridicule or contempt- "We cannot aSord to withdraw the picture and drop the case be- the right of a moving picture . . of current ei-ents and all per- ,—B.who figure tberaln and who are, therefore, the eubject ot pabiic in- lerest. It Is necessary to obtain Judicial recognition o( the right of uaoh ioeraphs of svanta of the dally news and of the persona who participate of the daily nr— ™- - me safeguards tl . Jniveisal has fought many a hard flgh the. freedom of the Mr«ea and In the presenE Instance is forces to with Miv..Humlaton. ..We do so with sincere motives ana wii respect tor Hn. Rnmlston.. Respecifuliy, •OnnVBRlSAL FILM MASIUPACTUHlNg-. COMPANY. a (teadmaiten) H la FUUbaw. MEHCHANTV AMOCIATION JULIAN JOHNSON Higns as Editor of mptoplay Maga- iine Tb Become Editoi^in-Chlaf of Selznick-PicbJivs a fee rtnlsi MlariM. HMM a EXPECTS MANY VTAM CUeaco. 'DK 30.—jDd0lag fnn adnuee Is- dlmlwB Iddn-lr SchiDdlcr, Is divsv dT "prt- Dolb BHvlaf plctDR eiposlUaB. UUdfifttH ■ vlu slmdr bve pnnniatd lo appear, "wiih "wicty nlclit"). UiTT lisUiHd. Ctarili Ckii>- raollH Pnderkk and muv iilbcn. Dnaitu GOLDWYN PICTURES CORP.