Brief for the United States (1914)

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174 PART IX. The Witness. AVe regarded our contract like the pupil of my eve, because I knew if we gave them the least show in the world, that we would get the hooks throwed into us. That is the way I felt all the time, and I was as careful about everything as I could be. (Ensor, II, 1127-1129.^) September 14, 1910, his license was canceled by wire (II, 1129, fol. 4, 1130), and the next day the Denver branch of the General Film Co. notified all exhibitors who had been receiving service from the Colorado Film Exchange that they would " in the future be taken care of by the Denver branch of the General Film Co." (II, 1131, fol. 3). Ensor had been doing about $3,000 of good business a week ; his customers were in Colorado, Texas, New Mexico, and Wyoming. (II, 1134, fol. 4.) Speaking of the effect of the cancellation on his business he said (II, 1134, fol. 1) : Why, it just took it away from us, just took the business right away from us.'' Ensor now lives in Little Rock, Ark. (II, 1135, fol. 2.) WILLIAM FOX, president of Greater New York Film Rental Co., New York City, established in 1906, becoming a licensed exchange in 1909. (II, 659, fol. 1.) ]Mr. Fox was present at the meeting in January, 1909, at the Hotel Imperial, New York, at which the exchange license agreement was read by MacDonald. He protested against the terms of the agreement, but without avail. (II, 660.) The