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PART IX.
and I rose to the floor and made a lengthy address, and told them why it should not be canceled, and gave the various reasons, and, as I had done heretofore; and heretofore, when I sat down, Mr. Berst would generally rise and say the same thing. This time when I sat down I looked in Berst 's direction, and he did not rise. The chairman asked was there anything else to be said about it, and no one answered, and they put it to a vote, and they put it over. They voted to cancel your license." I said, ^' Berst still feels friendly, I have seen him — I know that you are friendly, probably we can get them to change their minds and show them it is bad policy to do this." He said. Pox, there is no use trying." He said, ' ' This is all wrong ; it is against my liking, and against the liking of our concern. We realize that we are monkeying with the fire ; we know that if you do not sell to us, we are going to get a fight; Ave know of your past record, what you have done for motion pictures, when the authorities — at the inception of the business, when the authorities were objecting to the exhibition of pictures. You have always led the fight for everybody, and I sort of feel that you are going to do it again. I tried to exphiin that to these men, and tried to tell them that it was all wrong, that I would rather see you in. I tried to tell them that it would look better to the outside world to have one man outside of our combination. We could not be charged with