The Canadian Independent (Jan 1, 1938)

Page 8 Re SNDEPEND THE CANADI O D ENT Te BENEFIT OF EATRE OWNERS INDEPENDENT PATRONIZE THE ADVERTISERS WHO MAINTAIN (7. imei, California Not Affected | Science Finds M. P.| Hitler and Russia In By Phil. Strike Ruling The decision of the Philadelphia Circuit Court of Appeals, declaring the Paramount Buyers’ Strike illegal under the Sherman antitrust law, and granting a permanent _ injunction against independent exhibitors, does not in any way apply to a similar strike now being waged by Los Angeles exhibitors, said counsel William Mosely Jones. The boycott in Southern California included no picketting or overt act. The suit filed against Paramount by a group of 50 independents claims ‘unfair releasing practices” and bears little similarity to the case pursued in Philadelphia, said Mr. Jones. Assured that the legal grounds for the California case are different and in no way affected by the Philadelphia decision, the Los Angeles independents de cided to stick by their guns. _ Paramount has not yet filed an action. answer inthe Aid In Reading Harvard University psychology department has perfected a new type of motion picture to help both children and adults in reading. The new kind of screen book is operated on a 16 mm movie projector and shows a page of white words on a black background. At first the page is dimly lit. Phrases are brightened and become dim as the line of type proceeds at a definite rate of speed. The skill in following is improved by habit formation, and the tendency of the reader to trace’ backward to re-read is diminished. The joint inventors of this film reading method are: Prof. Walter F. Dearborn, director of the Harvard psycho-educational clinic; Dr. Irving H. Anderson, instructor in education, and James R. Brewster, director of the Harvard Film Service. Ether War The alleged Russian antiNazi propaganda over the air has brought on a Nazi war of reprisal. The German Government is preparing a powerful defensive against word agressions on the part of Russia. 4 Ace broadcasters are to send poisoned tidal waves of ether couched in the Russians’ own tongue, calculated it is said, to undermine the morale of the Soviet citizenry. A previous attempt to nullify the Russian air offensive by interference with their wave lengths and signals was not wholly success fal. The interference will be continued, but Hitler is pinning his hope of victory in this ether battle on this new barrage of ani-Soviet propoganda. Aerial battles and poisoned gas take on new meaning in the present political scene. are in production. Jan. 1, 1938 Of Mice And Men The Mickey Mouse comic strip was barred from the Jugo-slavian newspaper Politica on the grounds that the subject matter of the strip was “rebellious” and “anti-monarchist.”’ LITTLE PIGS COMING BACK With the completion at the Walt Disney studios of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” the first full-length animated feature in the history of motion pictures, ail hands are concentrating on the production of twenty short subjects. Five of these will star Donald Duck; two will introduce Donald’s young nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louie. Two will star Mickey Mouse who will appear in five with his gang, Donald, Pluto and Goofy. First starring short for Goofy will be “Goofy and Elmer.” Seven Silly Symphonies One of them serves to bring back the three little pigs and the big bad wolf. SEASON’S GREETINGS Christmas 1937 Koy Friendship — that feeling which makes one want to set aside business long enough to wish one’s friends Health, Happiness and Good Fortune — has prompted With it goes the sincere hope that the this greeting. New Year 1938 New Year may bring you all three in abundance. CANADIAN NATIONAL CARBON COMPANY LIMITED CARBON SALES DIVISION Toronto Canada Ne