The theatre of science; a volume of progress and achievement in the motion picture industry (1914)

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248 Cbe c&eattr "The Exhibitors' Times," Inc., purchased the "Moving Picture News" from the Charles Francis Press. The rapid growth of the new publication, under the editorship of William A. Johnston, formerly publisher and founder of "The Exhibitors' Times," has been unprecedented in the trade-journal field. The size of the publication, ninety pages, is at this writing, June, 1914, more than double that of the first issue in September, 1913. Staff correspondents, who in each instance are trained nev/spaper men, are maintained in sixty-seven cities in the United States and Canada. The editorial and business staff includes William A. Johnston, Editor; Merritt Crawford, Managing Editor; Lesley Mason, News Editor; E. J. Hudson, Circulation Manager; E. Kendall Gillett, Advertising and Business Manager; C. J. Ver Halen, Chicago Manager; Neyroud & Co., English and Continental agents. "The Exhibitors' Times" was established as an independent journal devoted primarily to the interests of the exhibitor. That remains the policy of "The Motion Picture News," unchanged only in that the original policy has been expanded along these lines. "The Moving Picture News," its policies, career, etc., is not to be confounded with the character of the present publication. "The Motion Picture News" is and will remain absolutely non-partisan in every sense. It is utterly free from control. None of the owners is interested directly or indirectly with any other branch of the film industry. Their aim is simply to conduct a high-class, reputable, interesting and authoritative journal representing the art and industry of the motion picture. In Chicago, however, a magazine of vast scope and influence, originally published monthly, now semi