Exhibitors Herald (Jun-Sep 1918)

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Demand for Women On Censor Board Stirs Milwaukee Charges of Laxness and Inefficiency Made Milwaukee, Wis. — "I reaffirm my statement made before the women's clubs of the Fourth district, that the moving picture houses of Milwaukee show films that are not allowed in Chicago," said Miss Stearns, apropos of the controversy that has arisen between the club women and the motion picture men. "Furthermore, it can be readily proved from the files of newspapers, that the motion picture houses here flaringly advertise certain films as 'not shown in Chicago.' The censorship in Chicago is much more strict than in Milwaukee. Major Funkhouser, head of the Chicago board, is much more rigorous than the Milwaukee board. Board Denies Assertions "Representatives of ■ the Milwaukee board of censorship make denial of these things, but they can easily be proved. "Furthermore, we contend that women acting as an advisory board on the picture censorship do not solve the question. We want women on the board itself. We contend that the motherhood of Milwaukee must be represented in that body. "We also contend that the board should be an absolutely impartial one, and that exhibitors of motion pictures should not be admitted to membership. "The morning papers have quoted a member of the board as saying that if objectionable pictures were shown in Milwaukee, it was outlying districts, by some indiscriminating theatre man. I want to ask how it is possible, having a board of censorship, for any theatre man or moving picture exhibitor in any part of the city, outlying or otherwise, to procure objectionable films?" Protest Lusk Pictures Charles Phillips, secretary of the board of censorship, is quoted as saying that it was untrue that pictures are shown which are not allowed in Chicago and that the board would be ready to discuss the matter with a committee of the Woman's Club or any club. A protest against the showing of any film depicting the Lusk-Roberts trial was made by the Wisconsin branch of the National Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teachers' associations, meeting at the Y. W. C. A. Tuesday afternoon. It was voted to send a letter of protest to the chairman of the film committee. Law Would Admit Soldiers Free to Picture Theatres The one ordinance limits the free attendance in a theatre to one-tenth of its seating capacity, while the number of soldiers riding free on one street car is limited to five. The privileges to the soldiers are listed under the classification of additional taxes during the war. Fox Opens Exchange To Serve Buffalo Many Innovations in New Quarters — Ship Films by Auto and Parcel Post Manager Thomas A. Brady and the office staff of the new exchange of the Fox Film Corporation at 209-211 Franklin Street, Buffalo, are busy making arrangements for the formal opening of the exchange the latter part of this month. New methods, better equipment and additional employees have made it possible to reorganize the office on a more efficient basis, it is said. This is especially true in the inspection room, where six young women are busy taking care of films. The correspondence department also has been strengthened through the addition of extra help, and special racks have been installed by an efficiency expert in the shipping and paper department, so that the other day it was possible to take a complete inventory of the departments in thirty minutes. Exhibitors will find it particularly easy to get prints of their films, as two or three prints of each picture will be on hand all the time. Manager Brady is also working on an arrangement to make all shipments by special delivery parcel post, as it has been found that express service is too slow. Daily motor service between Buffalo and Rochester also will give added speed to shipments Cincinnati, O. — Ordinances providing free admission to motion picture theatres and free transportation on street cars to men in the military service will be introduced in city council by Councilman John S. Sheehan. to communities between those two places. A private telephone exchange will make it possible for exhibitors to get into touch with any department of the exchange. Another feature of the plant, which occupies a whole building by itself, is the largest fireproof vault in the city. The Fox exchange, too, is the only exchange in Buffalo that has groundfloor location. A large projection room, with entirely new equipment, is another facility placed at the service -of exhibitors. In all, it is estimated that it cost the Fox Film Corporation more than $4,000 to move from Syracuse and equip its Buffalo office, but the change was made imperative, it is said, by the tremendous growth in the Fox business in the territory served by Buffalo. The exchange employs twenty-five persons in all. New Fox Film Corp. Exchange, located at 809-211 Franklin Street, Buffalo, N. Y. Police to Prevent Sunday Film Shows In Nashville, Tenn. Nashville, Tenn. — Mayor Gupton has announced that there would be no moving picture shows in the city on Sundays if it took every member of the police force of the city to prevent it. Nothing, he said, could keep him from preventing them unless it were an injunction issued by a court. There were both state and municipal laws against Sunday amusements, and if the commission failed to support him he would invoke both the state and municipal laws. But he knew that the commission would back him up in his stand. This declaration was made after hearing from a delegation of about seventyfive preachers and representative business men who came in the name of and as representatives of the church congregations of Nashville. Rev. J. I. Vance, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, headed the delegation, and thirty of the delegation were from that church. Petitions were presented from the First Presbyterian, Woodland Street Presbyterian, Tulip Street Methodist, Carroll Street Methodist, Moore Memorial Presbyterian, Second Presbyterian, Waverly Place Methodist, Primitive Baptist, Seventh Baptist, Grace Presbyterian, Church of the Advent, and several others, protesting against Sunday movies. Dr. Vance stated that his church, including the gallery, was on Sunday filled to capacity, and when he asked those who opposed Sunday movies to stand he thought every man, woman and child rose. But as a matter of form he called for those who favored them to stand, and a single man rose in the gallery. So large was the delegation that called on the mayor that the meeting had to be adjourned from the mayor's office to the commission chamber. 55