Exhibitors Herald (Oct-Dec 1920)

210 EXHIBITORS HERALD December 25, 1920 Sampliner Decision Reversed in Court Case Arose Out of Dealings With General, Patents and Other Firms Gustavus A. Rogers, attorney for Joseph H. Sampliner in the case against Motion Picture Patents Company, Vitagraph Company and others for damages under the anti-trust law, in which the defendants were successful in the lower courts, announces that the United States supreme court on December 6 reversed the decision of the lower court, which dismissed the action, and directed th.it the trial now proceed on the merits, so that the plaintiff can prove his damages. The case arose out of the dealings between Lake Shore Film Supply Company, Motion Picture Patents Company. General Film Company and Licensed Manufacturers, and goes back to the days before the government instituted the proceedings against the so-called "mention picture trust." Mr. Sampliner, a Cleveland lawyer, was the attorney for Lake Shore Film Supply Company, which General Film Company tried to buy out. It was claimed in the suit that the officers of the Lake Shore Film Company refused to acquiesce in some of the arrangements of Mr. Kennedy, who was then the president of the General Film Company, and as a result of that the license agreement of the Lake Shore Film Company was cancelled, and it was practically driven out of business. Thereafter the Lake Shore Film Supply Company, of which Emanuel Mandelbaum was president, assigned its claim Ford Weekly Titles In Eleven Languages There has been such a demand in the foreign field for the Ford Educational Weekly that the films are now titled in eleven different languages. There probably has never been another case in the history of the motion picture, industry, it is said, where an educational weekly has been forced to use eleven languages. The Ford Motion Picture laboratories have met this demand and have installed every necessary facility to deliver these films to the foreign market in high class manner. to Mr. Sampliner, who instituted an action through his attorneys, Rogers & Rogers, in the United States district court, southern district of New York, for $750,000 damages. When the case came on for trial the defendants raised the point that the assginment to the attorney was illegal, and that he could not recover, as the agreement between himself and the Lake Shore Company was unlawful. Judge Julius M. Mayer, who presided at the trial, sustained the contention and dismissed the suit. On appeal to the United States circuit court of appeals the decision was affirmed. Whereupon an appeal was taken by the plaintiff to the United States supreme court, resulting in the reversal. Add Gladys Walton To Universal Stars "Pink Tights" First Success For Young Portland Ingenue Universal has added a new star to its list in the person of Gladys Walton, who is playing the stellar role in "Risky Business," a recent issue. She is being exploited as "the typical American girl." She is still in her 'teens and plays school girl and flapper roles. Reviewers who have seen "Risky Business" praise her naturalness in such characters. The young star began her screen career scarcely more than a year ago in Sunshine comedies. She had just completed her third year in the Jefferson high school, Portland, Ore. She became interested in pictures while visiting relatives in Los Angeles. Universal engaged her several months ago to play a small supporting part with Lyons and Moran in "La La Lucille.'' Her work was so well liked in that picture that she was re-engaged to play a slightly better part in "The Secret Gift." Then she was slated as one of the cofeatured players in "Pink Tights." Her excellence in this picture won stardom for her. Universal has planned for her a series of five-reel productions for 1921, to be issued about two months apart. She now is working on a comedy drama adapted from "The Millionaire Kid." The JIMSY i 3 Eas REAVES ;ons "BREEZY" MAYE EASON EASON, Jr. (Mrs. Reaves Eason) now directing A great FRANK MAYO little Feminine Leads in Universal Specials trouper SEE THEM ALL IN "Two Kinds of Love" Directed by REAVES EASON. Released by Universal