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January 3, 1925
EXHIBITORS HERALD
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Do You Remember?
A Resume of the Events in
Filmdom
in
1924
No matter whether iVi two or a million resolutions, you break them all anyway, so Richard Dix^ Paramount star of **Manhattan** figures he might as well go ahead with the million. That*s the reasor^ for the mammoth volume. The trouble is he can*t even think of one resolu'i tion.
January
Famous Players reopens West Coast studio two months after abrupt shutdown. Decision speeds recovery from brief slump in business.
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W. W. Hodkinson, veteran distributor, retires from active charge of company bearing his name. F. C. Munroe becomes president; Paul C. Mooney, vice president in charge of sales, and John C. Flinn, vice president in charge of advertising and exploitation and production.
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Independent Motion Picture Producers & Distributors Association is organized with I. E. Chadwick as president and Oscar A. Price, Joseph Brandt and Robert North in executive positions.
Will H. Hays goes to West Coast to confer with producers over the problem of cutting waste in production.
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Dome and Rosemary theatres, valued at $725,000, are destroyed in $4,000,000 fire which sweeps Ocean Park, Los Angeles.
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Exhibitors Herald publishes survey of exhibitor opinion on the distribution problem.
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Carl Laemmle celebrates his eighteenth anniversary in the film business.
Joseph R. Denniston, Michigan exhibitor, appears before congressional committee at Washington to urge repeal of admission tax.
February
“Wampas Frolic” gives San Francisco the thrill of its life.
Ways and means committee of congress agrees to recommend repeal of tax on admission of 50 cents or less.
Joseph M. Schenck is named president of the newly organized Motion Picture Producers Association, Inc.
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John M. Quinn, general manager of Vitagraph for the past five years, dies suddenly. He is succeeded by John B. Rock.
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The supreme court of New York upholds T. O. C. C. and F. I. L. M. club arbitration system, in decision against Charles W. Jackson, Long Island exhibitor.
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William Randolph Hearst pays high tribute to “What the Picture Did for Me” department of Exhibitors Herald in address before T. O. C. C.
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Exhibitors Herald sets another precedent by inaugurating its “Foreign Market” department as a regular monthly feature.
Radio broadcasters start war on A. S. C. A. P. over “music tax” and invite theatre owners to join them in finish fight.
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Bill for national censorship is introduced in congress sponsored by a dozen reform organizations. It fails to pass.
March
Sydney S. Cohen and directors of M. P. T. O. A. select Boston as scene of 1924 convention. Cohen announces he will retire as president.
Storm breaks in Theatre Owners Distributing Corporation with Harry Davis of Pittsburgh filing application for a receiver in the city court of New York. Simultaneously Davis resigns as vice president of M. P. T. O. A.
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Herald publishes survey of exhibitor opinion on the roadshowing of big film productions.
William True incorporates the Theatre Owners Distributing Corporation of New York and historic row between T. O . D. C. No. 1 and T. O. D. C. No. 2 begins.
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Senate investigation of activities of Attorney General Daugherty brings several well known film people in