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EXHIBITORS
HERALD
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Publix in Affiliation with Saenger Circuit in South: New Corporation Being Formed to Acquire and Operate, Directly or Through Subsidiaries, Theatres in Twelve States; Saenger Chain Retains Operation and Control of Own Houses; Will Manage New Ones — James K. Hackett Dead; “Prisoner of Zenda” His Only Picture.
Ohio Independent Theatres’ Merger Proposed by Business Manager Wood as M. P. T. 0. Convention Opens; E. P. Smith Starting New Term as Iowa Exhibitors’ Manager; Washington State Theatre Owners Convene; New Jersey Meeting November 18 and 19.
Sam Wood Made Associate Producer at Film Booking’s Studio — Fox Exploitation Department Wiped Out Under Retrenchment Order — Stanley Acquiring Eight Harry Davis Theatres, Says Pittsburgh Paper.
First Theatre Chains Begun in New England by Gray and Black; Article Starts Series by John S. Spargo on Chief Circuits in the Country — Fake Chaplins and Lloyds Accepted in Russia in Lieu of Real Thing.
Eucharistic Picture Shown to New York Church and Civic Leaders; Production Made by Fox is Complete Record of Congress in Chicago — Ince Firm Sues First National for $1,700,000; Distributing Company Charged with Breach of Contract.
Eberhardt Gets Telegrams and Letters From “Twelve Feminine Immortals” — Christie Week Will Open Sunday, Marking 15 Years of Production in Hollywood — Mussolini Creates Commission to Restrict Foreign Films in Italy; British Imports and Exports Decline.
DEPARTMENTS
What the Picture Did For Me 69
Short Features 41
Presentation Acts 45
The Theatre . 49
Service Talks on Pictures 55
New Pictures , 59
New Pictures Publication Dates 61
Newspictures 61
The Film Mart 63
Classified Advertising ........ 67
Theatre Betterment 81
FEATURES
Los Angeles, by Ray Murray 32
New York, by John S. Spargo 38
Chicago, by Douglas Hodges 82
Purely Personal 65
Letters From Readers 68
Broadway . 26
Re-Takes 32
Vol. XXVII
November 13, 1926
No. 9
Published Every Wednesday by
EXHIBITORS HERALD COMPANY
Publication Office: 407 So. Dearborn St., CHICAGO, U. S. A., Telephone Harrison 9248. Cable Address: Quigpubco.
Martin J. Quigley, President Edwin S. Clifford, Secretary George Clifford, Asst. Treasurer
All editorial and business correspondence should be addressed to the Chicago office. Edwin S. Clifford, managing editor; George Clifford, business manager; William R. Weaver, associate editor; John S. Spargo, New York news editor.
Subscription price: United States and its possessions, $3.00 a year; Canada, $4.50 a year; other points of the world. $6.00 a year. Single copies, 25 cents. Other publications: The Box Office Record, published semi-annually, and Better Theatres, published monthly as supplements to Exhibitors Herald. Member Audit Board of Circulation. Copyright, 1926, by Exhibitors Herald Company.
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