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Copyright 1918. Wid's Film and Film Folk. Inc.
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HER MAN Page 25
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OUR MRS. McCHESNEY Page 27
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Victory — Fox
Real Business Session in Chicago
If you're a regular guy and really take an interest in this here lillnm business, it is up to you to make your plans to get to Chicago for the business conference to be held there the first week in September.
This is not like the old hokum politics convention exposition affairs, but has been planned entirely from the angle of getting concrete results by bringing important men of the industry together for a sure enough heart to heart talk.
Special invitations have been sent to many prominent people interested in producing, distributing and exhibition, and these men are to be called upon to have their say about the why and wherefore of conditions as they exist and conditions as they should be.
We all know that most every exhibitor meeting that has ever been held has been about ninetynine per cent, politics and one per cent, working. get-something-done business.
It is pretty generally understood that the A. E. A. is perfectly willing to affiliate with the old league, so that the question of exhibitor politics is decidedly a minor one so far as this convention in Chicago is concerned.
Instead of spending the first three days of the meeting with politics, a definite plan has been laid out whereby big exhibitors, big producers and bigdistributors, as well as the little fellows, if they desire, are going to be given an opportunity to say what they have to say as long as they keep to the question.
There is to be no exposition and I earnestly urge every individual who has any regard for the future of his own affairs and those of the industry, to be