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150 Louis Rosenbluh, Direct Examination.
that the letter was very good advice, but somehow or other it did not help me to a great extent, because eventually this exhibitor not being able to get licensed film directly, got it indirectly from one of the exhibitors that had the supply, and one of my films was replevined there, so that I lost it. Mr. Marvin evidently knew the account very well.
Q. When the Film Service Association was in existence, did you furnish that Association with a list of your customers? A. Yes, sir.
Q. And that was the first Association which attempted to keep a list of the customers of all the different exchanges? A. Yes, sir, it was intended as a credit association. Each exchange was to guard against bad debts, and so forth.
Q. Was there any rule prohibiting you from giving film or renting film to exhibitors that were customers of the other exchanges in the Film Service Association? A. I do not believe there was any provision so long as he did business with a licensed exchange, we were permitted to supply him, but if he had notice that he did not do all his business with a licensed exchange, we were not to supply him with any film.
Q. And by licensed exchanges, meant a member of the Film Service Association? A. Yes, sir.
Q. You have produced the following letters, being notices from the Motion Picture Patents Company of the cancellations of theatres, which I offer in evidence. You identify all of these papers as taken from your files, and being letters received by you in course of mail (indicating) ? A. Yes, sir. It was the method of advising us of cancellations prior to the card system, which started about the time of the forma cion of the General Film Company.
Mr. Grosvenor: I will simply read the names of the theatres and their dates into the record, if counsel agree, without putting in the letter in each case. Is that agreeable?
Mr. Caldwell: Subject to objection.
Mr. Grosvenor: Well, I will put in the letters.
Mr. Grosvenor: I offer in evidence letter of December 13th, 1909, regarding Cluse Brothers, Arlington Theatre, Brooklyn, N. Y.