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J. M. Ensor, Redirect Examination. 1137
over there, and I was so disgusted the way it went, and we lost on it, that I can't tell you what we did call that theatre.
Q. Now, the next one? A. One at Durango.
Q. What was the name of that? A. It was in the Opera House; Requa ran that for us.
Q. Where were the others? A. That is all we had.
Q. Five or four? A. Four, I think.
Q. These films which you shipped around to the various States there, you rented, did you not? A. There was a contract. I don't know whether you would call it rented, or leased, or what,
Q. When you sent them out, the exhibitor would return them to you? A. Yes, sir.
Q. And you rented them to the exhibitor? A. Yes, sir.
Q. And those were films which you had obtained from the Motion Picture Patents Company under a license, by virtue of a rental contract, or license agreement? A. Whatever that contract is.
Q. Now, you say you were offered $16,400 cash in five years' time in twenty payments at five per cent., and f 6,500 in seven per cent, preferred stock? A. I think that was it. I will look at it again (looking at paper).
Mr. Grosvenor: When was this memorandum of figures which you are using, written by you?
The Witness : When I was at New York, at the Edison Building — that was some time in June. $14,600 at five per cent., in twenty payments, in five years, and $6,500 in preferred stock at seven per cent.
By Mr. Kingsley:
Q. Would you mind letting me look at that memorandum? A. No, sir (passing counsel paper).
Q. You are still in the rental exchange business, are you not? A. I am sub-renting some films.
Q. Handling independent films? A. Yes, sir.
Redirect examination by Mr. Grosvenor:
Q. This Buckwalter referred to by you, whatever his relation to Selig, was as a matter of fact, made local manager of the General Film Company as soon as a branch of