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2720 W. Allen Kenney. Cross Examination.
Q. Three years ago? A. No, sir, I served or the last service that I gave the State as Judge was during the month of December of last year.
Q. December of 1913? A. Yes, sir.
Q. Then this interest that you have in these three or four motion picture companies, is that a side issue to your judgeship? A. I was Judge —
Q. I say was your judgship a side issue to the motion picture business?
Mr. Kingsley : I object to that as incompetent, immaterial and irrelevant.
Mr. Grosvenor: The question is competent as examining into the competency of this witness to testify at length as to the motion picture business.
Mr. Kingsley : It has no competency whatever.
The Witness : I will answer that. I was an active practitioner up to about two or three years ago. Then I got into this picture business with an investment, and I got interested in the picture show business, and found it profitable, and now while I am still practicing laAV, and have an office and a partner I attend to very little law business as my interests are very great in the picture show business, and it is necessary for me to look after it as the partner that I had has left Louisville.
By Mr. Grosvenor:
Q. Your principal business to-day is the motion picture business? A. Yes, sir.
Q. There is no competition between these different manufacturers who are furnishing the licensed service in price, is there? A. None that I know of.
Q. That is if you want to rent or lease one of their reels or pictures, the price that is quoted you is the same from all the manufacturers provided the reels offered you are of the same age? A. Why, we pay so much per week for service, and that calls for so many reels.
Q. So many reels of a certain age? A. First run.
Q. You take only the first run? A. In all our houses.
Q. And it makes no difference whether the first run pic