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ITS. TAX COLLECTIONS LOWER IN FEBRUARY
WASHINGTON, March 29 General admission tax collections in February, reflecting January boxoffice business, were sharply below February, 1947, totaling $25,410,738 compared with $28,823,689 last year.
This is the second successive month that collections were far below 1947. January general admission collections totaled $28,688,455, compared with $31,766,201 in January, 1947.
B.O. SCALES AT NEW HIGH
WASHINGTON , March 29At the end of the year, the index of combined adult and children's admission prices stood at 166.9, compared with 163.5 in June (the last previous month for which figures were available) and 165.4 in March, the previous high, according to the U.S.Bureau of Labor Statistics .The 1935-39 average is 100.0.
Adult admissions also hit a new high. After a long rise to 165.7 in March, 1947, they dropped to 164.1 in June, stayed at 164.1 through September, and rose to 167.7 at the end of December. Admission costs for children went up from 158. 5 in June to 151.0 in December.
Rank Says "Play Brititish"
NEW YORK, U. S. A., TUESDAY. MARCH 30, 1948
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HOLLYWOOD, March 29 for America to realize from England under the ,-nent Motion Picture America accord valorem tax is
tion of British films 'j. Arthur Rank said
— Quickest way a cash return British governAssocidtion of to end the British yd by increasing exhibi
in this country, here today. He
added he does not expect American companies to step up production in England to any great degree since that means would take longer to bolster income. Studio space for American use •.is plentiful in England, he said.
LEWIS BILL in SECOND START
WASHINGTON, lAarch 29 — The Allied States-sponsored Lewis Bill, which would have producers negotiate with Ascap for music licensing fees, has a new lease on life, although observers give it little chance for passage.
Rep. Lewis, chairman of the House Judiciary subcommittee which voted last week to kill the proposal, has persuaded Rep. Lane, who opposed the bill, to move that it be reconsidered. Such a move makes reconsideration automatic, and Lewis plans to have further discussion on the measure at a subcommittee meeting this week, probably Wednesday .
REPUBLIC JOINS MPA
All Motion Picture Association directors were reelected and Republic was admitted to membership in the MPA yesterday at its annual meeting. The meeting, conducted largely by proxy, had Francis Harmon as chairman in the absence of Eric Johnston, president of the MPAA, while Sidney Schreiber served as secretary. The board will meet on April 12.
Johnston to Frisco
WASHINGTON, March 29— Motion Picture Association of America president Eric Johnston is in San Francisco, having flown there to be with his mother who is criticallu ill.
Minor Changes in ITO Pact
WASHINGTON, March 29-State Department officials report here that only "minor drafting changes" had been made in the guarantees of film freedom in the International Trade* Organization charter drawn at Havana, as compared with the Geneva version. The basic provision outlawing all quantitative restrictions on films except screen quotas is unchanged, they stated.