Motion Picture News (May-Jun 1923)

2638 Motion Picture News Eastman and Brulatour Enter Denials Answers Disclaim Conspiracy As Charged hy Federal Trade Commission THE Eastman Kodak Company and Jules of the laboratories purchased. He also denies Brulatour have entered denials of all furnishing producers with positive prints at charges of conspiracy, intimidation and prices below those at which competitors could coercion made against them by the Fed supply them. He denies delay in deliveries oral Trade Commission in an answer riled to competitive laboratories and the shutting dui'ing the week. off of their source of supply. In the complaint of the commission it was The Allied Laboratories and members were charged that Eastman Brulatour and the Al given an extension of time to June 11. in which lied Laboratories Association entered into a to file their answers to the complaint, conspiracy which brought about a virtual monopoly in the manufacture and sale of raw film and that competition in the sale and manufacture of prints was hindered and eliminated and prices of positive prints fixed and standardized. In his answer Eastman denies all knowledge as to the amount of film made by his competitors and that therefore he has no knowledge of a monopoly of manufacture. Among the admissions made was that Brulatour handled approximately 81 per cent, of the Eastman film between January 1 and March 1, 1920 and 70 per cent, between March 1, 1920 and September 1, 1921. Admitting that Brulatour was the principal stockholder in Paragon, Inc., it was denied that Eastman controlled or had any interest in the company. It was also admitted that the G. M. Laboratories, Inc., the San Jacq Laboratory and Paragon Laboratory were purchased, but denial was made that such purchases, as charged in the complaint, were for the purpose of coercing or intimidating competing manufacturing laboratories or to induce them to refrain from making further purchases of raw stock not manufactured by the Eastman Kodak Company. Brulatour, in his answer, admits his connection with Eastman, but denies that any con spiracy exists in the conduct of the business Companies Join Ranks Wffl in N. Y. State The following motion picture companies were incorporated in New York state during the past week, the amount of the capitalization and the incorporators also being given : Dependable Exchange, Inc., $500, Morris Kohn, Anna B. Fox, Joseph Brandt, New York City; H. & B. & S. Theatres Corporation, $5,000, Henrietta F. Cohen, Milton B. Leinwander, William D. Coen, New York ; Carr Productions, $5,000, William (i. Lovatt. George MeCormick, H. C. Bannister, NewYork; Review Amusement Co., $1,200, Joseph L. Young, Morris Weinfeld, Ralph W. Kerbe, New York: L. S. Amusement Corporation. $20,000, Abraham J. Halprin, Rose Maltz, Edith Ginsburgh, New York. Manager Held For Death in Auto Mishap Jack Roth, manager of the Isis theatre, one of Kansas City's largest suburban houses, was arraigned in a justice court this week on a charge of manslaughter in connection with a fatal motor car accident which resulted in the death of R. T. Jester, a drug salesman of Wichita, Kas., Saturday. Mr. Roth pleaded not guilty and was released on $2,500 bond, his preliminary hearing being set for June 2. Jester was injured fatally when a Chevrolet sedan driven by him collided with a Cadillac roadster driven by Roth at Nineteenth and Main Streets. The complaint was signed by a patrolman, C. J. Frederick. Mr. Roth pointed out to the prosecutor that the car he was driving was crushed on the right side even with the door, the print of the other car's headlight being left in the door. There is no scratch on the front of Roth's car and he says that he will prove at his preliminary hearing that he could not have been driving rapidly and struck another car driving slowly. Three Universal Features For June Release UNIVERSAL will release three feature productions during the month of June. They will be Universal attractions made by three of that company's stars, Jack Hoxie, Herbert Rawlinson and Gladys Walton. In the order of their release, they are " Don Quickshot of the Rio Grande," starring Hoxie; " Railroaded," starring Rawlinson, and " Sawdust," starring Miss Walton. They are five-reel features. " Don Quickshot of the Rio Grande," is Hoxie's first Universal picture. It was adapted from the magazine story of that name by Stephens Chalmers. George E. Marshall directed it. Among the players were Emmett King, Elinor Field, Fred C. Jones, William A. Steele and Bob McKenzie. The Universal release on June 11 will be " Railroaded," a Herbert Rawlinson picture adapted from " Richard," a magazine story by Margaret Bryant. Edmund Mortimer directed it. In the supporting cast were David Torrence. Alfred Fisher, Esther Ralston, Lionel Belmore and Mike Donlin. On June 25 Gladys Walton's latest picture will reach the screen. It is " Sawdust," a circus picture from the pen of Courtney Ryley Cooper. Jack Conway had charge of the production. The supporting cast includes Herbert Standing, Niles Welch, Edith Yorke, Mathew Betz, Frank Brownlee, William Robert Daly and Mattie Peters. Detroit Will Hold Motion Picture Exposition With t lie opening of the Detroit Coliseum at the lair grounds as an all year round exposition building plans are being perfected to hold the first annual Motion Picture exposition ever staged in the Michigan metropolis in the new structure February 3rd to 10th, 1924. The exposition will be for the entire industry, and will have the attention of the trade throughout the country. Im itations are being sent to Ohio and Indiana organizations to join in the movement and favorable responses have been had from several of the big bodies, with a view of developing a TriState organization at the show. N. Y. Commission Chief Is Injured by Auto EORGE H. COBB, of Watertown, j N. Y., chairman of the New York State Motion Picture Commission, is at a hospital in his home city recovering from serious injuries received last Friday night when he was struck by an automobile on one of the streets of that city. He had just reached home from New York. Mr. Cobb was suffering from a bad scalp wound, and when he was first picked up, following the accident, he was unconscious. He also has one deep cut over the left eye. Thomas H. Miller, who was driving the car which struck Mr. Cobb, was immediately placed under arrest and charged with operating a motor vehicle while in an intoxicated condition. Jail Sentence Looms For ''Stench Bombers*9 A jail sentence of thirty days and a fine of $100 are provided for in an ordinance prohibiting the possession or disposal of " Stink bombs," introduced in the Seattle, Wash., city council recently by Mrs. Henry Landes, chairman of the public safety committee. Introduction of the ordinance by Mrs. Landes grew out of several cases recently where the bombs have been broken in Seattle theatres by union and non-union sympathizers during differences between the theatres and the musicians' and operators' unions. Possession is to be prima facie evidence that the bomb is to be used for an unlawful purpose, according to the terms of the bill, and the same penalties are to be applied. Upon a state of Washington law becoming effective in June granting wider power to police courts, such offenses may be classified as misdemeanorand may draw heavier penalties, it has been pointed out by city officials. The new bill, if passed, will do away with the necessity of actual evidence of the bombs being broken. Washington Hippodrome Receivers Asked The District Supreme Court was asked last week to appoint receivers for the Hippodrome theatre, 806 K Street, Washington, D. C. The request w as made by Mrs. Mary E. Stenz, who conducts a theatre business there with her son. Norman Stenz. Alvin L. Neumyer, sequestrator of the son's property, is named in the proceedings. The appointment of Neumyer was secured by the attorneys for Mrs. Margaret Stenz, who secured a decree of limited divorce frclom Norman Stenz. Mrs. Stenz, Sr., was represented by attorney Oscar Nauck, while Jeffords & Dutton filed the consent of Norman Stenz to In mother's application. The three-cornered management was declared unprofitable, in her petition. Receivers to Operate State Theatre, Schenectady The State theatre, Schenectady, N. Y., one of the latest of the Strand group, passed into the hands of a receiver last week. At the time Max Spiegel became involved in seiious financial difficulties, the theatre was also affected. It will continue to be operated, however, by the receivers, with Edwin 0. Weinberg, as manager. The house cost $500,000.