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PREFERRED PICTURES
Produced by B P SCHULBERG
To SpyroSj Charley & George
Skouras Bros.,
St. Louis.
Dear Spyros, Charley and George:
I want you boys to know that I was the happiest and proudest man in the world when I got on the train at St. Louis the other day, carrying in my pocket your contract for the Preferred Fifteen.
Your faith in the ability of our organization to deliver fifteen great pictures this year inspired all of us to more than make good and we are determined to work our heads off to justify that faith.
You thought "The Broken Wing" and "Mothers-In-Law" were great pictures, — better than any we had heretofore produced — but you have a greater treat coming when you see "The Virginian," "April Showers" and "May time".
When I saw completed sequences of "The Virginian" in our Los Angeles studio last week, I was thrilled through and through, for I knew at once that there was one of the really big pictures of the year.
Kenneth Harlan as "The Virginian" is a revelation. Florence Vidor, Russell Simpson, Pat O'Malley and Raymond Hatton feel that in "The Virginian" they have the biggest opportunities of their careers and are as highly enthusiastic over their work as your patrons will be when they see what Tom Forman and his co-workers have accomplished with Owen Wister's marvelous story.
Just as I promised, we will help you in every w"ay to put over the Preferred Fifteen. As an indication, look on Page 104 of The Saturday Evening Post, issue of August nth.
If we get the same kind of cooperation from about 4,000 exhibitors that we have received from you — watch jha'sjompany grow]
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PREFERRED PICTURES CORP'N.
AL LICHTMAN President
BROAD WAV NEW YORK CITY