Motion Picture News (Dec 1920-Feb 1921)

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Now that the whole trade knows the tremendous money-winning power of Priscilla Dean — now that everyone knows that this remarkable actress has the greatest puller of her comet-like career in that amazing American melodrama, " OUTSIDE THE LAW," the star-stealers are getting busy again. It is time to stop this sharp-practice. And it will be stopped, so far as Universal is concerned. Time was when it might have been considered a delicate compliment to the player — -or a perfectly bully subject for an " ad " — but that day has passed. Universal does not propose to allow any company, or agent, or individual to jeopardize its investments — or to cause you, our client, loss through disruption of your playing schedule. Universal hereby gives the star-stealers, professional and amateur, fair warning that it will take immediate action in the event of any approach on their part which results, or tends to result, in misunderstanding between Universal and those players with which it has made honorable agreement. Universal does not anticipate such misunderstandings. Universal is simply telling the trade how it proposes to safeguard you and itself and every one of us. The fbllowittrf di'e a few or the NcLtionally Poptildi' Pldyei'S trndei' contact vitti U IL IV e 1' s dl Priscilla Dean Harry Carey Erich Von Stroheim Frank Mayo Edith Roberts Carmel Myers Gladys Walton Eddie Lyons Lee Moran Eileen Sedgwick Eva Novak Reeves Eason Marguerite Armstrong Gertrude Olmsted Art Acord Eddie Polo Hoot Gibson Jack Perrin UNIVERSAL Film ManufacftLrin^ Cb. Pre^sidenf.