Motion Picture News (Jan-Feb 1922)

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1108 Motion Picture News Albany Ready for Convention AT a meeting of the special committee from the Albany Chamber of Commerce and members of the Albany Theatrical Managers’ Association Monday afternoon, Feb. 6, final plans were made for next week s convention of motion picture exhibitors in Alban}* X. Y. The convention will open at 3 o’clock Tuesdav afternoon, at which time Mayor William S. Hackett will welcome all present. All sessions will be held in the ballroom of the Hotel Ten Eyck. Samuel I. Berman, executive secretary of the Motion Picture Theatre Owners of the state, arrived in town this week and opened a desk at the Albany Chamber of Commerce. The first of the exhibitors will reach Albany Sunday. Included in these will be Martin G. Smith, of Toledo, president of the Ohio exhibitors, and President Woodhull, of the New Jersey exhibitors. There will be a meeting of the executive committee Monday night. All exhibitors attending the convention should go to the Hotel Ten Eyck on arrival, register, receive their hotel reservations and badges. Secretary Berman will be found on the mezzanine floor of the Ten Eyck, which will also serve as a headquarters for the women attending the convention. Censorship Subject of NonPartisan Discussion A non-partisan discussion of censorship was conducted at the National Republican Club, New York City, on last Saturday afternoon, February 4, at which the subject was gone over from all angles. Rupert Hughes roundly attacked censorship as a present-day form of intolerance and declared those efforts futile which aimed at making people good by coercing them. Rufus S. Cole, motion-picture producer, declared himself in favor of Federal censorship as contrasted with state regulation, while Charles Urban, another producer, expressed himself in favor of Federal licensing of producers, with the power to revoke the license when the circumstances of the specific case might warrant. Commissioner Levenson of the New York State Censorship Board spoke in favor of screen regulation, declaring that the mentally weak are more likely to attend motion-picture performances than the mentally strong, and that 60 per cent of our population, judging from army tests, is below normal intelligence. H. J. Shepard, general manager for the Urban Productions, who read Mr. Urban’s speech at the Republican Club meeting on Saturday, made a subsequent speech, in which he paid a glowing tribute to the new Public Service movement of the Motion Picture Theatre Owners of America and upheld the M. P. T. O.’s principles based on the Golden Rule. MOTION PICTURE N E VV S Wiliam A. Johnston, Pres. & Editor E. Kendall Gillett, Treasurer George D. Gould, Managing Editor Fred. J. Beecroft, Adv. Mgr. Published on Friday every xceek by MOTION PICTURE NEWS, Inc., 729 Seventh Ave., New York, N. Y. ’ Phone 9360 Bryant Chicago Representative, L. H. Mason, 910 S. Michigan Ave. ; ’Phone Harrison 7667. Eos Angeles Representative, J. C. Jessen, Suite 205, BakerDetwiller Building, 412 West Sixth St; ’Phone Pico 780. Subscription $3 a year, postpaid, in United States, Mexico, Hawaii, Porto Rico and Philippine Islands. Canada, $5. Foreign. $8. N. B. — No agent is authorized to take subscriptions for Motion Picture News at less than these rates. Have the agent who takes your subscription show his credentials and coupon book. Western Union registered cable address is “ Picknews,” New York. Copyright, 1922, by Motion Picture News/ Ine. Federated Officers Reelected at Convention One hundred per cent attendance marked the third annual meeting of the Federated Film Exchanges of America, which was concluded on February 6th at the Hotel Astor, New York, after a fourday session. All the present officers were re-elected to hold office for the ensuing year. They are J. L. Friedman, president; Harry Chamas, vice-president ; J. Eugene Pearce, secretary ; and Samuel V. Grand, treasurer. 'While no announcements of new pictures was made it is understood that several deals of importance are pending which may be announced at the directors’ meeting in March. Those who attended the convention were: J. L. Friedman, of Chicago; Samuel V. Grand, C. W. Denick and Samuel Bishoff, of Boston ; Abe Warner and Robert North, of New York; Ben Amsterdam and L. Korson, of Philadelphia ; P. Oletsky. of Baltimore ; Harry Chamas and M. A. Liebensberger. of Cleveland ; Albert Wunderlick, of Minneapolis ; T. T. Sheffield, of Seattle ; J. Openheimer, of San Francisco; W. T. Underwood, of Dallas; J. Eugene Pearce, of New Orleans; Sam W eraer, of St. Louis ; A1 Kahn, of Kansas City; L. E. Ouimet, of Montreal, and George Weile, of New York. Connecticut Exhibitors to Convene February 21st The Motion Picture Theatre Owners of Connecticut, of which William A True is president, will hold their state convention in New Haven at the Hotel Taft on February 21. The Connecticut organization is now among the most powerful of the state exhibitors’ bodies and preparations are being made for an entl usiastic and businesslike gathering. New Hampshire Exhibitors' Stage Grand Ball The first annual ball of the Motion Picture Theatre Owners of New Hampshire, held in Le Chateau, Manchester, N. H., Friday evening of last week, was graced by the presence of Governor Al l bert O. Brown of New Hampshire, Mayor George E. Trudel of Manchester, » and a quintette of motion-picture stars, which included May McAvoy, Bert : Lytell, Hope Hampton, Frank Mayo and Diana Allen. Over three thousand at * tended the function, which proved to be a 3 tremendous success. Uncle Sam Requires Exhibitors to Keep Books Exhibitors, unless Uncle Sam has ! missed some of them, have received letters 1 from the Internal Revenue Department 1 explaining the necessity of keeping sys : tematic accounts that will clearly show the inventories, purchases, income, capital investment, depreciation and similar items required in making up income tax returns. Motion Picture News advises that the instructions of this communication be taken seriously. The law is plain and as many exhibitors who have been careless in making returns to the Internal Revenue Department can testify, excuses are not accepted and, on the contrary, penalties are exacted. The authority of the Secretary of the : Treasury to require what many theatre owners may think as an unnecessarily elaborate system of bookkeeping is provided by the following section of the Revenue Act : The law says : “ That every person, corporation, partnership, or association, liable to any tax imposed by this act, or for collection thereof, shall keep such records as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury may from time to time prescribe.” Paramount Long Island Studio to Reopen Paramount’s Long Island studio is to be reopened in April, according to an announcement wired East by Jesse L. Lasky, first vice president of the Famous PlaversLaskv Corporation, in charge of production. Victor H. Clarke has been appointed general manager of the Long Island studio and will arrive to take charge about April 1. Active production will be resumed as soon afterward as the studio can be prepared. Mr. Lasky’s announcement stated that the former Realart studio in Los Angeles, the same of which has been changed to the Vilshire Paramount studio, will be closed until further notice. Frank E. Garbutt has been appointed special technical advisor to the production department, in charge of all laboratorywork.