Moving Picture News (Jan-Dec 1911)

6 THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS The folloAving extracts from correspondence should be read carefully and well digested. "It might be well for your paper to call the attention of the Pennsylvania state authorities to the fact that the General Film Company is doing business in the State of Pennsylvania or had been up to a short time ago without paying tax. If you will recall this fact was mentioned to you last January. It is to be regretted that the State Department did not prosecute them for their unlawful act. but understand the common usage is to notify a delinquent to have their company registered and pay the proper tax, but no mention is made of the arrearage." The above quotation will to a large extent speak for itself. Another extract says, "I want to say that the Independents do not know how much they are indebted to you for the fight you made in their behalf. I appreciate the fact that you have been consistent in your fight, and your journal ought to be patronized and supported by every Independent manufacurer, exchange, and exhibitor within the United States. Wishing you unbounded prosperity." Another letter from Illinois says, "I wonder what the Independents are thinking about that they do not give you their whole undivided support. It makes my heart ache to see how they seem to ignore you, but perhaps you have a reason, and you know more than I do about the question, still I think for the great fight and the innumerable sacrifices you have made for the Independents, they ought to give you their unqualified and undivided support to the exclusion of every other medium. Will you tell me what the decision of the Illinois courts is regarding the film question?" To our Chicago correspondent we may reply that Judge Kohlsaat in the celebrated case of Edison vs. George Kleine forbade any other action to be brought in the courts of Chicago until the patent had been fully adjudicated. This has not yet been done, consequently Judge Kohlsaat's decision still holds. We have many other letters it is impossible to take up in the short space at our disposal, and we are compelled to hold them over for a future issue. THE DETROIT CONVENTION The State Convention of Michigan have had quite a gala time at Detroit during this week. The following information comes to hand that S. J. Jessup is the president, W. Lester Levey the master of ceremonies of the convention, which opened at 10:30 a.m. and settled down to business. At 4:30 the exhibitors were taken for an auto ride and dinner. Isidor Bernstein, Mark Dintenfass and David Horsley were present from New York, and T. Kennedy, from Chicago, representing the Sales Co. The convention witnessed some very good independent films which were well applauded, and the Sales Company gave a lunch to the convention on the 1 2th, of which we have not yet full particulars but will try and give full report in our next issue. AN ENTERPRISING EXHIBITOR There is one wide-awake, up-to-date exhibitor, and that exhibitor is a lady. Her name is Dolly Spurr, and a very appropriate name too, we imagine, as she is spurring on with an enterprise, we have not seen a man exhibitor yet have the courage to tackle. This lady has a theater, "The Royal," of Marion, Indiana, and she has gotten up a sixteen page and cover booklet entitled "The Royal Reports," which is indeed a compliment to her ladyship, and she tells in that paper everything that is worth knowing concerning the independent films. The thanks of the whole Independent section are due to her for her enterprise, which we hope will be successful. KINEMACOLOR Mr. Charles Urban, whose masterly "Kinemacolor" reproduction in animation and the actual tints of nature, of the entire pageant of the Coronation, includ > f > 1 -I n V OUR ARTIST SENDS THE M. P. TRUST TO THE CLUB