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The Puhlix Theatre Managers School — Barry 39
where you will get fifty active and fifty associate members for the Society in a years' time. They will be of a caliber equal to the present active and associate membership. I think it will solve the problem of expanding the membership along the right line.
President Cook: The Board of Governors will give consideration to your suggestion, Mr. Brown. It is not a matter for the Society as a whole, but we are glad to consider it.
Mr. Richardson: Judging from a personal inspection of thousands of theatres, I do not think the industry has needed any one thing more than it has needed a school for managers of motion picture theatres. To show you the ignorance of some managers which can be classed only as stupidity, I went into a theatre owned and managed by one man. He showed me around with considerable pride. He had good projection equipment, but on either side of the auditorium were eight side-lights about seven feet from the floor, in which were sixteen candle power bulbs with plain frosting over them. They were producing the most terrific glare spots you could imagine. After we had examined the plant we stood looking at the picture, and after a while he asked me what I thought of the place. I said, 'Tt's all right except for one thing — those glare spots." He didn't know what I meant. I asked him to have a boy turn off the lights, and he said it was out of the question. It would ruin the show to turn them out, but finally he had them turned out, and he was astounded at the result.
The problems of projection are not merely projecting the picture but the screen surface must be considered while the greatest problem of all is getting the picture back to the audience in the best possible way.