United Artists Corporate Minutes (Jan-Dec 1939)

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——— F 2 4 ~ a —__—__—-eE8ts % eee ; / We note with estonichment and amazement the stsete 3 = meas ~ , peters ave Vi YY ter pertaining to your supposed existing commitment with -Radio City Music Halt-under the saic contrect dated August 17, 1958. First, we wish to cell to your ettertion thet,“ @& cleerly es een.be stated in the English isneuaze, you in yar seid letters cated respectively Merch 28, 1939 and Merch 30, 1939 unequivocally end with finelity advised the Radio City Music Hall that by reason of its breech of the-snid contract of August 17, 1956, you heve termineted "seid contract with retpect te WETHZRING HEIGHTS es well es the unreleased pictures DARING AGE and THE LAST FRONTIER. (DARTN G AGE IS NOW KNOWN AS "Yuste School* end THE LAST FROMpISR i =z known a5 "The Real Glory"). Furthermore, the sgreement of inde:nity betwee ws as reflecte¢——— in your letter to us deted April 19, 195% and accepted by us, was &@ solemn confirmetion end re-effirmeticn es between us thet we would stand upon the position thet you had taken, with our coneurrence sha ecnsent, that the said eontract of August 17, 1938 was in «ll resnects terminateé@, not only és to WUTHERING HEI Ggge but elso as to the, two remining unrelessed pictures. Under these circumstances we are completely at 4 logs tc underetang why you should at this time meke any inouiry of us concerning @ny such commitment from you to Redio City Music Haei, which commitment, in feet, no longer exists. We further texe particuler exception to the statement contsined in the Sth paregren™ of pur said letter in which you sey "As expleined to you then end reiterated now, we did not believe that the Musie Hell hed viclated its contract with you by not deting in WUTH¥KING HFIGHTS on the date you wished. We felt thet they could svsil themselves of the terms of our exhibition contract and dete followine Ds AK VICTORY just as they could following THE CASTLES picture". We deny thet you at =ny time prior to the receint by us of your letter of May 23, 1939, expressed such , Dor eould we recgneile such « view it 7 then entertained it, with your views ‘es embodied in your sa a letters of Merch 28 and Mere 30, 1939 addressed to the Rado City Music Hall. Whetever your views, we-ere of the unreserved opinion that kadio City Music Haii di¢ substentiaily sreach —. its contract with you and thot you were wholly justified in terminatince the seid contract of August 17, 1938 by reason of such breechil In Gor@uctinge th : ons with ther Rivii Theatre with » view towerds it erhibition of our said a