Universal Weekly (1932-1936)

Record Details:

Title:
Universal Weekly
Date:
1932-1936
Author:
Moving Picture Weekly Pub. Co.
Publisher:
New York, Moving Picture Weekly Pub. Co.
Volume:
Universal Weekly (1932-1936)
Leaf #:
00040
Language:
English
Collection:
Early Cinema and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
The organ of the Universal Film Manufacturing Company. Previously titled MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY.
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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HU" • . UNIVERSAL WEEKLY " Dec. 10, 1932 IN WHICH I No. 700 Straight-from-the-Shoulder Talk by Carl Laemmie, President of the Universal Pictures Corporation I am told that Universal has been charged with ""stalling" in the matter of the proposed new contract with exhibitors. This is, in plain language^ a lie. Whether made in ignorance or in malice, it is still a lie. Whoever concocted it cannot have the welfare of the business at heart. He does not want harmony. He wants discord. He wants to keep trouble stirred up between the buyer and the seller of pictures. In spite of the fact that Universal's interests are involved to the extent of approximately forty-five million dollars. Universal within 24 hours after reading the proposed contract communicated with the committee representing the exhibitors and made known the few slight changes needed as a protection to Universal. That is not stalling. Universal studied the contract with the idea of agreeing to as much of it as possible, for the sake of uniformity, and with the idea of making it as easy as possible to come to an agreement. That is not stalling. I want harmony. Nobody in the business is lying on a bed of roses today. The more the buyer and the seller rub each other the wrong way, the worse it is for all of us. Nobody wants a decent, fair contract more than Uni