Moving Picture News (1911) . English trade readsabout American conditions, the thing that strikes him asmost preposterous about your methods of business, is theefforts made by various factors to collar all the business forthemselves. Such attempts have, it is true, been made herein a tentative kind of way, but have failed ignominiously. InAmerica they seem to have succeeded to the extent of de-priving the showman of a free choice of program. TheEnglish exhibitor who was told that if he showed Impsor Flying As or Eclairs or Italas, he would be barredfrom Vitagraph, Selig and Essanay productions
Moving Picture News (1911) . English trade readsabout American conditions, the thing that strikes him asmost preposterous about your methods of business, is theefforts made by various factors to collar all the business forthemselves. Such attempts have, it is true, been made herein a tentative kind of way, but have failed ignominiously. InAmerica they seem to have succeeded to the extent of de-priving the showman of a free choice of program. TheEnglish exhibitor who was told that if he showed Impsor Flying As or Eclairs or Italas, he would be barredfrom Vitagraph, Selig and Essanay productions would not,I think, sit down tamely and content himself with a pro-gram made up of only half the worlds productions; he wouldkick till he got an open market. One of the advantages ofliving in a Free Trade country is that attempts to cornerthis or that article are at once regarded as a piece of pre-sumption not to be tolerated; with no tariff as a shelter xa THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS Bhe Moving Picture CREAM OF AMERICA^ndEUROPE. PROGRAM MONDAY TUESDAY. .. .WEDNESDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY. . Imp, Eclair, Yankee,American, Champion. .Thanhouser, Bison,Powers. Champion, Solax, Re-liance, Ambrosio, Nes-tor. .Imp, American, Itala,Rex. .Yankee, Solax, Lux,Thanhouser, Bison. Powers, Itala, , Nestor, Re-liance. If you are not showing any of thesebrands in your theater at the present time,write us at once and we will put you intouch with the Hve exchange nearest to you. BOYS, ITS THE ONLYPROGRAM TO RUN —TRYIT AND BE CONVINCED Original prints of this unexcelled pro-gram can be obtained in U. S. and Canadannl_\- through exchanges buying from the MOTION PICTUREDISTRIBUTING & SALES CO III EAST 14TH STREETNEW YORK CITY under which the monopolist can work his sweet will, we havenot got into the habit of accepting such methods of business,it was tried m soap and the result was a boycott which costthe vvnuld-be •cornerers many thousands of pounds. -In tlu lilm business we have a
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