Evening Star Newspaper, April 6, 1925, Page 3

HINDENBURG SHUNS PRESDENEY RAC General Declines to Run as Liberal Parties Agree in Supporting Marx. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, April 6.—Gen burg has declined to be the presidency of the public. This decision known, it f expected Jarres, who wa in favor of the nated rtly onalist von Hinden- a candidate serman Re- having been that Dr. Kar! temporarily put aside general, will be nomi- as a candidate of the combination in the April lections. approval voted at yesterday's ssion of the national committee of the Germs ocratic party, Dr. Wilhelm Mar formally ratifled as the official candidate of the so-called Weimar coalition, comprising Soclal- and Democratic partie caucus of the Democratio party ¥y was largely attended by out-of-town delegates. Although a strong minority was opposed to action by the party, it was finally resolved that in view of the equivocating and anti-Republican at- titude of the national-conservative bourgeois bloc, no choice was left for the Democrats, but to join the Center and Socialist parties In a determined effort to carry the election on April for Dr. Marx and the Welmer con- tution. Not Entirely Satisfled. With the ratified_the three Republi cerned. at spects is not ldate t the Welmar parties in the scruples ente nent Democr: leaders, who do not attempt to ¢ ceal thelr disgust at the manner in which their party was reed into becoming a partner in pact negotiated between the So- ciallsts and Centrists The Democratic party, however, found its way to the right barri- caded by the intransigeance of the Jarres supporters, and In its isolated position finally had to ie two other partie bloc. Although it i smallest the liberal aspired the distinction & the leadership in the tangled presidential situation by proposing Drr. Walter Simons as a non-partisan candidate. Not Assured of Vote. Political on-lookers who profess to know the temper of the great body of voters in both Socialist and Dem- ocratic parties openly charge that Marx by no means assured the complete support of either or both these parties and that the yuestion of religious bias is one of the most serious handicaps confront- ing the Weimar coalition in its effort to keep the nominal vote of the three parties intact Its strategic and moral advantage at the outset of the forthcoming three-week cam- paign is supplied in the demoralized state in which ‘the Nationa! Con- servative bloc now is floundering. former chancellor die is an Dr. the thus so far as the parties are con- Mark in many re- most formidat disposal of plainly reflected ained hy promi- is rically the parties, it of assum- to Dr. is 21 PATRIOTIC SONGS SUBMITTED FOR PRIZE Competition, Limited to Washing- tonians, Brings Excel- lent Results. Twenty-one compositions have been submitted in the contest for the best patriotic song entitled “I Hear Amer- ica Singin which was conducted by the music department of the Nation Council of men. The contest w; d yesterday after running eral weeks The contest David Allen closed ye sev- was proposed by Mrs Campbell. As it was limited to Washington composers and lyricists, the council gratified at the interest evidenced by the number who have submitted compositions. The names of the entrants will not be known till the has been rendered. 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C., MONDAY, APRIL What’s Ahead No. 8—The Moving Picture Industry as Seen by Adolph Zukor. By John F . Author of “Can Europe Hold Together?” and “Can Your Taxes Be Cut?” So far civilization has taken three distinct steps. Human speech came first. Then printing. And now the moving picture. Thomas A. Edison invented the moving picture camera and George Eastman the flexible rib- bon film. To these two men goes the | credit for giving the world moving pictures. The motion picture business has become a big business in the land of big business, all in less than 25 years The industry scarcely knows how large it really is. The best obtain- able figures show the following facts The investment in the United States is $1,500,000,000 Total number of persons perma- nently employed in all branches 300,000 | Average number of feature pictures produced yearly, 700 Average weekly attendance at ple- ture theaters, 50,000,000, Average pa nnual $1,000,000,000. Number of motlon picture theaters 15,000, Theaters week, 9,000 Amount $5,000,000. In 1913 the exports were 32,000,000 lineal feet, in 1922 over 200,000,000. d admissions running 6 to 7 days a of yearly advertising Seventh in Industries, Or put it in another way. Take the annual turnover of the big key industries; the motion plcture indus- try is seventh. Here they are in the order of importance: aughtering and meat 00,000,000; petroleum 27,000,000 automobile: 3 000; foundry and machine shops, $1,565.000,000; steel works and roll- ing mills, $1,481,000,000; cotton goods, $1,279,000,000; motion pictures, $1, 250,000,000, The United States possesses 7 per cent of the world's population, yet it | produces 27 per cent of the wheat, 30 per cent of the silver, 40 per cent of the coal, 50 per cent of the steel, cop- per and aluminum, 60 per cent of the cotton, 65 per cent of the oil, 75 per cent of the corn and 80 per cent of the automobiles of the world. And 85 per cent of the motion pictures Approximately $180,000,000 — more than $500,000 a day—was spent in the United States in the construction of theaters in 1924, Adolph Zukor is gentus of the motion picture indus- try. Small of stature, quiet in speech, manner and dress, his success cannot be primarily attributed to personal | compelling magnetism. But he is painstaking and a master of detail. He knows the motion picture bus ness, for he grew up with it. A Gamble Ten Years Ago. “Ten years ago production of high class motion pictures was a gamble,” he told me in his plain oak-furnished office in New York. “Five years ago it wa a speculation. Today it is a legitimate busines: “Let me explain what I mean. rears ago we were Many commonplaces had not been d covered. The industr: new. We were ploneering is expensive. We made man pie- tures the cost of which was a pure gamble. Sometimes a picture might cost five times our original estimate. Neither did we know what the trade demanded. We did not know how to estimate returns from the picture Such a period was bad for immediate profits, but good for the long pull in the industry. It was a nece; ry evolution. Standardize Indugtry. we know what to can we estimate cost of a accuratel, say within 20 per cent, but we can likewise esti- mate in the same way its sales value. That is to say, we are standardizing the industry and so eliminating the great risks.” “Is the present tendency in the mo- tion plcture play to follow the drama?’ I asked “Artistically drama likew shows itself basic in pictures. The story value, the dra- matic, the human experience, must | now stand behind every picture, irre- | spective of the picture ability of the| star of the picture. There is a place | for the melodramatic and spectacu- lar, but it is a lesser place now than in the years of our develop- | ment. Th also true of the motion | picture star. We have found that the literary taste pretty much paral- lels the current novels and short stories, so we also follow such tendency in pictures.” “Then pictures do not ne follow great stage successes “No; formerly that wa also true, but not now. A successful play may not be—usually is not—a successful picture. Another thing; pictures now require immense sums of money. The average eight-reel picture last year packing, industry $1.6 an outstanding Ten experimenting. Xpect the basic fact in a sarily | been | and for Business? . Sinclair. cost about $150,000 to $200,000. And there were about 700 of them made during the year by the 16 national distributuors and 24 independent dis- tributuo Of these our company, the largest, produced about 15 per cent of the total.” “Has the radio caused a in attendance at the 15 in the United States?” h “No, quite the contrary. @ gradual Increase in the attendance as the quality of | pictuures increased in value. We now | figure on the whole world for busi- ness ‘The Covered Wagon," for in- stance, ran six months in London, | three months in Paris, and it had al- most as much success in Copenhagen, Melbourne and Tokio as it had on Broadwa “The movie is showing the peoples of all nations that kindness and love and sympathy are not national, but international in their sweep. The | tion picture knows no barrier of | nguage or distance. A few thou- | sand feet of celluloid film in a small | metal co ainer and the people of | South Africa can know Abraham Lincoln his kindness and love and sympathy. Moving pictures can be made, and are being made, one of the most potent influences toward world peace and good will among men. “We have only started to make good pictures. We will ccontinue to make better and better pictures, for we be. lieve the American people will sup- port them, Good Pictures Falil. “Some excellent pletures at great expense—were ful. ‘Sentimental Tommy So was ‘Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde,” even though it had John Barrymorg for its star. ‘The Courtship of Miles Stand- ish’ was another. We are not dis- couraged, however, for we believe such lures of good pictures will become fewer and fewer as the dis- criminating taste of Americans be- comes more and more sensitive.” “What part will color photography play in the fature of pictures?” I asked. “In_big scenes like those Ten Commandments,’ colored photog- raphy will continue to be perfected and used, but we have found that too much color detracts from the story, the sto is the thing after all | and white are best | Within limits, color will be used, but its phere of action is not growing in | importance. The same holds true for the so-called peaking picture. cept to preserve certain historical oc ons, such as presidential ad- dresses, the immediate future does falling off 000 theaters was asked. There has every year | | | | produced not success- | was a loser. | in ‘The for th photograph es. not contemplate any large place for the speaking picture.” He spoke of what Wiil done: ‘It Hays was only in 1922 that a num LUNCH WHH US TO-DAY HEALTH CANDIES 40+ 60+ 80+ Ib FLAT TIRE? MAIN 500 LEETH BROTHERS ber of the leading producers asked Will H. Hays, then Postmaster Gen- eral, to become president of the Mo- tion Pleture Producers and Distrib- utors of America. He did so and to- day 90 per cent of the producers and distributors are members of Mr. Hays' organization. He has accom- plished three outstanding things. One is the creation of a national ad- visory committee of public relations :omposed of representatives of clvic, social and educational organizations. Then there is the creation and supervision of the operation of va- rious arbitration boards composed of distributors and exhibitors, the sell- ers and buyers in the industry. “These boards settle practically all the differences and disputes that arise in the industry. This development has been a constructive step produc- tive of enormous good and economy. The third Is the creation for future use of a uniform system of account- ing and auditing providing in it for adequate depreciation of property and equipment and in this way materially increasing and improving the bank- ing and business credit within the industry. are now Americ have made part of the big " declared Mr. grown fast; too some serious mistakes. 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