New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 16, 1921, Page 11

T MOVIE TRUST NOW | UNDER SEARCHLIGHT International Combine, Claimed | by Trade Commission BY NORRIS QUINN Washington, Sept. 16.—American movie fans spent §4,000,000 for theater tickets every day last year. Two-thirds of that amount found its way Into the pockets of a glant motion pleture trust, say charges filed by the Federal Trade commission. ‘The commission says it has unearth- ed an international plot to control the production, distribution and exhibition of motion picture films. It names the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation as ringleader of the alleg- ed combine and involves 11 other com- panies. All have been given 30 days to answer the charges, They are ex- pected to deny them completely. Details of Charges. The commission says the alleged com- bine already has been so successful that its gerpetrators have: Signed Iron-clad contracts with the most popular screen stars to sct ex- elusively in their pictures. Acquired a controlling intereset In the most important American film dis- tributing agency and stified competition on the part of other agencies. Bought 400 big movie theaters out- right and forced hundreds of other the- aters throughout the country to show their films exclusively Opened branches and afliated with theaters and producers in every Euro- pean country und in_India, Change in Industry. Until 1016 the motion picture indus- try was In the hands of three different classes of operatives—producers, dis- tributors and exhibitors In 1016 Adolph Zukor and Jesse J. Lasky set out to get control of all three branches, the Federal Trade cominis- slon charges The three most important film pro- ducers then were Bosworth, Inc., the Jesso J. Lasky Feature and Play Co., and the Famous Players Film Co. Zukor was president of the last. Lasky and Zukor bought out Bos- worth and thus merged all three com- panies, giving them absolute control of the producing branch, the commission says. Distributing End. The next step was getting control of the distributing end The Paramount Players corporation was the most Important distributor. Paramount refused to sell out to the Zukor-Lasky organization. Then. the commission says, Zukor in- corporated the Artcraft Plctures cor- poration as a distributing agency and started to compete with Paramount. The result: Paramount sold out to Zuk- Deauville has furnished France with plenty of thrills this summer, what witth its lists of royalty, the ultra-fashionable and the notorious. Ferdinand, King of Rumania, promenading at the famous resort with a |j fair visitor. Here is HARDING DISPLEASES ARGENTINE' POPULACE President Said Bolivar Was Great General While Latini Maintain San Martin Was Better., Buenos Alres, Sept. 16.—When President Hardin u ing of the Bolivar in New York that f the American continent was cipally to two heroes, Washi Bolivar, he caused to flar torth afresh an old controversy arding the relative merits of var and the hero of Southern South America, Geners n Martin As a alt of this the Junta de Historlc y Numismatica Americana or and his organization found itself in|hery has proposed that congress should control of the distributing branch, The final step was to acquire control of the exhibiting branch, the theaters. Thiw, the commission charges, was ac- complished by buying interests in chains of theaters and threatenipg the- aters In the larger cities with competi- tion If they refused to yield to trust’'s demands. At the same time, the commission eharges, Zukor and Lasky secretly op- erated the Reelart Pictures corporation, and exhibiting agencies and purported to be a competing company. PATENTS U. S. FLAG Eoglish Firm Desires Right of Ameri- ean Emblem For Use As Trade Mark. Buenos Aires, ept. 16.—Complaint has often been made by manufacturers and others that on entering South America for the purpose of selling their products they found that some enter- prising person had appropriated their trade marks and patent rights thus be- ing able to prevent the use of the manufacturer'’s gwn brands without “adjustment.’’ . Prebably the most curious case of such an attempt to appropriate a de- sign was made here recently when an English firm applied for patent rights on the American flag. It was denied. A Trench scientist has shown that an X-ray apparatus can photograph objects through a stone wall more than 25 feet away. Relieve baby's ilching skin with ~ Has just the cooling fouch to ot e| Doaoo not -nlnri orp pass a law providing $300,000 Ar- gentine paper with which to make a motion picture film showing the part played by the Argentine hero in the struggle against Spain. The plan is to have the picture displayed in South America and in other lands so that the world may have a better un tand- Ing of the exploits of the leader who captured Lima, Peru and thus broke the backbone of the Spanish power. Historlans of the southern part of the é¥ntinent have long accused those of the northern half and of Central America to persistently attempting to belittle the deeds of San Martin. They point out that whils ssolivar freed the north, San Martin accomplished the titanie feat of leading an army trom Argentina across the Andes, free- ing Chili and later capturing Lima, which was the seat of Spanish power. hey say, put an end to Spanish ance. Bolivar also was approaching Lima at the time of its capture, coming from It is now in the grocery stores the north. The two generals met in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and General San Martin res *d Lima to his fellow liberator, returning himself to Argen- tina. GERMAN SUBMARINE, U-111, POORLY BUILT| U. S. Naval Investigation Shows That Woden Pegs Were Used Instead of Iron Boston, Sept. 3& —The German sub- marine 111 w a8 to materials and wormanship in the opinion of Captain C. C. Adams, U S, . industrial manager at the Ports- ans, es of their bl and iron with the result that and rust made the subm ine unequal to the demands of navi- ation Th a, at Portsmouth ordered by the department. Because the U-111 going out to be sunk in bombing p: wooden plugs, instead of iron rivets, testified to hy other wit- nesses as a probable cause of the sub- marine’s leaking and subsequent sink- Captain Adams thought had no aring on the loss of the hoat. 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