240
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1925-05-15
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Letter
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'Last week I went through the entire train on two different occasions trying to locate you and your partner. As I was u...
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1341
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1925-05-04
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Letter
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Letter regarding a case Grosvenor was working on (Fur Dressers and Fur Dyers Association). They won the case, the judge ...
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3215
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1925-04-15
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Letter
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Summary of current activities and request for each company to develop materials for the Greater Movie Season, and to enc...
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252
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1925-03-07
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Letter
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This is an objection to the portrayal of suicides by inhalation of gas, since the Gas Association is trying to discourag...
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1327
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1925-02-27
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Letter
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MPPDA collecting statistics regarding how much studios have paid authors for their stories over the last five years. Dat...
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2035
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1925-02-13
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Letter
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Opinion on actors' contracts -- legality of a penalty that might be imposed on a member company breaching the associatio...
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3210
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1925-02-13
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Letter
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Asking for copies of companies' contract with actors
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1345
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1925-01-28
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Letter
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Copy of a letter sent to every member of the MPPDA concerning the resignation of Vitagraph from the association. Include...
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1342
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1925-01-15
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Letter
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Letter regarding foreign managers meeting held on 01-15-1925. Includes a copy of the memo read out during the meeting an...
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205
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1924-12-30
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Letter
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Concerning the split of the Motion Picture Relief Fund of America, Inc. from the Actors' Fund. According to an enclosed...
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180
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1924-12-29
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Letter
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Mrs Gibbs is Vice President of The Citizens League of Maryland for Better Motion Pictures. Her letter is explicitly ant...
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172
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1924-12-22
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Letter
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Details of MPPDA scheme to distribute children's matinee programmes, of 7-8 reels of varied material from member compani...
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173
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1924-12-12
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Letter
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Details of how the logistics and financial arrangements will operate when the children's matinee programmes are introduc...
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174
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1924-12-09
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Letter
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The children's matinee programmes are to be given a trial run in Atlanta, where there will be a Ministers Conference in ...
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189
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1924-12-04
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Letter
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Mr. Clark, a projectionist at Grenada Opera House, has invented a new improved Film Waxing Machine. (Hays expresses his...
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134
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1924-12-02
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Letter
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Donaldson advises White to emphasize the entertainment value of EFC Educational films when writing his ads, rather than ...
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181
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1924-11-30
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Letter
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Mrs Bennett is President of the Citizens League of Maryland for Better Motion Pictures. She lists 32 salacious film tit...
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221
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1924-11-21
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Letter
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Lawhead regrets the action of his publicity men in perpetrating a bomb hoax, and reports that that they "were placed in ...
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142
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1924-11-17
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Letter
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This is a letter from the Cinematograph Exhibitors Association of Great Britain and Ireland, informing the the MPPDA of ...
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211
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1924-11-10
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Letter
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Scanlon complains about motion pictures being run "according to the caprice, cupidity or standards of half a dozen peopl...
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202
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1924-10-25
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Letter
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Includes a copy of the resolution taken at the MPPDA Board of Directors meeting of 10-23-1924, which recognizes that "re...
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149
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1924-10-07
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Letter
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Donaldson is in charge of MPPDA "institutional advertising." The Board has passed a resolution that each member should ...
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169
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1924-09-25
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Letter
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Smith agrees at once to recall all prints of Between Friends and make the cuts suggested by McMahon. (Later -- 10-10-...
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168
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1924-09-24
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Letter
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McMahon suggests three specific additional eliminations that would make Between Friends tolerable from the Catholic poin...
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144
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1924-09-17
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Letter
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Resolutions concerning advertising principles (not included here), passed at a Californian AMPP meeting, are being sent ...
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217
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1924-08-23
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Letter
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Wells complains that Protestant ministers are frequently held up to ridicule in the movies, whereas Catholics and Jews a...
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222
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1924-08-11
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Letter
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Crandall complains of the practice of releasing big-budget features in legitimate theatres rather than cinemas, and char...
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151
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1924-08-04
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Letter
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The Christian Science Monitor (06-12-1924) contained a version of Beetsons report exonerating the motion picture industr...
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161
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1924-07-26
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Letter
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Concerns Californian visit by Hays. Beetson is enthusiastic about the effect of Hays' speech before the Wampas Club. (...
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201
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1924-07-18
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Letter
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The members of the MPPDA Law Committee, appointed by Hays, are listed. Rogers is the chairman. Letters notifying commi...
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152
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1924-07-03
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Letter
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Beetson suggests mounting an attack on the business practices of the Animal Defense League in response to attacks by the...
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203
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1924-07-02
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Letter
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Includes a copy of the resolution taken at the MPPDA Board of Directors meeting of 06-19-1924, "covering the matter of t...
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218
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1924-07-01
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Letter
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Hertz mildly protests about the use of Yellow Cabs by movie criminals. Hays requests Albert Warner and the AMPP to avoi...
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136
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1924-06-24
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Letter
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'I am enclosing herewith copies of "Manhandled" advertisements with changes suggested by you in every instance." The ad...
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153
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1924-04-23
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Letter
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This is a synopsis of the trouble that the AMPP has been having with Mrs Wright and the Animal Defense League. It conta...
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155
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1924-03-17
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Letter
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Beetson informs Hays that 'So far I have succeeded in keeping Mrs. Wright off any of the important committees of the Fed...
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219
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1924-03-03
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Letter
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Dr Millar is the General Secretary of the New York Federation of Churches. Like Mr Wells, he complains of the denigrati...
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3221
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1924-02-11
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Letter
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Requesting that he send a message to his Hollywood office endorsing the resolutions taken at the first AMPP meeting.
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140
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1924-01-21
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Letter
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Apparently Russell has sought the opinions of editors on motion picture advertising. Marshall's letter deplores scandal...
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220
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1924-01-04
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Letter
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This is a complaint about the habitual movie portrayal of telephone operators as a "novel reading gum chewer or flapper....
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154
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1923-12-10
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Letter
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Mrs Wright recommends action to get certain movies banned. (Letter from Beetson to Hays, 03-17-1924, indicates Mrs King...
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39
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1923-11-27
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Letter
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Notification of British National Film League resolution concerning copyright policy.
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2022
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1923-09-07
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Letter
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MPPDA has established contact with the National Vigilance Committee of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, wh...
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3282
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1923-08-27
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Letter
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Letter contains a memo on the Uniform Contract to be sent to all Branch managers aim is to send out uniform instruction...
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3317
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1923-08-08
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Letter
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the printed form of the contract is consistent with the law.
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3318
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1923-08-08
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Letter
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expressing his reservations about an amendment to the arbitration clause proposed by Path for inclusion in their version...
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59
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1923-07-12
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Letter
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Joy requests information about the supplying of films to "institutions," to pass on to the Public Relations Committee (C...
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3316
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1923-07-05
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Letter
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As heretofore made plain, we are glad to discuss with you and those you represent any matter of interest to the industry...
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38
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1923-06-29
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Letter
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Apparently a reply to an enquiry about whether films copyrighted in the U.S. are protected in Latin American countries. ...
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3314
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1923-06-20
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Letter
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A proposed FBT for Texas following the arbitration by-laws will be in conformity with Texas law
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132
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1923-04-30
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Letter
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This item, part of the Uniform Contract documentation, calls for the creation of a Code of Ethics in the movie business,...
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58
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1923-04-27
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Letter
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Notification of a list of companies and their representatives recommended for acceptance in Membership Committee by Loew...
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3312
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1923-04-22
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Letter
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he has discussed revised arbitration by-laws with the New York Theatre Owners Chamber of Commerce Charles OReilly. Assu...
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3313
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1923-04-22
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Letter
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listing MPTOA objections and enclosing a report and resolution passed by the MPTOA convention in Chicago 22 May 1923, id...
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3311
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1923-04-10
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Letter
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on arbitration clause, recording the addition of four new by-laws (Articles 3 to 7) which were prepared with Kirchwey an...
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29
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1923-03-27
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Letter
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Response to Hamner letter of 03-23-1923. Hays appends a resolution taken by members of the MPPDA, a reaffirmation of no...
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28
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1923-03-23
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Letter
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Summary of the work of the Public Relations Committee since its inception: in a brief resume prepared by Joy, he claims ...
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26
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1923-03-06
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Letter
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The Committee of the National Education Association on Visual Education accepts the proposal of the Producers put forwar...
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37
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1923-02-27
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Letter
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Concern re proposed copyright legislation. Includes acknowledgements of earlier letters from Swarts in December 1922.
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3305
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1923-02-25
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Letter
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complaint for a small Wisconsin exhibitor that the contract doesn't help him, since it does not require the distributor ...
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3306
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1923-02-24
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Letter
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complaint from a small Wisconsin exhibitor that the contract doesn't help him, since it does not require the distributor...
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23
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1923-01-31
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Letter
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Hays attempts to put the Arbuckle case to rest with the Committee: notifies Hamner of Arbuckle's decision not to appear ...
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79
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1923-01-31
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Letter
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Arbuckle: Zukor confirms to Joy that Famous Players-Lasky (FPL) will not release pictures - Arbuckle to direct.
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3218
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1922-12-23
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Letter
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Hays has agreed not to permit release of any Arbuckle pictures.
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60
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1922-12-16
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Letter
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Concerns the successful introduction of movies on a train trip from Chicago to St. Louis. Contains a description of the...
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36
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1922-12-09
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Letter
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Seeks comment on the copyright legislation. Includes a copy of the bill itself.
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35
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1922-12-06
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Letter
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Re new copyright legislation. If we become members of the Berne Copyright Union it would result in a tremendous saving t...
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3300
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1922-12-01
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Letter
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Draft of Legal opinion on damages resulting from a broken contract. Refers to Frohlich and Schwartz, The Law of Motion ...
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3280
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1922-11-20
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Letter
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Letter of advice from the Arbitration Society of America, written at Hays request, on the wording of the arbitration cla...
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13
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1922-10-18
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Letter
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Discussing the promotion of non-theatrical, pedagogic, and religious films as agents of "international amity," and as im...
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12
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1922-09-30
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Letter
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Warner Bros.' guardedly negative reaction to Hays' proposals for the public relations Committee, contained in his letter...
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3298
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1922-09-28
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Letter
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On arbitration clause.
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9
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1922-09-05
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Letter
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Proposal for Warner studio cooperation with the Public Relations Committee. Describes public relations progress of Commi...
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129
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1922-08-26
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Letter
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The justification for the Film Boards of Trade (Film Clubs) by the man who claims to have originated them. Includes det...
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128
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1922-08-16
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Letter
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Cohen argues that since the MPPDA and MPTOA have reached an impasse over the Uniform Contract, they should turn to repre...
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3296
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1922-07-24
|
Letter
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Lists MPPDA concessions to exhibitors to date.
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3294
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1922-07-14
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Letter
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The intention is that if a uniform contract is adopted for 1922-23 product, contracts already taken out should be carrie...
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3293
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1922-06-30
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Letter
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On another amendment proposed by MPTOA, relating to an advance deposit: The distributors claim that payment on account o...
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3292
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1922-06-26
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Letter
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Noting the exhibitors want the arbitration clause eliminated. They also wanted other minor amendments, including a spec...
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127
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1922-06-24
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Letter
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Kirchwey outlines his own understanding of the purposes behind creating a Uniform Contract in the first place. These in...
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3290
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1922-06-21
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Letter
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Enclosing a draft contract: "... I hope you will agree with me that this draft marks a decided advance in eliminating, a...
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125
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1922-06-17
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Letter
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Complaint about a "cheap, deliberate, lying attempt" by the MPTOA to "discredit" the film Reported Missing in the Exhibi...
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3288
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1922-06-14
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Letter
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Doubting the workability of an arbitration system with a board divided 50/50 without provision of an umpire and without ...
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3291
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1922-06-14
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Letter
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Proposing clause for uniform contract. 01-1218 -- 01-1222 principal negotiators reject the suggestion.
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122
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1922-05-27
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Letter
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Kent's personal evaluations of members of MPTOA involved in Uniform Contract negotiations.
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121
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1922-04-22
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Letter
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Steffes forwards to Hays an aggressively-worded resolution taken at a meeting of the MPTOA. It is in the form of a ques...
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67
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1922-03-24
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Letter
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An impassioned letter from a Southern anti-censorship campaigner ('Please be assured of my continuing interest in your e...
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66
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1922-03-16
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Letter
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Reveals that two women, Miss Connolly and Mrs Speed, have been actively campaigning against censorship in the South, bac...
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65
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1922-02-03
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Letter
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Response to an appeal for funds for National Board of Review (NBR) from producers and distributors. Zukor promises "a l...
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3302
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1922-01-31
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Letter
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Kirchwey's summary of the legal situation and benefits.
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63
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1919-02-19
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Letter
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Wilson thanks Zukor for his cooperation in the previous Liberty Loan campaigns and asks for help with the Victory Libert...
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