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...cinema industry has long either controlled its desires or gratified them too adroitly to expose itself to punishment. Last week, in St. Louis, there began what may be the case which the Government has been looking for and the cinema industry avoiding. Warner Brothers, Paramount and RKO, seven of their subsidiaries and five major executives, were haled into court before Federal Judge George Moore, charged with violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Law. Maximum penalty is $5,000 and one year imprisonment. If defendants are guilty, the whole mechanism by which the industry has disposed of its wares will be suspect...
First requisite of a cinema theatre is the cinema. Warner Brothers, Paramount and RKO make 48% of the 300 important features manufactured in the U. S. each year. When Fanchon & Marco tried to get Warner Brothers, Paramount or RKO pictures to show in their three new theatres, they found they could get none. Warner had leased two other theatres in St. Louis. In these, St. Louis cinemaddicts could see all the Warner, Paramount and RKO films they wanted...
Fanchon & Marco thereupon complained to the Department of Justice that, by withholding their films, Warner, Paramount and RKO were violating the Sherman Law. A Federal Grand Jury indicted the three companies. To cinemanufacturers, the St. Louis case last week looked like the spearhead of a Government attack on their film-selling system...
...RKO BOSTON--"King Solomen of Broadway...
...RKO, where he had a two-picture con tract which His Family Tree completes, kept photographers from meeting his train. Reason: six years ago Barton's face was badly scarred in an automobile accident. All pictures of him have to be retouched. Before he acts he uses many layers of grease paint, reshapes his nose with putty. Like all old-line troupers, he tried to take a hand in stage-managing his pictures. This brought on arguments. One day he almost quit because it seemed to him there were not enough chickens around a farmhouse set. Another time...