The San Francisco call., 1910-07-07

White Of the firm of Miller a White
is the local lawyer for the motion pic
ture trust
Attorney NOncommittaI
He considered the question lightly
last evening. Il can't say what the
company viii DO with the pictures, {"
said White. You see, they viii not
be ready for exhibition out here for
about q month, and by that time the
people viii be too much interested in
the election fight to bother about stop
ping fight pictures. Anyway. one city
is a small consideration There is no
state law to stop motion picture ex-
hibitions, and we can show everywhere
except in San Francisco"
J. J. Lodge Of New York represent
ative Of the Independent" picture
company. who is at present at the st.
francis, spoke more freely and opti-
mistically Of the situation.
I'VE viii not bother much about the
agitation 10 stop the fight pictures"
he said. "On the whole Mayor Nc
Csrthy is just trying to grab crumb
or the Gillett table. We won't lose any
money by ii.
IF il is widely advertised that the
pictures are immoral there will be all
the greater demand 10 see them. More
attention will be drawn to them, and
they will draw better houses than IL
they were merely presented as the rou-
tine program Of motion picture houses.
With the ban put on public eX-
hibition Of the pictures, we can give
private exhibitions TO clubs and So
cieties which can not be stopped
Clubs could be organized especially to
give exhibitions of the pictures.
Then, as there is no state law to
prevent the exhibition of the fight
pictures there is nothing to prevent US
from going across the county line and
giving an exhibition in a tent
PICTURES BEST EVER
The pictures are ideal. probably the
best ever taken If the fight had been
staged for the sole purpose of the
pictures a nd had it been rehearsed be-
fore the machines, the result could not
have been better. Taken as they were.
with Jefries knocked down three times
in rapid succession. they are of greater
commercial value than they would have
been if Jefries had knocked out John
son.
The company which controls the
pictures Will lease the rights in diff
ferent states. In New York ii is be-
lieved that the rights viii bring $780,,
600. It has been estimated that the
California rights will be worth $4,000
and so on through the union and in
foreign countries.
The moving picture trust was rather
forced into coming into this combina-
tion. The Edison people, who control
the trust, have been trying to get away
from fight pictures. They have now
pending in congress a bill to stop the
exhibition of fight pictures in the
United States because they figure that
the taking Of fight pictures costs more
money than ordinary pictures do. and
while fight pictures are on exhibition
in q town they draw from the regular
shows Of pictures. But now that the
trust has been brought into this COM
pany, promoting the Johnson Jeffries
fight pictures, its opposition to the
fight picture enterprise will probably
cease at least for a while"
Harry 9. McKannay. attorney for the
J J. company, said last evening that
he had acted for the company merely
to draw up its papers and was not in
2 position TO speak of the attitude the
company might take in San Francisco.
But ] don't think that the company
will try to go contrary TO public
policy" said McKannay.
CensorS Must Act
The task of stopping the fight pic
lures will devolve on the moving pic
ture censorship commission. The mem
bers of the commission are: Chairman.
J. G. Astredo. playground commissioner
and personal representative of the
mayor: Norman Hall for the moving
picture exhibitors; Mrs. F. Malloye for