Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-26

j. Frank Brockliss. European repre-
widely known authority on film condi
tions abroad. has arrived in this coun
Try for brief visit Asked concerning
fiIm conditions abroad, Mr. Brockliss said
The war naturally. hit everything
on tne other side hard. In France
cinematograph business Is virtually
nil because OF the war When I was
IN Paris recently the general air O.
sadness prevented one from even
thinking of cinematograp phs or any
other amusement. In Belgium, which
has always been a good field. business
Is dead. Russia has always been
difficult country to handle. because Of
its great distance from London and
the Russian method Of doing business
with long-extended bills, which are
hard to collect. We did a good busl-
ness there with Lubln films before the
war. but when war was declared busi-
ness was cut down. At present, how
ever. it Is beginning to pick up again.
can tell YOU little about Ger
many or Austria, for all our business
there was cut off short, and lost
quite a lot of money by IT, I am doing
business In Spain. In Scandinavia
business is possible, but transportation
of films Is difficult Switzerland is in
about the same class with Spain
Business with Italy Is dead The loss
OF parcels In transportation renders
the shipment OF films impossible.
China is beginning to use the Lubin
pictures, and in Japan and India busi-
ness is about the same.
Conditions in England are different
from those on the continent our
motto at home Is Business as usual"
and. owing to the fact that I have
been one OF the upholders of that
policy since the European conflagra-
tion began. my aim has been TO keep
my usual weekly turnover, cost what
Il will. l am glad TO say that the
amount of film 1 am selling now COM
pares very fayorably with what
sold last year at this time. and this
in spite of the war.
For instance. the total of my sales
for the Lubin Company this month
amounts to an average for Great
Britain and the colonies of just over
100000 feet every week, and please
pear in mind this does not include
Australia. which is a good field. but
Is excluded from these figures. as
I.ubln films are despatched TO Aus
trala directly from Philadelphia
The subjects which have the great
est success In Great Britain are films
of especially sensational character.
The greater the sensation the greater
the sale in the open market.
Richard Carle Has Camera Troubles
That the terrors of the "hrst-nght"
have nothing on horrors of debut before
the motion picture camera. was the opin-
ion expressed by Richard Carle. the come
dian, following his initial appearance in
the WoEd Comedy Stars Film Corpora
tion pictures.
Things ran smoothly" tells the star,
''until 1t came around to my first en-
trante. All my life have been used to
dashinE blithely out on lighted stage
ana being greeted by more or less ell
thuslastic audience. My cue came and
entered Such an entrance II was There
stood few men in shirt sleeves coldly
writing things on pieces of paper and cal
cufatinE distances as II they were a party
of engineers. The broad daylight was
streaming in through the glass roof Of,
the studio, and seated on a fpr6p' Bench
IN back of the camera were seveHliIsof the
other members of the compaDE,+aH In
their make-ups. Now, II YOU have been
used TO something as entirely different
from this as the Sahara Desert is from
the Pacific Ocean, you might easily be
pardoned for sort of gripping things
about you and losing your poise Well