Word: fanchon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jointly operated. Warner took over the theatres and for a time ran them alone. When the theatres failed to make money, mortgages were foreclosed. Warner put in a bid which was rejected. The theatres went to a local company which leased operating rights to the theatrical firm of Fanchon & Marco...
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...
...Suzanne Fanchon...
...your information Reri has been deported by the U. S. immigration department and sailed from New York Oct.1. She had been touring the U. S. in a Fanchon & Marco unit and while she was playing the Fox Theater in Brooklyn she was taken out of the show by the immigration officers. The unit still had about ten weeks to run before her contract...