Word: lydon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have not been recently warned by Mr. Lydon and were not forced to cancel "Tight Little Island." To my knowledge, "Tight Little Island" was never booked by us this year, it was considered at the first of the year as a possible choice. Even if it had been booked, though, we would have cancelled, not because we were forced to, but because of our policy of not competing with commercial theaters...
...Lydon said the policy has been long standing with the movie industry. "It's purpose," he added, "is to protect local movies from other competition...
Warned by Lydon...
...recently warned by Lydon and was forced to cancel the showing of "Tight Little Island, scheduled for today," said Richard Krauss '57, Ivy film director. "If it were known that we had booked the picture, originally, scheduled for today, more distributors would stop dealing with us." "In the past two months two distributors have broken relations with us," he continued. "Ivy was also forced to cancel the showing of "Kind Hearts and Coronets" some time ago," said Charles Kadison '55, president of Ivy Films. The reason he gave for cancellation was similar to Krauss...
...were found out that a distributor gave a 16 millimeter copy of a professional film to Ivy, he would stand a good chance of losing his right to distribute movies," Lydon said...