Word: warner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Paramount went bankrupt in 1933, a minor consequence appeared to be the fate of three St. Louis cinemansions-the Ambassador, Missouri and New Grand Central-which Paramount and Warner Brothers had 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...
...musty, grey, inadequate courtroom on the fourth floor of the Federal Building, packed, even without spectators, by lawyers of whom the defendants had 20 present, headed by onetime Senator James A. Reed, the trial, delayed all summer by the defense because one of the defendants, Warner Executive Abel Gary Thomas, was ill, finally began with the selection of a jury. To decide a problem whose ramifications have taxed the best brains of the cinema industry and the U. S. Government for the last 15 years, prosecution and defense agreed upon a dozen sleepy-looking Missouri citizens who included a garage...
First of a string of witnesses whose testimony should last at least six weeks was Fanchon & Marco's President Harry C. Arthur who said that Warner Brothers had "declared war" on Fanchon & Marco on March...